Chapter 636: Chapter 636: Little Cousin!

Seeing Xu Qianli still looking clueless, the girl got angry, huffily crossed her arms over her chest, and glared at Xu Qianli with dissatisfaction.

“Hong Yu, you’re such a jerk, you’re such a big jerk!”

“To think I’ve been thinking about you, waiting for you, longing for you all these years.”

“And here you are, having completely forgotten me, not even recognizing me, I hate you to death!”

“But I don’t care about that, so what if you don’t recognize me? We have a marriage promise, even if you don’t know who I am, you still have to honor our engagement, you must marry me!”

“So, Hong Yu, when are you going to come to my house and marry me?”

“I swore when I was a child that I would marry no one but you. When can I become your bride?”

The girl was angry at first, but as she spoke, she got more and more lively and ended up throwing herself into Xu Qianli’s arms, wriggling her petite waist and rubbing against him incessantly.

Xu Qianli slightly pushed the girl away. “Hold on, hold on, what marriage promise? I don’t know anything about that, let alone marrying you. Who are you exactly? Did we really meet when we were kids?”

The girl pointed at her own nose. “Me? I’m your cousin Chen Nolan, you surely haven’t forgotten my name too, right?”

“Chen Nolan?”

Hearing the name, Xu Qianli suddenly had a figure come to mind, a chubby little girl, and he began to reevaluate the girl in front of him.

“You’re my cousin Chen Nolan?”

“How is that possible!”

“My cousin was chubby from childhood, already nearly eighty jin when she was little.”

“And you, you’re so slim, with a waist so thin it seems it could be grasped in one hand, probably no more than ninety-some jin at most. How could you possibly be my cousin?”

Xu Qianli might have forgotten others but couldn’t forget that little cousin.

Able to eat like no one else from a tender age, an absolute food champion, gobbling down ten chicken legs like it was nothing.

Could such a chubby girl turn into the enchantress before him?

Chen Nolan said irritably, “So what if I could eat a bit more when I was a child? I liked it, what business is it of yours? As for now, I’m like this, don’t you like it?”

While speaking, Chen Nolan hugged Xu Qianli’s neck and pressed against him in his arms, rubbing and smiling cheerily.

“Alright, stop it,” Xu Qianli sat up and tried to push Chen Nolan away, but she clung on too tightly; he couldn’t budge her. “You better let go now.”

“Hmph, I won’t let go. What’s it to you if I’m holding you? You’re my cousin and also my fiancé. I’m never letting go of you in this life…”

Chen Nolan refused to let go, clinging onto Xu Qianli tenaciously, snuggling closer into his embrace and sitting on his lap; their closeness couldn’t be overstated.

At that moment, the door suddenly opened and Chen Wen barged in.

Upon entering, she caught sight of the scene inside, gasped in surprise, and quickly covered her eyes. “You young ones, I really don’t know what to say about you, being this sweet in broad daylight, is that really okay? Well, I can’t control the affairs of young people. However, Nolan, you need to take it easy. Our Hong Yu has a girlfriend already, so be a little more conscious, will you?”

Chen Nolan laughed, “Auntie, rest assured, I know my limits, I won’t make it difficult for Hong Yu. If anything, I’ll be the main one, and let his girlfriend be…” she chuckled.

Xu Qianli said, “Keep dreaming!”

Turning his head, Xu Qianli looked at his own mother. “Mom, don’t just watch the show over there, do something about your grandniece, stop her from pestering me.”

“Well, I really can’t do anything about that. After all, there is a marriage promise between you two, and even if I wanted to intervene, I can’t. You two will have to deal with this yourselves.”

“Young people, huh, we old folks really shouldn’t meddle.”

“I’ve got things to do, I’m heading out now.”

“Nolan, good luck.”

Chen Wen, fearing that the two weren’t close enough, offered her encouragement before dashing out and thoughtfully shut the door behind her.

Chen Nolan looked at Xu Qianli with a gleeful expression and proudly said, “So, you believe me now, don’t you? We really do have a marriage agreement, you have no choice but to marry me! I know you have other women outside, but I’m generous, I won’t get jealous. Just that, well, the title of main wife has got to be mine!”

“Don’t talk about main wife, I haven’t even agreed to marry you yet.”

“Cousin, you also know that marrying close relatives isn’t good, it can lead to deformed children, we’re not suitable for each other.”

Xu Qianli rejected her, hoping to make this persistent little cousin back off.

Chen Nolan quickly retorted, “What close relatives? That’s not the case. We’re only considered close relatives within three generations and ineligible to marry, but that’s not us, we can absolutely get married and have children, there’s no problem at all.”

“You call my mom ‘aunt’, doesn’t that make us close relatives within three generations?” Xu Qianli said.

He remembered quite clearly that Chen Nolan’s father was his own mother’s brother, which indeed made them close relatives within three generations.

“That’s where you’re mistaken. My grandfather, your great uncle, wasn’t my dad’s biological father.”

“My dad was from a collateral branch of the Chen Family, and he lost his parents shortly after birth. Grandfather took pity on him and adopted him.”

“Because of this, we’re not close relatives within three generations, we can totally get married.”

“Hehehe, cousin, brother Hong Yu, when can I start calling you ‘husband’?”

Chen Nolan spoke sweetly, getting more and more excited as she talked, fixing her gaze on Xu Qianli without letting go, growing fonder with each look, wishing she could kiss him right then and there.

Xu Qianli was seriously annoyed by this persistent little cousin.

As for the matter of them not being close relatives, he still couldn’t quite believe it; he had to ask his mom about it.

Seeing that if this went on, he would be ‘devoured’ by this little cousin, Xu Qianli finally managed to push her away.

“Alright, seeing you, Nolan, I am pretty happy, but you coming at me with marriage right off the bat is too surprising, I can’t accept it just like that.”

“We’ll talk about this later, I need to take a shower and change my clothes, you should go.”

Xu Qianli wanted to send Nolan away, but she wouldn’t agree. Far from leaving, she actually grabbed the hem of her dress and lifted it a bit. “Hehehe, how about I join you, brother Hong Yu, for a mandarin duck bath?”

“Of course, I’d love nothing more,” Xu Qianli smirked, prepared to take action and conquer Chen Nolan.

“Brother Hong Yu, you’re so bad, I won’t let you!”

Seeing that Xu Qianli was serious, Chen Nolan darted out, not about to give in that easily.

Xu Qianli shrugged his shoulders, well, at least he managed to get through that.

These past few days, with Jiang Zihan’s matters on his plate, he hadn’t even slept properly, let alone taken a bath. Yesterday he wrapped things up and got some sleep, feeling much better, but now smelling himself was unbearable, so he hurriedly undressed and stepped into the bathroom.

Soon after, the sound of a door being opened followed by footsteps, very light ones, clearly those of a woman’s.

Could it be Chen Nolan coming back?

If it really was, his own little cousin was way too enthusiastic, practically forcing him to marry her, wasn’t she?