Chapter 297: Liang banquet (10)
Chapter 297: Liang banquet (10)
Liang Shin’s face turned sour.
Liang Xiao Dan said, “Stop it, Zou!”
Liu Hai came forward and suddenly took Liang Zou in a big hug. “Hello, my fellow in-law. It’s so nice to meet you! I must say we are so lucky to have Nana as our daughter-in-law.”
Liang Zou widened his eyes with Liu Hai’s sudden chumminess.
Jing said dryly, “Stop it, Dad. You are worsening our impression. They would surely take sister-in-law away if they find the father-in-law so weird.”
Liu Chunhua shook her head. She looked at the Liang couple.
“Please ignore my husband. Hai has already introduced us, but let me introduce us again. I’m Liu Chunhua, his wife, and he is our second son Liu Jing.”
Jing flashed a bright grin.
“Hey!” Liu Hai whined.
“We should get together for a meal sometime soon. We also have my mother-in-law at home. She would love to meet Nana’s family.”
Liang Xiao Dan smiled and nodded. “I think that’s a great idea. It is really nice to meet you. Thank you for taking care of Nana. I can see that she is really happy with you all.”
Liu Hai proudly said, “Of course. She is just like my daughter. Naturally, we would care for her.”
He looked at Nana with pitiful eyes and said, “Child, you won’t forget me, right? You got your father, but please don’t ignore me.”
The Liang family couldn’t help but twitch their mouths.
They never thought the powerful ex-CEO of Liu Corps, Liu Hai would act like a baby.
Nana looked at him, dumbfounded.
Seriously, the things that he thought of were…
She softly chuckled. “Dad, how can I ever forget you?”
After all, he was the one who had welcomed her so happily in his family. He was the first one who treated her as his daughter and made her feel so loved.
But Liang Shin still was sour about his sister’s marriage. He felt twenty-three was way young to get married. Maybe dating was fine at this age, but marriage was clearly too soon.
He tried to probe. “By the way, how did you two first meet?”
Jinhai and Nana froze.
Xiang Huian also stiffened.
The Liu and Xiang family silently exchanged glances.
They would faint in shock to know that Jinhai’s ex-wife was sitting right by their side.
Liang Shin narrowed his eyes.
Something is odd. Is there anything strange about Nana’s marriage?
Liang Zou and Liang Xiao Dan noticed the sudden silence.
Liang Zou couldn’t help but ask, “Is everything alright?”
He worriedly looked at Nana. She awkwardly smiled but didn’t know what to say.
Liu Hai smiled. “It’s a little complicated. And I think it is already enough for tonight what happened with Huo Xiao Fan. We can talk about Nana and Jinhai some other time.”
Liang Shin frowned. “Please forgive my rudeness, Mr. Liu. Maybe you can tell us in detail later, but I want to know what it’s all about. Because I feel that it’s serious, and now I cannot rest until I get to know something about it.”
Liang Zou and Liang Xiao Dan also agreed.
Jinhai glanced at them. The time was going to come sooner or later.
“Nana is my second wife.”
The Liang couple and Shin froze. They looked at him, stunned and in disbelief.
Liu Hai sighed. Xiang Wei and Xiang Qingge also didn’t know how to face them.
Liang Zou had heard about Jinhai while he was in Paris too. But he didn’t know the details about his personal life.
“You-you were married before?”
He nodded. “Yes. And my ex-wife is right in front of you.”
He quietly stared at Huian. She jolted in shock when he suddenly gazed at her.
Jinhai pointed towards her. “She is Xiang Huian, my childhood friend, and my ex-wife.”
Now their shock knew no bounds.
Liang Shin widened his eyes as he jerked his head towards her.
The patient who he was treating all this time turned out to have such a relationship with his sister.
Huian looked up at him and awkwardly smiled.
Now that they realized that Nana and Huian were at the same place, they felt strange and awkward.
They had thousands of questions storming their minds right now.
Liu Hai said, “I know that it’s a little hard to digest this fact. But Xiang and Liu families were always close. And we are past those things that happened.”
Jinhai said, “Yes. I know it’s difficult to accept my past, and every parent would want their children to have their partners devoid of any messy life and relationships. But the only truth that I know is that I love Nana from the bottom of my heart. Huian and I are only friends now and we do have a good relationship with the Xiang family, but that means nothing more as far as I Huian and I are concerned.”
Nana held his hand and smiled.
“Yes, mom, dad, and big brother. Jinhai and I love each other, and please don’t blame him for being married before.”
Liang Zou and Liang Xiao Dan were quiet. They didn’t want Nana to entangle in such life, but now she was happily married and also pregnant. And they had just reunited with her. They didn’t want to do anything that would make her sad or distance her from them.
Liang Shin was also really not happy with the situation. But he had already seen how much Nana loved Jinhai and how Jinhai also genuinely took care of her. Her in-laws also treated her well.
For now, they could only leave it at that.
Liang Zou said, “Alright, if you say so, Mr. Liu and…Liu Jinhai. But we want to know everything that happened.”
“Of course.”
Nana was relieved, and so was everybody else.
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A little later into the banquet, everybody enjoyed the joy of Nana’s cooking. Some of the guests had already tasted her food in previous banquets, and those new who tasted for the first time were simply mesmerized.
“This Mapo Tofu is spicy and delicious just as I like it!”
“Have you tasted the chicken stew? It is out of this world. I have never tasted anything like that before.”
“This fish is so yummy!”
“Guess talent for business does run in the genes. Even though the type of work is different from what Liang Zou does, she is nevertheless a brilliant chef and a businesswoman.”
Everybody was singing praises of Nana. It reached Liang Zou’s ears, and he felt proud of his daughter.
While Nana was returning from the ladies room, she heard somebody call out to her.
“Nana!”
She furrowed her brows and craned her neck to the side. She widened her eyes as she saw Huian furiously waving her hand at her.
Nana slowly walked towards her, holding her tummy.
It was an empty guest room.
Nana asked, “Huian. What are you doing here? Everyone is having dinner. And why did you call me so secretly?”
Huian grabbed Nana’s hand and stared at her. She was afraid and nervous and with much difficulty found a chance to leave and call Nana.
“You-you remember…that I wanted to tell you something about Jinhai?”
Nana blinked her eyes.
“Yes, Huian. I remember.”
Huian said, “I want to tell you everything!”
“O-okay. Tell me. I’m listening.”
But just then, the purse from Nana’s hand slipped, and it fell on the floor.
Her cards, money and other stuff spilled out of it.
“I’m sorry.”
Nana was about to bend, but she found it hard with her bulging belly in the way.
Huian stopped her. “I can do it.”
She slowly bent from her wheelchair. She picked up her things, and as she started to stuff them inside, she froze as she saw something.
She took out the small-sized letters with a light, floral design on them.
Huian rapidly blinked her eyes.
She found them way familiar to certain letters that haunted her at one time.
The papers were a little different in design and color, but the overall look and feel were exactly the same as those letters that she had gotten from the mystery man who threatened her for spilling her secret.
She trembled. “You…how do you have them?”
Nana looked at what Huian was holding. “Oh, that? I found these pretty letters in Jinhai’s cupboard one day. So I asked him to get some for me too. Although they are different. The original papers were light peach. These are ocean blue.”
Huian stiffened.
The letters that I got were also peach in color.
The letters fell from her hands as they started shaking.
Even those letters and all the threatening…even that was done by Jinhai…
I thought he only knew about how I pushed Nana that night.
But no…he…he even knew about how I tricked him into marrying me.
He knew everything…
Just how calculative is that man…?
Her mind went blank as she realized this.
Nana noticed her turning suddenly pale.
“Are you okay? Should I call big brother?”
But Huian clutched her hand as she looked at her with her face drained of any color.
“I want to tell you something…right now. You need to know this.”
“Y-yes?”
Huian’s eyes rimmed in tears.
“Nana…that night when I fell off the balcony…it wasn’t an accident…It was Jinhai who pushed me down.”