Regarding the matter of awakening lightning abilities after transformation

"There's still a lot of this fish left, should we throw it away too?"

Gu Cheng glanced at the trash bag, then weighed the plate in her hand, her expression hesitant. Song Yuling thought that they would all be going out to visit relatives and friends for the New Year tomorrow, and probably wouldn't be able to finish eating, so she was going to tell Gu Cheng to just throw it away. But then she thought that since it was the New Year, keeping it would bring good luck.

"Just leave it there; it will bring you abundance every year."

She's beautiful, gentle, and a virtuous homemaker; no wonder Su Wanxi likes her so much.

As Song Yuling thought about it, she put the dishes and chopsticks into the dishwasher.

Chapter 445 (Extra Chapter 5)

As the eldest brother in the family, Su Wanshan was the last to know that Su Wanxi's wedding was approaching. He was on an inspection tour in another city at the time, and when he received the news, he couldn't help but sigh, "My sister has grown up and can't stay at home anymore."

After finishing her meal, Su Wanshan looked at the stunningly beautiful woman sitting upright with a face somewhat resembling her own. She raised her glasses and slightly furrowed her brows.

"You're pretty quick... Xiao Xi..."

So fast that even he, as the older brother, didn't know.

Upon hearing this, Su Wanxi folded her hands together, slowly rested them on her lap, and parted her cherry lips slightly: "It's alright. After all, we've known each other for so long, it's about time we went public."

The battles that needed to be fought have been fought, and they should start thinking about their future.

“I’m not talking about the wedding… I mean, you didn’t even tell me beforehand.”

When Su Wanshan married Song Yuling two years ago, she immediately flew to Lanjiang to tell her sister.

Su Wanxi was stunned for a moment after hearing this. She gently tapped her knee with her jade-like fingers, and after a moment, the corners of her lips slightly raised.

"Are you...jealous?"

I always felt that the other person's words were sarcastic.

Su Wanshan sniffed, not in a hurry to deny it: "After all, she is my own sister whom I have watched grow up. It is inevitable that I will feel a little reluctant to see her get married one day."

He still remembered when Su Wanxi was a tiny, soft little girl, wearing a princess dress and a woolen hat, following him around all day, calling him "brother, brother" incessantly.

Before they knew it, the brother and sister had grown up, experienced the trials of society, and started to build their own families.

More than a decade of living and working together has passed in the blink of an eye.

Moved by Su Wanshan's emotional outburst, Su Wanxi felt a pang of sadness, suddenly experiencing the feeling of a fledgling bird about to leave the nest.

During the years that Su Wanxi spent away in Lanjiang, Su Wanshan did not have an easy time. He had to work and also try to ease the fragile father-daughter relationship between Su Changqing and Su Wanxi. He often stayed up until two or three in the morning, and when the alarm rang, he would get up immediately, smoke a cigarette and drink some coffee, and then continue to devote himself to government affairs.

Su Wanshan doesn't have the powerful physical abilities of an Awakened One. He's just an ordinary person who gets airsick on airplanes and feels uncomfortable when his days and nights are reversed. But as the eldest son, for the sake of the family blood flowing in his veins and for his sister to have some confidence when facing Su Changqing, he must brace himself until he is capable of taking over everything from the Su family.

After a long silence, Su Wanxi raised her hand and patted the man's shoulder, her voice clear and crisp: "I originally wanted to tell you in person..."

At first, only Grandpa Su knew about this, but later Su Wanxi contacted venues and consulted about wedding dresses, and people with good connections could basically guess the general idea.

“Chengzi told me she wanted to get married on the way back to Beidu. You weren’t there at the time, and it wasn’t clear over the phone. I was planning to wait until the New Year to bring her home before announcing it.”

Listening to Su Wanxi's clear and logical explanation, Su Wanshan felt much less annoyed and muttered to herself, "She's forgotten her own brother now that she has a wife."

Su Wanxi pursed her lips, her tone slightly teasing: "I never expected that someone so grown up would be jealous like this."

"A-Shan, are you a siscon?"

When Su Wanxi used those two words to describe her, Su Wanshan subconsciously turned her face away, but after thinking about it carefully, she realized it seemed a bit deliberate and quickly turned back.

"So, Xiaoxi, you don't want me to be your best man?"

Su Wanxi chuckled: "Ashan, you seem to be overthinking it."

"I don't need a best man for my wedding with Orange, but I'll definitely need to hire a lot of bridesmaids."

"Or...could you be a bridesmaid?"

After speaking, she looked thoughtfully at her brother, whose face, with its slightly softened features, was absolutely handsome.

Su Wanshan suddenly felt a pang of unease and glanced down at her.

"You seem to have a lot of free time lately."

"After you get married and finish your honeymoon, pack up and go back to work."

Such a large family cannot be supported by Su Wanshan alone.

"What are you doing?" Su Wanxi stroked her dark hair that hung down to her hips, her legs, encased in thin stockings, relaxed and crossed together.

"Start as a manager, lease, my second uncle's company, which mainly deals in cosmetics, you've used them before."

Compared to multinational corporations, Su Yuanjun's decoration company can only be considered a small-scale operation.

"Okay, I got it." Su Wanxi quickly agreed.

"By the way, A-Shan, could you help me contact the designer who made the wedding dress for Yu-Ling before? I'd like to ask her to design a few more."

Upon hearing this, Su Wanshan suddenly recalled Su Wanxi's momentary absent-mindedness at the wedding that day.

The man took a sip of hot tea and said in a gentle voice, "No wonder you kept staring at Yuling when you were the bridesmaid."

It turns out I'd been eyeing other people's wedding dress designs for a while now.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Song Yuling and Gu Cheng were also having a lively conversation. The woman discovered that her sister-in-law was not only good at housework, but also had a deep understanding of various cuisines.

Whenever she mentions a dish, Gu Cheng can usually strike up a conversation. Most importantly, the latter always exudes a warm and approachable charm that makes people feel like they're basking in a spring breeze; just listening to her speak is a wonderful experience.

"I must try Xiao Cheng's cooking if I have the chance."

Song Yuling closed the cabinet and walked to the sink to clean her hands.

"Hmm, I didn't expect Sister Yuling to have such similar tastes to me, she also likes light vegetable soup."

"What, Wanxi really likes strong-flavored dishes?" Song Yuling asked her curiously.

“Not really…” Gu Cheng smiled, her smile as warm as a little sun. “She’s just a little saccharin, she can’t live without sweetness.”

Sensing the doting tone in Gu Cheng's voice, Song Yuling blinked a few times and said sincerely, "You two have such a good relationship."

She could tell that Su Wanxi doted on Gu Cheng to the core. During dinner, Gu Cheng would always take a few extra bites of anything that Su Wanxi had given her.

The two returned to the living room chatting and laughing. The Su siblings had finished their conversation about the wedding and were now leaning back on the sofa chatting. When they heard footsteps, they turned around and found their wives standing together like two sisters, creating an incredibly harmonious atmosphere.

A moment later, they brought their wives to their sides and exchanged pleasantries with them.

After a while, the Spring Festival Gala started playing on TV. Li Shantong washed some fruit for the younger generation, put the melon seeds and candied fruit she had bought on the coffee table, and then went upstairs to rest with Su Changqing.

Not to be outdone, Xiao Sang, sporting fluffy cotton candy-like hair, hopped from the stairwell into the living room. The cat showed no sign of impatience as four people petted it repeatedly; Gu Cheng sometimes thought it actually enjoyed it.

This year's Spring Festival Gala was the same as in previous years, just a different version of the same thing. When it was time for a skit or a crosstalk performance, the four people would stop to watch for a while, and when that was over, they would eat some melon seeds or play a few rounds of cards.

Since leaving the orphanage, Gu Cheng has never experienced such a festive and lively New Year's Eve.

As the New Year's bells rang, Gu Cheng, who had been nestled in her lover's arms for who knows how long, looked up at Su Wanxi's face, which appeared to be lit up and then dimmed on the television screen, and her heart melted.

Her pink lips were slightly pursed, and she remained silent.

The next second, as her brother and sister-in-law got up to watch the fireworks, Su Wanxi smiled slightly and planted a kiss on Gu Cheng's lips.

"orange."

Happy New Year!

Chapter 446 (Extra Chapter 6)

The next day, we had to go out to pay New Year's visits, so we naturally couldn't overexert ourselves the night before.

After watching the Spring Festival Gala, Su Wanxi and Gu Cheng took a quick shower and then went back to their bedroom to rest.

The room was heated in advance, making it warm and dry. There was a smell of air freshener when she first entered. This wasn't Gu Cheng's first time visiting Su Wanxi's boudoir, but at this moment, she still looked around like a child.

The wallpaper is a lovely pink hue, the curtains are made of lace, and there's a glass pendant lamp carved into a crescent shape on the table.

The room owner looks like a spoiled, adorable rich princess.

As Su Wanxi stroked Xiao Sang's fur, she glanced at Gu Cheng sitting in the armchair. The dappled starlight illuminated the woman's fair and delicate face, and her long, curved eyelashes resembled a pair of exquisite butterfly wings, fluttering up and down with her breath.

After sitting for about half a minute, Gu Cheng got up and went to bed, her fair arms gently hooking around Su Wanxi's waist.

"Su Wanwan, you're so cute~"

She's so adorable now, let alone the young Su Wanxi who loved pink when she was little. Gu Cheng got more and more excited as she thought about it, pressing her pretty face close to her lover's back, her brown eyes shimmering with watery light.

Sensing the intense love emanating from the person behind her, Su Wanxi pursed her lips and gently placed her soft hand on the back of the girl's hand.

“What’s cute about it?” she asked.

Gu Cheng gently nuzzled Su Wanxi's back. Having just showered, her hair was still damp, making the skin exposed outside her nightgown feel slightly cool. Su Wanxi closed her legs and heard her lover's proud words in the air: "You're adorable in every way!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Wanxi felt a warm, burning sensation on the back of her neck, and the instantaneous touch made her heart race.

"I wish I had met you sooner."

Gu Cheng ended the fleeting kiss with a gentle expression: "I really want to see the Su Wanwan of the past."

They had known each other for a long time, past the age of peach and plum blossoms, and had long since lost the innocence and carefree arrogance of their youth.

Upon hearing this, Su Wanxi lowered her eyes, her dark pupils shimmering with tears. She quickly sniffed and whispered, "I was very childish when I was little..."

If she sees any delicious snacks or pretty dresses on the street, she will want them no matter what. Even if her mother is holding her hand, she will not be able to walk away. Sometimes when she gets into a princess-like mood, she can be really willful and capricious. If some unreasonable demands are not met, she will cry, make a scene, and act cute. If that doesn't work, she will put on a sad face, bite her lip, and look aggrieved, as if she has suffered a great injustice.

If the adult Su Wanxi were to coax her childhood self, she would probably be driven crazy by the other person in less than a day.

"Kids are cute when they're a little childish, and besides, who wasn't childish when they were little..." Gu Cheng suddenly fell silent halfway through her sentence.

She thought of herself, or rather, of Miss Gu's past experiences.

That nightmare from which I could not wake up, a nightmare of torment and suffering.

Su Wanxi felt the hand wrapped around her waist loosen slightly, and then she understood what Gu Cheng was thinking, so she considerately changed the subject for her.

"Orange, I'll show you something in a few days~"

Gu Cheng was stunned for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "What is that?"

Su Wanxi smiled and said, "It's a secret for now."

She had previously stayed at Grandpa Su's place, and all her important belongings were kept at the manor, including the photo album that Su Wanxi had kept with her since childhood.