Jian Yemei was sitting on the sofa. She thought Xu Nuo’ buttocks were big enough to bear a baby (an old Chinese notion that women must have big buttocks to bear the baby easier). This was the first standard for a girl to be the girlfriend of her son.
Her Zodiac sign was investigated in advance. Everything went smooth.
Their constellations was also a match. Jian Yemei had looked up in the constellation book. She was a woman of Cancer, and he was a man of Taurus. Her son, Luo Junchang was slow in love. Although he had a great energy for love, he was unable to turn his love into the language and physical devotion. However, once his love was in blossom, it would blossom beautifully and be everlasting. Only when the woman he wanted appeared, could he devote his full self. He would devote any of his good time to make the decision, while once he devoted himself, which would usually be very soon, his loyalty would exist for ever-unless his girlfriend’s irretrievable mistake went beyond his ultimate endurance.
And the practical characteristics of Taurus man of Luo Junchang could be the remedy for the impractical dream talker of Cancer woman Xu Nuo to give her an incomparable sense of steadiness and could be a good way to defuse the Cancer’s moodiness! At the same time the Cance’s gentleness might comfort the Taurus, thus the two would complement each other perfectly to make them feel safe and stable!
The presents Xu Nuo had brought were worth a lot of money. Although Jian Yemei didn’t show any surprise, she secretly felt satisfied. In their talk, she got to know that she came from an excellent background-her father ran a large business and her mother was a traditional housewife. Xu Nuo herself was actually a subordinate of Luo Junchang’s, so she wouldn’t drag her son down in his career, so Jian Yemei felt relieved.
“I’m hungry, I’m going to prepare some food.” Jian Yemei looked at Xu Nuo to observe her facial expressions.
Jian Yemei was also fascinated by that American TV play”Lie to Me” recently.
Xu Nuo’s expression was sincere when she rushed up to the kitchen. Even if she could only cook some simple western food, it didn’t matter. The cookery could be gradually cultivated. Jian Yemei didn’t care much about the food. In those years she herself also went through a difficult journey from being unable to cook to making the meals ready to eat now. This fact actually narrowed the gap between her and Xu Nuo.
“How many children you’re going to have if you get married?” Jian Yemei asked Xu Nuo, entering the kitchen to watch her wash dishes carefully.
“I want a boy and a girl.” Xu Nuo looked back and smiled. “And then could you please help me to bring them up.”
Many young girls didn’t want to bear child at all for the sake of their beautiful figures. The Chinese parents would think, “If you don’t want to bear children, why should you marry my son?” So Jian Yemei was satisfied with Xu Nuo’s answer.
Going out of Luo Junchang’s home, Xu Nuo took out a tissue and wiped the sweat off his forehead. “Your mother is in fact very kind to me. Why should you describe her as so terrible?”
Luo Junchang nodded. She was really very kind to her.
The first time his ex-girlfriend came home, Jian Yemei conducted a thorough investigation of her family up to 18 generations of ancestors, asked questions from “What do your parents do?” to “Have your family paid off the mortgage?” to “How many children are you going to have?” to “Who will do the housework after you get married?” to “What jobs have you ever had?” “What’s the date of your birthday on lunar calendar or on solar calendar?” or “Are you going to give me a key to your home after you get married?” and so on and so forth…
If a mother-in-law liked you, she liked you no matter who you were; if she didn’t, she would dislike you whatever you might do, even if you died in front of her.
And her notion was-“you’re the woman who robbed her of her son, it must be your fault if you put on an overbearing air instead of looking as if you were in the wrong.”
The first impression was very important. That’s why Xu Nuo only wore a normal dress yet absolutely clean and tidy. Also she wore a traditional ponytail but no eye shadow so as not to look too beautiful, which would make the mother-in-law jealous. She might think, “Look at this coquette to see how she seduced my son. Oh my god, how can I spend the rest of my life?”What you should do was to make her think that you really loved her son very much and your purpose to date with her son was to help her continue to take care of her beloved son, so that there were odds to win.
Luo Junchang’s visit to Xu Nuo’s parents went smooth. Xu Changchun had heard about Luo Junchang very early in previous days. And he had met the young man in some business party. The high-spirited young man with an introverted and steady trait.
“When are you going to make your relationship public?” Xu Changchun asked.
“Uncle Xu, what’s your idea?”
“It would be Nuonuo’s birthday in a few days. I thinks it would be a good time.”
After Luo Junchang left, Xu Nuo lay on the sofa, “I’m on my last legs. Daddy, how will you reward me?”
Xu Changchun patted his daughter on the shoulder. “I’m doing all these for you. Bai Zhehan has something else to do, and I have already persuaded him to give you up. You’re not a good match. After all, he is only a doctor.”
“So are you only taking advantage of him?” Xu Nuo felt a little reluctant to give up. Yet when she followed her father’s instruction to propose the break-up with Bai Zhehan, she found the sad look on his face was fake, for he hadn’t had face-lifting surgery, yet there was no change on the skin on his forehead.
“It was him who took advantage of us. Oh no, I should say we took advantage of each other. Have a good rest. Don’t you always want that sky blue Chanel dress you saw in Japan? I’ll have it bring it to you for your birthday in a few days, as a birthday gift.”
There were excited sparkles in Xu Nuo’s eyes, like the sparkles in Crayon Shin-chan’s eyes when he saw a dynamic Superman toy of limited edition in a store. That dress of six-figure-sum was really marvelous. Her daddy was wealthy, but he never overspent. The car was last year’s birthday gift, but this year he would only give her a dress, Daddy was too stingy.
Xu Changchun saw through his daughter’s mind and cast a black credit card on the desk. “I was going to Japan with Bai Zhehan at that day. Swipe this card to buy whatever you like, but not to let your mother know. Otherwise she would accuse me of doting on my daughter.”
Oh God! Xu Nuo thought Daddy was so kind to her, and she could be sure that she was indeed his biological daughter.
A card of umlimited overdraft! She could even swipe the card for a Boeing 747. Now the black card she had coveted from her senior high school day had been put in front of her. Xu Nuo hastily grabbed the card in her hand before her mother went downstairs.
Xu Changchun laughed. “Don’t overspend in this period of financial crisis. Don’t you know your daddy’s assets have shrunk dramatically?”
Xu Nuo stuck her tongue out sheepishly. It would be strange if she saved money for him, she had only one birthday once a year.
She rented a bar for the celebration with her friends and colleagues, yet she found she forgot to invite Jiang Youyou. How could Jiang be absent from such an occasion although she was only an administrative clerk. Jiang entered the company together with her, and now she was so lucky both in love and career, she was in need of a witness, wasn’t she? It would be a pity if she was absent.