The Shen family booked a private room. Cheng Zheng, Wei Shuying and other guests had already arrived and were chatting animatedly. On the table was a double-layer cream cake from Guanshengyuan.
As soon as Cheng Yaoyao entered the box, he took out the gift and said with a smile, "Happy birthday, aunt."
Everyone started to make a noise, "Yaoyao, Shen Yan, you two are late for your adultery, you have to drink a glass of wine as punishment!"
Cheng Zheng smiled and said, "We Yaoyao can't drink. Come here and sit next to dad."
Cheng Zheng and Wei Shuying sat together. Wei Shuying must have been taught a lesson, so she had a sullen face but didn't say a word or make any nonsense remarks.
Mother Shen was dressed up glamorously. She smiled and took Cheng Yaoyao's hand: "Yaoyao is a girl, how can she drink alcohol? Come on, everyone, sit down. Yaoyao, sit next to your aunt."
Cheng Yaoyao glanced at Cheng Zheng, who smiled and said, "Sit down if your aunt asks you to."
Cheng Yaoyao had no choice but to sit down. Everyone was very enthusiastic about this beautiful woman, and they always found excuses to toast Cheng Yaoyao and chat with her, asking about her experience in the countryside, but they were always blocked by Shen Yan beside her, causing everyone to tease them.
"Ayan and Yaoyao have been in the countryside together, and their relationship has really improved. They both know how to protect Yaoyao now! Unlike before, when they always avoided Yaoyao!"
In the past, Shen Yan avoided the unruly and willful Cheng Yaoyao as much as possible, and everyone saw it. Shen Yan smiled awkwardly, and Shen's mother hurriedly said with a smile: "Ayan was not sensible before! Now he is sensible!"
Father Shen said, "He's already in his twenties, and you're still talking about whether he's sensible or not! When I was his age, I was already married!"
Someone said, "Hey, A-Yan is getting married, isn't this a ready-made arrangement? It's a childhood sweetheart's arranged marriage!"
Cheng Yaoyao was eating cake when he was suddenly stared at by many people. He finally realized something was wrong.
Mother Shen smiled and raised her wine glass, saying to everyone, "Today is my birthday, and it is also the engagement party for Yaoyao and Ayan. I took advantage of the alcohol and asked Teacher Cheng for Yaoyao as my daughter-in-law!"
Cheng Zheng smiled with deep emotion and quickly picked up his glass: "Okay. I've long been interested in Shen Yan. We're so far apart..."
"Wait!" Cheng Yaoyao put down his fork and asked anxiously, "What engagement banquet? Have you asked for my opinion?"
Mother Shen's expression changed drastically: "Yaoyao, tonight is our engagement party, didn't you know?"
"Nonsense!" Cheng Yaoyao shouted at Cheng Zheng, "When did I agree to get engaged to him?!"
Wei Shuying's eyes lit up, and Cheng Zheng's face changed and said, "Yaoyao, isn't this what you've wanted since childhood? You and Shen Yan...you two have been going out every day these days, I thought you..."
"I'm not..." Cheng Yaoyao deeply felt what it meant to shoot herself in the foot. She denied it flatly: "I won't marry him!"
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Uncle Shen Yan smiled and tried to smooth things over: "Sister, I have to criticize you. You guys are not thoughtful enough! Girls are shy in public."
Cheng Zheng pulled Cheng Yaoyao and coaxed him softly, "Yaoyao, you are not a child anymore. If you had a quarrel with Shen Yan, you can't use this matter to vent your anger."
"Yes, yes, yes." Mother Shen pulled Shen Yan over and said, "Yaoyao, did A-Yan make you angry again? Auntie asked him to give you a gift and apologize!"
"No, no!" Cheng Yaoyao said irritably, "I won't be with him!"
Shen Yan's face turned pale, and he said fiercely: "Yaoyao, I know I did some wrong things before and made you angry. But I have been trying to make up for it. As long as you give me a chance, I will definitely make you the happiest woman in the world!"
Cheng Yaoyao curled his lips in disdain: "You have said this to others before, right?"
Cheng Yaoyao's words hinted at something, and hit Shen Yan's weak spot. His face changed drastically: "Yaoyao, you..."
Mother Shen couldn't stand it any longer, and said to Cheng Yaoyao: "Yaoyao, no matter how much you dislike A Yan, you can't say that about him!"
Cheng Yaoyao said angrily: "What's wrong with me?"
Cheng Zheng also took Cheng Yaoyao over and said to Shen's mother gently but firmly, "Yaoyao never talks nonsense. Maybe there is some misunderstanding between her and A'yan?"
Uncle Shen Yan and the others had to smooth things over, and the scene was in chaos for a while, with everyone scrambling to speak. Wei Shuying secretly put vegetables into her bag and watched the show with great amusement.
Father Shen slammed the table and said in a deep voice: "Stop making noise!"
Father Shen was dignified and the scene suddenly became quiet. Father Shen looked at Cheng Yaoyao and said, "Yaoyao, you were in love with Shen Yan before you went to the countryside. After a year of living in the countryside, your feelings should have been sublimated. This kind of feelings has a foundation! Now both parents have agreed to this marriage, and you suddenly say you don't want to get engaged? You are treating marriage as a joke!"
Father Shen's tone did not annoy Cheng Yaoyao. She took a deep breath and said, "Uncle Shen, Shen Yan and I have never been boyfriend and girlfriend."
Shen's father was even more unconvinced: "But you went to the countryside for Shen Yan, we all know that."
Cheng Yaoyao closed her eyes. How come the whole world knew about the original owner's love for Shen Yan? She said, "It was only after I went to the countryside that I found out that Shen Yan was with..."
"Shen Yan is with me." A broken voice rang out like a thunderbolt.
Everyone looked towards the door in surprise, and saw a thin figure standing at the door of the box.
"Who is this?" Everyone was whispering to each other, and no one recognized this country woman.
Shen Yan was like seeing a ghost, and cried out in a daze: "Nunuo, why are you here?!"
Cheng Yaoyao never expected Cheng Nonuo to appear here.
"This is... this is Nuonuo?" Cheng Zheng looked at Cheng Nonuo in disbelief. In his memory, although his little daughter was not good-looking, she was fair and pretty. Now, if Cheng Nonuo said she was thirty years old, people would believe it!
People were even more incredulous. Cheng Nonuo was thin and small. She used to have fair skin and watery eyes, which made her look cute. But now her skin is dry and dark yellow, her eyes are dull, her hair is dry like weeds, and she has a timid look. She is not cute at all, but looks timid and pitiful.
But Cheng Nuonuo was wearing Cheng Yaoyao's dress, like a child wearing adult clothes. Standing next to the bright and charming Cheng Yaoyao, it felt cruel to look at her face.
Wei Shuying had already rushed over and howled at the top of her lungs: "Nono! Oh my daughter, you have suffered so much in the countryside!"
Mother Shen's forehead was throbbing with veins. It was her birthday party, and Wei Shuying was here crying! Mother Shen walked over quickly, pulled Cheng Nonuo and said with a hurried smile: "Nonuo, why are you here? You look tired from the journey, right? Come on, auntie will take you to wash your face."
Cheng Nuonuo stood still, looking at Shen Yan quietly, and then glanced at the big cake and the people on the table, and said with a smile: "Ayan, you are getting engaged today, why didn't you tell me?"
Shen Yan avoided her gaze fiercely.
Father Shen asked, "Nunuo, what did you just say?"
Cheng Nonuo twitched his cracked lips and said, "Uncle, I say..."
"Nonuo!" But it was Shen's mother who interrupted Cheng Nonuo. She grabbed Cheng Nonuo's wrist tightly and said hurriedly: "Tonight is Auntie's birthday. I didn't expect you to come back! It's just right, let's sit down and eat something together!"
Mother Shen could hardly hold back her laughter.
Cheng Yaoyao had a new understanding of this always amiable woman: she knew about Shen Yan and Cheng Nonuo, she had always known it.
Wei Shuying rushed to Shen's father and said, "I heard it! We told him that Shen Yan was with her! I can prove it!"
Father Shen nodded and turned to ask Shen Yan: "She said you were with her? Is this true?"
Shen Yan almost didn't dare to look at his father's eyes, and explained anxiously: "We were together, but we broke up a long time ago. Now I only like Yaoyao..."
Wei Shuying howled, "You have to speak with conscience! Wasn't it you who chased after our Nuonuo and bought her nice things every day behind Yaoyao's back? You are a rich man, and you wanted to go to the countryside with her? You can't deny it!"
Wei Shuying spilled all the secrets about Shen Yan and Cheng Nuonuo. Shen's mother and Shen Yan couldn't hold it back, and everyone was stunned by the amount of information.
When Shen Yan took the initiative to go to the countryside, they were quite puzzled. Cheng Yaoyao also followed him to the countryside, and they were moved. Unexpectedly, Shen Yan went there to follow Cheng Nonuo! Looking at the bright and charming Cheng Yaoyao, and then looking at the skinny and short Cheng Nonuo, everyone's puzzlement reached its peak.
Wei Shuying slapped her thigh and yelled, "My daughter has come all the way here to catch me. You have to give us an explanation in front of everyone! This is the engagement party. Since Yaoyao doesn't agree, then she should marry our Nuonuo!"
Father Shen pondered and said, "This..."
Shen Yan said anxiously: "What I want is Yaoyao!"
"You have no shame!" The roar came from Cheng Zheng.
Even though Cheng Yaoyao lost her temper in public just now, he only spoke softly and gently to persuade her. But now he was furious, his neck was red: "You...what do you think of my daughter? You are shameless! I thought you were a good person, so I was willing to marry Yaoyao to you, but you are actually...actually...shameless!"
Everyone hurriedly grabbed Cheng Zheng. They didn't expect that the usually gentle Cheng Zheng would be so terrible when he got angry. Shen's mother said, "Teacher Cheng, don't be anxious! This matter is not a one-sided matter. How can we blame our A Yan! Can our A Yan take the initiative to pursue your Noonuo?"
Shen Yan hurriedly said: "Uncle Cheng! I really like Yaoyao, I will change! Please give me a chance!"
Shen's father suddenly stood up, and the people around him hurried to pull him back. Shen's father was a soldier, and if he started fighting, Shen Yan's legs would be broken. Shen Yan's uncle pulled him back with all his strength: "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law! Young people are inevitably impulsive, so let's talk it out!"
Father Shen was so angry that he kept shaking his head.
"You... you have no shame!" Cheng Zheng just kept repeating the same thing to Shen Yan, "Even if my daughter dies, she will never marry you!"
Wei Shuying hurriedly said, "Don't be so harsh, you still have a little daughter! Our Nuonuo and Shen Yan are doing fine!"
"Shut up!" Cheng Zheng pointed at Cheng Nonuo with a trembling finger: "You, you stole your sister's boyfriend, do you still have any shame?"
Cheng Yaoyao picked up her handbag with a refreshed look on her face. Just as she was about to leave, she heard Cheng Nonuo's gruff voice saying, "Sister Yaoyao has a boyfriend now."
Shen Yan angrily said: "Shut up!"
Cheng Nuonuo looked at him with eyes as big as a dry well and sneered, "Sister Yaoyao lives in the landlord's house, goes out with the landlord's son, and has been dating him for half a year. Who in the village doesn't know about this? Don't you know about this too?"
Shen Yan was breathing heavily and his face was red. Wasn't this telling everyone clearly that he was a cuckold?
Cheng Yaoyao, who slipped to the door, immediately became the focus of attention.
Cheng Zheng looked at Cheng Yaoyao and said softly, "Yaoyao, is what she said true?"
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