CHAPTER 168: CHAPTER 58: CONGRATULATIONS GIFT, WHITE ROSE CAKE_3

Du Xixi, with her gentle elegance, softened significantly due to her pregnancy. Her features became gentler, and she often wore a smile, adding a warm and charming demeanor to her.

Her face had become fuller, losing some of its refined features, yet making her approachable and endearing; her belly was sizable, making the specially tailored dress stretch out, but her figure remained well-proportioned, with her waist and abdomen being the only noticeably larger parts.

The serene and elegant beauty walked hand in hand with a demure and well-behaved girl beside her. How could Mo Ying not be impressed by such a pair?

Du Xixi smiled faintly, her gaze at Mo Ying was very gentle: "Yes, this is a gift I made for you. After dinner tonight, wait a while before you open it."

Though everyone would be full after dinner, and the interest in cake might wane, Du Xixi thought that during Blue Star weddings, the wedding cake is often presented later in the meal. This cake should also be served later for the sake of tradition.

If introduced halfway through, everyone might focus on eating the cake and lose their appetite for the dishes. If presented at the end, everyone would already be full, and no matter how delicious the cake is, few would have room for it.

It would be better to wait for everyone to have digested after dinner. Eating the cake at this leisurely and relaxed time is just perfect.

"Oh, it’s edible! You’ve really put thought into this!" Mo Ying’s eyes lit up immediately, occasionally glancing at the large gift, feeling that Du Xixi truly understood her. A gift of delicious food was exactly to her liking!

At this moment, Miao Miao timidly spoke, hesitating for a moment before taking out a small box the size of a palm from her wide sleeve: "Sister Mo Ying, this is the gift I have for you and brother-in-law."

Though there was a gap of several decades between Mo Ying and Du Xixi, the age difference between Mo Ying and Miao Miao was even greater. However, Mo Ying is a straightforward and easygoing person, and she had a good relationship with Miao Miao.

Sometimes, when Miao Miao sat quietly without speaking, Mo Ying’s intentional guidance would gradually make Miao Miao talk more, even engaging in pleasant conversations with Mo Ying several times.

Seeing that Miao Miao had prepared a wedding gift for her and Ye Wenting, Mo Ying smiled gently, not considering the small box to be overly "plain" against Du Xixi’s "large gift," but rather feeling that Miao Miao was sincere.

"I learned about this from some... elderly acquaintances. When someone in their clan gets married, they give beautiful stones as gifts." As Mo Ying opened the small box, revealing a pair of uniquely shaped translucent bracelets, Miao Miao explained shyly.

Du Xixi smiled with understanding, guessing that the "elderly acquaintances" Miao Miao referred to were probably the Beast Clan on the CD-0329 Star, who could not transform into human form and remained in beast form. The custom of giving stones to newlyweds was likely popular among them.

She knew Miao Miao was an orphan that Du Xixi brought back from CD-0329 Star, always following Du Xixi and never speaking much, but never behind schedule. Du Xixi had never seen a more lovable girl than Miao Miao.

Perhaps out of kindness, or perhaps because of Du Xixi, Mo Ying always treated Miao Miao warmly and hadn’t expected that Miao Miao would put so much thought into preparing a wedding gift for her.

Apparently, this pair of bracelets was meant for Mo Ying and Ye Wenting, each adorned with a translucent stone.

The bracelet string wasn’t particularly special, but the two translucent stones were extraordinarily smooth. Though they were translucent, one could clearly see through to the other side when held up to the light.

But the smooth surface wasn’t the most special aspect of these stones. What made Mo Ying feel Miao Miao’s thoughtfulness was that these two stones were intentionally polished into the shape of hearts!

Natural heart-shaped stones may exist in the world, but Miao Miao couldn’t have found them in a short time. So yesterday, while Ke Lian and Du Xixi were taking a walk, Miao Miao selected two of the best-colored translucent stones from the garden, planning to give them as wedding gifts to Mo Ying and Ye Wenting.

She went to bed early and naturally woke up early. Sitting by the bedside, she looked at the two stones, feeling that gifting them as is would be too plain. So she spent some effort and thought into personally polishing the stones into heart shapes.

Afterwards, she asked 2569 to find her two bracelet strings to string the polished stones, resulting in the bracelets now presented to Mo Ying.

Light as the gift may seem, Mo Ying didn’t find it offensive for Miao Miao to give two stones as gifts to her and Ye Wenting. On the contrary, such a gift from Miao Miao felt more sincere than those from unfamiliar aristocrats who claimed to bring wedding gifts only to befriend them.

Swarms of unfamiliar people gifting luxury cars and villas, thinking they could win favor with the Mo Family and Ye Family; Mo Ying and Ye Wenting couldn’t even be bothered with them.

Even though luxury cars and villas were worth a fortune, they were not as valuable to Mo Ying at this moment as Du Xixi’s handmade delicacies and Miao Miao’s hand-polished stone bracelets.