The Mighty Mage novel Chapter 171

Chapter 171: Chapter 171: Sister-In-Law

How couldn’t he when before the engagement he received the video of how his fiance was trying to seduce his ’brother’

So he started to think that the person with whom he was getting engaged was not his fiance but some other girl.

And at that moment, he thought of Gu Jin.

Visualizing his fiance as Gu Jin was wrong, but surprisingly, his heart was filled with joy when he thought that the person whom he was going to put a ring on was Gu Jin.

A bright smile appeared on his face. Throughout the engagement ceremony, he imagined his fiance as Gu Jin and at some point, he almost called her Gu Jin.

Fortunately, his best friend helped him.

Later when the ceremony was over, Long Yifan saw the photos of the ceremony and was shocked by the picture taken by one of the photographers.

The picture showed Long Yifan with a rare, genuine smile, his eyes full of warmth and affection.

It was as if he was looking at someone he deeply cared about, someone he loved. But he knew the truth—he had been imagining Gu Jin the whole time.

The picture later went viral and for some reason, he feared that Gu Jin would see those pictures.

In fact, in some corner of his heart, he secretly wished that his finance would announce that she didn’t like him and wanted to marry his brother.

However, his fiance didn’t back out and even taunted him for being good for nothing.

After the engagement, she even went as far as calling him a beggar and a defective person.

Of course, she didn’t say it openly. Her words were like,

"Even though Yifan is not as talented and powerful as his brother, I swear I will never leave him."

Her tone was filled with mirth. As if she was truly joking.

Then she even said,

"Yifan, sometimes I truly wonder, that if you weren’t the son of the Long family would you still be able to marry me?"

Or comments like,

"Yifan, I am truly worried about my future. You don’t have a source of income, yet you keep on donating stuff, even the treasure you have is from your mother’s treasury.

What if one day you run out of money and have nothing left? What will become of us then?"

Long Yifan wasn’t much affected by his fiance’s words.

How could he? When he doesn’t even like her and she doesn’t know that the money he is spending is earned by him, the treasure he is using is his own and he has never once touched his mother’s treasury, since it was a dowry, he was saving for his sister’s wedding.

No one understood this.

In their eyes, he was a bully. And since he didn’t like anyone too, he kept that image.

No one cared to look at him more than the surface and he didn’t dare to show his inner feelings to anyone.

Sometimes he truly missed his mother and sister.

However, due to their absence, he could only pretend that everything was fine with him.

Gu Jin froze when she saw Long Yifan’s eyes.

Once her grandfather had told her, that a person’s feelings can be known by their eyes.

Gu Jin didn’t believe his words.

According to her psychology was very important to understand someone’s feelings.

But today she understood that her grandfather wasn’t lying to her because, in Long Yifan’s eyes, she indeed saw his feelings.

Sadness.

Immense sadness.

"Why are you sad?" Gu Jin blurted out.

"Huh?’ Long Yifan’s train of thought was interrupted by Gu Jin’s sudden question. He blinked, caught off guard by her perceptiveness.

She...she could tell?

But how?

Even though Long Yifan thought like that, he didn’t show it on his face and chuckled,

"Do you want to use this line to attract my attention? Let me tell you, many girls have already used this trick on me and it is useless on me."

There is a very common rule in psychology. If you ask a person "Why are you sad ", the person will subconsciously be shocked and find you very perspective, he or she may even become more attentive.

The reason was pretty simple. 90% of the crowd in the world are either sad, depressed or in some kind of trouble...

So the question "Why are you sad" will make them think that you are being attentive to them or you truly care about them, making them want to become closer to you.

Gu Jin knew about this psychology trick and she had used it many times but today she could swear that she truly saw sadness in Long Yifan’s eyes.

"No, I..."

"Anyways. How was your day?" Long Yifan asked in a casual tone.

Gu Jin was a bit taken aback.

Why was Long Yifan so strange?

She remembered how whenever Long Yifan met her, he would be aloof but today he was acting very strangely...