Chapter 24 A deal that couldn’t be told (2)
Chen Hui was startled. She saw Li Youde stand up, said to wait and went into the inner room.
Chen Hui’s heart beat faster. Is he really going to give her shops? Why was this exasperating eunuch so easy to deal with suddenly? She felt so happy as if she was dreaming! Sure enough, it was because a life-saving grace should be repaid like a gushing spring!
Li Youde came out very quickly. He held a stack of paper in his hand and placed it in front of Chen Hui, “Choose.”
Chen Hui hurriedly looked at the stack of papers. These were copies of the deeds of the shops! She looked through them one by one and came to two conclusions: first, Li Youde was indeed very rich. He has more than a dozen shops and these were only the ones that he took out to let her choose from. Secondly, when he was generous, he was inhumanly generous. She even saw a shop of jewels among them.
When Chen Hui raised her head to look at Li Youde, she realized that he had been staring at her for a long time. He felt that the way her eyes lit up when looking at the deed was very small-minded, but he wasn’t able to move his gaze away. Only now did he suddenly realize that when he looked at her, it was a jittery and joyful matter. She had indeed caused a lot of hideous messes, but when looking at her, he felt…felt that he was a lot more alive.
“Lord, I want these two!” Chen Hui picked out two deeds. Before handing them over, she confirmed, “Lord, is the meaning that letting me pick, you will give me the ones I want?”
She was really afraid that after she carefully choose for so long, he would despicably tell her that he only let her choose and didn’t say to give it to her…By then, she would definitely bite him to death!
Li Youde said, “Of course. It doesn’t matter even if you take them all.”
Chen Hui was pleased with Li Youde’s rare generosity. Then, she heard him laugh evilly and added, “Even you are mine, how could I not bear to part with them?”
Hit the bullseye.
If it was another person and the tone was changed, these words would be somewhat male chauvinistic words of love. It was imperious enough. If the equality of human rights were ignored, it could make the heart of a young woman flutter for a while. However, the one who spoke these words was Li Youde. Chen Hui knew that he was reminding her to not lose herself from joy and that she had to rely on him in the future. She was Sun Wukong and he was the Buddha himself. She wouldn’t be able to get out of the palm of his hand.
- Sun Wukong: the monkey king from the Journey of the West
“Lord is right,” Chen Hui smiled sweetly at Li Youde. She didn’t care about what he thought. As long as she was provided delicious things to eat and to drink, she didn’t value these mere worldly possessions! Only what could be eaten was hers. The ‘eat’ here doesn’t have any extended meaning.
She still took the two shops that she had originally selected and returned the rest as they were to Li Youde.
That smile that was like spring breeze caused Li Youde’s heart to beat violently for a short while. He quickly looked down at the two shops that Chen Hui had selected. One was a shop specializing in selling clothes and the other was a bookshop. There was nothing special about them.
“What do you want a bookshop for? Can it be that you want to show off your literary skills?” Li Youde casted Chen hui a glance.
Chen Hui, “…Lord, can I not choose this?”
Li Youde humphed, “Take it if you want.”
Chen Hui felt that Li Youde’s expression was a bit weird when she took over the two deeds of the shops. It didn’t seem like he couldn’t bear those two shops. It was more that he was in a bit of a trance. She looked again at the deeds in her hand, especially the bookstore. Naturally, she wasn’t able to see anything from them. So, she didn’t think about it anymore. Anyway, she wasn’t interested in Li Youde. As long as the goal was achieved, she didn’t care about those other bothersome matters.
The kitchen had prepared some things earlier. When Chen Hui and Li Youde was nearly done with their transaction, Ah Da returned. At the same time, someone from the kitchen also brough the dishes that they had prepared earlier.
Smelling the scent of food, Chen Hui could no longer look away from these delicious dishes. The meat she had dreamed about for a long time! It was right in front of her eyes. She could eat as much as she wanted!
Probably, because the previous conversation went well, Li Youde didn’t make things difficult for Chen Hui and said straightforwardly, “Don’t look anymore, eat.” Of course, the tone couldn’t help to bring some satire.
Chen Hui didn’t hear it. She immediately smiled and thanked him, “Thanking lord. You are really the best lord!”
She picked up the chopsticks and went straight to the target. She picked the meat slice from the celery meat slice dish and put it in her mouth. When the fragrant and sweet meat entered her mouth, Chen Hui felt that she was floating. She felt like that she was in heaven! There was meat there and her hometown was also there!
When Chen Hui was eating the meat happily, Li Youde who didn’t move his chopsticks had been staring at her for quite a while. The corners of his mouth gradually raised in a malicious arc. As if he had remembered something, he said nonchalantly, “Right, Lady Chen, you don’t have to go back to Plum Yard anymore from today onwards. Live here.”
It wasn’t easy for Chen Hui to recover from the uncontrollable cough and looked at Li Youde in horror. What does he mean by this? Trying to trade a meal of meat with the meat of her body? He wasn’t a handsome, confident, at ease and rich highly desirable bachelor. The chips of playing a game was high. He didn’t have to use his body to repay her grace of saving his life! He didn’t have that thing, what use did it have to let her stay here? He was repaying kindness with ingratitude!
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Be careful what you wish for… always a catch with LY 😆
Thanks for the chapter 😉
Thank you for the translation. I hope there could be more in the near future, I really enjoyed this.
hahaha XD the way he try to act ‘casual’ XDDDDDDD finally we can have more OTP scenes yayyyyyy thanks so much for translatıng<3