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Chapter 313 The atmosphere was too friendly
The following morning, Cao Sheng went out and bought some gifts.

The next morning, he drove to the residential area where Huang Qingya lived. After getting out of the car, he took out the gifts from the trunk and carried them to her building.

Last night, Huang Qingya called him and talked for quite a while. She even specifically told him to call her when he got to her building and that she would come down to pick him up.

But now that he's actually here, he's too lazy to call her to come pick him up.

As he carried the gifts toward the building, memories uncontrollably surfaced in his mind—memories from before his rebirth.

Before his rebirth, he had never married.

But he lived to be 40, and had a rich romantic history.

She has dated quite a few people.

In some of these relationships, he had met the woman's parents.

On one occasion, he even met the woman's parents before meeting her.

A kind relative introduced him to a potential partner and invited him to the woman's home for a blind date.

He went.

However, they did not see the girl, but only her parents and brother. The girl's mother explained: "My daughter is still working outside and will not be back for a few days. We wanted to see you first."

He still vividly remembers how he felt at that time.

—I wanted to turn around and leave, and I also felt like cursing.

He only sat for about ten minutes on this blind date before getting up to leave. He never actually met the girl, so it was a blind date where he didn't get to see her at all.

His other relationship was with someone he dated himself.

After spending some time together, the girl said her parents wanted to see him, so they took him to her home.

He bought a gift.

After arriving at his home, his mother stared at him for a long time without saying a word.

Her father, on the other hand, was very hospitable, inviting him to sit down and pouring him a glass of water.

She had barely sat down, and before she even took a sip of water, her mother asked, "How much money do you earn in a month?"

At that time, it was the early 2000s. I had already quit my accounting job and had just started writing full-time for a little over a year. My income was not only low but also unstable.

He doesn't like to lie, so he told the truth that he currently earns two to three thousand yuan a month.

After he finished speaking, her dad said it was alright, two or three thousand was acceptable, and it would definitely increase in the future.

But after a moment of silence, her mother said coldly, "Young man! You are not good enough for my daughter, do you know that? With my daughter's looks, she could easily find someone with better conditions, so you should break up with her! Anyway, even if you don't break up now, I will never agree to your marriage in the future. I won't keep you for lunch. Finish this glass of water and leave!"

He was taken aback and felt very embarrassed.

Before coming to her house, his girlfriend told him that her parents wanted to meet him and talk about their marriage. Little did she know that her mother actually wanted to trick him into going there to "kill" him.

After that relationship, he didn't date anyone for quite a long time.

His pride wouldn't allow him to experience something like this again.

He wants to achieve something before looking for a partner.

……

Ma'am.

Cao Sheng doesn't often recall these memories.

Not only because these memories are from a long time ago, but also because his novel writing gradually improved, he earned more and more over 10,000 yuan a month, and his savings in his bank account gradually increased, which greatly improved his living conditions.

Gradually, no one said those words to him anymore.

However, once he became better off, he started to be picky about women.

Many women may seem beautiful, and he may be interested in dating them, but he may not have the desire to marry them.

I just don't think they're a good match.

This guy spends money like water; I always want to drain his gold coins.

She hadn't been dating him for long when she asked him for his phone, computer, and even to help pay her shop rent.

There are also women who are outwardly glamorous but live in filthy, doghouse-like places. They have beautiful manicures but do no housework, can't cook, and eat out or order takeout all the time. When a man thinks about getting married to such a woman, he will likely imagine that he will have to cook for himself every day or eat takeout every day.

Although he can cook.

But he doesn't like cooking every day. Besides, he spends his days writing, sometimes sitting in front of the computer for hours without being able to concentrate. By the time he finally gets into the zone, it's already three or four in the afternoon. If he still needs to cook every day, how is he supposed to write his articles? Is he supposed to write halfway and then go cook?
Sometimes, he would think: if the cost of marriage weren't so high, he might have gotten married long ago. But as times have changed, the cost of marriage has become increasingly high, with a single wedding costing hundreds of thousands of yuan. Although he could afford it, he always felt that the women he had dated weren't worth the high price he would pay to marry them.

With a jumble of random thoughts flashing through his mind, he arrived at Huang Qingya's door, pressed the doorbell, and then composed himself, putting on a smile as he stood at the door waiting.

"I'm coming! I'm coming!"

A little boy's excited voice came from inside the house, along with the sound of running footsteps approaching the door.

Soon, the door clicked open.

The door was opened by a little boy of about five or six years old, with a chubby face, who looked up at him in surprise and asked, "Who are you?"

Before Cao Sheng could answer, the little boy turned around and called out, "Grandma! Who is this uncle?"

Several people walked over into the living room.

One of them was Huang Qingya, who was wearing home clothes.

Huang Qingya looked surprised.

The same goes for everyone else.

Before Huang Qingya could introduce them, another young woman exclaimed with a smile, "Oh! It's Xiao Cao! He's here."

The woman was pretty, wearing jeans and a short down jacket, with long, flowing hair, dressed like a young married woman.

Everyone else seemed to recognize Cao Sheng and called him into the house. Although it was Cao Sheng's first time visiting, the adults in the house all recognized him.

Cao Sheng was unaware that Huang Qingya had shown them his photo.

Or perhaps they had seen him on the news.

He walked into the house with a smile.

Huang Qingya jogged over, taking the gift box from his hand while lowering her voice to ask, "Didn't I tell you to call me so I could come down and get you? Why did you come up here by yourself?"

Cao Sheng replied in a low voice, "Since I'm already here, introduce me to your family!"

There were quite a few people in her living room today.

There was an elderly couple, whom Cao Sheng guessed were her parents, and two men in their thirties or forties, who were probably her two brothers.

There were also two young women, one of whom was the one who spoke earlier, and the other, who looked a bit older, was probably her sister-in-law.

There was also a young woman in her early twenties, with delicate features, a slender figure, dressed in all white, and with beautiful black hair. Who was she? Cao Sheng couldn't guess.

Because when Huang Qingya told him about her family members before, she never mentioned that there was such a big girl.

Besides these, there are three other children.

The little boy who just opened the door was the youngest.

There were also two teenagers, a boy and a girl. Cao Sheng could guess that these three children were her eldest and second eldest brothers' children, as Huang Qingya had told him about them before.

"Dad, Mom! Eldest brother, second brother! Eldest sister-in-law, second sister-in-law! And Xiaohui, I don't need to introduce this one, right? You all seem to know him, right? This is Cao Sheng! You can just call him Xiao Cao!"

Huang Qingya put down the gift box she had just received and stood up to introduce Cao Sheng to her family.

The elderly couple nodded with smiles on their faces.

Huang Qingfeng's expression was complicated as he coldly stared at Cao Sheng without saying a word.

However, Huang Qingya's second brother Huang Qingwen, her sister-in-law, and her other sister-in-law all greeted Cao Sheng with smiles on their faces.

The young woman called "Xiao Hui" said, "Sister! I can't call him Xiao Cao, I have to call him brother-in-law, right?"

This remark amused many people.

Amidst everyone's laughter, Xiao Hui called out to Cao Sheng in a clear voice, "Hello, brother-in-law! I'm my sister's cousin, you can just call me Xiao Hui!"

"Hello!"

Cao Sheng responded with a smile.

At this moment, the eldest sister-in-law hurried to the dining room to make tea.

Second Sister-in-law invited Cao Sheng to sit in the living room.

Xiao Hui asked Cao Sheng if he wanted some sunflower seeds. As she spoke, she ran over and held out her right hand to Cao Sheng. Cao Sheng saw that there were sunflower seeds between her fingers.

Apart from Huang Qingfeng and his three children, Cao Sheng felt the warmth of everyone in the Huang family.

Huang Qingya's family is quite well-off.

It has four bedrooms, two living rooms, and two bathrooms.

It has a Chinese style of decoration, with bright and clean windows, solid wood flooring, and all the furniture is made of solid wood.

On the display shelf, there were some exquisite porcelain pieces, and several calligraphy and paintings hung on the wall.

Cao Sheng looked around her home while answering everyone's questions.

No one asked him about his income, how many people were in his family, or whether he had bought a house or a car, etc.

The questions asked were things like:

Second brother: "Xiaoya said you don't smoke, is that true? How about you try one?"

Second Sister-in-law: "Go away! Don't corrupt Xiao Cao! Xiao Cao definitely doesn't smoke, right, Xiao Cao?"

Xiao Hui: "Second sister-in-law! That's not necessarily true. I've heard that writers generally have a smoking habit, right, brother-in-law?"

Huang's mother: "Xiao Cao! Do you smoke? If you do, then have one! It's okay."

Father Huang: "Xiao Cao! How's your alcohol tolerance? Do you want some infused liquor? I have snake wine that I bought from the snake farm, and some mulberry wine and tiger bone wine that a friend from Yunnan made for me. Shall we have a couple of sips together at noon?"

The woman, who had brewed the tea and brought it over, asked with a smile, "Xiao Cao! I heard from Xiao Ya that you like to drink tea, like Mao Feng and Hou Kui. You must be tired of those in Huizhou by now, so I won't brew any for you. I'll brew you some Pu'er instead. Try it and see if you like it. If you like it, I'll get you some when we go back later. Please don't forget! By the way, have you ever had Pu'er before?"

……

The overly friendly atmosphere made Cao Sheng feel a little overwhelmed.

Because he had absolutely no experience meeting the parents.

All the experience I had before my rebirth is useless.

Fortunately, before his rebirth, in his middle age, he seemed to suddenly have an epiphany in interpersonal relationships and knew how to deal with all kinds of people.

What he realized was very simple—give others face, say what others want to hear, and... smile before you speak.

First, smile, then say something that others like to hear; this will generally prevent the atmosphere from becoming awkward and avoid making people dislike you.

Of course, saying what others want to hear also requires a bit of observation and intelligence. You can't show obvious flattery, and you certainly can't flatter someone in the wrong way.

He possesses both keen observation skills and a sharp mind.

As a writer, he is usually quiet, but his observation skills are better than most people's.

Because when he speaks little, he observes everything in front of him.

mind……

Writing novels year after year is essentially about constantly creating stories.

Often, when he doesn't speak, it's not because he hasn't thought of what to say, but because he doesn't want to say it.

When he wants to speak, what he says is generally very appropriate, and he will occasionally throw in a couple of humorous remarks.

Sure enough, he kept making Huang Qingya's family laugh.

Huang Qingfeng sat on a single sofa to the side, coldly watching Cao Sheng.

My feelings are quite complicated.

Observing Cao Sheng up close, he knew, though unwilling to admit it, that Cao Sheng was outstanding in every way. He was not only handsome, witty, and charming, but also had an air of dominance.

This was not an aura that Cao Sheng intentionally projected.

Even now, he has too much confidence. For example, he is handsome, famous, and very rich. The key point is that he is very rich!

Before his rebirth, there was often this kind of voice online: If a man has 100,000 yuan, he has the confidence to live a life and will not do a job he doesn't like because of money; if he has a million yuan, he dares to turn against anyone; if he has ten million yuan, he will have the arrogance of "my fate is in my own hands!"

How much money does Cao Sheng have now?
Once the script fees from Disney and Fox are deposited into his account, his assets will definitely exceed 100 million.

His wealth of over 100 million yuan in 2000 gave him a confidence that ordinary people could not imagine.

He himself may not have realized it, but Huang Qingfeng could see it—this kid had an aura of taking over the reins.

Even though he was sitting at his girlfriend's house, he acted like he was on his own turf.

Huang Qingfeng, who was observing the situation with a detached eye, even felt that Cao Sheng was just trying to appease his whole family.

Talking to his parents is like coaxing two old children.

The way he talks to his wife, brother, sister-in-law, and cousin is like a college student talking to a middle school student. He listens to them with a smile and then gives them a word or two of recognition and encouragement. It's so fucking ridiculous!

When talking to his two children and nephew, Cao Sheng's coaxing skills became even more apparent. He took out three red envelopes, instantly making the three children line up to call him "Uncle".

This scene brought smiles to everyone's faces. My cousin, Xiaohui, couldn't help but reach out her fair, delicate hand and say in a coquettish tone, "Brother-in-law! I want some too! I'm still a baby!"

Huang Qingfeng: "..."

Huang Qingfeng felt his teeth hurt from watching, and he couldn't help but clench his lips several times.

When Cao Sheng smiled and actually gave Xiao Hui a red envelope, Huang Qingfeng couldn't help but speak up, "Xiao Hui! Can't you be a little more dignified? You've graduated from university and are a white-collar worker, how can you have the nerve to ask for a red envelope?"

"Thank you, brother-in-law!"

Xiao Hui accepted the red envelope, thanked Cao Sheng happily, and then rolled her eyes at Huang Qingfeng, "Mind your own business! Big brother! You're the stingiest one! You haven't given me a red envelope in years! My brother-in-law is the best! You should learn from him!"

Huang Qingfeng: "Holy crap! You brat!"

Huang Qingfeng was very angry, but everyone else laughed.

(End of this chapter)