The table was filled with a dazzling array of dishes, covering two whole tables. The usually ordinary dishes became exquisite and enticing, perfect in color, aroma, and taste, with no flaws to pick.
"This is... you made this..."
Li Yan’s mother was dumbfounded, unable to believe this was made by Gu Tong.
"My cooking isn’t very good, sorry to embarrass everyone."
Gu Tong carried herself with the grace of a lady from a wealthy family, as if she had stepped out of a TV drama, earning quite a few extra points in her favor.
"The dishes you whipped up with those skillful hands, they’re just like what you’d buy from a restaurant. If this isn’t good, then the food we make would just be a laughingstock."
Li Yan’s older cousin’s cheerful wife was the only person that Gu Tong liked in the Li Family.
"Hearing you say that, I’m much more relieved..." Gu Tong modestly replied.
In fact, Gu Tong was quite confident in her cooking, having dabbled in both Chinese and Western cuisines, with several signature dishes.
Her culinary skills were taught by a Mafia five-star chef, who was once the personal chef for the President of Country E. Learning just two or three tricks were enough to show off.
"Alright, let’s eat!"
Li Yan’s mother didn’t feel any better because Gu Tong prepared a table full of delicious food. Instead, she felt even more frustrated. She originally wanted to use this as a reason to properly ’educate’ her daughter-in-law.
Relatives began taking their seats, filling up two tables. They couldn’t wait to taste the delicious dishes, and after the first bite, every one of them was full of praise. Quite a few relatives even started to ask Gu Tong for cooking tips, which she patiently answered one by one.
Li Yan’s mother felt particularly displeased, her hand holding the chopsticks trembled slightly.
Suddenly, her pupils froze, stuck on Li Yan’s action of serving Gu Tong some food...
Her teeth clenched tightly, and she could even taste blood!
’Smack—’ the sound of chopsticks hitting the table.
"Gu Tong, tell me honestly, how much did the scarf you brought today cost?"
Unable to find fault with the food, Li Yan’s mother shifted her attack target?
Gu Tong’s eyes squinted slightly, nonchalantly saying, "My brother gave it to me, I don’t remember."
Li Yan’s mother seized upon this: "You’re lying to me! Don’t think I don’t know, this scarf of yours costs seven or eight hundred bucks! Buying such an expensive scarf, how extravagant of you! How could you live ?"
As her words fell, all the relatives gasped.
"Hiss, that expensive... the wool coat fabric I saw in town was only thirty bucks a meter..."
"It even has some bird language on it, probably bought from those Russians... spending seven or eight hundred on a scarf, that’s extravagant..."
"No wonder, she can’t stand the new daughter-in-law, who could afford to keep that..."
Li Yan’s mother kept finding fault, not stopping for a moment. All the relatives, at her instigation, stood uniformly on Li Yan’s mother’s side.
"In my opinion, the Li Family can’t support her, you should get a divorce as soon as possible. If you’d married Wenjing in the first place, there wouldn’t be so much fuss. Tomorrow, you should report to your superior and file for a divorce, understand?" Li Yan’s mother decided, slamming the table.
It turned out she was still thinking of pushing Zhang Wenjing onto Li Yan, so she was willing to lose face to intentionally cause such a scene.
In her past life, Gu Tong was already aware of Li Yan’s mother’s favoritism, but she hadn’t expected it to be this exaggerated.