"Marta, am I not a loyal customer at your restaurant?" Mu Yuehan asked in a serious voice.
"Yeah, you are. You are my favourite loyal customer." Marta replied truthfully.
"Then why is it that I haven't seen your owner so far?" Mu Yuehan complained. "I mean, she should at least come out and thank me for visiting here regularly. She should also take my opinion or ask for some advice or feedback. Don't you think so?"
"You are right. Nian Tian loved to take feedback from her customer before the tsunami. But after the tsunami, her kitchen has been shifted inside due to some damage to the restaurant. She doesn't get time to interact with the customers anymore." Marta informed, lost deep in thoughts. "Don't worry, I will tell her about your complaint."
Mu Yuehan nodded and started to have his food. A smile left his lips when he placed the first slice in his mouth.
'Nian Tian, you are my favourite cook.' He praised.
**
"Our money bank is requesting to see you," Marta informed Nian Tian.
"I was also thinking of thanking him personally," Nian Tian informed and removed her apron. "After all, he is visiting here regularly and is also ordering expensive dishes, leaving huge tips for you."
Nian Tian walked out of the kitchen. Her eyes went wide with horror when she saw Mu Yuehan sitting in the place of her best customer.
She was fed up with this flirt. He was following her all time, trying to befriend her and she did not like it.
She noticed him all around the island and always, using the benefit of staying here for a long time, she was able to bypass him. But never in her wildest dreams did she think that he was her regular customer.
"Don't tell me, this stalker is my regular customer." Nian Tian looked at him as if seeing a ghost. "God, are you playing some cruel joke with me?"
She took an angry deep breath, turned around and made her way toward the kitchen. She was continuously cursing Mu Yuehan.
That man, he was not only following her around. He had made her beach as his base. She could no longer visit there only because of him. And now, he was here, at her restaurant, like really.
This ugly, stalker, cruel man, sexy flirt, shameless man, jerk.... she cursed him.
Sneeze! Sneeze!
Mu Yuehan sneezed twice. He rubbed his nose with his handkerchief and thought to himself, 'is someone cursing me?'
**
"What happened?" Marta asked Nian Tian the moment she entered the kitchen. "Why are you angry?"
"Marta, god is playing some cruel joke with me." She gritted her teeth. "The man outside is my stalker. He is the one, following after me for the last two weeks."
"Pft," Marta broke down in laughter when she heard her. "I will call it fate. Maybe you both are destined. Why don't you meet him, Nian Tian? Talk to him. Maybe he was your classmate. He looks like a good man to me."
"Marta, you don't know a man like I do. They only know how to play with girls." Nian Tian clenched her right hand and punched it on her left palm, imagining the left palm to be the face of Mu Yuehan.
"Maybe he is a good man. You know, Zhan Wei works for the great Mu Yuehan. He is well settled. He can…."
"Marta, please." Nian Tian interrupted her. "I am not interested in Zhan Wei nor Mu Yuehan. I am not interested in men at all. And you know this."
Marta sighed at her stubbornness and shook her head.
**
It was late in the night when Nian Tian closed the shop. Marta was again excited by the sale of the day. "Good night Marta."
Nian Tian made her way toward the beach, a different beach from her usual one. She was completely unaware of a man following her in the shadows.
Mu Yuehan looked at Nian Tian and grinned excitedly.
'Found you!' he wanted to yell.
Finally, he was able to find his angle. He could not imagine that Nian Tian was his angle. The girl whose food he was enjoying was his angle. He was so close to her, yet he was searching for her all around like crazy.
She was the one whose food he was having for such a long time. He started to imagine his future once she became his wife. For sure, he would gain weight after having such delicious food from her hands, daily.
When Nian Tian had stepped out of the kitchen to meet him, maybe she stayed there only for a second, but that second was enough for his heart to recognise her presence. His heart thumped hard like crazy. He lifted his eyes and there he saw her back.
And from that time, he was waiting for her outside the restaurant.
'Isn't she afraid of the dark or the crimes which happen with a girl in dark?' Mu Yuehan knitted his brows with concern when he saw her taking a dark alley, in the late hours of the night.
'I will ask my guards to follow after her. This foolish girl does not worry about herself. Then, as her soon-to-be boyfriend, I must look after her.'
Nian Tian could feel as if someone was following after her. She turned around, again and again, but she saw nobody. Mu Yuehan had taken military training, he knew how to hide in the darkness.
"I must be tired." Nian Tian murmured to herself.
Nian Tian quickened her steps and arrived at the beach. She didn't spend a lot of time there. She made her way toward her apartment, with Mu Yuehan still following after her.
"So, you stay in this building." Mu Yuehan murmured to himself and then he saw the lights of a house on the third floor turning on. "And this is your house."
Mu Yuehan looked at the apartment of Nian Tian as if he had won a billion-dollar deal. He pulled out his phone and made a quick call.
"I need your help."