Perfect Fiancé Chapter 27

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Chapter 27: Dress s.h.i.+rt Her fiance is at it again~ This time with red bean and barley porridge~ Did you know that this is high in fibre and also a diuretic? So if you have water retention and feel tired all the time in the morning, this helps!

Zhao Wenhua? Lu Xi relaxed and leaned against the back of the chair with a pensive expression on his face.

At the neighbouring villa.

Meanwhile Su Jin was diligently crafting a new update status for her latest chapter when she unexpectedly received a message from her editor, Min Fei.

Min Fei: [Is the Master Su Jin online?(1) A staff member from Sheng Ming Productions contacted us about wanting to adapt your web novel 'Sunflower'. They hope to meet with you face to discuss this- are you interested?~]

(1)  (sù jǐn dà dà) 素锦大大 – This might seem like Su Jin has done a foolish thing to use her own name online, however, the Chinese characters used are slightly different in her online alias. The character sù '素' here refers to the meaning plain while the character jǐn '锦' means brocade fabric that is made with silk multi-colored threads; alluding to the name meaning to become 'a plain brocade.' As for her own name Su Jin '苏锦', 苏 refers to the Chinese basil (wild red basil) or commonly known as the perilla plant. This is likely due to her imagery of her appearance as being a resplendent beauty that is commonly connected to the color of red.

In Internet slang, da da '大大', is used for the purpose of describing someone as an expert or as a capable person. Namely, this is a way of addressing someone with regards to their work (of art). It indicates the person's (who is speaking) respect towards the writer. Often, this shows incomparable veneration and wors.h.i.+p for someone.

Su Jin stared at this message in shock for a short time until the continuous beeping sound from QQ kept buzzing and snapped her out of her daze.(2)

(2)  QQ – Also known as Tencent QQ, it is an instant messaging software service, like WhatsApp or Skype, developed by the Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd. It is available in many languages and offers services such as online social games, music, shopping, microblogging, movies and group and voice chats. It is the second most popular virtual community from China, the first being WeChat, with a total of 868 million active user accounts as of December 2016.

Min Fei: [I've already looked it up on my end, and it is definitely a person from Sheng Ming and not some swindler of unknown origins.]

Min Fei: [What Master signed before was only for the online copyrights, therefore, our website will not have a part in the adaption. If Master is interested, I can have the other party's contact details sent to you, and then you can have a meet up?]

Min Fei: [Oh, is Master not around?]

[Here.] With shaking fingers, Su Jin paused for a bit before she typed those words out on the keyboard.

About at the same time as she sent her reply out, she also received Min Fei's response.

[So what are Master's thoughts about this?]

[Mm,] Su Jin bit her lip as she earnestly tapped out her reply on the keyboard,
[Editor, please give to me the other parties' contact details.]

Min Fei: [Okay, 186****3574, the first name is Qin.]

After giving her thanks to Min Fei for her a.s.sistance, Su Jin stared at this string of numbers for a long time. Finally, a smile could not help but curl up on the edge of her lips.

Unlike a job used to support one's family, she truly enjoyed writing stories. Otherwise, she would not have kept at it for so long in her past life.

'Sunflower' was her first novel in this world which she had just completed not too long ago. She was a newcomer here in the online writing community and the statistics for her novel could not be considered extremely remarkable. However, the fundamental skills that she had developed in the past still remained and without the pressure of supporting her livelihood, and thus resulted in leaps and bounds of constant improvement in her craft.

As she punched in those numbers and listened to the ringback tone from the phone, she aimlessly wondered whose foresight was this good to have chosen her novel.

"h.e.l.lo." A slightly rough male voice resounded from the phone.

"h.e.l.lo, Mr Qin." Su Jin immediately came back to her senses, "I am the author of 'Sunflower', Su Jin."

"Nice to meet you, Miss Su Jin," the voice from the opposite end of the phone was extremely calm, "since you've made the call, I take it that you are interested in the proposal that I have made?"

"Yes." Su Jin nodded, "I am extremely interested in the adaption of 'Sunflower.'"

"That's great." The man on the other end of phone laughed and replied, "I am unsure when Miss Su Jin is available, when could we meet up and discuss things in more detail?"

"Is meeting at the Red Dragonfly cafe, which is opposite Tianfeng shopping mall, tomorrow at half past twelve possible for you?" Pondering for a bit, Su Jin asked this.

Although she had been kidnapped the last time she had left that cafe, after all was said and done, that was only an accident. Although there was a proverb- 'once bitten, twice shy', she was unlikely to go so far as to cautiously avoid the place after such an unpleasant experience.

"Alright, when the meeting time gets closer, we can get in touch again with a call." The person on the other end readily accepted.

"Great, then Mr Qin, see you tomorrow." Su Jin happily bid farewell to him and ended the call.

On the morning of the second day, as the sunlight permeated through the thick curtains and shone into the room, its initial bright rays had already begun to weaken greatly and become dusky.

The person on the huge bed moved a little. Since they were not disturbed by the suns.h.i.+ne, they merely flipped over and buried their head in the soft pillow.

A wisp of an aroma travelled up from downstairs and teasingly hovered over her nose.

This time, the person on the bed stirred. Moving again, a fair arm then reached out and gripped onto the phone on the bedside table.

With squinted eyes, Su Jin stared at the screen. Oh, it's half past eight in the morning now.

The aroma that wafted at the tip of her nose grew stronger and denser.

Her beautiful phoenix eyes closed and then opened. This sequence of actions repeated a few times more and then she finally climbed out of bed with a yawn and made a beeline for her bathroom.

Carelessly was.h.i.+ng her face to make herself consciously awake, she opened the door and walked downstairs.

"Aunt Xu, what did you make today, the smell this early in the morning has even lured me…"

The words 'awake and out of bed' were stuck in her throat.

Her initially sleepy and bleary phoenix eyes abruptly widened and she stared at the person before her in shock.

In the kitchen to the side of the dining room, the man's posture was upright and dressed in a well-ironed white dress s.h.i.+rt, black trousers and tied on his waist was a gingham patterned bistro ap.r.o.n that was familiar to her. Hearing her voice, he turned his body slightly and placed down a ladle to wave to her.

"Good morning."

The beautiful and bright sunlight shone through the window of the kitchen and a ray landed smoothly on his shoulders. It lit up the gentle laughter that was present in the pair of peach blossom eyes of his.

"Good, good morning." Su Jin replied distractedly and almost bit into her own tongue.

Switching off the fire, Lu Xi ladled out the porridge from the pot and placed it onto the dinner table. Raising his head, he saw the young woman still staring at him blankly. It seemed that she had not recomposed herself yet.

"Oh." Rubbing his chin, his gaze swept over the girl standing before him.

Probably because she had just woken up, her long tresses were still a little in disarray and there was a faint red flush on her exquisite features. In her phoenix eyes, there was a brightness and mistiness that brought an indolent air to her that was not usually seen.

Wearing a candy apple red spaghetti strap nightgown that only reached to mid-thigh, much of her alabaster shoulders and slender legs was revealed. When the suns.h.i.+ne shone upon her, it seemed as if her entire person was emanating with a glimmer of light.

"You have a pretty good figure." Lu Xi abruptly said with an arch of his brow.

Eh? Su Jin followed his gaze towards herself and immediately reacted.

"Hey!" Reprimanding him with gritted teeth, she hastily raised her hands to cover her chest as the tip of her ears also grew flushed in his presence.

Lifting her gaze to glare at him, she spun round to go upstairs.

As the beauty vanished around the bend of the stairs, Lu Xi's long eyelashes raised slightly as he showed an innocent expression.

When Su Jin came down once more, it was already thirty minutes later.

The girl that sat before him had already changed into a bracelet-sleeved white chiffon blouse that had been b.u.t.toned up to her neck and at her collar, there was a deep blue ribbon tied into a bowknot.

"Red bean and barley porridge. If you don't eat it, it'll become cold." Lu Xi pushed the mostly cooled porcelain bowl in front of the girl, brought a spoon and placed it into her hands.

Su Jin stared at this deadly earnest man for a short while but ultimately could not resist the enticing fragrance and scooped out a spoonful to place into her mouth.

The sweet fragrance of the red bean and the sticky softness of the barley had woven together to create a wonderfully delicious taste. It was merely a bowl of porridge that could be found amongst the home cooked meals of a family, yet, the taste was exceedingly unordinary.

With small bites, she finished the bowl of porridge. Sitting upright as she wiped her mouth, Su Jin asked, "why are you here this early?"

"Doesn't Jin'er welcome me here?" With folded hands, Lu Xi placed them on the table, "What a waste of my energy. I was worried that you would be hungry, you know, and came over bright and early to cook some porridge." Saying this, he shook his head.

Although she could see it was plainly an appearance of him sitting upright and still, yet Su Jin could still discern a hint of hurt in those pair of alluring eyes.

After the feast comes the reckoning.

She lowered her head, stared at the empty bowl on the table and let out a faint sigh.

"It's not that I don't welcome you." Su Jin replied somewhat stiffly, swiftly changed topics and asked, "what about my mother? Where's Xiyue and also, Aunt Xu?"

"Something came up with Aunt Xu at home, so she requested for some time off. Aunt took Lin Xiyue out and handed you over to me before she left." Lu Xi replied with a hint of a smile.

Handed over to you?

Su Jin blinked and then listlessly shook her head. As she stood, she took the cup and detoured round the man before her. Walking to the water dispenser behind him, she poured herself a cup of water.

As she turned, the hem of her skirt seemed to have caught onto something and Su Jin's body was askew as her right hand hastily grabbed onto the shoulder of the man before her to steady herself. In her right hand, the cup of lukewarm water spilled all over his back.

"Jin'er." Feeling the wetness on his back, Lu Xi turned his head to look at the girl behind him who had her mouth slightly agape. Helplessly, his lips curled.

"You owe me another dress s.h.i.+rt."

Translated by Irisu

Edited by Ely