She was so cross that her appetite was destroyed completely.
But Lu threatened that he would throw all the snacks when Ai ignored him.
She pinched the pillow out of shape sulkily. She dashed to Lu when she heard the footsteps downstairs and shouted behind him, “Lu Zhanke. Dare you to throw them away! I won’t forgive you if you do so.”
Lu stood at the stairway, turning his head back and smiling at her, “If you stop being sulky, sit down and have the meal, I won’t throw them.”
Seriously? He was threatening me? Ai stamped her feet angrily, “You are totally a scoundrel. I don’t like you.”
Lu’s smile vanished when he heard it. He came up hurriedly and comforted her, “I just scared you. Please have the meal first, okay?”
”Don’t touch me.” Ai flung up his hands that were reaching out. Lu was embarrassed, “It’s my fault. I just did some stupid things out of some stupid reasons. Forgive me please. Can you have the meal first?”
“Humph!” Ai glared at him and went downstairs bypassing him immediately.
Lu didn’t figure out the situation. So he followed in a hurry.
But what he saw just made him surprised.
He didn’t expect that Ai put all the snacks in a bag and hugged it in her arms. It seemed that she decided to hide the bag in her room to avoid its being thrown away.
Lu felt wronged. He just pretended to throw them away. Ai would definitely hate him.
Ai was going to go upstairs. He went to her hurriedly, explaining, “I was just kidding. I just wanted to let you go downstairs and eat something.”
Ai really wanted to roll her eyes. “Who knows if you are telling truth or lying? You are a liar.”
“It’s not a decent dinner. Can you please have the meal first? I can promise you they are all your favorite. Do you want to see?” He pushed her shoulders gently to the dining hall.
Ai was not a determined person. She was almost persuaded and started to walk to the dining hall with him.
She glanced at those dishes on the table. They were her favorite indeed. When the sour ardor rose up in the air, she slobbered unconsciously.
“How does it look like? Do you want to try some?” Lu proposed in a good time. He used a question sentence deliberately lest she should be uncomfortable.
Ai actually wanted to eat them but she still pretended as if she didn’t care. If Lu hadn’t admitted his fault, she wouldn’t forgive him easily because of several dishes.
“No.” She refused with difficulty. And then she turned around quickly for fear that she couldn’t help surrendering to food if she stared at them.
“It doesn’t work?” Ai was really angry this time. Even food couldn’t get her moved.
“What do you want? Stop being naughty.” Lu pulled her to stop her leaving. “If you feel angry, you can punish me. Don’t punish yourself. You are doing harm to your own body.”
Her stomach started rumbling right at this time. She didn’t mean to but she saved a decent lunch for time. Now it was so late that she naturally grew hungry.
But…her hateful stomach. Why it didn’t stop making any noise before she got to the bedroom? It rumbled just when she was in front of Lu. And now she was stuck in this awkward situation.
The annoying man. How could he be laughing nonstop? Ai even wanted to cry.
Lu tried his best to refrain himself from laughing. But he clearly knew, if he did it, there was not going to be a good ending for him. Because a woman could be horrible if she got angry.
“En-hem. ” Ai said angrily, “For real I mean. I don’t want to see you. I want to go back my home tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow? Her own home?”
Lu got into a panic. She had been saying she was going to go home all the time. Now she was finally willing to stay but she wanted to leave again because of him. This was not where things should be going.
‘’No. No. I am going to figure out a way to let her stay.”
Lu, a shrewd commander, now was totally in a mess, far from being logical. The only thing he could come up with was that “ninety-nine ways to coax your wife” and the way that he remembered most clearly would be imitating mewing, barking or baaing. He could imitate any animal to coax his wife.
So the great commander finally imitated a cat, “Mew…” after his face turned totally burning red for shyness.
Actually he should be the one who wanted to cry. His imposing image now was ruined thoroughly and there was no way to recover.
Ai was feeling embarrassed and was going to leave, “Let me go. I wanna leave. I wanna go home. I don’t wanna see you again.”
“Mew.”
“Humph. I am going to tell my grandpa. Hum? Is it a cat?” Ai was arguing when she heard the sound. And then she was silent at once.
Actually she really liked this kind of fluffy and adorable animal. But she was too busy to keep one. Ji had one and always texted her its pictures to tempt her. So every time she could do nothing but slobber in front of the screen.
Now she heard the cute sound. She had already forgotten she was arguing. She held her breath and waited for the next. But she waited, and waited, but no sound came for the second time.
Ai was about to leave, disappointed. “Never mind. Perhaps I am just the right person it wants to find. I will never come back here.’
“Mew. Mew.” This time it mewed for twice. Lu kept trying to persuade himself that he was possessed by a cat and the sound was not from him but the cat inside his body forced him to do so.
This time Ai heard it clearly. When she turned her head to look for it, what she saw was Lu’s embarrassed expression.
At that moment, it was hard to describe but every time she recalled the episode, her expression would turn complicated. And there were mysterious and complicated emotions in her eyes, too.
Ai looked at Lu shockingly, “Is…is that you?”
“Mew…” “It’s not me. It is the cat. I am possessed. I will never admit when I wake up tomorrow morning.”
Ai’s face expression kept changing as if she were watching a movie with a twisted plot. In a word, one couldn’t figure it out. Lu felt his image was now ruined completely. He loosened her hands and sat down on the chair in silence. He was going to get somebody to find the man who posted the ‘ninety-nine ways to coax your wife’ and then beat him to death. What the fuck are these? It didn’t work at all!
When he was in sulk, he felt his head was stroked gently. He raised his head up and saw Ai’s bright eyes.
“You…you are cute. Can you mew again?” Lu realized by her expression that she treated him as a docile cat.
No. He was not a cat or something. He was a true man. A man like a lion. So he would not do this!
“No…Don’t force me.” Ai’s eyes darkened and she drew her hands back without a word.
So Lu went, “Mew…”
Now he had nothing to lose, so he didn’t care to do it for once or twice.
As there was a ‘big cute cat’, Ai finally cooled down.
She stopped arguing for coming back home and even sat down to have dinner.
But…
“Here you go. Have some fish. Cats’ favorite.” Ai put a piece of fish with pickled Chinese cabbage in his bowl.
Lu felt his vein pumping under his skin of forehead. “I am not a cat.”
“Ah. You don’t eat spicy? What about having some soup?” Then she gave him a bowl of tofu and crucian soup.
“…” Lu really wanted to throw this table upside down.
It was a tragic and dark day. First, why did he promise her to take her to the center at the beginning? And second, why did he doubt her effort without thinking twice? And last, why did he make so many fishes? He swore, he started to hate all the fish from the day on.
After Lu apologized to her in this way, Ai became happy again.
Lu changed in the new clothes and served her like a subordinate. And she was cleaning her teeth while looking at her phone with her legs crossed.
“Change to another channel. Another. Another. Don’t stop except I say ‘stop’.”
“I wanna eat chips. Open it.”
“I wanna eat an apple. Peel it.”
“Where’s my jerky?”
“I got thirsty. I need water.”
She was enjoying now. There was a free servant who was not only handsome and in good shape but also did things quick and neat. And what was the most important was that he always followed the orders and never complained.
Ai peeped at his expression with grievance and laughed without making a sound. “Who let you mess with a woman. Now you know the consequences. You will never dare to do it for second time.’’
But this guy was really gorgeously handsome. He made women get the impulse to push him down and peel his clothes off when he wore uniform before. Now he was wearing casually. He didn’t look unapproachable any more but it made him look like a young athletic boy.
The clothes were light gray. And he wore a white T-shirt with an open neckline inside the casual suit. She could see his pectorales above the collar. The muscle on his arms were also conspicuous. If a guy like him walked on the street, there must be a bunch of girls staring at him. Unfortunately, he had no chance to enjoy. Now he was the servant crouching by the sofa beside her, attached to her devoutly. Hahahaha. That made her delighted, even just thinking about it.