The strange looks her relatives gave her made Shen Luoying flush, leaving her at a loss.
She had only brought a red envelope containing a hundred yuan and a carton of milk, nothing else. Compared with Shen Licheng's water-type jadeite, her gifts really did fall far short.
"Luoying, it's our brother's birthday today. Don't tell me you didn't bring a gift?" Seeing Shen Luoying fidgeting in silence, Shen Licheng's eyes shifted as he spoke in a mocking tone.
Beside him, Ou Xin stroked the gold ring on her hand and sneered. "Licheng, life isn't easy for those two. Sanitation workers in town barely make any money. A thousand yuan a month is about the best they can hope for. Surely you don't expect them to meet our high standards?"
The couple's double act immediately drew looks of disdain toward Shen Luoying from several relatives. Clearly, they hadn't expected her to be unable to produce even a respectable gift.
Shen Luoying trembled with anger. Every word out of the couple's mouths was about money. They were determined to corner her.
Before coming to Shen Xin'an's birthday luncheon, she had only prepared a hundred-yuan red envelope and a carton of milk. She had nothing else to give him. From the looks of things, producing those two gifts would inevitably earn her another round of ridicule from the couple.
But she could no longer worry about that. Though a hundred-yuan red envelope and a carton of milk were nowhere near as valuable as that piece of jadeite, they at least represented her heartfelt birthday wishes for Shen Xin'an.
Let them laugh if they wanted. Over all these years, she and her son had endured plenty of ridicule.
Yet before she could take a step, Jun Wangchen suddenly stepped forward beside her and said