Chapter 154 - Preparing For The Surprise

Hearing her calling him in her dream made Long Ying a bit happier. His silver eyes flickered as he removed his own jacket and tossed it away. Slowly, he leaned in and kissed Yu Yan's forehead.

"Sweet dream, Yan'er."

His gesture caused Yu Yan to stir a bit but she didn't wake up. Long Ying's smile deepened as he laid beside her, ready to rest for the day too.

The night passed quietly.

When Yu Yan woke up, she stared at the ceiling in front of her. She felt a bit confused as she clearly couldn't remember when did she even return back and sleep on the bed?

Turning her head to the side, Yu Yan saw Long Ying was lying on the bed. His silver eyes were watching his wife with tender gaze.. "Awake?"

"Mhm." Yu Yan nodded. She looked at him then tilted her head. "Will you go to work today?"

"Today?" Long Ying thought of his current schedule and also many other matters that was occurring outside. There was no pressing matter and he was also unwilling to leave Yu Yan.

"I only have to make a short trip and will return back by tonight."

"Okay, can you go home quicker today if possible?" Yu Yan asked as her eyelids fluttered, trying to hide her current expression from him.

Long Ying arched his eyebrows. Was it related to the things she bought yet asked his subordinates not to tell him what they were?

"Alright."

Yu Yan beamed then rushed to the bathroom to take a bath. On the other hand, Long Ying merely shook his head and walked down the bed. He took out his phone and settled some urgent messages his subordinate had told him over the night.

Dragon Clan had some of its member who were working over the night, so he had to attend their matter early in the morning if he didn't want anyone to die.

After finishing to settle everything, Long Ying left.

Yu Yan headed down and saw An Luo and San Xia were already there. San Xia looked at Yu Yan with an awkward look. "Madam, your training will resume today…"

Training…

She completely forgot about that.

Yu Yan creased her eyebrows and nodded. "What's the training for today?"

After she came to Island A, she had been training in various fields. Many of them were things that she never even expected to come into contact in her entire life. Compared to the light training that she had in the mansion before, the training here was extremely harsh.

It was to the point that there were many times when she felt that she would die.

"Shooting training."

"…Alright."

When Yu Yan first came here, she had cursed in her head how heavy the guns were and how tired her hands ended up. But after a while, she had started to get used to the weight and had no problem to carry them.

The problem was that… her accuracy for moving target was still very bad.

The training lasted until evening. Yu Yan couldn't feel her hand anymore by then but she still dragged her tired body to the kitchen. The things that she asked to buy An Lin before were stacked there.

There were flours, chocolates, some other ingredients, and also a bag filled with decorative items.

"Madam, do you need help?" San Xia felt a bit guilty when she saw how Yu Yan had to drag her tired body. She had completely forgotten about Boss's birthday and the fact that Yu Yan would certainly want to throw a party to him.

With her current stamina, would she even finish the decoration?

Yu Yan was indeed troubled with it. Her hands were already so tired thanks to that annoying rifle she had to carry and used all day. Now that they were back, she didn't really think that she could set up everything so quickly.

"At what time would Ying returns?"

"I'll ask."

The one who accompanied Long Ying today was Lan Huo and An Luo. San Xia and An Lin were staying in Island A to protect Yu Yan. It was clear that even in this safe island, Long Ying was still heavily concerned about Yu Yan's safety.

San Xia: Dunce, what time Boss return back?

An Luo: (speechless.jpg) when will you change that nickname? Boss will return back a bit late tonight. There's another case that crop up.

San Xia: Estimation?

An Luo: Around 9 or 10

San Xia: Got it

Looking at how his wife ignored his plea to have his nickname changed, An Luo merely sighed and shook his head. He knew that he did something stupid last night to her and… his ferocious wife was angry at him.

It might take him some time before he could quell her anger at this rate.

Lan Huo noticed An Luo sighing and arched his eyebrows. There were only three people who could make An Luo felt troubled: Boss, An Lin, and his wife. Since Boss was here and An Lin had already created numerous trouble, he could guess that it must be his wife.

"Did San Xia do something?" Lan Huo asked.

An Luo looked at Lan Huo and shook his head. "No, it's my fault this time."

"Oh."

When it came to private affairs, it was obvious that Lan Huo would keep his mouth shut. He had no intention of digging his own grave by asking unnecessary question to An Luo and ended up finding some unsavory details.

Emh, it would be better for him to shut his mouth.

Literally.

In front of them, Long Ying was looking at the document in front of him with annoyance. He had promised Yu Yan to come back early, yet this case would definitely delay his return by several hours.

He was pissed off.

However, he knew that he had to handle this matter now or there would be some people who ended up dying. He definitely couldn't ignore this serious matter and went home without paying attention to it. 

Taking his phone, Long Ying sent text message to Yu Yan.

Long Ying: I can't return back early today, sorry.

Yu Yan was still busy with the struggle to prepare everything on the bowl. When she saw the message from Long Ying, she felt a bit complicated.

Yu Yan: It's alright, focus on your work.

Long Ying: Okay.

After seeing the reply, Yu Yan looked at San Xia and the latter also gave similar response. It seemed that it was impossible for Long Ying to return back early today.

"Help me set these up."

"Leave it to me!" San Xia thumped her chest. It was merely putting on the decoration, she would definitely be able to do it well.

An Lin, who had just entered, paused his movements. He looked at San Xia with belittling gaze. "You? Do you really think that someone like you can possibly put on proper decoration? It'll be good enough if you didn't destroy the house."

"What the hell are you talking about? I can control my strength well!"

"I didn't talk about your strength but your poor sense of art!"

"Damn you, An Lin! Do you really want to seek death?" San Xia rolled her sleeve, getting ready to fight. This younger brother in law she had was truly infuriating. It also didn't help that she had grown up with the other four so they were close to each other and naturally knew many things.

This made him often pushed her buttons and attracted others to beat him up. She would gladly land a punch on him, though.

Yu Yan was speechless when she heard the sound of the duo fought in the living room. She sighed and walked out of the room, noticing that somehow, the sofa was overturned with An Lin stood on the table.

"Clean it up. We don't have much time."

"But Boss will not return that soon!"

"I still want to rest after this. Here, blow the balloons."

An Lin rolled his eyes. He was about to delegate the job of blowing balloons to San Xia when he noticed that she had already picked the other decoration and started to placed it. Forget it, he could do this menial job.

Seeing the two of them started working, Yu Yan nodded in satisfaction. She returned back to the kitchen and finished making the dough. But when she put it in the oven, she heard loud noise from the living room again.

Yu Yan: "…" placing these two together is really a big mistake.

Why didn't Long Ying make different arrangement so that these two would not stay together?

Walking to the living room, Yu Yan saw San Xia was stomping onto An Lin below her. He was screaming some incoherent words while San Xia pressed onto his back with her heels.

That must be hurt.

"So, what happened here?" Yu Yan crossed her hands and leaned sideways. Her eyes were looking at San Xi and An Lin, wondering what did An Lin do to provoke San Xia again.