"COUGH. COUGH. Mom, please stop talking!" Li Yuan quickly interrupted his mother’s nagging. He spread his hands helplessly and winked at Zhong Tingyue. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

See? That’s just how much she likes to go on and on.

Zhong Tingyue snickered, then realized it wasn’t appropriate and hurriedly composed herself. She simply smiled faintly, her eyes twinkling as she glanced at Li Yuan and spoke up for him.

"Auntie, Li Yuan is really amazing!"

Hearing her future daughter-in-law praise her son, Xia Qin felt secretly pleased. However, she said the opposite of what she was thinking.

"Don’t keep praising him. If you do, he’ll get so full of himself he’ll think he can fly!"

Although Xia Qin said this, Zhong Tingyue saw the pride in her future mother-in-law’s eyes. It was pride in her own son.

She certainly has a reason to be proud!

Li Yuan muttered playfully, continuing to lighten the mood, "Mom, I haven’t grown wings. Where could I possibly fly off to? Besides, no matter how amazing a son is, that just means you did a great job raising him, right, Little Moon?"

Zhong Tingyue pursed her lips into a light laugh, her eyes crinkling with a smile as she nodded repeatedly. "That’s right! It’s all because you raised Li Yuan so well, Auntie, making him so talented. I truly admire you for that."

As she was praised by her future daughter-in-law over and over again about her precious son, the wrinkles on Xia Qin’s face seemed to smooth out. Her heart bloomed with happiness, and she said emotionally, "My dear, I won’t lie to you. Your Uncle Li and I weren’t around much to raise Yuan when he was young. Our family was poor, so we had to leave home early to find work. By the time Yuan was eight or nine, we were already working as migrant laborers, so we were barely involved in his studies...

"Fortunately, Yuan was a promising kid. He didn’t let all the hard work your Uncle Li and I put into sending him to school go to waste..."

Li Yuan and Zhong Tingyue walked on either side of Xia Qin, chatting as they approached a BMW X6 parked by the road.

Li Yuan took the initiative to open the rear door. "Mom, get in. Let’s go have dinner."

Xia Qin didn’t know that Li Yuan had bought a car. Although his younger sister, Li Zixia, knew about it, she considered it a minor detail and hadn’t mentioned it to her mother.

"Yuan, is this your car?"

Li Yuan smiled and replied, "Yeah, I bought a car for convenience."

Xia Qin nodded and got into the car. Looking at the spacious interior and all its features, she couldn’t help but ask curiously, "Yuan, this car has a lot of space. It must have cost a lot, right?"

Li Yuan laughed. "Oh, around eight or nine hundred thousand. Not too expensive!"

When Xia Qin heard the price, she was taken aback, her voice trembling. "Yuan, why did you buy such an expensive car? Even if you have money, you shouldn’t waste it like that! A regular car for two or three hundred thousand would have been perfectly fine."

Just then, Zhong Tingyue opened the passenger door and slid into her seat, just in time to hear the comment. Her heart skipped a beat, and she glanced at Li Yuan with concern.

This man just bought me a Porsche sports car worth over 1.8 million a few days ago. What would Auntie Xia Qin think of me if she found out?

Worry cast a shadow over her heart.

Li Yuan coughed again and spoke in a helpless tone, "COUGH. COUGH. Mom, money is meant to be spent. Just don’t worry about it. By the way, Tingyue knew you were coming and bought you a gift."

After speaking, Li Yuan winked at Zhong Tingyue, signaling for her to present the gift.

Flustered, Zhong Tingyue quickly retrieved the gold bracelet she had painstakingly selected at Chow Tai Fook.

With a nervous expression, she handed the gift to Xia Qin.

"Auntie, this is a gift from me. I hope you like it."

...

(Thank you to Lazy Sheep’s little brother for the reward of 6,276 coins, to He Who Deplores The Wind And Sorrow Alone for 510 coins, to Tianshan Swordsman for 1,000 coins, and to the other generous donors... I bow to you.)