Chapter 169: 138 Jiang Tao Visits, Tang Su Confronts Someone (3rd Update)_1 Chapter 169: 138 Jiang Tao Visits, Tang Su Confronts Someone (3rd Update)_1 “Does your mom have little dried fish in the fridge? Does the little one want to eat?” Zhao Xinlan didn’t expect the little critter to be one that Lu Han picked up. That kid, Lu Han, really has a big heart.

Tang Su shook her head, “No need, it’s still too small. Just give it some cat food and some dried meat for snacks. Dried fish has bones that might get stuck in its throat; we can wait until it’s bigger to try those.”

“Ah, you’re so thoughtful. You have the potential to be a great mom. Good, I’ll be waiting for my adopted grandchild to be born.”

Her mother didn’t even pressure her to get married, yet her adoptive mother was already rushing her for a child—Tang Su’s eyes widened in shock.

Immediately after, Tang Su hurriedly changed the subject, “Godmother, go rinse off the foam and come eat breakfast. After breakfast, I’ll take you out for a drive.”

“Okay, then help me bring out the breakfast. Today, I want to be the queen for a day.”

“Sure thing.” Tang Su didn’t object at all.

Zhao Xinlan turned around to finish washing up, but before she took a step, she remembered something, “After holding that critter, remember to wash your hands.”

“Got it.”

“Meow—”

Tang Su put Little Douding on the floor. Little Douding had never been to Tang Su’s parents’ house before, and facing the unfamiliar environment, the little one was intrigued, sniffing here and there, embarking on its adventure.

Tang Su washed her hands with specialty soap. At her own place she used hand sanitizer, but her parents preferred soap, insisting that soap has better disinfecting properties than sanitizer.

Tang Su didn’t argue. It was just a difference in lifestyle perception and habit, with no right or wrong. In the end, it was about whatever felt comfortable.

Since her parents’ house didn’t have hand sanitizer, only soap, Tang Su wouldn’t go out of her way to buy a bottle of hand sanitizer just to wash her hands.

After washing her hands, Tang Su brought out Zhao Xinlan’s breakfast. After washing her face, Zhao Xinlan came out looking refreshed and clean. She touched her face and said to Tang Su, “Ah, look how rough my skin is. You should accompany me to get a facial later.”

“Sure, let’s eat first.”

“Hmm.”

Zhao Xinlan sat down, picked up her big meat bun, took a big bite, and then sipped her sweet Eight Treasures porridge.

This salty and sweet combination wasn’t liked by anyone in Tang Su’s family of four, only Zhao Xinlan enjoyed it.

When the Tang Su family ate meat buns, they usually drank xiaomi (millet) porridge or plain porridge.

Eight Treasures porridge was too sweet and cloying, and Su Ruoan and Tang Shengyi rarely made it, naturally leading Tang Su and Tang Feng to not like it as well.

If it wasn’t sweetened, it would be okay.

They had barely started eating breakfast when someone came knocking at the door.

At this hour?

Tang Su looked perplexedly at Zhao Xinlan. Zhao Xinlan’s brow was furrowed, and without saying a word, both guessed who would come knocking at this time.

Zhao Xinlan shushed Tang Su, gesturing for her to keep quiet.

Tang Su nodded silently, but just as they had coordinated their response, Little Douding started to betray them.

It meowed several times.

“Lanlan, open the door, I know you’re inside. Let’s talk face to face, is that okay?” Jiang Tao knocked a few more times outside and spoke in a lowered voice to Zhao Xinlan.

Zhao Xinlan hesitated for two seconds, then gestured for Tang Su to open the door for Jiang Tao.

When the door opened, Jiang Tao thought it was Zhao Xinlan, but to his surprise, he saw the face of Tang Su. “Tang Su? What are you doing here?” he asked.

With an awkward chuckle, Tang Su replied, “Dean Jiang, this is my home. Why can’t I be here?”

The question was hilariously absurd.

Even as the dean, he talks at this level. No wonder her father the emperor doesn’t respect him.

“Of course, you can. Is your godmother doing well?” Jiang Tao knew Tang Su was dissatisfied with him since she stopped calling him “godfather” after he asked her not to address him as such in public. Since then, Tang Su had never called him “godfather” again.

Even in private, when he jocularly asked why she didn’t call him “godfather,” Tang Su bluntly said she was afraid of not being able to distinguish the appropriate occasion, so she would just call him Dean Jiang from now on.

At that moment, Jiang Tao felt embarrassed but later thought it was for the best.

Tang Su’s grandparents were simple farmers from the countryside. Her maternal grandmother was an educated person but seemed to have a strained relationship with her mother and didn’t interact much with their family.

He heard she later moved abroad.

In Jiang Tao’s eyes, Tang Su’s grandparents were authentic farmers, and since they were not doted upon by her maternal grandmother, there was no point in currying favor with their family.

Even though Su Ruoan and Zhao Xinlan were best friends, and he loved Zhao Xinlan, he did not possess the kind of love that extends beyond his partner.

In his world of love, he could have just Zhao Xinlan, avoiding affairs with others, but he was a man with ambitions, a man with desires.

love never weighed too heavily in his life, so giving all of this rather insubstantial weight to Zhao Xinlan was, in his opinion, a sign of respect toward her.

He even believed that as long as a man maintained his charm, regardless of how he treated the women around him, his woman would stay by his side through thick and thin.

The previous Zhao Xinlan indeed gave him this illusion.

He had thought his charm, his masculine appeal to Zhao Xinlan, would be enough for her to completely belittle herself, to appease him, and satisfy his position and status as the eldest brother in their family.

But he hadn’t expected that Zhao Xinlan would turn against him one day, and so swiftly that he couldn’t react on the same day.

He had actually thought about coming over last night, but then he went to see his daughter, Mengmeng, first, to apologize and dissolve the heartache between father and daughter.

He felt that if he could come to apologize to Zhao Xinlan the next day, she should be savvy enough to recognize that he was giving her face. She should know that this was the step he had laid out for her and that she should step down from her position accordingly.

“She’s fine, slept deeply. She just got up for breakfast; after eating, we’re going to wash up. If you have something to say, Dean Jiang, please make it quick.”

Jiang Tao: “…”

In the past, Jiang Tao would never have crossed the threshold of Tang Su’s home, but now his wife was inside, and he had to go in and coax her.

After Jiang Tao entered the house, Zhao Xinlan took the opportunity while Tang Su was talking to him at the door to finish off her meat buns and eight-treasure porridge.

When they were still husband and wife, they had had fights, the normal ups and downs between couples. But back then, as soon as he was willing to lay down a step, even before he had done so, she would take the initiative to come down it.

Previous fights had led her to stay at Su Ruoan’s place, and even as Jiang Tao was knocking on the door, she would excitedly pack her bags, ready to return home with him.

At the time, Su Ruoan criticized her, asking if a woman’s dignity meant running away from home.

She still remembers responding with a nonchalant smile, giving Su Ruoan a goodbye kiss, and then merrily leaving with Jiang Tao.

Back then, she was younger, Tang Su was just a naive kid who didn’t understand anything.

Now Tang Su has grown up, has a boyfriend, and maybe they were planning to get married next year. After so many years of foolishness, it was time for her to wake up.