Ruan Zhihao was scolded by Mr. Ruan.

A girl in a pink short down jacket got down from the back seat. She looked about the same age as Gu Yang, with deep eye sockets, a high nose bridge, more three-dimensional facial features, and obvious mixed yellow and white race features.

In the original body's memory, the last time she saw her was five years ago. This was her cousin Ruan Meng, who was about a year younger than her.

The handsome young man next to her is her cousin, Ruan Bin.

Their mother, a citizen of M country, also came back with them.

Ruan Meng walked up to Grandpa Ruan and shouted in fluent Chinese: "Grandpa, Happy New Year, and all the best to you!"

Ruan Bin also stepped forward: "Grandpa, Happy New Year."

"Xiao Meng, Xiao Bin, you too, wish a happy new year." Seeing the siblings Ruan Bin and Ruan Meng, Grandpa Ruan's expression finally eased.

"Aunt and uncle are here too." Ruan Meng glanced at the six members of the Gu family, and then her eyes fell on Gu Yang and Gu Jin.

Gu Yang suddenly remembered that the original body had a bad relationship with this mixed-blood cousin. Of course, the reason was the original body.

Five years ago, at the banquet for Mr. Ruan’s 70th birthday, Ruan Meng’s mixed-race appearance stole a lot of the limelight from the original person.

Although the original body was only twelve or thirteen years old, she already possessed the jealousy characteristic that is essential for a vicious female supporting role.

At that time, Ruan Meng first came into contact with the original body and had good intentions towards this cousin.

She grew up abroad, her mother was from M country, her first language was English, and she couldn't even speak Chinese fluently at that time.

She asked her original self to help her think of a birthday greeting, but the original self took advantage of her poor Chinese and gave her a sentence like "Congratulations to Grandpa on his 60th birthday, may you be happy and healthy", and lied to her that 60th birthday means 70 years old.

Ruan Meng didn't think much about it and shouted it out in front of all the guests.

Then the whole place fell into dead silence, extremely awkward.

At that birthday party, Ruan Meng was ridiculed and almost left in tears.

When Gu Yang heard Ruan Meng's fluent Chinese just now, he knew that she must have worked hard to learn Chinese over the years and must not have forgotten that incident.

Come to think of it, who could forget such a great humiliation?

In the original book, this cousin was the one who looked down on Gu Jin at first, but was later convinced by Gu Jin and became his loyal fan.

This is in stark contrast to the original sister who went all the way to the end and was crazy and desperate.

Sure enough, when Ruan Meng saw Gu Yang, she opened her big eyes and asked curiously, "Didn't they say that cousin Gu Yang was taken away by mistake? The real cousin has been found, so why is she still with my aunt's family? Dad, I remember you said that Chinese people should spend the Spring Festival with their parents and relatives. Doesn't cousin Gu Yang have real parents?"

Gu Yang's mouth twitched slightly. This cousin's Chinese proficiency was indeed very good. She even learned to curse people in a sarcastic way.

Everyone present's face changed when they heard Ruan Meng's words.

Ruan Xueling frowned: "We are Yangyang's closest relatives, what's wrong with her spending the New Year with us?"

Ruan Bin glanced at Gu Yang with a cold gaze and pulled Ruan Meng behind him.

Ruan Zhiying explained to Ruan Xueling, "Sister, these two children grew up in Country M. You know that foreigners tend to speak more directly. It's a cultural difference! She asked directly out of curiosity. There's no other meaning."

Ruan Zhiying has already said so. It’s the new year now, so it would be unreasonable for Ruan Xueling, as an elder, to still make a fuss about it.

Ruan Meng looked at Gu Jin again and said with a smile: "This is my real cousin, right? She is much prettier than the fake cousin. There is an idiom in China called "mixing fish eyes with pearls", but I think it is easy to distinguish fish eyes from pearls."

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Good night~ (End of this chapter)