Jiang Se's smile slowly turned into a little melancholy. There was not much relationship between her and 'Feng Nan' anymore.
Apart from those past memories, there is now an unbridgeable gap between her and the Feng family.
She no longer has the surname Feng, and no longer owns that body. Her parents, relatives, responsibilities, and obligations no longer belong to her. She becomes Jiang Se, with new responsibilities and her own life.
In fact, she had known about these problems for a long time, but only now did she really face them.
She was stunned. For some reason, she felt relieved but also a little sad.
Jiang Se didn't understand what she was missing. Feng Zhongliang held her hand and said, "Why, now that you're surnamed Jiang, you don't recognize your grandfather anymore? You don't come to see me, talk to me, or have a meal with me?"
"Of course not!" she retorted hastily.
Feng Zhongliang knew that she would not do this, but seeing her anxious look, he still deliberately said:
"Are you not planning on letting Grandpa attend your wedding with Ayi in the future?"
"How is that possible!" She held Feng Zhongliang's arm:
"For my wedding, I want Grandpa to accompany me to order my dress, and I want Grandpa to hold my hand and warn Ayi not to bully me in the future!"
"Just don't bully him."
Feng Zhongliang saw the thin blush on her face, which looked much better than her pale face before. She was a little anxious:
"How is that possible?"
After she said this, she looked at Feng Zhongliang and smiled at her with a kind look.
At this moment, Jiang Se vaguely understood the intention of Feng Zhongliang's words.
"A change in identity does not mean a change in a person's inner willpower."
Feng Zhongliang said gently:
"Look, you are Jiang Se now, but if you miss grandpa, you will still try every means to come back. As for me, as long as I have my good grandson by my side in my old age, I will be satisfied."
This kind of emotion is far more important than the ties of name, identity, and blood ties.
"Ayi will not change his heart just because your identity changes, and you will not become a bad boy just because your identity changes."
She is still that tough, smart girl who finally knows what she wants.
"Yeah!" Jiang Se nodded vigorously.
The two grandparents walked along the riverside road for a long time. When Jiang Se sent Feng Zhongliang back to the Feng family's residential area, it was almost four o'clock.
Xiao Liu was still waiting at the door, looking forward to it. When Jiang Se's car came back, he breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed his hands.
"Uncle Liu is still waiting for you."
Jiang Se's car stopped, and Xiao Liu hurried forward to open the door. On the one hand, he thanked Jiang Se for bringing Feng Zhongliang back, and on the other hand, he felt a little headache:
"Old man, it's so late and you're still coughing..."
Feng Zhongliang got out of the car and turned around to tell Jiang Se:
"It's too late. It's not safe to drive back. Why don't you stay at home for one night? I'll have Xiao Wang redecorate your room tomorrow."
"I've been busy lately. I'll come and accompany you after I finish this."
Jiang Se shook his head, and Feng Zhongliang gave up.
He also told Jiang Se to drive carefully and not to neglect his health no matter how busy he was at work, and only then did he go into the house at Xiao Liu's silent urging.
He wanted to chat with his granddaughter for a while longer, but Jiang Se had work tomorrow and she was already thin enough, so she couldn't endure it any longer.
After Feng Zhongliang turned around and left, he went into the house and told Xiao Liu:
"Go and find a nutritionist for the young lady tomorrow." He thought for a while, "Why don't you let Xiao Wang go and take care of her? I see there are only a few little girls around her who don't know how to do things. No wonder they are so thin from hunger."
Xiao Liu nodded one by one.
Jiang Se watched Feng Zhongliang enter the gate and then drove out of the residential area after a while. Normally, she would have gone to bed at this time, but after chatting a lot with Feng Zhongliang tonight, she was not sleepy at all.
She drove about two hundred meters out of Feng's house and saw a car with its lights on parked on the side of the road from a distance. Pei Yi was sitting on the front of the car, looking in the direction of Feng's house. He saw her car the moment it drove out.
Jiang Se stepped on the brakes and stopped the car on the side of the road. When he got out of the car and saw Pei Yi, his eyes lit up:
"Ayi, why are you here?"
He sat on the front of the car, watching the girl trotting over in high heels with a smile, and couldn't help but remind her:
“Don’t run.”
"Didn't you say you had something to do and left first?"
Jiang Se was really surprised. After the premiere of "A Glimmer of Hope", Pei Yi said that he had something urgent to do and had to leave first, but now he suddenly appeared at Feng's house. She looked puzzled, and Pei Yi smiled and said:
"I'll come over when I'm done with this."
She stood in front of Pei Yi, her belly against the car body, her face held by him. When she heard what he said, a smile appeared in her eyes:
"Lie to me."
Tonight, Jiang Se was more casual and free-spirited than usual, as if the shackles that were pressing on her had been removed, and her smile became much more relaxed.
"You have nothing to do."
She didn't know how gentle her tone was when she said this, as if she was acting coquettishly to him. Her cheeks were flushed as she spoke, and her eyes were still a little red and swollen. Her eyes were washed by tears and sparkling.
Pei Yi felt a little distressed. He held her face in his hands and gently stroked her eyelids with his thumbs. She closed her eyes obediently, and her long, dense eyelashes gently brushed across his fingertips, feeling as if they were moistened by water.
She put her arms around her fiancé's waist and rubbed her face in his palm:
"Are you trying to leave some time for me to talk to Grandpa, and then wait for me here?"
She was so cute. Pei Yi touched her face with his fingertips and felt that the anxious feeling he had when he didn't see her while waiting was smoothed out by her flower-like smile.
His heart was beating so fast, and the feeling of being out of control came back. He lowered his head, kissed her first, and nodded obediently:
"Um."
He nodded in acknowledgment, and saw that Jiang Se's eyes were full of brilliance. She smiled with her pearly teeth showing, and hugged him tighter:
"Ayi is so good."
She raised her face and stood on tiptoe to kiss him, "Have you been waiting for a long time?"
He was wearing a shirt and a sweater draped over his shoulders. His cheeks were a little cold, but his eyes were so gentle.
"No." He took his sweater and put it on her:
"I'm just worried that you'll cry."
He knew that Feng Zhongliang had made an appointment with Jiang Zhiyuan to watch a movie tonight, and Feng Zhongliang chose this time to chat with her. The topic they talked about should be related to the kidnapping of Feng Nan many years ago.
He shouldn't get involved, but he was worried that she would cry.
The feeling was hard to describe. He knew that if some things were said, it would be good for both Feng Zhongliang and Jiang Se, but he just couldn't bear to see her cry.
"What will you do if I cry?"
She leaned in her boyfriend's arms and wanted to climb onto the front of the car and sit next to him, but because of the skirt she was wearing tonight, she tried a few times but couldn't think of a good-looking posture so she gave up.
He frowned, his expression looking extremely serious:
"Make me laugh."
"How to coax?"
She asked again, Pei Yi jumped down, held her waist, and easily carried her to the front of the car and sat her down. He was stumped by her words.
How to coax her? He scratched his hair. In his twenty years of life, all his experiences in pursuing girls were related to her. His joys, sorrows, anger and happiness were all affected. He really didn't have much experience in coaxing girls.
"I'll call Qiu Ji!"
He made a prompt decision, took out his cell phone and called Xiang Qiuji. Jiang Se did not stop him and watched him call Xiang Qiuji.
"Da Qiu, how do I coax my wife?"
He made his request seriously, and Xiang Qiuji was woken up in the middle of the night by such a boring question, and he was furious:
"How should I know?"
"Please, please spare me, I still need to sleep... Call Qiu Ran, maybe he is still available..."
'Beep, beep...' The phone was hung up.
Pei Yi called again, but Xiang Qiuji had the foresight to turn off the phone.
He gritted his teeth and called Qiu Ran again.
On the phone, my brother was half dead, with a tone of voice like he was on his deathbed:
"Flowers, candles... gifts..."
"Gift?" When he proposed, even the ring was prepared by Jiang Se. This matter has always made Pei Yi a little depressed. "What are they specifically?"
“Bags, diamonds…”
He stopped talking halfway, and Pei Yi couldn't help asking:
"What else?"
There was a sound of slow breathing coming from the other end, obviously the person had fallen asleep again.
He didn't give up, so he hung up the phone and called again. After waking the person up, he hung up with satisfaction.
Jiang Se watched him call everyone one by one, making Nie Dan and others furious. Cheng Runing didn't know whether to live or die on the phone:
"Brother Yi, if you keep doing this, we won't be able to continue!"
She bit her lip and looked at Pei Yi who was talking on the phone seriously, her smile becoming more and more gentle.
He was still sincerely asking his brothers for ways to coax her, but he didn't know how much she liked him while he was on the phone.
He leaned his long legs against the front of the car, holding the phone in one hand and protecting her waist with the other, fearing that she would slip down. This thoughtfulness was more precious than a gift.
Pei Yi was still on the phone. Jiang Se hugged his arm softly and turned his head:
"Tired?"
Jiang Se shook his head and asked again:
"Are you cold, Sese?"
"It's not cold. I want to talk to you."
Nie Dan was still cursing on the other end of the phone, so he quickly hung up, propped up the bike, and jumped on gracefully, sitting side by side with her.
"Grandpa apologized to me tonight."
She leaned her head on his shoulder and squinted her eyes. Although she hadn't drunk any alcohol, she felt as if she was drunk and was feeling dizzy.
"Grandpa said that after I was kidnapped, he didn't give up on me."
She seemed to be so happy when she talked about this little thing:
"But he didn't understand at the time that family and kinship are much more important than Zhongnan Industry. He said he has learned it since then."
Maybe he was not a qualified grandfather before, but he is trying hard to learn to get along with his granddaughter.
As she was learning to grow up and mature, she forgot that everyone is constantly learning to adapt to new identities. Identity such as father and grandfather are not roles that everyone is born with.
She liked the way her grandfather talked to her, and it made her feel much better.
"In fact, I have let go of many things that happened back then."
But some knots were still there. No matter how tightly they were tied, there were still lumps when she touched them. Her grandfather's words helped her untie the knot in her heart.
She did not ask what Feng Qinlun and his wife were doing at the time, or whether they cared about her disappearance. Perhaps everyone knew the answer in their hearts, but she no longer cared.
Just like the scenery on the other side of the river that her grandfather took her to see, the river views have changed a lot, and she has also changed. She should also figure it out and live her own life.
She swayed her toes in front of the car lights, and her shadow on the ground swayed with her movements:
"When we got married, Grandpa said he would hold my hand so that you wouldn't dare bully me in the future."
She turned her head away with a shy look in her eyes. Pei Yi vaguely recalled a scene from her girlhood.
That year, she stood in front of the library of her middle school and said to the wall covered with ivy that in the future her house would also have a wall covered with ivy.
She had her hands behind her back, her figure was slender, and when she turned her head, there was still a hint of immaturity between her eyebrows.
He still remembered the delicate tone of her voice when she spoke, which was full of longing and expectation, and her eyes reflected the green on the wall. The girl's smile at that time hit his heart, catching him off guard. He didn't even have time to prepare, so he raised his hands in surrender.
Maybe at that time if she wanted the stars or the moon, he would nod without hesitation.
"good… "
He only remembered that his heart and eyes were filled with her, his heart was beating wildly, and he almost forgot how to speak. But he still remembered her smile and her request at that time. Many years later, he regretted not agreeing to her wish in time, which led to him being more afraid to speak as he got older.
Now that she asked again, he swallowed a little, nodded solemnly, and promised: "I won't bully Sese."
"Of course I know." She sat up straight and teased him deliberately: "If you bully me, I won't marry you."
"No." He held Jiang Se's hand tightly, "You will be Mrs. Pei in a year and a half."
"Yeah!" Jiang Se nodded.
Pei Yi was going to take her home, and they both drove over. Jiang Se simply parked the car on the side of the road. If it hadn't been towed away tomorrow, he would let Mo Anqi drive it back.
She left in Pei Yi's car, but an uninvited guest came to the Feng family at this time.
When Feng Zhongliang was helped into the house by Xiao Liu, Feng Nan had been waiting for him at Feng's house for five or six hours.
After she moved out of the Feng family, it was no longer as easy for her to come back as before. Feng Zhongliang didn't like her, and the servants in the Feng family knew it.
Normally, she didn't interact with Feng Zhongliang, but tonight, as soon as Feng Nan came back, she insisted on coming in.
After all, she was Feng Zhongliang's legitimate granddaughter. She insisted on coming back, and Feng Zhongliang was not at home, so Wang Ma and others could not find an excuse to refuse her.
As soon as she came back, she asked about Feng Zhongliang's whereabouts. After knowing that Feng Zhongliang had gone out, she quickly remembered that tonight was the premiere of "A Glimmer of Hope". Feng Nan guessed that Feng Zhongliang might have gone to see Jiang Se's movie.
When Feng Nan thought of this, he felt extremely annoyed.
She heard the sound of a car outside, but did not get up to greet it. Instead, she sat in the living room and watched Xiao Liu help Feng Zhongliang in step by step. She crossed her arms and had a look of resentment on her face. Wang Ma and others stood behind her awkwardly.
When Feng Zhongliang saw her, he was a little surprised, but soon regained his composure:
"Why are you here?" (To be continued)