Yu Mo rarely mentioned his father, so Lin Meng couldn't help but feel a little surprised when she heard him say this suddenly.
"Why is it so..." She didn't know how to ask the question.
Yu Mo saw through her doubts and didn't try to hide them. He started the car and said, "Honestly, if my dad goes back, I might not want to go back."
Lin Meng blinked: "Is your relationship with your dad... that bad?"
Then she curled her lips, leaned against the car window with one hand on her chin and murmured: "Forget it, I have no right to say anything about you. I'm worse than you. I haven't even met my parents a few times."
This was the first time that Lin Xiaomeng talked about the past openly. It could be seen that she had basically let it go, and her personality was much softer than before. Yu Mo couldn't help but glance at her with a smile in his eyes, and freed one hand to touch her head.
"Then are you going back?" Lin Meng asked.
"I'm thinking about it." Yu Mo said, "What do you think?"
"I say...why don't we go back?" Lin Meng said, "Aunt Ji is not wrong no matter what."
"That's right, for my mom's sake." Yu Mo smiled and said, "I can't let you dress up for nothing, right?"
Lin Meng: "Tsk."
The two chatted and laughed, and arrived at their destination half an hour later.
The last time I came to this villa area was when I accompanied Lin Sitian to a party at Nanxu Mansion. So much time has passed in the blink of an eye.
The people and things around him have undergone tremendous changes. Looking back, Lin Meng feels quite emotional.
The garage door of Yu Mo's house was remote-controlled. It slowly rose, and then Lin Meng saw a gorgeous silver-gray sports car parked quietly inside.
The light reflected on the surface of the sports car, revealing an expensive texture. The narrow and flat fluid front design made it easily distinguishable from ordinary cars. Lin Meng suddenly remembered that it was said that Yu Mo's family had a Bugatti Veyron worth more than 30 million yuan.
This is a car worth over 30 million!!!
She was stunned.
But wait a minute, this car is now parked in Yu Mo's garage, does that mean -
She couldn't help but glance at Yu Mo.
As expected, when God Mo himself saw this sports car, he couldn't help but sneer and rolled his eyes.
Lin Meng almost suspected that the next second he would drive out of the garage in reverse, turn the car around and drive away.
But Yu Mo finally parked the car.
Arriving in front of Yu Mo's yard, Lin Meng suddenly began to get nervous. She turned her head to look at Yu Mo and tried to take the big bag from his hand: "Well, how about I carry it..."
"Stop it." Yu Mo grabbed her hand and jokingly said, "Are you trying to make my mother say I'm unfaithful, unfilial, and unworthy of being a human being again?"
"No way." Lin Meng pouted.
"Go ring the doorbell." Yu Mo raised his chin.
"Okay." Lin Meng nodded and skipped over.
The door outside the courtyard was not locked, so the two pushed it open and went in. Lin Meng walked to the entrance and raised her hand to press the doorbell.
There was a beep, and then Ji Yan's voice rang out: "Who is this?"
"Ji, Aunt Ji!" Lin Meng was so nervous that she stuttered: "Yes, it's me."
"Lin Xiaomeng?" Ji Yan's tone relaxed for a moment, and she smiled and said, "Really? You're finally here. You've been waiting for me. I'll open the door for you right away."
After a while, the door opened, and Ji Yan, wearing an embroidered cloud shoulder, poked her head out and said with a smile, "Come on, come on, come in."
Ms. Ji, who was at home, had her hair lazily draped, her eyebrows curved, and her cheongsam outlined her graceful figure. Her every frown and smile exuded the dignified and elegant style of a celebrity. Lin Meng was so captivated by the beauty of the peerless Ms. Niuhulu Ji that she blushed immediately and didn't know where to put her hands and feet.
"Why is Lin Xiaomeng so cute today?" Ji Yan smiled and went to look through the shoe cabinet: "Auntie Ji will find you a pair of cute slippers, just wait."
Seeing Ms. Ji rummaging through the shoe cabinet to no avail, Yu Mo felt helpless and turned to Lin Meng, "You should wear my mom's, the purple pair."
"No!" Ms. Ji shouted flatly, "I bought these plush slippers for Lin Xiaomeng yesterday! They have rabbit ears! Wait for me to find them!"
Yu Mo: “…”
After waiting for a while, he couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you go to your bedroom balcony and look for it?"
Ms. Ji's back stiffened for a moment, then she straightened up. She smoothed her hair over her shoulders and said with a reserved air, "Wait a moment, I'll go find it and come right back."
Yu Mo: "..." He couldn't help but raise his hand to support his forehead.
Lin Meng was dumbfounded: "Aunt Ji..."
"She's always been like this." Yu Mo said with a headache.
"What if we can't find the thing?" Lin Meng asked confusedly.
Yu Mo: "She will just buy a new one."
Lin Meng: “…”
A few minutes later, Ms. Ji came back with a pair of brand new snow-white bunny slippers in her hand. She said happily, "Look, look, aren't these cute?"
"Oh, so cute!" Lin Meng clapped her hands.
"Right, Lin Xiaomeng should wear such cute slippers." Ji Yan said with a smile: "Come in quickly, you must be tired from standing."
Yu Mo walked in and asked, "Where's my dad?"
Ji Yan's expression instantly turned cold. She snorted softly and said, "I'm sleeping up there because of jet lag."
Yu Mo sighed softly: "I knew it."
At this time, Lin Meng had already sat on the sofa. Ji Yan glanced at her, then turned to Yu Mo and lowered her voice: "I was actually quite happy that he came back, but..."
Yu Mo: "But?"
Ji Yan frowned: "He also brought someone back."
Just as Yu Mo was about to ask "Who is it?", the doorbell rang.
Ji Yan's eyes darkened, she pressed Yu Mo's arm lightly, then turned around and pressed the video intercom.
There was a slight "click" sound from the intercom, and then a thin female voice came over on the electric current.
"Auntie, it's me, please open the door."
This voice was like a bolt of lightning that struck Yu Mo's head. He was startled and said, "This is..."
Ji Yan sighed and opened the door. A young woman was standing at the door. She was holding a gift box in front of her and grinning with eight teeth. "I'm so sorry. I was supposed to send something to Auntie, but it was left at the courier station. I almost let Auntie down."
The girl was about twenty years old, wearing a camel coat and over-the-knee boots, with long straight chestnut hair and delicate makeup. Her appearance was so perfect that it was impossible to find fault with her. She was a very decent urban beauty.
Ji Yan's expression was a little unnatural. She curled the corners of her lips perfunctorily, then folded her arms and turned around, saying in a cold tone, "I told you it wasn't necessary, but you still went there specially. Is that a bother?"
"It's no trouble. This is a gift from me to my aunt." The girl said with a smile. She walked into the entrance hall and closed the door. When she saw the shoes in the shoe cabinet, her eyes lit up.
"Is Yu Mo back?" she blurted out happily.
On the other side, Yu Mo stood there motionless.
Lin Meng looked at the entrance and then at Yu Mo. She had never seen Yu Mo with this expression before.
The man's pupils shrank slightly, as if he was in disbelief, and as if he was trying hard to suppress his anger.
While he was silent, Gong Xue had already run over in two or three steps.
She ran to Yu Mo, raised her head, intertwined her fingers and held them against her chest, her eyes so sincere that they contained tears: "Yu Mo! I haven't been back for a long time. I was still wondering what you would become after not seeing you for so long. Have you had a bad life in the past few years... I really can't sleep every night. Fortunately, fortunately you are still the same as before, then I feel relieved..." She couldn't help but grab Yu Mo's right hand, but Yu Mo quickly avoided her.
"Why did you come back suddenly?" Yu Mo took a deep breath, turned around and sat down on the sofa, and said in a deep voice.
"I have graduated from graduate school." Gong Xue said, "My uncle sent me abroad to study for a master's degree in the hope that one day I would be able to come back to see you in a better state..." As she spoke, she walked to the sofa again.
Lin Meng had been sitting in a corner of the sofa, with a large plastic bag of gifts next to her, which happened to be between her and Yu Mo. Gong Xue pointed at the things and smiled at Lin Meng: "Sister, is it convenient for you to put the things on the coffee table? I want to sit down."
Lin Meng: "Ah? Oh."
She hadn't figured out the situation yet and was still confused, so she had no choice but to do as Gong Xue said. She struggled to open a large bag of things, stood up and put it on the coffee table, and saw Gong Xue taking advantage of the opportunity to sit next to Yu Mo.
"Yu Mo, do you know?" she said, unintentionally leaning closer, her voice soft and pleasant. "I've seen a lot in the past few years. Last year, I participated in an aid program in Africa. I met many poor people in distress and tried every way to help them. Although it was tiring, I think it was all great. Life is so free and precious. I've become more mature and different from before."
"Really? Congratulations then." Yu Mo said calmly. He stood up suddenly and avoided Gong Xue's touch again: "Actually, no matter how you become, it has nothing to do with me."
"Why is it okay?" Gong Xue asked anxiously, "Don't you want to see me get better? I really... really want to spend the rest of my life making it up to you, really."
"No need, really." Yu Mo pulled the corner of his lips, a hint of sarcasm: "I told you back then that I forgive you, no matter what the reason is, but it's not a lie. I won't ask for any compensation from you."
Gong Xue's eyes dimmed slightly.
Yu Mo didn't want to talk to her any more, so he picked up the plastic bag on the coffee table. He looked around for Ms. Ji and found that Ji Yan had already hidden in the kitchen. She looked even more annoyed than him.
"Mom." Yu Mo couldn't help but shout, "This is a gift Lin Xiaomeng brought you. She bought it specifically for cooking for you today. Do you want to take a look?"
"What? Lin Xiaomeng brought me a gift?" Ji Yan poked her head out from the kitchen: "Here I come."
Lin Meng was suddenly called out and couldn't help but stand up. She scratched her head a little embarrassedly: "Auntie...it's...it's this thick soup treasure. It has many flavors. It tastes better when put in soup. There is also this Lao Gan Ma. I have eaten Lao Gan Ma myself before. It is especially good when mixed with rice, so I bought some -"
"Auntie, would you like to open this Xikouhua Christmas gift box I brought you and take a look?" Gong Xue glanced at the plastic bag of cheap supermarket goods, a hint of obvious contempt and pride flashing in her eyes. She interrupted crisply, "It's a limited edition, over a thousand dollars. I fought hard for it for a long time."
Lin Meng was shocked by the more than one thousand US dollars. She quickly calculated the exchange rate and the converted RMB price in her mind, and she felt terrible.
What's that big bag of seasoning she has? Come to the city, you country bumpkin!
Her cheeks flushed and she couldn't help but glance sideways at the unfamiliar Ms. Gong Xue.
This woman looked more mature than her, and her speech and behavior were more appropriate and calm than hers. Most importantly, she seemed... very, very familiar with the entire Yu family, so familiar that she seemed like the Yu family's second daughter.
Wait, this face... doesn't seem so unfamiliar.
Lin Meng stared at her for a long time, racking his brains.
…
"Didn't Yu Mo go to the game? When?"
"Ah, that day... no wonder, he was getting married to me that day. Such an important matter, of course, can't be forgotten by playing games."
"He's a public figure, so it's not convenient to disclose it, but everyone close to us in our circles knows about it. Your KARS team manager should know about it too. We sent him an invitation."
"You're close to him, right? Seriously, he never mentioned you. We should have sent you an invitation as well."
"Look, isn't this ring beautiful? It's specially made for me."
…
Two years have passed. The woman changed her hairstyle and makeup, but Lin Meng still remembered her.
"It's you—" she murmured, "It's you..."
"What?" Gong Xue glanced at her softly, "Sister, what's wrong with you?"
"Two years ago, you were the one who lied to me and said you were married to Yu Mo!" Lin Meng stood up from the sofa, her voice trembling: "It was you!"
Over there, Yu Mo and Ji Yan looked over.
"How can this be called a lie?" Gong Xue said innocently, "We were indeed planning to get engaged at that time." She paused and sighed, "Unfortunately, due to some unexpected events, it was put on hold." She shrugged and smiled, "But my uncle and aunt had approved my engagement to Yu Mo at the time. So if I tell others that I'm getting married to him, it shouldn't make any difference, right?"
"Just kidding, there's a huge difference." Yu Mo came over suddenly, pulled Lin Meng behind him, and looked at Gong Xue coldly: "After all this time, you've been making up rumors about me."
Gong Xue raised her neck and laughed coldly, very proudly: "I really don't think this is a rumor. At that time, my aunt and uncle both tacitly accepted that I was your fiancée, didn't they?"
"Have I admitted it?" Yu Mo asked back.
Gong Xue was speechless for a moment.
At that time, Yu Mo was really a tough nut to crack. No matter how the two elders of the Yu family tried to persuade him, he refused to give in. Later, he simply stayed in the base and did not go home, immersing himself in training day and night.
Yu Cheng'en hated his professionalism very much and thought of countless ways to interfere with him and obstruct him, but perhaps because Yu Mo inherited Yu Cheng'en's bloodline, no matter how suppressed he was, he chose to bite the bullet and move forward. Every time he successfully resisted, he gained an extra layer of immunity to Yu Cheng'en's power, so that later Yu Cheng'en had no way to deal with him at all.
She once heard Yu Chengen angrily say outside the study that if there was a way to make Yu Mo return to his family and completely break away from professional e-sports, he would be willing to pay any price.
then……
At that time, she knew clearly that if she wanted to stay in the Yu family, she had to cling to the thigh of Yu Chengen, the head of the family, and to gain Yu Chengen's complete trust, she had to start with this matter.
Gong Xue's eyes flickered.
She never suffers a loss.
So she smiled and said, "Okay, it's all in the past. Let's not talk about it anymore, okay?"
"Okay, it's all in the past." Ji Yan said lazily, "Then don't mention it. It's annoying." After that, she curiously fiddled with the large plastic bag and took out the cans of thick soup. She looked at them one by one with great interest: "There are seafood flavors, mushroom flavors, tomato flavors, spicy butter flavors, and fresh and fragrant pepper flavors. Hey, this thing is interesting. Do I just need to open it and put it in water?"
"Ah, yes." Lin Meng walked over and said, "I remember there were instructions on the can."
"So what flavor do you want?" Ji Yan smiled and tilted her head and asked, "I'm not picky."
Lin Meng recalled that the last time they ate hotpot, Panda seemed to be the only one in the team who dared to dip baby cabbage in the spicy pot.
Yu Mo doesn't seem to eat spicy food.
"How about tomato flavor? Is that okay?" she said.
The smile in Ji Yan's eyes deepened: "Sure."
Yu Mo stood aside, one hand on his waist, and suddenly snorted a laugh: "Since ancient times, routines have won people's hearts. Ms. Ji, please be more careful."
"What's wrong? I knew Little Lemon would think the same as me." Ji Yan took out a can and said, "Okay, let's eat it for lunch today."
Gong Xue watched the three of them happily bantering from the side, feeling a little unwilling. She pushed herself up from the sofa, picked up the beautifully packaged Christmas box, and walked towards Ji Yan with it, smiling gently, "Aunt Ji, why don't you open the box and take a look? I'm curious about what's inside this thousand-dollar box!" After a pause, she smiled intentionally or unintentionally, "I read a popular science article a while ago that said that although concentrated soup treasures taste good, it's best to eat less because they contain a lot of additives. Eating too much can easily cause colon cancer."
Lin Meng: “…”
If this doesn't count as KY?!
If this kind of KY dog was posted on the Internet, she would have cursed her parents a hundred times!
But this is at Yu Mo's home...
She felt embarrassed and couldn't help pinching her cuffs.
At this moment, Ji Yan suddenly laughed.
"Shelly, did you know that cancer can be caused by many factors? As far as I know, genes have the strongest influence," Ji Yan said. "Some people are genetically susceptible, so even if they eat only vegetarian food their whole lives, they'll still get cancer. Others aren't genetically susceptible, and they can still live long lives despite consuming a lot of meat and fish. The most popular term among you young people these days is 'taking the blame.' Well, Nongtangbao doesn't want to take the blame."
Gong Xue's expression froze slightly.
"As for this box set," Ji Yan said with a hint of sarcasm in her eyes, "After all, it was bought with my Yu family's money, so I don't think there's any need to show it off."
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