The Billionaire's New Wife in Chief

Chapter 717 - 191: You Didn’t Cancel Your Engagement with Ning Yan’er Because of Me, Did You?_3

Lu Jingchen was holding a newspaper in one hand and scooping up a spoonful of rice porridge with the other when he heard Song Qiao’s words and paused slightly. He looked up and glanced at the cell phone she had directly handed to him and hummed indifferently, "It’s him."

"Haven’t Xi Mohan and Ning Yan’er been together for so many years? How can they just call off the engagement like that?" Song Qiao couldn’t understand.

Lu Jingchen, however, did not show much change in his expression. Xi Mohan had already told him about wanting to dissolve the engagement with Ning Yan’er on the day he decided to do so, but he didn’t expect Xi Mohan to act so quickly.

Just a short two days.

With an almost imperceptible lift of his eyebrows, Lu Jingchen changed the subject, "Their matters don’t have much to do with us. After we finish breakfast, get ready, we’re going to the old house."

Song Qiao, "..." As if she thought of something, she instantly looked up at Lu Jingchen.

After a long while, she put down her phone, her voice laced with caution, "Do I really have to meet your parents today?"

She felt that she was completely unprepared mentally.

Is she going to meet his parents just like this? What if she wasn’t fully prepared?

One might even say she had prepared nothing at all.

Lu Jingchen’s expression remained unchanged, as if unfazed by the situation, "No preparations necessary. You just need to go with me to meet them, and we’ll come back in the evening."

"What if your parents don’t like me?" Song Qiao was not as confident as Lu Jingchen, all sorts of worries spread across her mind.

Lu Jingchen’s parents were not without fame; in fact, back when she was still in school, Lu Jingchen’s parents often appeared in financial reports.

His parents were both very successful businesspeople.

And from the photos back then, they seemed somewhat difficult to get along with.

"Whether they like you or not is their business. I’m taking you to see them not necessarily to ask for their approval," Lu Jingchen was still flipping through the newspaper, his tone no different from usual, sounding utterly unemotional.

It would have been better if he hadn’t said it like this. Once he did, Song Qiao’s face slightly changed, and she lost her appetite for breakfast.

There was another implication in Lu Jingchen’s words; that his parents might indeed not like her.

It seemed like he sensed something off about Song Qiao. The man put down the financial newspaper in his hands, arched his eyebrows, and looked at Song Qiao, "What’s wrong? Scared?"

Song Qiao nodded subconsciously, but then felt it wasn’t quite right and shook her head again.

Seeing her somewhat helpless appearance, Lu Jingchen chuckled lowly and said straightforwardly, "When you coerced me into marrying you on the street back then, you were quite bold. Why are you scared now? Turned into an ostrich?"

Song Qiao, "..." Those memories are too painful to recall.

And that was different, okay?

"Don’t worry, even if they don’t like you, they won’t stop us from being together. Their opinion is not important. What is important is how important you are to me, understand? Qiaoqiao."

Although she was still worried, after breakfast, Song Qiao picked out a set of clothes that seemed very familiar and changed into them. She stood in front of the dressing table, wondering whether she should put on makeup.

After handling some official business in the study, Lu Jingchen returned to the bedroom and saw Song Qiao standing there in a state of indecision, which made him chuckle.

Song Qiao heard footsteps from behind and just as she was about to turn around, she was already embraced by the man behind her. His familiar yet slightly warm masculine scent enveloped her skin, filling her senses.

His voice was low and pleasant as Lu Jingchen rested his chin on her shoulder, "Qiaoqiao, what are you so absorbed in thinking about?"

Without struggling out of his hold, Song Qiao turned her head slightly and said with some frustration, "I’m wondering whether I should put on makeup before we go, and if so, which makeup I should use..."

And at that point, she remembered something critically important. She immediately turned around, grabbed the man’s shirt, looked up at him with a sense of urgency and asked, "Since we’re going to meet your parents, shouldn’t we buy some gifts? What do they like? And will your sister be coming home too?"

——This Chapter has four thousand words.