My Pregnant Contract Wife Ran Away from Me!
Chapter 288: The Matching Rings, Do You Like Them?

Chapter 288: Chapter 288: The Matching Rings, Do You Like Them?

He suddenly counterquestioned and, right after his words fell, urgently asked again, "Have you... fallen for me?"

Wen Ran’s face stiffened.

Fallen for him?

She had not considered this possibility and always knew she couldn’t afford to like him.

"No."

After her denial, Wen Ran laughed ambiguously, "If I liked you, why would I give your contact information to Liu Jing? Liu Jing’s behavior is what liking you looks like—so infatuated that she doesn’t care about losing face just to try and hook up with you."

Fu Chenlie’s dark eyes locked onto her delicate face marked with tear tracks, "Is that so?"

"Yes."

"Don’t you think that even if I give her my contact information, I wouldn’t bother with her, and that’s why you brazenly gave it to her?"

Wen Ran was taken aback.

How... could he guess what she was thinking?

Seeing her body tense up, the man lifted the corners of his lips, "Did I hit the mark?"

She didn’t respond, and silence filled the air.

Fu Chenlie exhaled deeply, gently pulling her arm to help her stand up from the ground, and spoke in a deep voice, "Two things."

"What?"

"First, transfer twenty thousand to Qin Zeyu for the car repairs..."

Wen Ran paused, then hesitantly said, "But... isn’t twenty thousand too much?"

A disdainful sneer escaped his breath, "Consider it thanks for him having dinner with my wife while I was out of the country."

Wen Ran, "..."

She dared not speak further.

The man continued, "Second, I haven’t found Wan Ning."

Wen Ran instinctively looked up at him, and repeated dully, "You haven’t found Ms. Wan Ning? Was the address from Assistant Cheng incorrect?"

"No, she moved."

"That quickly?"

Fu Chenlie hummed in agreement, his eyes slightly narrowed.

He hadn’t found Jiang Wan Ning. When he was planning to head back from the airport, he received a call from Grandma.

Grandma said that not finding her was fate, that he needn’t persist anymore, and suggested he cherish the person in front of him instead. At least Wen Ran was pure and kind-hearted, and they complemented each other well, making her suitable for a life together.

At the time, he thought about it and, for the first time, didn’t feel rebellious against Grandma’s opposition to his search for Wan Ning, nor did he suspect that Grandma had urgently moved Wan Ning. Instead, he felt... her words made sense.

Seeing Fu Chenlie’s distracted expression, Wen Ran knew—

Not having found Jiang Wan Ning, he must be heartbroken.

Otherwise, why would he look so dejected?!

She didn’t know what words to use to comfort him, because she was also not feeling any better.

She had already braced herself for the tough reality of surviving amidst the blatant displays of affection between Fu Chenlie and Jiang Wan Ning. But now he hadn’t found her.

Didn’t that mean—

If there was going to be a next time before the divorce, she would have to endure this kind of mental preparation and torment again?

Truly suffocating.

Fu Chenlie, unaware of when he had come back to his senses, lifted his hand to push her tear-streaked hair behind her ear, his inscrutable eyes focused on her, "Madam, I’ve brought you a gift."

Wen Ran was mildly surprised, "A gift?"

He had made such a long trip to England, stayed for only about two hours, and still had time to buy her a gift?

"Yes, a gift." He echoed her words, and as he spoke, he pulled a box from his trouser pocket and opened it in front of her, "Belated matching rings, do you like them?"

Wen Ran’s lips slightly parted.

Although she wasn’t well-versed in luxury brands, she still recognized that the matching rings in Fu Chenlie’s hands were from Cartier.

Wen Ran didn’t know what series they were or how much they cost, but seeing the diamonds inlaid, they definitely weren’t cheap.

In her moment of astonishment, her left hand was taken.

She came back to her senses and looked at him.

The man gazed into her eyes, and with his peripheral vision slid the female ring onto her ring finger...