sovbooks Chapter 127 Don't be too smug.
Chapter 127 Don't be too smug.
"We, the Gu family, are not stingy people, and we certainly wouldn't let our daughter-in-law only focus on taking care of her in-laws after marriage and neglect her own parents. Don't worry, Ye Tang is a good girl, she won't be unfilial to you. Since your in-laws have so many requirements, why don't you go back and think carefully about everything you need for the marriage and make a list?"
Xu Mingzhu smiled slightly.
His tone was exceptionally gentle and calm.
Ye Tang felt extremely embarrassed.
Her parents were indeed unsophisticated and ignorant.
But she had already warned them beforehand, and they still tried to pull this stunt.
That's not just simple ignorance, it becomes greed.
"Dad, Mom, I'll take you home."
Ye Tang got up and called Wang Hui and Ye Gang to leave.
Ye Yu and Liu Han had barely eaten a few bites of their meal, so it wasn't appropriate for them to stay any longer.
He had no choice but to leave with Ye Tang.
Only the Gu family of three remained at the large dining table.
Gu Lin spoke first, "If you think the Ye family is asking for too much, please don't refuse. I don't want to see Ye Tang in a difficult position. I love her and don't want her to suffer even the slightest grievance. As for the money... you can pay for it for me first, and I will pay you back when my company makes money in the future."
"You brat."
Gu Changqing picked up the chopsticks beside him and threw them at Gu Lin.
He didn't dodge.
The chopsticks hit my face; it hurt a little.
He smiled bitterly.
He doesn't have the means to offer such a high dowry right now.
If the Ye family asks for some other miscellaneous items, the total amount would be even higher if converted to cash.
"Consider it a loan from me." He lowered his eyes, like a child who had done something wrong.
At this time.
The door to the private room was opened again.
Gu Lin's older sister, Gu Rou, walked in.
She was dressed in Chanel haute couture, with a limited-edition Hermès bag on her arm, and her hair and nails were newly done.
A stunningly beautiful woman.
That should be used to describe Gu Rou.
"What happened? Did they leave?" She glanced at her Patek Philippe watch and said apologetically, "Was I too late? It's all Wang Bin's fault, no..."
Gu Rou sensed that something was wrong.
Why do my parents and brother look at me like that...?
"What's wrong with you two?" She put down her bag and sat down next to Xu Mingzhu. "Mom, what's going on? Did the talks fall apart? It can't be that bad, can it? With our family's conditions, what can't we afford? Your brother only gets married once in his life, don't be stingy."
"I never said I wouldn't give it to you," Xu Mingzhu said coldly.
Gu Rou looked at Gu Lin, "Hey kid, what's going on with you?"
"Nothing's wrong." Gu Lin lowered his head, not looking up, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
Gu Changqing sighed deeply, "In the Gu family, it has always been the elders who handle the weddings. You're even borrowing money from me here. Gu Lin, if you have this intention, then you should focus on running your company properly in the future, so that you won't have to borrow money from me to run the company in the future."
Gu Lin remained silent.
Gu Changqing stood up and left his seat in anger.
Xu Mingzhu glanced at Gu Lin and said to Gu Rou, "Your dad has a bad temper. I'm worried he might have a heart problem, so I'll go see him first."
"Um."
Two more people were missing from the private room.
Gu Rou got up, walked to Gu Lin's side, pulled out a chair, and sat down.
"Alright, Mom and Dad aren't really in any trouble. If the Ye family hadn't made such unreasonable demands, they would have definitely agreed. Don't you know Mom and Dad?"
Gu Rou gently ruffled Gu Lin's hair.
His eyes were red as he looked up. "It's my fault. If I had money..."
"Alright, alright." Gu Rou couldn't stand Gu Lin's pretentious act. "Tell me, how much dowry does the Ye family want? It's gotten so messy!"
"Thirty million, and there should be some other things as well." Fearing Gu Rou might misunderstand, he added an explanation, "It was Ye's parents who wanted it, Ye Tang didn't want it."
"No matter who wanted it, 30 million isn't a lot for our family. How could we have collapsed like this?"
Gu Rou couldn't understand it.
The fact that Ye Tang's parents agreed to let her into the family and even gifted her a villa worth nearly 100 million yuan proves that they were willing to accept her.
How could this be...?
Gu Lin shook his head.
Perhaps it was Ye's father's matter-of-fact manner and less-than-friendly tone that made his parents somewhat resentful.
It's like they're selling their daughter.
It's like trading one's daughter for personal gain, and doing so with such self-righteousness that "it didn't... collapse."
Gu Rou wasn't present, after all.
The details are too complex to investigate in detail.
She got up to get her bag, took out her phone, and transferred some money to Gu Lin. "When has my boy ever been so troubled by money? It's true what they say, even a penny can stump a hero."
Gu Lin's phone rang.
He looked up and glanced at Gu Rou.
"what?"
"I don't want to see my son have to borrow money to get married because of a few stinking coins. Your sister will pay for it."
Gu Rou raised her chin.
He pointed to his phone.
Gu Lin picked up his phone, and a notification popped up that his account had been credited to his account.
"Thirty million? Gu Rou, are you crazy? Transferring so much money to me?"
"Only thirty million." Gu Rou looked at Gu Lin with heartache, her delicate nails gripping his hair, pulling and tugging. "Look at my boy, what kind of life is he living out there? He even thinks thirty million is too much, sigh..."
"No, you're already married. Would my brother-in-law agree to transfer such a large sum of money to me?"
He didn't want his own affairs to cause internal conflicts between the couple.
Gu Rou looked at her beautiful fingernails and said indifferently, "If he doesn't agree, then get a divorce. If this one is naughty, the next one will be."
Gu Lin: ...
"Don't get too cocky."
Gu Rou smiled and said, "Your brother-in-law gives me over a billion a year and tells me to spend it however I want. I could never spend it all. It's only thirty million. What's the big deal?"
Gu Rou's husband, Wang Bin, is her classmate.
He had been pursuing Gu Rou since high school.
I watched her fall in love, watched her break up, watched her fall in love again, and watched her break up again.
It went around in circles.
Gu Rou was tired, so he knelt down.
Wang Bin loved Gu Rou even more passionately than he loved Ye Tang.
If Gu Rou glances at a particular bag on the counter, the next second, every bag in that store will appear in their home.
Love is true love.
They are truly wealthy.
They were truly willing to give up.
It's the kind of relationship where you're completely open and honest.
But why didn't he come today?
"Brother-in-law, is something important happening today? Why didn't you come with me?"
Gu Rou said casually, "I just told him today that I was going to meet my in-laws, but he's on a business trip abroad. He doesn't understand time difference and kept telling me that there's still plenty of time. That's why I'm late."
"Be nicer to your brother-in-law," Gu Lin said.
Gu Rou pushed Gu Lin's head. "Whose brother are you? Besides, how have I ever treated him badly?"
"If you want to be good to him, hurry up and have a child for him. Your brother-in-law loves children so much, and you're going to be childless? Let me tell you, Gu Rou, it's women who are childless, but men can have children at any age if they want to."
Would Gu Rou not know this principle?
She just... hasn't made up her mind yet.
Let's talk about it in two years.
"In two years, you'll be forty. Are you still talking about this?" Gu Lin felt that this matter really needed to be discussed. "Not to mention that you'll be an older mother, it's uncertain whether you can even get pregnant, and whether you can give birth to a healthy baby is still unknown. You'd better hurry up."
"Okay, okay, I know, I know. It's so annoying. I get pressured to have children at my in-laws' house, and I get pressured to have children again when I go back to my parents' house."
Gu Rou stood up, picked up her bag, and said to Gu Lin, "Let's hurry up and go to the Ye family. I should get my skin treated too."
"Take what I'm telling you to heart."
Gu Rou replied impatiently, "Okay, okay."