Chapter 123 - MY TREACHEROUS SISTERS STRIKE AGAIN!

[Yang Menghuo Pov]

"Why do you call him Meng Bao? It feels eerily similar to Mengmeng."

Shi Ying stopped talking with Meimei and stared at Yanyue, her little cousin, "Mengmeng and Meng Bao?"

"Yes, I mean, isn't that an eerie coincidence?" Yanyue suggested. "His name is Yang Menghuo, right? His endearing nickname should be Mengmeng, but you called him Meng Bao instead."

"Jie, I don't exactly remember what Mengmeng looks like, but didn't you say that Mengmeng is a mixed kid, an Asian-Caucasian mix. You said that she has a perfect facial feature, like a barbie doll, complete with long brown hair."

"I mean, it's just my imagination, but…." Yanyue started reimagining the man she just saw with Ying Jie, Yang Menghuo, and the little girl that Ying Jie often described whenever she remembered her childhood memory, Mengmeng.

They fit each other's description, but with only one problem.

"Ying Jie, are you sure that Mengmeng is a girl?'

"Huh? What do you mean? Of course, she is a girl!" Shi Ying replied.

"Did you see her with a dress?" Yanyue asked again. 

"Well, no, but she is a beautiful tomboy girl!" Ying Jie insisted. "What? Do you think I'm lying? Of course, I can differentiate between a boy and a girl. You can always ask Shi Qiang."

Shi Yanyue sighed. "No, Jie, I was just assuming. Because I feel like, Mengmeng and that Meng Bao in your room right now might be the same person, if only they didn't have different gender."

Shi Yanyue cleared her throat and delivered her hypothesis like a teacher ready to deliver her lecture, "Based on my imaginary hypothesis, maybe Mengmeng is a boy the whole time, and he continued to pretend to be a girl because, with that, it's easier for him to get closer to you. Since you could easily beat the boys back then, Jie."

"Maybe after he left the village with his parents, he still remembered you up until now but can't find where you at since his village and our village is quite far."

"And then, because of the red string of fate, you're met with him as a rental boyfriend, I don't know what makes him joined that rental boyfriend app, maybe because he is already filthy rich with too much time in his hands, so he joined out of boredom?"

"And like a rom-com novel, all the twists and turn between you two finally led him to be the boyfriend that you bring home as a marriage candidate, not knowing that you two were destined lovers since the very start, Mengmeng and Batman Jie…."

"I think, if this plot progressed smoothly, we could see a nephew or niece soon."

…

…

"Shi Yanyue, I think you read too many novels in your free time. I almost believed in your nonsensical stuff," Shi Ying rolled her eyes. "The way you speak is almost similar to Shi Qiang. She keeps guessing what would happen next as if we're in a novel."

"I mean, it's just my hobby," Shi Yanyue sighed. "Anyway, I'm reading Class Villainess by EvilPupa nowadays. You should try reading it, Jie. It's amazing."

"Do you think I'm the type of office lady who would spend my free time reading books?"

"Jie… you spent your free time binging on BL books. Do you still read that Homewrecker System by ForeverPupa?" Shi Yanyue peered her gaze suspiciously.

"Well, yeah…" Shi Ying sighed. "Anyway, I'm just saying that your theory is nonsensical. I don't think that Meng Bao and Mengmeng are related."

"But, Jie…" Meimei suddenly interrupted. "I feel like what Yanyue Jie said might be right. When I see that Yang Menghuo guy, he instantly reminded me of Mengmeng and all of your tales about Batman Jie and Robin Meng…."

…

"Aish, you two aren't helping me!" Shi Ying complained. "Hear me out, if for some crazy coincide, red-string fate reason, that Mengmeng is Meng Bao, then I will marry him without any condition!" 

"Ying Jie—"

"GYAAAAHHH!" Shi Ying was startled when she heard Meng Bao calling him from outside. 

Meng Bao knocked few times and calling her again, "Ying Jie, are you okay?"

"I—I'm okay!" Shi Ying replied. 

She opened the door and acted as if nothing happened, "I—I'm okay. I was just a bit surprised."

"Ah, I see…." Yang Menghuo glanced behind Ying Jie and saw her two sisters that interrupted their sweet moments before. 

The two sisters took a pen and blank paper and then wrote something down before showing it to Yang Menghuo.

~Ying Jie is Batman Jie~

Yang Menghuo's lips twitched. It was so obvious now that Ying Jie was Batman Jie, the very same girl he had been searching for fifteen years. 

It was a crazy coincidence, indeed, but he didn't hate it at all. 

In fact, it was proof that they were fated to be together since the beginning. 

Shi Yanyue and Shi Meili wrote another one and raised it behind Ying Jie for Menghuo to read. 

~Ying Jie said that she will marry you if you're actually Mengmeng. Goodluck!~

After a moment, Shi Meili suddenly wrote something.

~Don't forget our commission once you two get married. I need the newest iPhone, and Yanyue Jie needs a new job in the city. Give us that, or we will never bless you with your marriage!~

"Pffttt—" Yang Menghuo almost laughed with the message. 

Shi Ying frowned and asked, "What's wrong?" 

"Ah, n—nothing," Yang Menghuo replied. 

Shi Ying peered her gaze at Meng Bao and followed his line of sight, then he looked over her shoulder. Meili and Yanyue were grinning at their Jie.

"What? Did I miss something?" Shi Ying asked. 

"Eh? Not at all, Jie," Yanyue and Meili shook their heads.

"Hmm… oh well," Shi Ying pointed her finger at Yanyue first, then said to Meng Bao, "Bao, that is my little cousin, her name is Shi Yanyue. She has just graduated from university with an excellent grade. If you have a job, you know, help her ah, aha!" Shi Ying said shamelessly. 

She pointed at Meili and introduced her, "This one is Shi Meili. She is my youngest, and she's also the greediest. Don't fall into her scheming beauty. She has sucked my wallet dry."

"I mean, I will help them. They will be my responsibility after we got married—" Yang Menghuo said. 

"W—Who will marry you!? You haven't even cleared your own problem!" Shi Ying yelled, but her ears turned red because she didn't expect Yang Menghuo to be so blunt in front of her sisters.

"Let's just say that I've cleared my problem, but with the help of few people, hehe," Yang Menghuo replied. 

"You've cleared it?!" Shi Ying was startled, "Including that childhood sweetheart problem of yours? How? When? Where? We've been together for almost 24/7 at this point!"

"Um… that's a secret, but don't worry, Jie, I will tell you later," Yang Menghuo replied. He gently held his Ying Jie's hand and kissed it, "And I've made my decision as well."

"KYAAAAA!" 

Shi Ying could hear the squeal from her sisters, cheering on them as if they were a couple doing a public display of affection.

Shi Ying's face was tomato red. She knew that Meng Bao was shameless, but this was a whole new level of shameless, kissing her hand in front of her sisters, who just caught them red-handed a moment ago. 

Shi Ying pulled her hand and then grabbed Meng Bao's collar to leave the room. She dragged Meng Bao outside because she could still hear the squeal from Meimei and Yanyue. 

"Y—Ying Jie, we are we going?" Yang Menghuo asked since Ying Jie kept dragging him away, further and further from the house to the chicken coop. 

"You're an idiot, Bao! How could you be so shameless, saying that you've found your childhood sweetheart and still dared to kiss my hand in front of my sisters!" Shi Ying yelled, still dragging Meng Bao until they stopped under a tree. 

"Okay, now, Meng Bao—I mean, Yang Menghuo. Since we're far from my house, you can tell me how, when, and who is this childhood sweetheart of yours?" Shi Ying asked with a barrage of questions. "I mean, you were with me the whole time, and now you suddenly found her? How is she? Is she good? Is she already married with a child? Did she forget about your promise to her?" 

"Jie… please calm down a bit…." Meng Bao smiled when he saw Ying Jie panicking. 

"I am calm!" Shi Ying yelled. 

Although she said that she was calm, she knew that deep down, she was panicking. She was afraid that Meng Bao would leave her right here, right now, after finding his childhood sweetheart. 

It would be the saddest, most humiliating thing Shi Ying could've experienced. To be discarded right in front of her family, though she knew that she didn't have any relationship with Meng Bao or whatsoever."

"L—Listen, Bao, I know that you're so eager to meet your beloved childhood sweetheart. But you shouldn't leave right now. I would be too embarrassed to face my family if you did that!"