The Reborn Sidekick Rejected The Male Lead
Chapter 110 - 108: This Kind of Relationship

Chapter 110: Chapter 108: This Kind of Relationship

Chapter 105: This Kind of Relationship

As Lu Jingqiu was feeling bored, Jiang Nanzhou came up carrying a wooden box: "Jingqiu."

"Hmm."

Jiang Nanzhou opened the wooden box, inside lay a bracelet made of Imperial Green jade, intricately patterned with something she couldn’t recognize. Jingqiu didn’t know much about jade but knew this must be very expensive.

"Do you like it?"

"I do."

"This was passed down from my great-grandmother; afterward, it went to my mother, and when she passed away, it stayed here. From now on, this will be yours."

As Jiang Nanzhou spoke, he hurried to help her put it on, but Lu Jingqiu quickly retracted her hand, declining, "This is too valuable, I can’t accept it."

Jiang Nanzhou laughed, "If you don’t accept it now, you will eventually. In our relationship, you can’t escape."

Jingqiu blushed and glared at him angrily, "What is our relationship?"

Jiang Nanzhou didn’t give her a chance to argue and pulled her into his arms: "This kind of relationship." He turned his gaze towards her; her reddened cheeks caught in his eyes, his pupils deep and smiling.

Jiang Nanzhou didn’t give her a chance to struggle free, but released her himself.

By then, Jingqiu’s heart was pounding, and she felt so dizzy she could barely control her own body.

"Do you want me to help you put it on, or will you put it on yourself?"

Jingqiu shook her head, "It’s not appropriate to put it on now, you... keep it for me."

Seeing that she accepted it, Jiang Nanzhou’s smile at the corner of his mouth grew wider, and he took her hand, "Come to my room, I have something for you."

Jingqiu was led into his room passively, similar to her room with a bed, a desk, and a wardrobe, except this side was filled with books on the desk.

Jiang Nanzhou moved a chair from the desk: "Sit."

Afterward, he found a place to hide the wooden box and then pulled out a passbook from the drawer, "This is for you, save it for the future."

Lu Jingqiu looked at the passbook in her hand, stunned, "This... we’re not even married yet."

Jiang Nanzhou sat on the bed and pulled her and the chair closer, earnestly saying, "Jingqiu, since the moment I confessed to you, I have been planning our future. I have submitted a report for our relationship, and the marriage report is with Uncle Lu. As long as he agrees, and you agree, I’m all ready to marry you. Everything I have will be yours in the future."

Jingqiu had not expected that Jiang Nanzhou had already prepared so much, it made sense, people from their era were very down-to-earth, not much for pomp and circumstance.

She just wanted to have a romance like the youngsters in later generations.

Having met a scumbag in her previous life, now that she had finally found someone who truly cared for her, she naturally would not play hard to get.

Jingqiu didn’t say much but accepted the passbook to respond to him.

Jiang Nanzhou was pleased with her acceptance and somewhat anticipated her reaction upon opening it.

Sure enough, the number on the passbook really shocked Jingqiu.

Her round eyes looked at Jiang Nanzhou, then she counted the numbers again incredulously, thirty-five thousand six hundred and twenty-three yuan: "This... is... your passbook?"

Jiang Nanzhou nodded.

"You managed to save this much after being in the military for seven or eight years?"

When her father had told her about the family’s savings, she was shocked for a long time, as it was the result of her parents’ savings over several decades, part of which even came from selling ginseng.

"Don’t get the wrong idea, I earned all of this myself. Part of it was left to me by my mom, some from my salary, and another part is from the translation work I’ve been doing over the years."

Jiang Nanzhou said, pulling out a certificate of ’National Senior Translator’ from a drawer for her.

Lu Jingqiu instantly understood, "Your English is very impressive."

"It’s decent. When I was in junior high, I had a teacher whose English was very good—he taught me a lot. In high school, I had another teacher who was proficient in English, he taught me a lot as well. Becoming a translator was a fluke; a buddy of mine in the translation department knew that I was good at English—not many were at the time—and he begged me to help out. Back then, I was in the military, didn’t have much time, and it couldn’t be done openly, so I didn’t translate much. But during my years at university, I translated more."

"Do you still do it now?"

"Occasionally, I help him translate some military articles, but with so many college students around now, there will be more and more people in this field in the future."

Lu Jingqiu nodded, understanding that there would be more and more college graduates in the future. Looking at the numbers, she hesitated, "Aren’t you afraid that I’ll spend it all?"

Jiang Nanzhou laughed, "The money earned is meant to be spent by the wife."

The comment made Lu Jingqiu feel both embarrassed and indignant.

"Didn’t you say you wanted to buy a house? If you don’t have enough money, use this."

"I have money."

Lu Jingqiu thought for a moment and said, "If you have no other use for the money, maybe buy a place in the Capital City as well. I heard that a few years ago, houses there were only about two thousand yuan, but now they’ve risen to over three thousand, some even five thousand."

"I have a four-sided courtyard house; my grandma left it to me. It’s been vacant all this time, I’ll take you to see it tomorrow."

"Oh, you have one?"

"It will be yours in the future, too."

This man really knew how to make a girl happy, truly.

...

The next morning, Lu Jingqiu saw deep-fried dough sticks and soybean juice on the table, along with Meat Buns.

Lu Jingqiu took a sip of the soybean juice and scrunched her eyebrows, which made Grandpa Jiang laugh for a good while.

This... roast duck was still better.

After breakfast, Jiang Nanzhou borrowed a bicycle from his buddy and truly took her to the courtyard house.

The courtyard house was not in the city center; it was backed by a sea that was referred to by the Capital City as the ’Dragon’s Tail’.

Vermilion gates, grey brick-tiled houses; they were quite aged, but the frontage still looked quite imposing. As soon as one entered, there was a large courtyard. Lu Jingqiu fell in love with it the moment she walked in. There were five main rooms, a spacious yard, east and west wing rooms on both sides, and there was also a back courtyard with a small garden. Both the front and back courtyards were large. Especially that little garden, with its rockeries and a pond—alas, it had fallen into disrepair over the years and had dried up.

"This courtyard house isn’t really considered prime. My grandma was a young miss from a major household; when she married my grandpa, she brought a lot of properties with her. Later, some of the houses were donated to the state and just this one was kept. A few years ago, it was almost grabbed by somebody else, but my grandpa found connections to secure it. Do you like it here?"

Lu Jingqiu nodded, "The courtyard is huge, it’ll look beautiful with a bit of fixing up. It’s hard to find such large courtyards around here now."

Jiang Nanzhou thought so too, "Of all the courtyard houses I’ve seen, indeed very few are like this one."

"I actually wanted to buy a single-entry one, because I didn’t bring much money. If I could find a double-entry one for a good price, that wouldn’t be bad either."

"Do you have any specific location requirements?"

Lu Jingqiu shook her head, "I’m not buying it to live in." Mainly for appreciation; wait until its value goes up, then sell. Although the courtyard houses will become priceless in the future, one only has this one life—why hold onto a house? If one had plenty of money, it wouldn’t be a problem to keep it, consider it a fixed asset to leave for the children and grandchildren.