After Being Targeted By A Sweet Girl With Big Eyes - Chapter 14
Chapter 14: Brother-in-Law
Jiang Ruyi returned to her happy home—Hulunbuir Grassland, Branch Division.
Someone was already waiting for her with a sightseeing cart. She called her sister, Wang Rumeng, and got into the vehicle.
Her mood was great now that she was home. Jiang Ruyi sat with her legs crossed, swinging them back and forth. The moment her sister answered, she casually asked, “I’m home. Where’s the gift you prepared for me?”
Wang Rumeng happily spun a few times in her office chair, delighted at what she was about to say. “Look closely. It’s far away yet right in front of your eyes.”
Jiang Ruyi was confused. What was far yet close? All she saw was an endless stretch of grassland. What else could it be? Oh, was the grass greener this month, or was the sky bluer today?
Thinking Wang Rumeng was teasing her, she said angrily, “I thought your preview meant you had some amazing gift. I dream about Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, and Maybachs when I sleep. And you’re telling me the gift is the beautiful scenery of nature? Wang Rumeng, aren’t you bored?”
Wang Rumeng…
This idiot! She’s even more bored than I thought! Hahahaha!
She said, “Look again. What’s different from before?”
Jiang Ruyi looked left, right, up, and down. She couldn’t see anything different.
Wait a minute!
Jiang Ruyi turned her head to look at the foreigner driving the shuttle cart. She was surprised. “When did our family hire a foreigner? They’re not giving jobs to our own people but hiring foreigners? Who hired him? I’m going to go talk to them. Seriously, they’re so unpatriotic.”
Wang Rumeng smiled, wishing she could leap through the phone and smack Jiang Ruyi a couple of times. Bringing the country into it? How high and mighty does she think she is?
Hearing her sister fall silent, Jiang Ruyi also quieted down. She looked at the foreigner’s profile and sank into thought.
Jiang Ruyi: “Did you hire him?”
“Mhm.”
“Do you have nothing better to do?”
“He’s a college student on vacation with nothing to do, so I brought him home for you to play with.”
Jiang Ruyi erupted. “Wang Rumeng, roll yourself away! Don’t you know I like pretty women? You bring home a man for me to play… to play what?! To play nothing! How are you a sister? I’m going to tell Mom!”
“Oh my god, you’re so dramatic all the time. Who besides us could put up with you?”
“Stop trying to PUA me! Lots of people can put up with me! People are trying to pursue me all the way to our house!”
Wang Rumeng didn’t pay attention to that last sentence, taking it as a typical retort. “He’s my suitor, okay? You like women; your sister still likes men. I just thought you were unemployed and bored at home, so I sent him back to keep you company. Ungrateful little thing.”
Jiang Ruyi was aghast, looking at the young foreigner. “Thank you so much! I’m completely swamped, okay? I have to herd cattle every day, and I have to shower my Simmie with affection. She must have missed me terribly after all this time. Besides, if he’s so interesting, keep him in Beijing to play with! Wait, scratch that. What kind of vulgar language is that? It’s all your fault. Wang Rumeng, I don’t even want to lecture you, but you’re too old for casual flings. If you’re not serious about this little foreigner, tell him clearly! What do you mean by bringing him home? Do you want him to give up, or do you want me to be the bad guy?”
“He’s only a freshman. His major isn’t relevant, and he wouldn’t be much help at my company; he’d just disrupt my focus. Besides, who said I wasn’t interested in him? I sent him back for you to vet him because I am interested!” Wang Rumeng said this without any trace of a blush, luckily no one was in her office.
Jiang Ruyi was too embarrassed to look at the guy. She gasped quietly, “Wang Rumeng, you beast! You’re going after a college freshman who’s only 18 or 19? You, you, you are worse than a beast! Don’t tell anyone you know me when you go out! It’s humiliating! You are disgracing me! Disgracing me!”
“Jiang Ruyi, look closely. Does he look 18 or 19? And even if he is, so what? Don’t you know the age of sexual consent is earlier in foreign countries than ours?”
“AHHHH! I don’t want to know any of that!” Jiang Ruyi pulled the phone away. Her mind raced, automatically picturing Wang Rumeng actually getting together with this young foreigner, having a half-foreign nephew or niece, and having them follow her around calling her ‘aunt.’
She couldn’t stand it! She absolutely couldn’t stand it! “No! Wang Rumeng, no! I cannot accept a stinky foreigner! And don’t be short-sighted! Yes, they are young and good-looking now, but what about a few years from now? Look, let’s just choose a Chinese man. Although 99% of the market is poor quality, our family has money! As long as a woman has money, nothing else matters…”
Before Jiang Ruyi could finish, the foreigner driving next to her shouted, “Hey! I’m not a stinky foreigner! I don’t smell at all!”
His standard foreign accent speaking Chinese startled Jiang Ruyi. Then, without batting an eye, she commented, “Listen to how goofy he sounds when he talks.”
Beep. Wang Rumeng hung up the phone. The surprise had been delivered; she’d leave the rest for them to figure out.
Donovan pulled over and parked. This was their family’s private ranch. Everything within sight belonged to Jiang Ruyi’s family. Only her grandparents lived here, along with some staff like maids, drivers, security guards, and a nutritionist. There were no other people on this road.
Seeing him stop in this “middle of nowhere” spot, Jiang Ruyi worried that this young foreigner, in his fragile state, might use violence to force her to agree to his relationship with her sister.
She would never yield.
She immediately jumped out of the car and ran angrily in the direction of the house, shouting as she ran, “I will absolutely NOT agree!”
Donovan held up his hands, watching Jiang Ruyi run away. “Hey! I just wanted you to smell me! I really don’t stink! I smell great!”
“AHHHH! You pervert! Get away from me!!!”
But two legs, no matter how fast, are no match for four wheels. Donovan leisurely followed in the sightseeing cart. “Hey, Wang Rumeng’s little sister, you can’t dismiss me just because I’m a foreigner. If you just get to know me a little, you’ll see I’m actually a pretty nice guy.”
Heh.
Jiang Ruyi turned her head and looked at the foolishly relaxed foreigner. Her anger flared. On her turf, and she’s the one getting tired? That makes no sense!
She stopped. The sightseeing cart stopped with her. She circled to the driver’s side, yanked him out, and was slightly taken aback. Donovan’s 192 cm height, combined with his overly trained muscles, definitely made her lose some ground in terms of physical presence. She cleared her throat, got into the driver’s seat, and sped off with a single statement.
She said, “Wang Rumeng can like you today, and she can dislike you tomorrow. Her taste is very diverse. Most importantly, if I don’t like someone, I can definitely make her not like them either. Just wait and see.”
“No! Please don’t! I’m genuinely in love with your sister! Please give me a chance!”
At first, Donovan could keep up, trying to appeal to Jiang Ruyi’s conscience. But then Jiang Ruyi saw that this young foreigner could really run, so she stomped on the gas and left him in the dust.
Jiang Ruyi drove the cart home. The butler and staff greeted her at the door. Jiang Ruyi dashed past the pond in the front yard and threw herself into the arms of her grandparents, who were standing in the center of the living room, shouting, “Welcome home, Ruyi-baby!”
The two elders hugged Jiang Ruyi, whom they hadn’t seen in only a few months, and showered her with praise. “You’ve gotten thin, child! You’re going to eat plenty of meat here at home now. Don’t mix in that awful entertainment circle anymore. The family has money. If you don’t want to work at the company, just stay home and relax. It’s good company for us old folks, too.”
“Okay, I’ll eat until I’m plump and healthy, and I won’t mix in that awful entertainment circle anymore.”
The three of them chatted for a while before remembering Donovan. They asked, “Oh, didn’t Donovan go to pick you up? Why are you back alone?”
Just as they spoke, Donovan walked in, breathing heavily.
Her grandmother stood up, looking at the big young man with concern. “Oh my, oh my, why are you so sweaty on such a hot day? Quick, quick, get him a glass of water!”
Jiang Ruyi sat, making eye contact with Donovan, and curled a look of amusement on her face. Go ahead and tell on me. I lose if I’m afraid. These were her grandparents. She wasn’t scared. She did deliberately bully this young foreigner. So what?
Donovan gasped for air, a big, foolish smile on his face as he looked at her grandmother. “I was exercising. Run, run. Sweat, very good. Invigorating.”
Jiang Ruyi pointed at him and said to her grandfather, “Look how silly he is! I really don’t know what Wang Rumeng sees in him!”
“Of course I like that he’s young, good-looking, and has a great body! What else would I like?” Wang Rumeng’s voice came from the other end of the phone.
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The Sister Talk
At 8 PM, the sky was completely dark. Jiang Ruyi was leaning half a leg on the window sill, sipping iced mint lemonade and talking on the phone with Wang Rumeng.
“What’s up? You’ve already gone through all the men in China, and there are none left that you like? You have to try foreign cuisine? You really have the nerve. I didn’t blame you when you liked the dominating type who was a gold digger. Then you liked the sunny, cheerful little puppy, and I said you had taste. Then you liked the gloomy, muscular Japanese-style man. Although that one had a bit of a foreign vibe, he was still Chinese. Finally, I realize you are genuinely promiscuous! You like all types, and you want to own them all! Why can’t you learn from me and be a little more devoted? Seriously, you pick and pick, and you end up with a foreigner. I don’t accept it! I don’t accept it!”
“Mind your own business! I just love trying new things. Be nice to him. He came to China for university because he loves Chinese culture.”
“That’s because Chinese culture is vast and profound, with a long history! Lots of foreigners love China! Just on the issue of gun control, we win! ”
Jiang Ruyi was in the middle of lecturing Wang Rumeng when she suddenly jumped up. “Wait a minute! Does he not even have a university degree yet? I absolutely cannot agree! You’re only after his body, aren’t you? Once you’ve had your fill, let him go. I’m telling you, I’ve read online that men over 25 aren’t so great in that department anymore! And your little foreigner is prone to early aging! Then you won’t have his body or his good looks! Don’t you know that, Wang Rumeng? I’m worried about you!”
“Tsk, Jiang Ruyi, you’re gay! Why do you know so much about this? And stop focusing on your sister’s s3x life! Even eunuchs don’t monitor this much!”
Someone knocked on the door. Jiang Ruyi opened the door while still talking to Wang Rumeng. “Bullshit! Eunuchs actually kept records of which concubine the Emperor chose and how many times he did it that night!”
She opened the door, saw it was Donovan, and immediately closed it again. She continued, “Hehehe, I’m just well-read! I’m idle, and now I’m extremely idle. Ugh, I can’t be bothered to talk to you anymore! Tell that little foreigner to stay away from me, or else I’ll…”
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The Mother’s View
She hung up on Wang Rumeng and soon received a call from her mother. Her mother and father were the mainstays of the company, which was why Wang Rumeng had so much time to call Jiang Ruyi and talk nonsense. Jiang Ruyi answered the phone and immediately began to whine. “Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy…”
Madam Wang immediately launched into a scolding. “Your sister is finally preparing to settle down and find someone stable. Don’t you dare mess it up! I know the young man. Your sister met him abroad. Oh, I hear it was love at first sight, tsk, tsk, tsk. He couldn’t even speak Chinese not long ago, but he spent a few months mastering it for your sister, and he even went to that university to study Chinese! Don’t you dare bully him, you hear me? Or Mommy will come back and spank your little bottom!”
Jiang Ruyi: Great, great. She’s been waiting for her to come home to complain.
Her mind was full of indignation toward Wang Rumeng’s betrayal, not caring about Donovan at all. “I genuinely don’t want to see Wang Rumeng, do you know that?”
After listening to her mother’s long lecture, she finally managed that sentence, then quickly rallied and continued her output. “Him liking Wang Rumeng is what he should do! So, if I like someone, and I shed a little bl00d for her, does that make me more devoted, and she has to like me? Is that what you’re saying?”
Her mother was momentarily stunned. Why had the conversation suddenly turned to bl00d and tears? “No! I didn’t mean that! Jiang Ruyi, don’t twist my words! This is about your sister liking him!”
“No! I don’t like it!”
“Who have you ever liked? You don’t like anyone your sister likes. Oh, right. You don’t even like men, so you have no say in this.”
“Mommy!!!”