Chapter 98 He Doesn’t Even Get This Treatment.
At Qin Xiaoran’s invitation, Shen Zhiyi visited the newly opened gallery of the Qin Family, an engagement gift from Xiaoran’s fiancé. It was originally supposed to be turned into a private art museum, but Xiaoran wasn’t interested in that area and couldn’t be bothered with the effort.
Upon arrival, someone was there to greet her. Before viewing the exhibit, she was invited to a reception room on the fifth floor. As soon as Xiaoran saw her, she reached out to touch her head, fretful, "Bumping your head is no small matter. Why didn’t you stay in the hospital for a few more days?"
"It wasn’t serious," replied Shen Zhiyi who couldn’t stand being idle. The thought of wasting away in the hospital because of a minor injury scared her to death.
"I was scared to death," Qin Xiaoran said as she handed her a drink, not daring to let her touch alcohol, "You have so many injuries, I will introduce my beautician to you later, we can’t have you getting scars."
"Okay," Zhiyi looked around, "Your fiancé isn’t here?"
"Him?" Qin Xiaoran laughed, "Did you think he would accompany me? Wishful thinking. We each do our own thing, marriage is just a formality."
Shen Zhiyi stared at her, stunned. She had not expected this. At the engagement party, Qin Xiaoran hadn’t shown any reluctance. Zhiyi had believed it to be a romantic scene of mutual affection.
"Don’t be so surprised," Qin Xiaoran said with a laugh, "It’s not 100% about interests. At the very least, I find him quite pleasing to the eye. That’s all there is to it, no more is necessary."
Leaning in as if to confide a secret, she whispered in Shen Zhiyi’s ear, "After we get married next year, he’ll be sent abroad, and I’ll live here alone. Just thinking about it makes me happy."
With such views on marriage, others needn’t worry about her. Shen Zhiyi said no more, knowing she didn’t have much understanding on the matter, and in this aspect, her views were probably considered too naive and unrealistic by Qin Xiaoran and others.
The gallery’s first exhibition had invited quite a few people, and as the host, Qin Xiaoran naturally had to socialize and therefore couldn’t stay with Shen Zhiyi for too long.