Chapter 2696 - 2697: Return to Tianyun (263)

Chapter 2696: Chapter 2697: Return to Tianyun (263)

"Don’t be angry, really don’t make yourself ill with anger. If you get sick from anger, who will your mother rely on in the future?" As she spoke, Aunt Fang’s eyes turned red.

Tao Mingqing’s eyes reddened as well. Choking up, he said, "Mother, you gave birth to me. You know better than anyone what kind of person I am. Please don’t say those things that belittle me anymore. Why do I work so hard? Isn’t it to stand out on my own merits? I don’t want to depend on others... I don’t want to..."

"Yes, yes, yes, your mother knows. Good child, it’s all your mother’s fault. If I say such senseless things again in the future, just ignore me."

Tao Mingqing first let out a sigh, then apologized: "Mother, my attitude just now was bad, don’t take it to heart. It’s just that I feel others may not understand me, but you, as my mother, should be able to. Yet just now, you didn’t understand me."

"Your mother really got muddle-headed. This family keeps getting better, more and more important people around us, and your mother’s eyes got dazzled, heart got confused, and I started to want the same things you did... Ai, how could I take it to heart? It’s you—so long as you don’t blame me." Aunt Fang let out a long breath of relief.

She had only this one son she could rely on, and he had always been so considerate. Naturally, she didn’t want any conflict between them that would damage their mother–son relationship.

And so the matter was let go. Since her son had spoken to her like this, from then on Aunt Fang no longer entertained any wild hopes of her son "climbing high" to anyone.

...

Royal Palace.

Seeing the guard she’d sent to deliver things to Tao Mingqing return, Su Yuxin didn’t even care whether An Jing and the others were present. She opened her mouth and asked directly, "Did you give everything to him?"

The guard said respectfully, "As the Princess ordered, I delivered everything to him."

"Then did he prepare a birthday gift for me?"

The guard shook his head.

"Not even a single thing?" Su Yuxin refused to give up.

The guard braced himself and shook his head again.

Su Yuxin was very disappointed.

An Jing and the others watched, finding it amusing, but none of them said anything to Su Yuxin.

Su Yuxin, however, threw herself into An Jing’s arms and started complaining about Tao Mingqing: "Grandmother, tell me, isn’t Little Qingqing just too lacking in conscience? Clearly his birthday is on the same day as mine. I prepared a gift for him, and what does he do? He goes and forgets me completely."

An Jing wrapped her arms around her in return, smiling as she said, "Your birthdays are on the same day, such a coincidence. He probably didn’t forget; most likely he thought that giving a birthday gift to you, this Princess, you might not think much of it, so he didn’t dare to send anything."

Su Yuxin said, "But I didn’t give him anything that expensive. I just gave him a book."

An Jing laughed and said, "That book is a masterpiece for the ages, and it’s the author’s own hand-copied manuscript—there’s only that one copy. If your grandfather hadn’t already agreed to let you use it as a birthday gift for him, your father would never have allowed you to do such a thing."

"Anyway, it’s just a single book!" Su Yuxin giggled and acted spoiled.

An Jing could only shake her head with a helpless smile.

Just then Feng Feiyan and Huo Qingyi came in together, carrying a big cake. This cake was something An Jing and Ye Zhi had taught them to make, entirely for Su Yuxin’s birthday today.

"Ya ya ya, this is the cake!?" The moment Su Yuxin saw the cake, she sprang out of An Jing’s arms, ran to the cake, and studied it closely.

There were specially made thin candles stuck in the cake, nineteen in all, representing Su Yuxin’s nineteen years of age.

Because it was her birthday today and everyone was celebrating it for her, Su Yuxin couldn’t leave the palace at all. Otherwise, she would have liked to go personally to deliver the birthday gift to Tao Mingqing and celebrate his birthday along the way.