I Treat You as My Sister, But You Want to be My Wife?!

Zhang Tao stood there like a child who had done something wrong. Now, there really was no way to calmly sit down and eat; at first, it was manageable, but after hearing that phone call and the filthy words, I just felt that I definitely couldn’t do it anymore. If I could still eat under these circumstances, I’d really have no conscience at all.

"How can you expect me to eat now, when you didn’t speak up for me just now? If you had said a few good words on my behalf, cleared up that misunderstanding, I could’ve been happily eating here by now. But look where we are—just when I thought I could put one issue behind me, I’m faced with a second crisis. What am I supposed to do now?

Ahhh, and you let her find out, using my phone to call her, made it so that you can’t ask for leave for her anymore. And now she knows about it, too. Honestly, I feel like I have no reason to go on living, why don’t I just torture myself to death right here? I never expected that you would turn out to be the executioner, pushing me even further into persecution."

"I’m so pitiful. You have to come up with a solution for me now. If you don’t, I’ll keep pestering you until Tang Yuchan is back to normal. She’s definitely even less willing to listen to me now. And even if she does listen to an explanation, what good will it do? She’s bound to remember the time I wronged her, and asking for leave won’t be so easy anymore.

"Why don’t you just be less strict from now on? Just approve leave when it’s needed—it’s not the end of the world. You agree, don’t you? We’re already making such a big deal out of this; if you keep on refusing to let a girl take leave, what kind of person does that make you?

"You think it’s wrong, too, right? I believe someone as tolerant and generous as you would never make things difficult for a girl. After you sort this out, she’ll surely forgive me."

Out of options, Zhang Tao could only say so much. Shen Dong gave a wry smile. This wasn’t just about taking leave or not. Tang Yuchan had already dared to defy me to this extent; how could I make it any easier for her to skip work? Naturally, that was impossible.

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If I let Tang Yuchan off so easily, I would at the very least need to tease her a bit. It was definitely not going to be resolved easily. Zhang Tao’s words made him sound pitiful, but what did that have to do with me? All I needed to do was to appease Kang Yue; merely avoiding trouble from her would be a blessing.

So I could only be upfront and say, "Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing. How could I possibly make things difficult for a girl? Besides, if she becomes my sister-in-law in the future, wouldn’t it be even easier for her to get leave? But what’s the most pressing issue right now?

"Your problem hasn’t been sorted out yet. How can you expect her to accept this? What has angered her? She thinks you’re a scumbag who has a girlfriend but still chats with her. That’s what’s infuriating her.