Such a Rude and Noisy Woman novel Chapter 214

When Hiram showed up at the party, he would undoubtedly become the center of attention. So instead of going inside directly and greeting everyone, he stood in front of the entrance and waited for Rachel.

Rachel was shocked by the number of people at the party when she arrived. Stunned, she stood between Susan and Shirley, barely noticing when Hiram took her hand.

Hiram and Rachel walked into the hall hand in hand.

Since it was Rachel's first official introduction to the family, everyone turned their eyes to her. She was the heroine tonight.

Because of the atmosphere, Rachel felt like a superstar as she walked down the red carpet.

There were at least a hundred people gathering here, all related to the Rong family one way or another. The moment she entered, she heard the children's playful noises die down and saw the benevolent smiles on the elders' faces fade, as everyone turned to look at her and Hiram. The younger generation of men and women couldn't keep their eyes off them either.

Suddenly, they all broke out into applause out of nowhere, and it went on for a long time before stopping.

"Wow, our Hiram finally brings his wife to meet us. See, Mom, I told you not to worry. He always does everything at the right time. Now look, here they are," said Kun while applauding.

Kun Rong, the director of the Public Security Department, had played a huge role in helping rescue Rachel from the kidnappers. Now, he was clapping his hands enthusiastically and talking to the gray-haired woman next to him.

"Oh, hey, in spite of how poor the Ruan family is, their daughter looks very good. She has good mannerisms, too," Kun's mother said approvingly with a big smile on her face.

In another part of the room, Hearst looked at Susan, who had just come over to him, and said," Sister, why are you so late? I need your help. Please ask mom to stop. She keeps nagging at me about marriage. I can't stand it anymore."

Susan stuck out her tongue at him. If Shirley hadn't insisted on coming with her, she would have arrived at the party a long time ago.

In the middle of the room, Hiram, who was still holding Rachel's hand, started to introduce her to all the relatives of the Rong family.

Rachel counted and found that a lot of the people present were men. Hiram had about five uncles who all had sons, making the count 15. On top of that, most of those sons were married and had children.

Since it was meant to be a family gathering, everyone had brought all their family members here, so it added up to more than one hundred people at the party.

Besides, the Rong family had been around for more than a hundred years, so their popularity had swelled up as well.

Rachel, who was being swept around the room by Hiram to be introduced to all his relatives, was starting to feel dizzy. There were so many of them that she couldn't remember them all in such a short time. She thought that even if they met like this every year, it would take her a few more years before she could distinguish all of them.

After the introductions were over, Rachel was brought by Susan to a table where all the young ladies like them sat.

Sitting down, Rachel felt like she could finally relax and breathe a little. To keep up appearance today, she had put on high heel shoes, which made her feel even more tired. She was taking a sip of water to relax a little when she heard the girl sitting opposite her say," Shirley, aren't you close to Lydia? Do you know why she doesn't come back this time?"

"Yeah, she used to come back just for this reunion. Why is she absent this year? Do you have any idea, Shirley?" another girl asked.

All of them had been attending the family reunion since they were children, so it was very obvious to them when one of them was absent. And with everything that had happened recently, they were really curious about Lydia's absence.

Shirley seemed to know that people would definitely ask her about Lydia. The truth was that while Lydia had a bad relationship with Rachel, her relationship with others was much better.

"Lydia is busy with her studies. And besides, she hasn't completely recovered from kidnapping incident yet. That's why she doesn't come this year. But she told me to tell all of you that she misses you very much."

Shirley glanced at Rachel as she spoke.

When she was done, the whole table was silent for a moment.

Everyone knew how the kidnapping at the theater had gone down. When Hiram had to choose one person to save, he had chosen Lydia over Rachel. They'd all assumed that Rachel would be angry at Lydia because of that.

What other reason did Lydia have to avoid the family reunion? She'd never missed it in the past years.

Rachel sneered in her heart. She'd been curious about why Shirley had come here with Susan. Now, it turned out that it was for Lydia's sake.