Apocalyptic Disasters: Carrying a bun and hoarding supplies novel Chapter 224

Lei Qian respected Bai Jixuan and Bai Zhan, but that didn’t mean that he was scared of the two men. He was willing to listen to them but he was not going to ignore Bai Meiyue just for the sake of pleasing her two brothers. Bai Meiyue might love her brothers, but Lei Qian was quite certain she didn’t like their overprotectiveness.

"She is my baby sister and you are not good enough for her. After what you did, you should have lowered your head and asked her hand for marriage right away, something you didn’t do," snorted Bai Jixuan. "Now that my sister doesn’t want to marry you, you are chasing after her. Do you think that my sister is some kind of toy you can pick whenever you want?"

"No," Lei Qian shook his head before stating in a solemn voice, "I do admit that there were some mistakes in my judgement. But I assure you that I never—not even once—wanted to disrespect Yueyue. If I refused to marry her at once, it was because I wanted to keep her safe from harm’s way."

"It was my mistake that I thought she couldn’t handle it and I am willing to make up for it."

Lei Qian didn’t know that Bai Meiyue was pretending to be a pig and waiting to eat the tiger. He had kept a watch over her throughout her entire life in the entertainment industry. He gave her quite a lot of projects in the hope that her father would stop exploiting her but the more projects he handed her, the more greedy Bai Qingshi became.

He took Lei Qian’s help as Bai Meiyue’s sudden rise in popularity and pushed her to work harder. And when he tried to suppress Bai Meiyue in hopes that Bai Qingshi would stop pushing her to take on more projects when her popularity was high, Bai Qingshi instead pushed her to get more money.

Even if it meant doubling her work.

Bai Meiyue never fought back and continued working hard like a little puppet who knew nothing other than following the commands of her puppeteer. So, of course, Lei Qian was not confident enough to protect her once he married her.

The Lei family was filled with all kinds of murky waters; his two cousins were waiting to swallow the company and his uncles were not a good thing either.

He was worried that he would do more harm than good to Bai Meiyue; thus, he pushed the matter of marrying her.

If he knew that she was this skilled, would he have refused?

Though Lei Qian was confused about her sudden change in personality, he deduced it was due to what happened to Bai Meiyue. Even though he didn’t push Bai Meiyue like that perverted old man did with many women, he was not free from guilt, either.

A woman’s dignity held more worth than his entire fortune. This was what his mother had taught him when he was a child, and he stomped on Bai Meiyue’s; there was nothing wrong with her suddenly going a bit unhinged.

No matter what, she didn’t do anything to deserve being insulted and then exposed all over social media. If she was any weaker, she would have killed herself rather than face her culprits!

Just the thought alone was enough to scare Lei Qian.