Xu Manning was still worried: "If you tell them in advance, will Uncle and Aunt still let you bring us home? Will they even let us in the door?"

"Definitely not!"

Li Peifeng’s tone was very sure, but then he hesitated a bit: "At worst, they might just beat me up?!"

...

"Don’t panic, don’t panic, the sun sets but there’s moonlight."

"Don’t rush, don’t rush, the moon sets but there’s sunshine."

At 9:30 at night, Li Peifeng was in a great mood as he returned home. He walked back, thinking along the way about what he could do to get his parents to accept these two ’potential daughters-in-law.’

Although he had already bought cars and houses for his parents and had given his dad, Li Qiyuan, a heads-up, Li Peifeng still wasn’t sure how his parents would react when Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning entered the house as his girlfriends.

"I don’t know if my parents can handle it."

He pondered the whole way home, and as he reached the doorstep and stepped inside, his phone chimed with a WeChat notification. He thought it might be a message from Wu Wenyue or Xu Manning asking if he’d arrived home, but it turned out to be from his dear, beloved...

Zhao Qingge: "Tomorrow at 6 PM, come to Wancheng Hualu Building 101 for dinner."

Li Peifeng vaguely remembered this address; it seemed to be the private residence of Old Zhao’s parents, those two directors...

He paused for half a second, his face tense, and then typed: "Will Uncle and Aunt be there too?"

After seven or eight seconds, Zhao Qingge replied: "Yes."

"Sss~ Haa~"

Li Peifeng took two deep breaths to slightly ease his nervousness.

"Looks like before bringing them to see my parents and before meeting Wu Wenyue’s family, I need to meet with Daoer’s parents... The common point among these three meetings is that I’ll be shining brightly in the role of their boyfriend!!!"

"I wonder if I can handle it."

Even if I can’t handle it, I have to!

Li Peifeng made the decision, immediately dialed Old Zhao’s number, and confirmed the meeting time and place. Then he asked:

"What do you think I should bring as a gift?"

Zhao Qingge’s tone was very calm: "Whatever. Haven’t you sent them gifts before? Just do it like before."

"That won’t work. Before, I visited as your student, but this time it’s different!"

Li Peifeng scratched his head and said: "I’ll give Uncle a watch and some tobacco and alcohol, and give Aunt some cosmetics, plus a beauty card. Is that okay? There’s so little time, just one day to prepare, so I can’t buy anything particularly novel..."

Having just discussed this topic with Wu Xu’s two ladies, Li Peifeng had an idea.

"No, that’s too much."

But Zhao Qingge immediately vetoed it: "Your gifts shouldn’t exceed ten thousand, decide on the specific gifts yourself."

The teacher and student seemed to be on the same page, and Li Peifeng smiled knowingly: "You don’t need to worry, I’ll definitely give some gifts with sincerity on my first visit. There’s no harm in being generous; there’s already a significant gap between us, and if the gifts aren’t well-prepared... I’ll be anxious!"

Zhao Qingge’s tone softened: "Don’t be nervous, my parents won’t make things difficult for you, it’s just a simple dinner."

It seems that Zhao Haiqi and Li Xin aren’t that opposed to their daughter’s special relationship, which is good news.

Li Peifeng responded with a sound: "Alright, then I’ll arrive twenty minutes early tomorrow."

Zhao Qingge paused for a moment, then said: "Do you need me to pick you up?"

"If you’re picking me up..."

Li Peifeng furrowed his brow: "Do you have time tomorrow? How about going shopping with me? We can go to Uncle and Aunt’s place after shopping."

Zhao Qingge hesitated slightly, her tone reflecting a desire to go but fear to go: "Shopping, too many people."

Li Peifeng immediately thought of their last jewelry shopping experience and shook his head: "You’re right, let’s forget it. No need to pick me up, I’ll go by myself. I’m not graduated yet, need to keep a low profile."

Zhao Qingge responded quietly, but Li couldn’t help feeling her internal disappointment and regret.

There’s no choice; the fewer people who know about their relationship, the better. For now, it should be kept secret.

After a two or three-minute call, Li Peifeng felt everything had been discussed and was ready to hang up, but Zhao Qingge remained silent.

"Daoer? See you tomorrow then?"

"Beep~ beep~"

The call ended abruptly by Zhao Qingge, leaving Li Peifeng bemused; upset just because they couldn’t shop together? That doesn’t seem right.

Li Peifeng didn’t pay much attention, sat down at his computer to draft a list of gifts to buy the next day, and halfway through, a video call popped up from the three-person group chat "Lucky Trio."

"Not sleeping yet?"

Li Peifeng propped up his phone beside a water cup, glanced at the screen where Xu Manning was lying in bed hugging Wu Wenyue’s arm.

"Hubby, have you arrived home?"

"Hmm, just got here."

Xu Manning’s face wore a suspiciously happy blush, smiling sweetly: "Yueyue and I just realized tomorrow is Christmas, how about we go shopping together and pick out gifts for Uncle and Aunt... It shouldn’t interfere with your work, right?"

Fortunately, he hadn’t arranged anything with Old Zhao!

Li Peifeng happily agreed: "Sure, let’s go together, but only until one in the afternoon. I still need to write, and there are some academic tasks I haven’t finished..."

Stopping at one in the afternoon was because he still needed to buy gifts for Old Zhao’s parents and have dinner with them; Christmas couldn’t be spent solely with the Wu Xu duo.

Off-screen, Wu Wenyue suddenly asked: "Are you writing now?"

"Yes."

Li Peifeng closed the gift list on his screen, saved it, quickly opened the writing software, then picked up his phone and scanned the screen with the camera.

Wu Wenyue reached out, cheek to cheek with Xu Manning, seemingly reminding: "Look at the novel page for ’Sword and Law.’

"Hmm? What’s up?"

"You’ll know when you look!"

Xu Manning’s expression was a bit proud while Wu Wenyue’s was slightly mocking: "A certain rich lady gave you a surprise."

Surprise?

Li Peifeng suspiciously opened the Endpoint site, entered the novel page for ’Sword and Law’ through the writer’s dashboard, and saw the top sponsor had changed; no longer the Golden Alliance Master ’Neighborhood Old Huang’ with ten million fan value but a user named ’One Liang Feng Madam Xu President,’ with Neighborhood Old Huang demoted to second place.

Clicking into the profile of ’One Liang Feng Madam Xu President,’ Li Peifeng found it was created twenty minutes ago today, and the only sponsored novel was ’Sword and Law Chronicles,’ with an amusing fan value of; 13145213.

The meaning comes from the sound: forever I love you forever.

And whose account is this ’Xu President’? It’s obvious!

"Manning." Li Peifeng hesitated.

"What’s up?"

Xu Manning raised an eyebrow, understanding what Li intended to say, with a proud demeanor: "I’m warning you, don’t say anything like wasting money and privately transferring me 1314 would make me happier! I just want to outshine her. Huang Tianxuan can never be your top sponsor; what she can give you, I can as well!"

"She can sponsor you ten thousand, I’ll sponsor thirteen thousand! If she dares to sponsor more, I’ll add more, always more than her. Even though her family’s wealth exceeds mine, I just don’t believe she can contribute more to you than I do!"

Then, Xu Manning turned to Wu Wenyue, huffed coldly: "And you, I’m saying this to you too, keep your distance from her!"

"What does it have to do with me?"

Wu Wenyue muttered softly, instinctively glanced at Xu Manning’s chest.

"Where are you looking?!!"

Xu Manning flared up, tossed the phone aside, the camera lost, the screen only showed the ceiling, but Miss Xu’s angry shouting echoed through the earpiece.

"Wu Wenyue, I knew it, you think I’m small, don’t you? Tomorrow I’m getting breast augmentation!! You’re like him, the shameless big fan! A beast spirit, mesmerized by beauty and forgetting everything! Luckily you’re female, if you were male, you might be even more scumbag than Li Peifeng!"

"I didn’t, Manning, don’t be paranoid and accuse me!"

"I’m being paranoid? Hubby already told me, you honestly tell me what’s going on with you and Huang Tianxuan!"

"Nothing at all, Manning, don’t believe him..."

"Bullshit!"

The two girls were bickering on the other end, Li Peifeng sighed deeply, still feeling regretful over the thirteen thousand that Xu Manning spent.

"All that money handed to capitalists, such a waste!"