Gu Nanqiao sneered, "So that means you're determined to have Jiaran marry into the Fu Family?"
"Yes." She nodded, then left without looking back.
Cheng Susu walked away step by step, and after covering some distance, she heard the sound of a cup being smashed in the office behind her.
...
Days blinked by, and the day after Huo Jingting was discharged from the hospital was New Year's Eve.
Just as he returned to Jinling Garden, Huo Xiong called, asking him to come home for the New Year's Eve dinner.
Huo Jingting had wanted to decline, but considering something, he swallowed the words at the tip of his tongue and accepted the invitation.
When he arrived home at nine in the evening, the family was seated at the dining table waiting for him, not having touched their chopsticks, with Huo Jingyan's fiancée, Xun Nuo, also present.