Wang Manning was stunned.

Thirty million!

Wang Yuxin was young enough that the figure meant nothing definite to her, but Wang Manning was nearly an adult, and she knew perfectly well what a sum thirty million was.

So this shameless cousin of hers was actually this impressive.

No wonder he had been able to find a girlfriend with a background like that.

No wonder even his girlfriend's mother liked him this much.

Heavens.

There's a multimillionaire standing right next to me, and he's my own cousin.

Wang Manning felt as though somebody had hit F5 and refreshed her whole world.

When she turned to look at him again, she found that his looks had gone up considerably, and his earlier negative image had vanished without a trace.

Xu Ye carried on with the subject. "I go back to Shanghai around the middle of this month. There are things at the company I need to deal with. Then I'll come back to collect Qingqing when term's nearly started."

Chen Hansong finally showed some sense. "If you don't have time, I can take Qingqing to school."

"No." He had barely finished before Chen Qingqing was shaking her head. "Dad, we've already agreed. You don't need to take me."

"I—"

Only after she had said it did Chen Qingqing realize the words might have hurt her father. She turned her head away immediately, too embarrassed to look at him again.

Seeing the state she was in, Xu Ye reached over to tease her on purpose.

Chen Qingqing saw the wandering hand coming and slapped it away, but he wouldn't let it go — he seemed to want to reach for her thigh the way he had last time. With this many people around she was hardly going to let him get away with it, and the two of them started scuffling.

Jiang Meilin glanced over, then looked elsewhere.

Chen Hansong's eyes went round.

You little devil. Taking advantage of my daughter right in front of me?

He picked up a plate of unfinished barbecue and gave an order in a low voice. "Xu…