Ten minutes later, i i and Rose were giving Mingzhu and Liang a bath. Madam Feng was in the bathroom, sitting on a small stool, laughing her heart out.
"You should see the face that the old witch made when the water slapped her..." she broke off because she slid from the stool and yet she did not stop laughing.
i i and Rose were just giggling, shaking their heads.
Madam Feng wiped tears from the corners of her eyes with one hand, firmly grasping her phone in the other. "Doesn’t she know that Wu Tangning is the secret demon of this estate? Her mouth is more poisonous than a scorpion and she has a temper to match." She heaved and laughed even louder and more intensely than before.
i i got a towel, wrapped it around Mingzhu and lifted her from the bathtub. Mingzhu had a habit of saying, "Shooo.." whenever she was carried out of the bath. Lian decided to mimic it.
"I don’t think Lian has enjoyed bath ti like this in so long." Rose said.
The girls were dried off and sent to bed. Madam Feng was on bedti story duty so i i walked Rose to a guest bedroom. They walked slowly, giggling still about Mrs. Sun’s water slap.
"Wu Tangning is trending." Rose said.
i i had already seen the trending topics on her virtual screen. C4 was doing a wonderful job of promoting them.
#Wu Tangning water hose, #Wu Tangning needs beauty sleep #Wu Tangning cat ears. #Grace Tangning no grace.
So people were taking advantage of the heat to sell their products which were familiar to what Wu Tangning had been wearing or holding.
"I can imagine the press conference that her agency will hold tomorrow." i i snickered. "I should send her so flowers or Hua Qi cheesecake tomorrow to thank her for the favor she has done ."
"You have Hua Qi cheesecake!" Rose halted her movent and tugged on i i’s arm. "Where?" Her eyes were filled with hunger similar to that of a starving ghost.
"In the kitchen...actually the fridge, we have like four flavors. Goodness, don’t tell that you are one of those people that is obsessed with Hua Qi cakes." i i rolled her eyes heavenward.
Rose went running downstairs before i i could say more. Five minutes later, Rose was on the phone with Chi Lian.
"Mom," she said frantically, "In i i’s house, there are two Hua Qi cake flavors that we have never eaten. One is a matcha white chocolate with a cookie base and dark chocolate topping. The other is honey lavender and blueberry swirl cheesecake!!!" She squealed like a rat that was either too happy or trapped. "Mom, I have found another one, "Cotton candy dream cheesecake!! Wow, It’s so pretty. This is what I want for Lian’s birthday next week."
"Take pictures hurry." Chi Lian instructed.
Rose snapped a picture imdiately and Chi Lian started to drool. The cake was beyond pretty, it was dreamy. Swirls of whimsical pastel pink and yellow lted into cotton cloud blue creating a marbled look with a light blue cloud atop. Two slices had been cut, indicating that soone was already enjoying the unknown hidden favors.
"Mom, what do I do?" Rose asked. "Should I cut a few slices and leave them by the window. You can swing by and ...."
"Open the kitchen window, hurry." Chi Lian’s voice hissed from the other end of the phone.
The phone fell dropped out of Rose’s hands. She was surprised and also not surprised to see her mother waving outside the window. Obviously, she had used her super speed to run over. Thankfully, there was no one in the kitchen but her so she opened the window.
Chi Lian and ow ow entered expeditiously as if they were escaping a storm outside.
"Where.....hurry....cheese.....cake" Chi Lain looked around eagerly. ow ow was even worse, the bat was flying around with more energy than she had displayed since she got pregnant.
Rose closed the kitchen doors first from the inside so that i i would not find them. Chi Lian was already pulling out the cheesecakes, starting with the Cotton candy one.
"It’s so pretty." She squealed in glee. "I almost feel bad because I am about to dismantle it." She got three saucers, a knife and two forks.
"One slice mom, we have to....." Rose gasped, leaving her sentence incomplete.
Her mother had left the fridge door open and ow ow was helping herself to a fresh fruit peach and passion fruit cake. The bat was making greedy loud nom nom sounds.
"ow ow will be very happy to pay for that cake." Chi Lian said with a grimace.
"That is Mingzhu’s cake, i i is going to kill us." Rose groaned.
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The person she was talking about was also enjoying cheesecake of her own. Jingzhe had delivered two slices of the cotton candy cheese cake and vanilla iced tea from Juan tea shop.
Jingzhe had stuck around, he was feeding her cake with a spoon which they were sharing, sitting on her bed and watching the news without really paying attention to it.
"Rose is raiding the fridge for cheesecake. I should warn you that she is one of those people that are obsessed with it so you probably won’t find anything tomorrow." she inford him.
"There is more where that ca from." he answered.
He brought another spoon to her lips, she opened her mouth and closed it, puzzled by sothing suddenly. "A Zhe how does your mother do it? How does she get her hands on Hua Qi’s cheesecakes whenever it pleases her? I don’t think that I have seen a cotton candy flavor on their website. Where did this one co from?"
Jingzhe’s mouth went dry. He took a sip of the iced tea and gulped, feeling nervous. Was this the mont to co clean and tell her that they owned Hua Qi cakes? His mother mixed the secret spices from ho and experinted with new flavors so sooner or later, she would notice sothing.
"Err...she owns a small cake factory." he stretched his hand and touched the side of her neck. "Where did you get these bruises?"
"Bruises." she stretched her neck and stood up, in need of a mirror.
Jingzhe pulled her back down to sit. His fingers slid across the side of her neck, crawling down to her back. "It must have been when you caught the girls after they flew off that asteroid wall recklessly."
i i could feel goosebumps breaking out and she took a deep breath. "Or Sour Nugget’s kick." she joked and laughed nervously.
He pulled his hand back and pulled himself up on the bed. His hands found a pillow and he hugged it. "I should get going now."
"My pillow." She gestured for him to hand it over.
He hugged it tighter and stood up. "It slls like you, I am keeping it for now." Wishing her goodnight, he left the bedroom, taking the plate with him. Before leaving altogether, he stopped at the door and looked back, concern in his eyes. "Do you want to stay and hug you to sleep? I can also sleep on the ground and keep you company."
She shook her head, all was well and tomorrow, it would be better after she served Mo Liang those divorce papers.
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