To be honest, jealous as Xu Xinrui and Jin Mengsha were, they both acknowledged Jian Shuyue's beauty and poise. So the moment Gong Shixiong said his blind date was every bit her equal, they demanded photographic proof. Without a picture, he was talking out of his ass.
Gong Shixiong refused to indulge his obnoxious friends. He took out his phone, found a photo, and held it up.
Sun Haoran and Zheng Peng leaned over for a look, and their eyes instantly glazed over.
The girl in the photo had tender, expressive eyes and a radiant little smile, her expression brimming with captivating softness. A pale blue dress accentuated her slender, graceful figure.
Where had this enchantress come from?
Jin Mengsha and Xu Xinrui were jealous. They were reasonably good-looking themselves, but a seductive little vixen like this would utterly crush them.
"Whose daughter is she?" Xu Xinrui asked curiously.
"Heh, I'm not telling!" Gong Shixiong grinned smugly and put his phone away.
"She's pretty average! You can't tell much from a photo anyway," Sun Haoran remarked, his gaze shifting.
"Yeah, she's not as pretty as our Moon," Zheng Peng agreed.
"Please, that's just sour grapes. I'm telling you, she's even prettier in person. If you don't believe me, you'll see for yourselves in a couple of days!" Sure enough, Gong Shixiong took the bait and retorted with a snort.
A couple of days? What was happening in a couple of days?
Oh, it was the eightieth birthday of Sun Haoran's grandfather, Sun Zhenglian, a former senior official who had been retired for years.
As members of the younger generation, they would naturally be accompanying their elders to celebrate his birthday.
March 22, the fourth day of the second lunar month.
That evening, Sun Hongjie, the Sun family's eldest son