Zhen Tian rubbed her face against Liu Ye's neck: "I thought you and Dad wouldn't be coming this year either..."
"How could that be? Where else could we go for the New Year if we didn't go home?"
Liu Ye patted Zhen Tian on the back, and could tell from her words that she had been wronged.
"If Yu Zhi can't come back, Mom and Dad can't not come back either." Ji Quanzhou looked at the pitiful Tian Tian and started to dislike his son again.
"Dad." Zhen Tian hugged Ji Quanzhou back.
"Yes, Happy New Year, Sweetie." Ji Quanzhou took out a red envelope from his pocket, and Lu Ti also took out the New Year's money she had prepared from her bag.
"Happy New Year, Mom and Dad." Zhen Tian accepted the New Year's money without hesitation, taking it for granted.
“This is what your grandfather prepared for you.” Ji Quanzhou took out another box: “The old man has always known about you. He didn’t introduce you to his family before because of your status. He’s waiting for Yuzhi to come back so you can get acquainted with the family. Grandpa has always wanted to see you.”
"good."
Zhen Tian nodded obediently and took the box: "Please thank Grandpa for me. I'll visit him when Zhizhi comes back."
"Good girl." Ji Quanzhou patted the top of her head.
"Are your parents in the kitchen?" Liu Ye asked.
"Um."
"Let's go see if there's anything we can do to help." Liu Ye led Ji Quanzhou toward the kitchen, but halfway there she suddenly remembered, "Oh right, baby, your mom and dad bought you a lot of gifts. Take your girlfriends to see them when you have time."
"Okay, sure."
After the two disappeared, Ye Qingyan and Yang Taoyuan couldn't help but gather around. They spoke quietly among themselves.
They weren't very close, and Tian Tian and the two uncles and aunts were speaking softly, so they didn't hear what they were saying.
But at the beginning, they clearly heard Tian Tian call out "Dad" and "Mom".
"Who is it? Why are you calling them Mom and Dad? Are they godfather and godmother?" Yang Tao loves gossip.
Everyone waited curiously for her answer.
"No, they're Zhizhi's mom and dad." Tiantian blinked in confusion: "Haven't you seen Qingyan before?"
"No, I don't think so..." Ye Qingyan thought for a moment, and if she didn't remember seeing it, she probably hadn't seen it before.
"You mean, these are your boyfriend's parents?" Yang Tao asked in surprise.
"Yes."
"So you've already started calling them Mom and Dad? So fast? Have they accepted you already?"
"It's not surprising that they grew up together." Ye Qingyan and Yuan Yuan accepted it after learning that they were Ji Yuzhi's parents.
Yang Tao was genuinely shocked: "I thought childhood sweetheart relationships were all done secretly, without the elders knowing."
“They live right across the hall, how could they not know?” Ye Qingyan raised her chin and pointed to the doorway: “Over there. Besides, both sets of parents are happy about her and Brother Ji’s relationship; it’s common knowledge in our community.”
"Is this like a plot from a TV drama?"
"No, no TV drama is as good as these two."
Just as Qingyan was telling Yangtao about the sensation the two of them had caused at No. 1 High School, Zhen Tian sat to the side and opened the box her grandfather had given her.
"This looks like a new diamond jewelry set from D brand." Ye Qingyan glanced at it and said, "I think I saw it in some magazine before."
How much does it cost?
"A few hundred thousand, that's alright. It's one of the more affordable lines in the high-end product line of D brand. This line is mainly aimed at young people."
"Hundreds of thousands?" Yang Tao gasped. She had just learned that Ji Yuzhi was the top scorer in the national college entrance examination, and before she could recover from that shock, she was speechless at the sight of the jewelry.
"It's so expensive." Zhen Tian closed the lid. She could afford hundreds of thousands of yuan, but she wouldn't spend hundreds of thousands of yuan on a set of jewelry.
"What cheap stuff could his grandfather possibly give you? Don't you think about that?" Ye Qingyan poked Zhen Tian on the head. "You're going to be his future granddaughter-in-law. It wouldn't be right to give him something cheap."
"Just take it if you give it to me," Yuan Yuan said. "It'll be yours sooner or later."
"That's hundreds of thousands! How come you're all so calm?" Yang Tao kept blinking. "It makes me feel like I've never seen anything like this before."
“Brother Ji’s family is in the manufacturing business; they’re quite wealthy and have a long-established business in H City,” Ye Qingyan said. “These few hundred thousand are really nothing to the Ji family.”
"ha?"
"Huh?"
"Is the heartthrob also a rich second-generation?"
Ye Qingyan shook her head and waved her finger: "No, to be precise, he's a third-generation rich kid, and with Brother Ji's abilities, it seems like he could easily be a third-generation rich kid."
"I'm so jealous. How can someone with such a good family background still work so hard?" Yang Tao had always thought that Ji Yuzhi was the kind of person who had a tragic backstory and then made a comeback, since successful people all seemed to have that kind of experience.
Ye Qingyan scoffed at her theory: "Then what you saw wasn't the real rich. Do you know that wealth is divided into levels and circles? The truly established wealthy families are very low-key, and they almost never let you find out who is in charge, for security reasons."
"The rich people you see on TV are just small fry. Even if they do manage to squeeze into high society, they're just newcomers on the fringes. And this circle is very deep."
Yuan Yuan was stunned.
"Why say so much?" Yuan Yuan stopped Ye Qingyan.
"Yes, yes, stop talking, my heart can't take it anymore."
Ye Qingyan shrugged: "This is nothing."
"Would you like to come next door with me?"
"Ji Yu's House?" Ye Qingyan's attention was suddenly drawn.
"Yes, Mom and Dad bought me a present. I'm going to go see it."
Since there was nothing else to do in the living room, the three men over there were already engrossed in the game, and even Zhen Hong had joined in.
"Come on, come on, can we knock on Brother Ji's bedroom door? I'm curious." Ye Qingyan followed behind Zhen Tian.
"Add one," Yuan Yuan echoed.
"I also……"
Ji Yuzhi had been living in the clouds for too long, and they were really curious about what such a man's life would be like.
"You can only look at it once," Zhen Tian said, holding up one finger.
"Okay, okay."
Upon entering Ji Yu's home, one immediately notices a pile of packaging bags scattered around an open suitcase.
Zhen Tian first led them to Ji Yuzhi's bedroom.
The three of them stared expectantly, afraid of missing out.
The reality is that the bedroom didn't surprise them, but it didn't disappoint them either.
"As expected of a male god, his bedroom is spotless and tidy." Yang Tao exclaimed.
"It's just so lifeless; the black, white, and gray color scheme is giving me a headache," Ye Qingyan added.
“Hey, this book…”
Yuan Yuan discovered a floor-standing bookshelf filled with storybooks.
Yang Tao's eyes lit up: "Does my crush like reading such childish fairy tales?"
Zhen Tian touched her eyebrows shyly, her hand unconsciously pressing on the books: "These were used by my mother to lull me to sleep when I was little."
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