Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 569 Keeping a Canary in Captivity (48)

"Have you lost weight? I didn't notice." Yan Zhen's voice rose slightly at the end, carrying a hint of schadenfreude.

But seeing Yan's mother staring longingly at the alley entrance, her eyes red, Yan Zhen couldn't bear to let this elderly woman, who was over sixty, suffer so much.

He comforted her, saying, "He's just gotten stronger. Before, he would sit at home all day doing dolls, and wouldn't go out for ten days or half a month. He was all flabby from not exercising. Now that he's out there earning his own living, he's much more energetic. Didn't you see how brightly he was smiling just now?"

Yan's mother asked doubtfully, "Really?"

"Really," Yan Zhen said confidently.

Yan's mother recalled the smile on her son's face just now, and he did look happier than when he was at home.

She hesitated and said, "Your dad is so heartless, he even canceled Xiaoheng's cards. I don't know if he has any money left to spend... How about we give him some cash?"

“Take it if you want,” Yan Zhen said. “Whether Xiao Heng is willing to take it or not is one thing, but if Dad finds out, he’ll complain about you again. I’m not going to do something that’s difficult and pleases neither side.”

Yan's mother also became conflicted.

"Mom, don't worry," Yan Zhen advised. "Xiao Heng is a grown man, how could he starve to death? If things really get too tough, he'll come home. He's just not smart, but he's not brainless."

Yan's mother: "..."

In the end, Yan's mother gave up the idea of ​​giving Yan Heng cash and left reluctantly.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Yan family is holding a family banquet tonight. Several uncles and aunts with whom they have a close relationship will come over for dinner.

When Yan Zhen and her mother returned home, relatives had already begun to arrive, including Yan Jing.

The relatives mainly came to visit Grandma Yan, and most of them gathered in Grandma Yan's room to talk to her.

Grandma Yan wore a modified Tang suit today. Although she was not clear-headed due to illness and could not recognize most of the people who came to visit her, the old lady loved the company of others and was happy to see many younger people surrounding her and calling her "Grandma".

Overjoyed, she had a jewelry box brought over and distributed jewelry to the four or five younger relatives surrounding her, as if handing out candy.

Yan Jing received a glass-type jadeite bracelet. She excitedly put it on, ran up to Yan Zhen, shook her arm, and asked, "Auntie, is it pretty?"

Yan Zhen smiled and said, "It looks good."

Yan Jing was admiring the jewelry she had acquired when she suddenly felt something lick her calf. She screamed in fright and almost jumped up.

Yan Zhen subconsciously put his arm around her shoulder and pulled her into his arms. Only then did he realize that the dog that had been licking Yan Jing's calf was a white bull terrier.

The bull terrier has white fur all over its body, a black nose, and small eyes. It is being led by a boy who is about seven or eight years old.

Seeing that Yan Jing had been frightened by the success, the boy laughed gleefully.

Yan Zhen frowned.

She recognized the boy; his name was Yan Bo, and he was her uncle's youngest son.

When my uncle was almost fifty, he abandoned his wife and children and started a May-December romance with a young woman thirty years his junior. He had his precious son Yanbo when he was fifty-two.

Having a son late in life, the uncle spoiled Yan Bo rotten. The boy caused trouble every few days, and recently he even brought a bull terrier to school, which bit a classmate.

The classmate who was bitten has connections in his family, and his uncle couldn't handle it, so he asked Yan's father for help to smooth things over. It took quite a bit of effort to suppress the matter.

Yan Bo still dares to lead this bull terrier around everywhere.

Yan Zhen frowned, worried that the bull terrier staying in Grandma Yan's room would frighten the old lady, so she immediately called the bodyguards to "invite" Yan Bo out and locked the bull terrier in the backyard.

When Yan Bo was carried out with the bull terrier, he screamed and struggled like a fish thrown ashore.

As night fell, the banquet began. The guests and hosts took their seats at the long dining table. Yan Zhen's seat was with Gao Xinyu to his left and Gao Shenghan to his right.

Gao Shenghan was dressed very formally today, and his hair was styled, but even with makeup, he couldn't hide the fatigue in his eyes.

During the meal, Gao Shenghan peeled shrimp and served food to Yan Zhen several times.

Yan Zhen didn't touch the food he put on her plate.

After dinner, the men drank tea and chatted, the women played cards, and the younger children either gathered together to play games or ran outside to the lawn to play with sparklers.

Yan Zhen received instructions from her mother, who said that guests would be staying at her house tonight, and asked her to arrange for the housekeeper to clean up the guest room on the third floor.

Everyone was busy with their own things. Gao Shenghan leaned against the second-floor balcony, a cigarette between his fingers, puffing out smoke while staring at Gao Xinyu playing with sparklers on the lawn below with an ambiguous look in his eyes.

After a long while, he looked away, glanced at his phone screen, and his gaze lingered on the message in Yan Fei's chat box: "If you don't get the money by noon tomorrow, you will bear the consequences."

Thinking about what he was about to do, his heart pounded harder and harder.

Yan Zhen refused to help him, and her parents, who usually claimed to treat her like a son, turned a blind eye to their daughter's infidelity.

Since that's the case, then don't blame him for exposing Yan Zhen's dirty deeds on this joyous and festive day, letting Yan's relatives see how disgusting it is that this family ganged up on him, an outsider.

Putting away his phone, Gao Shenghan stubbed out his cigarette, took a deep breath, and went downstairs toward the group of children who were playing.

When they got downstairs, Gao Shenghan offered to take photos for the children.

But after taking a few pictures, his phone "ran out of battery".

"Xiaoyu, go get Mom's phone," Gao Shenghan said. "Let's take lots of pictures tonight. You won't see your older brothers and sisters again until Chinese New Year."

Gao Xinyu, without suspecting anything, quickly ran up to the third floor and asked Yan Zhen for his phone.

Before long, Yan Zhen's phone was in Gao Shenghan's hands.

After taking photos of the children, Gao Shenghan took his phone and went to the restroom.

Sitting on the toilet, Gao Shenghan opened Yan Zhen's phone, tapped on WeChat, and quickly found a friend whose WeChat nickname was "X".

He scrolled up through the chat boxes, and to his surprise, Xiao Yun and Yan Zhen didn't have much contact on a daily basis, nor were they as clingy as he had imagined, and there were no mushy terms of endearment like "baby" or "darling".

The daily interactions in the chat box were rather bland.

Looking at the dialog box, Gao Shenghan felt a subtle balance in his heart.

So Yan Zhen's attitude towards Xiao Yun was also so cold.

But considering that Yan Zhen only sought out the younger Xiao Yun because she felt he couldn't bring her pleasure in bed, and that their online interactions were rather bland, she didn't know how things would ignite if they met in person...

Gao Shenghan's mind was filled with images of Xiao Yun pinning Yan Zhen to the bed, and he was immediately enraged by his own actions.

Shaking his head, Gao Shenghan banished those disgusting images from his mind, took out his phone, pulled out a pre-recorded audio clip, and then used Yan Zhen's WeChat to make a video call to Xiao Yun.