To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

It melts in your mouth, sweet but not cloying, and the fluffy and dense texture of the pancake makes you want to swallow the whole thing in one bite.

"This is so delicious!" Wu Tianjiao looked at Lin Qingping with dissatisfaction. "Why didn't you send me some of this delicious food?"

Lin Qingping laughed, teasing her on purpose, "You'll get fat from eating!" Wu Tianjiao had said the last time they met that she needed to control her weight, otherwise she wouldn't be able to wear the beautiful clothes Lin Qingping designed.

"I'll eat even if it makes me fat!" Wu Tianjiao glared at her.

Standing on the stairs, Liu Yan's eyes turned red with anger. She had been trying to befriend Wu Tianjiao and had even ordered a particularly high-end dessert from a Western restaurant, but a country woman had easily snatched it away with those cheap country treats!

She also harbored resentment towards Wu Tianjiao. What high-ranking official family? She was nothing but a country bumpkin who had never seen the world and couldn't even look away from such trivial things.

Unfortunately, Yun Xiaoshan was also struggling in her grasp.

The pancakes look soft and bouncy, topped with fruit and cream. Even adults find them appetizing, so how could children resist?

Yun Xiaoshan struggled a few times but couldn't break free from his mother's grasp, and then burst into tears.

Yun Yan then noticed the mother and son, and immediately understood what was going on between them.

In front of outsiders, he didn't say much. He smiled and walked over, picked up Yun Xiaoshan, and brought him to the middle of everyone so that he could play with Zhiyuan.

Yun Xiaoshan held his head high, his chubby face full of pride, looking disdainful of playing with you. But when his father put a fruit-flavored pancake in front of him and said, "Eat it quickly, or there won't be any left," his pride shattered, and he immediately began to eat it in big mouthfuls.

Seriously, it's so delicious!

Zhiyuan had a piece in front of him, which was caramel walnut flavored and untouched. Seeing that he was still craving more after finishing his, Zhiyuan gave him his own.

"I...I don't want yours!" Yun Xiaoshan licked his lips and snorted, but his eyes were fixed on the sauce on the pancake, as if he had the words "It must be delicious" written all over his face.

"You eat it, I can eat it every day at home." Zhiyuan also had a cool and aloof look on his face.

The elders don't interfere too much with the children's interactions, especially the Yun family patriarch and Yun Yan, who particularly hope that their pampered Yun Xiaoshan can spend more time with Zhiyuan, so they just watch them with smiles.

This greatly worried the two women—Lin Qingping and Liu Yan.

The two of them reached a rare consensus on the issue of their two children—they firmly disagreed with the two children playing together!

So, both of them stared intently at the two boys, their eyes...

They all had the protective gaze of a mother animal.

But it was Liu Yan who broke down first.

Upon hearing this, the "disappointing" Yun Xiaoshan immediately shoved Zhiyuan's plate in front of him, saying, "You offered it to me! I didn't ask for it!"

He still had a "I'm only eating because I'm giving you face" expression on his face, but his wolfing down of the food betrayed his feigned pride.

The men's laughter nearly drove Liu Yan mad: Eating the filthy food made by this country bumpkin was bad enough, but eating food that country kids had already eaten! This son of hers was utterly hopeless!

The two enormous pancakes were quickly devoured, and Grandpa Yun couldn't wait to drag Zhiyuan and Old Wu off to play chess.

"He's a child I personally taught, extremely talented. I'm betting everything on him today." Old Master Yun had great confidence in Zhiyuan.

Old Wu laughed, "Really? You'd better not regret it! Yun Yan, Yun Zheng, you two come too, tell me, who are you betting on!"

"This is gambling!" Yun Yan said with a smile.

Old Wu glared at him. "No money! We're betting on food! If you lose, you treat us to dinner next week!"

"Alright? Then I'll place my hopes on you, Uncle Wu," Yun Yan said with a smile.

Old Wu snorted, "You can't say things you don't mean!"

“Alright! I bet on Zhiyuan to win.” Yun Yan immediately changed his mind, which made Old Wu so angry that he glared at him.

Everyone knew it was just for fun, so they all bet on Zhiyuan to join in. But Liu Yan couldn't bear to see so many people praising a country boy, so she came over and said with a smile, "He's just a kid, why should Uncle Wu have to play with him himself? Let Xiaoshan play with this child!"

She even felt that it was an honor for Xiaoshan to play chess with him. What kind of chess could a country boy like him know? If it weren't for Old Master Wu being there, she wouldn't have made Xiaoshan play chess with a country boy. It would have been a good opportunity for her to show off her son in front of Old Master Wu.

However, the air around her seemed to freeze for a moment as soon as she finished speaking.

Liu Yan wasn't particularly bright, but at this moment she suddenly became quick-witted and realized that she might have said something wrong.

Grandpa Yun had to smooth things over for his granddaughter-in-law, "Liu Yan, you don't know, I personally taught Zhiyuan his chess skills. He's on par with your Uncle Wu! Xiaoshan is no match for him! I specially invited Zhiyuan here today to have a match with Uncle Wu!"

"I see..." Liu Yan's face stiffened for a moment. "Then I'll trust Uncle Wu. Uncle Wu, whether I have food to eat next week depends on you!"

Old Wu laughed loudly, "You have excellent taste!"

Yun Xiaoshan frowned at Zhiyuan, "You're definitely going to lose!" He then sided with Wu Lao, just like his mother.

Liu Yan's anger finally subsided a little.

The game of chess here wouldn't end anytime soon, and Wu Tianjiao lost interest after watching for a while, so she pulled Lin Qingping aside to talk.

"Let me see what you're wearing today!" Wu Tianjiao said in a low voice, almost in a whisper.

Lin Qingping glared at her, "You're so sharp-eyed!" She was indeed wearing underwear today.

Wu Tianjiao raised her eyebrows, "I'm paying attention to this!" She was keeping an eye on this new trend, and besides, whether someone was wearing a vest or underwear, it couldn't escape her sharp eyes; she could tell the difference immediately.

"Meili's new production line," Lin Qingping said softly.

"Oh, you! You have something new but won't let me try it first? Mei Li is a traitor too, giving it to you but not to me!" Wu Tianjiao said deliberately.

"It's still in the sampling stage. Once the design is finalized, how could we leave you out?" Lin Qingping said reproachfully. "This is not like clothing. We can't leave out even a little bit of the sample, otherwise the effect will be much worse."

Wu Tianjiao laughed, "Did your Commander Gu get a nosebleed when he saw you wearing this?"

I didn't get a nosebleed, but that whole morning was absurd...

Lin Qingping blushes even now when she thinks about it.

Wu Tianjiao burst into laughter, "Look, look! We've been exposed!"

Lin Qingping was speechless, blushing as she looked at her and smiled.

The commotion naturally caught Liu Yan's attention. Liu Yan felt extremely uncomfortable and secretly resentful: This country woman must be here to annoy her, right? She's always going against her! The Wu Tianjiao she'd gone to so much trouble to invite has actually become a matchmaker for this country woman!

Suppressing her anger, Liu Yan walked towards Wu Tianjiao with a smile, "Sister Tianjiao, what are you talking about so happily?"

When Wu Tianjiao interacts with people, she especially believes in first impressions. If she doesn't feel a connection with someone at first glance, then it's destined that they can't become close friends.

She liked Lin Qingping simply because of a first impression, and her dislike of Liu Yan at this moment was for the same reason.