Chapter 3409: What's the Need for Formalities?

The Gu family's banquet was quite lavish.

Many precious ingredients were things Gu Yanzhong himself would normally be reluctant to eat, and Ye Chen had hardly even come into contact with them.

Lin Wanqiu looked at him as a mother-in-law looks at a son-in-law, liking him more and more, and during the meal she kept urging him to eat, even prompting Gu Qiuyi beside her to constantly serve Ye Chen dishes.

Ye Chen was originally quite nervous, fearing that Gu Qiuyi's parents would bring up marriage or having children at the dinner table.

But to his surprise, the couple did not mention this topic at the table, making Ye Chen feel much more relaxed.

However, although the couple did not bring it up, Ye Chen's own brief sense of ease soon turned into a fresh feeling of guilt.

Because the couple refrained from pressuring him directly, he could all the more feel their understanding and care toward him.

Ye Chen is also a person who repays kindness, and he felt that the couple's not pressuring him directly was itself a kindness to him.

Thus, after lunch, while everyone was chatting idly by the table, Ye Chen took out two Rejuvenation Pills and handed them respectively to Gu Yanzhong and Lin Wanqiu, saying respectfully: "Uncle Gu, Aunt Lin, these two Rejuvenation Pills are a small token of my regard for you two."

The couple could never have imagined that Ye Chen would suddenly produce Rejuvenation Pills to give them.

They knew that at auction, a single Rejuvenation Pill was worth over a billion US dollars, so two were worth more than ten times the entire Gu family's assets.

Gu Yanzhong hurriedly refused: "Chen'er, this absolutely must not be done; this Rejuvenation Pill is worth a city, and for you it is one of your important sources of income—how could we accept such a precious gift from you?"

Lin Wanqiu beside him immediately echoed: "Yes, Chen'er! I and your Uncle Gu are now in very good health, with no illness or disaster, no headaches or fevers, and no discomfort at all—giving this pill to us would be completely wasteful!"

Ye Chen smiled: "Uncle Gu, Aunt Lin, the Rejuvenation Pill is called such because, besides curing illness and saving lives, it has another important effect: it allows one to regain youth."

He paused slightly, then continued: "Your bodies are now very healthy; taking the Rejuvenation Pill will no longer cure illness for you, but it can make your physical condition younger by ten to twenty years."

After speaking, he glanced at Gu Qiuyi, then at Lin Wanqiu, and said with a smile: "Aunt Lin, after you take the Rejuvenation Pill, you and Gu Nannan will look even more like sisters."

Upon hearing Ye Chen's words, Lin Wanqiu's heart naturally filled with longing.

No woman does not love beauty, does not love being beautiful, and no older woman does not wish to become younger.

Women like Lin Wanqiu, at her age, spend large amounts of money and time each year on anti-aging.

Whether a woman's figure will change, her skin will darken, her wrinkles will deepen, or even her breasts will sag—these are fundamentally related to aging.

Women must begin to endure the gradual changes of bodily aging from their twenties onward; in their thirties, forties, even fifties, each stage sees a significant decline in physical condition.

Lin Wanqiu spends at least hundreds of millions, even billions, each year on anti-aging, yet the effects fall far short of imagination, because time itself keeps flowing and people keep aging day by day; sometimes merely maintaining the status quo is already rare, let alone reversing it, which is basically impossible.

Even if one uses cosmetic medical procedures to force oneself to look younger, the effect lasts only a short time, and afterward comes permanent side effects that never cease.

What people commonly call a "plastic surgery face," or say someone has been "ruined by plastic surgery," is due to excessive side effects causing irreversible damage.

Now, Ye Chen's single Rejuvenation Pill can make one directly younger by twenty years—what does that mean?

This is simply the best cosmetic medicine in the world, bar none.

Yet, thinking of the Rejuvenation Pill's worth of over a billion US dollars, Lin Wanqiu truly dare not show any sign of expectation.

After all, it is too precious.

So precious that even thinking about it feels excessive.

Gu Yanzhong then said: "Chen'er, you once saved my life, and I am already deeply grateful; how could we accept such a precious gift from you now? You should keep these two Rejuvenation Pills for future use!"

Ye Chen said seriously: "Uncle Gu, the Rejuvenation Pill can sell for such a high price precisely because the displayed quantity is extremely scarce. In an auction, only one Rejuvenation Pill can truly be bought out, so its price naturally skyrockets."

After a pause, Ye Chen added: "But if an auction could sell ten or twenty Rejuvenation Pills, their value would plummet; at the very least, once that scarcity is gone, people would no longer spare no effort to obtain it."

Saying this, Ye Chen smiled: "To me, the Rejuvenation Pill is not a resource that vanishes after use. If I wished, I could still produce more Rejuvenation Pills—I simply do not want to do so now, so you two need not stand on ceremony; just take these two pills now!"

Gu Yanzhong waved his hands repeatedly: "This won't do, Chen'er! You already owe our family a debt of gratitude; such a precious pill—we simply cannot accept it, no matter what!"

Ye Chen said solemnly: "Uncle Gu, if you say that, you are being too distant; in my heart, you and Aunt Lin hold the same place as my parents, so these two pills are not gifts I give you, but rather, as a junior, I offer them to you as filial piety—this is my heartfelt devotion; you two simply cannot refuse!"

Gu Qiuyi's heart was also stirred to great excitement at this moment.

She is different from her parents.

Her parents always feel indebted to Ye Chen and are embarrassed to accept his precious gifts.

But Gu Qiuyi has long regarded herself as Ye Chen's person—people are his already, so what more is there to stand on ceremony about?

Moreover, as a child, she naturally wishes her parents to be healthy and eternally youthful.

With such a good opportunity, how could she let her parents refuse?

Thinking this, she immediately spoke: "Dad, Mom, this is Ye Chen elder brother's heartfelt offering—you just accept it openly, then thank him—what's the need to be so stiff and distant?"

Gu Yanzhong said awkwardly: "Oh you little girl, you don't know how valuable these two Rejuvenation Pills are! How could we possibly just say we accept and then accept them?"

Gu Qiuyi immediately stood up, took the two pills in her hand, and directly gave one to each parent, saying in an unquestionable tone, very solemnly: "Dad, Mom! Just regard these two Rejuvenation Pills as the betrothal gift Ye Chen elder brother prepared in advance for marrying me—if you won't even accept the betrothal gift, how will you ever marry off your daughter in the future?"