The next day.
Early in the morning.
An Nuan had just gotten out of bed and was still sitting on the toilet when she received a phone call from Xia Qiqi.
The other end was very excited, "Nuan Nuan, have you seen today's news?"
"..." She was just about to take a look.
"Gu Yan Sheng from your family and Ye Jinghuai from your family are both trending!"
"Who said Gu Yan Sheng is from my family!" An Nuan said unhappily.
"So that means Ye Jinghuai is?" Xia Qiqi teased.
"Xia Qiqi!" An Nuan was really speechless to Xia Qiqi.
Xia Qiqi laughed exaggeratedly, "Anyway, just take a look at the news. I think... it's quite interesting."
After saying that, she hung up the phone.
An Nuan didn't actually need to look to know what the media would write.
Mostly it would be a barrage of commentary on Ye Jinghuai and Gu Yan Sheng!
Sure enough.
An Nuan looked at the hot search charts on major websites.
#Donating hundreds of millions at charity banquet, Ye Jinghuai spends lavishly to lead the pack#
#Not worth the love? Gu Yan Sheng unwilling to spend a fortune to marry An Nuan#
#Ye San Shao still spends lavishly, gifting 30 million gemstone on the spot#
For the first time, Ye Jinghuai made it onto the hot search not because of gossip news about him. This time he even made it to headlines of finance, society and other mainstream media, with mixed reviews.
And it was also Gu Yan Sheng's first time being mocked and denigrated.
When Gu Yan Sheng saw the news, his face turned dark!
In the past, he had always received endless praise. This time the media picked on him, saying he was stingy, saying he didn't love An Nuan enough, saying he wasn't as perfect as portrayed by the outside world, and even dragged in the Gu family's financial situation, saying the Gu family was now facing cash flow issues.
There were indeed issues, which was why he was so eager to marry into the An family as soon as possible, to get the An family to provide unconditional financing. But he didn't expect that at this critical juncture, because of that spendthrift Ye Jinghuai, he almost ruined big things for him.
What made him even angrier was that as soon as the stock market opened, Gu's stocks plunged down to limit down! In order to stabilize the stock market, Gu's had to mobilize huge amounts of funds for price support, which was undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire for Gu's.
Gu Yan Sheng was so angry that his whole body was shaking, but he kept telling himself to calm down!
The most important thing now was to marry An Nuan first.
The An family, as the 2nd richest of the 4 great families in Northern Wenguo, second only to the Ye family, if he could gain control of the An family, with the financial power of the An and Gu families combined, he could directly suppress the Ye family. Ye Jinghuai wouldn't be able to make any more waves!
Of course, once he takes over the An family, he would also have the capital to walk the path of top-class families.
Thinking of this, Gu Yan Sheng's mouth curved into a sinister smile.
The humiliation he suffered today, he would definitely pay it back double!
...
An Family.
An Nuan looked at the hot search news quite interestedly.
Xia Qiqi called again, "Did you see it?"
"I saw it." An Nuan replied. "By the way, why are you so excited?"
"I'm excited for you!" Xia Qiqi said it matter-of-factly, "Previously I felt your taste in men was no good, and was going to try persuading you. But now I suddenly feel like Big Sister Nuan has such discerning eyes, to be able to see the bright spot in a scum like Ye Jinghuai."
She didn't even know if Xia Qiqi was praising her.
She said, "Ye Jinghuai and I aren't what you think."
"Then what is it?" Xia Qiqi was very interested.
"You'll know in the future."
"You're keeping secrets from me now? An Nuan, you've changed!" Xia Qiqi complained.
That's right.
Changed.
Became someone who avenges grievances!
"Oh right." Xia Qiqi suddenly thought of something. "Xiao Nanchen came back."
"Is that so?" An Nuan acknowledged.
Her impression was that it was these few days.
She couldn't remember the exact details.
"He came back without a sound last night, gave me a shock. The key thing is..." Xia Qiqi stopped herself from saying it out.
An Nuan was instead a little interested.
"Anyway, he definitely came back with malicious intent, he must be here to snatch my family assets!" Xia Qiqi asserted, "I will absolutely not let him succeed."
An Nuan really wanted to tell her.
The one trying to snatch the family assets wasn't her half-brother, but... the person she had always been infatuated with.
But she felt that Xia Qiqi needed time to believe her.
"Since you don't want Xiao Nanchen to snatch your family assets, why don't you go work in the company and gain control of it yourself, that solves the problem right?"
"Uh..." Xia Qiqi didn't answer.
Clearly she just wanted to play around, and had no intention of going to work at all.
She stammered, "Isn't Ziming still around? He can help prop up our family!"
Xia Qiqi was just like her back then.
Just as naive as her.
She said, "Anyway, think about my suggestion carefully. I have to go, grandma is calling me."
Indeed there was an incoming call.
"What good things could grandma want with you?!" Xia Qiqi said unhappily.
Indeed no good things.
That's why she needed to take time to properly deal with these people!
An Nuan hung up on Xia Qiqi and answered Wen Qing Cui's call.
"Grandma..."
"Who were you talking to, ignoring my call for so long! Just like your dad, no respect!" The other end was clearly very unhappy.
An Nuan endured it for a moment holding her phone.
Because of the severe son preference beliefs, her grandma never liked her, always doting on her cousin An Hao, the eldest son of her big uncle's family. Over the years, she and her dad, like her dad, had always yielded to her grandma.
But reborn once,
she didn't plan to be so oppressed anymore, not one bit.
She said, "What did you call me for, grandma?"
"Come back to the old house!" After saying that, she slammed the phone down.
An Nuan's expression darkened.
She felt it was also time to give her grandma a bit of color to look at!
Otherwise she'd really think she was the empress dowager!
She put down her phone and quickly washed up, then went downstairs preparing to go out.
"Nuan Nuan, you haven't even had breakfast yet, where are you going?" Li Ya Ju quickly called for her daughter.
"Going to grandma's house."
"What are you going there for?" Li Ya Ju was clearly a bit shocked.
She really feared this mother-in-law from the bottom of her heart.
Ever since marrying into the An family, she had never received the slightest bit of kindness from her mother-in-law, the reason being that Li Ya Ju was lowborn, which Wen Qing Cui looked down on. Fortunately An Nuan's grandfather really liked Li Ya Ju, so he agreed to their marriage.
After getting married, Li Ya Ju avoided Wen Qing Cui whenever she could.
Now hearing her daughter was going back, she naturally really didn't want her to.
"Grandma said she has something to discuss with me."
"What is it about?"
"Didn't say."
Li Ya Ju didn't dare to really defy Wen Qing Cui on anything these years, so of course she wouldn't stop her daughter from going. She thought for a bit, "I'll go with you."
"You're worried grandma will bully me right?"
"When has she never bullied you." Li Ya Ju said unhappily.
"You going won't help either." An Nuan mercilessly pointed out the truth.
She was very clear that her mother definitely didn't want to provoke huge family conflicts, and would absolutely not defy her grandma.
"At least grandma won't scold only you with me there." This was the biggest protection Li Ya Ju could provide her.
An Nuan smiled.
Her mother really was so kind-hearted.
She said, "Let's go."
Let's go, let me show you how I'll help you deal with your vicious mother-in-law!
