Chapter 16

“Uncle.” Shang Yanci repeated ambiguously, looking at her calmly, “Didn’t you call me Mr. Shang before?”

As he finished speaking, Pei Yuning’s heartbeat suddenly quickened.

It was as if Shang Yanci easily held his heart in his palm, allowing him to reshape and forge it at will.

He gave her two choices, or rather, these were the only two choices at the moment, but no matter what she called him, Shang Yanci would not suffer any loss.

Shang Yanci’s gaze fell on her pink earlobe. He felt that the way she was trying to cover up her hair was a little cute and she looked very well behaved.

Pei Yuning was just about to change his name.

Then she heard Shang Yanci say casually: “It’s okay to call you uncle.”

He temporarily returned her heart to her.

Mr. Shang looked back and forth between the two of them: “Have you met before?”

Shang Yanci: “I’ve met a few times before today.”

Pei Yuning: “…What a coincidence.”

The group sat down and drank tea.

Shang Yanci was sitting right opposite Pei Yuning.

Jiang Minzhi looked around and asked straight to the point, “Why is Shang Heng not here?”

The harmonious appearance just now was instantly torn into an unignorable gap.

Shang Heng’s mother Yi Huan said, “I’m on the way, wait a moment.”

Pei Yuning stood up and put the purple diamond jewelry gift box in front of Grandpa Shang: “Grandpa Shang, I appreciate your kindness, but this is too expensive, I don’t want it.”

“What do you mean by expensive?” Grandpa Shang pushed back, “Grandpa specially asked someone to design this set of jewelry for you. Who else can wear it except you? It doesn’t have any special meaning. It’s just an ordinary gift. Ningning accept it.”

Pei Yuning looked at his grandfather.

Grandpa Pei noticed the gaze of his precious granddaughter and looked at his old friend, who had a determined look on his face.

He thought of a compromise: “Since it has been given, Ningning should take it. The kindness of an elder cannot be declined.” He

then said to Mr. Shang: “When you have time next time, go to my warehouse and pick out an ancient painting you like. It will be an ordinary return gift.”

So both sides succeeded.

Half an hour passed and Shang Heng still didn’t come.

Shang Xuan came in after finishing a phone call outside: “Father, Shang Heng’s phone is turned off. I’ll send someone to look for him right away.”

Old Master Shang looked displeased: “What an rude guy! Let him go home immediately!”

Shang Yanci put down his teacup: “Father, it’s already noon. Everything has been arranged at the restaurant.”

Old Master Shang sighed in his heart, apologized to the Pei family with a smile, and invited them to the restaurant.

Pei Yuning wanted to take this opportunity to chat with Shang Yanci, but as soon as he stood up, he was taken away by Pei Yuchen.

After leaving the tea room, Pei Yuning pulled him: “Brother, what are you doing?”

Pei Yuchen glanced behind him and said in a low voice: “Didn’t you see the way Shang Yanci looked at you just now? I feel like you are like a fragrant and soft little cake in his eyes, and it tastes like strawberry.”

Pei Yuning helplessly: “Brother, that’s how he looks at others, gentle but also possessive, not just to me, you think too much.”

Pei Yuchen looked at the innocent sister in front of him lovingly: “Little princess, you think too little. Men understand men best. He must have bad intentions towards you.”

Pei Yuning muttered in his heart: I am the one who has bad intentions towards him.

Two people were left in the tea room.

Shang Yanci poured tea for the person opposite: “It seems that Ms. Jiang remembered me.”

Jiang Minzhi’s back, which had been forced to straighten before, now relaxed, and his tone was tired and sleepy: “How could I not remember my savior? How long has Mr. Shang been back?”

Shang Yanci: “The ninth day.”

Jiang Minzhi: “I can’t attend this wedding. Mr. Shang has made a wasted trip.”

Shang Yanci did not hide it in front of her: “Ms. Jiang, I returned for Pei Yuning.”

Jiang Minzhi paused in drinking tea, put down the teacup, looked up at him: “What do you mean, Mr. Shang?”

Shang Yanci: “I did come back to attend their wedding at first, but you saw that Shang Heng cheated and the Pei family proposed to cancel the engagement. I fell in love with Pei Yuning, and intended to get promoted and become her legal partner.”

Jiang Minzhi: “Did it start from that photo?”

Shang Yanci said frankly: “That was just an opportunity.”

Jiang Minzhi fell into deep thought. Shang Yanci’s character was naturally beyond doubt, but Ningning might not be interested in him. Besides, Shang Heng and he are both from the Shang family. Replacing nephew with uncle is not only not nice to say, but it also messes up the generation relationship.

In the end, Jiang Minzhi said honestly: “Mr. Shang, I don’t want my daughter to marry again.”

“Ms. Jiang knows very well that aristocratic families like us always form alliances among the strong, and there are no special examples.” Shang Yanci’s voice was gentle and polite, yet dominant and strong. “I will marry her based on my love for her.”

After that, Shang Yanci stood up, nodded slightly, and left the tea room.

After sitting down in the restaurant, Shang Yanci still sat directly opposite Pei Yuning.

I don’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional.

When he sat down, Pei Yuning raised her eyes and looked at him, then looked away.

Everyone ate and talked, and apart from the nature of the wedding banquet being cancelled, the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

Pei Yuning finished drinking the soup his brother brought him, and when he looked up again, Shang Yanci, who was sitting opposite him, was no longer sitting there.

The next moment, the phone in the bag behind me vibrated slightly. Pei Yuning took out his cell phone and looked at the message –

Shang Yanci: [Ms. Pei, you can come to the study on the third floor to find me. Pei

Yuning thought about it and interpreted his meaning, which can be roughly divided into the following three types:

“1. As the host, in order to do my best to serve the guests, Miss Pei can come to me if she needs anything.”

“2. As Mr. Shang, if Miss Pei has anything she wants to ask about the contact in the past few days, she can come to me.” “

3. Whether Miss Pei comes or not, I will be in the study. This message is purely a personal courtesy and has no other meaning. “

She had to admit that Shang Yanci was really good at guessing people’s hearts, and was very good at saying things that were just enough, flirting but not flirting, and fishing but not fishing.

It was as if she could interpret his words into various meanings at will, and he would cater to her and accommodate her according to her understanding of the words.

Shang Yanci respected her while also guiding her.

It seems that the dominant power is in her hands, but in fact, this is just a means for Shang Yanci to give up the dominant power, and she is still the passive party.

For example, at this moment, she was ready to get up and find Shang Yanci to talk to him alone in the study, instead of asking him to come down and start a group chat in front of everyone.

Pei Yuning stood up and left the restaurant.

Jiang Minzhi silently watched the direction she left, which was the same direction Shang Yanci had left before. Her intuition told her that her daughter was going to find him.

Arriving at the study on the third floor, Pei Yuning raised his hand and knocked on the door three times.

It was very quiet inside, and then Shang Yanci’s voice was heard. He didn’t ask who it was, just two words: “Come in.”

Pei Yuning walked into the study. Shang Yanci was sitting on the sofa by the window, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and holding a book on economics that he had flipped through more than a dozen pages.

On the table was a cup of Pu’er tea, a plate of cut Basque cake, and a cup of rose roasted milk.

“Please sit down.” Shang Yanci closed the book and pointed to the Basque cake and rose baked milk placed together on the table. “Miss Pei, try it and see if it suits your taste.”

The first sentence is crucial. Pei Yuning hadn’t figured out how to start the conversation yet, so she sat down, picked up the Basque cake, and ate it in small bites.

The Basque cake was delicious, but this time, Pei Yuning did not give any comments or praise him.

Shang Yanci was looking at her. Pei Yuning knew it, but she didn’t look up at him.

The study became quiet.

The breaths were pulling and entwining silently.