Chapter 346: The cupid twins

Chapter 346: The cupid twins

Everybody looked at Jinhai with surprise. Nana quietly stared at him.
As a matter of fact, it was decided that Jinhai would pick the names because well…Nana’s names were no good.
Jinhai quickly said, “It’s alright, though, if you don’t like them. I just gave one suggestion.”
Jinhai wanted to bite his tongue off for blurting it out. He knew that nobody would want his contribution, but he just couldn’t help it when he saw the twins staring at him. When the elders were fighting, he noticed that the twins were quietly looking but expectantly looking at him. Jinhai, as if in a daze, just said it out.
But now he thought he just made it awkward.
Liu Chunhua was surely still angry at Jinhai, but it pained her to see that he was apologizing for suggesting his own children’s names.
Nana felt the same. His figure seemed so lonely, and his smile so tense and stiff that it pricked her heart.
Though Jinhai had used the twins and her pregnancy as the main reason for marrying her, she knew how Jinhai genuinely loved them.
She cleared her throat. “N-not bad names.”
Actually, Nana liked the names too. The names started from J and N the same as their first names.
Jinhai stiffened. He looked at Nana in shock. He didn’t believe that of all people, Nana would support him.
The hope in his heart that she would forgive him one day just strengthened even more.
A small smile graced his lips, and his heart bloomed in joy.
Everybody could practically see the imaginary flowers hovering around him.
“dsjdjdjdjjn..bmmmoooi…”
“ibulmsjjdjjjjjbbo….”
The twins giggled and seemed excited as if they really liked the names.
Liang Zou twitched his eyebrows. He wanted to name them, but he respected Nana’s decision.
“Well, if that is what Nana wants, then I am okay with it.”
He narrowed his eyes at Jinhai.
You won only because you had the names ready with you!
Liu Hai whined. “What? Noooooo. Give me one, and I will find even better names than Jinhai!”
Grandma Liu hit him with her stick. “Oof, Hai! You are impossible! Liang Zou gave up, then why not you? You are his father! Don’t compete with your own son!”
Liu Chunhua shook her head helplessly.
“Everybody just always takes Jinhai’s side…” he grumbled in despair. “Nobody cares about me…”
Liu Hai sat down at a corner, pitifully drawing circles on the floor.
Grandma Liu clapped her hands once. “Alright. It is decided then. The elder one will be Liu Jian, and the younger boy would be Liu Nian.”
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When Serena was about to walk into the elevator, she bumped into Liang Xiao Dan.
“Oh, dear, I’m so sorry. I-” She was startled to look at Serena.
Liang Xiao Dan had seen her standing in Nana’s ward, and she wanted to talk to her ever since.
Serena flustered a bit. After what happened in the market when she yelled at her, mistaking her for Huo Xiao Fan, this was the first time they were meeting.
Serena felt hell awkward after that incident. She was supposed to call her Aunt as she was Huo Xiao Fan’s sister, but she knew she had no right to call her that.
Liang Xiao Dan wouldn’t like it either, she thought.
“Hello…Mrs. Liang.” She politely bowed.
Liang Xiao Dan said nothing for a moment. She was taken aback when she addressed her as Mrs. Liang. It should have been Aunt, but…
Then she softly said, “Hello.”
She saw her pregnant belly.
It was supposed to be such a joyous occasion. First, I became a grandma, and then I am going to become a grandaunt soon too.
This girl is my niece—Nana’s cousin.
Then she realized that she was supposed to have two nieces but that night…
She looked away.
Liang Xiao Dan knew how Nana would sometimes secretly look at some of the pictures where she was with Serena. She had seen it once. Nana looked a little lost, and then she understood how much she missed Serena in her life.
“I never thought there would come a day when our relationship would be so strained. Xiao Fan and I were such close sisters, and I imagined our children to be just as close siblings as well.”
She still remembered Xiao Fan’s last goodbye in their banquet. Sometimes she felt pitiful for Serena.
It was Xiao Fan’s hatred and revenge for us, but she unnecessarily dragged her daughter. And now both the mother and daughter were alone.
Serena took a deep breath. “I know, Mrs. Liang. Mom and I have hurt you and Nana a lot. But…I don’t know about her, but I want to make things right.”
She looked at her, surprised.
“I have decided that I will get Nana back, both as my best friend and as my sister. And I hope that day…” she gazed at her with, a little longing for her, “you would permit me to call you Aunt.”
Her heart suddenly shook with her request.
“Do you mean it this time?”
“Yes.” Serena looked straight at her.
“Will you hurt Nana again?”
“Never.”
Perhaps Xiao Fan and I could never reconcile but at least our children…If they are happy with this, then why not?
She didn’t answer Serena’s question of letting her call Aunt. Instead, she asked, “How is Xiao Fan?”
—
Only Jinhai was in Nana’s ward now after everybody left when the twins went to sleep.
He hesitated for a bit. “Thank you for accepting my names for them.”
Nana looked away.
“I should leave.”
But the twins suddenly started crying.
Nana blinked.
Weren’t they sleeping just now?
“Aww aww…what happened? Why are princes crying?”
But the twins didn’t stop.
Strange. They just had their milk too.
She noticed that they were flailing their hands towards Jinhai.
“Boooooooo…”
“Waahhhhh..wahhhh..bkiskkk…”
Jinhai walked towards them and bent to pat their heads.
The twins stared at their parents with their big, watery eyes and quietened down. Then they brightly smiled.
Nana bit her lip. She understood that they wanted them to stand together.
You you…Just stay with him only!
Nana turned around to leave, but Jinhai caught her hand and pulled her back towards him.
She raised her head, and his radiant black orbs gazed back at her in silence, which was closing in on her as he leaned in for a kiss.