Dandy Escapes From Marriage - Chapter 52

“Are you okay?”

 

Shen Ke reached out to support him, but found him still frozen in the posture of falling, staring at him in disbelief.

 

“Get up quickly, is your butt hurt?” Shen Ke asked.

 

“Ah!” Staring slowly regained his senses, stood up in a hurry, rubbed his buttocks with a pained expression. “It hurts so much!”

 

Shen Ke looked at him like this, the familiar Xiao Wu had returned again, unable to help but want to laugh.

 

“Are you really the second son of the Shen family?” Staring cautiously asked.

 

Shen Ke sat up straight, nodded slightly. “Yes, Shen Yanqing is my father, Shen Huai is my elder brother. And I am Shen Ke.”

 

Shen, Shen Ke?

 

In his mind, Staring only realized that he had switched their names around, suddenly feeling a cold breath, reached out and grabbed his collar, unable to believe it. “Why? How did you suddenly become a member of the Shen family?”

 

Shen Ke touched his head, smiling slightly. “I could ask you the same thing. How did you suddenly become the young master of the Liu family who stays overnight in the brothel?”

 

Staring’s expression froze, slowly letting go of his hand, straightened his wrinkled collar, and then folded his hands together respectfully. “I didn’t mean to deceive you. I sneaked out secretly. At first, I didn’t dare to speak up, afraid of being brought back by my parents to get married. After living with you, I felt very happy and never had a chance to tell you. After we were together, I wanted to tell you, but I found out that you dislike playboys. I was afraid that telling you this would affect our relationship and make you dislike me too.”

 

“Did I say I disliked playboys?” Shen Ke asked.

 

“Yes, I tried several times to test you. You even dislike Zhang Moyang. Let alone other people, the other playboys are just more amazing than him.” Staring said.

 

Shen Ke thought for a moment, thinking of the other young masters of the Liu family, who indeed made him feel disgusted, and nodded. “Well, indeed, I still don’t like playboys.”

 

Staring’s breath stopped, biting his lip, almost crying to show him, fortunately Shen Ke immediately added a sentence, “But I like you.”

 

Staring forcefully pressed his lips, still unable to control himself, the corners of his mouth crazily lifted, opened his hands and threw himself on him, and the two rolled on the soft couch.

 

“I like you too!” Staring lifted his head, asked with a smile, “What about you? Why did you hide your identity?”

 

Shen Ke slowly said, “You may not believe it when I say this. Our ideas are exactly the same. There is just one difference: I thought you didn’t like the sons of aristocratic families.”

 

“I really don’t like it.” Staring lowered his head and kissed him, said with a smile, “But you are different from them, you are different from everyone.”

 

The two looked at each other in silence, with big eyes staring at each other, silently digesting this huge news.

 

“I didn’t expect that after all these twists and turns, we would actually be engaged.” Shen Ke sighed.

 

“Yeah, I said bad things about Shen’s little guy in front of you!” Staring was ashamed and embarrassed, wishing to take off his clothes and express his intentions on the spot, “What I just said, you must not take it seriously!”

 

“What did you say?”

 

“I said that you were boring, not diligent, not articulate, and I even scolded your brother.”

 

“Great news! Last time, I even found a double-yolk egg! And I’ve opened another shop, right here in Huaizhou City, very close to your elder brother. I even had a meal with him on purpose to test the waters, and only then confirmed that his younger brother is my fiancé! Never did I suspect it was you, why would a fine young master from a prestigious family choose to be a farmer in some remote village? I never doubted it for a moment.”

 

“Maybe because neither of us had any experience, so we were easily deceived,” Shen Ke chuckled. “Of course, the most important reason is that we completely trust each other.”

 

“Yeah, I’d rather believe that I’m incompetent at daily life than suspect you.”

 

As they reminisced, they couldn’t help but laugh and cry at the poverty they endured during their best days, yet somehow finding flavor in life.

 

At the same time, they couldn’t help but feel fortunate. They had originally tried to avoid each other, but ended up meeting, knowing each other, and falling in love in an unfamiliar place, only to realize later that they were meant for each other.

 

“Oh my, thinking back now, I’m glad you’re from the Shen family and I’m from the Liu family. Our fate was truly destined, with our engagement settled early,” Liu Shu couldn’t help but sigh.

 

Shen Ke’s expression faltered slightly. “Wait a minute, I think we’ve overlooked something very important.”

 

“I think I remember now too.”

 

They slowly looked at each other.

 

Liu Shu looked anxious. “Are you here to cancel the engagement?!”

 

Shen Ke nodded heavily. “Your parents should allow you to cancel it, right?”

 

As soon as he finished speaking, they turned and ran towards the door. Liu Shu urgently opened it, “Quick, move aside, move aside, urgent matter!”

 

The young ladies waiting at the door immediately made way. Seeing Young Master Liu rushing out, they were about to ask what had happened, but then they saw the gallant man following closely behind, momentarily failing to recognize this refined gentleman.

 

“Sir, where are you from—” Ni Chang asked.

 

Liu Shu turned around, grabbed Shen Ke’s hand, and said to them, “This is my man. Don’t you think about him. We’ll come back to play with you another day.”

 

The young ladies: “!!!”

 

This is your man, then who was that just now?!

 

The two of them ran down the stairs one after the other, attracting attention from all around, causing quite a stir. Once outside the gate, Liu Shu quickly mounted his horse and reached out to Shen Ke.

 

Shen Ke glanced at him, shook his hand, and sat behind him, taking the reins from him.

 

“?” Liu Shu turned back in surprise, “You know how?”

 

“Don’t underestimate scholars,” Shen Ke chuckled lightly, his legs clamping the horse’s belly, pulling on the reins, and the horse immediately galloped, carrying the two of them swiftly towards the direction of the Liu family.

 

“Young Master, you’re finally back!” The gatekeeper recognized this snowy white horse and hurried forward to greet them, only to find two people sitting on the horse’s back, stunned.

 

“Where are my father and mother?” Liu Shu dismounted and handed the reins to him.

 

“They’re meeting guests inside.” Before the servant finished answering, he saw the two of them disappear in a flash, so he had to take the little young master’s precious horse back to the stables first.

 

“Dad!” Liu Shu took three or two steps into the main hall, did not see a person, and asked the servant, saying, “in the study”, and then took Shen Ke to the study.

 

Shen Ke was finally really at the Liu family mansion, which was difficult to imagine, just to go to the study, had to run for a while, the surrounding scenery was too late to appreciate.

 

“Dad!” Liu Shu left a breath, just to the door of the study, gasped to crawl the door and shouted.

 

The two men inside the hall turned around at the same time, he looked at that unfamiliar middle-aged man, elegant temperament, and Shen Ke has some resemblance, he immediately obediently greet: “Dad.”

 

Shen Yanqing: “??”

 

Lao Liu: “??”

 

Mr. Liu looked at Shen Yanqing with confusion, then at his son, and walked over to block his view, admonishing him, “Have you had too much to drink? Your old man is right here.”

 

“I know.” Liu Shu pushed his father aside and approached Shen Yanqing with a smile, trying to get friendly, “Hello, Mr. Shen, I’ve heard so much about you. Haha, I’ve long heard of your distinguished and elegant demeanor. Today, seeing you in person, your reputation is well deserved. Haha, I am Liu Shu.”

 

Shen Yanqing was baffled by his dry pleasantries and looked at Mr. Liu suspiciously, “Is this the one called Liu Shu?”

 

“Yes,” Mr. Liu nodded.

 

Shen Yanqing pondered for a moment, scrutinizing him up and down, “Just returned from the brothel?”

 

Liu Shu’s face slightly changed, he turned slowly, seeking help from Shen Ke.

 

“It’s a misunderstanding,” Shen Ke intervened, “This needs a long explanation, so I’ll keep it short: Dad, we’re not calling off this marriage.”

 

“What?” Shen Yanqing exclaimed.

 

“Yes, Dad, we’re not calling it off,” Liu Shu immediately looked at his own father.

 

“Hold on, are you Young Master Shen?” Mr. Liu leaned closer, finally getting a clear look at Shen Ke, his eyes showing a hint of pleasant surprise, suddenly understanding why his son didn’t want to call off the marriage.

 

“We can’t decide on this marriage ourselves, it was decided by your mothers. They are discussing it in your mother’s room. You should go talk to them,” Mr. Liu said.

 

“Okay. A’Ke, this way.”

 

The two fathers watched as Liu Shu naturally took Shen Ke’s hand and left together, falling into silence and awkwardly looking at each other, silently cursing their own sons—

 

Lustful little brats, it’s such a waste after all these years of feeding them / studying the teachings of sages!

 

“It seems like your mother is sick. Will it disturb her if we go over like this?” Shen Ke asked.

 

“It’s fine, she’s pretending. She’s embarrassed to see guests,” Liu Shu said outside Lu Yueju’s room, hearing the two ladies crying. Subconsciously looking at Shen Ke, he silently eavesdropped.

 

“I’m sorry, Yueju, I broke my promise,” Mrs. Shen choked.

 

“It’s okay, my child is so playful and unworthy. He can’t match your son so well.” Lu Yueju also cried.

 

“How could it be that your child is naturally like you, playful but not bad, it’s my son who doesn’t have this blessing, he met the person he likes, and he’s going to die, I’m also helpless.”

 

Liu Shu glanced at Shen Ke in surprise, and Shen Ke immediately shook his head, indicating that there was no such thing as dying.

 

“I’m also like that, a big child is not leaving, and my family’s kid has a glance at a poor boy, and said if I don’t agree, I’ll break with the willow family, and I’ll starve to death. What can we do about our mother? “

 

Shen Ke looked at Liu Shu, Liu Shu shook his head and waved his hand, indicating that he would never starve to death.

 

“In that case, we’ll stop the engagement between the two families.”

 

“I see, can we still be good sisters?”

 

“Of course, wuwuwu.”

 

“Wuu wuu wuu wuu!”

 

“Mother, it’s okay, it’s okay!” Liu Shu burst in through the door, “Don’t call off the marriage, we’re not calling it off!”

 

The two ladies were crying with their heads in their hands. When they looked up, they saw these two holding hands walking in, and they were both stunned.

 

Mrs. Shen slowly raised her eyes and fixed them on Liu Shu’s overly handsome face, finding it hard to look away. She exclaimed in surprise, “You are…”

 

“Ke Shen?!” Lu Yueju stared at Shen Ke and exclaimed, “What are you doing here?”

 

Shen Ke was startled, looking at the lady in front of him who bore a striking resemblance to Liu Shu, “Are you…”

 

“This Ke Shen, what’s going on?” Mrs. Shen looked at Lu Yueju in puzzlement, “And how do you know Ke Shen?”

 

Lu Yueju was also in a daze, asking, “Is he your son?”

 

“Yes, he is Shen Ke.”

 

Lu Yueju looked at Shen Ke, whose demeanor was completely different from the afternoon, and suddenly had an epiphany. She struggled and said, “Sister, it seems that this marriage of ours cannot be called off.”

 

“Then shall we continue crying?” Mrs. Shen asked.

 

“No more crying, no more crying, it’s a good thing,” Lu Yueju said, “Why are you still standing there, quickly wipe your mother’s tears.”

 

“Oh, okay!” Liu Shu took out a handkerchief and wiped Mrs. Shen’s tears.

 

Lu Yueju: “I was talking about me!”

 

At this moment, Shen Ke had already come up to her.

 

“Well, it’s okay to experience the thoughtfulness of a future son-in-law,” Lu Yueju thought to herself and closed her eyes as if to face it boldly.

 

Little did she know, he gently asked, “Madam, have you ever dropped a gold ingot on the road?”

 

Lu Yueju suddenly opened her eyes wide.

 

“And have you ever hired a group of girls and boys to come to the shop to test me?” Shen Ke asked again.

 

Lu Yueju: “”

 

Lu Yueju was furious: “Son, help me wipe my tears too.”