Chapter 12: Marriage Proposal

"I didn't realize you were a teenager!" An Zhiyan laughed and teased Xia Minghao.

Thereafter, the two got into the car and went back.

By the time she woke up the next day, it was already almost noon at 10 o'clock. As she slept too late last night, probably because she was too tired, she had a quick wash and promptly fell asleep the moment she got into bed.

"Nanny Sun!" An Zhiyan called out for Nanny Sun, out of habit without thinking.

As the door was pushed open with a creak, she called out, "Nanny Sun, it's already 10am. Why didn't you wake me up earlier?" They were staying over in other people's place. It would not be nice for them to oversleep like that.

However, the person who walked in was not Nanny Sun, but Xia Minghao's mother, Shen Rong.

With a beaming face, Shen Rong walked in.

"Aunt Xia!" An Zhiyan was a little stunned. She wondered whether she had slept too long and was hallucinating. She shook her head vehemently but nothing changed. Standing clearly in front of her was the wife of the big boss of Xia Group, Shen Rong.

"Hahahahahahaha…" Shen Rong came and sat by An Zhiyan on the bed with a warm smile. "You silly child. You went to bed so late last night, you can just sleeping a while longer today. Don't blame Nanny Sun, I was the one who told her to let you rest a little longer." 

The more Shen Rong looked at An Zhiyan, the more please she was with her.

"All right. Thank you, Aunt Xia!" An Zhiyan thanked her in a soft voice.

"You silly girl, don't need to stand on ceremony with Aunt Xia!" Shen Rong chided her tenderly.

"By the way, Aunt, I heard Xia Minghao say yesterday that you were traveling Europe with Uncle Xia?"

Hearing An Zhiyan's query, Shen Rong covered her mouth and laughed.

"When I heard you were here, I asked my assistant to book us on the fastest flight back. Then we rushed back from Europe."

"What?" An Zhiyan forgot her manners and shouted out in surprise.

"Oh no! How can I trouble you like this, Aunt? I originally wanted to stay here temporarily. When you do this, I'm feel a bit embarrassed!"

"You silly girl!" Shen Rong said to An Zhiyan tenderly. "What's wrong with that? Since you and our Minghao are childhood friends, and I can see that our Minghao had always had feelings for you since young, I thought, why not take this opportunity, to propose to your family to let you two get married!"

"What?" This was the second time An Zhiyan got shocked by Shen Rong. It wasn't because she was not knowledgeable. It was simply that every time Aunt Xia opened her mouth, she invariably dropped a bombshell.

It was a little too much for her to take in at this point.

"That's right, Yanyan…" Shen Rong put her hand on An Zhiyan's hand, and then tenderly said to her, "As they say, men should get a good wife and women should marry a good husband. You see, you and Minghao get along so well, and I have also earmarked you to become our Xia family's daughter-in-law. I, as the mother-in-law, will never ill-treat you."

"Ah..." An Zhiyan, who was groggy from sleep, was a bit confused now.

"Aunt Xia, Minghao is your son. I am sure you know better than me, that guy is a playboy. He will never truly like me." An Zhiyan of course knew Xia Minghao's character. However, as it was still too premature to discuss such matters, she could only use this as an excuse to put Aunt Xia off.

"You silly girl, don't tell me you can't see our Minghao's fondness for you." Although she didn't know why, her son had always presented the image of a playboy to outsiders. However, nobody understands one's child better than his own parents. Since she gave birth to him, she naturally knew him well.

This time it was An Zhiyan's turn to feel awkward.

"All right, silly girl. Don't hesitate anymore. You may not know, but I can tell from Minghao's eye, he can't bear to delay anymore!" Shen Rong was a person with a great personality, and when she said this, she made An Zhiyan laugh. 

"So that's why, I discussed with your Uncle Xia earlier, to take advantage of this opportunity to talk to you about this matter. Our side has no opinion, now it depends on you!"

With the spotlight on her, An Zhiyan suddenly felt nervous. She had never been in love before and did not know what love was like. During this period, she kept having nightmares about suffering domestic violence in the hands of unknown men. With such thoughts, rather than marry someone she was not familiar with, she might as well marry her Brother Xia.

Notwithstanding other things, at the very least, An Zhiyan was very certain that if she were to marry into the Xia family, things like domestic violence would never happen to her.

"Yanyan, what do you think? If you have no objections, I will go with your Uncle Xia to make this proposal to your family!"

An Zhiyan's mind drifted off, and finally, for some unknown reason, actually nodded in a vague way.