"Pastry aunt, whay kind of a man you want to marry?" Ailun seriously asked one day.
Alix glanced at him, wondering for the hundredth ti why she agreed to visit the Liu villa and beco their teacher.
"Is it love gossip ti!?" Liu Hai, who was passing by the room, got pulled in by that conversation.
Alix then rembered that the culprit was none other than Liu Hai, who had used all pity and sympathy in his arsenal to drag her ho for her new job. He, who had publicly announced his intention to make her his granddaughter-in-law, would never miss this chance his trickster grandson had created.
Aang frowned. "You are disturbing our class, Great-grandpa."
"Essay is not more important than love life!" He gasped.
Alix was ready to spring on her feet. "In that case, I will withdraw from being their teacher."
Ailun gasped and glared at Liu Hai. He jumped to hug her waist and vigorously shook his head.
"Great-grandpa doesn't understand how hard it's to write the essay! Don't listen to him!"
Her eyes narrowed. "So why are you asking about my…future boyfriend?"
"It's for my essay!" He chirped.
"Your essay topic is to write about how to be a good friend. How does my love life co into the picture?"
"Because Mom says that it's important to be a good friend to beco a good husband in the future," he nodded. "I want to know what pastry aunt wants in a good husband. Then I can marry you and beco that good husband!" He joyfully said.
Alix blinked rapidly. "You want to marry ?"
"Yay!"
Liu Hai snorted. "You are just a brat. Don't dream so high!"
Yina bead. "Can I marry pastry aunt too?"
Suddenly, a new voice cried. "Yina, why her? You can marry your handso father!"
Nian sniffled as he bolted in and took Yina in his arms. "Aren't you the cutest?"
Liu Hai grimaced. "Why are you here?"
He glared. "Why shouldn't I be here? My lovely angel is learning to write essays. How can I miss this glorious mont?"
"She is going to learn a lot of subjects from now on so will you be a pain the ass everyti!?"
He imdiately covered his daughter's ears. "Language! You are corrupting her innocent mind!"
"Your children can never be innocent anyway!"
This had been Alix's life since she beca everybody's essay teacher. The Liu villa was always chaotic with either the twins barging in or Jing as the variables but with Liu Hai being the constant.
Ailun tugged her wrist and reminded her of his important question. "So pastry aunt, what kind of a man you want to marry? I will take notes!"
Liu Hai's attention was focused back on her. "Yes, yes! The most important question!"
Alix said, "I don't know."
"..."
Liu Hai blinked. "What do you an don't know?"
"Like I said before I am not interested in marriage."
"But you would have definitely thought about your partner so or the other ti, right~?"
"Not really."
Because Alix simply didn't have the ti. She consud her past life in revenge where love and marriage was never even in her agenda and her new life was filled with the original Alix's complexities and her own will to redeem for her past mistakes. Once again, love never ca in the picture.
"So you can think about it now," he brightened. "It's not too late anyway!"
Nian nodded. "You don't have to necessarily think about marriage, but just what you expect your future partner could be like."
"...I don't know," she pinched her brows.
The only reference she had was Lin and his brother, the only n she was close to. Cai was the extrovert, so she was sure of at least one attribute.
"One thing is certain that he shouldn't talk too much. I like quiet people. I don't have that kind of a social battery."
Liu Hai and Nian - "..."
Taio looked back and blinked at them. "Uncle, Great-grandpa, is pastry aunt talking about people like you?"
They glared at him at once and unanimously exclaid. "Of course not!"
Ailun seriously noted it down. He then looked up and urged. "Then, then?"
Alix frowned.
Thinking about an imaginary partner turned out to be more of a challenge than she had expected it to be. She thought about Lin.
"Maybe he should know how to make good coffee?"
Liu Hai raised his hand. "I know how to make good coffee!"
Nian sneered. "You are already disqualified in the first round, Grandpa. Keep your hand down."
"Shut up, brat!"
Her gaze slightly dimd. "I can be a selfish woman so…he shouldn't be the kind to get manipulated."
Thinking about Lin following all her whims in the past brought an ache to her chest.
But then it also occurred to her how fun it was to threaten Jin for the twenty million cheque.
"Or maybe…a little bit?"
Liu Hai waved her hand in dismissal. "What are you talking about, my dear? Husbands must always be easy to be manipulated at the hands of their lovely wife. That's the motto we live by! Wife slaves!"
"..."
The maid knocked. "The snacks are ready."
This was Alix's favorite ti of the day - to eat the snacks prepared by Nana. Though she hated to impose like this, the food prepared in the Liu villa was hard to resist. She popped in a spring roll which almost lted on her tongue.
This is what everyone should live for…
Ailun brightened. "How is it, pastry aunt?"
"Delicious."
Ailun said, "I will bring so juice and co back!"
He hopped out of the room and straight into the kitchen.
"Uncle Jin, did you hear! Pastry aunt liked your spring rolls!" He rrily said.
But the sight of a depressed Jin was what greeted him. He poked his shoulder.
"Why is Uncle sad? Uncle! Pastry aunt said she likes quiet n. Like Grandpa, Dad and you!"
"Yes I heard that from your secret call…"
Jin looked like as if he lost his soul. "But I wonder who she was thinking about when she said that?"
Ailun blinked, confused. "You?"
He glanced at him pressed his lips. "There is another quiet man who apparently makes very good coffees. And that is not ."
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