Chapter 618: Chapter 191: [A Reward Is Due!] (6400)_2
Sure enough, Lu Xiuting also seemed to realize that it was somewhat inappropriate to talk about these things in front of her daughter’s boyfriend. She coughed and closed her mouth.
"So, what about the third wish?" Chen Yan asked smoothly.
"The third wish, in fact, I waited for a long time before mentioning it." Lu Xiuting said cautiously, "At that time, I received those benefits, whether it was fortune or appearance, they were real benefits. I was so happy and excited, but also somewhat fearful!
After all, such things are too bizarre! The voice in that jade stone, I ultimately couldn’t figure out what it really was. Whatever it helped me with, it came at a price — and it refused to say what it was, insisting on waiting until all three of my wishes were fulfilled before telling me.
I was very scared; what if after all three wishes were spoken, what it asked me to do was something dangerous?
What if it came at a cost I couldn’t bear."
Chen Yan nodded: "Having such a thought is indeed cautious of you."
Lu Xiuting shook her head: "I grew up doing earth-turning business with my father and brothers, so naturally, I was more vigilant, unlike my peers who were so naive.
So, the third wish, I delayed in making it, I even thought, if I never spoke the third wish, then the voice in the stone would never be able to make demands of me, and I would be safe.
After all, I already had money and a beautiful appearance, there were no particularly urgent demands. So why not just leave it alone for now."
Saying this, Lu Xiuting sighed: "But later on, when I graduated and found a company for an internship, I knew... my third wish was unavoidable!
I... met Sisi’s dad.
I realized that my chance to change my destiny was right in front of me! Moreover, it might even be my only chance to change my fate."
As Lu Xiuting spoke, there was a complex tone in her voice: "Although I wasn’t lacking in college tuition and living expenses, that bit of money would eventually run out one day. Even though I had a decent appearance.
But in this world, for a pretty girl to make a good living, it’s not that easy, and I didn’t want to be someone who sold out based on looks.
I, a girl from a village, only had a regular college education, and having been doing earth-turning business with my father and brothers since childhood, and losing my mother early, losing my father in my youth, my brother in prison.
At that time, I was actually very lacking in a sense of security. I needed a stable, life-changing, beautiful life!
When I met Yang Jiaming, I knew this was my best chance!"
Saying this, Lu Xiuting glanced at Chen Yan: "Chen Yan, you don’t think Auntie... is very vulgar, do you."
Chen Yan pondered for a moment, his tone very sincere: "Aunt Lu, actually, I find you very honest."
Lu Xiuting’s thoughts, how should I put it.
Considered gold-digging? Sure, but not entirely.
She wished to change her life by marrying a man of good standing.
This part barely counts as gold-digging, or more accurately, it was somewhat opportunistic, rather calculating, with a strong sense of ambition.
But at least, she didn’t wish to sell her body — honestly speaking, if a pretty girl turned bad, making quick money isn’t really hard.
Lu Xiuting still maintained her bottom line.
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Back in the years with Lu Xiuting, it should have been the early 2000s.
In the early 2000s, the identity of Port City businessmen still carried an aura, feeling somewhat superior in the Dragon Country Mainland.
Not to mention Yang Jiaming himself was quite good-looking — this can be seen from Lu Sisi’s looks.
Young, with a Port City businessman identity, and a decent family background, with businesses and companies in Jinling Prefecture.
These few conditions combined, naturally were attractive.
Moreover, if she married Yang Jiaming, she could directly apply for Port City residency — that was another advantage.
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"During my internship, I met the company boss Yang Jiaming.
At that time, I was pretty, and I felt that Yang Jiaming had a good impression of me as well.
But it was only limited to a good impression. As someone like him sent by the family to do business abroad, having seen the world, he wouldn’t easily fall for any woman. Although I was young and beautiful, and he was attracted to me, it was far from the point of being head over heels.
My internship lasted only three months, and in the first two months, I sensed Yang Jiaming’s interest and good impression of me, but there wasn’t much deep engagement, clearly indicating that I worried he saw me as just a fling.
So... I could only resort to the voice in the jade stone."
"You made your third wish to it?"
"Yes, my third wish was that I wanted to marry Yang Jiaming!"
"Did it grant your wish?" Chen Yan asked.
"It did, and it didn’t." Lu Xiuting sighed, "The voice in the jade told me its power was insufficient and could only lend me a year’s worth of romantic luck.
Following its method, I burned one of my hairs into ashes and secretly put it into Yang Jiaming’s glass during a meal he took me to.
After drinking it, he would feel an infatuation with me, and this feeling would last for a year.
Sure enough, from that day onwards, Yang Jiaming’s infatuation with me grew deeper day by day.
By the end of my internship, I had already become his official girlfriend. And in the third month after the internship, I became pregnant, with Lu Sisi.
At the time, Yang Jiaming was deeply infatuated with me, and after I became pregnant, he married me and took me to Port City.
Although the Yang family had certain roots, they weren’t a true wealthy family, and Yang Jiaming wasn’t really the top inheritor of the family business, just a family member sent to the mainland for business, so despite the large family gap, Yang Jiaming was determined, and I was pregnant, the Yang family didn’t strongly oppose it. I smoothly married Yang Jiaming, and with pregnancy, we held a wedding, gaining the identity of a wealthy lady."