Chapter 130
“What else can I do? Eat.”
“Come on, you’ve never been that childish and that boring.” Mrs. Gu grunted, “Besides, I heard from the store manager that you brought a female classmate over, is that true?”
“So what?”
“Not great, mommy is just curious, that Duan Hannah has been chasing you for so long and you haven’t had a heartbeat, what kind of girl actually catches your eye.” Mrs. Gu finished laughing joyfully and carefully said, “Why don’t … you bring it back tonight for mom to see?”
“Mrs. Gu!” Gu William yelled coldly and intensely, and the other end of the phone was instantly quiet as Gu William said in annoyance, “Can you stop thinking about these impractical things all day long with nothing to eat? It’s really annoying!”
“Don’t be so mean. …” Mrs. Gu on the other end of the phone cooed lowly.
“It’s okay I’m hanging up.” Gu William hung up the phone quickly without waiting for his mother to say anything else.
Standing in front of the dessert house, he craned his head to look inside. Through the clear glass door, he saw Cheng Lydia and a shop assistant sister talking and laughing as they packed the bunny chestnut pastry into a box.
She is Shen Ron’s …
That was why he couldn’t help but be annoyed with his mother.
He took a deep breath, looking at her still small figure, thinking of his mother’s words about taking her back to meet her parents and suddenly feeling amused, it was a little too early to start meeting parents in elementary school.From NôvelDrama.Org.
And the store manager, I don’t know what kind of pig brain he was to think of their relationship in that way.
Gu William pushed the door in and Cheng Lydia had filled a box full of bunnies and said to the clerk with a big smile, “Thank you sister.”
“You’re welcome, little sister what’s your genus?” The shop assistant asked.
“I’m a lamb.”
“So why not buy a box of lambs?”
“Just buy it for my brother, I won’t need it.”
“Little sister is so kind to her brother.” The clerk praised, while sweeping a warm glance at Gu William who pushed his way in; Gu William was a bunny, and the clerks rightly assumed that Cheng Lydia had bought the bunny for Gu William.
Cheng Lydia turned to Gu William and raised the box in her hand at him, “I’ve already bought it, let’s go.”
Gu William nodded, walked over to the kitchen cabinet and scanned the rest of the critters in there, looked up and said to the clerk, “Fill another box with baby goats.”
“Okay.” The clerk nodded and did as he was told.
Cheng Lydia was busy saying, “No, I don’t need …”
The stuff here wasn’t cheap at first glance, and she didn’t want to break the bank that much.
Gu William, however, smiled lightly at her and said, “Consider it extra compensation from me for all the time I’ve caused you to waste.”
When he said that, Cheng Lydia stopped insisting, besides she really, really liked the critters here, they were so much prettier than the ones she made herself.
After buying the chestnut pastry, Gu William drove her to school.
Upon entering the campus, Cheng Lydia looked up to him and said, “Brother, put me down.”
“Do you know where to find your Shen Ron brother?” Gu William glanced down at her, finally hearing her call him brother, no longer calling him bad brother.
His heart actually leapt at this ‘brother’ of hers.
Cheng Lydia shook her head, she didn’t really know where to let it go.
“But I can take my time looking for him.” Cheng Lydia was optimistic.
“The school is so big, it’s better if I take you there.” Gu William drove her in the direction of the tennis courts.
Shen Ron likes to play tennis every afternoon after school, and today should be no exception.
When the two arrived at the tennis court, they saw Shen Ron playing tennis with a group of classmates from afar. …!”
Gu William’s car had a girl on the front bar, a sight that had never been seen before.
The students began to talk curiously, “No wonder we can’t find Gu William, so he’s off picking up girls.”
“That’s right, we obviously agreed to play ball together this afternoon.”
“Pick up any chicks?” Duan Hannah snorted disdainfully, “A milquetoast little girl is a chick? Cut!”
“Yo, look at you being sour, didn’t you just say that Shen Ron is much better than Gu William and that you’ll never pick up Gu William again?” A girl snickered with a smile.
The girl’s taunting coincidence was met with a cold glare from Duan Hannah, who shut up, as it were.
It wasn’t as if Shen Ron hadn’t heard the chatter of his classmates or seen Gu William and Cheng Lydia, who were intimately riding together on the same bike, and a look of surprise and displeasure flashed across his face as he took a poorly-faced step towards the duo outside the court.
“Brother!” Cheng Lydia quickly jumped off the front bar of the car and walked towards Shen Ron, taking his arm affectionately and saying, “I brought you lots of lovely chestnut crisps.”
“June, why didn’t you tell me you were coming.” Shen Ron looked down at her, his face hard to hide his delight.
“Because I wanted to surprise my brother.”
Quite surprised indeed, and quite surprised, Shen Ron swept his surprised gaze to Gu William, sizing him up and asking, “How did you two get together?”
Gu William looks at Cheng Lydia and then at Shen Ron and wonders how Shen Ron is still calling her June? Could …?
Of course, he really wasn’t that bad of a person to go around breaking down people’s lies for fun.
“It’s a long story, just ask her.” Gu William shrugged at him, “And don’t give me that look, like I’m a child trafficking villain.”
Gu William finished, set his bike down towards the side of the pitch and headed inside, not forgetting to give Cheng Lydia a vague smile before he left, “I hope we’ll see each other again next time.”
When Shen Ron brought Cheng Lydia inside the classroom, Cheng Lydia immediately took the treat box out of the plastic bag and said with a big smile, “Brother, look, so many beautiful bunnies.”
Shen Ron looked over at the treat box and for a moment was also caught by the little rabbit inside and asked in surprise, “You made that yourself?”
The last time they were baking chestnut crisps together, the two of them were squeezing various little animals together for fun.
He pinched a piece and put it in his mouth; it tasted delicious, but not the same aroma he remembered Cheng Lena baking.
Cheng Lydia said shaking her head with a look of regret and resignation, “I originally made the bunnies for my brother myself, but they were accidentally knocked over on the floor by Brother William, but Brother William later took me to buy bunny chestnut pastry … ”
At the end of the sentence Cheng Lydia got all excited again, “Brother, you know what? That sweet shop has a lot of chestnut pastry made into little animals, and Brother William even gave me a box of little sheep.”
She opened another treat box and inside was a neatly yarded lamb.
Shen Ron glanced at the lamb and felt more and more uncomfortable.
Brother William … called her really affectionate, and Gu William gave her bunnies and lambs.
“Which dessert house sells chestnut pastry with little animals?” Shen Ron asked.
He hadn’t really seen any sweet shop that had them and they happened to have chestnut crumble.
“It’s from the dessert house inside the Galaxy Hotel.” Cheng Lydia didn’t sense his displeasure and pinched up a bunny and handed it to him, “Brother, you can have another piece.”
Shen Ron tilted his face to the side, avoiding the bunny she was handing him, “The Galaxy Hotel?”
“Yeah, doesn’t brother like to eat?” Cheng Lydia’s hand squeezing the bunny froze in mid-air with some small disappointment.
“No.” Shen Ron couldn’t bear to strike her and opened his mouth to catch it, while his heart clogged up even more.
The Galaxy Hotel is a Gu family property and the dessert house inside doesn’t sell small animal treats, so it seems Gu William gave these two boxes of chestnut pastry with the best of intentions.
From what he knew of Gu William, this was simply not his personality or something he would do.
“You and Gu William knew each other before?” He asked, sizing up Cheng Lydia.
Cheng Lydia thought for a moment and said with a heated smile, “I don’t really know him, I met him at my brother’s birthday party last time.”
It was really a previous acquaintance, and before his time.
“What’s wrong with you, brother?” Cheng Lydia asked cautiously as she saw that he didn’t seem very happy, the smile on her face withdrawn.
Shen Ron looked back and shook his head, “Nothing.”
Cheng Lydia, however, hesitantly asked, “Does my brother not like me being with Brother William?”
Shen Ron looked at her, he actually really didn’t like it in his heart, but he was too embarrassed to say it. This feeling is so strange, as if she is really his future bride to marry, is it possible that he is really having that aspect of feelings for this little girl? How is it possible …?
Blame it on Grandma’s prompting, how else would he have thought of it that way?
These days, after the school girl Duan Hannah had failed in her attack on Gu William, she had changed direction to pursue him again. Where had he ever felt this strange feeling when Duan Hannah was going back and forth between the two boys with two minds, without sourness or disillusionment, only boredom and avoidance?
The girl in front of her does have the potential to be very attractive, and it’s no wonder Gu William is making an exception for her.
“If my brother doesn’t like me being with Brother William, then I won’t be with him in the future.” Cheng Lydia spoke up after carefully reading the situation.
Shen Ron lifted his palm and stroked her head Dao smiled lightly, “Don’t forget what you promised your brother before, to be your brother’s bride and only your brother’s bride when he returns from abroad.”
Cheng Lydia nodded her head as if she was smiling and said, “I won’t forget.”
Shen Ron dropped his heart a little.
Gu William is no worse than him in any way, and with him gone for an unknown number of years, you can’t blame him for being worried.