After the divorce, my ex-husband's cousin tricked me into getting a marriage certificate.

Lin Mengchuan feigned surprise and asked Su Yani, "You want that teddy bear?"

Su Yani pouted and glared at him.

Lin Mengchuan: "You should have said so earlier. Why didn't you just ask the waiter? I thought you looked down on such cheap things, and I was afraid of embarrassing the waiter if I threw them away, so I just gave them away casually."

Su Yani was skeptical. "You really think so? You didn't intentionally give it to Qiao Ran?"

Lin Mengchuan: "It's my fault. I should have asked you a question before I dealt with it. I really didn't expect you to be interested in this kind of thing."

Su Yani raised an eyebrow. "The items are a bit cheap, but this is our first time traveling together, so I thought it would be good to keep them as a souvenir. It's not that I'm jealous of Qiao Ran."

Lin Mengchuan: "Why are you jealous of her? We broke up a long time ago."

Su Yani stared at Lin Mengchuan for a while, then said in a muffled voice, "Let's go, it might snow tonight, let's hurry back."

Lin Mengchuan watched Su Yani's retreating figure, a slight smile playing on his lips. He thought to himself that this woman was quite easy to fool.

As Su Yani walked, she asked, "When are you going to invite your mom and grandma so that our two families can have a meal together?"

Lin Mengchuan chimed in, "Is this really necessary? Isn't it a bit too much trouble?"

He dreads these kinds of family gatherings because the elders will definitely start nagging him endlessly.

Su Yani insisted, "Of course it's necessary. What family doesn't have the elders meet before the engagement?"

Lin Mengchuan: "No, aren't our two families quite familiar with each other?"

Su Yani: "Even if you're familiar with each other, you still have to meet. It's a procedure, and you can't skip any of the necessary steps."

Lin Mengchuan: "Okay, whatever you want. You can arrange it as you see fit. Just contact my mom directly and let me know when you've decided on the time and place. I'm only responsible for attending; don't expect me to take care of anything else."

Su Yani glanced at Lin Mengchuan out of the corner of her eye, "I know you're lazy, I don't expect you to make the arrangements, you just need to attend."

Lin Mengchuan smiled and said, "Thank you, you've worked hard."

Upon hearing this, Su Yani's lips curled up slightly, looking quite smug.

Inside the restaurant, Qiao Ran was initially quite happy to receive a teddy bear from a waiter.

Upon hearing that Lin Mengchuan had asked the waiter to give it to her, she immediately handed the doll back to the waiter.

The waiter stood there, holding the doll, at a loss for what to do.

Qi Muci glanced at the doll and replied to the waiter, "You can keep it and give it to other guests."

The waiter had no choice but to take it away.

Qi Mu'an scoffed, "This Lin Mengchuan is really different now that he's become the chairman. He's finally willing to treat us to a meal. I remember when we were kids, he was just like his mother, so stingy, always thinking about taking advantage of others."

Zhao Mengmeng exclaimed in surprise, "Rich people still take advantage of others?"

Qi Mu'an: "The mother and son are an exception. My aunt not only likes to take advantage of others, but she also wants everything. To sum it up in one idiom, she is insatiable."

"Some people are greedy because they are ingrained in their bones, not because of their upbringing. My aunt is a greedy person by nature. She wanted to put everything from her family into her own pocket."

"In the past, in order to get more money, she would often make up stories in front of her grandparents, saying that my mother bullied her. The worst thing was that she said my mother seduced her husband. In short, it was very immoral."

Zhao Mengmeng: "My god, she's so amazing!"

Qi Mu'an replied with a smile, "If I were to tell you about her extraordinary deeds, I could talk about them for three days and three nights."

Zhao Mengmeng grabbed Qi Mu'an's wrist, "Tell me quickly, I love this kind of gossip the most."

At this moment, Shen Qingzhu was in the bathroom of the presidential suite of a five-star hotel.

She had just changed into a black sheer slip dress, revealing a glimpse of what lay beneath.

Although she is over fifty years old, she still has a good figure, with a curvy figure and no excess fat around her waist.

She was very happy with her new sexy nightgown.

After examining herself in the mirror for a while, she let down her long hair and tucked it into her chest.

It added a touch of alluring charm.

After confirming that she was perfect, she opened the bathroom door, leaned against the door frame, looked at the man sitting on the bed looking at his phone, gave him a flirty wink, and asked, "Does this nightgown look good?"

The man raised an eyebrow, smiled, and held out his hand to her. "It's too far away, I can't see clearly. Come here and let me take a closer look."

Shen Qingzhu pouted coquettishly, "You're only in your fifties and you're already getting presbyopia?"

The man squinted at her. "Is it because the light is too dim? What, are you worried that I'm too old to satisfy you?"

Shen Qingzhu walked over and sat down. "I'm not afraid at all. If you can't take it anymore, then I'll find a young puppy."

"You dare!" The man trapped her. "If you dare to betray me, I will definitely kill you, just like I killed your husband."

Shen Qingzhu glared at the man and patted his shoulder. "Be careful, walls have ears. By the way, have you taken care of that migrant worker's family? Are they tight-lipped? They won't give us away, will they?"

The man kissed her shoulder. "Don't worry, everything's taken care of. Okay, stop talking. Aren't you going back tonight? Hurry up, I've been holding back for almost a month. You're such a heartless woman."

Shen Qingzhu hooked her arms around the man's neck. "So, that's why I risked everything to come find you, isn't it?"

The man's smile deepened, and he lowered his head...

Twenty minutes later.

Shen Qingzhu sat on the bed smoking. She took a drag and looked at the man lying on the other side. "I'll go find you some traditional Chinese medicine to help you recover. It's been so long since we last met, how come it's over so quickly?"

"Could it be that you've been focusing all your energy on your wife?"

The man denied it: "I haven't touched her for a year. I've been too tired lately. Your husband passed away, and I handled most of the funeral arrangements. Then your son took office. How could I not be tired?"

Shen Qingzhu pouted, "Don't make it sound like you're doing this all for me. You're doing this for yourself and your precious daughter, Su Wenshan. After your daughter marries my son, will we still be able to see each other?"

Su Wenshan turned to look at Shen Qingzhu, "What? You really dislike me? Okay, find me some Chinese medicine to help me recover."

Shen Qingzhu: "That's not what I meant. I'm afraid... afraid that if we meet secretly like this, the two children will find out."

Su Wenshan: "What are you afraid of? We've been meeting secretly like this for years. Even your husband hasn't found out. Do you think your stupid son is smarter than your husband? There's no way he'll find out."

Shen Qingzhu took a drag of her cigarette, paused for a moment, and said, "There's another person who also makes me feel quite uncomfortable."

Su Wenshan: "Are you talking about your mother-in-law?"

Shen Qingzhu nodded. "That old fox has been keeping a close eye on me lately. Every time I go out, she asks me where I'm going. When I went out tonight, she asked me, and I told her I had made plans to have dinner with my girlfriends."

"She didn't seem to believe me, and the way she looked at me was strange. I suspected that she might have noticed something."

Su Wenshan: "So it's right to get Meng Chuan and Ya Ni engaged as soon as possible. If they get married, no one will suspect that there's anything wrong between us. I hope Ya Ni can win Meng Chuan over tonight."