A time-travel story where I forcefully marry the leading lady in a film/TV series!

"Oh dear! It's all thanks to the Marquis!" In the private room on the second floor, Lady Li said with a smile as she looked down at the bustling scene of customers.

The private room was separated from the outside by a bamboo curtain, so people downstairs couldn't see clearly what was happening inside.

At this moment, Wei Tingyu was sitting in the main seat of the private room, looking at the excited and beautiful woman with a faint smile.

When Li Niangzi, who was all smiles, turned around and saw Wei Tingyu's expression, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

After all, the Marquis had seen right through his greedy nature!

Even the most easygoing person would feel a little embarrassed!

"It's nothing!" Wei Tingyu said with a light laugh, fanning himself with a folding fan, after seeing Li Niangzi's appearance. "Besides, with the Li family's business opening, I, the Marquis, naturally want to be the first customer!"

"That's right! That's right!" Lady Li nodded repeatedly upon hearing this. She stood respectfully beside Wei Tingyu and said, "The Marquis has been incredibly kind to our Li family! We don't know how to repay such great kindness!"

"Repaying me isn't urgent!" Wei Tingyu chuckled upon hearing this. "With business so good right now, does Lady Li have enough staff in her shop?"

"That's enough!" Lady Li was taken aback for a moment, then immediately understood what Wei Tingyu meant, and nodded repeatedly, saying, "I originally thought business would be good, so I hired enough people!"

"My lord, please rest assured, I will never allow my daughters to show their faces in public and serve tea and dishes to the guests!"

Although Wei Tingyu didn't say it explicitly, Li Niangzi was naturally conveying her thoughts to him at all times.

This is also a way of showing her loyalty to him! She's keeping all her daughters for Wei Tingyu; it's up to him to choose!

Wei Tingyu was taken aback when he heard Li Niangzi's words, because he really hadn't thought about this. However, with such a reliable future mother-in-law, Wei Tingyu could save himself a lot of worry.

"If you want to expand the shop and hire more people, and you're short of money, just tell me. Don't be shy!" Wei Tingyu said directly to Li Niangzi after thinking about this.

My perfume business is now on track, and I earn four to five thousand taels a day from it alone!

In his eyes, anything that could be solved with money was no big deal!

"Yes, yes, yes!" Li Niangzi's eyes lit up immediately. It seemed that the financial backer of her little shop was going to increase investment.

But that's fine too. This way, my relationship with the Marquis's mansion will be even stronger! And I'll be less likely to be abandoned as a pawn in the future.

Although Li Niangzi didn't believe Wei Tingyu was such a heartless and ungrateful person, she naturally felt more at ease now.

"By the way! It must be quite boring for the Marquis to eat here all by himself!" Lady Li's eyes darted around, and then she said while fanning herself with a round fan, "My five daughters are all busy in the kitchen!"

"I got up early this morning and made most of the pastries for today's sale, so there shouldn't be anything else to do now!"

"How about I ask one of them to come up and chat with the Marquis?"

As soon as Li Niangzi finished speaking, she looked at Wei Tingyu expectantly. After all, she could basically tell from Wei Tingyu's choice which of her daughters the Marquis had taken a liking to!

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Chapter 113 The Ambiguous Relationship in the Li Family's Private Room!

However, Wei Tingyu was stunned when he heard this. Why did Li Niangzi's tone and words sound like a brothel madam soliciting customers for her girls?

Of course, he knew he was overthinking it, but this also showed how eager Li Niangzi was to clarify her relationship with the Li family!

But which of the Li family's daughters should accompany him? Wei Tingyu was suddenly at a loss.

All five women must have some feelings for me!

Needless to say, the second aunt's happiness and charm had already won her heart.

Third Sister Kang Ning also has feelings for me, but she hasn't shown them yet.

Fourth Sister Haode and Fifth Sister Leshan probably admired him more, but these two girls were also young, and their admiration could easily turn into romantic feelings.

These two girls are already firmly in my grasp, no doubt about it.

The only thing that Wei Tingyu is currently finding somewhat troublesome is his aunt, Shouhua.

This woman is far too calm and serene. To put it nicely, she is virtuous and kind; to put it bluntly, she is emotionally detached.

What was she really thinking? Wei Tingyu was still a little unsure.

She could vaguely sense that her aunt Shouhua also had some feelings for her, but for the sake of her sisters, she seemed to have suppressed these feelings.

In short, he would not let go of any of the five daughters of the Li family! Thinking of this, Wei Tingyu simply looked at Li Niangzi and said casually, "Since there is not much work to do in the kitchen right now, we can leave it to the servants and the hired cooks!"

"What does the Marquis mean...?" Lady Li was stunned upon hearing this, blinked, and asked.

She now had a feeling that Wei Tingyu wanted to call all five of his daughters over.

Could it be that the Marquis hasn't decided which one to marry yet? Or perhaps he wants to marry all five?

This was the first time Li Niangzi had ever thought of this possibility, and she was immediately jolted awake!

Because his original plan was to marry one of his daughters into the Marquis's household, if the Marquis took a fancy to more daughters, these two could also be considered!

But if all five of them were to marry into the Marquis's family, that would be a bit... Lady Li hesitated.

Especially the two daughters, Shouhua, the eldest, and Fuhui, the second; one is a widow, and the other is currently a married woman.

Are those two marquises also interested?

No way! This is Wei Tingyu! What audacious thing wouldn't he dare to do?

Li Niangzi thought of the scene she had seen in the bamboo forest behind the temple. Didn't he take in Wang Yingxue and Dou Ming as well?

Right now, let alone five daughters, who knows what might happen to him...?!

Thinking of this, Li Niangzi subconsciously glanced at Wei Tingyu, and saw that he was looking at her with a meaningful smile, which made her shudder.

That look in his eyes seems to hold a lot of meaning! Although I can't decipher it right now, it's definitely not simple!

Considering that Wei Tingyu may have deliberately left that jade pendant for him...

Connecting these events quickly, Li Niangzi couldn't help but shudder twice!

Good heavens! If the Marquis really does... then wouldn't the entire Li family have to... to repay a debt of gratitude? Thinking about it that way, it seems like such a waste!

"What is it that makes you so lost in thought, Lady Li?" Wei Tingyu chuckled when he saw Lady Li's absent-minded appearance. This woman was too easily amused; just a few words of teasing and she could conjure up a whole drama in her mind.

"Ah...it's nothing!" Lady Li was taken aback, then blinked and said, "The Marquis is right! My five daughters have been busy all morning, and they deserve a rest. I'll call them up right away..."

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“Master, something bad has happened! Our business…” Pan Lou’s servant rushed upstairs to the second floor and immediately saw Chai An sitting by the window with a worried look on his face. He then tried to report the situation.

"I saw it with my own eyes!" Chai An gripped the teacup tightly in his hand, his expression one of gritted teeth.

From his perspective, the Sifu Tea House across the street was already packed with guests, and many more were standing at the door waiting rather than leaving because there were no seats available.

Compared to his own Panlou, which was now practically deserted!

Several wealthy merchants had just ordered food at my place, but when they heard that the Marquis of Jining was handling the aftermath across the street, they quickly canceled their orders and rushed over.

Right now, these wealthy businessmen are queuing up across the street!

Moreover, judging from their excited and happy expressions while chatting, they had no resistance to queuing to enter the teahouse; on the contrary, they were quite happy about it.

"These people are all so sycophantic and snobbish, it's outrageous!" Fan Lianghan, who was standing nearby, also grimaced angrily after seeing this scene and started complaining.

“Your Fan family’s business is many times larger than these merchants’!” However, Chai An shook his head helplessly and then said, “Think about how your father and mother treated Marquis Wei. How can you blame them now?”

On the surface, Chai An pretended to be magnanimous, but in his heart he was already seething with hatred!

He had originally planned to give Li Niangzi and her daughters a hard time today, hoping they wouldn't be able to make a single sale all day.

Who would have thought that the first half went smoothly, but the whole situation changed completely once Wei Tingyu appeared.

Despite working so hard and even losing money to do these unprofitable businesses, I still couldn't retain customers.

The mere aura of the Marquis of Jining was enough to lure these unscrupulous merchants to the Sifu Tea House across the street!

Chai An was still indignantly thinking about how to get revenge when he saw a window on the second floor of the Sifu Tea House across the street suddenly open with a snap.

And it was Li Niangzi who opened the window! Now the two windows were facing each other across the street.

Li Niangzi was also taken aback, not expecting that Chai An would actually be sitting by the window looking out at the street.

However, she wasn't embarrassed at all. Instead, she raised an eyebrow at Chai An with a hint of pride, since her family's business was doing much better than Pan Lou's right now!

Of course, all of this was brought about by Wei Tingyu, and she naturally hadn't forgotten it.

Seeing Chai An glaring at her with gritted teeth, Li Niangzi easily turned around and moved aside from the window.

Meanwhile, Chai An and Fan Lianghan saw through the window the situation inside the private room on the second floor of Sifu Teahouse.

Wei Tingyu sat casually in the main seat, while Li Niangzi's five daughters sat obediently on either side of him.

The most problematic aspect is that the five daughters are seated side by side, arranged in order of age.

In other words, the two women sitting closest to Wei Tingyu were his eldest aunt Shouhua and his second aunt Fuhui.

Shouhua, needless to say, was a young widow. Since Lady Li was willing to let her sit next to Wei Tingyu, that was her business, and Chai An naturally didn't want to interfere.

But Fu Hui is different! She's her cousin's wife! Besides, her proper husband, Fan Lianghan, is sitting right across from her right now.

How can one tolerate their wife dining with another man in a private room just across the street?

Thinking of this, Chai An quickly glanced at his cousin, only to see that the guy, upon seeing Fu Hui, not only showed no anger or resentment, but instead shrank back in fear and hid behind the wall by the window.

"What are you doing?" Chai An was completely dumbfounded and asked his cousin with a bewildered look on his face.

“My wife…” Fan Lianghan cautiously pointed in the direction of Fu Hui across the street and said, “Don’t let her see me…”

"..." Chai An couldn't help but twitch his lips twice after hearing Fan Lianghan's words, and an incredulous expression appeared in his eyes.