"Being Friends with Benefits with My Arranged Marriage Partner" - Chapter 60: New Year's Eve Dinner

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Su Tian pursed her lips and said softly, "Don't let it interfere with your work. Your colleagues are all quite busy."
The implication was that if she didn't do it, the work would simply be delegated to her colleagues.
Maia glanced at her, raised an eyebrow, and remained silent.
Su Tian insisted, and Ji Chuyan didn't press the matter further, allowing her to be discharged and go home that very night.
The next day, despite feeling listless, Su Tian still went to the company to clock in for work as usual.
Hormonal imbalance takes time to regulate, and Sister Maia—perhaps because of Ji Chuyan's words, or perhaps for other reasons—has taken good care of Su Tian.
Therefore, even though Su Tian felt ashamed, Sister Maia took on a lot of her work, allowing her to relieve herself of most of the burden.
When the pace slows down, time seems to fly by. In the midst of the daily grind of being both busy and relaxed, New Year's Eve arrives unexpectedly.
The lively scene of "firecrackers" is gone—fireworks are strictly prohibited in the urban area of S City.
Family reunions were still possible. However, the housekeeper had gone back to a neighboring city for the Spring Festival holiday, and they were tired of the hotel banquets. Su Tian, Su Yi, and Fang Ziru stared at each other at the same time about the meal, and finally decided to go back to simplicity and make dumplings at home.
Ms. Fang's cooking skills were so-so, and Su Tian and Su Yi were completely baffled. The family worked until dark before they could barely manage to produce a bowl of minced meat using a food processor.
When the phone rang, Su Tian was still sulking over a dumpling wrapper that wouldn't close properly.
Seeing that it was Ji Chuyan calling, Su Tian quickly handed the half-finished dumplings in her hand to her father, patted the flour off her hands, and picked up her phone amidst a puff of white smoke.
"Tian Tian," Ji Chuyan's voice was clear and melodious like a cascading waterfall, sounding like he was in a good mood, "Are you home now?"
Su Tian nodded subconsciously: "Yes, I'm here. What's up?"
"I'm downstairs at your place."
Su Tian paused for a moment, then quickly walked to the balcony.
She leaned against the railing and peered down, and sure enough, she caught a glimpse of the familiar black Continental SUV outside the front gate. Ji Chuyan, dressed in a gray overcoat, was standing tall and elegantly by the car door.
He looked up, and when his gaze settled on Su Tian, he couldn't help but smile: "Want to come to my house to watch the fireworks?"
Fireworks are prohibited in S City, but a fireworks display is held in the suburbs, which can be seen from the pavilion in the Ji family's courtyard.
Su Tian answered almost without hesitation: "Yes."
"But……"
Su Tian glanced back at her parents, who were busy making dumplings, but then hesitated.
She couldn't very well leave her parents behind on New Year's Eve and go to the suburbs to watch fireworks.
Even though Su Yi and Fang Ziru would never utter a word of complaint, they couldn't help feeling lonely and desolate inside.
Ji Chuyan seemed to see through her concerns, chuckled, and said, "What are you thinking? Of course, I'll bring your parents along. My parents are bored too."
Upon hearing this, Su Tian's eyes lit up, but not wanting to make the decision on her own, she hesitated and said, "Then... I'll ask them."
Ji Chuyan: "Okay, go ahead."
After hanging up the phone, Su Tian went back into the room and moved to the dining table with her hands behind her back.
She coughed lightly and tentatively began, "Um... Dad, Mom, Ji Chuyan is downstairs right now. He just wanted to ask if you'd like to visit the Ji family in the suburbs."
Fang Ziru was finishing the edges of a dumpling, while Su Yi was busy scooping filling with a spoon. Both of them paused in their work.
Feeling uneasy, Su Tian unconsciously pinched her fingertips.
After a few seconds of silence, Ms. Fang threw down the dumplings in her hand and hurriedly instructed Su Yi, "Quickly, quickly, tidy up."
Su Tian was stunned: "How..."
Ms. Fang said excitedly, "Take the dumplings over and make them!"
...
Within ten minutes, Su Tian came downstairs first. Ji Chuyan saw her from afar, so he quickly walked over and took her hand.
Her delicate, boneless hands were completely enveloped in his palms, soft and cool. Ji Chuyan unconsciously softened his tone: "Why don't you wear more clothes? Your hands are so cold."
I glanced at her from head to toe. She was wearing a beige belted coat, light blue jeans, and over-the-knee boots. She was slender and graceful, not at all bulky, but the outfit looked like it would let in a lot of wind.
Su Tian shook her head and laughed, "My hands get cold in winter, no matter how many layers I wear."
Ji Chuyan wanted to hug her and whisper in her ear, but a soft cough broke the pink bubble in the air.
Turning around, I saw Su Yi walking out carrying two triple-layered insulated boxes. He was wrapped in a thick down jacket, his posture upright and imposing, his thick eyebrows slightly furrowed: "Xiao Ji, where's the car parked?"
Upon hearing this, Su Tian blushed and quickly moved away from Ji Chuyan's embrace. After a moment of awkwardness, Ji Chuyan had already stepped forward to Su Yi, grabbed the handle of the insulated box, and said in a gentle voice, "Uncle, let me carry it."
Without any hesitation, Su Yi lowered his eyelids and stuffed the two heavy insulated boxes into Ji Chuyan's arms.
Ji Chuyan smiled and walked towards the car. Even though he was carrying heavy things, his long legs made his steps look effortless.
Standing there awkwardly, Su Tian touched the tip of her nose, moved over, tugged at her father's sleeve, and said with an embarrassed smile, "Dad, let's get in the car."
The three waited for a long time in Ji Chuyan's car before Fang Ziru finally arrived.
As soon as she got in the car, she smiled and said, "Xiao Ji, I'm so sorry to have troubled you to come and pick me up."
Her joyful expression showed no sign of embarrassment whatsoever.
On New Year's Eve, traffic flow in downtown S city was lower than usual, and it took an hour to reach the suburbs.
The car drove straight into the Ji family mansion through the southwest gate, and Su Tian then discovered that there was a garage inside the courtyard. She couldn't help but recall that the last time she came, she entered through the main gate. She vividly remembered the pair of stone lions flanking the main gate; back then, that unscrupulous driver had charged her three hundred yuan for it.
As the group walked towards the main hall, they had just rounded the corner when Chu Yage's voice reached their ears.
“Hey Ji Chuyan, why are you driving so slowly?” Chu Ya Yun immediately started scolding her son. “By the time we got back from picking someone up, the food was already cold.”
Slow...?
Su Tian silently recalled the night they first met—the car was moving at a speed comparable to the Fast and Furious series.
Of course, at this moment, Fang Ziru would definitely try to make amends for her "future son-in-law," showering him with compliments from the very beginning: "No, no, Xiao Ji is just being careful. That's good; he's reliable and patient."
Ji Chuyan just smiled and didn't say anything more.
The housekeeper hired by the Ji family was a local. She prepared a whole table of food before leaving. By now, the dishes had gone cold, so they had to be taken to the kitchen to reheat them.
With Chu Yage as her helper, Fang Ziru finished making the dumplings she brought from home in just twenty minutes. They were boiled, scooped out, and served, standing out prominently among the local dishes of S City on the table.
Chu Yage explained with a smile, "Lao Ji and I were worried that your family wouldn't be used to the food, so we asked the auntie to cook local home-style dishes. We didn't expect you to prepare dumplings, which is just what Lao Ji likes."
“Back when my family lived in B City, we always had dumplings on New Year’s Eve.” Ji Huanyuan took a sip of wine and sighed, “Before I retired, I often ate with other people. When I got home in the early hours of the morning, the only thing I ate with Ya Yun and A Yan was a bowl of dumplings as a late-night snack.”
Chu Yage's eyes reddened slightly, and she forced a smile: "You've been retired for several years now, why are you still thinking about the past?"
Ji Chuyan silently took a bite of the dumpling without saying a word.
"Back then, I was completely focused on my career, and Ayan was practically raised by his mother." Ji Huanyuan, however, seemed not to have heard, adjusted his glasses, and continued, "I didn't take care of my son until he was about to go to university, then I remembered him and started to manage him. I wanted him to study literature, philosophy, and art, but this kid went to the United States to study business administration instead. I was so angry that I cut off his allowance for six months... Sigh, looking back now, I was so foolish..."
Old Ji, who was usually taciturn, suddenly burst into conversation like a flood.
Su Tian looked at Ji Chuyan with slight surprise—
What does it mean to not have six months' worth of living expenses? He must be a pampered kid, all alone in America without any income. How could he possibly survive?
However, Ji Chuyan remained calm and composed, as if those matters had nothing to do with him. He would only occasionally put food on her plate and urge her to eat more.
Su Tian thought that her parents were exactly the same as Ji Chuyan's parents—the father was busy with his career, the mother was a "single-parent" parent, and when the children grew up, the father, who had never personally participated in the children's education, made precise demands on the children's academic and career plans, mostly hoping that they would "follow in his footsteps".
However, Su Tian is not like Ji Chuyan; she is not a child who would rebel.
The topic was subtly heavy.
The two families ate quietly during the meal, unlike what one might expect.

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