Shen Yi and Ji Yunting nodded at each other from a not-too-distant, not-too-close range when they bumped into each other outside the restaurant, a gesture that served as a greeting.
After Ye Wanwan said goodbye to Song Ziyi, she watched them leave with their respective spouses.
Lu Ning yawned and said to Zhang Xinyue, "I should get going too."
"Didn’t you say your car is in for maintenance? Let me drive you back," Zhang Xinyue stood by the car, looking at Lu Ning.
Lu Ning hesitated for a few seconds, then happily accepted, "Then I won’t be polite about it!"
While speaking, Lu Ning was already jogging over quickly, then circled around to the passenger’s side, opened the car door, and sat down.
Zhang Xinyue stood by the car, watching Lu Ning, who had already taken a seat inside, and shook his head with a smile.
While driving Lu Ning back home, Zhang Xinyue glanced at Lu Ning and asked, "Have your aunt and uncle still been pressuring you into blind dating recently?"
As the topic came up, the smile on Lu Ning’s face disappeared, and she sighed heavily, "Honestly, I feel that I’m at that age too, but I just can’t meet the right person, I really don’t know what to do."
Zhang Xinyue was silent for a while, then finally spoke up to comfort her, "There’s no need to settle just because you’ve reached a certain age."
"I don’t want to either," Lu Ning sighed, and dropped the subject.
Seeing that Lu Ning was in low spirits, Zhang Xinyue suddenly suggested, "How about we go have some drinks?"
"Right now?" Lu Ning looked at Zhang Xinyue with a puzzled expression, not understanding why he suddenly brought it up.
Zhang Xinyue nodded, "Yes, right now. We don’t have to work tomorrow anyway. How about we don’t return until we’re drunk?"
Lu Ning hesitated for only a brief two seconds before nodding her agreement, and a smile crept back onto Zhang Xinyue’s face.
The new year arrived in what seemed like a blink of an eye, snow falling outside the window, with both families sitting in the living room for a chat, while Ye Wanwan’s slightly bulging belly was visible as she sat on the couch listening to their conversation.
"It’s peeled." Shen Yi handed the peeled pomelo to Ye Wanwan.
Ye Wanwan took it and started eating without changing her expression, while Su Xiangyi couldn’t help but frown, "Wanwan, isn’t it sour?"
"It’s not sour," Ye Wanwan shook her head at Su Xiangyi then looked at the pomelo in her hands, not finding it sour at all.
"It’s so sour, yet you feel it’s not sour at all," Su Xiangyi said, frowning as if she had taken a bite and found it unbearably sour.
"Wanwan can eat sour food , maybe what’s in her belly is a boy," Lin Xu interjected.
Ye Wanwan looked down at her belly, admitting that she really didn’t know whether the baby was a boy or a girl.
Over the past month, she visited Su An every week, and to be honest, her mindset had undergone a significant change.
Regarding the baby in her belly, she too had started to look forward to it and began to ponder whether it would be a boy or a girl.
"When Wanwan was pregnant with Zhouzhou, she could eat both sour and spicy foods, so it’s really hard to tell if it’ll be a boy or a girl," Su Xiangyi remarked.
Zhouzhou initially wasn’t paying close attention to what they were talking about, but he caught that last remark and hurriedly said, "I like both a brother and a sister!"
Laughing, Su Xiangyi picked up Zhouzhou into her arms, "Right, we’ll like both a brother and a sister!"