"What do you mean?" Gan Tang was suddenly startled. According to her original ID card, she was only twenty-five years old this year.
"So tender, so very tender," Chu Jiahe laughed.
The woman in front of me was wearing a warm yellow dress with a puffy skirt embroidered with fairy lace, making her look like an adorable doll.
"Dad chose it!" Gan Tang was speechless. "Old people always feel that their daughters are still little girls. Mainly, he doesn't want to admit that he's getting old. Anyway, it's his birthday, so let's make him happy."
I was referring to the lips.
Chu Jiahe's gaze lingered on her lips, and then on the part of her body that only he could see. Even with such a frivolous act, his eyes still radiated righteousness.
Gan Tang laughed and slapped away the hand that had somehow landed on her waist. "It's Dad's birthday today, so don't say anything out of line."
"I will obey my wife's command!"
"Then let's go!"
Gan Tang raised an eyebrow, pulled Chu Jiahe along, and walked towards the banquet hall.
Stop looking!
A sigh came from behind him. Mo Huaixing, who was standing by the roadside, turned his head and saw Fu Cheng standing behind him.
"Big brother!"
Fu Cheng grunted in acknowledgment; he had been there for a while. He watched his sister flirting with Chu Jiahe, while he stood there all alone, gazing at them.
"Come with me to the banquet hall entrance to greet the guests!"
"yes!"
Fu Cheng's original intention was not to let him stay in the banquet hall and watch his sister and Chu Jiahe being affectionate, but unexpectedly, he saw the two of them at the entrance of the banquet hall.
"Young Master Chu, I'm so sorry, I'm late." Fu Cheng stepped forward to greet him. Actually, it wasn't time for the guests to enter yet, but he couldn't very well say that Chu Jiahe had arrived early.
"Brother, you're too kind. I'm not an outsider."
Fu Cheng was taken aback by this title.
Chu Jiahe said, "Xintang told me that you are my father-in-law's adopted son. Thank you for taking care of Xintang all these years."
Fu Cheng joked, "Does Young Master Chu mean he wants to take my sister away from me right now?"
Mo Huaixing stood silently on the other side of the hall door, forming a clear chasm with the three people standing together chatting and laughing.
Fu Cheng glanced at it and suddenly realized that even he was rubbing salt into the wound. He hurriedly reminded Gan Tang, "Sister, quickly take Young Master Chu inside!"
"Let's go!" Gan Tang reached out and pulled him.
“We don’t have anything to do, and we can’t let our eldest brother do all the work.” Chu Jiahe gently pulled Gan Tang back and whispered in her ear, “Xin Tang, we still have to send out invitations later, and I want to meet people.”
Having their future son-in-law greeting guests at the door—what an honor! Their godfather would surely be pleased. Fu Cheng, not wanting to persuade him further, walked to Mo Huaixing's side and reminded him, "You should go ahead first!"
The members of the Green Dragon Gang will also be celebrating tonight, but they won't be here. Mo Huaixing was originally supposed to go over after he finished his work.
"I'm fine!" Mo Huaixing replied stubbornly. He had nothing to hide, so why couldn't he stand there?
"Xintang?"
"Hmm?" Gan Tang looked up at Chu Jiahe.
Chu Jiahe's eyes were full of affection: "How about you write our wedding invitations? Your handwriting is the most beautiful I've ever seen."
“Okay!” Gan Tang replied with a smile.
"No!" Chu Jiahe shook her head. "We're getting married, how can I let you write the invitations alone? But my handwriting isn't good. How about this, you teach me how to write."
As he spoke, Chu Jiahe placed Gan Tang's right hand on his own right hand and opened his left palm.
"Teach her!" Chu Jiahe reminded his slow-to-react girlfriend.
"Write what?"
"Of course, it's your name."
"good!"
Gan Tang held his hand and wrote in his palm. As boyfriend and girlfriend, their actions weren't anything too intimate, but she felt very awkward, especially in front of Mo Huaixing.
Fortunately, the arrival of the guests eased the eerie atmosphere in front of the banquet hall. Chu Jiahe had wanted his parents to come, but Gan Tang knew that the Chu family had never liked to expose their private whereabouts, and besides, most of the people present today were heads of various groups who would inevitably need the Chu family's help.
Gan Tang then advised Chu Jiahe not to let them come. Compared to whether Lu Zhengqian was happy or not, she cared more about whether she could successfully marry into the Chu family.
However, before the birthday banquet began, something happened that was enough to disrupt all the plans: Tian Tian called.
She was always cautious, and since Gan Tang forbade her to call her, she really never did.
"Xintang, what's wrong?" Chu Jiahe asked, noticing her pale face.
By this time, all the guests had taken their seats, except for the birthday celebrant, Lu Zhengqian.
"It's nothing! I'm just going to the restroom." Gan Tang picked up her bag and left in a hurry.
Hiding in a toilet stall, Gan Tang dialed the phone and whispered, "Tian Tian, what happened?"
A sobbing voice came through the phone: "Tangtang, your aunt and uncle are missing. They were fine this morning, but when I came home from get off work, they were gone."
"I understand." Gan Tang suddenly remembered that she had mentioned it was Lu Zhengqian's birthday today, so they must have come looking for him. Even though she knew this, Gan Tang still said hopefully as she hung up the phone, "Keep looking, maybe he went out to buy groceries."
The first few times I called, Tian Tian would always say that her aunt and uncle's cooking was so delicious that it made her fat.
When Gan Tang came out, she ran into Chu Jiahe.
Her complexion was not good, and Chu Jiahe guessed, "Is she on her period?"
Gan Tang paused for a moment, then slowly nodded.
"It hurts a little. Jiahe, you go ahead, I want to rest in the private room for a while."
"I'll stay with you!"
"No need!" Realizing that her voice was a bit loud, Gan Tang tried her best to suppress her unusual tone: "The banquet is about to start, and if neither of us is here, Dad will think something has happened. You go first, I'll rest for a while and then come over."
"Okay!" Chu Jiahe agreed, but still personally escorted her to the private room, made her some brown sugar water, and told her, "Call me if you need anything!"
"Um!"
As Gan Tang watched Chu Jiahe leave, she made a phone call and ran towards the hotel entrance.
Fu Shaojie was feeling down about not getting a seat at the head table when he heard the phone call. He walked out impatiently, "Sis, what is it? Can't I say it over the phone?"
"I think I saw my adoptive parents."
"What?" Fu Shaojie immediately perked up in fright.
Gan Tang said urgently, "Right now, have your men guard all the entrances, and the rest of you search inside the hotel. Detain them immediately if you find them, and hand them over to me after the banquet."
As she spoke, Gan Tang reminded him, "Whatever you do, don't let Dad know."
"Do you think I'm stupid?" Fu Shaojie said, walking away with hurried steps.
Gan Tang had planned to look for a while, but unexpectedly ran into Chu Jiahe in the corridor.
"Why did you come out?" she asked.
"I went and bought you some medicine," Chu Jiahe said, helping her back to the private room.
"I'm much better, let's go to the banquet hall!" The state guesthouse has 18 floors, and I can't find it myself, so I'd better keep an eye on Lu Zhengqian.
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