Han Zhiyuan stood at the entrance of the wonton shop, only to find the door closed again.
It's been several days now, and he opens the door every time he comes over.
In his previous life, Song Yinhua also opened a wonton shop. He had eaten wontons twice. The taste was just passable, not particularly delicious, but not bad either.
But in this lifetime, he heard that she had opened a wonton shop and visited it a few times. He found that the wontons in the shop were delicious, and he had never eaten such delicious wontons before.
This caused him to come again and again.
Every time Song Yinhua saw him, she treated him like a stranger, ignoring him no matter how he tried to talk to her.
Han Zhiyuan stood at the entrance of the wonton shop for a while until Chen Wanping came over.
"The shop is closed again?" Chen Wanping glanced at the tightly closed wonton shop. "Is business so bad that Song Yinhua has to close it down?"
Han Zhiyuan gave Chen Wanping an annoyed look, and Chen Wanping asked with dissatisfaction, "You haven't really fallen in love with Song Yinhua, have you? You come here every day, and you even arrange to meet me here!"
"I have to go back to work at the factory in a bit, so get to the point!" Han Zhiyuan said impatiently.
His state-owned machinery factory is not far from here, which is why he has time to come here for lunch.
“I’ve already taken care of that matter. Are you free tomorrow?” Chen Wanping asked.
"Are you serious?" Han Zhiyuan asked incredulously, "You really want to set me up with your sixth aunt's daughter?"
"Honey, I can endure any hardship for you and the kids. Now you won't always blame me for abandoning you and the children, right?" Chen Wanping said, looking aggrieved. "Do you have time tomorrow?"
"Yes!" Han Zhiyuan's expression couldn't hide his joy. "There definitely has to be!"
Seeing Han Zhiyuan's delighted expression, Chen Wanping felt even more resentful. "Han Zhiyuan, did you ever truly love me?"
"You ran off with all my money and abandoned my husband and children!" Han Zhiyuan was still furious when he mentioned this. "I told you to give me back the money, but you would rather watch the children suffer in poverty than give me a single penny!"
"It's not that I don't want to take it, it's that I really don't have it!" Chen Wanping argued. "My dad gambled all that money away."
Han Zhiyuan knew that Chen Wanping was lying, but thinking that he would soon marry the most beloved little lucky star of the Tang family, he did not expose Chen Wanping.
In her previous life, this little lucky star of the Tang family later married into the provincial capital, and the Tang family gave her a considerable dowry.
During the decades he kept his secret relationship with Chen Wanping, he heard a lot about this lucky star. Not only did she marry into the provincial capital, but her husband's family was also very wealthy. She lived a rich life. When her son was admitted to university, she held a celebration banquet. Chen Wanping attended the banquet and came back praising the fortune teller for being so accurate. She said that her cousin was a lucky star for the Tang family and was destined to marry a rich man. And she really did marry very rich and became extremely wealthy.
Han Zhiyuan was overjoyed at the thought of getting such a great deal, and he was even more certain that he would make a fortune in the future.
With memories of his past life and the blessing of marriage, it would be hard not to become rich!
"You want to set me up with your cousin? Is your cousin willing?" Han Zhiyuan asked.
A vicious jealousy flashed across Chen Wanping's face. "Whether she wants to or not is irrelevant. Once she becomes your woman, she'll have no choice but to agree!"
"Are you jealous of your cousin?"
"We're all my grandfather's granddaughters, so why is she my grandfather's lucky star while I have to be drugged by my grandfather and sixth aunt and sent to that old scoundrel's bed in place of my cousin, and everyone knows about it!"
Chen Wanping felt very dissatisfied, even hateful, about what her maternal grandfather's family had done.
If they hadn't schemed against her to protect his cousin, Han Zhiyuan wouldn't have thought she was dirty and wanted to cut ties with her. Even her eldest son was given away to be raised by someone else.
Since her maternal grandfather and the others ruined her to protect her cousin, she would ruin her cousin herself and make her cousin raise her child.
Han Zhiyuan's biological father is bedridden and needs care, and his biological mother is not easy to get along with either.
Chen Wanping couldn't wait to see her cousin make a fool of herself.
He leaned close to Han Zhiyuan and whispered something in his ear. Han Zhiyuan nodded.
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the next day.
Han Zhiyuan appeared at the gate of the Tang family's residence.
Chen Wanping led him inside.
Wang Yunyun lay on the bed in the room, her face flushed; it was clear that something was wrong.
"My maternal grandfather and sixth aunt have gone out to a wedding banquet and will be back around two or three in the afternoon. You must stall until they return and let them catch you together with their own eyes. Then they will have no choice but to marry your cousin to you!"
Chen Wanping glared at Wang Yunyun resentfully, then turned and left.
Han Zhiyuan didn't ask any more questions. Looking at Tang Jia's little lucky star, whose face was abnormally red, he couldn't wait to kiss him.
Wang Yunyun was also very proactive.
Soon, indescribable noises came from inside the house.
Chen Wanping stormed in angrily, but she held back and turned to leave.
Zhou Qiaoyun was sewing shoe soles in the house when Chen Wanping came in. "Seventh Aunt, things are settled. Now it's up to you!"
"Leave it to me, Wanping. Your seventh aunt will definitely avenge you this time." Zhou Qiaoyun was overjoyed.
Since joining the Tang family, she has been bullied by Tang Su'e quite a bit.
Even his own daughter was given away at birth because of a single sentence from Tang Su'e.
This time, she wanted to see if Tang Su'e could still laugh.
"Qiu Xue said she'd introduce me to someone from the city. When will she do that?" Chen Wanping asked.
The idea to matchmake Wang Yunyun and Han Zhiyuan wasn't hers; it was Song Qiuxue's.
She never expected that Song Qiuxue would seek her cooperation and scheme against Wang Yunyun.
"Wait a couple of days. Once Qiu Xue has made all the arrangements, she'll call me and I'll let you know," Zhou Qiaoyun said with a smile, then dismissed Chen Wanping.
She put down the half-finished shoe sole, got up and went to the main room. She pressed her ear against the door, heard the noise inside, and left with a gloating expression.
Zhou Qiaoyun timed it perfectly and invited a group of neighbors to her house to play cards.
The villagers were puzzled. The Tang family never got close to the villagers, let alone invited them to their home to play cards.
Before 3 p.m., Old Man Tang and his wife Tang Su'e returned after finishing their wedding banquet.
Upon entering the courtyard, I saw Zhou Qiaoyun's room filled with people playing mahjong, making a lot of noise, as if they were arguing.
Old Tang's face darkened immediately, but he couldn't afford to lash out in front of the villagers.
"Dad's back!" Zhou Qiaoyun came out with a smile. "I was bored at home all by myself, so I invited the neighbors over to play cards to pass the time."
"I drank too much today and need to sleep for a while. Tell them to disperse and we'll fight again next time."
"I told them to keep their voices down."
Old Tang didn't know what to say, and considering that she was Qiu Xue's biological mother, he didn't argue with Zhou Qiaoyun anymore.
He entered the main room and sat down. "Su'e, pour me a glass of water. I drank too much today and I'm a little thirsty."
Tang Su'e picked up the teapot and poured three cups of tea, then sat down with her husband and elderly father to drink tea.
"Dad, ever since Qiuxue came back, Qiaoyun has been increasingly disregarding you. Now she's even inviting villagers over to play cards," Tang Su'e said, stirring up trouble.
Her husband also chimed in.
“She’s Qiu Xue’s biological mother. We couldn’t do anything about her before, and now we can’t do anything about her at all.” Old Tang took a sip of tea, then suddenly heard a noise from the room and casually asked, “What is Yunyun doing in the room?”
"What could she be doing in the room? Playing, of course." Tang Su'e was speaking when she suddenly noticed something was wrong with the noise coming from the room.
Inside the room, Han Zhiyuan heard Old Tang's voice and deliberately made a lot of noise.
Tang Su'e pushed open the door and rushed in, only to see her daughter naked and embracing Han Zhiyuan.
"Ahhhhhh..." Zhou Qiaoyun, who was pretending to bring over some hangover tea, suddenly screamed, attracting the villagers who were playing cards in the side room.
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