I Want a Lifetime with You

“I’m Li Jing. Since you don’t know me, let me introduce myself.” Li Jing smiled and sat down next to Shi Nuan once she accepted the drink from her, while also glancing over to Fu Chengyan’s direction to assure him. “Li Heng is my brother. You know him right? He’s like a brother to Fu Chengyan.”

“Oh yes! Hello Ms. Li.” Shi Nuan smiled and nodded, allowing herself to relax. She raised her glass to clink glasses with Li Jing.

Li Jing was an easy-going person. When she saw Shi Nuan raising her glass towards her, she did the same as well. “But don’t call me Ms. Li. That’s way too formal. Just call me Jing. That’s what everyone does.”

“Alright. Jing!” Shi Nuan nodded. “In that case you should call me Nuan. That’s what my friends call me.”

“Sure!” agreed Li Jing right away. After talking with Shi Nuan for a while, Li Jing noticed that she wasn’t quite like the people she usually hung out with. “Could I ask you something? How did you meet Fu Chengyan?”

It’s not that Li Jing wanted to gossip. Even though they weren’t all super close, Li Heng and Fu Chengyan were like brothers, so Li Jing too came to know him well. Each time she saw him, she would be sure to greet him warmly, and she felt like she knew enough about him. Yet, it seemed odd to her that she didn’t know anything about his marriage.

When Shi Nuan saw Li Jing’s confused expression, she had already guessed that she was curious about their marriage. Hence, she cleared her throat and answered, “I’ve known Yan for quite a while now, and we’ve been married for some time now too. It’s just that we haven’t been able to host a wedding dinner, and not many people know either. As to how we met, well, it’s a long story. But in short, Yan saved me quite a few times.”

Shi Nuan smiled, “Only those who are here today know our about marriage, so…”

“I understand.” Of course, Li Jing understood what Shi Nuan meant. She had been in this social circle for quite some time now, so she knew how things work here. “It’s totally fine if you don’t feel like saying anything. It’s not anyone else’s business as long as you and Fu Chengyan truly love each other.”

“I agree! But this is all just temporary. After all, marriage is the coming together of two families. It’ll be troublesome if there were regrets.” Shi Nuan glanced over to Fu Chengyan’s side.

The group of men had arranged themselves around two tables and started playing mahjong.

Fu Chengyan, Li Heng, Zhan Yuming, and Su Bancheng formed a table of four. The other consisted of Pei Jingxiu, Su Shaoqing, Lin Shen, and another young man from a rich family, called Li Yu.

Shi Nuan looked over towards Fu Chengyan. And right as he was about to draw another tile, Fu Chengyan could feel Shi Nuan’s gaze on him. He looked up, and their eyes interlocked, both of them smiling at each other.

Just then, Fu Chengyan waved Shi Nuan over, causing everyone else to pause in surprise at his action. Li Heng impatiently tapped the table with his slender fingers and reminded Fu Chengyan, “It’s your turn.”

“Alright.” Fu Chengyan drew a tile, saw that it wasn’t one that he needed, and discarded it right away. Looking over at Shi Nuan, he asked, “Come over!”

slightly and instinctively peeked

“Fu Chengyan sure can’t be apart from

Li Jing’s teasing, but she still headed over to Fu Chengyan. At that moment, Li Jing, too,

at Li Jing and gestured towards Zhan Yuming’s direction. She looked over at Zhan Yuming’s chips, then at the rest of the players’. Indeed, Zhan Yuming was losing

against three?”

want me

doesn’t matter which one of you wins. Either way, it’s not my money.” Li Jing touched her nose sheepishly and decided

across Li Jing. On her

in person. He was giving off an unapproachable vibe, which oddly felt quite familiar

of vibe. The only difference was, even then, Fu Chengyan wasn’t that distant towards her,

Nuan turned to Su Bancheng and greeted him. But he only glanced at her, gave a

hear Mr. Fu is busy with that piece of

Yuming drew a tile while grinning calculatedly. He, too, was one cunning fox, just like Su Shaoqing. The only difference

was Li Heng who froze, smiled and

cheekily grinned at Zhan Yuming. “Sorry, it looks like

his eyes. “You sure are riding a lucky streak with winning consecutive hands. But it doesn’t

turn to be in the lead right now.” Li Heng tapped his

Yuming pursed his lips and tossed his chips over to Li Heng. “That might not necessarily be true. I’m comparing the capabilities here, and I would say that the Zhan family is not necessarily the weaker party among the two. Don’t you agree? Also, since the West City project hasn’t started, everything is

slightly. “Mr. Zhan is correct. Doing business is just like being on the battlefield. Anything could change the tide at any minute.” Then he looked over at Li Heng. “I’m sure Li Heng knows

who was slowly picking up his chips, looked up with

and looked at Su Bancheng. Su Bancheng had remained quiet this whole time. But when he heard everything, he pushed a portion of his chips to Li Heng and said, “There’s also something called a win-win. What do you think, Mr.

smooth like Zhan Yuming’s. In fact, it sounded quite rough. Li Heng frowned a little and asked, “It seems like Mr.

a large piece of the pie. Anyone’s who’s smart would want a piece

his eyebrow and looked over to Su Shaoqing

a doctor,