Luan Ran x Xi Shangchen
In that ward, Luan Ran understood her feelings for Xi Shangchen, or perhaps even earlier, when Luan Yan asked her, she didn't even have the nerve to refute, but things were already messed up between them, from a friendly and cooperative engaged couple to an ambiguous relationship.
Xi Shangchen was quicker to understand than her. Originally, he wanted to boil the frog in warm water and let the long line catch the big fish, but in the end, the frog was him and the fish was him. He had no way to deal with Luan Ran, but he became more and more moved, more and more urgent, and more and more difficult to control himself. He was deeply trapped in his desire for Luan Ran and couldn't extricate himself.
Luan Suqing gave him two steps, and Luan Ran stopped when she saw the good and went back to work. She was even more workaholic than Xi Shangchen when she was busy at work. Although they lived together, she went out early and came back late. For two days, Xi Shangchen didn't see her.
So, Xi Shangchen also returned to his original work mode. He happened to meet Li Linan at a drinking party. The two of them were on the same way and took a car together.
Li Linan and Xi Shangchen are good friends. They met when they were studying abroad. According to seniority, Xi Shangchen should call him uncle, but they don't play that game. Li Linan asked directly: "Are you dating Miss Luan?"
"No."
"What do you like about Miss Luan? Her face or her figure?"
There are definitely women who are prettier and have better figures than Luan Ran, but there is only one Luan Ran in the world. Xi Shangchen said without hesitation: "All of them."
Xi Shangchen didn't think about it carefully at all. What is there to study? He just needs to know that he thinks every aspect of Luan Ran is cute. If he needs to think seriously, it means that he doesn't like her enough. If he accepts even the shortcomings, what is there to talk about the advantages.
His mind is full of Luan Ran now. He wonders what she is doing, why she didn't reply to his message, and whether she ate dinner obediently.
Seeing him like this, Li Linan felt a little unbalanced: "If you want to get together with Miss Luan, I will definitely sabotage it. You promised before that as long as you are dating, I can break up at will. You owe me this."
Li Linan's breakup was indirectly caused by Xi Shangchen, and he was at least half responsible. Although it was not intentional, if it hadn't happened, he might have been married and had children, and he wouldn't be living a monk's life like now, thinking about people like crazy.
Li Linan had said this before, so he helped Xi Shangchen introduce people, but he introduced so many people but none of them worked out. Basically, every lady became Xi Shangchen's network of contacts, shining in the workplace. Xi Shangchen had never thought about falling in love, and didn't take it seriously at the time, so he told him to break up.
"I have an idea." Li Linan would not feel comfortable unless his idea was compromised, and said, "Bring a beautiful woman home and bring her into the room in front of Miss Luan to see how Miss Luan reacts. If she is jealous, then she definitely has you in her heart. If she has no reaction and does not care about what you have with other women, then she definitely does not love you."
"..."
Xi Shangchen decided to take back what he said about Li Linan being one of the normal people in the Li family. He must have a problem with his brain to listen to his nonsense. With his Miss Luan's temper, if she saw another woman entering his room, she would leave directly and let him become the eighteenth. If he kept pestering her, she would treat him like she did to Su Lixi, thinking that he was childish and boring, and maybe even suspect that he had a dirty disease and treated him like garbage.
Xi Shangchen pulled the corner of his mouth and said with disdain: "I haven't even started yet, but you can't wait to tear it down for me. Such a good idea, you can keep it for yourself."
Li Linan was happy, and said with his arms across his chest: "Trust me, I will help you find one in the next two days and send it to your home."
"Stop the car."
Xi Shangchen called the driver in front, opened the door, and directly drove Li Linan out of the car, closing the door, all in one go.
It seems that he has done this many times before.
Li Linan got out of the car neatly, straightened his suit, and said, "It's okay. I will find him one tomorrow and send it over. I'll try my best. Maybe I can get someone together by accident.
Anyway, Xi Shangchen promised that being a bad friend has always been the style of their Li family.
Before Li Linan's beauty was delivered, Xi Shangchen met with Lu Sheng.
His relationship with Lu Sheng was OK. He took the initiative to look for Lu Sheng several times. First, he felt that Lu Sheng could make money and he saw business opportunities in him. Second, it was for Luan Ran. He knew that Luan Ran had a knot in his heart about the Luan family. He didn't want to impress her, but he just didn't want Luan Ran to worry about family affairs anymore.
His Miss Luan should be coquettish and show off her power, happy and free every day, do what she wants to do, and live the life she wants, instead of going to the hospital alone, taking care of herself alone, and struggling in the wolf's den alone.
Xi Shangchen couldn't bear it. He couldn't bear to see Luan Ran feel a little bit wronged or unhappy, and couldn't bear to see her suffer a little bit.
After getting familiar with Lu Sheng, the two would occasionally chat about the Luan family. When it comes to Luan Suqing, the mother-in-law, they are equally puzzled. Lu Sheng knows very well his feelings for Luan Ran, and Luan Yan knows it too. The young couple is so straightforward with him that they expose his thoughts right away, but Luan Yan won't help him with anything. It's good enough that she doesn't find fault with him.
The two met at a teahouse, which is owned by Xi Shangchen. Usually, they would meet people here. Xi Shangchen was a little desperate for Lu Sheng, and even thought that Lu Sheng must have something special to be able to handle Luan Ran's sister Luan Yan.
After listening to his story, Lu Sheng paused while holding the teacup, and then said, "I suggest you be more straightforward."
"Straightforward?"
"Just be direct. Say whatever you want to say and do whatever you want to do. If she asks, just say it directly. At worst, just confess your feelings." Lu Sheng explained, drank a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and said, "There is a saying that a strong woman is afraid of a clinging man. Luan Ran has a weird and arrogant personality, so just be more straightforward."
He blamed himself for not confessing his feelings, but he was very good at instigating others to confess.
Lu Sheng didn't stay for too long. He had to pick up Luan Yan in the afternoon. Inspired by Lu Sheng, Xi Shangchen also decided to pick up Luan Ran from work. They hadn't sat down to have a good meal for several days after she went back to Luanshan to work. The two words "miss" are very subtle. It's like a silk net, strangling inch by inch, and like a raging fire, burning the heart and burning it to ashes.
Xi Shangchen asked Luan Ran's secretary and learned her time to get off work. He went to Luanshan on time and waited for her in the underground parking lot. According to Luan Ran's personality, she definitely didn't want him to show up in a high-profile manner. All the ostentatious romance was exaggerated in Luan Ran's eyes. Now Xi Shangchen knew Luan Ran well, at least he knew her preferences and what she wanted.
Around 8 o'clock in the evening, Luan Ran appeared in the parking lot. Xi Shangchen's car was parked near her car. He was about to get out of the car when he saw Luan Ran stopped and looked at his car.
He watched Luan Ran walk up and knocked on his car window.
The car window rolled down, revealing Xi Shangchen's handsome face. Luan Ran was a little surprised and asked, "Xi Shangchen, do you have something to talk to me about?"
"Can't I talk to you if there's nothing to do?" Xi Shangchen paused, thinking of what Lu Sheng said. He couldn't be as arrogant as Luan Ran, a proud lady, and he had to be more straightforward! He said directly: "I'm here to take you home, come up."
Today, first her mother backed off, and then Xi Shangchen came to take over. Luan Ran got too many unexpected surprises. She had never been in love, but she was not that slow. After the illness, she knew that she liked Xi Shangchen and could feel his special kindness towards her, but she was not sure how much Xi Shangchen liked her.
Luan Ran, a proud ghost, would never take the initiative to express her feelings.
Luan Ran awkwardly tucked the hair around her ears, holding her handbag and refusing to get in the car to talk, she stood in front of the car window and said, "I have an appointment tonight."
"What do you want for supper?"
His fiancée had more social engagements than him. Since they couldn't have dinner together, it should be okay to have a supper after returning home, right? Xi Shangchen's eyes were glued to her, afraid that she would turn around and leave and he would miss a few more glances. The entanglement in his eyes was about to overflow.
"Just cook some noodles, don't make it too troublesome." Luan Ran lowered her eyes after speaking, pondered for a while, and leaned on his car window and
said, "My mother came today. She also said that if I really don't like you, we can forget about our marriage. She won't force me to marry you, and she wants me to move back home." She wanted to see how Xi Shangchen would react to these words. Sure enough, as soon as she finished speaking, Xi Shangchen's smile fell, and even his eyebrows were slightly furrowed. His face was gloomy, as if water could drip out, cold and gloomy.
People like him rarely show their emotions so clearly. All the loss of control in his life was probably given to Luan Ran