You're dumping me, huh? Fine, then I'll just pick up the school beauty and make her my wif

After breakfast, the three of them went back to their rooms to pack their luggage.

Su Qinghe's luggage was actually not much to pack, because Jiang Che had already packed it all for her in the morning.

After Bai Yuning finished packing her things, the three of them met again and headed to the lobby to check out.

Before leaving the resort, Jiang Che made a phone call to Jiang Zhenshan.

He originally planned to stay until noon to have lunch with his grandfather before leaving, since the old man had come all this way to help out, and he should at least thank him properly in person.

But the old man on the other end of the phone refused him outright.

"Stop dawdling here and hurry up and take your little girl with you."

Jiang Zhenshan pretended to be annoyed by their troubles and said, "I have a simulation exercise this afternoon and can't get away. We can talk about lunch when you get back to Beijing. Bring your daughter with you; your grandma keeps mentioning her."

Jiang Che didn't say anything more. "Okay, Grandpa, please take care of yourself and don't overwork yourself."

"understood."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Che put his phone back in his pocket and turned to look at Su Qinghe, who was standing in front of the fish tank in the lobby, looking at the tropical fish with great interest.

The little girl was leaning against the glass of the fish tank, chasing a blue clownfish with her finger, and talking to the fish while muttering something to herself.

"You're so cute... What's your name... Hey, don't run away, I'm not going to eat you..."

Jiang Che silently walked up behind Su Qinghe, bent down, and whispered in her ear in a deliberately sinister tone:

"Then I won't hold back, I'm going to eat you up."

"ah!!"

Su Qinghe was so startled that she jumped up, almost hitting her head on the glass of the fish tank.

She turned around abruptly and saw Jiang Che's smiling face so close to hers. Her heart pounded so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of her throat.

"You, you, you, you—"

Su Qinghe was so angry that her face turned red, and she raised her hand and punched him in the chest.

"You scared me to death! How come you walk so quietly?!"

After being punched by her, Jiang Che not only showed no remorse, but laughed even more unrestrainedly, reaching out to rub her head, "Who told you to be so engrossed in talking to the fish that you didn't even notice me walking behind you."

"You think you're right to scare me!" Su Qinghe angrily punched Jiang Che twice more.

Then, she belatedly realized what Jiang Che meant by "I'll eat you," and her cheeks instantly flushed several degrees.

Thinking back to last night...

"Jiang Che, you scoundrel!"

Su Qinghe's two little fists struck him several more times.

Jiang Che laughed and dodged twice, but he didn't really dodge seriously, letting her harmless fists land on him.

It's okay to tease your wife, but you should at least give her a place to vent her anger, right?

What if you get really angry?

Then he won't have a wife to tease him anymore.

"Okay, okay, baby, I know I was wrong, please stop hitting me."

"snort."

Su Qinghe turned her head away, not wanting to pay him any more attention.

But less than three seconds later, she couldn't hold it in anymore. The corners of her mouth turned up uncontrollably, and she finally burst out laughing.

This smile even seemed to make the blue clownfish in the tank wag its tail happily.

Passing guests couldn't help but take a second look.

When Bai Yuning dragged her suitcase over, what she saw was her younger brother and his future sister-in-law playfully pushing and shoving each other in front of the fish tank in the hotel lobby.

She dragged her suitcase between the two men with a blank expression. "Could you two please stop showing off your love in the car? Look at the time. If you keep dawdling, your flight won't wait for you."

"You're not jealous because you saw us showing affection, are you? If you're jealous, why don't you and your boyfriend show affection too?"

"Oh, sorry, I forgot you've been single for 28 years."

Bai Yuning was so angry that she was about to rush over and tear Jiang Che apart.

Su Qinghe was so frightened that she quickly hugged Bai Yuning's waist and kept saying, "Sister Yuning, Ache is not guilty of a capital offense, not guilty of a capital offense."

Taking advantage of Su Qinghe's attempt to buy him time, Jiang Che quickly bent down, picked up his suitcase, and strode out.

The car was arranged in advance by Jiang Che; it was a black Buick minivan.

The driver was already waiting at the hotel entrance, and as soon as he saw the three of them come out, he immediately went up to help them carry their luggage.

After the three people got into the car, it drove steadily out of the hotel and headed towards Atlanta Airport.

As Su Qinghe climbed into the back seat, she was still talking about the clownfish from earlier, muttering that it was so cute and that she definitely wanted to keep one at home someday.

But after only two minutes of muttering, her eyelids began to droop.

After a whole day of commotion yesterday, and then staying up so late last night, she's now incredibly sleepy, like an unstoppable torrent.

Su Qinghe struggled to open her eyes several times, but each time she could only hold them open for less than three seconds before closing them again.

Finally, she simply gave up resisting, tilted her head onto Jiang Che's shoulder, and fell peacefully asleep.

Jiang Che slightly adjusted his posture to make her more comfortable.

Then a hand naturally rested on her head to protect it from hitting the car window when the car bumped.

After confirming that Su Qinghe was completely asleep, Jiang Che turned his head slightly and lowered his voice to speak to Bai Yuning in the front seat: "Sister, there's something I need to tell you."

Bai Yuning was scrolling through the news on her phone when she heard this. She put down her phone, turned her head to meet Jiang Che's gaze, and asked, "Hmm?"

"Grandpa told me some things last night."

Jiang Che glanced at Su Qinghe, who was sleeping soundly in his arms, and only continued after confirming that she showed no signs of waking up: "Regarding the relationship between our Jiang family and the Ye family."

Bai Yuning's eyebrows twitched. "Oh?"

"Grandpa said that when Grandpa Ye was young, he and Grandpa Ye were comrades-in-arms in the same army, and the two had a very close relationship."

"Later, the two of them both fell in love with the same woman, and they had a falling out over it."

"Ye Heming felt that his grandfather was behind it all, so he left the mainland for Hong Kong in a fit of anger, and the two families never had any contact again after that."

After listening, Bai Yuning immediately understood the meaning behind Jiang Che's words, "So you're saying that the root of Ye Yunjin's opposition to you being with Qinghe lies here?"

"Mm." Jiang Che nodded.

"The old grudges of those two old men from their youth are now being borne by your generation." Bai Yuning shook her head, a hint of helplessness flashing in her eyes. "It's quite outrageous."

Since the topic had turned to Ye Yunjin, Bai Yuning had originally planned to find an opportunity to talk to Jiang Che alone about the relationship between Su Qinghe and Ye Yunjin, the mother and daughter.

So, while Su Qinghe was asleep, he continued the conversation, saying, "Jiang Che, I must remind you of something."