She's still just a young girl!

Li Xiaoli immediately perked up: "Mom's the best! I'm going to find Xiaoye to play!"

Inside the house.

Upon hearing Li Xiaoli's words, Zhou Xiaoye felt relieved and quickly sat up straight, waiting for her to come in.

The two huddled together and started reading, their laughter filling the room.

Zhao Xiulian and Li Weidong kneaded the dough, chopped the filling, and made dumplings together. The mother and son were busy and happy.

There's a trick to making these dumplings.

How to prepare the filling, how to knead the dough—every step has its own intricacies. Different techniques and ingredients can result in vastly different flavors.

While busy working, Zhao Xiulian kept explaining things to Li Weidong.

Li Weidong couldn't help but laugh.

He was worried that his insistence on marrying Zhou Xiaoye would upset his mother, since Zhou Xiaoye was young and would have to wait several more years to get married and have children.

As a result, when Zhou Xiaoye arrived, her mother, who usually hates trouble the most, actually started making dumplings.

In the past, dumplings were a rare treat, only available during the Lunar New Year.

It seems that Mom is very satisfied with Zhou Xiaoye, her future daughter-in-law.

Li Weidong breathed a sigh of relief.

That's good too. There won't be any more mother-in-law/daughter-in-law issues in the future, and I can relax a lot more.

However, when it comes to the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, he can't help but feel a little worried.

In her past life, Zhou Xiaoye had said she wanted to marry him, but he wasn't sure if it was because she liked him or to avoid marrying Zhang the Cripple.

Now, given a second chance at life, he has changed Zhou Xiaoye's life, opening up countless possibilities for her future.

After she's seen a wider world, will she still be willing to marry an older man like him who's so much older than her...?

Li Weidong became increasingly worried as he thought about it, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Why are you looking so gloomy when I ask you to make dumplings?"

Zhao Xiulian was displeased: "Alright, alright, we've almost finished with the work, stop standing here, it's annoying to look at you!"

Li Weidong pursed his lips, turned around, and went to wash his hands.

The faucet was right under the window, and coincidentally, he heard Li Xiaoli's voice as soon as he got close.

"Ono, are you really willing to marry my brother?"

Li Weidong was startled and involuntarily pricked up his ears.