The Young Master Storms the City
Chapter 184 How Many Fiancées?_1

Chapter 184: Chapter 184 How Many Fiancées?_1

Half an hour later, Ning Fan arrived at a café where Su Qingcheng was already waiting for him.

"Miss Su, have you already heard about Miss Xu returning to the provincial city?" Ning Fan said.

Su Qingcheng nodded and replied, "Of course, I know."

Ning Fan remembered the entrusted words in the letter Xu Yourong had left behind and went on, "Miss Su, is there anything I can help you with? Miss Xu told me before she left to let me know if there’s anything I could do for you."

"You help me? Ha, no need, I don’t have anything I need your help with." Su Qingcheng shook her head, her tone tinged with disdain.

"Then do you have some business with me, Miss Su?" Ning Fan inquired.

After a moment of silence, Su Qingcheng took out a kraft paper bag from her own bag and placed it on the table in front of Ning Fan.

"What is this?" Ning Fan was startled and felt that the kraft paper bag seemed vaguely familiar.

"This is the bag you gave me about ten days ago when I came to break off our engagement. Inside this bag is..." Su Qingcheng said.

"Marriage certificates?"

Ning Fan’s memory immediately flashed back, but he asked with confusion, "But Miss Su, weren’t those marriage certificates given to you? Why are you giving them back to me now? What does this mean?"

"Have you not opened this kraft paper bag?" Su Qingcheng questioned.

"No," Ning Fan shook his head, "Since the marriage certificate was already returned to you, Miss Su, I had no intention of taking it back."

"Don’t misunderstand, I’m not giving you back our marriage certificate for the second time... Just open it and you’ll understand," Su Qingcheng prompted with a glance towards the kraft paper bag.

With curiosity, Ning Fan picked up the kraft paper bag and opened it.

The next second, his eyes widened, his face a picture of shock.

"What... what is this?"

To Ning Fan’s astonishment, inside the kraft paper bag was a thick stack of marriage certificates.

A total of seven!

He reviewed the seven marriage certificates and discovered that they were almost identical. On each of them, the groom’s name was his own, Ning Fan.

The only difference was the names of the brides.

Each marriage certificate bore the name of a different woman.

This meant that Ning Fan was betrothed to seven different women!

No, counting the one with Su Qingcheng, there were a total of eight!

"My mother left me with eight marriage certificates? This..."

Ning Fan’s mind became a whirl of confusion.

What he didn’t know was that, including the one with Su Qingcheng, there were actually nine marriage certificates in total!

Su Qingcheng had deliberately hidden the marriage certificate between him and Xu Yourong!

"Shen Bingying? How could it be her?"

As Ning Fan briefly looked through the seven marriage certificates, he came across a familiar name.

It was the woman from Shen City he had met in the coastal city the night before, Shen Bingying!

She, too, was one of his fiancées?

"How does it feel, suddenly having seven fiancées? Excited, aren’t you?"

Su Qingcheng watched Ning Fan’s reaction with a poker face, assuming he was so excited that he was at a loss for words, and she couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh.

Men were really all the same.

And Ning Fan was no exception.

None of them were worthy of her, nor of Xu Yourong!

"Miss Su, have these marriage certificates always been in this paper bag?" Ning Fan asked as he pulled himself together from the initial shock.

"Correct, so now the situation is that our engagement has been dissolved, but you still have seven fiancées. You can take these seven marriage certificates to find your other fiancées," Su Qingcheng said, her chin lifted in assertion.

"What do you mean?" Ning Fan frowned.

"What I mean," Su Qingcheng explained, "is that I could have chosen not to return these seven marriage certificates to you, but I did. So, in return, I hope that you will not bother Xu Yourong anymore, and instead, look for your seven other brides. It just so happens that Xu Yourong has returned to the provincial city. You two should part ways from this moment on."

"Miss Su!"

Ning Fan’s expression turned cold and his tone even colder, "I appreciate that you’ve returned these seven marriage certificates to me, but I must tell you plainly that I have no interest in the women on these certificates. I will seek them out one by one to annul the engagement. And I want to make it clear to you that in my heart, there is only one woman, Miss Xu! I will not break off my relationship with Miss Xu! I hope you won’t speak to me like this again in the future!"

"Heh, seven fiancées. There isn’t a man who would refuse that. Your current denial is just for show, or maybe you’re simply deceiving yourself," Su Qingcheng retorted, full of disbelief, and added, "But it’s fine if you’re unwilling to agree to break it off with Xu Yourong now. After all, there’s only half a month left until the Qingyun List is announced. If you can’t make it into the top ten of the Qingyun List within half a month, you’ll have to part ways with her! That’s something you’ve promised yourself!"

After saying this, Su Qingcheng didn’t wait for Ning Fan to respond, she stood up and gracefully walked away.

...

Clutching the kraft paper bag containing the seven marriage certificates, Ning Fan returned to his residence with mixed emotions.

"Brother, you’re back," Lin Xiaoling said crisply.

"Little Fan, did you see off Miss Xu? Has she returned to the provincial city?" Ding Hongxia asked with concern.

After a short interaction the day before, she had taken a liking to Xu Yourong.

But she often felt inferior due to their home’s modest standing compared to the Xu Family.

"Eh? Brother, what are you holding there?" Lin Xiaoling noticed the stack of marriage certificates in Ning Fan’s hand and asked curiously.

From her angle, all she could see were the backs of the marriage certificates, which had a peculiar pattern.