Marriage Concerto (Small Thing Called Love) Chapter 55

Translator: pwip

Chapter 55: Thanks.

Ding Meng's heart rate sped up and she could hear the thumping of her heartbeat.

The nearby sound technician walked out in silence while nursing his wounded heart. After their relations.h.i.+p had been exposed, this husband and wife pair had become completely unbearable to watch.

After cooling off outside for a moment, he was dragged back in by Qiao Yichen.

Ding Meng's state of mind improved quite a bit that afternoon. She managed to finish recording Love That Arrived Unexpectedly in one sitting.

The sound technician wondered, "Did Great Qiao's sweet talk help her rediscover the feeling of youthful love?"

He gave Great Qiao's smooth talking a thumbs up.

When the recording of the song was complete, everyone packed up to go home. After all, today was New Year's Day so everyone left work a bit earlier.

Now that their relations.h.i.+p had become public knowledge, Qiao Yichen dropped all pretenses and straightforwardly gave Ding Meng a ride back in his own car.

Ding Meng finally had the free time to check on her phone when she sat in Qiao Yichen's car. There were quite a few missed calls on her phone, including some from Jiang Nanqing and her mom. She returned her mom's call first to tell her mother that she was fine before dialing Jiang Nanqing's number.

After the call connected, Jiang Nanqing's voice immediately traveled through the earpiece, "Holy c.r.a.p Mengmeng, are you okay? I thought that you had ended things after taking things too hard."

Ding Meng raised an eyebrow and responded, "I spent the afternoon recording and I didn't bring my phone with me."

"Eh, so it was like that." After taking a breath, Jiang Nanqing continued, "Oh right! Your mom was also really worried about you. She actually called me."

"I know. I called her back just now. Everything's ok."

"Ah okay. I didn't get out of bed until noon today, but right when I got online, I discovered that your relations.h.i.+p with Qiao Yichen had been exposed. Don't worry. As the left and right protectors of the nation's main Little Lemon division, Xiao Zhuo-zi and I will dispose of any traitors among your fans, and we'll reorganize the remaining fans. Basically, you can leave your fans to us. Just concentrate on recording your songs."

"Thank you, Nanqing." Ding Meng's eyes turned a little red. She wasn't on her own at all. She still had her friends.

"Ay, what are you getting all emotional for? There's no need for thanks. Our ten year friends.h.i.+p really must have grown weak."

Her exaggerated tone teased a smile out of Ding Meng, "When the alb.u.m is released, I'll give you a fancy signed edition to serve as a family heirloom."

Jiang Nanqing laughed along with her, "When you're done recording your alb.u.m, let's go eat chuan chuan again! Our group of three musketeers hasn't gotten together in a long time!"

"Okay!" Ding Meng promised straightforwardly and then quickly added, "I'll bring Qiao Yichen along."

Qiao Yichen looked over at her as he drove and smiled silently. His wife was being a fatty and thinking about eating chuan chuan again.

Only after hanging up did Ding Meng didn't realize that Qiao Yichen wasn't driving towards home, "Goudan, where are we going?"

Qiao Yichen responded, "My mom also called me today. She's worried about us so she asked us to go over for dinner."

"Ah, alright." Ding Meng nodded.

After arriving at the Qiao Residence, Ding Meng noticed that aside from Qiao Yichen's entire family, Su Rui was unexpectedly also present. Sitting next to her was a youthful looking married woman who resembled Su Rui and was probably Su Rui's mother.

Qiao Yichen frowned when he saw Su Rui and glanced at his mother. Mama Qiao laughed awkwardly and spoke, "Ah, Su Rui's mom wanted to come over and apologize. I already said that you two wouldn't want to see them, but they were determined to stay."

The look on Su Rui's mother immediately dropped. She knew that if it wasn't for how long the two families had known each other, Mama Qiao would have chased them out a long time ago. However, this matter really was Su Rui's fault. She could only brace herself and apologize, "I'm so sorry about the Weibo incident. I have already scolded Ruirui and she understands her mistake. I hope that you two can forgive her."

After speaking, she nudged Su Rui, signaling her to apologize to Ding Meng and Qiao Yichen.

Su Rui's eyes were red looking as if she had just cried. She glimpsed at Ding Meng and Qiao Yichen before reluctantly saying, "I'm sorry."

Ding Meng glanced at her and smiled slightly, "I don't accept."

"You…" Su Rui immediately became somewhat indignant as if she had already lowered herself to apologize. In spite of everything, they didn't appreciate her gesture and instead declined..

Su Rui's mother tried to play the peacemaker from the sidelines, "This incident really was Ruirui's fault. I know that you two are angry, but she's still young. I hope that you two won't hold it against a junior."

Ding Meng laughed sarcastically, "She's still young? She only has two more months until she turns twenty. Are you still pretending that she's a primary school student?"

Su Rui took a step forward as if to say something but was stopped by her mother. Then, she looked at Qiao Yichen, as if she wanted to see if he would yield.

Qiao Yichen responded with a cold expression, "I've stated on Weibo very clearly that from now on, we won't be having any future interactions with you. I will not accept Su Rui's apology either."

Hearing the same words come from Qiao Yichen's mouth hit Su Rui twice as hard. Tears began to brim in her eyes as she looked at Qiao Yichen.

Su Rui's mother didn't expect that Qiao Yichen would also be this unreasonable. She thought that perhaps it would be better to wait until this matter blew over before bringing Su Rui back to apologize. Unexpectedly, Qiao Yixing suddenly spoke up from the sidelines, "I know that you're worried about the cooperation between our companies. You don't need to worry. I've already consulted with my father today and we've decided that we won't be collaborating with you."

Su Rui's mother, "…"

"Also, you two don't need to come again in the future. Our Qiao family doesn't welcome you."

Qiao Yixing's cold-hearted demeanor may have really stung Su Rui because she began to shout emotionally at Qiao Yichen, "You guys were the ones who hid your marriage! You guys were the ones who messed up! Why are you guys placing all the blame on me now?!"

Qiao Yichen knit his brows and turned to look at her, "Obviously we were going to announce our marriage ourselves. We didn't need you to overstep your bounds and take matters into your own hands using such a low-cla.s.s method. In our minds, the announcement date has simply been s.h.i.+fted to an earlier date. As for your actions, I believe that we have the right to refuse your apology."

Seeing that both sides were becoming more emotional, Su Rui's mother immediately dragged Su Rui away before the matter escalated even more.

Ding Meng looked at the people standing in the living room and spoke with embarra.s.sment, "I'm sorry that our matter has inconvenienced you all."

Mama Qiao immediately pulled her over and spoke comfortingly, "How could we blame you? Anyone who bullies my daughter-in-law deserves to be beaten to death."

Ding Meng, "…"

"We made a lot of dishes to celebrate the New Year today. Eating more delicious things will improve your moods."

"Okay." Ding Meng smiled at her and followed her into the dining room.

In the living room, Qiao Yixing looked at Qiao Yichen and raised an eyebrow, "Sealed the deal?"

Qiao Yichen humphed, "I go to sleep while holding my wife every night now. You can turn green with envy for all I care."

Qiao Yixing chuckled and patted his shoulder before heading into the dining room as well.

After dinner, Qiao Yichen brought Ding Meng straight home. After an entire day had pa.s.sed, Ding Meng's mood had calmed down a lot. After taking a shower, she sat down in front of the computer to continue checking on how the situation was developing.

Nothing new had been posted onto Weibo and the netizens seemed to be exhausted after a day of busy activity. On the other hand, Ding Meng had received quite a few private messages.

Ever since she gained an influx of followers, she hadn't paid much attention to her private messages. However, today she was reading them obsessively.

Just as she had expected, many anti-fans had privately messaged her to send hate mail. However, even more messages were from fans who sent words of comfort. As she read each of the cute messages, Ding Meng was gradually moved. Everyone who was willing to continue supporting her during such a time was like an unexpected little angel.

After browsing for a bit, Ding Meng opened the private messages from those that she followed. She had sent many people private thank you messages today, but she didn't expect that everyone would actually respond to her.

Mu Shuang: No need for thanks. I simply couldn't stand Tang s.h.i.+ran. Also, even though I lost to you once, that doesn't mean I'll continue to lose to you. I hope you won't leave the music industry because of this sort of setback.

Ding Meng couldn't help but smile. She typed into the message box, "My new alb.u.m currently in production. I won't be leaving the music industry."

Mu Shuang was currently active on Weibo so she responded very quickly, "That's good. I will also be coming out with an alb.u.m this year. I'll see you at the year end Grand Music Ceremony."

Before Ding Meng had time to finish her reply, Mu Shang sent over another message, "I'm not used to using private messages. Just add my QQ SN 23333333"

T/N: SN = screen name

Ding Meng blinked. How much did she have to pay for that QQ SN?

T/N: 233 is slang for laughing and the more 3s, the harder the laugh. DM is implying that MS probably had to buy the SN off someone else because it's definitely a popular SN.

After she obediently added Mu Shuang's SN, Mu Shuang sent another message over, "Even though am sympathetic that you're marrying Qiao Yichen, I still want to wish you two a happy marriage."

MengMengDa: …Thanks.

When Mu Shuang's icon went offline, Ding Meng continued to look through her other private messages on Weibo.

Xiao Qi: Good luck. Don't let those jerks get to you. I'm looking forward to your new alb.u.m. I'll buy 50 copies when it hits the shelves.

Sun Rui: Beautiful women don't need to be polite *blow kiss* I heard your new song. Your singing abilities have improved quite a bit. I'm confident that your new alb.u.m will be very impressive. The only thing that I can't understand is why you married Qiao Yichen."

Ding Meng couldn't stop herself from laughing. After sending one reply after another, she refreshed the next page and discovered that Gu Xin had posted a new message 20 seconds ago.

Not only that, he had also reposted her statement from the morning.

Gu Xin (V): I've known about Ding Meng and Qiao Yichen's relations.h.i.+p for a while now. Now I can finally give them my congratulations out in the open.

Ding Meng stared blankly. In the past, Gu Xin may have really seen those marks that Qiao Yichen left on her neck, but he shouldn't have been able to guess that they had already gotten married.

He was just saying that to help them prove their innocence.

Ding Meng's heart welled up with emotion. She sniffed her nose and sent Gu Xin a private message, "Thank you, QAQ"

On the other end of the internet, Gu Xin smiled, "Saying thank you is so boring. I want to eat at your wedding reception's $9999 dollar table. Each table can't have more than five people