My Multiple Identities Revealed After Marrying the Bigshot
Chapter 334: Moving to the Apartment

Chapter 334: Chapter 334: Moving to the Apartment

When Grandma Xu arrived at the Lu Family’s home, Liu Yushu showed her to her room.

"I really appreciate all the trouble you’re going through," Grandma Xu said, feeling a bit embarrassed.

In private, Xu Jingmin whispered to Zhou Shuyan, "You should just come clean to Youxi quickly. Then we can openly bring Grandma Xu out to live with us. Otherwise, with her staying here, not only will Grandma Xu be uncomfortable, but it might also be inconvenient for our families."

Zhou Shuyan nodded, looking extremely pressured, "I’m looking for the right moment."

"What right moment?" Xu Jingmin rolled her eyes. "If you ask me, you should just come out with it. The longer you drag this out, the angrier Youxi will be when she finds out the truth."

Zhou Shuyan: "..."

"Do you really think so?" Zhou Shuyan was beginning to have doubts.

Being decisive and assertive at work, it was unusual for him to be so hesitant about this matter.

"Of course," said Xu Jingmin. "Think about it from Youxi’s perspective. Before, when you both thought divorce was inevitable and you wouldn’t have anything to do with each other, keeping secrets might have been okay. But now that you’re together, continuing to hide things from her, isn’t that too much?"

"Does it mean you don’t trust her, or that you’re not serious about her at all?" Xu Jingmin challenged.

"How could that be, I’m very serious," Zhou Shuyan insisted. "We’re already married."

Xu Jingmin rolled her eyes again, "Think from Youxi’s point of view. If you continue to hide things after you’re together, that’s deception."

Zhou Shuyan sighed and said, "I was thinking, once our relationship is stable and she loves me so much that even if she finds out I’ve been hiding this, she’d get angry but wouldn’t break up with me, that’s when I’d tell her."

"I’m afraid that if I tell her too soon and she gets angry, she might break up with me on the spot," Zhou Shuyan explained.

Xu Jingmin raised an eyebrow, "Oh, you really don’t have much confidence in yourself?"

"Mom, please stop teasing me," Zhou Shuyan replied helplessly.

"I don’t know who gave you such a bad idea," Xu Jingmin said, pursing her lips. "If you wait that long to tell her, by then maybe Youxi would have fallen hopelessly in love with you, but knowing that you hesitated to come clean might make her even angrier. It could lead to a situation that’s hard to resolve!"

"She might even decide to break up with you no matter how much she loves you," Xu Jingmin said with a laugh. "Youxi is a very determined girl and can be quite tough on herself."

"You spent the Spring Festival together, and you seem to understand her better and better," Zhou Shuyan couldn’t help but comment.

Smiling, Xu Jingmin replied, "Yes, the more I know her, the more I like her."

After Grandma Xu had finished packing her things, Xu Jingmin and Zhou Shuyan’s private conversation came to a temporary halt.

Liu Yushu pulled out a bag for Grandma Xu, "Aunt Xu, I bought you a new outfit to celebrate your move."

"This..."

"I heard from Youxi that you’d like to buy clothes with your own money," Liu Yushu said with a smile. "This outfit is a gift from me, just this once, and I’ll not be giving you any more in the future."

"So, please accept it. Besides, I’ve already bought the clothes and can’t return them, so if you don’t take them, it would just be a waste."

"Yeah," Xu Jingmin chimed in from the side. "Besides, aren’t you going to open a restaurant with Yushu? The customers in the city care about appearances and will judge based on what people wear."

Upon hearing this, Grandma Xu wouldn’t want to impact the business of the restaurant, so she gratefully accepted the gift, thinking she would return the favor by buying clothes for Xu Jingmin and Liu Yushu once she received her wages.

On her trip back to Hexing Village, Xu Jingmin had given her a down jacket.

"Youxi, when can I come and see the restaurant?" Grandma Xu asked.

On the way there, Lu Youxi had already pointed out the internet cafe and the restaurant to Grandma Xu.

The restaurant was almost finished with its decor, only lacking a few permits.

They can only be issued after the fire safety inspection has been completed.

"When would you like to go take a look?" Lu Youxi asked with a smile.

"How about we go take a look right now?" Grandma Xu hurriedly said, "Otherwise, this matter will always be weighing on my mind."

"If you don’t feel too tired, then let’s go take a look," Lu Youxi said with a laugh.

"Not tired at all, it took just a swoosh to get here from Fengnan City to the Imperial Capital; I felt more comfortable than traveling from Hexing Village to Hetai Town," Grandma Xu said. "Even though the distance from our village to Tai Town is short, the car ride is so bumpy that it always exhausts me."

So, Lu Youxi then took Grandma Xu to see the restaurant on the other side of the street.

Xu Jingmin hadn’t seen it either.

So, everyone set off together to the restaurant across the way.

The restaurant was all set up, a small one that Liu Yushu and Grandma Xu could manage.

Grandma Xu looked around, left and right, and exclaimed, "This restaurant is better than many in Tai Town."

"How well the business will do will all depend on your and my mom’s cooking skills," Lu Youxi said with a smile.

"The skill is all with Yushu; I promise I won’t hold her back," Grandma Xu said, looking at the restaurant and feeling that, at her age, life seemed to have a purpose again.

It swept away the previous gloom she felt back in Hexing Village.

Grandma Xu took a deep breath.

All her life, she had lived for her children.

At her age now, there wasn’t much time left for herself.

With the time that remained, she wanted to live for herself.

She had helped her children as much as she could, and even given away her only place to stay.

She didn’t owe them anything.

Whether their future was good or bad was entirely up to them.

They couldn’t expect to bleed her dry for the rest of their lives.

Grandma Xu expelled all the murky thoughts from her mind and patted Lu Youxi’s hand, which was holding her arm, "Don’t worry, in the future, I want to live a good life on my own."

"Yeah, it’s never too late for us to start over," Lu Youxi replied.

That evening, to welcome Grandma Xu, Liu Yushu specially prepared a big table of dishes.

After eating and drinking their fill, since the room had been given to Grandma Xu, Lu Youxi could only go back to the apartment with Zhou Shuyan.

On the way, Zhou Shuyan said to Lu Youxi, "Your luggage is all at the apartment, I haven’t opened it. I don’t know how you’re going to sort it out, and I was worried about handling some of your things, so I waited for you to come back and take care of it."

Lu Youxi hadn’t thought about this issue at first, but now that Zhou Shuyan brought it up, she remembered that her luggage would probably contain a lot of personal clothing.

Those must have been packed by Liu Yushu.

Thank goodness Zhou Shuyan didn’t handle them, otherwise it would have been so embarrassing.

Lu Youxi couldn’t help but give Zhou Shuyan a glance with a smile.

"What?" Zhou Shuyan was puzzled by her sudden, contextless smile and touched his face, "What’s up?"

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