Chapter 228 - NEWLYWED GAME (RECOGNITION GAME)

"I know you can do this," Lie Ruge said, cheering him on with her words too. Xiao Bai walked up to their seats and smiled at the couple before she spoke.

"Yi Lan, let me steal your wife for a couple of minutes while you prepare yourself for the game," Xiao Bai said politely before she gently pulled Lie Ruge up from her seat.

"Ge'er, this game is simple. You just have to walk while you are being guided. It will be Yi Lan's job to recognize you not yours," Xiao Bai said meekly when they got to the dressing room that they had rented.

"According to your words, does that mean that I will also be blindfolded?" Lie Ruge asked curiously as she collected the red dress Jiang Xue handed over to her.

"Bingo! We will guide you very well so you don't have to worry about bumping into something," Jiang Xue said caringly.

"BaiBai, I don't really like the blindfolding stuff. I might really get into big trouble if I bump into something," Lie Ruge said displeased.

"Ge'er, don't worry that will not happen. We will all be wearing flat shoes so the risk of you ever bumping into something under our watch is zero percent so you don't have to worry Ok," Xiao Bai said persuasively.

"Ok, I will act according to how you want so let's get dressed now. I bet Yi Lan must be waiting for me," Lie Ruge said before she quickly entered one of the lockers to get changed. Xiao Bai and her came out of the locker at the same time. They looked at themselves in the mirror before they shook their heads satisfactorily at how perfect the dresses looked on them. When Xiao Bai was blindfolding her, she quickly signalled the ladies who were hiding outside to come inside and get changed too. While those ladies were changing their clothes, Xiao Bai tried everything she could to distract Lie Ruge. She heaved a sigh of relief when Jiang Xue and the rest of the ladies came out of the dressing room. Just like she had promised, she carefully escorted Lie Ruge to the room where the party was being held. The ladies were not surprised to see that a huge space had been created at the center of the room for the game that was about to begin. Yi Lan and three other guys sat down in the centre of the room waiting for the game to start. Yi Lan was the only one with a blindfold while Lie Ruge was the only one with the blindfold on the ladies' side.

"Hello! Is everyone ready to see whether the almighty Young Master Yi will win or fail to recognize his newly wedded wife? Let's see, as the game begins right now," Tan Fan said excitedly as he beckoned the ladies to start. Just to confuse Yi Lan all the ladies that participated in the game were of the same build as Lie Ruge, although Lie Ruge's figure was far better than theirs, it would be hard for someone with a blindfold to differentiate them. The first lady to approach Yi Lan was Qiu Yi. She walked confidently to where Yi Lan was sitting down and gently held his hand. She caressed Yi Lan's hand in a caring but flirtatious manner.

"You are not my wife," Yi Lan said coldly after he had finished examining her. As he said this everyone in the room cheered him up happily for being able to differentiate the lady from his wife. The ladies kept on testing him and when it was Jiang Xue's turn she played her part perfectly well, just like they had planned. The first thing she did after giving Yi Lan her right hand was to caress Yi Lan's face with her hand in an enticing manner. She and Xiao Bai wanted him to fail the test so that they would use that opportunity to teach him a lesson.

"Get your hands off me. Even with you pretending to be my wife I still know that you are not her, so stop trying to play a trick on me," Yi Lan grabbed Jiang Xue right hand firmly, stopping Jiang Xue in her tracks.

"Wow! Yi Lan is good," everyone praised him once again when he discovered Jiang Xue's silly tricks. Xiao Bai handed Lie Ruge over to Jiang Xue when it was her turn. She acted just like the way Lie Ruge always acted when she was with him, but Yi Lan was smarter than they thought because he discovered her just like he had discovered Jiang Xue. When it got to Lie Ruge's turn everyone turned dead silent as Lie Ruge approached Yi Lan. One of the rules was that he was not allowed to touch the ladies faces, the reason was due to the blindfold they had put on Lie Ruge. Yi Lan caressed her outstretched hand, he smiled mischievously when he touched the hand that he had touched for more than a year now. Everyone opened their mouth wide open in shock when Yi Lan started flirting with Lie Ruge even with his blindfold still on.

"Got you wifey," Yi Lan said happily as he immediately pulled her to his lap.

"This is amazing! Third bro has finally done it. Since he was presenting all the guys here, this means that the guys have won this round of the game," Tan Fan said excitedly as everyone clapped their hands to celebrate Yi Lan's victory.

"Ok, quiet down everyone. Sister-in-law, how much do you know third bro? This game will actually tell us. In this particular game, different accessories i.e. of watches, necklaces, rings, sunglasses and so on will be mixed up together. Your mission is for you to pick only the ones that belong to third bro. Let's see how attentive sister-in-law was when she was dating my third bro," Tan Fan said smiling naughtily. Yi Lan was surprised because he didn't recall ever giving any of them his personal belongings. Immediately after he finished speaking, a bowl containing several accessories as the one Tan Fan had mentioned was brought forward. They brought a chair for her to sit down while the bowl was placed in front of her.

"Sister-in-law, you have only fifteen minutes to find all the stuff that belongs to third bro in that bowl, you will automatically fail if you miss even one accessory. Third bro just to be sure that you don't interfere with the game, please sit down at the far corner of the room and continue watching the game," as Tan Fan spoke, he showed him where to sit down by stretching forth his hand.

"Your time starts now," Tan Fan said sternly. Lie Ruge was very composed. She did not show any sign of fear or nervousness on her face. She scrambled through the mixed-up stuff. Within ten minutes she had already picked out six accessories that belonged to Yi Lan. Even Tan Fan and Yun Yi were shocked at how fast she found the stuff. They had purposely picked the accessories that Yi Lan barely used so that it would be hard for her to recognize them in the midst of other accessories.

"Two more remaining," Yun Yi muttered under his breath but Xiao Bai who was standing beside him heard his words clearly.

"Does this mean that there are only two of Yi Lan's accessories left in that big bowl containing so many jewels?" Xiao Bai asked curiously as she threw him a sharp glare.

"Hahaha... did I say that?" Yun Yi laughed awkwardly as he avoided staring at her.

"Stop acting and just say it. Besides, I won't be able to pass the information to her even if she share it with me. So stop being petty and just tell me huh?" Xiao Bai asked cutely.

"Ok, you are right. We put a total of eight accessories that belong to Yi Lan. Since she has picked six, that means there are two remaining, but I bet whether sister-in-law will be able to find it since she is running out of time," Yun Yi said regretfully.