Chapter 1017: Guests

Chapter 1017: GuestsSince everyone has clearly assigned tasks, the arrangements for the engagement were heated. Everyone was working like spinning tops while Raelle thought they were going over the top. It was just an engagement party and they even hired event planners. Then why were these people so busy?        

She couldn't understand and didn't want to waste time on understanding either. She spent time with her Opa. Because even Shui Xian had things to do and only she was left to live like a salted fish.    

"Why am I not allowed to work?" asked Raelle once again to her grandfather.    

Grandfather Xiang looked at her and replied, "It's your engagement."    

"But I have other works to handle too," said Raelle. "I'm not allowed to go out. Do you know I got such a good project proposal? I can tell the huge potential behind it. All I had to do was to visit the lab to confirm the working and then I'd be ready to invest but no, I'm just not allowed to go anywhere or work. I'm losing millions and possibly billions if that project really turned out the way it's envisioned."    

Grandfather Xiang shook his head, "Yenay, what are you gonna do with all that money? Don't you have enough?"    

"Money is never enough, Opa," said Raelle.      

"It's enough," said Grandfather Xiang. "It's human greed that has no limit. You shouldn't be greedy."    

"I'm not greedy," said Raelle. "I just... I think I'll soon start growing mushrooms. That's how I'm living these days. I'm all recovered. Especially after taking those pills, you gave me, I feel great. I literally do."    

"It seems I should really look for Young Master Ru to show my gratitude," commented Grandfather Xiang.    

"Opa, where can I find that Young Master Ru?" asked Raelle out of nowhere.    

"Why?"    

"He is an interesting person to talk to," replied Raelle. "I think it'd be better to converse with him than waste my time like this. At least, I'd get to learn something."    

"That's true. You can really learn a lot from him," said Grandfather Xiang. Then he looked around before whispering to Raelle, "It's difficult to find Young Master Ru, you can look for Xia Zhao. He isn't half bad when it comes to knowledge. Since they come from the same clan. You can go look for him. He'd be happy to accompany you."    

Raelle's interest was piqued, "Where can I find Uncle Zhao?"    

"I'll give you his address," said Grandfather Xiang. "Just be careful. Your Yanyan might lose it if she knew about it."    

"Yanyan isn't that unreasonable."    

"You'd be surprised to see how unreasonable your Yanyan can become once the matter involves Xia Zhao."    

"But why?" asked Raelle. "What is it between them? Just because he is better than her? I really don't think that's the reason why Yanyan gets so worked up seeing him."    

Grandfather Xiang gave her a gentle smile, "My Yenay is truly growing up. You're right. It's not just because he is better than her. He always helped her with whatever she didn't know. He had never been impatient with her or rude to her. But even I don't know what really happened between them. So, you'll have to ask either of them. And I think if you're asking, both of them won't refuse to tell you the truth."    

"I understand that Yanyan won't refuse but are you sure that Uncle Zhao won't either?"    

"He won't," said Grandfather Xiang firmly. "You're Yanyan's life and Zhao would never refuse you for anything for Yanyan's sake. He is just that person who had even done unreasonable things for Yanyan's sake."    

Raelle could only say that these two shared a very complicated relationship. One that even she hardly understood by now.    

"Then I'll go to see him," said Raelle.      

Grandfather Xiang passed her a list asking, "Check this and see if anyone's missing from the guest list."    

"How would I know?"        

"I'm asking for your guests," said Grandfather Xiang. "The ones that you want to invite."    

Raelle looked through the list and then thought about it. She didn't really know who to invite. She never took care of these things. She never had to. She had already asked Cloe to give the list of people to invite from their business partners. Now, she had to see who she personally wanted to invite. She thought some more before telling him, "There are two people I want to invite."    

"Who are they?" asked Grandfather Xiang.    

"Song Xin'ai and Tang Hebe," answered Raelle shocking Grandfather Xiang.    

"Huh?" He thought he heard it wrong just now. He did not expect to hear those two names from Raelle.    

"What's wrong? Can't invite them?" asked Raelle.    

"No," said Grandfather Xiang. "That's not what I meant. I just didn't think..."    

"Didn't think I'd invite these two people?"    

"Yes," he nodded in response.    

"But why can't I?" asked Raelle again. "One is my nominal mother and the other is..."    

"The other is your husband's ex-wife. Are you trying to shove it in her face what she lost?"    

"That's not the intention but now that you mentioned it, I quite like it," said Raelle. "The real intention was to invite her son, Justin. He is a little buddy of mine. But he is a kid, it'd be wrong to invite him alone. So, I wanted to invite Tang Hebe. But now that you told me that I can even show off, I feel like that's even better."    

Grandfather Xiang shook his head and sighed, "Are you sure then? I'm gonna add their names here."    

"Or you can give me the invitation cards for these two and I'll personally deliver them."    

"You just want to do something, eh?"    

"Yes," said Raelle.    

"Fine. Fine. I'll give you the invitation cards for these two." He was silent for a moment before he asked, "You really want your mother to come?"    

"Why not?"    

He shrugged, "Just asking."    

"You don't wanna see her?"    

"It's nothing like that," said Grandfather Xiang. "She gave birth to three grandchildren for my Xiang family. I can't possibly ask for anything more from her."    

"Aren't you very easily satisfied?"    

"What do you know? In my Xiang family, we already had a shortage of descendants. Having two kids in a generation was already considered a lot. But she actually brought three descendants of our family into this world. Three remarkable people. I should be satisfied with it."