The villainous second male lead at the beginning? No! He's the white moonlight!

Ye Changsheng looked at Luo Qingyue, Luo Qingxuan, and Luo Qingge standing in front of him, giving Luo Qingyue a few more glances. He then looked at Ye Qingyan, who was also looking at him from a distance, and couldn't help but feel worried for his five great-granddaughters.

He originally thought his great-granddaughter Ye Qingyan was already an outstanding person, but he didn't expect there to be another girl who was no less outstanding than her. Moreover, it seemed that she had come in place of her sister. And her sister's relationship with his precious great-grandson was much closer than her relationship with his five great-granddaughters!

Will my first great-great-grandson not be able to inherit the Ye family fortune...?

Forget it, children and grandchildren have their own destinies. There's no point in thinking about it anymore. Let nature take its course.

However, as elders, we still need to consider the well-being of our own family members...

I've got an idea!

After making the decision, Ye Changsheng kicked away all the messy thoughts in his mind and gave Luo Qingyue, Luo Qingxuan, and Luo Qingge a kind smile.

"Good children, I really like your gifts. Thank you for coming to my birthday banquet. I'm very happy today."

"Perfect timing, old man, I also have a small gift for you. Please come in with me."

As Ye Changsheng finished speaking, everyone else was shocked. Then, all the women who had various ambiguous relationships with Ye Linyuan were so envious that their hearts were breaking, because they had not received any return gifts from Old Master Ye. They never expected that the three members of the Luo family would actually receive gifts from Old Master Ye!

However, among everyone present, only Ye Linyuan's expression suddenly changed, becoming extremely strange.

Could it be that my great-grandfather is planning to take out that thing...?

No, no, this absolutely won't do!

"Great-grandfather..."

Ignoring Ye Linyuan's pleading gaze, Ye Changsheng directly signaled the people around him to fetch the item he had mentioned. He then looked at the others, his wrinkles smoothing out even more.

"Haha, by the way, you little girls came too, there's enough for everyone, enough for everyone."

While gesturing for the butler to fetch something from the back, he waved to the other girls, signaling them to come with him to the back room.

The girls present looked at each other, and regardless of whether they were specifically mentioned or not, anyone who had designs on Ye Linyuan stepped forward without hesitation and followed the old man to the back hall. This made the other people attending the birthday banquet around them frown and look puzzled.

"What does the old man mean by this? I also gave him a generous gift, so why didn't I receive a return gift?"

"Who knows? It's probably just a special habit of the older generation."

"Did you notice? Those who went in were all young, beautiful, unmarried women."

"Nonsense, the old man already said the young girls should come in with him. Do you, a 50-something-year-old man, want to be a young girl too?"

"Are you deliberately picking a fight? I already said she's an unmarried young woman, the key point is unmarried!"

"Huh? Sorry, I didn't quite understand. You mean..."

Yes, that's exactly what I meant.

"...Old Master Ye may be old, but he's still young at heart. Does he want to remarry?"

All the guests around: ......

What kind of god-level brain circuit is this? Putting aside the fact that Old Master Ye is already over a hundred years old, remarrying is impossible no matter how you look at it. Even if the old master is really old but not young at heart and wants to marry a young and beautiful woman to be the great-grandmother of the Ye family, would he call all five of the Ye family's golden flowers into the house at the same time?

Sometimes, you really want to pry open some people's minds to see what's inside!

Just as the guests in the front hall were discussing amongst themselves, in the backyard, not long after, Ye Linyuan saw the Ye family's steward come out from the back, followed by two burly men carrying a carved wooden box that was almost a meter long. As the box was opened, it was revealed that it was filled with jade bracelets and pendants made of the finest mutton-fat white jade. In an instant, the embarrassment on Ye Linyuan's face deepened.

He knew this would happen.

Ye Changsheng completely ignored Ye Linyuan, who was so embarrassed he was practically digging his toes out of a manor, and smiled broadly at the three Luo sisters.

"Come on, one for each of you, one for each of you. These were personally chosen by Yuan when we were little."

"Great-Grandpa, please stop talking. I was only one year old at that time."

When Ye Linyuan turned one year old, the Ye family held a lottery. The lot was filled with all sorts of things, such as knives, spears, halberds, the Four Treasures of the Study, and even sickles, hammers, and so on.

In short, the main selling point is that it has everything.

Then Ye Linyuan climbed over everything else and took the red embroidered ball, a ball of red rope, and a pomegranate.

Red embroidered balls and red ropes symbolize marriage, while pomegranates symbolize many children and grandchildren. Ye Changsheng was overjoyed, believing that the Ye family would flourish under Ye Linyuan's care. So he ordered a piece of ancestral jade from the Ye family to be crafted into one hundred jade bracelets and one thousand jade plaques, symbolizing a hundred sons and a thousand grandsons.

In his words, when Ye Linyuan comes of age and finds a great-granddaughter-in-law, he will give them a jade bracelet, and for each great-great-grandchild she gives birth to, he will give them a jade pendant!

Ye Linyuan didn't know about this at first, until one time when the old man got drunk and told Ye Linyuan about it in a boastful manner.

At that time, Ye Linyuan was completely caught off guard. He never expected that he would make such a big mistake in the lottery. He wanted his master, Ye Changsheng, to cancel the whole thing.

How could Ye Changsheng be happy about this? This was Heaven's will for their Ye family to flourish! So he refused Ye Linyuan without any politeness, and even said directly that if it weren't for the fact that the Dragon Kingdom had just been established and was breaking with old customs, he would have wanted to ask his old comrades to arrange a marriage between Ye Linyuan and his children!

Looking back now, if I had actually arranged a marriage for myself back then, wouldn't I have been living the life of a martial arts master descending the mountain? You know, the male protagonist in a martial arts master descending the mountain usually chooses to leave because he has several or even dozens of marriage contracts to fulfill!

"Great-Grandpa, today is your joyous day, can we please stop fooling around?"

"What are you saying? What do you mean by 'nonsense'? This old man is thinking about your lifelong happiness."

After retorting to Ye Linyuan, the old man turned his kind gaze back to the row of beautiful women standing in front of him, his old face beaming with joy.

Apart from the bewildered Luo Qingge, the rest of the women present simply looked at the old man and then at the embarrassed Ye Linyuan. How could they not know what this meant!

Even if this isn't a betrothal gift, it's still a token of love!

Doesn't this mean the old man approves of them?!

They really hit the jackpot at the old man's birthday banquet this time!