Chapter 153: Extra: Meeting the Parents
Gu Xue had been living with Liang Ye for over a year, yet she knew very little about his family.
She had never met Liang Ye’s older brother, much less his parents.
She had always felt that Liang Ye’s family didn’t seem to like him very much. They never came to visit him.
Liang Ye often spoke fondly of his late grandparents. She knew he had been raised by them.
He also talked about his brother a lot, saying that his brother was dating one of his friends—a girl who sold electric scooters.
He had also mentioned that his parents didn’t like his brother’s girlfriend...
So, in Gu Xue’s mind, Liang Ye was probably just a kid from an ordinary family.
His brother had a regular job and was more successful than Liang Ye, who worked at the neighborhood committee, so their parents favored the older brother and didn’t care much for Liang Ye.
She also knew that the brother’s girlfriend worked as a saleswoman at an electric scooter shop. Liang Ye’s parents disliked the girl, thinking her circumstances were too poor...
Gu Xue figured Liang Ye’s parents probably wouldn’t like her, either.
Her circumstances were just as bad. She had nothing, too.
Well, no—she had a whole lot of grandparents to look after.
That was why she only lived with Liang Ye and never brought up meeting his family or marrying him.
She didn’t want to be put through the wringer, and she didn’t want to get into ugly fights with his elders.
Until one day, Liang Ye suddenly said to her, “Xiaoxue, how about coming home with me to meet my parents?”
Gu Xue’s heart lurched. “What did you say?”
Had that day finally come?
Liang Ye, completely unaware of what was going through her mind, merely grinned and asked, “It’s my mom’s birthday today. Why don’t we go celebrate with her?”
Life with Gu Xue had been so blissful that he’d barely had time to pay attention to his family.
If it hadn’t been his mother’s birthday, he might not even have remembered to tell his parents that he had a girlfriend!
Heh heh heh...
He had decided that, on this auspicious occasion of his mother’s birthday, he would bring Gu Xue home to meet the family!
Gu Xue hesitated, but she didn’t know how to refuse.
After all, they had been living together for quite some time. Meeting each other’s parents was only natural.
But...
Forget it. She had to face it sooner or later.
She nodded. “All right.”
When the electric scooter pulled up to the Liang family estate, Gu Xue was dumbfounded. “W-Where is this?”
Liang Ye leaned close to her ear and whispered a complaint, “Over-the-top, right? My parents are so wasteful. Let’s not be like them, okay?”
Once they entered the estate, Gu Xue was even more stunned, to the point that she didn’t know what to say.
For the first time in her life, she learned that the gates of a rich person’s home could be so far from the actual house!
They had to ride the electric scooter for more than ten minutes!
Along the way, they passed countless housekeepers and servants. Whenever they saw Liang Ye, they warmly greeted him, “Welcome home, Second Young Master.”
Liang Ye nodded at them as naturally as could be. “Yep, I’m back to celebrate my mom’s birthday.”
“Auntie Li, don’t turn the water up so high when you’re watering the flowers. What a waste of water!”
“Uncle Zhao, you’re using setting two again! Setting one is enough for weeding. You’re wasting electricity!”
“...”
What a bizarre scene. Gu Xue suspected she’d gotten food poisoning from discounted mushrooms.
What? You say king oyster mushrooms can’t poison you?
Then what was all this supposed to be? If she hadn’t been poisoned, how could she possibly be here?
It wasn’t as if she were starring in some rich-girl Cinderella drama!
When the electric scooter stopped in front of the house, Liang Ye led her into the beautiful mansion, where she saw Li Changxin and Jiye Liang sitting on the sofa...
Only then did she finally come to her senses.
Good heavens! Liang Ye really was a rich second-generation heir!
A very, very rich one!
How could this be?
He looked so unassuming!
She had assumed Liang Ye’s parents would be extremely picky and give her a hard time, but they didn’t.
They merely glanced at her before smiling and beckoning her over. “You’re Xiaoxue, right? Come sit down. Xiao Ye really is something—if we hadn’t asked, he wouldn’t even have told us he was seeing someone...”
The warmth and kindness in their voices caught her completely off guard. Where was the difficult in-laws routine she’d been expecting?
Hadn’t people said his parents disliked poor people?
She remembered that Liang Ye’s parents had strongly disapproved of his older brother’s girlfriend. So why were they being so kind to her?
It wasn’t until she saw the beautiful woman who had entered with Liang Zheng that she finally understood what people meant by “tattoos and dyed hair.”
This wasn’t the tiny string of tattoos around her waist. These were large, eye-catching tattoos, accompanied by an entire head of strikingly dyed hair.
What an uninhibited girl. What a... unique girl.
She was sitting beside Liang Ye when the girl walked straight over to her and asked with a broad smile, “Are you Liang Ye’s girlfriend?”
She nodded. The girl immediately threw an arm around her. “You’re pretty good-looking! So why is your taste so unusual? You only like ugly guys?”
She: “...”
Liang Ye: “...”
The married couple, Li Changxin and her husband: “...”
Liang Zheng, however, laughed openly. His little brother really was rather ordinary-looking. Meili wasn’t wrong.