The Reborn Aristocrat’s Daughter
Chapter 685 Arranging a Blind Date_1

Chapter 685: Chapter 685 Arranging a Blind Date_1

Watching Ruan Yanbing suffer so because of his marital life, his close friends didn’t know what to say.

For Situ Che and Loo Jie, who had never experienced love, a marriage where the social status didn’t match, even more so, one without the blessing of family, was doomed to be unhappy.

As for Lan Junxi, he hesitated, seeing his good friend Ruan Yanbing exert so much effort, daring to risk falling out with his family, to finally coerce them into nodding in agreement, allowing him to marry the girl he liked. However, the ultimate result wasn’t the perfect ending where lovers live happily ever after. Instead, due to the different environments they grew up in and their differing lifestyle habits, friction slowly increased. Big arguments every three days and minor spats every two days became almost a daily occurrence.

This made Lan Junxi, who had a girl he liked but was already engaged, hesitate. He didn’t dare to follow in Ruan Yanbing’s footsteps. Thus, when Ruan Yanbing called him out today, listening to Ruan Yanbing’s grievances, he felt uneasy and joined Ruan Yanbing to drown his sorrows with liquor.

"Now is not the time for you to regret, but for you to think about how to resolve the conflict between you and your wife," Situ Che said, bypassing the bottles of alcohol on the coffee table to pick up a beverage from the center. He opened it and poured it into a glass.

"Heh, I want to resolve it too. But I’ve tried, and there’s simply no way. I just don’t understand. Aside from necessary socializing, I always make sure to be home on time every day. How can she trust me so little?" Ruan Yanbing said, picking up a glass from the coffee table and taking a sip.

These grown men were at a loss with matters of the heart, especially marital issues, so they could do nothing but watch Ruan Yanbing drown his sorrows in alcohol. This time, Loo Jie didn’t step forward to snatch the glass from Ruan Yanbing’s hand. He thought that perhaps letting Ruan Yanbing vent by drinking might make him feel a little better.

The atmosphere in the private room was oppressively heavy. Situ Che was indifferent to such an atmosphere; he was always like that. But Lan Junxi found the oppressive atmosphere in the room hard to bear. Holding his glass, he thought about starting a conversation to lighten the mood. Suddenly, he remembered a conversation he had overheard from his grandparents and became interested, asking, "Ah Che, Ah Jie, I heard from my family’s old man and Old Madam that you two are going on arranged dates. You didn’t come back this time just for that, did you?"

Lan Junxi’s question was casual, but it made him realize that the timing of Situ Che and Loo Jie’s return from the military indeed seemed a bit odd.

Ruan Yanbing, who had been lost in his own thoughts, perked up when Lan Junxi brought up Situ Che and Loo Jie’s arranged dates. Remembering the discussions his family had a few days ago, he joined the conversation with interest. "I’ve heard too. My family’s old man is quite pleased with Ah Che and Ah Jie; he even considered introducing my aunt’s daughter to them." He turned his head to ask Situ Che and Loo Jie, "So, did my family’s old man end up introducing my aunt’s daughter to you guys?"

"No," Loo Jie didn’t expect that their arranged dates were known to Ruan Yanbing and Lan Junxi. And he knew even more that if these two were aware, quite a few people in the compound were likely privy to the information about their arranged dates. What he didn’t expect even more was that Lan Junxi would suddenly bring up the subject.

"So, how did the arranged dates go for you two? Did you meet anyone you liked?" Lan Junxi asked curiously.

Lan Junxi and Ruan Yanbing had envied Situ Che and Loo Jie more than once, admiring how their families didn’t value matching social status as much or pressure them into marriages for the sake of family alliances. They’d always been very open-minded.

Especially Ruan Yanbing, who, at the height of his conflict with his own family over his current wife, said more than once that if he had been born into the Situ Family or the Lan Family, maybe none of these issues would have existed.

However, they both had been curious about how Situ Che and Loo Jie would find their marriage partners. Especially Situ Che, with his cold demeanor, never humoring the girls who threw themselves at him, always driving them away with the icy air he exuded.

They had considered many possibilities, but it never occurred to them that Situ Che and Loo Jie would resort to blind dates to find someone to marry.

"Hey, were there any beauties?" Ruan Yanbing, at this moment, had put away his previously sorrowful expression and switched to a gossipy one. His quick change of face amazed Loo Jie.

"But, Ah Che, surely you didn’t scare the girl off with your chilly aura, did you?" Before Situ Che and Loo Jie could answer, Lan Junxi chimed in with another question. He was curious alright, and with such a rare opportunity at hand, he had to get a clear and straight answer.

At Lan Junxi’s question, the temperature in the private room seemed to drop several degrees, but Lan Junxi and Ruan Yanbing didn’t feel it at all, still eagerly watching Situ Che, waiting for his response.

Situ Che and Loo Jie, with their status, were people who could face the enemy’s brutal interrogation without changing their expressions, clenching their teeth, revealing not a single word; so the likelihood of Lan Junxi and Ruan Yanbing getting anything out of them was virtually impossible.

When Situ Xin came from Xia Yujie’s to the private room looking for Situ Che and Loo Jie, she arrived just as Lan Junxi and Ruan Yanbing were grilling her two brothers about the blind date earlier that day; Situ Xin herself was quite curious. She thought that in front of so many elders at home, Situ Che and Loo Jie would be too embarrassed to say much. But in front of their friends, they’d probably be less reserved and might spill the beans.

After listening for a while, Situ Xin became disappointed. All she heard was Lan Junxi and Ruan Yanbing asking incessantly, yet she didn’t hear a peep from her two brothers. "These two are so useless," Situ Xin thought. If Lan Junxi and Ruan Yanbing had been in front of her, she would have definitely rolled her eyes at them.

But Situ Xin had forgotten that, although Lan Junxi and Ruan Yanbing were close friends with Situ Che and Loo Jie from childhood, she was the darling at the very top of their hearts. The information she could easily ask for was something that Lan Junxi and Ruan Yanbing wouldn’t let Situ Che and Loo Jie disclose.