Volume 2: The Tide Begins Chapter 50

  Shen Jin took one look at the scene and knew what was going on. He hastily turned to Ye Ningxuan, but was startled. In his arms, which always kept a distance of three feet or more from any woman, was actually a little girl. Looking again at the little girl, the two really did have a husband-and-wife aura about them - both had an otherworldly beauty, similar ethereal elegance, and were as calm and detached as immortals.

  "Shen Jie, since you've run into a friend, I'll head back first." The woman was startled by Ye Ningxuan's chilly tone and hastily made an excuse to leave with her daughter.

  "Alright, Brother Chen, I'll go settle my daughter-in-law first. We can chat slowly when we eat later." Shen Qin said to Yun Xi after the two women left.

  Yun Qingran's mouth slightly curled up as she glanced at Ye Ningxuan, who had just lowered her voice to a whisper. She knew exactly who the woman in front of her was, and the whispered words were like a secret shared between them. Ye Ningxuan also wanted to see how her mother would react, so she didn't stop her either.

  "Little friend, tell Auntie what your name is, okay?" Shen Qian came in front of Yun Qingran with a tone as if she was coaxing Little Red Riding Hood's wolf grandmother. She seemed to have forgotten that someone who could be similar to her son would be so easy to deceive.

  "Auntie, I'm Yun Qingran." Yun Qingran lifted her innocent face and cooperated very obediently, allowing Shen Qin to continue deceiving.

  "What's your surname?" This question flashed through Shen Jin's mind and was immediately cast aside, as she continued to coax in a soft voice: "Do you like being hugged by your brother?"

  "I like it." Yun Qingran nodded slightly, still looking serious.

  "You see, brother has hugged you, a little girl, so you should be responsible for brother, right?"

  Yun gently lowered her head, hiding the smile in her eyes: "Right. But how should I take responsibility?"

  "You're going to be my brother's wife." He finally stated his intention.

  Chen Chen and Yun Xi were stunned in the back, Shen Qin was actually deceiving her own son into marrying a wife, and it was their own daughter. When did their own daughter become so easily deceived?

  "Uh..." Yun Xi was so shocked that he didn't know what to say: "Qin sister, that's my daughter..."

  Upon hearing this, Shen Qin's face stiffened and she bellowed at Ye Ningxuan: "You stinky brat, you knew that was your Cloud Aunt's daughter and didn't even tell me."

  "You didn't ask." Ye Ningxuan's light and airy sentence made Shen Qīn furious, "I had already decided that she would be your daughter-in-law, otherwise why would I let Dad come over here?"

  "Calm down, calm down!" Shen Jin muttered to herself until she felt calm before turning around to face Chen Cheng and Yun Xi: "Brother Chen, Xi Xi, let's go eat, we can talk while we eat." Then, in a gentle voice, with the most loving smile, she looked at Yun Qing Ran: "Pretty little sister, come play at Auntie's house more often!"

  Facing this very charismatic aunt, Yun Qingran had a good impression of her, and also because she was Ye Ningxuan's mother. She slightly curled up the corners of her mouth: "Aunt Shen, I will."

  Shen Qin got a definite answer, smiled and led Yun Xi out of the coffee shop first. As a model husband, Chen Chen naturally followed closely behind, and when he turned his head, he saw Ye Ning Xuan still holding Yun Qing Ran, saying: "Little Xuan, put your sister down and let her walk by herself."

  Yening Xuan looked at Yun Qingran with a gentle smile: "It's okay, Uncle Chen. I'll put you down when I can't hold on anymore."

  Yun Xi stopped and turned around to see Ye Ningxuan looking at Yun Qingran with a doting expression, and couldn't help but mutter to herself: Does this child really treat his own daughter as his wife?

  In 1993, business was just beginning to take off, and there were not many restaurants or hotels outside. Shen Qin, who had just arrived in C City, didn't know any of this, so after searching for a while without finding anything suitable, Chen Chen took everyone to a private restaurant they often went to when discussing business.

  "This time, there were three places for my husband to choose from, Xiaoxuan suggested coming to C city, I thought it would be good to come back this way and find you all too, so I also agreed on choosing here." Shen Qian explained the reason why she ended up in this place.

  They had just ordered food, and the three adults were chatting, leaving Yun Qingran and Ye Ningxuan to one side, with Ye Ningxuan taking care of Yun Qingran. Both of them held a cup of orange juice in their hands, which was naturally secretly exchanged by Yun Qingran from her space. They sat here listening to the adults chat.

  "What about you? Are you also following the trend?" It was supposed to be a conversation among three adults, but in reality, it was mainly Yun Xi and Shen Chen talking, with Chen Cen occasionally adding some supplementary remarks.

  "En, I've just been transferred to the Education Bureau too." Shen Qin nodded, "Let's discuss the specifics with Uncle Yun later. By the way, how is Ranran related to you? Is there another child? And didn't Liang Huatian come?" She still knew about the engagement between the Yun and Liang families.

  "No, the child is mine and has nothing to do with him." Yun Xi shook her head, "I'm already divorced from him, I'm now with A Cheng."

  Shen Qin stopped her chopsticks in surprise and looked at Yun Xi carefully until she confirmed that she didn't have any sadness before continuing to ask: "So, Ran..."

  The words were not finished, but Yun Xi already knew what she was going to ask. Yun Qingran, who was listening on the side, didn't wait for Yun Xi's explanation and said seriously: "My dad is here. That kind of person doesn't even qualify as my father."

  "That's right. That kind of person doesn't deserve it. In the future, you'll still have your uncle and aunt, as well as your brother to accompany you." Shen Qin repeatedly nodded in agreement, looking at Yun Qingran with shining eyes, almost drooling. How cute!

  "But...” Suddenly, Yun Qingran's face rose with a strange smile, the immortal's demeanor was tainted with evil, and in an instant, he transformed into a bewitching demon: "The Liang family owes my Yun family, I will get it back bit by bit, with interest."

  The sentence carried a chill that suddenly lowered the temperature in the room. Thinking of Yun's family's tragic fate in their past life, Yun Qingyan felt a destructive impulse in her heart. However, it was almost time, and soon they would experience the feeling of hurting themselves by carrying stones to hit their own feet.

  The change in the room was only for a moment, and except for Ye Ningxuan, the other three people just thought it was an illusion. Ye Ningxuan had already hugged Yun Qingran to comfort her when he sensed her emotions. He wasn't clear about what happened to her before meeting him, but through words, he could guess the reason. How dare anyone hurt his treasure! A cold glint flashed in Ye Ningxuan's eyes, and he immediately regained his calm.

  "Wu wu……" The sudden sobbing sound startled everyone, except for Ye Ningxuan, who was still calmly holding Yun Qingran with an unchanged gaze. Everyone else turned to Shen Chen: "Xi Xi, your daughter is too good. Can you share half of her with me?"

  "This... " Divide it in half? How to divide it? Yun Xi was stunned.

  "I've always wanted a lovely daughter who dresses up beautifully every day, but unexpectedly, when she was born, it was a stinky little boy. When he was young, I let him wear a skirt, but he refused to wear it. My sister's husband and I are both government employees, so we can't have another child." Shen Qin's pitiful crying made Yun Xi and Chen Cen glance at Ye Ning Xuan with strange eyes, Ye Ning Xuan's mouth twitched, only Yun Qing Ran laughed boldly at him, but Ye Ning Xuan was helpless against her.

  Looking at Shen Chen's wronged expression, Yun Xi didn't know what to say either, and could only imagine the little Ye Ningxuan wearing a dress. However, judging from his current handsome appearance, if he had worn girls' clothes when he was young, he would have been even more beautiful than real girls. Yun Xi shook his head and threw out the image of Ye Ningxuan in a dress from his mind, but how could this child be explained? In the end, it was Chen Cen who probably understood Shen Chen's meaning: "You want Ranran to be your goddaughter?"

  "Uh-huh." Shen Qin hastily nodded: "You give me half of your daughter, and I'll send our son to you."

  Upon hearing this, the four people present broke out in a cold sweat. Yun Qingran looked at Ye Ningxuan with pitiful eyes, poor child, abandoned just for one... no, half of a daughter.

  Ye Ningxuan's index finger tapped lightly on Yun Qingran's forehead, looking at her with satisfaction as she shrunk her head, exchanging a glance: It was because of whom that I was exchanged out so cheaply.

  "Otherwise, you'll take Ranan as your goddaughter and we'll take Xiaoxuan as our godson. Now everyone has both sons and daughters." Chen Chen still had a black face, turned his head to ask the children's opinions: "Xiaoxuan, Ranan, do you agree?"

  Ye Ningxuan and Yun Qingran nodded at the same time, then looked at each other. Seeing that there were no more opinions on this side, the matter was temporarily settled like this.

  "Xiao Jin, go back and discuss with your brother-in-law. If you agree, we'll make time to go to Dad's place for dinner that day and hold a recognition banquet at the same time."

  Shen Qin nodded: "Don't worry, he won't dare disagree. We'll all go back and ask, to see which day everyone is free." At home, Dad was just a henpecked husband, as long as his wife said it was right.

  The dinner was unusually lively, and the mother who had a daughter that night stuck her eyes on Yun Qingran's body, and with Ye Ningxuan carefully taking care of the actions of picking dishes and wiping his mouth, it became brighter and brighter. Such a lovely child is about to become a member of their family.

  Yun Mama was also watching Ye Ningxuan's gaze getting brighter and brighter, from the initial joy of having such an excellent son to later looking at her daughter-in-law with increasing fondness. Only Chen Cheng was left there struggling, his own beautiful and lovely little daughter was already being coveted by someone so young, and that person happened to be his own godson. Ah!

  After dinner, everyone had to go home. When getting on the car, Shen Qin still looked at Yun Qingran with a lingering gaze, almost making Yun Qingran follow her home.

  Shen Jin returned home and saw that her father was already sitting on the sofa. She immediately took off her shoes and rushed over: "Husband, I saw a little girl today who is even more beautiful than our son, and I successfully kidnapped her to be our daughter."

  Watching the night mother rush over, the night father quickly caught up and raised an eyebrow: "Oh, what's going on."

  Shen Jin suddenly became excited: "Do you know? I went to the mall today and then to a coffee shop, and I actually saw this stinky brat hugging a little girl."

  When Shen Jin said this, Ye Dad couldn't believe it and looked at his own son and asked: "Did that little brat really hold a little girl?"

  When he was born, the relatives at home could still hold him, but only males were allowed to do so. Among females, except for his grandmother and mother, others would struggle to hold him, and if they couldn't, he would cry loudly without shedding a single tear. As he grew older, he became even more averse to being close to people. Even with close relatives, if a female approached within three feet of him, she would receive a warning, and if she didn't listen, the consequences would be severe.

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