Paper-thin love 1st chairman's secret lover

  Yi Xuan's face turned iron-green, and he panted heavily: "Shui Han, this... I won't agree to him doing this. Tian Ze, hurry up and find Gu Anlan, tell her to change her mind. Say you're willing to marry her, or else we'll reach an agreement with Gu Yunbo, at most we'll take 1-2 billion to gamble on investing in Boyao, let Gu Anlan announce online that she's giving up the engagement with the Gu family."

  "Haha, Yi Xushan, why must you stop Shui Han from marrying Gu Anlan?" Shaohanyan immediately chimed in: "Shui Han and Gu Anlan don't have feelings for each other. Does that mean Tianze has feelings for Gu Anlan? Whether it's one brother or the other who marries Gu Anlan, isn't it all just a loveless marriage?"

  "What's the same?" Yi Xiu Shan shouted slightly irritably: "Shui Han marrying Gu An Lan will harm Yu Wei, while Tian Ze marrying Gu An Lan won't harm anyone. Besides, I didn't say that the Yi family must take in Gu An Lan, at worst we can just avoid disaster..."

  "It's not worth it," Yi Tianze said lightly, taking over the conversation: "Bo Yao's hole is too big, I couldn't possibly use Xuri Real Estate's 2-3 billion to throw money down the drain. As for asking Gu Anlan to discuss marriage, this method might be worth a try."

  "Go ahead, just go! As long as you can stop the marriage between Shui Han and Gu Anlan, that's all that matters. No matter what, we must ensure that the engagement ceremony between Shui Han and Yu Wei proceeds smoothly!" Yi Xuan Shan waved his hand to signal Yi Tian Ze to hurry off.

  Yi Tianze looked deeply at his mother, wanting to say something, but ultimately didn't say anything. He vaguely knew that his mother wasn't too fond of Ling Yuwei, but this was a matter concerning his younger brother's lifelong happiness, and he couldn't take care of his mother's feelings anymore.

  He still can't forget that to this day, twenty-five years ago, he was six years old, one day his father brought back a little boy and told him that it was his younger brother, who was three years old at the time, named Yi Shuihan.

  At that time, he didn't like the little brother who suddenly appeared at all, and soon discovered that his mother didn't like him either. She would even beat the little brother behind their father's back and often wouldn't give him food to eat, letting him go hungry.

  He really noticed his little brother when he was fighting with Zhang Kui brothers in the yard, at that time he was alone, Zhang Kui brothers were two, he and Zhang Kui were of the same age, but Zhang Kui also had a four-year-old younger brother, he couldn't beat the two brothers alone.

  Just as he was being beaten to the ground by Zhang Kui and his brother, his younger brother, who was often starved by their mother and would run away from him whenever he saw him, suddenly rushed up like a madman, pinned down Zhang Kui's head and bit down hard, almost biting off Zhang Kui's ear.

  That time, Zhang Kui and his two brothers were defeated by their two brothers. He was overjoyed, for the first time feeling that having a younger brother was great, and also for the first time thinking that this younger brother of his was really something, not weak or timid in the least; his weakness and timidity only showed when he was in front of his mother.

  It was from then on that he began to treat Shui Han as his own brother, pulling at his mother's sleeves when she scolded Shui Han, and secretly taking food from the kitchen to give to his brother when their mother withheld meals from him.

  At first, it was probably just a simple thought of having a younger brother to help in a fight, but later on, he gradually grew up and truly felt that this younger brother was very good and excellent, and could also bring glory to himself outside.

  When he was young, he loved to fight, and his white and refined younger brother had helped him a lot. There were several times when he was rescued directly from the knife.

  Nowadays, his brother is in trouble, or maybe it's not trouble after all. Anyway, he still goes to find Gu Anlan and see what that woman has in mind.

  An Lan received a call from Yi Tianze at two o'clock in the afternoon, which was the first time Yi Tianze had ever called her. When she heard Yi Tianze's voice on the phone, she was still dazed.

  "Miss Gu, would you like to come out for afternoon tea?" Yi Tianze's voice was polite and sincere.

  She slightly stunned and reacted, then calmly said: "Director Yi, I'm not very convenient to go out now, let's talk about it over the phone."

  Today, so many photos of her and Yi Tianze were posted online, but in fact, there is nothing between them, those photos will give people a misunderstanding.

  Today is the 16th, she and Yi Shuihan will get married three days later. She thinks it's better not to meet Yi Tianze alone at this time, so as not to make the online news endless.

  Yi Tianze chuckled quietly on the other side, then said lightly: "That's settled, actually I just wanted to discuss our marriage with you. Look at all those photos online today, it seems like we owe it to the public if we don't get married."

  An Lan heard this and smiled awkwardly, responding with an equally calm tone: "I'm very sorry to have caused trouble for Director Yi, but unfortunately, I've already promised to marry Mr. Yi Shuihan, so, Director Yi should probably leave the position of wife to another woman."

  Yi Tianze was silent for a moment on the phone, then reminded her in a low voice: "Gu Anlan, I think you should have heard that this month's 20th is originally my brother and his girlfriend Ling Yuwei's engagement day. If you choose to marry my brother at this time, I'm worried that my brother can't give you happiness, and you may also become the third person in an awkward situation."

  An Lan couldn't help but laugh after hearing this, and replied calmly: "It's easy to get worked up over nothing. But as far as I know, a 'third party' refers to someone who destroys other people's marriages and families. Mr. Yi Shuihan and Miss Ling Yuwei aren't even engaged yet, let alone married. What kind of third party am I? Besides, the ring was given to me by Mr. Yi Shuihan at the matchmaking meeting, not something I snatched from Miss Ling Yuwei's hand."

  Yi Tianze was thoroughly silent, and it wasn't until after a while that he muttered: "Miss Gu's meaning is, even if you know that marrying my younger brother will not bring happiness, and may even lead to divorce soon after marriage, you still won't choose otherwise?"

  "Yes," An Lan replied without hesitation, then smiled and said: "I'm a person who believes in fate. Since Yi Er Shao gave me the ring that day, it means he's taken a liking to me. Naturally, I will follow the rules of the Yi family's marriage selection meeting - whoever gives me the ring is who I'll marry."

  Yi Tianze listened to An Lan say it to this extent, and didn't say anything else. Before hanging up the phone, he said: "Since you've decided to marry him, then no matter what attitude he has towards this marriage, I hope...I hope you try your best to fight for your own happiness!"

  An Lan was slightly stunned for a moment and didn't understand the meaning of Yi Tianze's words. By the time she came back to her senses, Yi Tianze had already hung up the phone on that end.

  In the evening, Yi Tianze appeared online and held a press conference to give a clear explanation of those videos and photos on the internet.

  He said that he met Gu Anluan fishing at the reservoir by chance, and the surveillance video at the entrance of the reservoir also proved that he and Gu Anluan did not enter the reservoir together.

  As for playing golf, it was Gu Anlan representing Boyao to discuss investment matters with him. Going to the hospital room to see him was also Gu Anlan wanting him to reconsider Boyao's investment plan again.

  As for Gu Anlan pushing him to the charity party, he said that was originally his sister Yi Yu Yan's job. At that time, Yi Yu Yan had something urgent to attend to and happened to go find him to discuss Bo Yao's matters, so Yi Yu Yan let Gu Anlan take over for once.

  To sum it up in one sentence, he did indeed have contact with Gu Anlan several times after the marriage selection conference, but all of those meetings were due to work requirements, and his sending someone to investigate Boyao Company is the best proof.

  Finally, when the reporter asked him how he would deal with the marriage selection conference, he replied frankly that the Yi family would not lose faith in people. The marriage selection conference was absent due to special reasons at the time, so the protagonist of the marriage selection conference that night became his younger brother Yi Shuihan. The Yi family will hold a marriage selection conference according to the purpose of the marriage selection conference, which is to choose a daughter-in-law for the Yi family.

  Yi Tianze's words were already so clear, but there was still a reporter who didn't give up and asked: "Then may I ask if Gu Anlan will marry into the Yi family? Who will she end up marrying?"

  "Whoever puts the ring on her finger will be the one she marries!"

  This is Yitian Ze's last sentence at the press conference, and also indirectly announced the marriage of Yi Shuihan and Gu Anlan!

  Yi Yu Yan saw this and immediately let out a "pu" sound, the mouthful of water she had just drunk spraying directly onto the laptop in front of her, earning a withering look from Yi Tian Ze.

  "Sorry, sorry," Yi Yu Yan hastily apologized, while grabbing a tissue to wipe the water off her notebook, then smiled and defended herself: "This can't be blamed on me, if anyone's to blame, it's you yourself. Second Brother hasn't even announced that he's going to marry Gu Anlan, but you've already gone ahead and made the announcement for him."

  Yi Tianze pursed his lips: "Who said it wasn't an announcement? Since he doesn't plan to let Gu Anlan go, that means he's determined to marry her himself."

  Yiyu Yan listened to her brother's words and couldn't help but pout, saying: "Forget it, don't say that Second Brother won't let you have him, even if he really lets Gu Anlan go, would you marry him?"

  Yi Tianze was slightly stunned, silent for a moment before faintly asking: "Why not? Marrying someone is just marrying. Besides, Gu Anlan isn't bad-looking and has a good personality... in all aspects, she's suitable to be the young mistress of the Yi family."

  "It's the second young master of the Yi family!" Yi Yu Yan corrected him with a serious expression, "I noticed it at the marriage selection meeting, there was something off about Second Brother and that Gu Anlan. Later, after the marriage selection conference ended, I saw that Second Brother didn't go find that Gu Anlan, and thought I had misunderstood, but it turns out...".

  "Alright, let's not discuss the cold water anymore," Yi Tianze waved his hand to shoo people away: "Don't stay here, go comfort Ling Yuwei quickly, at this moment, she's probably cried into a tearful person."

  "Whose comfort is more effective than Second Brother's? Besides, what kind of comfort can compare to Second Brother saying that the 20th wedding ceremony will be held as usual? I'd better not go and join in the commotion. Haven't you heard people say that the more you try to comfort a heartbroken person, the more heartbroken they become?"

  Yiyu Yan finished speaking, took her bag and turned to walk out the door. Ling Yuwei, although being the girlfriend of the second brother, was also the niece of Dong Jiahui. From the perspective of protecting her mother, she got along with Ling Yuwei on the surface but actually rarely contacted her in private.

  The next day at noon, An Lan saw Yi Shuihan announce on the internet that he was cancelling his engagement with Ling Yuwei and would be marrying her on the 20th of this month.

  Following this news, Ling Yuwei, who was recording an entertainment program at a certain TV station, fainted on the spot after learning of the news and was sent to the nearest hospital for treatment.

  Compared to Yi Shuihan's announcement of cancelling the engagement and getting married, Ling Yuwei fainting and being hospitalized is obviously more eye-catching, and netizens have always been overflowing with sympathy.

  As a result, half of the comments were sympathetic to Ling Yuwei. Five years of companionship, five years of waiting, and finally getting news of a breakup, it's just not worth it.

  Of course, the remaining half are all scolding, scolding Yishuihan for being treacherous and deceitful, scolding Yishuihan for having no conscience, scolding Yishuihan for being fickle, and scolding him for being worse than a beast or a pig.

  There are even so-called insiders who claim that on the same day, Ling Yuwei was at the matchmaking meeting, and originally, the Yi family wanted Yi Shuihan to put the ring on Ling Yuwei's finger. However, at the last moment, Yi Shuihan inexplicably put the ring on Gu Anlan's finger instead.

  Then, so-called insiders came forward and pointed out that Mr. Yi Shuihan was holding the wrong hand at the time, and also said that Gu Anlan wanted to take off the ring and give it to Ling Yuwei at the time.

  So, everyone turned around and scolded Gu Anlan for being hypocritical and deceitful. Since she wanted to give the ring to Ling Yuwei back then, now that Ling Yuwei is engaged to Yi Shuihan, what's the point of bringing up the video? Isn't this just saying one thing and doing another?

  In short, the comment sections of major websites were in chaos. An Lian never thought he would become famous when he returned from Toronto, let alone in this way, being besieged online!

  She was annoyed and frustrated, so she simply shut down the computer. Out of sight, out of mind. Today is already the 17th, in two days she will be married to Yi Shuihan, after that...

  An Lan actually didn't dare to think about the future, because her marriage with Yi Shuihan was just a formality after all. She wasn't sure how long Bo Yao could hold on, and whether Yi Shuihan would ultimately keep his promise to help her preserve Qin Garden.

  Regarding the news of Yi Shuihan's marriage to An Lan, Qin Xin had mixed feelings. She was happy that the Quin Garden would not fall into outsiders' hands, but she was worried that her daughter had married a man who deeply loved another woman, and it would be difficult for her to obtain happiness.

  Compared to Qin Xinyi's mixed emotions, Gu Yunbo was filled with discontent. This wasn't the result he wanted. He didn't care whether An Lan could marry into the Yi family or not; all he wanted was for the Yi family to invest in his Bo Yao project.

  However, in fact, after Yi Shuihan announced his marriage to An Lan, he didn't even mention Bo Yao, as if he had completely forgotten that the president of Bo Yao, Gu Yunbo, was An Lan's father.

  He angrily called Qingyuan to question Anlan: "You just agreed to marry Yishuihan like this? Don't you care about my Bao at all? Have you forgotten the purpose of letting you attend the marriage selection conference in the first place?"

  An Lan listened to her father's inquiry and was stunned for a moment, then replied calmly: "Dad, you let us three sisters participate in the Yi family's matchmaking conference, isn't it because you hope that one of us will be favored by the Yi family? You want to get a large sum of sponsorship from the Yi family through kinship, but the purpose of the Yi family's matchmaking is not to find partners who need sponsorship, but to choose a daughter-in-law. So, unfortunately, the Yi family now only acts according to their promise. And Dad, your thoughts..."

  An Lan's words had not finished yet, Gu Yunbo slammed the phone on that side, apparently very dissatisfied with her answer.

  Anlan looked at the receiver and slowly put it down. The old-fashioned telephone was left by her grandfather, the kind that could only be seen in anti-Japanese war movies.

  "Is it your dad?" Qin Xuan asked while looking at her daughter.

  An Lan nodded: "Bo Yao is getting more and more difficult, and it's already mid-month. Bo Yao doesn't have any signs of improvement, and there are many places that need money. After the news about Bo Yao broke out, even the old houses couldn't be sold, and new ones couldn't be opened. Dad originally thought I could help him by taking out this video, but actually, I also hoped to help him. But things didn't go as expected, and it's normal for dad to be anxious and angry."

  Qin Xuan nodded, patted her daughter's shoulder and said: "Alright, An Lan, you'll be marrying Yi Shuihan in two days, but we haven't even got the wedding dress and gifts..."

  "Mom, he said these wedding companies will take care of it," An Lan interrupted her mother's words lightly: "I don't need to worry about it, besides, the wedding is just a process, I guess - there won't be many people!"

  It's probably true that she and Yi Shuihan are getting married - she thinks there shouldn't be anyone who would bless them, not just outsiders but even people from the Yi family, they probably wouldn't bless them either.

  On the 20th of that month, at Yi Shuihan's wedding, whether or not the Yi family would attend was still a question mark.