Chapter 6

“I…” Though astonished and puzzled when facing Lu Zhengnan, Tang Mengyu was a little embarrassed to express it. Instead, she asked, “Was it my mom who called and told you that I was waiting here?”

“Yes,” Lu Zhengnan nodded towards her voice, replying.

It seemed that her stepmother had found that the residence booklet was stolen by her.

But how could her stepmother know she was at the Civil Affairs Bureau?

For a while, Tang Mengyu froze with a ton of questions in her mind, hesitating to tell Lu Zhengnan that she wasn’t here to get the marriage certificate with him.

“Mengyu!”

Suddenly, a figure bedecked with glittering jewels rushed into the hall of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

Tang Mengyu looked up to see Xue Zhupei approaching her in a hurry.

After a glimpse at the man in the wheelchair, Xue Zhupei quickly wore a smile and took Tang Mengyu's wrist in her hand. "Mengyu, you forgot something important, and I came here to bring it to you."

"What?" Tang Mengyu looked at Xue Zhupei in doubt, seeing the fake gentleness all over her face, wondering what she was up to.

"Well, Master Lu, please excuse us for a moment. I'll have a word with Mengyu," Xue Zhupei said to Lu Zhengnan in a flattering tone. Then, she turned around and dragged Tang Mengyu out of the hall of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

Looking at the obsequious manner of the rich lady, Zhao Shu curled the corners of his mouth in disdain and said, "Sir, Xue Zhupei has come just in time! As you expected, Miss Tang stole out the residence booklet."

The man in the wheelchair smiled faintly and replied, "It’s not useless that Xue Zhupei showed up. She can save us a lot of words."

There was a determined look in those deep eyes, which made it hard to tell he was blind if not sized up closely.

...

"Mom, did you cheat Lu Zhengnan out?" Tang Mengyu shook off Xue Zhupei's hand and questioned her straight to the point.

Xue Zhupei snorted, "Can't you be a bit gentler? Although Lu Zhengnan is blind, his ears are working well! You are so disrespectful to me. Aren’t you afraid that your future husband will dislike you?"

"My husband?" Tang Mengyu sneered, "I've told you I won't marry Lu Zhengnan and become a pawn in the game of you and your daughter!"

"It's not up to you!" Xue Zhupei smiled wickedly, taking out the cellphone from her bag. She opened a video and handed it to Tang Mengyu, "Take a good look before making any decision."

Tang Mengyu glanced at her suspiciously and inadvertently caught a glimpse of the freeze-frame from the video. Her eyes suddenly widened in shock, and she hurriedly grabbed over the cellphone.

In the video, an old lady with grey hair said gently and lovingly, "Mengyu, when will you come to pick up grandma? I don't like living here. It's too cold and cheerless. You'd better send me to the nursing home..."

The video was short, only a few seconds.

Tang Mengyu's eyes immediately turned red. "Where did you send my grandma? The background of this video is not a nursing home!"

"Well, I asked for the hospital's consent and went through the legal formalities to take the old lady away." Xue Zhupei folded her arms across her chest in arrogance and continued, "If you don't marry Lu Zhengnan today, you will never see the old lady again!"

"You..." Tang Mengyu clenched her fists tightly. If this woman in front of her had not been her adoptive mother, who had raised her for more than twenty years, she would have swung her fist. "Do you have to force me like this?”

Grandma was her weakness. With thousands of possibilities taken into account, she hadn't expected that Xue Zhupei would take her grandma as a threat.

"Choose one over the other. It is your decision to make!" Xue Zhupei raised her eyebrows in triumph. For her, there was no room for discussion.

Tang Mengyu closed her eyes heavily. And when she opened them, there was only desperation left in these crystal eyes. "I will marry him!"