Chapter 354: Dark History
Back when she first met Su Peng’s father and mother at their villa, An Han had never even thought about marriage. At that time, she and Su Peng had feelings for each other, but they hadn’t said it out loud yet. They weren’t even a couple.
But now, Su Peng had already mentioned marriage, and she had seriously thought about it too.
An Han had never been good at dealing with older people.
And the two elders in front of her were people who could decide her future with Su Peng. Because of that, she didn’t dare to act casually or say anything inappropriate. Even when the auntie made a small joke with her, she didn’t dare to follow along.
If his father and mother could accept her, life afterwards would be so much easier~
“Recently Su Peng started his internship. Then what will happen to his studies?”
“Mm… Su Peng has always done well in school, and even if he’s interning now, he won’t give up on his studies.”
An Han answered the auntie seriously, but her mind was always tense.
Even though the auntie looked friendly and kind, and seemed like she was only concerned about Su Peng’s life outside, An Han wasn’t stupid. She knew the purpose of their visit.
She just didn’t know whether they would directly demand that Su Peng go abroad, or whether they planned to take it slowly, talk nicely, and ease the conflict first.
“A few days ago, I dragged him to the pharmacy to check his weight. He seems to have lost about a kilo. Maybe work has been tiring lately.”
“Or maybe the food I cook doesn’t suit his taste…”
An Han kept answering all kinds of questions. She wanted to secretly send Su Peng a message to tell him what was happening, and also ask how she should deal with this uncle and aunt’s visit. But she was sitting right under the auntie’s watchful eyes, and the auntie had been holding her hands affectionately the whole time.
“Is that so? Being a little thinner is good too. You might not know this, but he used to be over a hundred kilos. At that time, he was…"
“One hundred kilos?” She instantly became interested.
The auntie nodded with a smile. “Back then, he was almost twice your size. His face was so round you could barely see his eyes, and his arms were as thick as your legs.”
“How did he even get that fat~”
Her previously restrained emotions suddenly burst into excitement. Learning someone’s embarrassing past behind their back was just too fun.
She imagined Su Peng being fat like a pig and almost laughed out loud. “I can’t believe he actually slimmed down.”
“He was too fat, it wasn’t healthy. When he was in his second year of high school, I signed him up for a program. He lost all that weight in just over a year.”
“That’s amazing!”
Even though An Han had never thought about losing weight herself, when she looked at her friends and classmates, all of them would shout about dieting while eating meat and drinking milk tea, and none of them ever lasted more than a week.
Su Peng had never told her about this. He was probably afraid it would ruin the image he had in her heart.
Seeing that An Han was interested in this kind of thing, the auntie picked out all of Su Peng’s embarrassing childhood stories and told them one after another.
Like how he still wet the bed at age three, how he could barely speak clearly in kindergarten, how he once tried on the auntie’s high heels out of curiosity when he was five and fell so badly he fractured a bone…
An Han listened happily the whole time, and felt that the auntie was truly kind and easy to talk to, nothing like the scary image Su Peng had described.
But as time passed, she gradually couldn’t sit still anymore.
No matter how interesting the stories were, they couldn’t talk for a full hour nonstop! Her butt already hurt from sitting too long!
She glanced at the time and realized it was already 1:30.
“Su Peng was always fat as a child. When he was seven or eight he was as round as a ball…”
“Auntie, I need to go to class…” she finally had no choice but to interrupt, and said awkwardly, “If I don’t leave now, I’ll be late.”
“Class is important, class is important.”
The auntie wasn’t bothered at all by her needing to leave. She stood up with a smile. “How about I drive you there?”
“It’s not far. I can just ride my bicycle.”
An Han quickly went back to the master bedroom to grab her textbooks for the afternoon classes. She put on her socks and returned to the living room. She glanced at the auntie who was helping sweep the floor and forced a small smile.
“Auntie, I can clean later when I come home tonight.”
“It’s fine. You go to class.”
The auntie acted as if she were completely at home. An Han originally wanted to ask her to leave, but now she couldn’t say it anymore.
Chasing out her future mother-in-law would indeed be very rude.
She was just worried that while she wasn’t home, the auntie might find some weird things, just like last time when her father came.
Luckily, she had already hidden the backless sweater deep inside her wardrobe drawer.
An Han secretly looked at the uncle, who was standing by the window smoking.
From beginning to end, the uncle hadn’t said much. He just used his phone silently, smoked, or went to the balcony to make phone calls, almost like decoration.
“Then I’m leaving~”
“Come back early. I’ll cook something delicious for you tonight.”
“Okay~”
Sighing in her heart, An Han put on her shoes, opened the door, and left.
The moment the door closed, she immediately took out her phone and called Su Peng, telling him everything that had happened at noon, and also teasing him about his past fat body.
“One hundred kilos! How did you get that fat? You never told me!”
“Don’t bring it up. I’m thinking about whether I should even go home tonight.”
“I think your mother seems really nice~”
“You’re being tricked.”
An Han thought about the auntie’s expression again. She didn’t feel anything strange at all. Instead, she felt the auntie probably liked her.
After all, she herself was very charming, high affection attribute, charm trait, plus a sweet and pretty appearance. Whenever she pretended to act like a lady, most people probably wouldn’t find a reason to dislike her.
She reached downstairs, got on her bike, and because she still wasn’t very skilled at riding, she had to hang up the phone and use both hands to control the handlebars as she headed toward school.
Leaving the uncle and aunt alone in the apartment made her worried. Before leaving the neighborhood, she even turned back to look at her window.
Oh~ the auntie was waving at her from there.
How could such a nice auntie be described by Su Peng as some kind of monster?
Maybe the auntie was like her own mother, fierce and terrifying at home, beating up her little sister every day and acting like a tiger, but outside she was elegant and gentle, even covering her mouth when she laughed… a classic “soft outside, fierce at home” type.
After giving a couple of small waves back, An Han finally felt relieved and rode away.
Her mind wandered from thinking about how to deal with Su Peng’s parents that evening, to how she could make them agree to her and Su Peng getting married, then slowly drifted to the question of whether or not she should have kids…
His father and mother probably wouldn't be open-minded enough to not pressure them to have children, right?
When she reached the school gate, An Han showed her student ID to the security guard. When she looked up, she saw Wu Dongming hurrying toward the teaching building.
Her eyes lit up, and her mental “little notebook” immediately opened.
The incident where she was tricked into wearing women’s clothes still wasn’t settled, and now on top of that, he had exposed the address of her and Su Peng’s rented apartment!
“Wu Dongming!”
An Han stood up from the bike seat and pedaled fast, charging toward him.
Hearing her angry shout, Wu Dongming froze. When he turned, he saw An Han riding straight at him as if she wanted to run him over. His face instantly turned pale, and he turned around and ran.
“What the hell is wrong with you! Are you crazy?!”