Chapter 371: Chapter 371: Family Recognition Banquet
Of course, Father Jiang has several cousins on his side, but she isn’t close to any of them. Yet, although this is only the second time she has met Shangguan Wenbin, he makes her feel very familiar.
As the woman left, Shangguan Wenbin, with a face looking for praise, said to Jiang Xue, "See, I wasn’t wrong, we are relatives. By the way, I’m nineteen this year, I think I’m younger than you, right?"
"I’m exactly twenty, you should call me sister."
"Sister!" Shangguan Wenbin happily called her sister, and both of them laughed at the same time.
Suddenly having one more relative, Jiang Xue was quite excited. For some reason, when Old Jiang and the others acknowledged her before, she never felt this kind of excitement.
But, never mind, anyway, now she has nothing to do with Old Jiang either. As long as they don’t disturb her life in the future, whatever they do has nothing to do with her.
Jiang Xue was in a good mood because she had a new younger brother, and Cheng Li in South City was also very happy. However, along with happiness, there was still a bit of unease.
Just now, Old Jiang had already told her about the recognition banquet, and it would be held the next evening. Since the next day was Saturday and followed by Sunday, no work was necessary, and the banquet could end a little later without issues.
Cheng Li was happy because she was going to officially become a member of the Jiang Family. But the unease was about what if she was found to be a fake?
The Jiang Family was so wealthy and powerful, she couldn’t bear to leave just like this. Thinking about this, a vicious thought suddenly cropped up in Jiang Xue’s mind: if Mrs. Cheng were no longer here, nobody would know she wasn’t a child of the Jiang Family.
But, as of now, she hasn’t established herself in the Jiang Family, and might not be able to get rid of Mrs. Cheng, so she should wait a while longer.
If Mrs. Cheng knew that her daughter, whom she always considered, even willing to deceive others to send into a wealthy family, was planning to silence her, who knows what she would feel.
Time quickly passed, and soon it was the night of the next day. Cheng Li was dressed up and sitting in her room on the second floor, waiting for the banquet to start.
Old Jiang had already told her that she was the main character today, so there was no rush to go down. Once most of the guests arrived, she’d appear, and Old Jiang would introduce her identity to everyone, which would be best.
Cheng Li, sitting in the room, was somewhat anxious and nervous. No matter how much she pretended, she couldn’t change the fact that she was a girl who had never seen the world.
But such emotions could only be expressed when no one was around, and she couldn’t let others see, especially not Old Jiang and the others.
At seven in the evening, most of the guests at the Jiang Family arrived, and the banquet officially began. A maid from the Jiang Family specially came upstairs to call Cheng Li, informing her the banquet was starting.
Hearing the knock on the door, Cheng Li took a deep breath, then got up to open the door.
"Miss, all the guests have arrived, the master wants me to accompany you downstairs." The maid said with a smile to Cheng Li, checking her attire to find no issues, then finally took her hand and walked downstairs.
The news that the Jiang Family recognized the granddaughter who had been missing for twenty years had already spread in the circle, so as soon as someone appeared upstairs, it attracted everyone’s attention.
Cheng Li was being watched by everyone, somewhat nervous, her palms were sweaty, but fortunately, her face didn’t show it, as she maintained a smile that she had practiced countless times, and slowly descended the stairs.