Perfect Fiancé

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When the noodles were done, Su Jin, who had entered into a state of being half daydreaming and half-awake on the sofa, followed the aroma towards the kitchen.

Lu Xi had just transferred the noodles into the bowl and was taking off the ap.r.o.n as he turned. He then saw the appearance of a girl with slightly mussed hair and sleepy phoenix eyes walking closer to him.

No, accurately speaking, it was more like she was walking towards the bowl of clear broth with noodles that he had just placed on the kitchen counter.

This girl…

Sighing without saying a word, he took a sidestep and leaned his arms back against the kitchen counter. As it just so happened, his body had blocked… the noodles on the countertop.

"Bang!"

Su Jin"s eyes shot open as she stared at this "wall" that was before her with a gaze filled with bewilderment.

"Dazed?" Looking at the girl before him for a long time without speaking, Lu Xi arched an eyebrow and asked.

Su Jin heard a sound and raised her head. Noticing this dashingly handsome man with a light smile and a raised eyebrow in front of her, she blinked her lucid eyes twice and finally spoke two words to him,

"Where’re the noodles?"

She had clearly smelt the fragrance that had originated here!

Due to being unclear with her ambiguous enunciation, she had dragged out the sound of the last word which made her sound unusually lovable.

"Keke…" Lu Xi finally could not help but laugh lightly. He had initially wanted her to b.u.mp into him. Then, once she felt sore after b.u.mping into him, she would know that she should have had her eyes open while she was walking. However, as he looked at her appearance right now, he could only helplessly shake his head.

Still, to think that the half-awake her was actually this adorable, he could not help but have the urge to tease her.

"The noodles…" With a curl of his lips, he bent at his waist as he spoke in her ear, "you"ll have to wash your hands before you can have them!"

Startled, the girl stared at him for three seconds before she finally had some sort of response. Then, obediently, she gave a sound of a.s.sent.

After that…

She stood there without moving.

Helpless, Lu Xi could only reach over to pull at the girl"s hand and bring her to walk out of the kitchen.

"We shall wash our hands first and then, go to the dining room to eat some noodles."

Reluctant to leave, Su Jin stared longingly at the bowl of noodles that was revealed from behind the male"s back. Then, she docilely trailed behind Lu Xi"s footsteps as they walked to the washroom just beside the kitchen.

She who had always given him a cold shoulder; with her fair hand held in his palm, the young lady pliantly followed behind him. Her expression remained a little dazed, yet that pair of eyes was filled with absolute trust and reliance.

With her in this state now, she could easily cause his hardened heart, that had weathered many years of hardship, to soften into a puddle.

Going into the washroom, after he attentively got her to step over the doorstep, Lu Xi suddenly let out a sigh of relief. His original thought of teasing her had simmered down and a dull light flashed through his peach blossom eyes.

"You, it would be great if you were always this complaisant."

He lightly murmured.

Su Jin seemed to have heard it, she turned and tilted her head slightly to look at him with a questioning look.

"It"s nothing," with a curve of his lip, Lu Xi shook his head.

To have met her in this life, it had not been an easy matter to have done so already, how could he still be greedy for more?

After all, he still had so much time, it would be enough just to have her fall in love with him.

A pair of slender and long hands held onto a pair of small hands to place them into the wash basin.

As the slightly cold tap water fell on the back of her hand, Su Jin quivered and immediately became clear-headed.

In the wash basin, the big hands holding her own had slender fingers that had distinctly shaped joints. As a whole, those hands revealed a fairness that was unlike a woman"s.

Shocked, she followed that pair of hands as she looked upwards.

Standing by her side with a slightly lowered head, the sight of the handsome side portrait of the man appeared before her eyes.

"Lu, Lu Xi!" Blinking, a flash of clarity flashed through her eyes as they suddenly filled with bewilderment.

"Why are you here?" Drawing her hands back, several droplets of water splashed out with her movement of retreating her arms towards herself and fell on the waist of her white dress.

"This is my home, why wouldn"t I be here?" Composed, Lu Xi wiped his hands dry and arched an eyebrow.

This girl, once she was awake, she would forget everything?

"Since you"re awake, quickly wash your hands. I"ll bring the noodles out." He reached out and intimately patted her long hair. Then, he turned and walked out.

Biting her lip, Su Jin stared at the flushed cheeks of the girl in the mirror for a short while before she sighed heavily.

Forget?

How could she?

Only, this side of hers, it had only ever appeared with people close to her.

In her past life, it was Aunt Fu. Yet, in this life, there was only one person, him.

Even in front of her family, she had always unconsciously worried about the original soul of Su jin, so in her subconsciousness, she had hidden all of her idiosyncrasies away.

However, to date, she had only known him for a little more than a month. Even in her subconsciousness, she was unwilling to believe this; was she this close with him?

It was merely an incident where a hero saved a beauty in distress! Lightly letting out a sound of indignation, she thought to herself, forget it. She did not want to think any further, she would just let nature take its course.

In the dining room, she sat on the chair and looked at the bowl of clear broth with noodles in front of her with a blank stare.

The soup was absolutely clear and the surface of the broth was tinged in a light red layer. The noodles were spotlessly white; also, it was garnished with two stalks of green young yu choy(1). On top of the noodles, there was a soft-boiled egg. Through the clear egg white, one could faintly see the rich orange color of the broth.

(1) yóu cài (油菜) – This is the flowering edible rape, an Asian green that grows easily in tropical climates. Also known as yu choy, it"s literal name in English is called Chinese oil vegetable which does not sound nice either. It has dark-green leaves and pale, thin stems, and sometimes is attached with edible yellow flowers, it can be steamed or stir-fried.

With a bite of it, the deep yellow egg yolk flowed out.

A soft-boiled egg with a very runny yolk was exactly her favorite kind.

When Lu Xi said that he would cook, she subconsciously thought a bowl of clear broth with noodles.

She had no idea why she had this sort of premonition or perhaps, inwardly, she already had some sort of expectations.

"Do you like it?" Lu Xi noticed her startled expression and continued with a curled lip, "I guess that you might like spicy stuff and a perfectly soft-boiled egg."

"Yeah." Su Jin composed herself and nodded with a light smile. Then, she held her chopsticks to pick up a strand of noodle.

As it entered her mouth, the strand was springy, soft and smooth. The layered flavours of spicy hot and rich and mellow burst forth at the same time; it was as if that every taste bud was jubilant.

Su Jin"s eyes shone and was somewhat surprised at the ambrosial taste of this bowl of noodles.

In fact, she had made some mental preparations to test it as if it was poison…

Eating in small bites, she had sent the bowl of noodles into her stomach and even drank up the very last drop of broth.

Leaning back against the chair, Su Jin rubbed her slightly protruded tummy as she comfortably let out a sigh.

Although it was merely similar in appearance, she was already adequately satisfied.

That year, when she woke up from her fainting spell, the first meal that Aun Fu had made for her was a bowl of clear broth with noodles too.

"Full?" Seeing the young woman finished everything without a morsel left, from the opposite side of the table, he asked with a delighted smile.

"Um…" Su Jin"s facial features smoothed out as she looked at the "chef" before her. With a trace of crystal bright laughter in her eyes, she answered, "about eighty percent."

"Eighty percent?" Lu Xi arched an eyebrow and as he held his bowl and chopsticks, he reached out to rap her head with a laugh.

When he was preparing the food, with a thought that she had not eaten for a long while, he had especially cooked the noodles a little longer to make them softer. He had also made enough for her to be a 110 percent full.

"Hey, Lu Xi." Su Jin did not mind his action and drank a sip of warm water that had been prepared for her. She asked, "if a child had been missing not long after they were born, would it still be possible to find them?"

"Missing?" Lu Xi placed the bowl and chopsticks into the sink and then queried back, "how old are they?"

"About…" Su Jin thought for a bit, "twenty-six years old already."

"Twenty six years old?" Lu Xi shook his head slightly, "if there are no leads, then there"s not much hope."

"Is that so?" Leaning her chin against a hand, Su Jin looked towards the upright figure of the man in the kitchen and thought of his slender hands that flew across the keyboard when he hacked into the systems of those groups as she asked, "couldn"t you hack into some database, make a DNA comparison with that information and find the person?" Her eyes shone brightly, "it is always like this in the movies."

"Movie?" Lu Xi placed the utensils away, walked out of the kitchen and into the washroom. Hearing this, he helplessly shook his head, "without mentioning the strength of the firewalls of those databases, even if I managed to enter them, there will still be no DNA records."

"Why don"t you tell me." He returned to the table and sat down, "Jin"er, who are you looking for?"

Thinking for a moment, Su Jin asked, "you are aware of the matter between my brother and Ming Xuan Jiejie, right?"

"Mm." Lu Xi nodded; that day, when he saw them, he could already deduce as much.

"Gege and Ming Xuan Jiejie have feelings for each other, however, without even saying it, you are also aware of the situation between our two families." Helplessly, Su Jin shrugged her shoulders, "today, Ming Xuan Jiejie asked me out and I asked her if there was any chance for a miracle."

"She said she still had a younger twin brother. Only, after he was born, he went missing. With all these years without any sound or news, even the Ming family has given up."

"Lu Xi…" Biting her lips, she raised her head to look at him, "is there really nothing we can do?"

The girl before him was blinking her big, lucid eyes and the slight upward curve of the corner of her phoenix eyes deliberated drooped down. It gave her an air of being much more miserable.

"You…" Lu Xi could not resist and stood up and patted her inky black hair with an air that he had given in, "you truly think that I"m omnipotent right."

Although in some ways, the him right now could truly be said as almighty.

Frowning and silent for a long while, Lu Xi then spoke, "I will think of a plan, however, I need some time."

"Okay." With a curl of a smile, Su Jin"s eyes rippled with bright and mesmerising joy as if there was a clear breeze that flowed through her gaze that created a glittering and gleaming reflection similar to waves on limpid autumn waters in the sunlight.

"Thank you." She spoke lightheartedly.

"Thank you?" Lu Xi arched an eyebrow, "just a word of thanks is enough?"

"Then, what do you want?" Su Jin too arched an eyebrow. As a suitor, making one"s sweetheart happy should be only natural right?

One"s sweetheart… She was startled.

Yet, Lu Xi pretended to be considering carefully and after a short while, he snapped his fingers as if he had made a decision and said, "how about…"

With rapt attention, Su Jin listened.

"You give me a kiss?"

Give… me… a… kiss?

Su Jin"s expression immediately became one of startlement.

"If that isn"t good…" Lu Xi grinned and said reluctantly, "then it will be fine if you let me kiss you instead."

Su Jin stared and blinked twice.

"You pervert!"

She reprimanded with a sentence and turned, running out of the dining room. As his laughter resounded clear and bright, both cheeks of the man gradually and wilfully reddened with heat.

……

In the chairman"s office of the Su family.

Su Chenghai looked at the words "sent successfully" on the laptop screen with a cold and solemn expression.

After a few minutes, the phone that had been placed on the table suddenly rang.

Staring at the name that flashed on it, his gaze grew slightly warmer and he accepted the call.

"h.e.l.lo, Han Xu."

"Brother-in-law." From the opposite end of the phone call, a male"s voice could be heard, "those things inside the email were true?"

The Han family and Su family were in-laws. Ever since the Han family"s parents pa.s.sed away, this pair of initially indifferent elder sister and younger brother, Han Meng and Han Xu, gradually grew closer as the relations between them became warmer.

"It"s true." Su Chenghai replied with a heavy voice, "I have already suppressed this matter at the bureau, so let"s decide between our families privately. I will speak frankly now, it does not matter if your Han family will protect her or not since she dared to touch my daughter, the Su family will absolutely show no mercy to her!"

"This…" Han Xu was slightly shocked and helplessly sighed, "Brother-in-law, what are you saying? Since you have already given my Han family a chance to retain our pride, then we will also not shield this. How about this, tomorrow, I will reserve a private room at the Huang Ting, we can discuss then?"

"Okay." Su Chenghai a.s.sented, "bring her along too."

"Alright." Han Xu was stunned and quickly agreed, "then, brother-in-law, wait for my call.

"Oh, speaking of which." Before he hung up, Su Chenghai added, "your sister does not know about this, so don"t leak this out to her."

"I know." Understanding clearly, Han Xu laughed and ended the call.

Putting his phone down, Su Chenghai leaned against the leather chair. As he lightly rapped his knuckles on the table surface, thumping sounds were heard.

Who could the mastermind behind all of this be? He frowned slightly.

Translated by Irisu

Edited by Ely