The implication is that she wants to acknowledge Jian Anning as her daughter!

Not just a goddaughter, but she wants her like a real daughter!

Jian Anning was stunned, and opposite her, Yu Zexiao was also a bit dumbfounded.

Of course, they both knew that Jian Anning’s biological mother was still alive, but having a real mother wasn’t much different from having a stepmother.

It was Shen Lanxiao who reacted first, grabbing Jian Anning and jokingly said, "What, Yixian, are you trying to steal my daughter-in-law?"

Qin Xian, who was drinking tea nearby, almost spat it out when he heard this.

Qiu Yixian didn’t hold back, reaching out and patting her old friend’s shoulder: "What’s wrong, is there something wrong with our Qin Xian?"

The two adults were joking around, while the younger ones were turning green in the face.

Qin Xian glanced helplessly at Yu Zexiao and Jian Anning across from him, shrugging with an utterly helpless expression.

After joking around for a while, Qiu Yixian sighed and shook her head: "Back then... after your dad had the accident, actually your Uncle Qin and I went to Vancouver."

Hearing this, Jian Anning was a bit surprised: "Aunt Qiu, you..."

Qin Yishu also sighed. Although he was concerned about Ma Xinyu and his wife’s affairs back then, when he heard the news of his death—and the news that Ma Xinyu and his parents all died in a car accident—he was shocked and immediately went to Vancouver with his wife. At the time, they thought that if Jian Anning had no relatives, they would bring her back to raise her.

Who knew that when they got to Vancouver, they found out Jian Anning had already been taken away by her biological mother. And the Ma Family’s company, because of the death of its key figure, was almost going under.

The two of them decided that although they couldn’t take Jian Anning back, they also didn’t want to see the company Ma Xinyu had worked so hard to build over the years be destroyed just like that. Qin Yishu took some time to find that Uncle Hu who partnered with Ma Xinyu to run the company at the time—that’s the Uncle Hu who helped her reclaim her father’s inheritance but hoped she wouldn’t get involved in the company’s operations. After meeting him, Qin Yishu, who also had a background in architectural design, immediately sensed that this Uncle Hu had some ability.

He couldn’t use the name of Qin Enterprises to invest, so he ended up using the identity of one of his subsidiary companies to inject capital into the Ma family’s company. It was to assist a friend and also to contribute in a small way.

Jian Anning only knew that Uncle Hu had salvaged the company with his own strength after her father’s death. Though he later requested that she not manage the company’s business, she agreed, completely unaware that Qin Yishu had helped in the most critical moment!

Of course, Qin Yishu only provided the investment, while management and operations were still led by that Uncle Hu. But anyway, as long as the company could continue to develop, she had no other wishes.

Over the years, it wasn’t that she hadn’t thought about going to Toronto to see her. But first, her mother had remarried long ago, reportedly to a well-off local family. Suddenly showing up might not be good for Ma Yiyi’s development. Second, what would she say if she went there? After all, she had no blood relation to Jian Anning, at most she was just her godmother. Besides, with a jealous husband by her side, she was embarrassed to go looking.