Lu Zhiwei lifted her feet and walked into the house.

There's no need to eat dinner now.

His taking Xia Wanying back to Cuizhu Garden meant that he was announcing to the old lady that he was about to marry her.

The old woman noticed her expression was off and considered escaping.

He grabbed her wrist and forced her to sit down: "You made this food, and you're not eating it, so he's getting it for himself with another woman?"

"I'm not hungry. Grandma, I have a lot of things to do at the company, I have to go work overtime," Lu Zhiwei said, trying to make an excuse.

She was afraid of losing her composure.

She could have acted flawlessly, but at this moment she has a heavy filter of gratitude towards Shen Jinmo, which will inevitably lead to her utter defeat.

“Sit down, Grandma will help you deal with them.”

The old lady took her seat of honor.

Shen Jinmo led Xia Wanying into the house.

“Grandma…this is Yingying. You met her when she was little.” Shen Jinmo glanced at Lu Zhiwei sitting next to the old lady; he knew she would come.

The old lady was planning this dinner party today, how could she possibly be absent?

"Hello Grandma, hello Sister Lu." Xia Wanying greeted them as sweetly as ever.

Shen Jinmo arranged for her to sit down, placing her in the seat next to him, and gently and considerately served her food.

"How old is Yingying now?" the old lady asked as she picked up her chopsticks.

What appears to be a casual greeting to a junior actually carries an irresistible air of authority.

"You're five years old." Xia Wanying was busy shoveling rice into her mouth when she heard the old lady's question. She quickly looked up and smiled brightly.

She has always perceived herself as being five years old.

"How can a five-year-old get married? If you want to get married, wait until you're a little older, okay? When you have someone you like, Grandma will prepare a very, very generous dowry for you." The old lady used a combination of kindness and severity, smiling as she placed a chicken leg on Xia Wanying's plate.

Whether Xia Wanying understands it or not, as long as Shen Jinmo understands it, that's fine.

Xia Wanying blinked her clear eyes and looked at Shen Jinmo beside her: "But Brother Shen promised that he can marry me now."

"That was a promise we made when we were little, it doesn't count anymore. If you like Brother Chen, you can be his sister, like Sister Shu. Grandma loves her granddaughter very much," the old lady said with a kind smile.

Shen Shuyuan, who was quietly eating her food, suddenly froze in her chopsticks.

At that time, she only had a tiny bit of inappropriate feelings for Shen Jinmo, but the old lady said that she could only be Shen Jinmo's sister, and from then on she was taken into Cuizhu Garden.

Xia Wanying's eyes were brimming with tears as she listened to the news that she could only be Shen Jinmo's younger sister, and tears rolled down her cheeks like pearls.

"Just eat, why are you bullying a little kid?" Shen Jinmo slammed his chopsticks on the table, his tone cold and stern.

Shen Jinmo had never dared to be so presumptuous towards the old lady. This slap enraged the old lady in court: "What did I do to bully her? I just wanted you to understand that the Shen family will never accept a mentally deficient person into the family. She is still a child herself. How will she carry on the Shen family line in the future?"

"Lu Zhiwei isn't a child, so did she carry on the Shen family line?" Shen Jinmo shifted the blame.

This made Lu Zhiwei, who was eating quietly without saying a word, choke.

"Cough cough..." She clutched her chest and coughed violently.

What does it have to do with her?

"If you don't make her use contraception, the child will be running around on the ground by now," the old woman roared.

...

The two started arguing fiercely. Xia Wanying sat at the dining table, sniffling and sobbing, her eyes brimming with tears, a pitiful sight to behold.

Lu Zhiwei tactfully drank a glass of warm water, then secretly picked up her bag and car keys from the chair, preparing to slip away.

"Lu Zhiwei, are you satisfied now?" Shen Jinmo stared at Lu Zhiwei's straight back and said fiercely.

Lu Zhiwei gripped her bag tightly, her jaw clenched: "What do you mean?"

"Running to the Green Bamboo Garden to humiliate Yingying through Grandma. Isn't this the result you wanted? I was wondering why you were so kind, suddenly willing to cook this feast for me again. Turns out it was a trap." A cold smile appeared on Shen Jinmo's lips, a smile of disdain and sarcasm.

Lu Zhiwei's eyes were red, and her voice trembled slightly: "Shen Jinmo, you're consistently performing as consistently as ever." Consistently infuriating, consistently idiotic, consistently heartbreaking.

"You brat! You're going to drive me crazy!" The old lady clutched her chest and slumped back into her chair.

Lu Zhiwei and Shen Shuyuan reached out almost simultaneously to help the old lady up.

"Brother, could you please say less?" Shen Shuyuan turned her head and pleaded with Shen Jinmo.

"Yingying has suffered so much outside all these years. We brought her home hoping that you would pamper her as you used to. But what have you done? I don't know what kind of drug Lu Zhiwei gave you to make you treat a patient so harshly!" Shen Jinmo did not stop when she saw the old lady's appearance. Instead, she intensified her scolding of the old lady.

"Did you really think that fire back then was just an accident? The Shen family's calamity and the Xia family's..." The old lady wanted to say something more.

Xia Wanying suddenly rolled her eyes back and fainted.

The old lady stared in disbelief at Xia Wanying, who was falling even faster than herself.

She hasn't fainted from anger yet.

How could she possibly faint first?

Without a doubt, Shen Jinmo carried Xia Wanying away from Cuizhu Garden, and the meal ended in chaos and unpleasantness.

On the way back to the sanatorium.

Xia Wanying woke up while being held in Shen Jinmo's arms, with glistening tears still clinging to the corners of her eyes. She clung tightly to Shen Jinmo's neck with both hands: "Brother Shen, Yingying won't be abandoned again, right?"

"No, don't worry." Shen Jingmo rubbed her head.

"Can we make a pinky promise?" Xia Wanying stared at him with her clear and innocent eyes.

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