Chapter 1096: Chapter 1094: A Good Life for the Three of Us
Zhu Qianyu called Le Tong and said that she had something to do today and wanted to spend the night in the dorm.
Le Tong had already learned from the bodyguards that Chen Jing had gone to look for Zhu Qianyu. "Xiao Yu, did your mom come to you? How about this, you bring your mom back with you tonight, and we’ll treat it as our families meeting each other. Okay?"
In the morning at the Ji Family, Chen Jing had been like an invisible person, and Le Tong had already learned from other sources about Zhu Qianyu’s mother, so nothing she said was aimed at Chen Jing in the slightest.
As a fellow woman, Le Tong really felt that Chen Jing was pitiful, and at the same time, hateful.
As a woman, to see yourself only as an attachment to a man, to live solely for a man’s liking, even forgetting the basic dignity you should have as a person—it was truly pathetic, and at the same time hateful.
Of course, Le Tong had never said any of this to anyone. After all, that was her future in-law and Zhu Qianyu’s mother.
"Aunt Tong, would that be too much trouble for you?" On the phone, Zhu Qianyu sounded very hesitant.
"What trouble? Our family is just a few people. It’s just cooking one extra portion and adding a pair of chopsticks for your mom, that’s all. Alright, after school, come back with your mom, and you two can have a good mother–daughter talk tonight. It’s settled, I’m hanging up!"
After Le Tong finished, she didn’t give Zhu Qianyu any chance to refuse and directly hung up the phone.
Here, after Zhu Qianyu hung up, she looked up at her mom and said, "Mom, Aunt Tong asked me to bring you home for dinner tonight, treat it as the two families’ parents meeting each other."
Chen Jing was a little timid. "Xiao Yu, isn’t that a bit bad? This morning, I went to the Ji Family with your dad and made a scene..."
Thinking about the Ji Family’s attitude toward her, and then about their attitude toward her dad and older brother, Zhu Qianyu basically understood that everyone in the Ji Family drew clear lines between love and hate.
"Mom, the one who made a scene was Dad, not you. Aunt Tong is very clear about things. She repeatedly told me to bring you back with me, which means they genuinely want to meet you. In that kind of situation this morning, even if she’d wanted to be polite to you, she had no way to, didn’t she?"
Chen Jing thought about it and realized that in a situation like this morning, if Ruo Letong and the others had been friendly to her, it would have actually harmed her.
"Besides, as long as Ji Huan and I are together, it’s only a matter of time before you all meet. Instead of dragging it out, it’s better to meet early so you can feel more at ease, right, Mom?"
Hearing her daughter’s analysis, Chen Jing could no longer find any reason to refuse.
Moreover, she really should meet the other side as a parent. All these years, she had only known how to hide in her shell. Now, it was time to fulfill some of her duties and responsibilities as a mother.
"Alright, Mom will go back with you tonight." Chen Jing finally nodded.
In the afternoon, Xiao Li arrived on time to pick up Zhu Qianyu. As the car drove along the road back to the Ji Family, Chen Jing was just as uneasy as when Zhu Qianyu had first gone there. One moment she said she wanted to get out and buy gifts, the next she whispered to Zhu Qianyu asking what they would do if the Ji Family looked down on her.
Zhu Qianyu found that she could no longer comfort her with words, so she simply stopped saying anything, took out her phone, and pulled up a video of the two little babies for her mom to see.
Then, Chen Jing sharply noticed that the two cute little rascals were calling her daughter "Aunt."
"Xiao Yu, when they call ’Aunt,’ do they mean you?" Chen Jing asked uncertainly.
Zhu Qianyu smiled a little shyly. "Yeah. Those two little ones just won’t change and call me Sister. Anyway, it’s just a form of address, so I let them."
Although Chen Jing was ignorant of many things, she had at least heard of the Ji Family in R City.
After all, back when she had worked as a chef at the Mingxuan Hotel, the Ji Family had been one of Mingxuan’s big clients.
Would a powerful family like that really be this good to her daughter? Was that really okay?
These years in the Zhu Family, Chen Jing had suffered more bullying and **** than she could count, so she had quite a few prejudices against wealthy families. Of course, she also knew that such families had extremely high standards regarding the social status of their children’s partners.
"Xiao Yu, do they... I mean, do Mr. Ji and President Le know that you weren’t born to the legal wife?" Chen Jing leaned in close to Zhu Qianyu’s ear and whispered.
Zhu Qianyu realized that what her mom worried about was exactly what she herself had once worried about.
"Mom, they all know, and they don’t mind."
Chen Jing was half convinced, half doubtful, until Zhu Qianyu brought her into the courtyard. The Ji Family’s pair of little livewires rushed out to greet her as usual, and as soon as they saw her, they started calling out "Aunt, Aunt" nonstop.
When they got to Zhu Qianyu, the two little rascals saw Chen Jing and tilted up their little faces curiously, blinking their big dark eyes. "Are you Grandma?" they asked.
It turned out that Le Tong had called home in advance to tell Aunt Guan, and then told the two little ones that a guest would be coming later, their Aunt’s mom, and that they should call her Grandma.
Looking at the beautiful pair of little ones, Chen Jing couldn’t help but squat down. "Yes, I’m Grandma. Are you Beibei and Guoguo?"
Beibei raised his little hand and responded loudly, "Reporting, I’m Beibei!"
Guoguo copied his brother and replied crisply, "Reporting, I’m Guoguo!"
Chen Jing was amused by the two of them and laughed and laughed, reaching out to pinch their little cheeks. "So good. Grandma bought you some candy. Do you like it?"
Chen Jing had bought the candy at the shop on the corner of the street. The lady boss there already knew this pair of mischievous, sweet-toothed little rascals’ tastes very well. When she heard Zhu Qianyu say it was for that dragon-and-phoenix pair, she picked out a big bag according to each of their preferences.
"We like it, we like it, thank you!" Beibei grabbed the big bag of candy in one go.
Guoguo’s job was to give Chen Jing a loud kiss. "Thank you, Grandma!"
Chen Jing’s heart was practically melted by this pair of little ones. "Xiao Yu, they’re so adorable."
Zhu Qianyu picked Beibei up. "Yeah, they’re not just adorable, they’re really smart too!"
Hearing his aunt praise him, Beibei puckered his lips and made a face at Chen Jing, who was holding Guoguo. "Hee-hee!"
All these years, Chen Jing’s mind had basically been focused on Zhu Zhizhou. Even when her twin daughters were still small, she hadn’t spent much time or energy on them. Now, seeing Beibei and Guoguo being so cute, she couldn’t help but think of how she had neglected and ignored her own daughters before.
And this pair of twins in front of her were obviously doted on by their family—they had a child’s innocence and also a child’s bright spirit.
Yet she couldn’t even remember what Ying’er and Xiao Yu had been like when they were this age.
"Xiao Yu, I’m sorry..."
Zhu Qianyu suddenly turned her head and looked at her. "Mom, what’s wrong now?"
She had thought her mom was about to back out!
Chen Jing leaned in and rubbed her cheek against hers. "You and your sister must have hated me for a long time."
Zhu Qianyu was slightly stunned and only reacted after a while. "Mom, that’s all in the past. Talking about it now doesn’t mean anything. From now on, the three of us, mother and daughters, will live well together."
