spring bite mark

Chapter 253 Extra: The Real Official Announcement 2
"Ayu, what did you prepare for Mom?" Jiang Manman hugged him and kissed him on the forehead.

Yan Yu's aloofness vanished completely, and she gave a soft "Mmm": "I prepared a strawberry cake for Mom. I picked the strawberries myself and baked the cake myself."

"Then Mommy's in for a treat!" Jiang Manman said, holding one of her sons' hands in each hand. "I haven't had breakfast yet, babies, let's go enjoy the delicious food you've prepared, okay?"

"Okay!" Xie Jian's eyes sparkled as he and Yan Yu pulled Jiang Manman toward the self-service area.

Yan Changye stared at the backs of the mother and her two children for several seconds, then chuckled and slowly followed.

While Jiang Manman was eating cake and drinking orange juice, Yan Changye took the fruit platter from Xie Jian, used a silver carved fruit fork to pick up a piece of fruit, and personally fed it to Jiang Manman.
"Honey, is the meal our sons make for us delicious, or is the milk and cereal your husband personally prepares for you this morning better?"

After saying that, he used the fork he had just used to feed Jiang Manman to fork a piece of apple into his mouth and said, "Oh, the apple tastes pretty average."

Jiang Manman was a little speechless: "Today is your sons' birthday party, why are you arguing with them?"

"Daddy!" Xie Jian glared at him angrily. "When we were little, you used to hold me and my brother all the time, calling us 'darling' and 'baby,' but now you leave us with Grandpa all the time, only picking us up once a week. You finally make some orange juice and fruit for Mommy, and Mommy doesn't complain, but you complain. So, love can disappear, right?"

Yan Changye lazily hummed in agreement: "You've grown up, and you're still all lovey-dovey with Daddy and Mommy. What kind of behavior is that? Besides, you're definitely not as cute as when you were little and cuddly."

"Your two younger brothers are quite adorable, all cute and cuddly," Yan Yu said softly. "But I haven't seen you like them that much. You've just changed your mind and grown tired of the four of us brothers."

Yan Changye: "..."

He paused for a moment, then sighed softly, "Kids get boring after a while. Daddy still loves you all, isn't the black card still in your hands? Fatherly love is such an intangible thing, it's more practical to go out and shop."

I am at a loss for words.

Yan Yu and Yan Changye stared at each other for a few seconds before their gazes fell on Jiang Manman's face. Yan Yu's tone softened slightly as he said, "Since Daddy says so, Mom, do you have time tonight? I'd like to invite you to go shopping."

“Of course I have time. I haven’t spent time with the baby in a long time!” Jiang Manman rubbed his head. “Tonight we’ll go buy some matching outfits and then go to an art exhibition to pick out a few paintings to hang in your study, Ayu.”

Xie Jian exclaimed, "Mommy, there's me too! There's me too!"

Jiang Manman nodded: "Xie Jian should come along too, Mommy will buy more toys for baby Xie Jian."

"Baby..." Yan Changye scoffed from the side, "How old are you? Still calling yourself baby? Your classmates will be so embarrassed when they find out..."

“We will always be Mommy’s babies!” Xie Jian blinked. “Daddy, don’t think I don’t know. Last weekend you were still pestering Mommy, calling her baby! You even said you love her to death and want to keep her in your heart.”

Yan Changye's waist was pinched awkwardly by Jiang Manman.

Yan Changye coughed lightly: "Thank you for your help. If you eavesdrop again, I'll leave you at Grandpa's house on weekends too."

Xie Jian pouted, looking aggrieved.

Yan Yu lowered his eyes and remained silent, but patiently scooped a heart-shaped piece from the cake and lovingly fed it to Jiang Manman's lips.

……

After they finished eating the snacks prepared by the two children, Yan Changye put his arm around Jiang Manman and walked to the main hall to formally introduce her to everyone:
"Let me introduce you, this is my wife, Jiang Manman."

He paused for a moment: "Over the years, I've heard that many women here have harbored feelings for my wife? From today onward, put away your messy tactics. If my wife is harmed because of your foolish actions, I, Yan Changye, will take indiscriminate revenge, regardless of gender. Just look at the Ning family before."

After saying just a few words, he changed the subject and affectionately kissed Jiang Manman on the cheek: "I also want to thank my wife for hiding me for so long, and finally letting me see the light of day."

Jiang Manman glared at him: "Alright, stop acting up."

"I didn't do anything wrong." Yan Changye chuckled softly. "I guess Madam didn't get enough of what Ayu and Xie Jian prepared. Shall I have some more with Madam?"

……

The socialites of the capital's elite families were still reeling from the shock. At a simple birthday banquet, they had finally met Mrs. Yan, whom they had longed to see for many years.

They thought she was the daughter of a super-rich family, but she turned out to be the adopted daughter of a third-rate small wealthy family—yes, almost all of them had placed orders with this founder of Mu Chan, and they were extremely familiar with Jiang Manman!
What's frustrating is that they went to great lengths to wear Mu Chan's dress, hoping that the Crown Prince would take a second look, but only today did they realize that the Crown Prince wasn't looking at the dress at all, but rather at his beloved wife through the dress!

At the birthday banquet, the two grandsons of the Yan family doted on Jiang Manman the whole time, displaying the utmost gentleness, intelligence, handsomeness, and thoughtfulness of "other people's children".

The young master of the Yan family, who had captivated them throughout their lives, was also by Jiang Manman's side.

A pampered, arrogant, and fastidious man habitually serves his wife tea and water, using her used cups and forks, and even biting the paper straw she had been sucking on for a while, to finish the juice her son had left unfinished.

This isn't marrying a wife, it's marrying a little tyrant...

Such a harmonious scene is something that outsiders like them cannot imagine, nor can they possibly squeeze into.

Years of accumulated envy, jealousy, and hatred towards the mysterious Madam Yan seemed pale and laughable in the face of this powerless scene. Those powerful figures who had attended Madam Yan's birthday banquet and witnessed the truth behind the Ning family's downfall repeatedly warned their lovestruck female relatives:
No one should mess with Jiang Manman.

That was the Achilles' heel of the two young masters from Beijing and Hong Kong.

……

Jiang Manman wasn't just eating and drinking.

She also keeps an eye on those socialites.

Time flies, and many years have passed in the blink of an eye. Many socialites have already married, but upon seeing Yan Changye today, they still inevitably fall into a dazed and melancholic state. Among the large group of socialites present today, there are also some young girls who have never met Yan Changye before. They simply came with their elders because they had been following the gossip about him and wanted to see him in person.

However, from the moment Yan Changye appeared, Jiang Manman watched as infatuation rose in their eyes, and finally... she went from being a bystander to being deeply caught in a trap of beauties.

Jiang Manman knew without even thinking that after today, Yan Changye's socialite fan base would definitely grow even larger.

The thought of this man, still a womanizer in his thirties, gave her a faint sense of powerlessness.

This faint sense of powerlessness persisted into the night.

"Madam, why do you look so listless?" Yan Changye raised an eyebrow and habitually pulled her into his arms.

Jiang Manman glanced at him, too lazy to answer.

Yan Changye pondered, "Has life been too bland and boring lately?"

After saying that, he got up, took out a densely written list with damage prevention measures from the locked cabinet, returned to the bed, and placed the list in front of Jiang Manman:
"Madam, would you like to choose one?"

Jiang Manman suddenly looked at the list.

Those were a bunch of compensation clauses that the scoundrel wrote in suite 1001 of the Imperial Capital Hotel back then, but only three or five of them have been fulfilled so far.

Above, in the man's strong and powerful handwriting, were listed dozens of things that Jiang Manman needed to do with him:

Marriage and granting of official status (completed)
Have a 520-hour romance (Completed, can be repeated)
Let's watch 1000 uncut movies together (509 completed).
Global Honeymoon
Hold a grand Chinese wedding
Replant the island with roses and confess your love to your husband amidst the rose bushes.
……

Jiang Manman sighed, "A whole host of tasks, when will this ever end?"

Yan Changye's gaze fell on the fourth item, and he had already started looking at honeymoon destinations on his phone. He glanced at Jiang Manman with teasing eyes, but his tone was so gentle that it was intoxicating:

"Madam, we have a lifetime together."

(End of this chapter)