sbdcsierra Chapter 258 Such a cheesy, rotten taste of love~
Chapter 258 Such a cheesy, rotten taste of love~
Liang Liangwei paused in her act of tucking a strand of hair.
As expected, her mother saw her having dinner with Shen Zhengming, and she became suspicious.
She smiled and said, "A friend."
Yan Bei'an: "You have so many male...friends?"
Liang Liangwei: "When you have a lot of friends, you'll naturally have both men and women. Aren't you one of them?"
Yan Bei'an felt a little uncomfortable: "My uncle isn't around, and you only had one male friend yesterday and another male friend today. You'd better be careful he doesn't find out, otherwise... hehe!"
Liang Liangwei glanced at him, finding the sneer on his lips particularly offensive.
I put down my chopsticks, picked up my phone, opened WeChat, and prepared to take a picture of him.
Yan Bei'an was startled and quickly raised his hand to cover his face: "What...what are you doing?"
Liang Liangwei smiled at him: "To avoid him misunderstanding, I'll let him know which male friend I had dinner with today~"
Yan Bei'an's expression changed: "Then don't take pictures or videos. I'll say hello to my uncle!"
Liang Liangwei laughed and actually changed the subject to filming a video: "Alright, what are your last words? Go ahead!"
Yan Beian sat upright and spoke dryly into the camera: "Uncle, this is Beian. How have you been these past few days over there? I... I miss you very much..."
Liang Liangwei burst out laughing: "Let's talk about something else."
Yan Bei'an gave her a mournful look, then said to the camera, "Uncle, I remember your instructions and I can't eat alone with Weiwei... uh, Liang Liangwei, but she insisted on dragging me here today. You can scold her... no, you definitely won't be able to bear to scold her, so please don't be angry."
Liang Liangwei glared at him and coughed heavily as a reminder.
Yan Beian then obediently said, "Uncle, please give my regards to your maternal grandparents and your aunt."
Liang Liangwei was stunned for a moment, and her hand inadvertently loosened, stopping the video recording.
She asked Yan Bei'an in surprise, "Your uncle's maternal grandparents and aunt?"
Yan Bei'an was drinking a beverage to calm his nerves when he heard this, and nodded: "Yes, what's wrong?"
Liang Liangwei tried to sort out the relationships and said, "His maternal grandparents are your great-grandparents, aren't they? And his aunt is your father's great-aunt, isn't she? Why do you call them that so formally?"
Yan Bei'an was also stunned, looking at her in surprise: "Didn't your uncle tell you?"
Liang Liangwei: "What did you say?"
Yan Bei'an: "He talked about his relationship with our family."
Liang Liangwei looked blank: "He didn't say."
Yan Bei'an put down his drink and said, "This isn't really a secret; it's all public knowledge. I can tell you without worry."
"My uncle isn't actually my biological uncle; he's my cousin. His father was my grandfather's brother, but he was much younger than my grandfather. Twenty years ago, he and his wife were on a plane to visit relatives in the United States when the plane crashed... and that was the end of them."
He paused for a moment before continuing, "My uncle was only 10 years old then, but he was very independent. His parents were usually very busy, and for that family visit plan, my uncle volunteered to go there first and wait for his parents to come so they could reunite. He made it there successfully, but unexpectedly, his parents..."
"Later, my grandfather brought him back from abroad and adopted him. He went from being my cousin to my uncle."
"After graduating from university, he decided to study abroad and also took over his grandfather's company. He has been developing his career there ever since, and he comes back to China about once or twice a year."
Liang Liangwei was completely stunned.
So this is ah.
He wasn't a direct relative of the Yan family, which explained the large age difference between him and Yan Beian's father. She had always assumed he was a son born to Yan's grandfather late in life, as such things are quite common.
No wonder he said he was in America with his "family." She wondered what other family members the Yan family had there, and she had never heard Yan Bei'an mention it.
Seeing her stunned expression, Yan Bei'an assumed she was bothered that Yan Zhixu hadn't told her, and said, "Your uncle probably didn't tell you because... he didn't have a chance to say it. He can't just tell everyone that he and his brother and nephew aren't related, can he..."
Liang Liangwei came to her senses and said, "I don't care about that, I'm just a little surprised."
Yan Bei'an: "People who don't know the situation will indeed think that way when they first hear about it."
Liang Liangwei: "He was only 10 years old back then?"
Yan Beian: "Yeah, I haven't even graduated from elementary school yet."
So pitiful, losing his parents at such a young age.
She lowered her head, watching the short video she had just recorded for Yan Bei'an playing on her phone.
Yan Bei'an followed her gaze, his eyes filled with complex emotions: "Why don't we just delete it? Don't post it anymore, just pretend it never happened."
Liang Liangwei disagreed: "What's there to be afraid of? We're having a meal together openly and honestly as friends. If we don't tell him, wouldn't it make us seem like we're hiding something from him? Wouldn't that make us look guilty?"
She clicked send.
Yan Bei'an's eye twitched.
Liang Liangwei sent Yan Zhixu another voice message: "I was shopping at the mall and happened to run into Yan Bei'an eating here, so we had hot pot together. We both miss you, so we made a video to say hello~"
He sent another message: 【Don't reply, because you're sleeping~】
Yan Bei'an's eye twitched again.
The taste of love is so cheesy and sour!
Liang Liangwei put down her phone and continued cooking the meat in the hot pot.
This time it was much quieter. Yan Bei'an glanced at her a few times and saw that she seemed to be deep in thought, not knowing what she was thinking.
Towards the end of the meal, Liang Liangwei put down her chopsticks and slowly drank a beverage to cleanse her palate.
Thinking of something, he asked, "By the way, how is Fang Xun's injury?"
Yan Bei paused for a moment, his expression somewhat stiff, and said, "Alright, let's go back to school."
Liang Liangwei: "The recovery is quite fast. What about the perpetrator? Has he been caught?"
Yan Bei'an nodded: "We caught them. It's the person Fang Xun knows—the same group of people you met at the entrance of the Western restaurant."
Liang Liangwei was taken aback: "What do you mean?"
Yan Beian said in a deep voice, "They deliberately hit Fang Xun with their intention of swindling money from me. They knew where Fang Xun lived, so they hit him when he went out and then lied that a passerby had brought him to the hospital. They wanted to swindle money from me after they saw me, but they failed."
Liang Liangwei was shocked: "Does Fang Xun know about this?"
Yan Beian paused for a moment, then said, "He didn't know about the car crash plan, but he... was also involved in the scheme to swindle money from me."
Liang Liangwei was confused: "He's an accomplice?"
Yan Bei'an: "He wasn't an accomplice in the car accident, but he was the one who told those people that I had money, and..."
He hesitated to speak, but still said in a low voice, "He's been with me for the past six months, and all he's done is for my money. He's been spending all the pocket money I give him with that group of people..."