Liu Hai waved his hand ever so eagerly from a distance with such vigor as if he would tear his arm off with all that movement. He brightened, his face emitting all those golden rays of sunshine.
"Chyou, Chyou, Chyou! My grandson's previous love rival! My grandson's previous love rival! My grandson's previous love rival! Your most favorite Grandpa is hereeeeeeee!!!!"
Chyou's face shone with the same intensity as Liu Hai's, however Yating had a one eighty degree change of expression to give.
The hell with grandson's previous love rival? Seriously?
"Grandpaaaa!!!"
Chyou ran towards him and both of them twirled in a hug of eternal bliss. "Grandpa, I missed you!"
"I missed you too, dear!" He sobbed.
"You two live in the same city," Yating's brow twitched.
"Doesn't matter. We still missed each other," Liu Hai huffed. "You are just salty because I crashed your date."
Chyou blushed.
Yating grimaced. "What was with the way you called out to me earlier, Mr. Liu?"
"Aish!" Liu Hai patted his shoulder hard. "Don't be so distant, young man! Why are you calling me Mr. Liu? Call me Grandpa too!" He chirped.
"Well-"
"You are not Jun-cute's love rival anymore so we are all family now!!" He shone.
"..."
He gritted his teeth. "I haven't been his rival since ages now."
"Don't mind the minor details~"
Ah God give me strength...
Chyou asked eagerly, "Who are you with Grandpa? Oh, oh, is the Liu family here too?"
Liu Hai, who was carrying a bunch of food items, broke into a cold sweat. "It-It's just me, dear. I am all alone!"
"Huh? Why?"
He burst into tears. "You should listen to me!!"
Yating's sense of discomfort increased by a hundred folds.
"Grandpa, if we could excuse-"
"No, you have to listen to my story!!" He cried.
"Chyou and I are on a date."
"Who can take her away? Nobody can."
"Didn't you just talk about that old man of a doctor?"
Liu Hai widened his eyes. "He sure is plotting to win over my wife but do you think he really can? I mean, won't I just kill him before he makes any move?" He looked puzzled, thinking as to why he had to explain this fact to Yating.
"..."
He brightened. "Killing pests is very easy for the Liu family, hohoho!"
"..."
Chyou sniffled. "Does this mean that Grandma and you fought?"
He grumbled. "She caught me stealing Nana's food and she lashed out at me. But I was really hungry and I couldn't listen to her...So I ran away from home!"
Are you a teenager? Yating's mouth twitched.
Chyou sighed and patted his head. "Aish, I understand. It must have been hard for you."
Tears welled in his eyes. "Only you and Nuo understand me! My grandsons don't even care about meeee! Nobody bothered when I left home!"
She frowned. "Don't worry, Grandpa! I will pull everyone's ears when I meet them!"
He nodded brightly and chirped. "That's much better! So, so, now that you two are here and so am I, how about I join you two?"
Yating's heart rate dropped. "Huh?"
"Old age feels very lonely you know and I have been walking around the mall all alone," he said pitifully.
"But also thoroughly enjoying your loneliness with food," Yating raised his brow.
"Shut up, brat!"
Chyou's heart swelled with sadness. "Of course you can join us, Grandpa!"
Yating was at a loss for words. "Miss. Zhu and the Queen of the entertainment industry, you can see clearly that he is being dramatic, right?"
Liu Hai glared at him. "You are just like my grandsons!"
"Well, if you are crashing my date then yes I will be like your grandsons!"
"Is your date more important than accompanying a lonely, aging man!?"
"..."
Chyou chimed in. "Please, please, pretty please? Grandpa Liu is Grandpa Liu. It's fun to be around him, hehe."
Clearly, his own family doesn't think that way...
With an utmost heaviness on his heart while also simultaneously cursing his luck, he said, "...Sure."
The nature of randomness... surely sucks at times, he thought.