The Sparkle of A Lifetime

Chapter 40: Does He Pass as a Grandson-in-Law?

“You wretch, how audacious can you be!” After kicking Yan Yiren, Ruan Yufeng turned around.

Concerned, she helped Yan Shudan, who was crying in pain while clutching her face, to her feet.”You wretch, how audacious can you be!” After kicking Yan Yiren, Ruan Yufeng turned around. Concerned, she helped Yan Shudan, who was crying in pain while clutching her face, to her feet.

“Dandan, is your face ok? Let Mum take a look.”

Feeling indignant, Yan Shudan rushed over, kicking Yan Yiren in the guts as she yelled out, “If anything happens to my face, Yan Yiren, don’t think that your face will remain unscathed!”

“Hurry, take me to the hospital! Hurry!” she shouted frantically.

With Ruan Yufeng’s help, they staggered off.

Those few kicks to her guts had been so painful that Yan Yiren had turned pale. She lay on the ground, curled in on herself.

Ling Yunhuan scrambled up, her face and neck littered with tiny gashes caused by Yan Shudan’s nails. She helped Yan Yiren up. “Yiren, are you alright?”

“I’m fine.”

Ling Yunhuan was angry with herself. “I’m sorry,” she apologized. “It’s all because I was too impulsive. I even caused you to get beaten up too.”

Yan Yiren closed her eyes, letting the pain pass, before opening them again. “It’s not your fault,” she reassured her. “Even if you hadn’t been here, Yan Shudan wouldn’t have let me off.”

After Yan Shudan and Ruan Yufeng left, Yan Yiren adjusted herself. Thank god she had just been kicked in the guts. Her face was unscathed.

After washing her face, she patted it to bring a little color back before making her way to Grandma’s bedroom.

Perhaps because she knew that her body was not going to hold up for long, Madame Yan wanted to see her precious granddaughter more in her last days.

Yan Yiren was heartbroken. Even when she was being hit, she never thought of crying. But looking Grandma’s cloudy eyes, that gaze of hers that seemed to know everything, that gaze that was filled with love, tears cascaded down her face uncontrollably.

Grandma was the only member of her family that actually cared for her.

She dare not imagine, if Grandma wasn’t around anymore, what would happen to her…

“Yiren, don’t cry. Promise Grandma that you’ll take good care of yourself even when I’m no longer around.”

Yan Yiren shook her head. “No, Grandma will definitely be here for a long time yet!”

Madame Yan chuckled as she wiped her tears dry, “Silly girl! It’s time for Grandma to go down to find your mother and apologize to her. I haven’t protected you well. I’ve allowed that mother-daughter duo to bully you. It’s all Grandma’s fault…”

“No, no it’s not.” Yan Yiren threw herself into her arms as she sobbed. “Grandma, don’t go, don’t leave me.”

Madam Yan’s eyes glistened with unshed tears. Pursing her lips, she softly patted her back as she choked out, “Old age, illness, and death are all things people can’t avoid. That’s life.”

Yan Yiren sobbed even harder, almost hysterically.

Soon, she was all cried out. With her eyes swollen, she asked raspily, “Grandma, don’t you want to see me get married? Mother never got the chance, so I hope that Grandma will be able to do so. I want you to hand me over to Hanjiang. Can you do that?”

A glint of happiness flashed in Madame Yan’s eyes, “You and Hanjiang are getting married?”

Yan Yiren smiled, wiping her tears with the back of her hand. “Mn! We’ve already been dating for three years. He’s really good to me and has always wanted to meet you. It’s just that I thought it was too soon. What’s your impression of him? Does he pass as a grandson-in-law?”

“I like him, of course, I do. That young man’s mature and responsible and doesn’t seem to be impetuous. Grandma can tell that he truly cares for you. It’s just that…” Madam Yan sighed, raising her hand to caress Yan Yiren’s head. “I don’t want you to get married just for the sake of it, do you understand?”

Yan Yiren tugged on her hand, moving it to her face as she nuzzled it longingly. “I won’t do that Grandma. I won’t get married just for the sake of it.”