Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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The words of the child were soft and childish, mumbling, and yet they carried an awkwardness that came from trying to save face.
Gu Yuan was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then she couldn’t help wanting to laugh.
She really wanted to consider the self-esteem of this little brat in front of her and not laugh, so as not to make him angry, but what can she do if she really want to laugh.
When she smiled, Huo Lanting’s face turned red like a cooked shrimp: “You, you——”
He felt aggrieved, with his rosy little mouth pursed, looking at Gu Yuan eagerly, then suddenly turned his head away and started to run.
“Don’t run!” Gu Yuan hurriedly chased after him. After all, he was a child and there were cars all around. What if he ran to the main road and something happened?
“You’re laughing at me!” Huo Lanting was aggrieved and angry: “You’re laughing at me!”
“How could I?” Gu Yuan spread her hands and said innocently, “How could I laugh at a child? Am I the kind of person without love?”
“Then what were you laughing at?”
“I’m smiling because I think you’re cute, okay?”
“Hmph, you said before that you don’t find me cute at all!” Huo Lanting still felt sad when he thought about this.
“It’s a matter of fact for both of us. I only like to play with cute and adorable children. I hate naughty kids.”
“Oh…” Huo Lanting used his highly intelligent brain to quickly analyse the matter. What she meant was, if he was naughty, she would hate him, and if he was not naughty, she would like him?
“Where are your family members? Why are you alone again? Why isn’t your housekeeper Duan Mu with you?” Gu Yuan really didn’t understand what was going on with the Huo family. Aren’t they a big family? Shouldn’t there be someone to accompany such a young child when he goes out?
“They are all very busy.” Huo Lanting glanced at the billboard next to him secretly. Behind the billboard, his housekeeper and six bodyguards were hiding: “They have no time to take care of me, so they just let me walk around by myself. There is a traffic jam here, and I feel so bored!”
When Gu Yuan heard about the traffic jam, she felt helpless. The cars in front were stuck in a long queue. This road was usually not congested, so why was it like this today?
She walked over and held Huo Lanting’s hand: “Then sister will accompany you to go in for a walk first. When it’s not so crowded here, we can go out and contact your family, okay?”
Huo Lanting raised his eyebrows and said, “If I call you sister, doesn’t that mean I am older than Nie Yu?”
Gu Yuan thought about it and said, “Then you can call me auntie. Come, auntie will take you in to buy some delicious food!”
Huo Lanting nodded quickly: “Okay, okay!”
Seeing his impatient look, Gu Yuan couldn’t help but want to laugh. Children were just children. Even if he had pretended to be calm and mature before, his eyes still lit up when he talked about going in to buy delicious food.
So Gu Yuan held Huo Lanting’s hand and walked into the mall.
Just outside the mall, housekeeper Duan Mu behind the billboard finally breathed a sigh of relief and walked out from behind the billboard.
The billboard was not big enough, and it was not easy to hide from a butler and six bodyguards. He was almost squeezed into a meat patty with the bodyguards.
But fortunately, the young master’s matter was finally resolved. Now he didn’t have to deal with his bad temper every day.
“Butler Duan Mu, can we withdraw the people we sent to block the traffic?”
“Hold on for another half an hour.” Butler Duan Mu said this with his hands behind his back, looking at the shopping mall in front of him with a shrewd look on his face.
….
A four-year-old’s hands are very soft and felt small when held in her hands.
Huo Lanting always looked so mature that people ignored his age and thought he was an adult. But when holding his hand like this, Gu Yuan sighed again, he was just a baby.
Still a baby with a weird personality.
For example, now, Gu Yuan asked: “What do you want to eat?”
Huo Lanting: “Actually I’m not hungry, I just want to accompany you, what do you want to eat?”
While saying this, his eyes were looking at the colourful candies beside him.
It was a candy house of a foreign brand, decorated in a childlike manner, with walls and beams hung with candies of all shapes and sizes.
Gu Yuan smiled secretly and took Huo Lanting in.
Huo Lanting looked expressionless, but he was actually looking around secretly. Finally, his eyes stopped at one place. Gu Yuan followed his gaze and saw that it was Shrimp Banana Candy.
Gu Yuan was also puzzled, so she picked it up and took a look. It was a candy made of shrimps and bananas, and the shrimps were raspberry flavoured.
Huo Lanting watched Gu Yuan pick it up and said generously, “So you like to eat this. Then we’ll buy it for you.”
Gu Yuan almost couldn’t help laughing, but she managed to hold it back, nodded and said, “Okay, I also want to eat that, that——”
She pointed to a few things at random.
Huo Lanting was overjoyed and hurried over to get them. There were a few candies on the shelf, but he was too short to reach them, so he stretched out his little arms hard to get them. His struggling look made Gu Yuan want to laugh even more.
Finally, the two of them walked out of the candy house with great satisfaction and came to a rest area, where they sat on a tree stump in front of a cute colourful wooden house and shared candy. There were many kinds of candy here, including rice candy and chocolate hamburger candy, each of which was novel and interesting.
Huo Lanting ate one after another, one after another…
Gu Yuan: “Why do you eat so much? Aren’t children not supposed to eat too much sugar?”
Even though he bought it, he can’t eat it like this, right?
Huo Lanting paused while eating the candy and glanced at Gu Yuan secretly: “I only ate seven pieces.”
Gu Yuan: “Didn’t you buy it for me to eat?”
Huo Lanting thought about it and stopped what he was doing: “Well, I’ll give it to you…”
He looked very reluctant while saying this.
Gu Yuan wanted to laugh in her heart, but she still put the candy away. He had indeed eaten a lot, and if he ate more, she couldn’t afford it in case the child’s teeth were damaged.
The two continued to walk forward, but as they walked, Huo Lanting stopped moving.
Gu Yuan looked at him in confusion: “What’s wrong?”
Huo Lanting looked at Gu Yuan eagerly, then stretched out his hand.
Gu Yuan burst out laughing and quickly took his hand, holding his small hand with her big hand. Although Huo Lanting didn’t show anything special on his little face, his eyes were obviously shining.
Gu Yuan secretly sighed, thinking that this little thing was really a double-talker.
The two of them came to the underground supermarket again, bought various snacks, and ate to their heart’s content. When Gu Yuan finally said that she wanted to go out to the mall to see if the traffic jam was over, Huo Lanting was obviously still reluctant to leave.
“Next time there is a traffic jam, will you take me to buy delicious food again?” Huo Lanting asked.
“Another traffic jam?” Gu Yuan was surprised.
“Oh, well, what I mean is, next time if you have time and I have time too, we can hang out together.” Huo Lanting explained hurriedly.
“Sure!” Huo Lanting was a good-looking, soft and cute kid, and apart from being a little weird, he was actually a pretty good kid.
When they walked out of the mall, there was obviously no traffic jam outside, and Gu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief: “We can leave now.”
Huo Lanting glanced at the nearby housekeeper who was walking towards them with big strides. He suddenly remembered something and lowered his voice and said, “Aunt Gu, what did we do and eat today? Can you help me keep it a secret? This is a secret between the two of us.”
Gu Yuan was slightly stunned, looked at Huo Lanting, then looked at Butler Duan Mu, and suddenly understood.
Because of eating sugar?
Even Huo Lanting, who was still very domineering at a young age and always said “I’ll take over this fish pond for women”, still had to be controlled. Hmm, for example, he couldn’t eat too much sugar?
Gu Yuan nodded: “I know! This is a secret between the two of us.”
As they were talking, Butler Duan Mu strode over and said, “Miss Gu, I’m sorry to bother you. I was originally taking my young master out to play, but who knew he suddenly disappeared. Thanks to Miss Gu for helping me, I’m sorry to bother you this time!”
Huo Lanting suddenly frowned and said seriously: “Butler Duan Mu, that’s right. Thanks to Aunt Gu today, I plan to give Aunt Gu a gift.”
Butler Duan Mu said with a smile on his face: “Young Master, there happens to be a gift here, so give it to Miss Gu.”
As he spoke, he took out a gift, which was a golden box, beautifully and elegantly packaged.
Huo Lanting went over to catch the big box. He was small, and while Butler Duan Mu originally held it with his hands, he could only hold it with his arms.
He held the box and tiptoed to put it into Gu Yuan’s arms: “Here, you accompanied me for shopping and I will give you a gift!”
Gu Yuan: “No, I have nothing to do, I’m just strolling around, you don’t have to give me a gift.”
This would make her feel like she was taking advantage of a child.
When Huo Lanting heard that she didn’t want it, he was immediately disappointed: “Do you think the gift is not good? I can’t help it. I don’t have a lot of money. I can only buy this for you.”
Gu Yuan heard this and thought that the item was not particularly valuable, so she said hurriedly, “I’m not disgusted, how could I? Then I’ll accept it, and I’ll give you a gift next time.”
Huo Lanting was satisfied and nodded his head: “Okay!”
Holding the gift, she got into his car and waved goodbye.
Until she got in the car, Gu Yuan held the gift and thought about this matter, the appearance of Butler Duan Mu, what Huo Lanting said, and the gift that was given without any hesitation.
The more she thought about it, the more suspicious she became. Even the inexplicable traffic jam seemed strange.
Gu Yuan kept thinking like this until she arrived at Ji Qisen’s house where she would be staying today, and then she remembered the big box of gifts.
She opened it casually and looked inside, and was immediately shocked.
It was a set of necklaces, exquisite and gorgeous gold-thread woven necklaces dotted with countless dazzling diamonds. At the end of each necklace was a giant pearl. It was gorgeous, luxurious, and stunning, and Gu Yuan could hardly open her eyes.
Gu Yuan was silent for a while, took a photo, and sent it to Camille.
Camille: “You went to Country K? Didn’t we agree to go out and play together?”
Gu Yuan: “Country K?”
Camille: “Isn’t this the waterfall necklace that was ordered by TasAkiffy, a heavyweight jeweller in Country K?”
Gu Yuan: “What?”
Camille: “You don’t know?”
Gu Yuan: “…I just received this gift as well.”
Camille: “…”
Next, Camille introduced in detail the origin and prices of the jeweller tAsAkiffy. In short, it is a super luxurious high-end jewellery manufacturer that only designs jewellery for top stars or big names.
As for Gu Yuan, judging from the luxurious diamonds and pearls, this must be worth a lot of money.
After that, Camille said calmly: “Tell me, which son of yours gave this to you?”
She was no longer surprised since comparing yourself with others could make you feel nauseous.
Gu Yuan: “This time it’s really not my son…”
So expensive?
Huo Lanting directly gave her such an expensive necklace?
Gu Yuan stared at the diamond necklace, feeling a little confused.
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