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The Random Passerby I Married Is The Richest Man!

Chapter 23 Part 3: This person deserves to be the richest man!

Bai Zhen Zhen deeply agreed.

Huo Xiang continued: “Actually, our marriage is fake anyways, we can be separated without divorce. But what’s important is that even if we divorce, a girl as pretty and outstanding as you still has a great chance to marry into a rich family…”

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“Hold on!” Bai Zhen Zhen said with a smile, “are your fries dipped in honey? How come your mouth is suddenly so sweet?”

“I really mean it. If the other person has a good family background and sincerely loves you, that’s good for you. After all, who doesn’t want to live a better life ah!” Huo Xiang’s face was frank, “but if Uncle Bai’s attitude is always like this, you won’t be able to marry into a good household, and I reckon your life will be even more difficult in the future.”

Bai Zhen Zhen’s smile gradually froze on her face.

She was not afraid of difficult days in the future, it didn’t matter whether she got married or not, but having this kind of father, she still had to comply with the character design of showing him “filial respect,” that really made her feel revolted.

When Bai Zhen Zhen saw Bai Zhen Zhen frowning, he thought that he had said too much. He hurried to explain: “Zhen Zhen, I didn’t mean anything else, I simply…”

“It’s okay, just say it, I think what you say is right! Every word hits the spot, I was worried that no one would complain about it!”

“Rea…really?!” Huo Xiang shivered.

— They say women are two-faced animals, Bai Zhen Zhen wouldn’t be taunting him for speaking unkindly about his father-in-law, right?!

“Really!” Bai Zhen Zhen said earnestly. She didn’t know how to make Huo Xiang believe that she was seething with anger at her father.

“How about this, I‘ll swear that no matter what you say I won’t be angry at you!” Bai Zhen Zhen said.

“That’s not necessary.” Huo Xiang was convinced that Bai Zhen Zhen was not speaking with irony, so he didn’t feel panic anymore.

He continued: “Zhen Zhen, since you also don’t like your family a lot, why do you accommodate them in all aspects? They were humiliating you that much today, and yet you still suffered in silence. If it wasn’t for my awkward position¹ , I would have stood up for you.”

“It’s not that I don’t want to talk back to them, but that I can’t ah!” Bai Zhen Zhen looked frustrated.

“Why?” Huo Xiang was very puzzled, “in your current circumstances, you can completely break away from this family and pursue what you want in life! You don’t need to feel guilty at all, because they were never considerate of you!”

Bai Zhen Zhen felt very touched, and suddenly said warmly: “Thank you ah, Xiang Xiang!”

Huo Xiang deliberately sat on the other end of the sofa, and said resolutely: “I told you not to call me that, it scares me!² ”

The corners of Bai Zhen Zhen’s mouth rose, and she said, all smiles: “Don’t worry, I already figured out how to deal with them. Once we get our ‘divorce certificate’, I’ll show you how amazing I am!”

“Really?”

“En.”

“Then I’ll wait and see!” Huo Xiang also smiled.

Bai Zhen Zhen looked at the boy who was two years older than her and suddenly felt very emotional.

In the novel’s world, she, the so-called protagonist, her father didn’t care for her and her mother didn’t love her.

And from the three men who wanted to be a CP³  with the original female lead, the first male lead, Leng Hao Chen, was suspicious by nature, and he would always misunderstand the female lead when others sow disharmony; the second male lead, Jiang Muyang, was very gentle but indecisive, and ultimately he would always defend his little sister; the third male lead, Xi Xixi, unexpectedly he was an honest child, but he wasn’t mature nor powerful enough, to the extent that when the female lead was bullied by his fans, attacking her with violence, he couldn’t do anything.

But this person in front of her was different.

He was honest, reasonable, loyal, but also a real badass able to turn into a wife-protecting madman at any time.

Even if at times he was a smooth talker, he would never give up when he was serious.

Bai Zhen Zhen just thought:

— Such a good random passerby, deserves! To! Be! The! Richest! Man!

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Phew today was my last day at work, now I’m jobless and I better find something before 2 weeks, bc I’ll reach a deadline then and things are gonna get messy (let the slaughter begin hehe T^T). 

 So, about what was going on these months (basically since the beginning of the year and even before that). There is this one thing I need to get done, gonna influence my future a great deal, and ofc I have to go and do it (it’s a must, no way around it). But somehow I’ve got an irrational something (fear? insecurity? i don’t even know what it is) that blocks me so I haven’t even started trying. It’s like a big boulder in front of me, blocking my path and blocking my actions, I stare at it and I don’t know even how to begin moving. And then there’s all these other stones, some small some medium-sized, around it, that by itself it’s nothing I can’t deal with, but when next to the boulder, I just can’t  bc I’m paralyzed due to the big boulder so I just ignore it and leave it for later. Translating was definitely one of this small or medium stones that kept piling up next to the boulder. So i’ve been living these months in stress and evasion, trying not to see how the boulder came closer and closer till now it’s right in front of me and I need to go through it yes or yes. And it’s sucks that this irrational whatever is irrational, bc objectively or logically speaking I know i have no reasons to feel this way, and I know that if I fail nothing terrible will happen and i’ll get another opportunity and at some point i’ll succeed, but it’s irrational so even if I know this i keep going back to evading the issue  In the end, what I wanted was to apologize for leaving you without updates for so long and also tell you the reason, guess I needed to take this off my chest

I know well how great webnovels and comics are for evading problems, but evading is never the solution and things will not improve like this, so if you find yourself in a similar situation, please look for someone supportive around you who can help you take small steps towards  the solution ^^ you will for sure find someone, even if you need to turn to the internet community, there will for sure be someone there to offer you support (i’m really very lucky to have supporting friends)

also, it’s 12 chapters till i catch up to where we are supposed to be… jiayou to myself >.<

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Footnotes:

^{1:  in Chinese culture they place a lot of importance in filial piety and respecting your elders. So Huo Xiang rebuking his father-in-law would be looked upon very badly in the eyes of society, that’s why he was in an awkward position where he couldn’t say anything.
2: raws actually wrote Huo Xiang as usual but then this didn’t make sense, so I changed it to the nickname he didn’t like.
3: CP: short for couple.}

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