My Ex-Wife Disappeared for Years and Had My Babies
Chapter 289: 207: Improving the Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law Relationship_2

Chapter 289: Chapter 207: Improving the Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law Relationship_2

Su Nian saw the scene from the car, she simply hadn’t managed to get out of the car in time because she was holding the sleeping Su Zhen, right? These people couldn’t wait to push a woman onto Shen Hanxiu!

Without even looking at Shen Lijia, Shen Hanxiu opened the car door, took Su Zhen into his arms, and then led Su Nian out of the car.

Seeing Su Nian and the twins, the woman and Shen Lijia first looked stunned and then cheerfully greeted Su Nian, “Ah Shu… is this Xiao Nian?”

Smiling, Su Nian held onto Shen Hanxiu’s arm, declaring her possession, then politely replied, “Yes, hello Auntie.”

Shen Lijia rolled her eyes plainly upon seeing her holding Shen Hanxiu’s arm.

Su Nian had an impression of this mother and daughter; she heard from someone that Shen Hanxiu’s distant cousin’s wife couldn’t have children, and the daughter was adopted.

Shen Lijia looked somewhat well-behaved; at first glance, she was quite lovely and petite, which easily triggered a man’s protective [desire]. The cousin’s wife was hoping that this daughter could marry well so she wouldn’t have raised her in vain.

They had nearly allowed Shen Lijia to get close to Shen Hanxiu, thinking today was a rare opportunity. However, they did not expect Su Nian and her son to follow along.

Without even the most basic greeting, Shen Hanxiu, carrying Su Zhen, walked forward with Su Nian leading Su Bao.

His presence here was nothing more than a formality. The Shen Family’s people were irrelevant to him. If he could, he would rather be called “Han Zisheng” than bear the surname “Shen.”

Deng Tonglian had been inside the mourning hall early on. Seeing Shen Hanxiu arrive with Su Nian, she couldn’t describe her feelings and wasn’t sure about their current situation.

Looking at Su Nian and then at the child in Shen Hanxiu’s arms, she pulled Shen Hanxiu to the side and asked, “Reconciled?”

“More or less,” Shen Hanxiu replied.

“What does ‘more or less’ mean? Whose child is this?! If the child isn’t from the Shen family, even if Su Nian marries in, I wouldn’t…”

Feeling his daughter in his arms becoming restless, Shen Hanxiu interrupted Deng Tonglian’s speech, “Keep it down.”

Deng Tonglian huffed and then closed her mouth. Su Zhen woke up, her little face turning red, pouting and not too happy.

She had woken up with a stomachache in the middle of last night and hadn’t slept much.

Shen Hanxiu looked down at her, gently asking, “Do you want to sleep some more?”

Su Zhen clung to his neck, sat up in the crook of his arm, and saw Deng Tonglian’s unfriendly face as she turned her head.

In a half-conscious daze, Su Zhen told Shen Hanxiu, “Daddy, I had a nightmare. I saw that very fierce old hag.”

Shen Hanxiu chuckled, while Deng Tonglian, with a stern face, glared at Su Nian, then told Shen Hanxiu, “After your elder brother’s burial, then you can leave! Otherwise, people will talk!”

“I know what I’m doing.”

Deng Tonglian left with an unhappy look.

Su Nian, holding onto Shen Hanxiu’s arm and looking at Deng Tonglian’s retreating back, puckered her lips and asked, “If Mom and I both fell into the water, whom would you save first?”

Shen Hanxiu glanced at her, as if to say she was being silly, not deigning to answer.

“Come on, tell me. With our bad relationship, who would you support if this continues?”

Shen Hanxiu, looking ahead and walking, said, “First, you’re not yet married to me, so there’s no mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship with my mom; second, if you did marry me and we both fell into the water…”

Su Nian looked up at him, eagerly awaiting his response, he said, “You know how to swim, so…”

Before he could finish his sentence, Su Nian remembered the time she and Ye Jiayao fell into the water, how he chose to save Ye Jiayao first because he knew she could swim.

Unpleasant memories made Su Nian become moody and interrupted him, “Even if I can swim, I can still have accidents, right?!”

Shen Hanxiu glanced at her, “Let me finish.”

Su Nian pouted and shut up to listen to him.

“You, who can swim, should just save my mom first, and that might even improve your relationship with her, don’t you think?”

Su Nian: “…”

Do all businessmen have such convoluted logic?

During the mourning ceremony in the Crystal Hall, Shen Rongjin’s biological mother had already passed away, and the wet nurse who raised him sobbed bitterly beside the crystal coffin.

Although Su Nian previously found the wet nurse to be manipulative and annoying, she felt a pang of sorrow seeing the elderly lady mourning the death of a younger life.

The funeral continued until evening ended, and then Shen Hanxiu took Su Nian back to the old house to stay.

Once inside, Shen Hanxiu was called away by Deng Tonglian.

In the side hall, Shen Hanxiu sat on the sofa, “What is it?”

Deng Tonglian looked outside the hall to see Su Nian and Su Zhen and Su Bao going upstairs, then asked, “What is the situation with you two now?”

Shen Hanxiu looked visibly better than the last two times, speaking with a softer tone, “You don’t need to worry about that. Just know she’s your daughter-in-law and Su Zhen and Su Bao are your grandchildren.”

Deng Tonglian wasn’t pleased to have a daughter-in-law and grandchildren but asked, “A child from another man, and you still treasure her?”

“If you don’t see me as part of the Shen bloodline, and I am not your biological son, then these two children are not your biological grandchildren.”

“What nonsense? If you’re not my biological son, then whose are you?”

“So, those two children are naturally your biological grandchildren, without a doubt.”

Deng Tonglian half-believed, “Really your children? Didn’t you lose a child before?”

“You don’t need to concern yourself with these things. Just enjoy being a grandmother, and… I hope you can refrain from showing my wife your displeasure.”

“Hey! With the way you talk, am I supposed to treat her like an ancestress and serve her?”

Shen Hanxiu stood up, apparently ready to leave, “If you want to see more of your grandchildren, then you better not show any bad moods.”

Deng Tonglian knew that Shen Hanxiu couldn’t do without Su Nian; if she didn’t accept Su Nian, she feared she might lose this son. Now knowing that the lovely pair of twins were her biological grandchildren, she felt a bit relieved.

Seeing Shen Hanxiu getting up to leave, Deng Tonglian quickly said, “Hey! Hold on, remember your cousin’s daughter, Shen Lijia? She’s graduated from university and is looking for a job at your company, can you arrange something for her?”