Chapter 5569: Threats

Chapter 5569: Chapter 5569: Threats

Ye Jian emerged, utterly confused. She just couldn’t understand; on the way there, her father had such a grave expression—why had he suddenly changed?

Looking at him, he seemed to be in quite a good mood.

After closing the sliding door to the chess room, Ye Jian couldn’t resist after walking a few steps. She tugged at Xia Jinyuan’s sleeve and glanced back at the quiet chess room, whispering, "Captain Xia, what does my father mean by this? Has he agreed?"

Xia Jinyuan smiled and squeezed Ye Jian’s hand, saying, "Baby girl, you can change how you address me now. As for me, I’ve taken a historic step. From this moment on, I am your fiancé, and you are my fiancée."

What?

Ye Jian was dumbfounded. "My father agreed? How did he agree?" She couldn’t believe it. Her father had been so resistant and opposed to the idea, and now he had agreed?

"Captain Xia, what did you say to my father? How did he suddenly agree? My father clearly..." She was extremely curious about what Xia Jinyuan had said to her father to sway him, despite a thousand disagreements, a myriad of objections, even enlisting her brother as an ally and once persuading Grandpa Gen, the chess master father... to nod in agreement?

With an incredulous look, Xia Jinyuan raised an eyebrow, "Why? Don’t you trust your fiancé’s ability?"

"It’s not that I don’t trust you, but my father..." Worried that Chief Engineer Fu might overhear, Ye Jian simply pulled Xia Jinyuan into a guest room on the first floor, closed the door, and didn’t forget to lock it. Assured that Chief Engineer Fu couldn’t hear, she continued, "But my father is very persistent, so persistent that I wasn’t confident I could persuade my father."

"Last time Grandpa Gen mentioned it, my father didn’t hesitate to disagree and listed a bunch of reasons. In the end, it seemed even Grandpa Gen began to waver because of my father."

"For something that seemed almost hopeless, I’m just curious about what strategy you used to get my father to agree? You..." Her dark pupils shimmered slightly, and Ye Jian’s expression suddenly took on a slightly bizarre twist.

Xia Jinyuan’s brow twitched, his instincts telling him that his fiancée was probably talking nonsense.

"Captain Xia, tell me the truth, you didn’t threaten my father, did you? Force him to nod and agree?"

It was indeed nonsense!

Xia Jinyuan’s mouth twitched slightly as he raised his hand, fiercely ruffling his nonsensical girlfriend’s hair, gritting his teeth a bit, "My future father-in-law, your father, and also my father—how could I dare to threaten him?"

"If I threatened him today, wouldn’t you and your brother give me a double beating? Send me straight out of Dan Gui Garden?"

Ye Jian scrunched up her nose, "Since you didn’t threaten my father, how come he agreed?" It was filled with disbelief! So opposed that in the end, he managed to persuade Grandpa Gen, and today, after a few hours of playing chess with Captain Xia, he just agreed?

Xia Jinyuan didn’t speak but narrowed his eyes slightly. Finally, seeming to discern something, he revealed a profound and inscrutable smile, "Naturally, it was through sentiment and reason, matters between men, which you don’t need to ask about."

Incredible, she knew how to fish for information by now.

Ye Jian frowned and said, "Captain Xia, that’s gender discrimination. I am one of the parties involved."

"Sweetheart, can’t you just let there be a little secret between me and my father-in-law?" Xia Jinyuan wasn’t fooled. He intentionally mentioned threats to make her anxious so that he would reveal all his exchanges with his future father-in-law to her.