"Sister Fanyan, where are you?" His voice was lazy and hoarse, as if he had just woken up.
"I... am having coffee with Wanwan." She steadied herself.
"Yun Suiwan ran out to meet someone else's wife so early, doesn't Lu Dongjue care?" Lin Zhibai was full of resentment.
"You just woke up?" Gu Fanyan asked tentatively, "Have you checked your phone?"
He paused for a moment and said, "My mom just called and told us to come home for dinner tonight."
Gu Fanyan was stunned.
"I have some business at the company today, I'll pick you up this afternoon," Lin Zhibai said before hanging up the phone.
Gu Fanyan also put down the phone, feeling a little confused and disappointed.
She wasn't afraid of squeezing out pustules; she hoped he would respond, and even if it meant they couldn't be together, she could accept it.
But given his current reaction, she couldn't be sure whether he had actually seen the message.
"Sister Fanyan, are you going to the Lin family tonight?" Yun Suiwan asked.
Gu Fanyan nodded, then shook her head. "He said he'd come to pick me up. When we meet, we'll have to talk things out. Whether we go to the Lin family for dinner or not is another matter."
Yun Suiwan comforted her, "Lin Zhibai won't care about this. Besides, medicine is so advanced now..."
As she said this, Yun Suiwan herself gradually lost confidence.
Lin Zhibai may not care, but the Lin family cannot possibly not care.
Gu Fanyan's private doctor is top-notch; if there were a treatment plan, the doctor would have come up with it long ago.
In the end, Yun Suiwan didn't know what to say.
Gu Fanyan smiled slightly, "You don't need to comfort me. I've thought about these things many times in my mind. I can accept any outcome."
However, her smile was starting to falter.
Lin Zhibai did not come to pick her up in person in the afternoon.
They said there was an urgent matter at the company, so they sent their assistant to pick them up and then go directly to the Lin family's house to meet up.
She didn't have her assistant make the trip; she drove herself to the Lin family's house.
When she parked, she saw the car that Lin Zhibai usually drove.
He has arrived.
It's right inside the villa.
A whole day has passed; there's no way he hasn't seen the message yet.
She sat in the car for a while, wondering if she should call Lin Zhibai out so they could talk in the garden without disturbing the rest of the Lin family.
"Miss Gu." The Lin family's butler came over and said respectfully, "Please come in. The young master and the old lady are waiting for you inside."
"What day is it today?" Gu Fanyan asked.
"It's Miss Gu's day for dinner," the butler said with a smile. "The old lady cooked herself today."
Gu Fanyan had no choice but to walk towards the villa.
Once inside the living room, she finally saw Lin Zhibai.
Lin Zhibai was pouring red wine into the decanter when he saw her. He immediately put down the bottle, went over, and grabbed her hand.
"When did you arrive? Why didn't you let me come out to greet you?"
She agreed and stared into his eyes, but apart from a faint smile, she couldn't see anything else in them.
“Stop staring at me like that,” he suddenly lowered his head, his hard lips close to her ear, “My mom’s home, I can’t eat you while I’m eating.”
The humid air made her cheeks flush. "You're so indecent," she scolded in a low voice.
Lin Zhibai laughed happily, like a child who had successfully pulled off a prank.
He genuinely didn't seem to have seen the message.
But they might also be pretending not to see it.
Gu Fanyan didn't like pretending to be asleep. She tugged at his sleeve, "Lin Zhibai, this morning I..."
"Fanyan is here." Lin's mother walked over with a smile, interrupting her.
"Auntie." She had no choice but to greet Lin's mother first.
“Fanyan,” Lin’s mother affectionately put her arm around her shoulder, “I’ve already sent Shengxin away. I brought her home before just to see her condition with my own eyes.”
"Don't worry, I have no objection to your marriage with Zhibai."
She smoothed Gu Fanyan's hair and said, "I've figured it out too. If you and Zhibai had gotten married earlier, you'd have a child by now."
Gu Fanyan's expression froze slightly.
"Mom, you're thinking too far ahead," Lin Zhibai pouted. "Why don't you go check on how your seafood porridge is going?"
"Oh dear, I almost forgot." Lin's mother had indeed cooked seafood porridge herself, intending to show off her skills to Gu Fanyan.
After Lin's mother left, Gu Fanyan immediately picked up where she left off, "Lin Zhibai, what about the news from this morning..."
Lin Zhibai reached out and sealed her lips with his finger. "I've said it before, no matter what happens, I only want you."
He saw the message!
He doesn't care!
A warm feeling welled up in Gu Fanyan's heart, but, "Your parents..."
“It has nothing to do with my parents,” he said, pulling her close around the waist and looking down at her. “Just listen to me.”
"And what about you?" Gu Fanyan asked, "Don't you want children?"
"I only want you."
She didn't know how to respond; her emotions were complicated, and her mind was a complete mess.
She pressed herself against him, clinging tightly to him.
She could hear his heartbeat, steady and rhythmic.
He didn't lie at all.
She closed her eyes, smiled, but tears still welled up in her eyes.
Lin's father also returned home during dinner.
The four people sat around the dining table, enjoying a rare moment of harmony.
Lin's mother was the happiest, saying, "I've been dreaming of Zhibai getting married soon, so that our family meals would be more lively. This wish has finally come true."
Lin's father also said, "If you've made up your minds, we'll go to the Gu family right away."
“It’s been decided,” Lin Zhibai hummed in agreement, “to hold the ceremony on the same day as Lu Dongjue and Wanwan.”
Lin's mother was taken aback: "How can this be? Where are you going to send the guests?"
"They can go wherever they want," Lin Zhibai said indifferently.
"You'll make things chaotic if you do this," Lin's mother said anxiously. "You and Fanyan are only getting married once, so you have to make sure it's done properly."
Lin's mother imagined that the guests would come here to watch the ceremony in a hurry, eat a few bites of food, and then rush to Lu Dongjue and Yun Suiwan's wedding venue.
They might run away halfway through the ceremony!
Just thinking about that scene made Lin's mother feel suffocated!
"Son, let's discuss this again," Lin's mother said, unable to even eat dinner.
Gu Fanyan couldn't help but comfort her, "Auntie, don't worry. Even if we hold it together, it'll be in the same venue. Wanwan and I will enter the wedding hall at the same time. Then, all four families will host a banquet together. Won't that be a lively affair?"
Lin's mother's mind raced, and she laughed, "That's right, if all four of our families hold weddings at the same time, half the city will have to come!"
The so-called wedding of the century is nothing more than this!
Lin Zhibai suddenly smiled and said, "Sister Fanyan, it turns out you had planned to marry me all along, and you even had the wedding plan in mind."
"I think this plan is good, let's do it this way."
Gu Fanyan was stunned. What had she just said? How did it become that she had planned to marry him all along?
“Sister Fanyan, thank you for being willing to marry me,” he grabbed her hand. “In front of my parents, I swear to you that I will be good to you for the rest of my life, and only to you.”
Gu Fanyan suddenly realized that he had deliberately provoked Lin's mother to get anxious, just waiting for her to say that they should have a wedding together.
Lin Zhibai has too many tricks up his sleeve; she feels like she might not be able to outrun them all in her lifetime!
"Tsk tsk," Lin's mother also understood, making no attempt to hide her disdain, "Lin Zhibai, is this a proposal? There wasn't even a ring!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com