"Shen Zhengfeng used the excuse that you can't establish your career until you've started a family to pressure you into getting married. Then your mom came to see my parents and suggested we have a fake marriage first. Did you know about this?"
"I knew." Shen Yi nodded. "Basically, Shen Zhengfeng was using that 'start a family to establish a career' thing to threaten me, and my mom's idea was for me to get married as soon as possible. But I didn't want to just marry some random person. I only wanted you, so I refused."
Shen Yi's survival instinct was strong. Seeing Qin Jiao confronting him so directly, he was sure this was what it was about.
Their relationship had just started to thaw, and he didn't want to push her away again over this.
Sure enough, after hearing him out, Qin Jiao looked up at him. "You refused?"
