"Oh, Uncle Ouyang and the others have all come back, and they are downstairs now."
"Is that so?" Swiftly, a flash of nervousness crossed her dark eyes before returning to normal. She got up from the round bed, stepped on the wool carpet, and went into the bathroom to wash her face and brush her teeth.
"Didn't you sleep well last night? Are you not used to being back yet?" Shangguan Manji's smiling and caring eyes held a piercing sharpness that could see through.
"Probably," Helan You wiped her face with a towel, got up, and opened the wardrobe to casually pick out two plain clothes to change into.
"Hey, You'er..." Shangguan Manji's calm voice suddenly approached her, "Have you had any men outside these years?"
Her calm eyes suddenly tightened, and after a while, she said lightly, "That's all in the past."
"Will you marry Yu?" Shangguan Manji asked seriously, "You, we are friends, just like before, if there is anything unhappy, tell me, you are my best friend, I won't tell anyone."
"I don't know," Helan You's calm tone carried a faint pain: "At least for now, I haven't thought about getting married."
"What about Yu, have you forgotten the rules of the four major families?" Shangguan Manji reminded, "Man and Yan, you and Yu, this is destined from birth."
"I know, so from birth, my parents and all the elders in the family have told me that Yu will be the person I love in the future, the one who will accompany me for a lifetime, so I must love him, from when I was ignorant to when I was sensible, there will always only be us few here, I can only rely on Yu, I can only love him," Helan You turned around and said lightly: "We are not together because we are in love, we are together because we must love each other."
"We are not together because we are in love, we are together because we must love each other."
"Xiao You, if Yu hears this, how sad he will be," Shangguan Manji sighed, she was rebellious, an external display, while Helan You was a rebel in her bones, otherwise she would not have become a police officer, nor would she have run away from her wedding.
Recalling Ouyang Yu's deep eyes, Helan You felt a pain in her heart. If only... if only there had been no misunderstanding, maybe she would have been happily married to Yu, but now... "I will consider it carefully, let's go downstairs, don't keep them waiting for too long."
"Perhaps they are talking about your and Yu's marriage, which has been delayed for three years," Shangguan Manji said.
"You and Yan are not married either, I am the youngest, why are you pushing me," Helan You made a joke reluctantly, and the two went downstairs.
The elders of the four major families were all gathered together, and Ouyang Yu and Dongye Yan were also there. A couple of years ago, these two had just turned twenty-three and took over the family businesses. They were created to be successors to the enterprises since childhood, and they are decisive and resolute in handling matters, very mature, definitely not inferior to their fathers.
"Xiao You, it's been several years since we last saw you, you've grown up so much," Ouyang Yu's mother, Yang Ru, has always treated her as her own daughter since she was young, and she was very happy to see her, "You are more and more beautiful."
"Auntie... I'm sorry," this is the only thing Helan You can say.
"It's not all your fault, Yan has already told us the ins and outs of the matter, if it wasn't for the misunderstanding, you wouldn't have run away from the wedding," Yang Ru looked at Ouyang Yu and sighed, "Now that you're back, you and Yu's marriage should be taken care of as soon as possible."
"Your aunt has missed her daughter-in-law so much that she's almost sick," Ouyang Li said with a smile.
"Ah..." Helan You felt a bit of a headache, why did she have to face this kind of thing as soon as she came back, "Actually... Yu and I are both young, I don't want to get married so early."
As soon as these words came out, the harmonious atmosphere in the living room suddenly became quiet.
"Xiao You—", Ouyang Yu stood up, with a hint of nervousness between his eyebrows.
After a moment of speechlessness, Helan You suddenly smiled mischievously as before: "You all know my character, if I am constrained by marriage so early, I will definitely not be used to it, and Yan and Manji are older than me, why should I, the youngest, get married the earliest?"
"Hey, why drag us into it," Shangguan Manji knew she would use herself as a shield, and she didn't want to get married so early either.
"See, Manji doesn't want to get married either," Helan You winked at her secretly.
"Then okay, let's wait another two years," Helan Houyuan nodded first, "Xiao You is already twenty-three years old, starting next month, I want her to take over the Helan family's business. She has been away for three years, and probably doesn't understand many things, she must start learning again, and there is probably no time to handle the wedding for now. Anyway, they are all still young, and Xiao You and Yu are already engaged, marriage is just a matter of time."
"Well, Houyuan is right," Ouyang Li held his wife's hand and said with a smile, "Then you wait for another two years, anyway, Xiao You and Yu like each other, this daughter-in-law is already set, it's just a matter of name."
"I just want to hold my grandson early," Yang Ru said with a smile.
"Holding a grandson is just a matter of time," everyone joked, and the living room was harmonious again.
Only Helan You has been pretending to laugh, in fact, she really doesn't want to marry Ouyang Yu now, or she doesn't want to talk about feelings at all now, but as long as she is a person of the four major families, it will be sooner or later to marry Yu.
Only Helan You has been pretending to laugh.
Not wanting to face this kind of atmosphere, she took the opportunity when everyone was laughing and left the living room alone and went to the garden.
In fact, she really doesn't want to marry Ouyang Yu now, or she doesn't want to talk about feelings at all now, but as long as she is a person of the four major families, it will be sooner or later to marry Yu.
She also wants to forget, want to pretend that nothing has happened, but she can't do it at all.
Suddenly, a beautiful bunch of lavender appeared in front of her.
Stunned, she immediately turned her head and saw Ouyang Yu's gentle smiling face.
"Do you like it?" In the sunlight, he looked at her vision, the melancholy between his brows and his smiling face formed a sharp contrast, making people feel heartache from the bones.