Paranoid Doctor Only Loves Me
Chapter 512 - 475 this year, too many surprises (1 more update)

Chapter 512: 475 this year, too many surprises (1 more update)

Not mentioning Bai Simen was fine but the moment they did, Bai Dingkai felt uncomfortable all over and wanted to change the subject. However, Bai Dingyang stopped him with a sentence.

"Don’t talk to the driver, and don’t distract the driver by chatting."

Bai Dingkai: "..."

In the first car, Patriarch Bai had his daughter, granddaughter, granddaughter-in-law, and grandnieces with him, filling the vehicle with non-stop laughter.

For Patriarch Bai, this year couldn’t have been more comfortable.

"Tang Su, look, you really are grandpa’s lucky star. In previous years, Duoduo never had the time to join this old man for a meal on New Year’s eve, and Menmen too, I had no idea in which corner of the world she hid herself."

"Since you’ve arrived at our home, Duoduo has found time, and Menmen has come back as well. It’s really wonderful."

"Grandpa could die right this moment, and it would still be worth it."

"Dad——" Bai Wei glared and threatened, "I know you’re very happy tonight, but joy is joy, and some things should not be said so casually because of it, understand?"

"I know, I know, I was just saying. You all just listen, and once it’s said and heard, isn’t it over?"

"Over what? The good days are just beginning. Quickly, spit, spit, spit, spit three times."

"Alright, alright, alright, spit, spit, spit. Ah, when a person gets old, they really do become small, and have to listen to their daughter."

Patriarch Bai might have seemed unhappy with his words, but deep down, he couldn’t be more delighted to have a daughter to look after him in his old age.

If his spouse were still alive, they would have been even happier.

"Grandpa will definitely live to be a hundred years old, with this health, living past a hundred isn’t an issue at all." Bai Simen really didn’t want Patriarch Bai to leave.

"You’ve moved out of the Bai Family home and live elsewhere. Grandpa can’t see you and doesn’t know how you’re doing. It’s a worry." Patriarch Bai was still indirectly asking Bai Simen to come home.

"Dad, Menmen is all grown up, it’s natural for a bird to leave the nest. She takes time out of her week to come home and have meals with you, how much more do you expect from Menmen?" Bai Wei spoke up for Bai Simen.

Bai Simen was grateful to her younger aunt for speaking on her behalf, or else she would have felt even more guilty.

She knew Patriarch Bai wanted her to spend more time with him, and she would try her best to make time to accompany him, but the plans she currently had made it impossible for her to live at the Bai Family home all the time.

She was afraid of being found out and also dared not let anything slip.

There was also Bai Dingkai – for some reason, he had been watching her intently lately; whenever her phone rang, he seemed even more sensitive to it than she was.

"Alright, alright, alright, you all have good points. Menmen, grandpa isn’t asking for much. Just come home for the New Year festivities, the food outside just isn’t delicious."

"Okay, grandpa."

"Good girl——"

Soon, the motorcade stopped at a high-end hotel under the Lu Corporation, and as the Bai Family’s only son-in-law, Lu Maoyan was responsible for organizing the Bai Family’s annual New Year’s Eve dinner every year.

The banquet room for the New Year’s Eve dinner was naturally the biggest and most refined in the hotel, and the food was the freshest and most top-grade ingredients available.

While the old patriarch was still around, Lu Maoyan adhered to tradition, focusing on the patriarch’s taste as well as the traditional New Year’s Eve dinner. Anything that could be found on other’s tables could certainly be found on theirs.

And there were dishes available on their table that wouldn’t be found on others’.

Dumplings, rice balls, New Year cakes, they had it all.

Whatever couldn’t be finished, hotel staff would take care of, feeding it to stray cats and dogs or offering it to the homeless.

In the private room, aside from Lu Zhu and Song Mingxiu who had arrived a few minutes earlier than them, there was also the fake heiress Bai Mingzhu and her family, whom Patriarch Bai had mistakenly recognized years ago.

At that time, Bai Mingzhu, as the only daughter of the Bai Family, married quite well.

After Bai Wei was found and brought back, Bai Mingzhu moved abroad with her husband and family.

To this day, Bai Mingzhu still hasn’t found her biological parents, so after Bai Wei returned, Bai Mingzhu made it clear to her that she wouldn’t take away what Wei now had, and certainly wouldn’t take the name that Wei had been using for over a decade, which set Mingzhu at ease.

The two of them didn’t put on the spectacle everyone expected of a confrontation between the true and false heiresses; Bai Mingzhu had grown up in the Bai Family from a young age and was naturally influenced by Patriarch Bai’s character.

When Bai Wei returned, and she realized she wasn’t the true heiress of the Bai Family, she already had a fiancé whom she had publicly engaged. She was honest with him and even gave him the opportunity to back out.

After much thought, his family didn’t blame her.

She hadn’t intentionally deceived anyone, it was just that life is unpredictable, and many things are beyond our expectations.

Bai Mingzhu hadn’t returned to her home country for many years, knowing that Bai Wei and Patriarch Bai had missed so many years as father and daughter, they both needed each other, so there really was no need for her to return and cause them any annoyance.

At that time, she also had children to tend to; as a housewife, she took care of her in-laws, sought to be her husband’s confidante, didn’t hold a position in the company, but acted as her husband’s strategist from behind the scenes, giving advice to support him.

They had several more children together.

Now, their youngest son and daughter, only in their teens, were studying abroad in high school.

Bai Mingzhu never had her own family to turn to. Where they were or why they abandoned her, she still doesn’t know. After she was brought back by Patriarch Bai and his wife, she truly regarded them as her biological parents.

In the Bai Family, her life was affluent, spiritually fulfilling, and materially abundant; she was very happy.

She was grateful and, even though she had been managing her own little family over the years, she would regularly call Patriarch Bai.

She also chatted with Bai Wei online.

When Bai Dingyang went abroad to expand the market, Bai Mingzhu supported him a lot behind the scenes, something the Bai Family people were aware of and grateful for.

Although she was a "false daughter" and "false sister," the kindness they had shown her was not in vain.

Just like Bai Simen, in the old man’s heart, Bai Mingzhu was another one of his daughters.

The Bai Family always welcomed her to stay with them.

"Mingzhu?!" Seeing Bai Mingzhu and her husband Ling Yan, Patriarch Bai was exceptionally excited. This daughter had not been raised in vain, but she really was busy and hadn’t come back for many years.

"Dad." Bai Mingzhu ran towards the old man and they hugged tightly, "It’s Mingzhu’s fault for not coming back to spend the New Year with you for so many years."

"How is that being unfilial, you’re back now, aren’t you?" Patriarch Bai didn’t feel she was unfilial at all.

Between them, there was gratitude for her upbringing, but not for her birth, and it was enough for him that this child remembered their kindness.

He asked for nothing more.

"Yes, yes, Yan—" Bai Mingzhu called to her husband.

Ling Yan came over and respectfully said, "Dad, Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year, Yan. Is it just the two of you coming back? Where are the children?"

"They’re busy. The youngest twins are already sixteen this year and went to winter camp, they totally ignore us."

"Good, good, good, you’re living well, and that puts Dad at ease."

"Thank you, Dad." Bai Mingzhu once again moved into the old man’s embrace and was held tightly by him.

This year, there were so many surprises she could hardly take them all in.