Dreaming With My Dragon Lover - Chapter 157

“Every time I make a joke you want to run away. Can’t you just spend more time with me?” Amélie grumbles in her mind. Watching Yuan Ge escape upstairs, she can only turn her mind back to Rong Qiuchen, observing this guy who seems to be behaving in a strange yet appropriate way.

Rong Qiuchen seems oblivious to Amélie’s scrutiny and remains gentle and graceful, unhurriedly mixing the oyster sauce, rock sugar, salt and rice wine as instructed.

Amélie opens a pre-prepared jar of aged red-headed duck stock, pours it inside the clay pot, then adds various meats and vegetables and other ingredients, and begins to simmer. The question that has been nagging at the back of her mind since she found out that they were living together is still bothering her, so she simply asks Rong Qiuchen directly, “How much of his money did you spend during the days you came to eat and live with him for free? And, are you really crazy or are you pretending to be crazy?”

To Amélie’s surprise, Rong Qiuchen takes the question literally and replies honestly, “To answer Sister Amélie’s question, Gege took me to an outdoor New Year’s fair, a supermarket and a nightclub party. He paid cash at the outdoor fair, paid with his watch at the supermarket, and dinner at the nightclub was paid for by a friend of his. In addition, he bought clothes and dolls for me, which probably totalled over a thousand taels of silver.”

Amélie hasn’t expected him to answer her questions so directly. Although he still sounded like a lunatic, his logic was clear, and he actually converted the amount into silver, which she couldn’t convert back in a hurry. She sighs helplessly, “Good that you know! Yuan Ge is not good at managing money at all. Apart from work-related expenses, he pretty much spends as much as he has. You are not related to him, so don’t take advantage of his weakness to spend recklessly, or else I will definitely have a way to deal with you when you join Dragon’s Dream in the future.”

“As I said before, I will pay back this money to Gege.”

“How are you going to do that? You don’t even have a job yet, and you’re already talking so big. Don’t expect a small company like ours to pay you much …” Amélie’s attitude is not friendly, “Also, how come you, an outsider, have taken over Yuan Ge’s mother’s room?”

“I cleaned, tidied and decorated that room, and Lady Yuan was so pleased that she agreed to let me stay in it.”

How could he have won the heart of Professor Fu?

Amélie is secretly shocked. It seems that a lot has happened in the past few weeks. This kid has a good head on his shoulders, and if he wasn’t cosplaying the ancient character, no one would have sensed anything at all unusual about his behaviour. He is definitely not stupid or crazy.

Just as she is wondering why Yuan Ge has been so insistent that this man has mental problems, she hears Rong Qiuchen ask casually, “Sister Amélie, you come to Gege’s house to cook for him personally, is it because you are already engaged to Gege?”

“Uh …”

One simple question leaves Amélie speechless. What a move!

Is she Yuan Ge’s girlfriend? It seems that way in everyone’s eyes, but the two of them have never officially confirmed it. Besides, even if she were his girlfriend, it doesn’t mean that it will lead to marriage. Amélie suddenly feels aggrieved and is at a loss as to how to answer.

Just then, Rong Qiuchen asks her the second question, “Have you already consummated your relationship with Gege?”

“You …”

Amélie really wants to shut him up.

This annoying kid, with his scholarly language, how can he ask things without any discretion at all! How dare he ask me such private things? Do I know you that well?

Before she can make sense of it all, Rong Qiuchen throws out a third question.

“Sister Amélie, are you planning to have a shotgun wedding[1]?”

Amélie feels like she is going to have a heart attack. He has answered her questions with ease, but this guy’s three questions are as sharp as a knife, and each of them is straight to the point. She thought she could use the opportunity of working with him in the kitchen to interrogate him, but instead she got interrogated by him! Worse still, she couldn’t answer any of the questions he asked!

“I … I am the producer and finance director of Dragon Dreams. Of course I have a duty to take care of our director. Don’t get the wrong idea in your head.”

Rong Qiuchen is an expert at picking up clues from a person’s words and facial expressions. Seeing Amélie’s reaction, he has already worked out everything and stops pursuing.

He covers the ingredients in the clay pot with a lotus leaf, puts the lid on and says, “I am a newcomer, hence I do not know all the rules and boundaries. Sister Amélie, please forgive me if I have overstepped the mark.”

He goes to the coffee machine, makes two cups of coffee and hands them to Amélie, “This dish will take a long time to simmer before the taste can reach one’s soul with just a single bite. May I trouble you to take the coffee to Gege? You both are busy with work and you must have a lot to talk about, so let me stay in the kitchen and keep an eye on the cooking for you.”

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[1] A shotgun wedding is a wedding which is arranged in order to avoid embarrassment due to premarital sex which can possibly lead to an unintended pregnancy. The phrase is a primarily American colloquialism, termed as such based on a stereotypical scenario in which the father of the pregnant bride-to-be threatens the reluctant groom with a shotgun in order to ensure that he follows through with the wedding.