Chapter 478: Charm Undiminished

Jiang Muye

Boss Cutie

Leng Ruoli shyly took a bite of the sandwich, then handed it to Jiang Muye. "Here, let's eat together."

Jiang Muye took a bite, but worried it wouldn't be enough for the two of them, so he made some more.

After a full meal, Jiang Muye held hands with Leng Ruoli and said, "Where should we go on a date later?"

"I want to go on a date with you too, but hasn't my mom's situation not been settled yet?" Leng Ruoli muttered. "I heard my dad wants to ask my mom out, but she didn't agree."

"Then that's troublesome." Jiang Muye felt it was a bit tricky.

"What should we do? We have to set the two of them up. If they can't go on dates, how will their feelings heat up?" Leng Ruoli was somewhat distressed.

Jiang Muye raised his hand and rubbed Leng Ruoli's head. "Simple. There's a way that will definitely get your mom to come out."

"What?"

Jiang Muye smiled meaningfully.

——

"Ding ding ding—"

A WeChat call notification rang out.

Xiang Shan, who was originally working, immediately noticed that the person sending the WeChat call was Jiang Muye.

What does he want with me?

"What is it?" Xiang Shan answered.

As a result, Jiang Muye's anxious voice immediately rang out. "What should we do? Ruoli is trapped in the elevator and can't get out!"

"How can this be!" Xiang Shan was extremely anxious.

Her daughter absolutely hated enclosed spaces, especially after experiencing such a painful incident before. Xiang Shan wanted even less for her daughter to encounter something like this.

"She went downstairs first to buy something for me, but the elevator malfunctioned. Mother-in-Law, hurry over!" Jiang Muye said anxiously to Xiang Shan, then immediately sent her a location.

Xiang Shan nodded. "Okay, I'm coming right away. Calm Ruoli down first, don't let her get anxious."

Xiang Shan still cared deeply for this daughter. She immediately put down the work at hand and rushed over without stopping.

An elevator accident out of nowhere—misfortunes truly never came alone.

Following the address, Xiang Shan quickly found the place.

But on the floor in question, she found the elevator operating normally, with people coming and going.

It didn't look like anything had gone wrong.

Strange, it shouldn't be like this.

Could the problem have occurred somewhere else?

Xiang Shan was very confused, so she contacted Jiang Muye by voice message. "Where are you?"

"We're here."

A brisk voice sounded from behind her.

Xiang Shan, who was burning with anxiety, trembled, and then saw Jiang Muye and Leng Ruoli standing there perfectly fine, and even Father Leng was there.

"This… are you okay? Did you get out?" Xiang Shan stepped forward and touched Leng Ruoli's little face.

Facing her mother's worry, Leng Ruoli's heart was filled with happiness.

It was the first time she felt her mother's very direct concern, which lifted her mood considerably. She stuck out her tongue. "Mom, I'm completely fine. I was just tricking you earlier."

"What?!" Xiang Shan was greatly shocked.

"Sorry, it's all my fault!" Jiang Muye apologized, stepping in front of Leng Ruoli and saying to Xiang Shan, "It was my idea."

Xiang Shan was very unhappy. "You two are messing with me, aren't you? Don't you know how worried I was!"

She subconsciously turned to leave in a huff, but Father Leng stepped forward and grabbed Xiang Shan's wrist. "Alright, stop making a fuss. Actually, we tricked you because we wanted to watch a movie with you. You're already here, so stop always busying yourself with work. It's not like you have to do all those things yourself. You need to rest properly too."

Xiang Shan glanced at the smiling Father Leng. "I think you're the mastermind!"

"Then I'm innocent. I was only notified on the spot. I never imagined these two would come up with this." Father Leng cried out his grievances pitifully.

Only then did Xiang Shan's attitude ease slightly.

Leng Ruoli even acted spoiled toward Xiang Shan. "Mom, you're already here, so watch a movie with us. It wasn't easy for our family to come out and have fun together happily. We've never done this before. I really want you two to stay together peacefully, just like before."

After seeing Leng Ruoli's expectant eyes, Xiang Shan's tone softened considerably. "What movie? If it's some soft sci-fi, I'm leaving right away."

"It's the most popular comedic romance movie right now, very good!" Leng Ruoli said with a smile.

"Fine, let's watch it then." Xiang Shan said coolly.

Comedy was actually a genre she quite liked, and she could watch it.

Xiang Shan used to quite like watching movies, but work was busy, so every time she could only watch movies at home.

"Let's go, let's buy popcorn." Father Leng said cheerfully to Xiang Shan.

"What popcorn? That's kids' food." Xiang Shan muttered, still not giving Father Leng any face.

"Who says popcorn is only for kids? Watching a movie without popcorn is so boring. Besides, don't you quite like sweets?" Father Leng said.

Xiang Shan didn't respond, but Father Leng and Jiang Muye went to buy popcorn.

Leng Ruoli and Xiang Shan waited in place, watching the two of them line up.

Leng Ruoli found the scene quite heartwarming.

"Mom, actually Dad really thinks about you. He knows you still like sweets." Leng Ruoli looked at Xiang Shan with a smile.

Xiang Shan snorted disdainfully. "He's just deliberately trying to curry favor with me."

"Only someone who cares about you would curry favor with you." Leng Ruoli said. "If he didn't have you in his heart, how could he remember your preferences so clearly? Look, Dad is buying iced lemon juice now. That's what you love to drink, Mom. You say it's for the vitamin C."

Everything Leng Ruoli said landed in Xiang Shan's heart.

Normally she hadn't noticed much, but now that Leng Ruoli mentioned it, she found it really was true.

"This is the first time I've seen Dad be so attentive. Apart from me, he seems to treat you the best, right? After all, he earns so much money, and other women all fawn over him." Leng Ruoli saw that Xiang Shan's gaze was fixed on Father Leng and continued to fan the flames.

Xiang Shan thought about it carefully. That's right. Although Leng Qihua is now in his fifties or sixties, he's still strong despite his age, and he's not lacking for suitors at all. He's just as popular as when he was young.

There were even some women around him who wanted to be Leng Ruoli's stepmother.

But now he had come back to curry favor with her. Didn't that mean her charm hadn't diminished from back then?

With that thought, Xiang Shan felt somewhat balanced, and her mood improved considerably.

"Here, your iced orange juice!" Father Leng walked over and handed it to Xiang Shan, but Xiang Shan turned her face away. "No, my hands are cold."

"Okay, no problem, I'll hold it for you." Father Leng smiled at Xiang Shan. "I didn't let them add a lot of ice, just slightly iced, but it's also good for me to warm your hands."

Seeing Father Leng's smile, Xiang Shan felt as if she had returned to the past.

She was someone who loved eating ice even in the dead of winter.

Very cold, very refreshing.

But he was afraid her stomach would be irritated, so he always secretly asked for less ice.

Sometimes he would have the clerk add just one ice cube, which was enough to fool her—but she knew all along.

Yet she pretended not to know, drinking it happily.

Of course, it wasn't that she liked drinking iced lemon juice.

It was just that because he always told her to supplement vitamins and drink less coffee, she had switched to iced lemon juice.

"Fine then." Xiang Shan gave a proud little huff and walked to the front row.

At that moment, something suddenly happened that caught her off guard.