Attractive conditions

  Shen Kai put away his hand and said to the flight attendant, "Sorry," then smiled and left.

  Shen Kai turned his head and gave Shen Xuan a disdainful look, "I only now realize that no matter how beautiful a woman is, she will eventually become old. Thinking about what you just said makes me feel that being single for life is an absolutely wise choice. Women are too scary, they even want to curse people to death."

  "Shen Kai, you're so glib! What's with all this nonsense about being in a quarter-life crisis? This idiot is only 25 years old!"

  "Did I spray you? Did I ever spray you? Did I insult you? Bai Jincheng must not have seen you like that just now, right? Tsk, I really don't dare to imagine what you'll be like after menopause at 40. It's too terrifying!" Shen Kai shuddered all over, "Hiss" and said again, "Too terrifying."

  The two siblings kept attacking each other with one word after another until they got off the plane.

  Long-separated loved ones reunite, always embracing, always getting emotional, and a soft inquiry would move people to tears.

  Kai didn't expect Xuan to be a person. Xuan rushed into the arms of her family, listening to her mother say she missed her, listening to her father say he missed her, and listening to several older brothers and six younger brothers say they almost died missing her.

  He didn't see his grandfather until he returned to the Shens' old mansion and found him in the study, a tall and thin old man with a head full of silver hair.

  The old man had his back to her. He heard her knock on the door and say, "Grandpa, I'm home." But he still didn't turn around.

  It wasn't until she walked over, hugged him from behind and put her ear on his shoulder that she heard the old man's sniffing sound and choking breath.

  She felt the old man's body shaking back and forth as he sobbed.

  "Grandpa." She cried out again, and her voice was already trembling with sobs.

  "Grandpa... I'm sorry, Xiao Wu was unfilial and caused such a big disaster."

  She had never said "I'm sorry" to her grandfather, there was no chance, she didn't call her grandfather and he didn't call her either.

  The people in this house seem to have a tacit understanding, relentlessly pursuing news of her without saying a word.

  "Are you hungry?" The old man endured for a long time, and when he said these three words, they were still accompanied by a thick nasal tone and a trembling voice with sobs.

  The old man turned around and shook his head, "I ate a lot on the plane, I'm not hungry."

  The old man held her in his arms, his palms were white and thin, stroking her face, but his eyes looked at the two electronic clocks on the wall, displaying Arabic numerals of time.

  Tears fell crookedly on the already furrowed face, one clock showed a time three and a half years ago, the other clock showed today's time. The old man choked back another question, "Three and a half years, did it make you grow up?"

  Xu Xuan gently placed her hands on the old man's shoulders, slowly stroking his arm, then his wrist, leg, and knee. As she touched each place, his body gradually sank down, until he finally knelt before her, stretching out his arms to lightly encircle her legs, pressing his face against them as tears rained down, wetting his pant legs.

  She could clearly feel the wooden floorboards under her knees, Grandpa's knees were thinner than before, his legs were also thinner, and he was limp in her arms.

  There was Grandpa's hand on her head, resting there, with a slightly cool temperature, unlike the warmth of her brother's and Pei Jin Cheng's palms. She thought of two words, "old".

  A pang in her heart, she deeply knows that she has made everyone in the family who loves her worried, deeply knows that her past recklessness was so immature, deeply knows that every person's fatigue in this family is related to her, and deeply knows that Grandpa doesn't dare turn around, doesn't dare look at her just because he loves her too much, misses her too much.

  At this thought, tears fell even more, nose was stuffy, words spoken in a low sobbing tone, slowly said, "Grandfather, I've grown up, it was my fault for being too selfish and self-righteous, which eventually led to the downfall of the entire Shen family. Grandfather, the cost of me growing up is really too great, I'm sorry."

  At that time, she ignored her family's opposition and insisted on divorcing Han Qiyang, regardless of damaging her own reputation, and provoked rumors every day.

  The people at home couldn't deal with her, and the old man of the Han family was so angry that he jumped his feet.

  If she were older at that time, she would have considered the feelings of her family and the Han's family.

  The people of the Shen family, everyone wants to save face. At that time, her brother was the director of the inspection institute, and he used his connections many times to cover up her scandals, but she still didn't know how to repent. How could she make a big deal out of the scandal? She just kept causing trouble every day, hoping that the Han family would come to cancel the engagement.

  The Han family wanted to cancel the engagement, but Han Qiyang refused.

  She's involved in a scandal here, and Han Qiyang is making a scene at the Han house refusing to cancel the engagement.

  Two families, two good families were made restless by her.

  If you hadn't been so reckless from the start, what would have happened if you had married Han Qiyang?

  Although living together may be awkward, it's not a big deal if we don't sleep in the same bed, and it's still better to maintain our own interests like buddies rather than ending up with both families suffering.

  The cost is too high, so high that it can't afford to regret.

  Now back in Haicheng, hugging Grandpa's withered legs, feeling guilty for being unfilial.

  The two words "filial piety", three and a half years ago, she had never thought about it, now these two words are placed in front of her, like Grandpa's palm, heavily slapping her face.

  She actually wanted him to slap her in the face, but no one hit her, and not even a single severe scolding was given.

  The old man, with trembling hands, pulled his granddaughter up. After pulling her up, his pair of hoary eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and the mountains and hairs of his eyebrows were all twitching due to emotional agitation.

  Tears accumulated in her dull eyes, and the tear marks on her face were clear. The old man touched her face, and only then did he dare to take a closer look. Her face seemed smaller, thinner, her nose looked higher, her eyes looked bigger, her chin looked sharper, and the clavicle under her slender neck was more prominent...

  A bitter and unbearable feeling in his heart, he let out a low sigh, his words were light, but his heart was heavy. "As long as you grow up well, Grandpa can see you growing up in his lifetime, it's... comforting."

  "Grandpa!" When Shen Xuan heard such a sad sentence, her heart suddenly knotted up. What is meant by "in one's lifetime"? "Grandpa will see Xiao Wu getting better and better from now on."

  The old man let out a sigh of relief and smiled, "Alright, looking at your grandfather's little five getting better and better, come on, accompany your grandfather for a walk."

  "Good."

  Pei Jin Cheng's eyes were lightly and shallowly fixed on Bai Liwei, "Hmm, in a few days, I'll have the servants clean up a separate courtyard for you."

  "Didn't you live in Wutong Garden?" Bai Liwei looked at Pei Jincheng incredulously.

  Pei Jin Cheng thought this question was quite ridiculous, "Uncle Bai, you're overthinking it, aren't you? Not to mention that Little Shan hasn't even entered the house yet, even if she did enter as a concubine, she wouldn't be able to live in Wutongyuan. In the Pei household, each concubine doesn't live with the main wife, and I'm sure it's not possible in the Bai household either?"

  Bai Liwei knew that the Wu Tong Garden represented the power of the Pei family, but his daughter married into the Pei family and couldn't live in the Wu Tong Garden, which was a headache. He looked at Jin Cheng with a serious expression and said, "Jin Cheng, I know that the Pei family has lost its backing after the death of Third Master, and their current position is under threat. Think about it, our White family has a strong backing in the political circle, wouldn't it be better for the two families to form an alliance again through marriage?"

  A flash of light in her phoenix-like eyes, "Oh?"

  Bai Liwei raised an eyebrow with a relaxed and leisurely expression, "That piece of land by the sea, the Bai family can help you think of a way."

  Pei Jin's heart skipped a beat, and he had already thought of a plan. On the surface, however, he just smiled lightly and said, "It's just a project worth over 10 billion."

  Bai Liwei was shocked by Pei Jin Cheng's tone, knowing that many companies had been vying for this project in the city, and many were eager to take a chance, with future benefits beyond measure. But Pei Jin Cheng said it was just a project worth over 10 billion yuan, nothing more!

  Too arrogant, too conceited!

  But in his heart, he thought that Pei Jin Cheng was so arrogant and self-sufficient, of course, he had his capital. Although the Pei family didn't have any backing in the political circle now, their economic strength was still not to be underestimated. This was simply a noble family, how could it be compared to those two or three generations of nobles?

  With such a powerful financial backing from the Bai family, it's only a matter of time before they make it big. The Pei family must be anxious to form an alliance, and Pei Jin Cheng, who had been looking down on others, was forced to reveal his own advantages. "This is just one project," he said, "but have you thought about this, Jin Cheng? This land is just the beginning. How many wealthy families in G City are slowly declining? But the Bai family is thriving." White Li Wei couldn't help but feel proud as he spoke. "Our Bai family is becoming more and more stable in G City. The union of the Pei and Bai families is the most perfect combination in G City. Shen Xuan is from G City, and these two cities are ten thousand miles apart, with completely different politics and policies. Even if her brother had entered politics and hadn't been transferred to G City, he wouldn't have been able to help the Pei family at all, would he?"

  Pei Jin's eyes, which had been smiling, were getting darker and darker. He had thought that the land by the sea was still a secret, but in such a short time, it seemed like everyone knew about it. If this news spread, then the military use of the land would become a certainty, and once that happened, more and more people would pay attention to it. Even if ordinary citizens were keeping an eye on this military land, it would be very difficult to turn things around later on.

  His eyes were deep and mysterious, he was secretly calculating in his heart, the White family, which side did they belong to? If he stood on the opposing side, what would be the outcome? Some things really couldn't be thought about too deeply, and under the current circumstances, one couldn't ask too many questions, could only perfunctorily say, "Uncle White's conditions are very enticing."

  Bai Liwei suddenly let out a sigh of relief and said confidently, "It's very tempting. If you're willing to divorce and make Xiangxiang the legitimate wife, then I'll give you all the resources of the Bai family."

  Two updates for today are completed, see you tomorrow, dear ones.