Free Web NovelChapter 1569: Chapter 467: Reality (2)
"Lady Alvira..."
At that moment, Heather approached softly, calling out.
Hearing Heather’s voice beside her, Alvira snapped back to reality and asked,
"Is Aria unhappy?"
"...I haven’t told her about your decision yet. Naturally, she hasn’t started fussing."
Alvira nodded, picked up her knife and fork, and prepared to take a bite of the remaining steak on her plate.
"Then what happened?"
"...Yan Huan."
As soon as the words dropped, Alvira’s hand holding the knife and fork paused involuntarily.
Soon after, she turned to look at Heather.
"Yan Huan is here, wanting to see you."
"...Let him in."
"Yes."
After thinking for a moment, Alvira put down her knife and fork and picked up a napkin to wipe her hands.
"..."
A few minutes later, the main door opened, revealing a handsome young man in a formal suit, with his hair neatly combed.
Sitting at her seat and glancing at Yan Huan, Alvira asked casually,
"You have school today, and yet you found the time to buy a new suit?"
"To meet you, Aunt, I dare not be negligent."
"...Then you should have ordered a tailored one instead; the entry-level would cost tens of thousands of US dollars and takes just ten days or so. I know a tailor at Linmen and can introduce you later."
"...Thank you, Aunt."
Yan Huan smiled slightly and stood there.
Meanwhile, Heather closed the door properly.
"Have you eaten?"
Watching Alvira pick up her knife and fork again, Yan Huan shook his head and said,
"No, Aunt."
"Then sit and accompany me a bit. The previous guests didn’t have much appetite... Of course, it might also be because the topics discussed weren’t exactly appetizing."
"..."
Yan Huan sat down next to her, and soon the private chef from the side door of the kitchen timely brought out the appetizer.
Completely up to the standard of a full course.
"..."
Looking at the mint orange salad with honey lemon vinaigrette on the plate, Yan Huan picked up his fork.
Perhaps due to the issue with Aria, when Yan Huan was with her, he rarely sensed just how exaggerated her family’s circumstances were.
And even when constantly coming to the Golden Lion Building located in the heart of Linmen, Yan Huan could hardly imagine the wealth she possessed.
But at this moment, facing the lion-like golden-haired woman, Yan Huan could remember:
Aria is the daughter of the Black Gold Family.
Her mother owns unfathomable wealth, as a founding investor of Linmen, genuinely wealthy enough to rival nations.
"You coming over now, it seems you know about my dinner plans for tonight?"
Alvira took a bite of the M9 Wagyu fillet, chewed it a bit, then spat it out casually, sipping a bit of Romanée-Conti, and asked nonchalantly.
"Mm..."
Yan Huan nodded, tentatively chewing his salad.
The taste was quite good.
After finishing, the waiter promptly handed over a hot towel.
"Thank you..."
Yan Huan took it and wiped his mouth.
And in front of them, the dishes were taken away by the waiter, who immediately replaced them with a new set of tableware.
Seizing this moment, Yan Huan timely asked,
"May I ask, Aunt, how have you decided to deal with me?"
"..."
Upon hearing this, Alvira raised an eyebrow and waved her hand.
Beside her, a smiling chef stepped forward to serve Yan Huan the new dish,
"Freshly baked brioche with seared foie gras, accompanied by mango caviar; feel free to enjoy."
"Thank you..."
Looking at the foie gras exuding a fatty aroma, Yan Huan swallowed a gulp of saliva.
And Alvira, sipping her red wine, asked with a laugh,
"Deal with you? Do you see me as some kind of underworld boss?"
"I dare not."
Yan Huan awkwardly made eye contact with Alvira, and both smiled.
After a moment of thought, Alvira took out her phone.
She opened something and handed it to the waiter beside her, who then passed the phone to Yan Huan.
Yan Huan took a look and found it was a photo.
In it, Aria was captured standing shyly in the frame, making a peace sign while wearing a dress.
It seemed to have been taken recently.
Because the dress in the photo was exactly as she had shown him before.
"Very cute... if you don’t mind me saying so."
Unconsciously, Yan Huan’s English speech had also become formal.
"Not at all, I also think she’s adorable, like a star in the sky... You can continue to flip through the album, it’s all about her."
Alvira shook her head, resting her chin on her hand as she looked at Yan Huan and said,
"Yan Huan, do you know what Aria was like before she came to Linmen?"
"..."
"She was like... a little pig princess living in a fairytale world that I painstakingly maintained for her, with nothing in reality having anything to do with her."
Alvira squinted, her face carrying a subtle trace of intoxication, making her appear less icy and adding a touch of approachable warmth,
"Just like a character in a game, so beautiful, yet forever untouchable. And once you stop the software, she would collapse and cease to function..."
She began eating the steak again, one bite after another.
"I thought she would never have the chance to return to reality, spending her life in a dreamy haze... until she came to Linmen, and met you."
"..."
Yan Huan hadn’t yet eaten the foie gras bread, when another chef brought out Boston lobster and creamy soup.
So, Yan Huan could only hurry up and finish the food in front of him.
While eating, he continued to flip through the album.
Not only did it contain her report cards but also many photos of her participating in activities, and of course, a video of her being unable to memorize something in front of Alvira at home and acting spoiled.
