BXBX NOVEL Chapter 154 - Get To Know
Both of them arrived in Molto Affamato. When Ru Shi updated her mother that she is going to have lunch with Chia Hao before they meet, Cai Li purposely wanted to be late—saying that she would be coming for her an hour later.
Ru Shi already knew that her mother would do this. Cai Li kept telling her before, too, to try to get to know her husband better so she could see his good sides other than observing him from afar.
With a sigh coming from Ru Shi, Chia Hao cocked his head to the side, curious as to why his wife sighed.
"What\'s wrong? You don\'t like seafood pasta and three-cheese pizza? Hmm… I thought I was right with my observations."
When Ru Shi heard what he said, she widened her eyes, shaking her head to say no to his action.
"Oh! Nothing\'s wrong, I swear! I was thinking about another thing—my mother and her playfulness."
"Oh!" Chia Hao smiled at her, nodding to what she said. "Ma Cai Li is indeed young at heart. Even at her age, she\'s this cheerful."
Ru Shi giggled, agreeing to what Chia Hao had said.
"You\'re right. Mama is always like this. Not that I\'m complaining too much about it, though. It\'s good for her to be this happy," she replied, Chia Hao, smiling at her.
With them now looking at each other, Ru Shi felt slightly awkward, noticing only now that they are facing each other on the table.
At the same moment, the waitress came with their drinks. Chia Hao ordered a caramel macchiato and for Ru Shi, she was given a chocolate milkshake with a strawberry on top, making her taste the whipped cream first with her straw.
"I could say the same about you, Ru Shi," Chia Hao spoke, getting his wife\'s attention.
"About what?" she asked, already getting the strawberry with a smile on her face as she dipped it in whipped cream and ate it.
"You\'re also young at heart—enjoying drinks like this."
A soft blush came to Ru Shi\'s face. It made Chia Hao chuckle, making Ru Shi reply to what he said.
"H-hey… drinking milkshakes is not childishness," she mumbled, enough for her husband to hear. Chia Hao just nodded, his smile not leaving his face.
"As long as you\'re happy, I\'m glad about it."
With that, Ru Shi wanted to change the topic. With her remembering here and then about her little brother, he opened about it with Chia Hao, slightly surprising him.
"Mama told me that Pan An is living with a girl."
"Oh?" Chia Hao widened his eyes, not expecting this. "After the issue with Ruo Xi… now he is living with someone?"
Ru Shi nodded, furrowing her brows.
"I wonder what has gotten into his mind. He\'s pretty rebellious against the family. But at least he still listens to me and mama. But to our father…"
Chia Hao understood what Ru Shi meant even though she didn\'t finish her sentence.
Chia Hao knew about their family from talking with Cai Li. The three children aren\'t very close with the father, especially when the eldest disappeared.
Their father is known to be the best CEO in the city. He is also well-known in boosting the country\'s economy—making him one of the people whom they look up to in the business world.
Chia Hao thought maybe his position had made him so uptight even to his family—that it made his children hate him. He always controlled their lives and even his wife could not stop him at most times.
However, if Cai Li would continuously argue with her husband, he would soon succumb to what the wife wishes. But alas, he\'s still too hard-headed to handle.
With Ru Shi sighing just now, it snapped Chia Hao out of his thoughts, making him look at her. With her taking a sip of her chocolate milk shake, she spoke afterwards.
"I want to talk to that little brother of mine. With him suddenly living with a woman, I don\'t know if he\'ll have another heartbreak."
With a light chuckle coming from Chia Hao, Ru Shi looked at him, curious.
"What? Did I say something funny?"
"No, you didn\'t," Chia Hao answered, smiling at her. "It\'s just that I saw a new side of you. You\'re actually a caring older sister. I like learning new things about you."
Ru Shi didn\'t know what to say. She just blinked her eyes a few times, nodding slowly as she took another sip of her sweet drink.
"The meal is not yet here… but you\'re about to finish your drink," he commented, making his wife narrow her eyes at him.
"Oh, come on… are you scolding me?"
Chia Hao grinned ear to ear. With them finally having the longest conversation that they had since they were married, he didn\'t answer her question and instead, commented about how they are spending time with each other.
"I\'m pretty happy about today, Ru Shi. I really am."
Ru Shi silenced for a while, listening to him. As Chia Hao continued to talk, he then held her hand that was on the table, Ru Shi, not pulling away from him as she allowed him to.
"We\'re talking for the longest time ever. We\'re also getting to know each other, even having a meal where we can talk compared to before when it\'s only silence."
Ru Shi really felt the happiness in the tone of his voice. With her giving him a sincere smile, she nodded, no longer finding it awkward between them.
"I didn\'t expect this either," Ru Shi commented, "It\'s… really making you excited and happy, isn\'t it?"
"Yes," Chia Hao immediately answered, his thumb caressing the back of her palm. "I\'m really glad about it. I hope we can have more moments like this."
At the same moment, their order had already arrived. The moment the pizza and pasta were being served in front of them, both of their eyes lit up, realizing that they are actually hungry at this time.
"Wow! Now I could see why this place is quickly popular," Chia Hao commented, already putting pasta and a slice of pizza on Ru Shu\'s plate. "Just a look of the food, you already know it\'s delicious!"
Ru Shi watched her husband dote on her. With her waiting for him to finish putting food on her plate, she thought to herself, something different from her being mopey about the past.
\'Maybe I\'ll try my best to get to know my husband… since he\'s indeed taking care of me so well.\'