After a while, Qiao Ning reacted first. He looked at the child in front of him in surprise and carefully waved her hand. "Hi, how are you..?"
The child in front of him also responded with surprise and nervousness. "How are you?"
Just as they were carefully checking each other out, the congested motorcade slowly started moving again.
Qiao Nuan was annoyed by Qiao Lin's phone call. Seeing that Qiao Ning wanted to lean out of the window, she tugged at the back of his collar and pulled him back.
"Don't misbehave. Mom is not in a good mood. Be careful, or I'll smack you."
"Mom!" Qiao Ning turned back unhappily. "What are you doing? I'm making friends with my little brother!"
"What little brother?" Qiao Nuan glanced out of the car window and saw the Maybach that had already driven forward for a while. "You can hook up with a friend even when you're stuck in traffic? You really have that social-badass syndrome."
At the same time, in the Maybach ahead.
Gu Cheng looked at his rarely-seen excited son in amusement. "Little An, you're mistaken. There aren't two identical leaves in this world, and there won't be two people who look exactly the same."
Gu An explained anxiously, "No Dad, that kid is really like me. Our hair is curly, and his face is chubby..."
"All children are like that." Gu Cheng patted Gu An's thin shoulder. "We're going to the hospital to visit Grandpa, remember?"
Gu An was a child who knew how to react in moments like this, so he nodded obediently and swallowed his unspoken rebuttal.
In the Qiao villa, a banquet was being held, but everyone was absent-minded. They were all anxiously waiting for Qiao Nuan's arrival.
"Dang. I really want to see Qiao Nuan sooner. I wonder if she's gotten fatter?"
Qiao Yu admired her manicure and slowly replied, "It's hard for a woman who has given birth to regain her figure. Moreover, she's already a fat pig. Oh, I can't call her a fat pig now. It's time to call her a sow, right?"
"Sow? It's really very suitable..."
The people around Qiao Yu covered their mouths with their hands and laughed.
"Uh, isn't it inappropriate for you to say that?" A timid voice came from the corner. "Words like sow are really insensitive."
Everyone was stunned at first before breaking out into rude laughter. "Isn't this Qiao Nuan's cowardly deskmate? The family has earned some money these two years, and she dares to talk to us like that?"
The crowd got closer and closer with ill intentions. Chen Li managed to maintain his composure. "What do you want?"
"Relax, you're a guest. I won't do anything to you." Qiao Yu stood in the center of the crowd. "I just want to play a game with you."
"Wh-what game?"
"Let's make a bet. Qiao Nuan will be back in a while. If everyone thinks she's a sow, then you can walk around the city with her in a tight sow-onesie... Since you're classmates, you won't mind sharing joys and sorrows, right?"
As she spoke, Qiao Yu dragged out her phone and opened a shopping page. She showed everyone the gaudy and disgusting pink onesie on it.
The surrounding scoundrels clapped and cheered. "Oh! Oh my! This is good. This is going to be a good show!"
Chen Li also saw the ugly picture and was immediately frightened. "How dare you?"
Most of the people at the banquet turned a blind eye to this corner. Even if they vaguely heard something, they did not intend to meddle in other people's business. After all, those troublemakers had Qiao Yu as the center, and today's banquet was held to announce her engagement to the Gu family.
Speaking of the marriage between the Qiao family and the Su family, everyone could not help but mention Qiao Nuan, the eldest daughter of the Qiao family who was initially engaged to Su He.
"I haven't heard any news about the eldest daughter of the Qiao family all these years. I wonder what's going on?"
"I heard that five years ago, Qiao Nuan got pregnant out of wedlock. She had a difficult birth. With her death, two lives were lost..."
"Tsk tsk. How sad..."
Several wealthy ladies gathered and gossiped about the Qiao family. They did not notice a tall and beautiful woman stopping beside them.
"You gossipy aunties, please get your facts straight. I didn't have a hard time giving birth, and I didn't die. The reason I haven't heard from you all these years is that I live overseas. Thank you for your concern."
After saying that, under the stunned gazes of the affluent ladies, Qiao Ning carried a child with one hand and gracefully walked towards the resting area where Qiao Yu was.
Sitting on Qiao Nuan's arm, Qiao Ning saw Chen Li, who was surrounded by the crowd who looked like she was about to cry. "Mommy, are those uncles and aunties who bullied you at school in the past?"
"You're half right, but they're not students anymore, so it's not considered bullying." Qiao Nuan pressed Qiao Ning's head down and pressed his little face into her arms. "Good children shouldn't look, so they won't learn bad things."
"I know, Mommy." Qiao Ning obediently raised his hands to cover her eyes and asked again, "Since they're not students anymore, they'll be shot by the police for doing bad things, right? I really hope they're shot soon."
The child did not know how to control the volume of his voice and when Qiao Yu heard what Qiao Ning had said, she immediately flew into a rage. "Hey! What are you talking about, you darned child?"
"Qiao Yu?" Qiao Nuan covered the child's ears to prevent him from hearing the foul language. "So many years have passed, and all you know is to bully. You haven't improved at all."
Looking at the gorgeous woman in front of her, Qiao Yu felt that she was strangely familiar. "Who are you? How dare you cause trouble at my family's banquet?"
Chen Li, who was surrounded by the crowd, was the first to recognize Qiao Nuan. "You… are you Qiao Nuan?"
"That's right, I'm Qiao Nuan." After sizing up Chen Li for a moment, Qiao Nuan smiled. "Chen Li, I haven't seen you in five years. You've become prettier, haven't you?"
"Qiao Nuan?!" Qiao Yu and her miscreant mates were so surprised they looked at each other in disbelief. "How could this be that pig, Qiao Nuan!"
Qiao Nuan narrowed her eyes dangerously. "What did you call me?"
As Qiao Nuan's former deskmate, Chen Li knew her true personality somewhat. She was afraid that she would cause trouble, so she quickly whispered in her ear and told her about the bet that Qiao Yu had just proposed.
"...Qiao Yu and the others have become more and more arrogant these years. Don't go toe-to-toe with them."
"Is that so? Unfortunately, I've become very arrogant over the years as well."
Qiao Nuan smiled as she said that. She then stuffed the child in her arms into Chen Li's arms. "This is my son. Bring him to the garden outside for a while. I'll settle some personal grudges first."
Chen Li subconsciously hugged the soft and fragrant little ball as if she were hugging a bomb. Chen Li looked at Qiao Nuan, who was already rolling up her sleeves. She wisely chose to listen to her instructions and hurriedly left with Qiao Ning in her arms.
"Qiao Yu, you said my body is like a sow's?" Qiao Nuan was grinning, and her movements were not sloppy. She grabbed Qiao Yu's neck and pressed her down on the sofa. "Then what do you call a monkey with a pointy mouth and big eyes like you? A primate that has not fully evolved?"