Chapter 125: One hundred twenty-five, help her wipe her face_1 Chapter 125: One hundred twenty-five, help her wipe her face_1 Ji Pianran smiled and nodded her head.

“OK.”

Gu Chen looked at her with indescribable satisfaction in his eyes.

His wife was truly satisfying in every way he looked at her.

He was eating the chicken wing voraciously. And boy, was it delicious!

Everyone was bowing their heads, eating silently at this point, no one spoke.

It wasn’t that they didn’t want to talk, but Gu Chen’s cooking was just too delicious.

They all wanted to eat more, thus, unconsciously, a silence fell over them.

The only sound in the room was the clinking of bowls and chopsticks.

Seven people eating together, taking turns with each dish.

The food was disappearing quickly!

And with Gu Chen’s cooking being so good to begin with.

By the time he had finished a chicken wing, he looked up, and the two whole chickens were almost gone.

Seeing the few pieces of chicken left on the plate, Gu Chen smacked his lips with an appetite still unsatisfied.

To be honest, he hadn’t had enough to eat yet.

It seemed he had underestimated everyone’s appetites.

If only he had known chicken would be so popular, he would have bought one more on the way back.

Ji Pianran watched Gu Chen looking like he hadn’t had enough to eat and quietly put the chicken wing he had issued to her back into his bowl.

A chicken only has two wings.

With so many people around, she couldn’t very well keep snatching all the wings for Gu Chen; it would seem rather stingy.

Inviting guests to eat at home and then hogging all the good food for oneself.

That would be outrageous.

Neither she nor Gu Chen were stingy people.

Neither could bring themselves to do such a thing.

But she did want Gu Chen to eat more of his favorite food, so she kept the wing he gave her in her bowl, intending to leave it for him.

Gu Chen’s eyebrows twitched involuntarily at the sight of the chicken wing in his bowl.

He hadn’t expected at all that Ji Pianran would be reluctant to eat it, keeping it aside for him!!!

Swallowing hard, he turned his dark, deep eyes toward Ji Pianran’s face.

She smiled sweetly at him.

“I, I don’t like chicken wings,” she said softly.

In truth, Ji Pianran did like them.

In those times, claiming not to like meat was simply deceitful.

But Ji Pianran knew if she didn’t say so, Gu Chen would surely give it back to her.

She simply wished for Gu Chen to enjoy a few more bites of the food he liked.

Gu Chen was no fool, of course, he knew Ji Pianran was fibbing.

But he didn’t call her out.

This was his wife’s love for him!

He wasn’t someone who couldn’t tell right from wrong!

If his wife wanted to see him eat, he’d eat with great joy.

That way, she would be happy.

Gu Chen grinned, flashing a wide smile at Ji Pianran.

“My wife sure knows how to be considerate!”

With that, he took a generous bite of the chicken wing.

“Delicious!”

Watching the two of them so happy, Aunt Zhang couldn’t help but purse her lips with a smile.

“That’s right, a loving couple, how wonderful!”

She had always hoped that Gu Chen would treat Ji Pianran and her daughter a little better.

Seeing the loving scene before her, she truly felt joyful for the couple from the bottom of her heart!

Li You’e spat out the chicken bone she’d been chewing.

Then she laughed and said, “Don’t laugh at me, but your Uncle Ma was so good to me when we first got married too. It’s just that over time, everything seems to have become taken for granted.”

As she spoke, she couldn’t help feeling somewhat emotional.

“Seeing how good things are for you now reminds me of my younger days when eating meat was much harder than it is now! Life is definitely better these days,” she paused, “So we should cherish our lives even more, as well as the people around us!”

Temporary happiness doesn’t count; it’s the lifelong happiness that’s truly important!

It was a pity she and her husband hadn’t achieved that, their love inadvertently diluted by the passing of time.

What used to be sweet nothings turned into endless quarrels.

They often fought over trivial matters, creating chaos at home.

Therefore, she hoped that Gu Chen and his wife would be happy for a lifetime!

Gu Chen smiled. The moment he was reborn, he had sworn to do everything in his power to be good to Ji Pianran and Tiantian.

It was not only to make up for his shortcomings to his wife and daughter, but also a form of redemption for himself.

He pursed his lips and looked over at Ji Pianran’s face.

“Wife, I’m not good with words, but since we’re on the topic, I want to say that no matter what, you and Tiantian will always be the most important people in my life. I’ll work hard to give you a good life,” he said.

Ji Pianran’s eyelid twitched.

A fair face was suddenly flushed with a delicate shade of pink, looking very pretty indeed.

She never expected Gu Chen to say such intimate words in front of so many people.

But she couldn’t help feeling moved.

That Gu Chen could say in front of so many that she and Tiantian were the most important people in his life…

It showed that his feelings for her were sincere.

He truly wanted to spend a lifetime with her and their daughter.

She bit her lip and blinked her moist eyes, “The road ahead is long; let’s take it slow.”

At her words, Tiantian, who was busily eating, tilted her head to look up at her mother’s face.

Her little mouth, greasy from the food, parted as a look of determination shone in her black, bright eyes.

“Tiantian wants to go too!”

The little girl’s voice, still milky with youth, carried a weight of sincerity, utterly adorable.

She wanted to walk the road ahead with Mommy and Daddy!

“Daddy said a family should be together,” she declared.

Seeing the earnest expression on Tiantian’s face, Gu Chen was both moved and happy.

He had said those words during the New Year, and he hadn’t expected Tiantian to remember them.

He nodded emphatically.

“That’s right, a family should stick together. The road is long, and Daddy will walk it slowly with Mommy and Tiantian!”

No matter what happened this time, he would be there to see Tiantian grow up happy!

To give her double the happiness!

A beautiful smile spread across Ji Pianran’s lips involuntarily.

Looking at the father and daughter, her beautiful eyes shone like diamonds, sparkling with bright and delicate light.

The deepest feelings in her heart, as if awakened by something,

Began to revive bit by bit, gradually warming.

Every time she passed by the window of another family and saw the joy of a family of three, her heart soured.

She could only turn away and hurry off, pretending she hadn’t seen.

She had always thought this was perhaps her fate.

Love lost, desires unfulfilled.

Unexpectedly, fate had unfolded in her favor.

She was now living the life she had once only imagined.

Hearing her father’s words, Tiantian was overjoyed and revealed her little milk teeth with a smile.

She first hugged Ji Pianran, standing on tiptoe to plant a kiss on her face.

Then she ran over to Gu Chen, embraced him like she did with Ji Pianran, and gave him a firm kiss as well.

Afterward, her face was aglow with happiness.

Looking at Ji Pianran’s fair face imprinted with the oily mark of the little lips,

Gu Chen, with a smile in his eyes, reached out his hand, attempting to clean it off for her.

Gu Chen’s hand was a bit rough, but in contrast, Ji Pianran’s face was truly soft and tender.

The instant their skin touched, both of them froze.

In that moment, Gu Chen’s heartbeat involuntarily quickened.

Goodness, this feeling was like touching a peeled egg.