A Pursuit of Beloved Wife

Translator: Huang Yiyuan

Proofread by Yu Bing

“Bai Yuexi, do you dare to say that again? I am your husband now, but you will not let me live at home, is it because you are hiding some men there?”

Glancing angrily at him, Yuexi doesn’t want to talk to him.

Seeing her not in the mood of speaking, Li Fengjue asks, “Are you hungry?”

“A little.” Looking up at him, “Are you going to cook for me?”

“I have lots of money, we can eat out.” Li Fengjue smiles and says to Liu Rui who is driving, “The old place.”

The car parks in front of a fancy restaurant. Yuexi gets off the car with Li Fengjue holding her hand. She feels a little unreal. Looking at him from the side, she unconsciously cracks a smile.

This is the first time they come out for dinner. Li Fengjue takes off his jacket. The shirt inside is slightly wrinkled because of the long flight, and his face also looks tired, but very soft.

Looking around, Yuexi finds the restaurant exquisitely decorated. The adornment and table placement, all of them look elegant and stylish.

To be honest, she has never been to such a fancy restaurant before. Besides, this is her first chance to eat Western foods in a genuine western restaurant. When the waiter brings her the menu, she feels ill at ease, totally at a loss as to how to order the foods. Taking the menu from the waiter’s hand, she cast a quick glance at the menu and at the same time fakes a cough to hide her nervousness.

“Well, just the same as the gentlemen sitting in the opposite.”

Li Fengjue has been regarding her for a long while. The corners of his mouth rising slightly, and his eyebrows moving together, he shows every sign indicating to her that in his eyes she is an object of ridicule.

He talks with the waiter in German, which surprised Yuexi quite a lot. That Li Fengjue can speak German is totally beyond her.

Looking at her wide open eyes, he gives her a scornful glance and says, “From the way you look at me, I guess you can’t speak a foreign language. It seems that I need to teach you sth in the future. ”

“So what? I can speak Chinese, that is the most difficult language in the world and I am very proud of that.”

They tease each other for a while, and then the foods are served. Yuexi starts eating without saying anything, her mouth crammed.

“Anyway, he is rich, and this is the compensation she deserves for being pissed off by him”.

Seeing her bad table manners, Li Fengjue shakes his head.

After a while, he asks, “I almost forget, the other day, I think I saw an advertisement you put up on the internet looking for your mother.”Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

Yuexi stops eating, the expression on her face frozen. It is unexpected that he would bring this up, so she is not mentally prepared for that.

She murmurs, “I haven’t seen my mother since I was a child. My dad said she was missing, but for so many years, no one has seen her in the flesh, her corpse not found also. I was thinking, if she could, by any chance, see me looking for her, she might come home some day. Who knows what will happen.”

Regarding her with a concerned look, Li Fengjue says, “Since it happens long long ago, to be anxious will not make things better. I know some friends who might give you some assistance.”

This man sitting on the other side of the table is so unpredictable, Yuexi tells herself. Last minute, he was still saying something that made her angry, while in the next second, he is being so tender.

Yuexi’s heart flips. She raises the corner of her lips, smiles, and says sincerely, “Thank you.”

Suddenly, the atmosphere between them becomes a little bit strange. Yuexi originally thought they come to this restaurant just to have their empty stomach filled, but when she finishes eating and have a chance to look around, she finds that there are some young couples dining next to them.

Seeing their dining tables also decorated with roses and white candles and listening to piano music coming from somewhere, she suddenly becomes cheerful.

She looks at Li Fengjue and finds that he looks very attractive tonight. The way he eats and sits suddenly reminds her of a noble prince.

This is a fancy restaurant, so the foods here are very expensive, but the foods taste really good. Yuexi knows nothing about wine. She thinks that the wine that costs a few thousand yuan tastes no different from the wine only worth a few hundred yuan.

After a few drinks, her face flushes slightly.

Li Fengjue’s long eyes narrow into a slit, and he quickly stops her, threatening, “If you get drunk in this restaurant, I tell you I will leave you here.”

Thinking of her drunk as a fiddler’s bitch a few days ago, Li Fengjue still has a headache.

Yuexi waves her hand and says with a smile, “Relax, I’m not stupid, how could I get drunk in the…”

Before she finishes the sentence, suddenly she catches a glimpse of a person, who looks so familiar, walking slowly towards her.

She quickly lowers her head, pretending to eat. hoping that person would not recognize her.

However, Gong Benli waves his hand to her already to greet her and calls out, “Bai Yuexi.”

He then walks towards her. His fiancee Ouyang Qing is coming with him. She tucks her hand underneath his arm and smiles happily. They look like a perfect couple.

She puts down the fork and manages to plaster on a smile that she thinks perfect and stands up to say hello.

“What a coincidence.”

“Yeah, I used to come here often.” Gong Benli says with a light smile.

“I heard from Benli that the food here is very good, so I ask him to take me to eat here. I didn’t expect to meet you here again so soon.” Ouyang Qing greets her enthusiastically. Seeing Li Fengjue sitting on the same table with Yuexi, she asks with curiosity, “This is…?”

Gong Benli’s eyes also fall on him. Li Fengjue turns his head to look at Yuexi.

Her brain running fast, she blurts out, “Oh, he is a customer of our company, and we are here to talk business.”

The moment the words come out, she immediately feels a cold look cast upon her like a knife.

A little embarrassed, she swallows her saliva and laughs unnaturally, “You guys just came, you must be hungry. The food here is really good.”

Gong Benli remains standing, and Ouyang Qing pulls him lightly, “I think we should not disturb them.”

With a nod of his head, he consents and then the two go away.

Shortly after they leave, Li Fengjue’s eyes turn into ice and he asks coldly, “Why do you keep our relationship a secret? Why don’t you tell him I am your husband? Does that embarrass you?

“Of course not, I am just—-.”

Li Fengjue withdraws his eyes indifferently, knife still in one hand.

“The young master of the Gong consortium, I did not expect you to know him.”

Yuexi looks at his cold face and her heart suddenly jumps. She quickly explains, “You heard that we are nothing but college classmates. Then he went abroad. I haven’t seen him for a long time since then.”

“So, you had a crush on him at college?”

Yuexi is shocked by his words. Li Fengjue does not look up after that. Yuexi’s expression is frozen on her face. Is he a mind reader? If not, how could he know everything?