Chapter 69: I Learned Cooking To Bribe Someone
All of them didn't stay for long. They only advise Xu Mey to take care of her health and threw warning looks towards Ye Jie before leaving. Ye Jie pulled Xu Mey to their bedroom after everyone left.
"I'm really sorry," She heard his faint guilty voice as he made her sit on the bed. She arched her brows in a questioning manner. "Sorry for not being much of help with mom and food."
After comprehending his meaning she said, "It's not much of a deal."
Ye Jie gave a humorless smile. "I would have believed you on normal days. But today, you were sick." He crouched down before her on the ground and held her hands. "I never really disobeyed her. The last time I argued with her was-" He stopped speaking making Xu Mey curious.
"When was the last time?" She asked.
He looked into her black orbs asking, "Do you really wanna know? It... It's actually related to my ex." He was hesitant in his words.
"I have no problem in listening at all." She replied with a straight face. "But you could feel hurt after living through the memory lane."
Ye Jie frowned. "No, I won't. She doesn't have a place in my life or my heart anymore."
"Then why are you getting frustrated?" She asked making his frown deeper. "I believe you when you said she doesn't have a place in your life but when you say she's not in your heart..." She sighed. "I really don't believe you."
"How can I make you believe in my words?"
"It's very simple actually. I'll believe you the day you won't hesitate to talk about her."
"Any reason for that?" Ye Jie placed her legs up on the bed and placed pillows to support her back. Then covered her legs with the duvet.
"My Wang bro had a girlfriend years ago. He fell in love with her and spent an entire year with her. When he met her, he told her that he was a painter. An artist trying to make his name in this big world." She was looking into a distant.
"He lied?" Ye Jie sat beside her on the bed as he asked.
"No... He didn't lie... He was actually trying to make a name for himself through painting during that time. He never liked that girls approached him because he was Wu Wang- the heir of Global Corporations. But he wanted an honest relationship. He thought he found that love in her. Especially when she became pregnant with his child." She took a pause. Ye Jie's whole attention was on her.
"Wang Bro decided to propose her and come clean about his identity but in the end, when he was on his knee, she told him about the abortion. The reason was simple, she didn't want to marry someone who didn't hold an identity worth mentioning, after all, she was supposedly a noble lady from a business family."
Ye Jie was confused. "How is this related to me?"
"Be patient..." She shifted a bit. "It's been almost 8 years and Wang Bro still has a portrait of her in his penthouse. He's known to be a playboy now. But he still has feelings for her." She shook her while sighing.
Ye Jie thought for a minute before speaking. "Maybe he's keeping her portrait as a reminder of his mistake of loving the wrong person."
Xu Mey smiled at his statement. "That's what Wang Bro said as well. But that's not true. The day he'll be ready to sell that portrait will be the day, all of us will believe that she doesn't have any control over his heart anymore."
Without even realizing it, Ye Jie had given control of his emotions to Lu Yuhan. He realized that talking about her really made him frustrated. And frustration is also a feeling. In Xu Mey's words, when her name won't be able to bring any kind of feeling in him, that's when she'll be out of his heart.
'Couldn't she just say it like an ordinary person?' He thought. 'But wait! I didn't know anything about Wu Wang. I always thought he was just a playboy but he seems to be hiding a lot in him.'
No one could blame Ye Jie for his opinion. Not even Xu Mey. Wu Wang had portrayed himself as a playboy who only has single night-stands. He never approached girls or try to establish any other relationship. Most of all, he never gave any girl hope. He knew how much it hurt when hopes are shattered.
Ye Jie passed her painkillers with warm water and asked her to relax. "Where are you going?" She asked seeing him getting up from the bed.
"I'm going downstairs to get you some milk and then I have some work to finish. But don't worry, I'll be done very soon." He replied as he headed to the door.
Remembering the start of the conversation, Xu Mey asked, "What about your first argument with your mother?"
Ye Jie stopped in his steps and turned to look at her. "You still are curious?" Xu Mey nodded. "It happened about a year ago, mom was against our relationship and she asked me to break up with her. I refused and that's how the argument happened."
Xu Mey creased her brows. "And then what?"
"Ha? Then nothing... My ex broke up with me and left. So, the argument with mom ended naturally." He shrugged his shoulders and walked out of the door.
She was deep in thought when Ye Jie came back with a cup of milk and made her drink it right in front of him.
"By the way, for someone who doesn't like cooking, you made one hell of a feast... Where did you learn to cook?" He was getting curious about her knowledge about food.
"I learned cooking to bribe someone." She replied nonchalantly.
"Do I need to know about it?" He asked cautiously.
"Not yet," She turned her head to one side. After that, he kissed the top of her head and asked her to take some rest. He went down to his study to work.
Xu Mey picked up her own laptop to check emails but instead her mind was wandering off to Ye Jie's words. A ring tone broke her wool-gathering. Catching the caller id flashing on the screen, she smiled broadly.
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XiaoMeeHee Take this dessert as well to go with the meal.
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To all those who think she went overboard with the food. Try cooking for your in-laws for the first time. There is so much confusion that you'd want to make everything just so that your mother-in-law is happy with you.
Especially in countries like China where parents opinion matters a lot more than your own when it comes to life partners.
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Hope you enjoyed this conversation between our ML and FL.
Chapter 70: The Deceitful Rose
The moment Xu Mey placed the phone against her ear an alluring but lazy voice rang out, "Dear student, I heard you were at the hospital last night." It wasn't a question and Xu Mey knew it very well.
"If you know that then you must know why I was there, Sensei," A smile was lingering on her lips curling them upwards.
"I know about the allergy and I also know you went to Xu Residence yesterday. So, I don't have to think much to figure out anything else. What I want to know is how are you?" The voice transmitting from the other side felt like feathers tickling her ears. She still couldn't figure out how a person like her Sensei had such an amazing voice.
Whether it was the voice texture or the manner of speech, it was so poised, lazy and delicate yet made one feel cold shivers running up their spine.
Xu Mey sighed as weariness was overcoming her. "I'm fine... Just tired."
"Tired? When did I accept such a weak disciple like you?" The words were spoken with irritation but Xu Mey could hear the underlying concern. Her Sensei was indirectly asking for the reason of her tiredness.
Xu Mey chuckled. "Sensei?"
"Mm..."
"I had a nightmare last night."
She heard some shuffling at the other end. "It's been almost over a year. What triggered it?"
Xu Mey recounted the discussion with Ye Jie without hiding anything. Then she depicted the entire nightmare with perfect details. After that, she had to narrate the story of today's events with her mother-in-law.
"'I won't be caged!'" The voice at the other end repeated her words. "We like to cage the beautiful birds because ugly ones are not worth much. And we love to cage our ugly sides while flaunting our beauty. Such a weird world we live in."
"Why do you care about his mother? Why does it matter whether she likes you or not?" After a silence came a curt voice.
"Sensei, she's my husband's mother after all. I have to impress her." She took a pause to think, "Earlier, she seemed nice to me. I don't know what changed suddenly." That was bothering her all this time. For a girl who never had the love of a mother, she really wanted a good relationship with her mother-in-law. But now, it seemed impossible.
"My dearest disciple, how can you be so gullible even after everything you went through? Don't even dare to forget, even a rose has thorns much less a human." Came the reply. "I taught you before, this world is two-faced. Beauty and ugliness are only said to not co-exist. But in reality, we all live with beauty and ugliness hiding within ourselves."
"But I only saw beauty in you," Xu Mey said.
She heard a hearty laugh from the other side making her shake her head. "Are you sure, you're my first disciple? How can you be so credulous? I have beauty? Why didn't I get the notice?" Xu Mey rolled her eyes at the mocking tone. "My dear dear dear disciple, don't always fall for the deceitful roses. Trust this Lord, a cactus that shows it's ugliness is a lot better than a rose which displays its beauty."
"I can't possibly call you an ugly person. Sensei, you saved me."
"Oh no, my dearest... I didn't save you... I just showed you a way to save yourself... As I said back then if the darkness is within you than look for a small light outside. Every day, find that light to show you a way out of that darkness." The calm, languid voice spoke.
She remembered those words clearly. She also remembered what she asked after hearing that, "Sensei, do you look for light as well?"
The reply was, "Nope... I don't need a light to show me my way. I've befriended the darkness. Now, this darkness shows the world to me."
Coming back to the present, Xu Mey said, "Ye Jie asked me who taught me how to cook?" There was amusement in her voice.
"Did you tell him that you learned it to bribe this Lord and in the end, this Lord was the one who had to teach you as well. Ironically, the person who wanted the bribe had to first teach you how to give that bribe, Wow!" Xu Mey chuckled at this. She had to pester her Sensei to help her with something and being the biggest foodie on the planet, that person said, "Give me a bribe first."
Xu Mey had to learn how to cook but in the end, she made her sensei teach her how to cook as well. That was the reason, she didn't like cooking for others. She learned it for her Sensei, so she believed only that person should get to eat her food.
"Hehe... Sensei... I still learned, didn't I?"
"Yes, you did..." There was silence for a minute. "Did you say that your husband was about to argue with his mother for you but you stopped him?"
"Yeah... Why are asking that again?" She scowled.
"Because I think that's where your answer lies."
"Huh?"
"Use your brain, my foolish disciple." Xu Mey pouted at the choice of words. "Lose the frown and that adorable pout." Xu Mey opened her mouth to ask but the reply came before that, "Did you forget? I know you better than you know yourself." Xu Mey had to nod in agreement at this. "Now, what I think is that your mother-in-law was fine until you were an unimportant person. But today, she saw how Ye Jie wanted to defend you in front of her. So, she became hostile towards you."
"That seems unlikely..." Xu Mey was doubtful.
"You don't believe this Lord? Humph! Think yourself, he had an argument with his mother for his ex and suddenly his ex broke up with him and even left the country without telling him. Now, he was going to argue because of you, so she became rude and uncaring towards him. Doesn't it seem fishy?" After a pause, "It's clear your mother-in-law has some authority issues. She wants to keep Ye Jie as her obedient son and whoever enters his life should also be like him."
Before she could say anything in reply, the call was disconnected. 'Sensei is throwing tantrums now. I was just a tiny bit doubtful but really Sensei can't handle it when someone doesn't show trust.' She thought to herself.
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Last night, I was a bit upset when I saw the ranking of my book. It was barely at 84. I was so downhearted that I got angry with myself for not being good enough. Everyone wants to get acknowledged after all the hard work.
But the moment I woke up, I was brimming with new spirits. I thought if I love to write, you love my story than ranking doesn't really matter.
So, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Next one will be up soon...
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