Chapter 1

Stanford University was in the same city, and every weekend when school was off, Yu Wanwan would go home.

Since she came back in the afternoon, Lin Fen had been nagging in her ear about how much effort she had put into this arranged meeting.

From meeting the other partys aunt while square dancing, to coincidentally learning that the aunt had a young, handsome, and single nephew who had just returned from abroad, to how she painstakingly found out about his work and family situation, etc.

This was the so-called checking of three generations.

Lin Fen used to work in the street office before retirement and was very good at this kind of thing.

All of this, Yu Wanwan could recite.

Ever since her sister and family openly stated their intention not to marry, her mother seemed to be stimulated and couldnt deal with her sister, so she picked on the more obedient Yu Wanwan.

Clearly, she was only a sophomore, but her mother wished to marry her off as soon as possible, preferably getting married this year and having a child next year, to fulfill her wish of holding a grandchild.

The problem was that she was still a student and had two more years until graduation.

"Your face is young, you need to dress more maturely. Little Du is older than you and has just returned from abroad. I heard from his aunt that his family hopes he gets married soon, so you cant let others think youre young."

Seeing Yu Wanwan standing in front of the wardrobe without moving, Lin Fen went past her to pick out some clothes in the wardrobe and threw two pieces at her.

Yu Wanwan could only reluctantly take off her teddy bear pajamas and start changing.

After getting dressed, she hadnt moved when Lin Fen already pulled her in front.

The girl was in the prime of her youth, with fair skin and straight black hair, looking like a good girl no matter how you looked at her.

In fact, Yu Wanwan was indeed a good girl, having been well-behaved and sensible since childhood, and compared to the eldest daughter Yu Yanyan, she had saved Lin Fen a lot of worry.

So after failing to deal with the eldest daughter, she turned her sights on Yu Wanwan, knowing full well that she had the younger daughter figured out.

And it wasnt that she didnt have her figured out, otherwise which twenty-year-old girl would listen to her family and go on a blind date?

Blind date!

Just thinking about it made Yu Wanwan want to cover her face. If her roommates found out, they would definitely die of laughter!

Lin Fen pulled her daughter back and forth, looking her over, and nodded: "Not bad, my Wanwan is pretty, she looks good in anything."

A smile tugged at the corner of Yu Wanwans mouth, a forced smile.

"Except for this hair! Im not saying this to you, which girl doesnt love to dress herself up, look at Lius Anhui, she gets her hair permed today, straightened tomorrow, changing colors every three days, and youre always stuck with this old-fashioned hairstyle."

"Didnt you say hair dye causes cancer and forbid me to follow Lius Anhuis example with my hair, so how come youre saying I dont follow her now?" Yu Wanwan said with (a sense of grievance).

Lin Fen was a bit embarrassed: "Its okay to dye it once or twice occasionally, that Anhui is too much, just look around the neighborhood, who doesnt talk about her."

She glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table and said, "Its still early, Mom will take you to get your hair done."

"Maybe not," Yu Wanwan looked at her mothers determined stance and was afraid.

"Come on, dont waste time."

...

Lin Fen seemed very satisfied with Little Du, and on the way downstairs, she kept talking about him to Yu Wanwan.

"Let me tell you, Ive checked, Little Dus family has three houses, one in our district where Little Dus parents live. Another one was just bought not long ago in the new district, said to be waiting for the son to come back and get married. Although the location in the new district is not great, with the high housing prices now, I dont have much to complain about. They also have a welfare house in the school, a four-bedroom one."

Yu Wanwan sighed in her heart, feeling that under her mothers coercion, she was becoming less and less like a girl.

Girls her age should be freely enjoying their youth, so why did she have to enter the (waiting-to-marry period) early, with her ears filled daily with things like houses, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships, and other trivial matters.

After all, she hadnt even been in love yet!

"Hey, this is Lin Fen. What, is your daughter Yan Yan getting married? I heard you talking about a marriage house."

The person speaking was the neighbor from the second floor, Anhuis mother, Wang Meiqin.

She had a head of small curls, quite fair, but her eyes seemed to have had double eyelid surgery and the corners were a bit droopy.

As soon as Lin Fen saw her, she became as vigilant as a hen protecting her chick.

She nonchalantly asked her daughter, "Did I say that? Wanwan, did Mom say that just now?"

Yu Wanwan wanted to cover her face again.

But she also knew that if she didnt help her mother cover up today, she was definitely done for. She lowered her head and whispered, "Mom, you did say it, you forgot? Didnt you say something about Uncles son Yang Yangs girlfriend?"

Lin Fen mentally gave her daughter a thumbs up, smiling at Wang Meiqin and saying, "You must have heard wrong, its about my brother-in-laws son, not Yan Yan."

Wang Meiqin curled her lips, discontentedly: "Not to mention, your daughter Yan Yan isnt young anymore, so, are you still thinking about my son You Cheng?"

Lin Fens face immediately soured, sneering, "Your son You Cheng? He doesnt even earn as much as my daughter Yan Yan. Thinking about him? Wang Meiqin, arent you afraid your good daughter-in-law will hear?"

As soon as the daughter-in-law was mentioned, Wang Meiqins face also soured.

She turned around and closed the iron grille security door, making a loud clang, shaking down a lot of dust from the door frame.

Someone from the first floor shouted, "Anhuis mom, could you close the door a little quieter? The walls are about to collapse from your noise. Do you think you live in a new building? How can you act like this, really."

It was the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family on the first floor.

The old houses in the alley were like this, with poor sound insulation and a bad environment. If the upstairs made a little noise, the downstairs felt like an earthquake.

Lin Fen humphed, triumphantly pulling her daughter downstairs.

...

From the building entrance to the alley mouth, Lin Fen and Wanwan chatted all the way about the Liu familys affairs.

Starting from when Liu Youcheng and Yu Yanyan were dating, to the despicable things the Liu family had done, which had caused Yu Yanyan, now thirty-two, to not only be unmarried but also without a boyfriend.

Even Yu Yanyans plan not to marry was blamed by Lin Fen on the Liu family, thinking it was all because Liu Youcheng broke up with her daughter that Yu Yanyan became utterly disappointed in men.

Naturally, there were also some minor conflicts between her and Wang Meiqin.

In short, these two were enemies from a past life, and adversaries in this life.

But they were all commoners, and it wasnt a blood feud. Plus, they were old neighbors living upstairs and downstairs, and Yu Jianguo had a good relationship with Mr. Liu, so they still had some consideration for each others feelings.

When they met, the two would still exchange a word or two, but if they got angry and argued, it wasnt a rare occurrence.

"Let me tell you, you must not talk about Little Du outside, that old lady from the Liu family has always wanted to find a rich husband for Anhui, Little Du is a real golden turtle and cant be snatched away by them mother and daughter."

"Mom, Im in school every day, where do I have time to talk about these things."

In fact, Yu Wanwan wanted to say, she wished Liu Anhui would snatch him away.

Golden turtle, golden turtle, what era is it now, where there are any golden turtles! Its just these old ladies who like such words.

As they spoke, the mother and daughter arrived at the hair salon at the entrance of the alley.

The hair salon wasnt big