Chapter 169 - He Found A Hidden Gem

-------Back-to-the-feast-----

Looking at all the different types of food that made up the seafood feast, Chen Ai groaned for the 10th time.

Tai Sun pressed his back into his chair and folded his hands over his belly. "Stop monopolizing the food with your eyes. It won't run away."

Chen Ai looked pissed off and said through clenched teeth: "Shoo! I'm trying my best to protect the food being devoured by the evil tongfang."

Liang Li Hua, who was staring at the room entrance keenly, felt like puking blood upon hearing her comment. 'Me! Tongfang! She really lost her mind.'

Even though she had already gone on a rampage from the nonsense that occurred on their way there, she could not summon up the energy to get angry again.

Tai Sun signed as he looked at Chen Ai, "You are exaggerating. I can clearly see you drooling over the food."

Chen Ai was about to go crazy over his comment but that was not important right now. She lowered her head and said with a honeyed voice: "What to do? Every dish looks very delicious, but they are so far away from me...Wooo! Woo!"

"No one can resist the charm of tasty, spicy food." Liang Li Hua said persuasively.

"I would have to agree with that statement," Chen Ai said again.

"Don't worry, Little Spring. I won't keep you away from your darling."

Trio turned to the door and saw Yue Wan, who was entering the room with the waiter following her, with even more aromatic dishes in hand.

Yue Wan sat between Liang Li Hua and Chen Ai. She gave a fake excuse for her lateness.

Liang Li Hua gave a relieved sigh as Yue Wan didn't hate her presence. Seeing Yue Wan not arriving in the room after such a long time, she had thought that Yue Wan hated her for brazenly trailing along.

Leaning close to Yue Wan, Liang Li Hua asked with much hesitation, "Miss Yue, do remember me? We used to go to kindergarten together."

"Xiao Ducklings Daycare?" Yue Wan asked.

Liang Li Hua nodded with excitement: "Yes! We were there at the same time. Your name was Puss. I always wanted to talk to you about it after entering WAX, but you always seemed to keep to yourself."

Indeed.

Yue Wan was obviously maintaining a low profile after she became Wei Wan's friend. She didn't want to be involved in any competitions or extracurricular activities.

Yue Wan dug into her childhood memories and remember the Sherk fairytale play where she acted as Puss in Boots! Looking at Lian Li Hua's curly red hair, her eyes widen in realization: "Dragon?"

Clapping her hand, Liang Li Hua smiled with happiness: "You got me."

"I am sorry that I failed to recognise you, Miss Liang."

"No! No! It's okay. And please, call me Li Li." 

Yue Wan smiled as she said: "You can call me Little Wan then."

Feeling that she was beginning to be closer to Yue Wan, Liang Li Hua felt immensely pleased. She blurted out with happiness, "Little Wan, back then, you were always so strong and never hesitated to say what you were thinking. I really admired you for that, but after General Yue's death, you changed a lot. However, seeing you after what happened at the Xiao Patriarch's party, made me see that the past Yue Wan has been reborn."

"The past me?"

"Yeah. I still remember that on the first day of kindergarten, you beat a Fat-boy black and blue for pulling your braid. When a teacher asked you 'aren't you scared that he is big and strong'- and you replied 'cowards die many times, but a brave man only dies once and I am not a coward'."

A memory of her big brother braiding her hair as her father sucked at it, so when that Fat-boy touched it, she got snapped at punched his face and broke his nose.

Yue Wan smiled nostalgically. "You are right. I am reborn and I shouldn't be a coward."

Catching her heavy tone, Liang Li Hua found it weird but didn't think more about it.

Yue Wan did not continue speaking. Instead, her gaze suddenly shifted in Chen Ai's direction.

Right now, Chen Ai was not paying any attention to Liang Li Hua. She was in no mood to consider her as she was busy savoring the tasty plates of seafood.

Tai Sun placed a fishball in her bowl: "Eat slowly."

Chen Ai rolled her eyes and used her chopsticks to pick her favorite foods quickly, scared that someone might steal the food right from her plate.

Tai Sun glanced at the untouched dish in front of Yue Wan and saw that she was absent-minded: "What happened?"

Yue Wan shook her head: "Nothing. Just met a person who wasn't who I thought he was."

Tai Sun: "Is he someone you hate? "

Yue Wan hid her emotions and said nonchalantly: "I don't know."

Tai Sun didn't probe any further as he didn't want to invade her privacy. His gaze shifted toward the woman who was his world.

Yue Wan saw his gaze warmed with adoration as he looked at Chen Ai who was eating her food with a goofy smile. Out of the blue, she asked blankly.: "Why her?"

Tai Sun did not reply immediately, instead, he smiled with his eyes.

In the past, Tai Sun thought Chen Ai as an overbearing and princess type character, but after getting to know her, he found a hidden gem.

Tai Sun smiled as he looked at her: "I knew that I shouldn't distinguish the right and the wrong bias in listening to others' words, but I did. Later, I realize how wrong I was. I learned that we shouldn't be prejudiced over a person before getting to know them."

Picking a prawn and removing its shell, he placed it on Chen Ai's plate by chopstick: "Miss Yue. Sometimes the things we see and the things we hear are different from the truth."

Yue Wan didn't speak any further. The lunch went on with Chen Ai's blabbering over the taste of foods.

-----In-Liang's-room------

Grasping the receiver, Liang Li Hua said worriedly: "I can't do it. What if she doesn't believe me."

The caller coldly scoffed: "Don't be a coward. If you are really concern about HIM then you should do as I said."

The line went dead.

Liang Li Hua with a troubled expression laid on her bed and gazed at the ceiling as a tear ran down her cheek.

"Where are you, baby?" She cried in a disclosure.

__In-Yue-Villa_____

That night, Yue Wan came out of her shower and dried her hair before the mirror.

Little Bao was patiently waiting for his Mommy while blinking his big round eyes as if to say: 'Mommy hug me!'

After drying off, Yue Wan came down wearing a pink nightgown while carrying Little Boa who was snuggling in her warm body. 'Mommy smell nice..'

Coincidentally, just at that moment, Yue Xiang came home with worn-out expression and Lin Xu tagged along with him.

However, before she could strike up a conversation, Yue Xiang's phone rang.

"Hello?" Yue Xiang asked.