After instructing the workers in the kitchen to prepare food and drinks, Ming Jinxin ca out and opened her phone—
"Hey, Youyou, take a look at Hanhan’s fiancé." She pulled up the photo of Fang Han and her fiancé taken at a dinner gathering and showed it to Ning Youguang, "You know psychology, co and check out this guy."
Ning Youguang leaned over for a look, thinking, "It’s this guy."
But she said, "Looks good, he and cousin have a married couple’s look."
Ming Jinxin said, "When I saw them together, I thought they looked a bit alike."
"Isn’t that perfect? It shows they are destined to be a couple."
Isn’t that so?
In the past life, after much deliberation, she married an exceptional one.
In this life, she hastily had a flash marriage, and still ended up with this exceptional one.
It indicates that these two are destined to form this marital bond.
As for anything else, being the aunt herself, she knows well enough not to say anything, and even more so, her cousin can’t say much either.
After briefly comnting on Fang Han and her husband, Ning Youguang imdiately switched the topic to Fang Han’s shiny diamond ring, "Cousin’s ring looks nice."
"Her mother-in-law bought the round diamond at an auction and specifically had a well-known jewelry designer from Hong Kong design it for Hanhan. I think the diamond quality is quite good."
Yet the style looks too nouveau riche.
Chinese people emphasize discretion, and most asset holders live low-key lives. Their clothing might not be cheap, but it definitely doesn’t look extraordinarily expensive, including many living in old villas in Shanghai and cycling around.
Who likes to wear obviously extravagantly expensive jewelry around?
It’s only in places like Hong Kong that such flamboyant wealth is displayed.
Ning Youguang looked at Ming Jinxin’s eyes and knew she despised the ring’s tackiness.
She gently curled her lips, "After all, my cousin is a public figure; she needs sothing to boost her presence."
"Your mom doesn’t wear these things at everyday occasions either." Ming Jinxin imdiately retorted, "Wearing expensive jewelry for events, that’s situational necessity."
"Cousin is so lucky, her future mother-in-law really dotes on her."
Not married yet, and the future mother-in-law gives such an expensive ring to the bride-to-be.
From the bride’s family perspective, the future mother-in-law is undeniably great.
But from the groom’s family perspective?
For Mrs. Li, the eldest in the Li house, to value Fang Han so highly, surely Fang Han must be worth it.
After all, her son married Fang Han, not to ntion she herself being a popular star who can be a walking billboard for the family’s business, bringing significant attention to their products, just by virtue of Fang Han coming from the wealthy Fang family in Jincheng, with her maternal family being the Ning family, her uncle’s status in the entertainnt industry, her aunt’s influence in Mainland comrce, and her connections with the Ming family in Beijing, making her a true aristocrat,
Once the Li family ties the knot with Fang’s family, they essentially affiliate with the Ning family, the Ming family, and Ning Yi who is incredibly influential in the entertainnt circle, such solid relations could allow the Li family to enter the affluent circles in Mainland seamlessly.
Of course they value Fang Han greatly!
They are eager to cozy up to her.
However, once the two get married, and the Li family discovers the Fang family was an empty shell all along, and even though the Ning and Ming families have vast assets, they have little to no connection with the Fang family, nor any interest in cooperating with them or helping them establish ties, they feel they’ve misjudged initially.
That’s when they start nitpicking Fang Han, from her personality, to her educational background, to her career... none of it satisfactory.
Especially after Fang Han gave the Li family a daughter, and then another daughter failed to develop, her Chaoshan mother-in-law found her disagreeable in every aspect.
What was initially thought to be a golden phoenix worthy of alliance for their son, upon entering the family turned out to be an utterly ordinary chicken, how could they treat her like before?
Yet, people are fickle.
When she finds fault with others’ ordinary chickens, she never considers how her own slimy toad is actually no better.
She only feels everything is your fault, with no end to bla, it’s you who’s at fault, thus my son is like this.
So, since the pregnancy of the first daughter, Fang Han’s days in the Li family were particularly tough.
Facing upward, she confronted her mother-in-law’s nitpicking, and downward, dealt with her husband indulging in nightlife daily and the ss it created for her.
"Now it seems okay." Ming Jinxin said, "but you have to be with a person for a long ti to really know if they are difficult or not."
"Don’t worry, cousin is so smart, she certainly can handle her own life." Ning Youguang swiftly pulled herself from her recollection and said with a smile to Ming Jinxin, "I see they’re quite good together, strong alliance, well matched."
Her cousin is quite formidable, after all.
Moreover, she has her formidable little aunt behind her.
The mother and daughter together are indeed a strong alliance, constantly sparring with their husbands, battling with their mother-in-law, turning the Li family upside down, making it extrely lively.
Of course, as for whether this marriage is happy or not.
That’s... subjective.
Therefore, seeing these two together again in this life, she truly doesn’t know what to say.
Most importantly, Ning Youguang knows one key thing, which Ming Jinxin doesn’t.
Fang Han’s fiancé, when they t, both had their respective partners.
As for the Li family’s second son, who was engaged to a social dia influencer three years ago?
The engagent was broken under his mother’s disdain 800 years ago, and soon after, she went abroad.
In the past life, when this issue later surfaced, Ning Youguang was lying quietly in a large courtyard in Jiangnan, eating gossip for quite a while.
It’s why she is still very clear on all the details now.
Allegedly, the second son of the Li family fell in love with Fang Han at first sight at a friend’s gathering and imdiately launched a passionate offensive on her.
Initially, Fang Han rejected him coldly, "I already have a boyfriend."
But the Li family’s second son, hailing from a family with billions and pampered since young, believed he couldn’t be resisted by a woman with money.
Any woman he had his eye on, regardless of her being spoken for.
He was determined to have her.
With strong support from his mom, he started lavishly pursuing Fang Han.
After discovering the location of Fang Han’s crew, he drove luxury cars himself to pick her up every day, with different luxury car brands each ti, so attentive like a little fanboy.
He frequently gifted precious jewelry, antique jewels, limited edition bags, supre luxury cars, and even splurged to have various international top-tier luxury brand haute couture dresses tailored for Fang Han.
At that ti, the Li family’s son was in the midst of breaking up with his then-girlfriend, a famous artist from Hong Kong, while Fang Han was also involved with a rich heir she’d been dating for two years.
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