When Li Qingyun went to work the next day and had just arrived at Cheng Ji Pharmacy, he immediately sensed that everyone in the shop was looking at him differently.
Envy, regret, disappointment, and confusion flickered back and forth across the faces of the female pharmacists and attendants.
They seemed unsure how they ought to address Li Qingyun—or face him.
Zhang Chengshi was still the one who knew how to handle people.
The moment she saw Li Qingyun approach the pharmacy, she stepped forward and called out cheerfully, "Son-in-law, you came early today!"
That cry of "son-in-law" naturally meant that Cheng Xia, on behalf of the Cheng family, had formally announced to the public that the marriage between the Lis and the Chengs was settled, as solid as an Iron Plate.
From now on, all you little harlots had better open your eyes. Stop batting your eyelashes at Alchemist Li—no, at the son-in-law—and wantonly teasing and seducing him.
Li Qingyun smiled at just the right moment, swept his gaze over everyone, and said warmly, "The shopkeeper and I—well, Tangyin and I—are deeply in love. Even after we become husband and wife, my identity in the shop will remain that of Alchemist Li. There is no need for everyone to make wild guesses. Cheng Ji will always remain Cheng Ji!"
His words implied that Li and the shopkeeper truly loved one another; he was not after the Cheng family's vast estate.
If he could live off his wife without any pressure at all, wouldn't that be even sweeter?
Being a deeply concealed man hiding behind Tangyin would surely be a uniquely marvelous experience of mortal life.
"Hehe, the son-in-law truly has magnanimity! Such breadth of mind, such refinement and reason—no wonder Miss insisted on marrying no one but you!" Hearing this,