Chapter 389 – Finally Meeting
“Hans, why hasn’t the car arrived yet? Maybe we should just go directly to Beijing University.”
At the Friendship Hotel, Ning Di was restless. Even while having breakfast, she kept glancing outside, eagerly hoping to meet Xu Jinning and Xu Fanghua soon.
Hans understood his wife’s feelings, so all he could do was try to comfort her.
“Ning, you need to calm down first. Otherwise, when you meet your nieces, you might be too excited and scare them.”
“I just received a call; they’re on their way here. They should arrive very soon.”
“Really?”
“Dear, I wouldn’t lie to you.”
Ning Di knew she was being impatient.
With Hans’s reassurance, Ning Di finally sat down, but as soon as she did, she heard the sound of brakes outside.
She instantly stood up again, “Hans, that’s the sound of brakes. Are they here?”
“They must have arrived.”
“Ning, calm down.” Hans held back the almost exiting Ning Di, chuckling as he reassured her once more, “We’re in the lobby now. As soon as they come in, we’ll see them.”
“If you go outside and it turns out not to be them, you might miss them when they do arrive.”
Just as Hans managed to calm Ning Di down and get her to sit back again, footsteps began to approach from outside the door.
A lot of footsteps, loud enough to be heard even from a distance.
Ning Di was not wrong in her guess.
The arrivals were indeed Xu Jinning and Xu Fanghua.
They were being led in by the president and the staff of the Friendship Hotel.
“Ningning, I don’t know why, but I’m feeling a bit nervous,” Xu Fanghua whispered into Xu Jinning’s ear.
Xu Fanghua was indeed quite nervous, perhaps because Ning Di specifically asked for her and her younger sister to come, or maybe because of the previous speculations that Ning Di might know Song Yi.
Meeting Ning Di meant getting news about Song Yi.
That’s why Xu Fanghua was nervous.
“Big Sister, don’t worry. I’m here with you.”
As they spoke, they entered the lobby.
Perhaps because of Ning Di’s arrival, the Friendship Hotel wasn’t hosting any other guests today. This made Ning Di and Hans, who were sitting in the lobby, particularly noticeable. At least, Xu Jinning and the others spotted them as soon as they entered.
Hans’s foreign appearance immediately made them suspect who he was.
They knew that Ning Di had come with her husband this time, and that her husband was from Country A.
Since this man was a foreigner, the beautiful and elegant middle-aged woman sitting beside him must be Ning Di.
And soon, their suspicions were confirmed.
The staff enthusiastically introduced them.
“President Jiang, everyone, this is Dr. Ning Di and her husband, Mr. Hans.”
“Dr. Ning Di, this is President Jiang of Beijing University, and behind him are the teachers and students he brought along.”
As the staff made the introductions, Ning Di’s gaze was searching the group behind President Jiang.
Her two nieces should be around twenty years old. Song Yi had said that the two sisters were very beautiful.
He told Ning Di that when she was looking for Xu Fanghua and Xu Jinning in a crowd, she should simply look for the two most strikingly beautiful girls, and those would be them.
And indeed, that was the case.
Almost at first glance, Ning Di spotted the two lovely sisters standing together.
The two sisters were truly beautiful, the kind of beauty that instantly draws attention.
When Ning Di saw Xu Fanghua and Xu Jinning, her eyes immediately reddened.
A voice deep inside her was frantically telling her: It’s them, it’s them. They are her nieces.
She had finally met them.
She had finally met her family, family with part of the same blood flowing through them.
Meanwhile, Jiang Wenxu became excited upon realizing that the elegant and beautiful middle-aged woman was Ning Di.
As he tried to introduce himself, he noticed that Ning Di’s expression seemed a bit strange.
She appeared to have seen something that greatly excited her, and her eyes were red.
It seemed like she was looking at someone behind him.
Behind him was…
Naturally, behind Jiang Wenxu were Xu Jinning and the others.
While the staff was making the introductions, Xu Jinning’s gaze also fell on Ning Di.
It quickly met Ning Di’s gaze, which had been directed at her from the beginning.
Xu Jinning had thought that Ning Di would just glance and then look away.
To her surprise, Ning Di’s gaze remained fixed on her, and her expression was very emotional, her eyes red as if she might cry at any moment.
What was going on?
But…
“Ningning, don’t you think that Dr. Ning Di keeps staring at us?”
“And I have a feeling that Dr. Ning Di looks familiar, as if we’ve seen her somewhere before.”
Xu Fanghua whispered to Xu Jinning.
At her older sister’s reminder, Xu Jinning suddenly realized something, and her pupils contracted.
Yes, the reason she found it strange was that Ning Di seemed familiar, as if she had seen her somewhere.
And then, Xu Jinning suddenly remembered who Ning Di resembled.
She looked like her elder aunt!
Xu Jinning quickly grabbed her elder sister’s hand and whispered, “Sister, don’t you think Dr. Ning Di looks like our elder aunt?”
After Xu Jinning’s reminder, Xu Fanghua took another look at Ning Di and thought that, indeed, she did resemble their elder aunt.
And not just a little—there was at least a five or six-point resemblance.
“She does look a lot like her. The only person who could look so much like our elder aunt is our younger aunt.”
Xu Fanghua joked, “It can’t be that Dr. Ning Di is our younger aunt, can it?”
As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Jinning didn’t immediately respond. After a moment, she said, “Isn’t anything possible?”
Perhaps Dr. Ning Di really was their younger aunt.
Xu Fanghua was stunned by Xu Jinning’s words.
Meanwhile, President Jiang had finished introducing himself to Ning Di and extended his hand, intending to shake hands with her.
Unexpectedly, Ning Di seemed not to hear him and continued to look past him.
Jiang Wenxu hesitated, then stepped aside to clear the way behind him.
At this moment, Hans also stepped forward, shook Jiang Wenxu’s hand, and said, “Sorry, Ning didn’t mean to be rude. She’s just a bit emotional seeing her family.”
“Family?!” Jiang Wenxu was shocked.
“Yes, among the people you brought, there are Ning’s two nieces—her real nieces.”
Jiang Wenxu gasped. He couldn’t believe that among the people he had brought, there were actually Ning Di’s nieces.
Who were they? Who were they?
Jiang Wenxu’s gaze quickly settled on Xu Jinning and Xu Fanghua.
It was them!
They were the ones Ning Di had specifically mentioned!
