Chapter 3: Do I Need to Invest?_1

"You wouldn't be fooling me, would you? Aunt Chen just told me…"

"Oh Mom, stop listening to what Aunt Cheng says. Seeing is believing."

Happily crossing her legs, Shen Lan who has just settled a crucial matter, started eating fruit leisurely.

"Really?"

"Could it be false?" Shen Lan was somewhat speechless, why did it feel like she was being portrayed as someone who couldn't get married?

Mother Shen looked at the marriage certificate from left to right, confirming it again and again. It didn't look fake.

"But why is the surname Cheng?" Shen Lan paused at Mother Shen's words, took the marriage certificate, "Isn't Aunt Cheng's nephew surnamed Cheng?"

"It's not Cheng, it's Chen!" Mother Shen frowned, feeling that something wasn't quite right.

Shen Lan had an indifferent attitude, "Perhaps the staff made a mistake when writing it, we can correct it next time."

"By the way Mom, I forgot to ask for his phone number. Can you ask Aunt Chen to send me his contact information?" Shen Lan didn't think too much and continued to eat her fruit.

"That works too, let him visit as well. Where is there a daughter who gets married without letting the son-in-law meet her mother?" Mother Shen nodded in agreement, and went to get her phone to call her dear friend.

At that moment, a phone on the coffee table rang, displaying a number she did not recognize.

After some hesitation, she hit the answer button.

"Hello, how are you?"

A moment of silence came from the other side, followed by a faint sentence: "It really is a woman, Brother Cheng didn't lie to us..."

"Hello?" Shen Lan frowned.

"Hello, sis-in-law, it's me..." A slightly nervous male voice came from the other end of the phone.

Sis-in-law?

Without hesitation, Shen Lan hung up the phone.

"Beep beep beep—"

On the other side, Xu Tingfeng held his phone with a bewildered expression, looking lost at the man who was reading the newspaper calmly a short distance away, and suddenly felt wronged.

"Brother Cheng, sis-in-law hung up my call…"

"Smack—"

A heavy book was thrown towards Xu Tingfeng. He avoided it in shock and met Cheng Yanqing's indifferent gaze, "Shut up."

Xu Tingfeng: Alright, I'll keep my mouth shut.

Seeing Shen Lan hang up the phone, Mother Shen casually asked, "Who was it?"

Shen Lan brushed her hair and didn't care, "I don't know, probably a prank call."

Sis-in-law? Did they mistake her for the wife of a gang boss?

Shen Lan started to drum her fingers against the screen, considering blacklisting this number, but another call came in. This time it was a new unknown number.

She was too lazy to even look at it and immediately hung up. Unexpectedly, the person on the other end was persistent. After being hung up on three times, they still called back. Frustrated, Shen Lan answered and started to yell.

"Are you crazy? You won't stop calling, I don't even know you!"

The other side was silent for a long time. Just when she was about to hang up, a deep voice tinged with profound implications entered her ear.

"Shen Lan." She was startled.

"Do you still remember me?"

Hearing this voice, Shen Lan's mind went blank.

Isn't this her cheap husband? What on earth did she just say to him!

Shen Lan's hand shook, and her phone slipped onto the carpet. She quickly picked it up, wiped it and put it back to her ear.

For some unknown reason, she felt somewhat guilty.

"Um, hello, Cheng…" She fumbled to open the marriage certificate, skimmed the name on it and then pretended to be calm, "Cheng Yanqing."

There was silence on the other side.

Shen Lan toed the ground awkwardly, and her eyes met Mother Shen's questioning gaze as she looked around.

She quickly blurted out Mother Shen's earlier desire to see her son-in-law, "By the way, my mom said she wants to meet you, do you have any free time for us to meet?"

"Sorry, I'm not in Kyoto recently." Cheng Yanqing's unique voice was still identifiable even over the phone.

"No problem, we can talk when you come back then."

All early-stage entrepreneurs are like this, running around to do some business. Shen Lan understood this.

She thought for a moment and cautiously opened her mouth, "Do you need me to invest?"

She remembered that his venture capital was tight, and since he was doing business, he would naturally need to entertain people. Since he is Shen Lan's man, he couldn't be too shabby.

Having promised to support him, she's a woman of her word!

The other side was stunned for a moment, and then a light laugh came through. Shen Lan's face went red.

Help, he's so sexy!

"Okay."

"Then send me your bank account number later." Shen Lan quickly finished speaking, hung up the phone without waiting for the answer.

She touched her hot cheeks, and recited in her heart: It's all over, as expected, lust blinds wisdom!

Mother Shen was holding her phone, still on the dial page, and she walked over in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Shen Lan rubbed her face, her voice somewhat slurred, "Mom, you don't need to call Aunt Chen anymore, your cheap son-in-law just said he's going on a business trip and will be back in a few days."

Upon hearing this, Mother Shen's voice seemed a little dissatisfied, "Is the timing always so tight? It's alright not having a wedding banquet, but he doesn't even have time to meet?"