The words stunned everyone at the table!
"Honey, have you lost your mind?!"
Su Guohua was the first to jump up. "Take him as our godson? We can't do that! Wanning is still..."
He had been about to say that Wanning wasn't married yet. What would it mean to bring a godbrother into the family?
Especially when he was "a criminal's son"!
"Shut up!"
Jiang Lan spun around and glared at her husband with a fierceness he had never seen before.
"I'm making this decision! No one gets to object!"
The gentle restraint she had carried for years gave way to a mother's protectiveness and a promise to an old friend. Her authority left no room for argument.
Su Guohua was cowed. He opened his mouth, then swallowed the rest of his words.
Jiang Lan ignored him and turned back to Yue Xiaofei, her eyes bright with hope.
"Aunt Jiang..."
Yue Xiaofei hadn't expected her to propose this either.
"Silly boy."
Jiang Lan's tears finally spilled over, though her voice held a smile. "Aren't you going to call me something else?"
Yue Xiaofei saw the sincerity and care in her eyes. That warmth dispelled the last shadow in his heart.
He stood and bowed deeply to Jiang Lan.
"Godmother!"
That one word broke the dam holding back Jiang Lan's tears.
She pulled Yue Xiaofei into her arms and sobbed. "Yes! My dear son! My good boy!"
Beside them, Su Wanning gripped the hem of her clothes so tightly that her knuckles turned white.
For the first time, she truly understood how childish and cruel she had been yesterday.
He wasn't a pauper.
The gifts he had brought weren't junk.
She was the fool.
Shame, embarrassment, and a frustration she couldn't quite name tangled in her chest.
Still, Su Wanning stubbornly