"I asked you to marry him, but register your name under my marriage certificate book."
Xia Sha is utterly dumbfounded that she went speechless for the first minutes. She furrowed her eyebrow and patted Guan Xian's right cheek gently.
"Did you take the wrong medicine?" She mumbles to herself.
Guan Xian clicked his tongue and released Xia Sha's hand from his cheek. His eyes wandered to everyone in the dining hall, and unexpectedly a burst of shyness spread on his cheek.
This man, did he blush?
It's quite amusing and refreshing for Xia Sha to witness him blushing since it's usually her to show that kind of reaction.
"Tsk, you lack the creativity to understand the art of scheming," he said arrogantly, turning his back to Xia Sha so she wouldn't see him blush.
"Well, no matter what scheme you are playing, it sounds absurd."
Xia Sha smiles and teasingly trail on his back while Guan Xian keeps trying to avoid her. They are fooling around like two good friends in kindergarten.
Uncle Shen let out a fake cough to remind them that the world is not owned only by the two of them.
"Err, Guan Xian, although I knew you meant good by helping Xia Sha. But I can't seem to understand it. Can you explain it to me?"
Shen Mu Qing nodded along to his father's question. Although they would look desperate by considering Guan Xian's crazy idea, they had no choice. The Xia and Xiao family is pushing them to the corner right now.
None of them would possibly stand-alone doing nothing when Xia Sha is is facing such a big problem. However, they do realize they can't win against Xia and Xiao family combined.
But if they had the Guan family as Xia Sha's backing, it's crystal clear they own the victory on their hand.
"Well, our country does not allow polyandry, polygamy, polygyny. Means if Xia Sha becomes my wife, Xiao Zhan couldn't marry her."
Guan Xian all smiles as he glances at Xia Sha from where he stands. He could see Xia Sha's face lose color and gapes at him several times. She looked disbelief and infuriated at the same time.
"That, that is not a bad idea," Shen Mu Qing said to his father in low volume.
"Hmm..."
Xia Sha widened her eyes and glared at Shen Mu Qing with a fierce expression.
"That sounds like selling me to yet, another man. Can we please put this ridiculous plan behind?"
She scoffed at Shen Mu Qing and her uncle before turned to Guan Xian angrily. A smile still plastering Guan Xian's handsome face. To an onlooker, his smile looks genuine. But to Xia Sha, his smile looks like a hidden mocking smirk right now.
"You! Don't think about it!" she warned.
Her lips are pressed together into an unsatisfied thin line.
Guan Xian is standing right in front of her. He raised both of his eyebrows. The look on his eyes right now is the same look he had when he found an interesting new game.
"I can't help it, pfft," he whispers, trying so hard not to laugh upon facing her cute angry face.
Laugh! He dares to laugh! Her blood has boiled to the state where it may evaporate now, and he dares to take her anger as a joke!
"YOU! FOLLOW ME!"
She forcefully pulled his hand to follow her.
"Eh? Where are you two going?"
Mother Shen looked perplexed when Xia Sha is aggressively pulling Young master Guan's hand. She put down the food container she holds as she watched their back disappear behind the tall wall.
"What with those two?" she asked Shen Mu Qing and her brother.
"Sigh, young people love trouble. Shen Mu Qing, you should be prepared from now. Look how hard it is to coax a woman. Be prepared."
Uncle Shen sighed and shook his head as if it's a helpless case. He walked away after patting his son's shoulder a few times. Shen Xia Fei raised his eyebrow at Seng Mu Qing, who gives her a shrug and smile.
"Auntie looks like it's going to be a long journey before you welcome a son-in-law," Sheng Mu Qing followed his father's step, patting her auntie's shoulder gently as he walked away.
On the contradictory to the peace inside Shen's residence, it's much lively in their backyard. Xia Sha, who pulled Guan Xian's (that happily followed her), has put him to sit at the bench.
"Ah, I knew you love spending time alone with me, but it's cold outside. Let's go back in," Guan Xian smiles sweet is trying to persuade the angry Xia Sha.
Xia Sha grunted and completely ignored him. Instead of getting bewitched by his fake angelic smile, she interrogated him.
Guan Xian wrinkled his nose and shook his head frantically. He made a big cross with his arm as he said, "I didn't. I'm not Wang Kai."
Xia Sha frowned and crossed her arm together in front of her chest.
"Then how can you know?"
"About what?" Guan Xian pretends to play the 'I don't know anything' card and keeps showing his white teeth to Xia Sha. It's was so obvious that he wanted to make her exposed herself.
Xia Sha took a deep breath while closing her eyes frustratedly. Patience, Patience, don't let him got you. The more irritated you got, the happier he will be.
"You know, that plan of marrying someone so Xiao Zhan couldn't marry me."
Finally, she let the cat out of the bag. The truth is, she has considered this plan with Fu Qun after a brief chat with her father.
She will agree to marry Xiao Zhan and asked shares exchanges as the wedding gift. While they would likely ask for the Xia Corporation's shares, too, she will modify her contract. Her transfer of shares could only happen after the marriage. However, she will secretly register her marriage with Fu Qun. So on the other hand, she will get Xiao's corporation shares without sacrificing herself.
It's such a perfect plan to revenge on the greedy Xiao family.
But how can this annoying man with his perfect smile know about it?
"You have the same idea? Wow, a couple does think alike. Amazing."
He sounds amused as he stares at Xia Sha's with his round eyes. Xia Sha rolls her eyes and pressures him to tell the truth with her ferocious glare. Guan Xian stops talking for a while as his smiles disappear.
"How do you think your assistant could get such a throughout idea?"
"..."
So it was him. No wonder Fu Qun could be so sly in one night. Xia Sha hissed and blamed herself for being so naive. So should've known from the moment Fu Qun said he had an idea. Rubbing the spaces between her eyebrow, she pursed her lips.
Fu Qun, that little traitor, must have been hanging out with Tang Yu Bin a lot nowadays. No wonder Guan Xian could suddenly appear in the mall where she shopped.
Oh no, don't tell me he is keeping tabs on her the whole time she blocked him from Fu Qun...
"Fu Qun, you are so dead," she murmured to herself.
"Still, I'm very dissatisfied with your choice. You have me. I'm a perfect gentleman, willing to be used. You don't even have to pay me," his sentence stop in the midway.
Guan Xian suddenly stands up and presents himself. Xia Sha subconsciously followed his hand movement, which mainly focused on his well-built stomach.
Hah, she knew a lot about those great abs he had. Well, not only her but probably every girl in the imperial high school has seen it on the school's wall magazine. So many years have passed, she wonders did he still had those great packs?
Ahhh! What is she thinking right now? Xia Sha, concentrate! You should talk to him now!
"I'm far more handsome than the average man. I'm definitely richer. I also cared about you a lot, from the bottom of my heart. I'm also a funny man. I never hit a woman. I stopped my car when old granny walks across the street."
He keeps praising and mentioning his strength as if he is in the middle of a work interview.
"Has you ever see good people claiming that they are good people?" Xia Sha casually cut his bragging time with a question. He stopped and pondered for a while, then hissed, "I think,"
"Well, whoever you think they are not entirely good."
Well, he is thinking about Xiao Ni and his three other friends. Guess Xia Sha is right.
"Okay, you've made a good point there," he stops mentioning his strength and qualities.
"Hmm, you should stop sighing and praised yourself."
"Well, I can't. That is our family's specialty. This is a secret, but this is what my mother told me, if nobody is praising you for doing a good job, you should praise yourself. This way, you will gain the confidence to do a great job," Guan Xian spills.
Xia Sha nods her head slightly. That would probably work for growing confidence.
"Xiao Ni and I usually do this when we got insecure of ourselve- WAIT! I HAVEN'T MADE MY POINT!" He suddenly remembers why is he boasting in the first place.
Xia Sha tilted her head, a big question mark appear on her face.
"What is your point?" she asked and regretted asking as soon as she heard his answer.
"My point is, I have a perfect condition to added your name on my household card. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO MARRY FU QUN INSTEAD?"