Pampered by Short-Lived Bigshot by Beautiful Crescent

Chapter 326: 218 Wuye: Wanwan, wait for me to marry you

Beijing to Pingjiang, the drive itself is not short. After a lunch at the rest stop, Tang Wan leaned against the car and fell asleep, not waking up until reaching the Pingjiang toll station, her eyes still bleary.

Even under the warm winter sun, the twilight over Pingjiang City, though lacking its usual misty rainfall, was still clear and warmly inviting. A light snow had fallen before the New Year and had not yet fully melted away.

This was a plain, without the splendid scene of snow-clad mountains found in the north, yet the sporadic remnants of snow were a sight of their own kind.

When they arrived at the Tang Family’s old house, they could see Shen Family’s elder and Nanny Huang standing at the door from quite a distance.

"Grandpa," Tang Wan was the first to push the door open and get out of the car.

"You’re back..." Shen Elder held her hand, "You’ve worked hard these past days. How come you seem thinner? Don’t you get used to eating out?"

Tang Wan laughed wryly. She had been staying at the Jiang Family, and just over the New Year holiday, she had gained three pounds. Where had she lost weight?

During the New Year, she was in Beijing with no relatives to visit. All her days were spent eating and drinking; how could she not gain weight?

"Dad," Tang Yunxian got out of the car to greet him.

Shen Elder just snorted, "I told you a thousand times, if your father is hospitalized, you must inform me, and you..."

"Grandpa, how is Grandma?" Tang Wan, holding onto his arm, swiftly changed the subject to help Tang Yunxian out.

"She’s inside cooking for you. No matter how I tell her not to cook, she won’t listen. She says you love her Osmanthus Fish the most, so she went out early in the morning to buy fresh fish." While Shen Elder was talking, Tang Yunxian and Shen Shuci were already assisting the Tang Family’s elder out of the car. Old friends meeting naturally led to another round of cordial greetings.

"I thought after your surgery, you’d be quite leaner, so I even stewed chicken soup to nourish you. I didn’t expect you to gain some weight."

Elder Tang smiled, "That’s all thanks to the care of the Jiang Family, with all kinds of delicious food and drink every day. I just sit and don’t move; how could I not gain weight?"

"So, that’s why you’ve betrothed your granddaughter to their family?" The Shen Family elder always had reservations about the engagement. He wasn’t very familiar with Jiang Jinsang, and it all seemed so sudden when he came back and mentioned the engagement.

He had met Jiang Jinsang before and thought the young man was decent enough. He wanted to observe him over time, but just after a few months away and with Elder Tang’s surgery concluded, his granddaughter’s marriage was settled. Things moved too quickly.

"I-..." Elder Tang was about to praise Jiang Jinsang, but Shen Elder cut him off.

"The surgery and illness were a serious matter, and we are grateful for the Jiang Family’s assistance. A drop of water should be reciprocated with a gushing spring, not to mention life-saving grace. In the old days, there was even the phrase ’pledging oneself in marriage’ in return for saving one’s life, but to betroth your granddaughter as repayment? What kind of reasoning is that?"

important thing is that Wanwan likes him. Otherwise, I couldn’t have made this decision. You know very well what

to look at Tang Wan, who was retrieving luggage from

slightly, and she remained

an elderly lady with severe rheumatism, which caused her legs to bend at the knees somewhat deformedly. Her skin was loosened, yet her inherent grace and composure could

and took her hand, "Why did you have to cook

at how thin you are..." The elderly

and tears. Why did all the elders

clothes before I come to help you." Coming back to the long-missed home felt

was

long as they

taken off her coat, ready to enter the kitchen, she couldn’t help but frown

off her coat and looked at

pulling her luggage toward the East

they put their heart into it, but it also depends on one’s talent. Some people, no

For instance...

Shen Shuci!

and play, she, being perhaps poorer in health compared to Shen Shuci, caught a cold and fever, and Shen

coat, put on an apron, and laid out

captured both strength and beauty with each sweep of the

Wan thought then, cooking porridge

But the outcome...

well, to put it

it came to cooking, Tang Wan was good for little more than assisting. If she put her hands to work properly, it

worst part, she herself thought the taste wasn’t too bad—that

lively enough when just he lived there, and she didn’t feel its emptiness. Now, returning alone, especially gazing upon the

the garden, she knocked the heavy snow from the branches and leaves, and suddenly, she was reminded of sunny days when Jiang Jinsang would be here, holding things to water or

in white, his smile warm and soothing, he cleared the

no one could surpass

like this with people. They aren’t accustomed to strangers entering their lives, but once they grow used to someone, their absence causes a foundational

her garden, but then

that moment, her

study desk, toying with the Lord Wansui, feeding it dried shrimp, as his

by nature, are slow-moving creatures, agitated and flustered by