Chapter 242: Chapter 242: Must Get Married Within a Year Chapter 242: Chapter 242: Must Get Married Within a Year The church was sprinkled with golden light, making it appear even more solemn.

Yuan Xi didn’t believe in Christianity, but she felt that the scene outside the church was memorable enough to last her a lifetime.

“Look here.”

Yuan Xi turned towards Liang Suisui’s voice and saw Liang Suisui had snapped a photo of them looking back.

Liang Suisui said, “I heard you can post live pictures on Moments now, let’s give it a try.”

In the hospital, Gu Hanchen, whose hands were wrapped in bandages, listlessly looked at his phone. He saw the animated picture in Liang Suisui’s Moments, gazing at Yuan Xi dressed in a blue haute couture gown and wearing a crown, and said, “How come I never realized how beautiful Yuan Xi was before?”

Mrs. Zhong, who was taking care of Gu Hanchen, said, “Miss Yuan has a good foundation, she definitely looks gorgeous with makeup.”

Gu Hanchen saw the captured happiness of two people hugging and smiling at the camera in front of the church and said, “Really, I’m at the age to start envying their happiness.”

Mrs. Gu said, “You must get married within a year. Rein in your thoughts. Two life-threatening situations in one year, your father and I can’t take this kind of stress anymore. At least if you get married and have a child, your father and I will have some consolation.”

Gu Hanchen said, “Mom, stop nagging, Mrs. Zhong here is enough; you should go back to Jiang City!”

Mrs. Gu said, “I’m not staying in A City for you, I’m here for your sister and Xiao Yun’s marriage. Yingying is going to first grade soon, and it’s time the two of them got married. I’ve been discussing the wedding with Mrs. Xiao recently.”

Gu Hanchen was slightly hurt, “Your son is lying in a hospital bed, and you’re busy arranging your daughter’s wedding?”

Mrs. Gu said, “Aren’t you alright? Just focus on recovering.”

After Mrs. Gu left, the door was opened again.

Gu Hanchen saw Chu Lin enter and said, “You finally decided to come see me?”

Chu Lin said, “Just got back from a business trip abroad. How are you?”

Gu Hanchen said, “Not dead. I’m staying away from anyone with the surname Bo! And I want to make cars! I’m going to make the safest car, one that at a minimum won’t have a range of seven hundred kilometers marked up from three hundred!”

Chu Lin said, “Calm down.”

Gu Hanchen said, “I can’t calm down. I’m going to call Yuan Xi right now to discuss car manufacturing! I don’t want to end up in the hospital a third time.”

Inside the Ruohu Mansion.

Yuan Xi had changed into casual clothes and was sitting and chatting over tea with Liang Suisui and Chen Yuan.

It had been a long time since the three of them had sat down and talked like this.

As they were discussing Gu Hanchen’s injuries, Yuan Xi received a call from Gu Hanchen, “Hello.”

Gu Hanchen said, “I have a grand plan to tell you about.”

Yuan Xi said, “What?”

“Mi Chen Game is going to start manufacturing cars…”
Yuan Xi said, “Mi Chen already handles foreign sim racing; do we need to launch our own racing game? Isn’t there nearly a decade left on the licensing agreement? I don’t think it’s a good idea for Mi Chen to continue releasing racing games…”
“It’s not a game; it’s about manufacturing real cars.”

Having heard this from Gu Hanchen, Yuan Xi said, “Hello? Hello? Is the signal bad over there? I can’t hear you…”
“Hello…”
Yuan Xi hung up the phone.

Liang Suisui raised her eyebrows and looked at Yuan Xi, saying, “I heard it too, Gu Hanchen said he wants to make cars.”

Yuan Xi said, “It would be more plausible for Gu Hanchen to create life than to make cars. Though the overseas department of Mi Chen is doing well, and our school construction might be operational next year, the investment in car manufacturing is immense. Gu Hanchen always dreams big, but I’m not playing along.”

Liang Suisui laughed and said, “Gu Hanchen must have been seriously shaken by the two car accidents; that’s why he wants to take his life into his own hands.”

Yuan Xi said, “If he wants to invest in car manufacturing, he can do it on his own. Mi Chen isn’t joining in.”

Chen Yuan took a sip of tea, “Car manufacturing sounds good. Mi Chen can’t always remain stagnant, focusing solely on internet games. Think about it, between Mi Chen Game Company and Mi Chen Group…”
Yuan Xi listened to what Chen Yuan had said, and indeed, she started to be moved by it.

Mi Chen was now being criticized for ruining a generation of young people with its games, a transformation into Mi Chen Group seemed feasible.

Yuan Xi watched as her phone rang again, and upon answering, she heard Gu Hanchen’s voice, “I’m on the hospital roof, do you still dare to say the signal is bad?”

Yuan Xi said, “Car manufacturing isn’t just a matter of your single statement, a shareholders’ meeting would need to be held at the least. You should focus on recovering first.”

Gu Hanchen said, “OK!”

Gu Hanchen hung up the phone and took a fruit platter from Mrs. Zhong, biting into a mango with a fork.

Chu Lin looked at Gu Hanchen and said, “Aren’t you actually afraid of completely destroying Mi Chen’s foundation?”

Gu Hanchen replied, “What is there to fear with Huo Shiyuan backing us? The wisest thing Mi Yi did was to bring Yuan Xi into Mi Chen, having Yuan Xi is like having the God of Wealth!”

Chu Lin gave a light laugh, “Seeing you safe puts me at ease, I’ll be heading back to Jiang City first.”

The door to the hospital room was opened again, and Zhong Xiaoyi came in, “Mr. Chu.”

After greeting him, she went into the kitchen and busied herself.

Mrs. Zhong entered the small kitchen of the VIP hospital room and saw Zhong Xiaoyi preparing to knead dough for wontons, “Xiao Yi… Mrs. Gu has already arranged several matchmaking candidates for Mr. Gu, all of them are well-matched with the Gu Family. You…”

As Zhong Xiaoyi kneaded the dough, she said, “Mom, after I take care of Mr. Gu’s discharge, I will go to study in Australia. The school I applied to has sent me an email…”

“Why do you insist on studying in Australia?” Mrs. Zhong frowned. “Isn’t it good enough in our country? How can I be at ease if you go to Australia?”

Zhong Xiaoyi chuckled, “You could come to Australia with me. I remember Mrs. Gu seemed to have arranged a green card for you.”

Mrs. Zhong said, “I don’t speak any foreign languages, how could I go to Australia with you? You’re planning such a big thing without even discussing it with me. It’s also because your dad and I are incompetent.”

Zhong Xiaoyi said, “Mom, don’t say that, what you’ve given me is already very good.”

Mrs. Zhong used to be a kindergarten teacher. She was already Gu Hanchen’s favorite when he was in kindergarten and only twenty-two years old at the time. Mrs. Gu had then asked her to come home to take care of Gu Hanchen.

Three years later, when Gu Hanchen was in first grade, Mrs. Zhong got pregnant and gave birth to Zhong Xiaoyi.

Mrs. Zhong originally planned to return to her hometown and resume being a kindergarten teacher, but Gu Hanchen insisted on keeping Mrs. Zhong around, and Mrs. Gu offered a generous condition: a house in A City with an annual salary of three hundred thousand. Thirty years ago, an annual salary of three hundred thousand was considered middle-class.

Zhong Xiaoyi remembered growing up with her dad in the middle school back in her hometown until she was five.

She only got to see her mother when she came back during holidays, and occasionally she would come to A City with her dad.

When she turned five, her mother felt that her dad, being a busy middle school homeroom teacher, wasn’t taking good enough care of her. Mrs. Zhong then proposed to resign, but a stressed Gu Hanchen entering middle school couldn’t accept her departure.

Mrs. Gu let Mrs. Zhong bring her back to the Gu Family. Zhong Xiaoyi actually had a much better life than many ordinary people growing up.

Many of Gu Nuan’s unworn luxury brand dresses, too good to be thrown away, were given to her by Mrs. Gu to wear.

All the toys that Gu Hanchen and Gu Nuan grew out of and no longer played with were also given to her by Mrs. Gu.

Gu Nuan wasn’t keen on traditional arts like piano, chess, calligraphy, and dance, and Gu Hanchen was a boy always too playful.

Mrs. Gu, not having persisted in learning arts in her own youth, paid for Zhong Xiaoyi to take dance lessons and learn the guzheng, which were both taught by masters unreachable to ordinary people…

Zhong Xiaoyi understood clearly that if she pursued a career in arts, her future would be bright, since those elite schools’ interview teachers were all her beginning teachers.

She later didn’t choose dance and guzheng because Zhong Xiaoyi knew that an arts degree wouldn’t get her into Gu Ship Industry.

Zhong Xiaoyi never blamed her mother for being a nanny. If her mother had chosen to leave the Gu Family back then, Zhong Xiaoyi knew her perspective wouldn’t be as broad as it is now.

Lost in thought, Zhong Xiaoyi put the wontons into the warm water and looked down from the hospital room at the endless prosperity of A City.

Zhong Xiaoyi broke up some seaweed, added shrimp shells and chopped pickles, and a pot of steaming hot small wontons were ready. She brought the wontons to Gu Hanchen and said, “Mr. Gu, the wontons are ready.”

Gu Hanchen looked at the steaming hot wontons in front of him, “Didn’t you see I can’t lift my arm? Feed me.”

Zhong Xiaoyi gently blew on it and handed the cooled wonton to Gu Hanchen.

Seeing Zhong Xiaoyi cooling the wonton, Gu Hanchen slightly frowned, “You don’t have Helicobacter pylori, do you?”