46 Chapter 45 – splendid” Rice with Pickled Vegetables and Pork 4 (1/2)
She could see her mother's expression start to change to one of anger, and she honestly felt she was going to faint. Beside her, Mo Qingcheng was extremely calm and gently nudged her in the back, signaling that she should bring him to formally pay respect to auntie.
I… am not completely mentally prepared for this yet, ah…
She was weeping inside of herself as she walked up and, in a quiet voice, said, ”Mom… um… this is my boyfriend…”
She did not dare look at mother's face, absolutely did not dare, AAAAH, k? …
”Auntie, how do you do?” His voice had instantly changed, almost like he was an entirely different person. The doting and teasing from a moment ago were completely gone, and replacing it was a simple sophistication and composure that straightaway calmed people's hearts. ”My name is Mo Qingcheng.”
”Mm… hello.” It was absolutely a – 30oC type of icy voice.
”Please do not get the wrong idea. I'm a doctor here in this hospital,” Mo Qingcheng said with a smile, directly cutting through that layer of awkwardness and clarifying. ”I just brought Sheng Sheng here to meet my cousin-sister. She is going abroad tomorrow for further studies.”
”Ah… a doctor.” Uh, the temperature had risen to +30oC… ”Little Mo, you work in OB/GYN as well?”
How come he had become Little Mo? T.T …
Gu Sheng finally dared to look straight at her mother and her little aunt[1], who had come for her prenatal check-up. Little Aunt's eyes were very nosily fixed upon Mo Qingcheng…
”No, in cardiology.” Mo Qingcheng's deep black eyes were shining. So indescribably gorgeous. ”On the seventh floor.”
”Cardiology… Cardiology is good.” The temperature of her exalted mother's voice skyrocketed, and her whole face beamed delightedly as she pointed at the pregnant woman beside her. ”This is your little aunt. I came here with her for her prenatal check-up. You don't need to be polite and formal, just address her directly as Little Aunt.”
”Yes, yes, don't need to be polite,” Little Aunt smiled, an expression of complete approval on her face. ”Just call me Little Aunt.”
How come he could address her straight as Little Aunt? T.T …
Unrivalled allure, indeed… No problem just nonchantly and completely winning over two old aunties, ah…
Right at that moment, Ling Long Ti Tou had also finished off her work at hand, and seeing this scene, she immediately understood what was going on. She quickly strode over. ”You must be Sheng Sheng's mother? How do you do, Auntie? I'm his cousin-sister and also one of the OB/GYN doctors here.” As she was introducing herself, she noticed Little Aunt with her pregnant belly. ”I should call you big sister, right? Or…”
Right away, Little Aunt's age was dropped down by an entire generation…
Little Aunt was beaming like a blossoming flower. This was an obvious compliment that she looked young. The family of this neice's future husband really knew how to flatter… ”Call me Auntie, just like Sheng Sheng, even though I am younger than my big sister by more than a dozen years.”
”Then I'll call you Auntie.” Ling Long Ti Tou immediately took Little Aunt's hand in her own. ”I am so sorry, Auntie. I will be leaving the country for studies tomorrow, so I cannot personally take care of you. I will recommend you to a doctor who is especially experienced.”
”Oh, that would be too much trouble for you.”
”How could this be considered trouble? We're family.”
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How come they were family now? T.T …
Toupai and Ling Long Ti Tou, this big sister-little brother pair, were like a duo singing in perfect harmony as they worked together seamlessly until, in the end, Mom was stretching out her hand and clasping Mo Qingcheng's, not wanting to let go. Gu Sheng very embarrassedly got to experience her first ever ”meet the parents” event. She felt that all those scenes she had read before in those novels were simply pathetic, you know? Were there any where the meet the parents happened in the OB/GYN ward, and after only a few, brief words, it was like they had recovered a long lost son, huh? …
In the end, Toupai escorted Gu Sheng, her mother, and Little Aunt to the main doors of the hospital and waved down a taxi while, at the same time, pulling out one hundred yuan from his wallet and slipping it into Gu Sheng's hand. ”I need to head off right away to the secondary hospital campus. Take good care of your mom and your little aunt for me, and make sure they get home safely.”
She answered with an ”mm” and clutched the bill in her hand…
”Auntie,” Mo Qingcheng's voice rang out over her head to address her mom directly, ”This meeting was truly too rushed, but I am very serious about my relationship with Sheng Sheng. I am absolutely regarding this relationship as one with marriage as the ultimate purpose. So, next time, I will certainly come to formally pay a visit at your home.”
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With marriage as the ultimate purpose, wha-…? … Their relationship had just started, ah.
Hadn't it?…
This feeling of being slowly, one move at a time, swallowed up really wasn't an illusion?…
Those eyes were turned up slightly at the outer corners, a smile in them.
”Good, good.” Her exalted mother's voice had reached the high temperature of 100oC and showed no signs of coming down at all.
This future son-in-law's words were so pleasant on the ears!
Gu Sheng simply could not keep up with the rhythm of any of this. However, when she wanted to find him to talk, he was still so busy in the secondary hospital campus he did not even have a spare moment to attend to anything else. She was like a dumpling swimming in boiling water, bobbing and rolling from top to bottom and bottom to top until finally, she just was floating on the surface of the bubbling water.
Floating and rocking, floating and rocking…
She carried on like this until the next night. It was only five minutes before Wanmei's anniversary celebration was to begin, but he was still busy.
Your Toupai isn't coming? Geng Xiaoxing private messaged her in YY.
Hmm… he should be coming, I think. Just don't know when…
When he got busy, he was the type that forgot about anyone else…
For the anniversary celebration of such a large association, counting the number of well-known CVs alone, there were already twenty to thirty of them. Plus this particular event was a joint collaboration with Geng Xiaoxing's website, so many special guests from outside the association had also been invited. Even if Qiang Qing Ci could not make it, all these people could certainly adequately handle the event. She quietly observed, and observed some more. It was past eleven o'clock, and he still had not arrived yet.
”It seems our Toupai DaRen really won't be able to make it,” Jue Mei Sha Yi said, lightly clearing his throat.
”Tonight is his farewell performance, ah” Feng Ya Song sighed regretfully. ”Farewell performance.”
Feng Ya Song deliberately paused for several seconds.
Tonight was Wanmei's anniversary celebration event. Tonight was also Qiang Qing Ci's official farewell performance.
It seemed, if the screen was not flooded by comments like rushing tidewaters, it would not be a worthy enough tribute to their Unrivalled Allure Toupai DaRen…
In just those dozen or so seconds, the public comment screen was inundated with several hundred comments: ”Noooo, Toupai DaRen…” ”You're really going to have your farewell performance?! You're really going to retire from the entertainment circle?!” ”DaRen, don't retire, ah! Even if you don't release any more dramas, just knowing that you're around is good enough for us, AAAAH!!!” ”This person's heart has shattered into smithereens. This person is completely dead…”