Marry?

The woman was just as nice as she was to her the first time they met and that made everything easy as she was not sure if she would survive the fake relationship with a mother-in-law who did not like him.

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"Next, you will meet my friends," he told her with a smile as he drove out of his father's house.

"I will not want to meet them suddenly. It will be awkward for me," she told him seriously.

He glanced at her and narrowed his eyes as his smile disappeared. "I thought we agreed on that?"

"He is your friend, have you forgotten?" she asked as she stared out of the window.

"You will not meet him if you do not want to. I have other friends," he told her seriously.

"I know you do but they are all men."

"What makes you believe that? I have two childhood female friends and we are very close," he informed her like she had hurt his ego by saying he had only male friends.

"Do they meet with him?" she asked him cautiously letting a hint of the fear show in her voice.

"Of course," he maintained his claim. "I have five very close friends including my brother. Lu Tian is one of them along with the two female friends I have. Lu Tian is my best friend along with one of the females, Qiao Yuan.

"You might not believe it but the five of us have been close since we were in elementary school and we have been that way. They are all very nice. Lu Tian is okay with being friends with females or at least he is okay with being friends with the twins.

"With you coming in as my fiancée, I am sure he will not object to it. I have many other friends from my club and we meet when I am not too busy which is difficult to come along. We are on good terms. I am not a sociopath," he explained diligently that Lin Jing could not hold back a smile.

She nodded. "I believe you but how about introducing me officially through a simple engagement party along with your birthday party?"

He slowed down and looked at her puzzled. "What do you mean by that?" he wondered.

"Your birthday is right at the corner, right? How about celebrating it and announcing the engagement so we could make it official. I am not sure the pictures I posted are enough to persuade them that I am in a relationship. You did not even let me show your face."

He swallowed and packed. He turned and looked at her seriously. "Are you sure that is what you want?"

"I want to avoid getting beaten up again," she replied seriously. "It is crazy, right? How I have to do what they want me to do because I am powerless." She chuckled in self-pity and looked out of the window again after exchanging a few seconds of eye contact with him.

He swallowed. "That is okay. I will plan toward it. I will buy the rings and have my secretary take care of the venue. If this lasts long enough, we could move forward. I would not mind getting married to you. my mum likes you and you are smart enough.

"With your beauty, I will have a lot of beautiful and intelligent children," he said jokingly.

She swallowed as she could not miss the trace of seriousness in his voice. "If it is a deal worth considering, I would not mind," she told him seriously as she turned and looked into his grey eyes.

It was his turn to swallow. "Let us not be too hasty," he retorted as he joined the traffic again. "I will bring the contract to your house. How long do you want this relationship to last?"

"For as long as you want."

"I think a year is too long but six months seems too short," he breathed and glanced at her.

"Six months is okay. We could renew it if is too short," she suggested thoughtfully.

"I guess you are right," he agreed after a few seconds of silence with his eyes fixed ahead. "You will not lose in this deal. You are beautiful and popular enough. I am rich and I would not hesitate you openly spend my money on you.

"I thought of it and I was not pleased with the fact that I would not give you anything of monetary value despite all I will need from you."

Her eyes widened at his words and she frowned.

"If you are unwilling . . ."

"Could we not say anything about sex?'

He laughed and shook his head. "I have not thought about that yet. You have had a few boyfriends in the past, why are you scared of the sex part?" he asked her so bluntly that she could have to look out of the window.

She cleared her throat with a shade of pink tint on her cheeks. "I am practicing abstinence."

He laughed and shook his head. The more time he spent with her, the more he found her to be a very interesting woman. She was very different from all the women he had tried dating because of his mother's set-ups for him.

"I will respect that," he told her when he saw that she was uncomfortably looking out of the window because of him.

She finally turned her head to a more comfortable position.

"Well, until we decide to get married," he added after a few seconds of comfortable silence. He laughed finding it cute when she turned her head away again.

She glanced at him wondering why he was laughing so much today. She has known him to be a very cold man but his laughter made her smile as she knew that she had not lost her touch and she was going to win.

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Lin Jing's next post with her man was one she kissed his cheeks but cut off most of the part of his face and they were crazy over how smooth his skin looked.

That only piqued their interest to see the face of the man she was with.

A certain man sat behind his work desk and took up scrolling through her posts as his work instead of the reposts he left untouched.

His brow was tightly furrowed a sullen look on his face making him look like he had just lost his whole earnings while gambling.

He clenched and unclenched his fist after returning to the picture she just posted with the caption saying something about her getting engaged.