After Marrying the Officer Chapter 1424 - 1423: Ou Cong Side Story

"Shuqin, about this... give me a little time, let me think about it, okay?" Ou Cong couldn’t help reaching up to scratch his head hard, then paced back and forth a few steps on the spot.

"I really didn’t know, I really didn’t know you liked me..."

I’ve always treated you like a "brother," and you turn around and say you like me—for Ou Cong, his head was a complete mess right now.

As for whether he liked Jiang Shuqin or not, liked her in that way, man-and-woman kind of like...

Honestly, he really didn’t know.

But Jiang Shuqin had absolutely no intention of giving him time.

Because she’d already given him plenty of time.

Now that the cards were on the table, if they couldn’t become lovers, then for the two of them, even their partnership might not be able to go on.

So Jiang Shuqin had to have an answer.

"Ou Cong, I’m not trying to force you." Jiang Shuqin said calmly. "I just want a result. Only when there’s a result will I know how I’m supposed to walk my road from here on."

What she meant was still the same as before—if the two of them could make it work, then everyone would be happy.

If they couldn’t—cut the knot cleanly and quickly.

All these years doing business in G City with Ou Cong had already tempered Jiang Shuqin’s personality into someone who hated dragging things out.

Being able to hold back and not lay her cards on the table for this long was already her limit.

Faced with Jiang Shuqin’s pressing, step-by-step aggression, Ou Cong fell silent all of a sudden.

This...

Ou Cong couldn’t help glancing at Jiang Shuqin.

Because of the reforms, G City had basically been walking at the cutting edge of fashion these years.

The women in G City all loved, and were good at, sprucing themselves up.

So the Jiang Shuqin standing in front of Ou Cong right now, with that carefree short hair, a light touch of makeup on her face, those clear black-and-white eyes fixed on him, lips like vermilion, brows like ink...

Ou Cong was stunned on the spot.

Come to think of it, Jiang Shuqin didn’t seem to be that little girl anymore whose face and nose were always red.

Somehow, without him really noticing, Jiang Shuqin had already grown into a woman—mature and beautiful.

Ou Cong suddenly lost all his words.

Then he started to think, if... if it had to be like Jiang Shuqin said, that he must find a woman to marry, then he... was actually quite willing to accept Jiang Shuqin.

At the very least, being with Jiang Shuqin, he shouldn’t feel much pressure.

Thinking this, Ou Cong let out a breath and stopped scratching his head.

He stood still, facing Jiang Shuqin, and began to speak seriously: "Shuqin, let me be honest with you. I really don’t know whether I... have that kind of man-woman feeling for you or not."

"But if you want to marry me..." Ou Cong clasped his hands behind his back and said loudly, "then I think I can accept you as my wife."

After he finished, Ou Cong himself felt a sense of relief.

With an answer like that, Jiang Shuqin should be satisfied, right?

Satisfied?

How the hell could she be satisfied!

"That’s your answer?" Jiang Shuqin couldn’t help snapping at him.

"Yes, I do think that if you really want to marry me, I can..." Ou Cong said loudly.

"You can my ass!" Hearing Ou Cong’s self-satisfied answer, Jiang Shuqin grabbed a book from beside her and hurled it at him, cutting him off sharply. "What do you mean, if I want to marry you, you can accept me as your wife?"

Jiang Shuqin was furious.

"In your eyes, am I really that desperate to get married?" Jiang Shuqin said, her anger barely contained.

"Shuqin, you..." Ou Cong honestly couldn’t understand why, after hearing him agree to get married, Jiang Shuqin would react like this.