The Reluctant Bride Book I Chapter 40.41

The Stepford girlfriend.

‘Pan Ting, are you injured?’ Tan Zui s.h.i.+ asked.

‘Dad, I’m OK,’ Tan Pan Ting said.

‘Good,’ Tan Zui s.h.i.+ said. ‘Come outside after you dress.’

Tan Zui s.h.i.+ walked outside, and he closed Tan Pan Ting’s bedroom door.

‘Big brother, it’s my fault,’ Gu Qi Jiang said. ‘I raised a bad son.’

Gu Qi Jiang was embarra.s.sed Gu Jiao Wen had the audacity to bed Tan Pan Ting under her parents’ roof.

‘Big brother, it’s my fault,’ Tan Zui s.h.i.+ said. ‘I shouldn’t have doted on my bad daughter. In the future I’ll trouble you to take care of my bad daughter.’

Tan Zui s.h.i.+ saw the scissors in Tan Pan Ting’s hand, and he was grateful Gu Jiao Wen’s parents didn’t sue Tan Pan Ting for a.s.saulting Gu Jiao Wen.

‘Big brother, it’s me who’ll be troubling you,’ Gu Qi Jiang said. ‘In the future if my bad son dares to bully Pan Ting again, I’ll show him no mercy.’

Tan Pan Ting overheard Tan Zui s.h.i.+ and Gu Qi Jiang’s polite exchange, and she wanted to flip the bed. She didn’t need anyone to take care of her. As long as the MF cop kept his distance from her, she would get her life back on track.

Tan Pan Ting stomped to her desk.

Summer Night Sky: What make him call off the wedding? The pervert snuck into my bedroom while I was changing into clothes. He saw everything!

Angel Jia Ju: If plan A didn’t work. There is plan B.

Summer Night Sky: I’m listening.

Angel Jia Ju: Be the perfect Stepford girlfriend to him. Bam, wham, on the wedding day you jilt him. It’ll make him pay for locking you up, and his perverted habits.

Tan Pan Ting pictured Gu Jiao Wen’s embarra.s.sed face left at the altar, she would have cackled if his parents weren’t in the living room.

In the living room, Gu Jiao Wen’s cut hand was bandaged.

Chen Ting Yu looked at Gu Jiao Wen’s bandaged hand, and she believed Gu Jiao Wen must love Tan Pan Ting if he couldn’t wait until his and Tan Pan Ting’s wedding night next month to bed Tan Pan Ting.

‘Jiao Wen, clear your work schedule,’ Gu Qi Jiang said. ‘I want you to take Pan Ting to meet your grandpa in the city this weekend.’

Gu Jiao Wen had no interest returning to the city. Before he could open his mouth, Tan Pan Ting walked into the living room. She removed her ghostly makeup, tied her hair in a ponytail and she wore a feminine white dress. If she wasn’t smiling at him in a suspicious way, she would have looked like an angel.

Tan Pan Ting inwardly cursed the pervert. She sat next to the pervert on the sofa, and smiled angelically at him.

‘Jiao Wen,’ Tan Pan Ting called sweetly. She suppressed her urge to vomit at the sight of the blood stain on Gu Jiao Wen’s white s.h.i.+rt. ‘I’m sorry. It was an accident.’

Gu Jiao Wen looked into Tan Pan Ting’s eyes, and he couldn’t find sincerity.

Tan Pan Ting patted Gu Jiao Wen’s cheek affectionately with one hand, and her other hand squeezed his bandaged hand.

‘Jiao Wen, it’s your fault,’ Tan Pan Ting said. ‘If you didn’t pressure me to sleep with you before our wedding night, I wouldn’t have injured you.’

Gu Qi Jiang and Chen Ting Yu were embarra.s.sed Tan Pan Ting confirmed their suspicions that Gu Jiao Wen was their bad hot blooded son.

Wen Xue Fang didn’t know what kinky bedroom role plays Tan Pan Ting and Gu Jiao Wen were into. One moment Tan Pan Ting wore thick ghostly makeup, and the next moment Tan Pan Ting looked angelic.

‘Pan Ting…’ Wen Xue Fang said.

‘Pan Ting, don’t say nonsense,’ Tan Zui s.h.i.+ interrupted.

Tan Pan Ting acted like she didn’t hear her parents. She dug her fingernails into Gu Jiao Wen’s bandaged hand, and kept smiling angelically at him.

‘Jiao Wen, I’ve accepted we’re getting married next month,’ Tan Pan Ting said sweetly. ‘I promise in the future I won’t use scissors to injure you. Will you forgive me?’

Gu Jiao Wen winced. He felt Tan Pan Ting’s fingernails drew blood through the bandage.

‘Pan Ting, I forgive you,’ Gu Jiao Wen said.

‘Truly?’ Tan Pan Ting asked sweetly. She squeezed Gu Jiao Wen’s bandaged hand harder. ‘Jiao Wen, you’re too good to me.’

Gu Jiao Wen raised Tan Pan Ting’s devil hand to his lips, and he kissed her hand.

‘Of course I need to be good to my future wife,’ Gu Jiao Wen said.

‘Jiao Wen, you’re hateful,’ Tan Pan Ting said. ‘Our parents are here. Don’t be a cad in front our parents. It’s embarra.s.sing.’

Tan Pan Ting lowered her head to appear shy, and she dug her fingernails deeper into Gu Jiao Wen’s bandaged hand.

Gu Qi Jiang coughed awkwardly.

‘Jiao Wen, control yourself,’ Gu Qi Jiang warned.

Chen Ting Yu was happy she would be holding her first grandchild soon.

‘Big brother, big sister,’ Chen Ting Yu said. ‘Please forgive Jiao Wen. Jiao Wen usually shows self-restraint. It’s because Jiao Wen loves Pan Ting so he’s impatient before their wedding next month.’

‘It’s natural for young love birds to be impatient,’ Wen Xue Fang said. ‘Let’s head to the restaurant Zui s.h.i.+ booked for dinner.’

‘Yes,’ Chen Ting Yu said. ‘Jiao Wen, you can drive Pan Ting to the restaurant. Your dad and I will go with Pan Ting’s parents to the restaurant.’

‘Yes mum,’ Gu Jiao Wen said. He held Tan Pan Ting’s hand, and pulled her off the sofa with him. Some of the blood on his hand rubbed off on her hand. ‘Let’s go my future darling wife.’

‘Yes my darling cad,’ Tan Pan Ting said sweetly.

Gu Jiao Wen and Tan Pan Ting’s lovey dovey act made them nauseous. But their parents believed their act, and their parents thought Gu Jiao Wen and Tan Pan Ting’s marriage would be a happy union.

Later at a hotel restaurant, Tan Pan Ting sat next to Gu Jiao Wen and she acted like the perfect Stepford girlfriend.

‘Jiao Wen, eat the steamed fish,’ Tan Pan Ting said. She put steamed fish into Gu Jiao Wen’s bowl. ‘The waiter said all the fish dishes served today are fresh fish caught this morning.’

‘Thank you,’ Gu Jiao Wen said.

‘Jiao Wen, eat the prawn too,’ Tan Pan Ting said. She put a prawn into Gu Jiao Wen’s bowl. ‘I heard the prawns here are the best quality prawns.’

‘Big brother, big sister,’ Tan Zui s.h.i.+ said. ‘It’s true what they say about young women in love are the sweetest.’ He was happy common sense returned to Tan Pan Ting after the scissors incident. ‘My daughter hasn’t once put food into my bowl in her life.’

‘Dad…’ Tan Pan Ting sulked.

Tan Pan Ting’s convincing act made the parents laughed happily.

‘Jiao Wen, you’re a man,’ Chen Ting Yu said. ‘You should take good care of Pan Ting too.’

‘Aunty, it’s OK,’ Tan Pan Ting said. ‘Jiao Wen is always like this. I’m used to it.’

‘Jiao Wen, if you’re always like this, no wonder Pan Ting is upset with you,’ Chen Ting Yu chided.

‘Yes mum,’ Gu Jiao Wen said.

Gu Jiao Wen’s hand caressed Tan Pan Ting’s thigh under the table, and he smiled at her.

Tan Pan Ting wanted to embed the chopsticks into the pervert’s hand.

‘Pan Ting, I promise in the future I’ll take good care of you.’

End of Chapters Forty to Forty-Two