Rekindling the Youthful Era

Chapter 866 I Prefer White Chocolate

May 2, morning.

With only one day left until Lunar New Year's Eve, Li Luo and his group were to head back to their hometown that afternoon.

Taking advantage of the time he still had in the morning, Ying Chanxi rushed to the company to give some instructions.

Most employees will definitely have a holiday during the Spring Festival, but there are two or three employees who do not plan to go home and intend to stay in Yuhang City.

After discussing it with them, Ying Chanxi arranged for a few of them to stay at the company during the Chinese New Year holiday, which would also help her with some work related to Douyin.

Of course, the overtime pay for working overtime during the Chinese New Year will be higher. Ying Chanxi also prepared red envelopes for the New Year, which were given to every employee, but the few who stayed to work overtime would receive slightly more.

After giving a brief instruction, Ying Chanxi took his leave and soon drove back to Tianlu Yaju.

Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng had already gotten up and were packing their luggage in the bedroom.

Xu Youyu hadn't gotten up yet, but because Ying Zhicheng was coming, she didn't continue sleeping on Li Luo's bed and went back to her own bedroom to take a nap.

When Ying Chanxi drove home, she saw her father's car as she got out, with the SUV that Li Luo had bought for Li Guohong parked next to it.

Knowing that her elders had already arrived home, Ying Chanxi quickened her pace and immediately returned to the living room on the first floor.

At this moment, Li Guohong and Ying Zhicheng were in the backyard, chatting while enjoying the scenery.

Lin Xiuhong sat alone on the sofa in the living room watching TV.

After Ying Chanxi came up, he quickly went to sit down next to Lin Xiuhong and hugged her arm: "Aunt Lin, you're here?"

"Xixi? You're back after finishing your work?" Lin Xiuhong smiled when she saw Ying Chanxi coming over. "Li Luo said you went to the company."

“That’s right.” Ying Chanxi nodded gently. “There are some things to explain over there. We need to coordinate with Douyin’s business during the Spring Festival, so we left a few people at the company. There are some things that need to be explained to them.”

"Thank you for your hard work, Xixi." Lin Xiuhong gently patted Ying Chanxi's hand, then couldn't help but say, "Li Luo is really something. Your company is getting bigger and bigger, but he doesn't know how to be considerate of you. It's almost the New Year and you still have to be so busy."

"Oh dear, Aunt Lin, please don't say that," Ying Chanxi quickly said. "Li Luo cares about me a lot, but I also want to have something to do. Managing the company is something I should do."

"After all, my senior and Zhusheng both have their own careers, so I'm the most suitable among the three of us."

"Li Luo himself is also busy. He is currently preparing for a new book. The filming of 'The Beginning' has just been completed, and he will need to oversee the subsequent editing."

"I'm already happy that I can help him with things like online novels, music, and TV series. I can't help with those even if I wanted to."

Lin Xiuhong felt more and more gratified as she listened, and could only sigh that her son must have saved the world in his past life, otherwise how could he have run into such a virtuous girl as Xixi?

And it's not just Xixi, there are also two other outstanding girls, Zhusheng and Youyu.

Just thinking about it makes Lin Xiuhong inevitably fall into a happy dilemma.

I don't know what my son is thinking, bringing all three girls to live together at Tianlu Yaju. Does he really want them all?
Thinking about this gave Lin Xiuhong an even bigger headache.

After all, she has a good relationship with Cui Suling now, and she also gets along well with Yuan Wanqing.

If Lin Xiuhong found out what Li Luo was thinking, she wouldn't know how to face her two best friends.

But if she really had to choose, she wouldn't want to give up any of them; she'd love for all three girls to become her daughters-in-law.

"Aunt Lin, I'll go upstairs and see how Li Luo and the others are doing with the packing," Ying Chanxi said. "Please sit for a while. We'll have lunch here later, and then go back to the countryside in the afternoon."

"Okay, go ahead." Lin Xiuhong nodded in response. "I'll just watch TV here. You guys go ahead with your work."

"You can go upstairs to see the kittens too," Ying Chanxi said with a smile. "They're very cute."

"What's so interesting about cats?" Lin Xiuhong quickly waved her hand. "Go ahead, don't worry about me."

Ying Chanxi nodded and took the elevator to the third floor, where he quickly found the two of them in Yan Zhusheng's bedroom.

"What are you two doing?" Looking at Li Luo, who was being kissed and pinned to the bed by Yan Zhusheng, and then at her own dear sister, Ying Chanxi was speechless. "Aunt Lin and the others are here. Can you tone it down a bit?"

“It’s okay if we’re seen.” Yan Zhusheng was still clinging to Li Luo and refused to get up. She turned to Ying Chanxi and said, “Only Dad, Aunt Lin and Uncle Li came today. They know our relationship.”

"Shameless!" Ying Chanxi complained irritably. "Have you finished packing your luggage? Don't tell me you were just busy kissing."

“Of course we’ll kiss after we’re all packed.” Yan Zhusheng finally climbed off Li Luo and pointed to the suitcase next to her. “It’s all here.”

"Let's go downstairs then," Ying Chanxi said, clapping her hands. "Aunt Lin and the others are waiting. It's almost lunchtime. Have they started cooking in the kitchen?"

“I’ve already spoken to Butler Liu.” Li Luo sat up in bed. “You two can go downstairs first. Take your suitcases with you. I’ll go wake Sister Youyu up.”

After saying that, Li Luo took the lead and walked out of Yan Zhusheng's bedroom, heading towards Xu Youyu's room next door.

Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng brought three suitcases and took the elevator to the basement to put their luggage in the car.

"Sister Yu, wake up."

Li Luo knocked on the door, then pushed it open and entered the room. He saw Xu Youyu with half her face covered by the blanket. Upon hearing his voice, she immediately wrapped herself completely in the blanket.

"Everyone's waiting downstairs. We'll have lunch later. If you're still sleepy, you can come back and sleep some more."

"No~ just five more minutes of sleep," Xu Youyu mumbled from under the covers.

"Have you forgotten what day it is today?"

Li Luo walked to the bedside and sat down, teasingly saying, "I thought you remembered such an important day."

"What?" Xu Youyu asked, puzzled. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. What day is today?"

"Open the blanket, and I'll tell you."

"You're lying." Xu Youyu pouted. "Would it kill you to let me sleep for another five minutes?"

"I'm not kidding you, open the blanket. If it's not an important day, I'll let you sleep for another ten minutes."

"Really?" Xu Youyu was a little curious. She finally opened the quilt and looked at Li Luo outside.

The next second, she was pinned to the bed and kissed forcefully by Li Luo.

"Ugh...no...you're lying..."

"I'm not lying to you." Li Luo chuckled, took a piece of chocolate from his pocket, tore open the wrapper, and put it into Xu Youyu's lips. "Here, happy holiday."

Xu Youyu looked bewildered, tasting the sweetness of the chocolate in her mouth, and it took her a long time to react: "...Valentine's Day? I'm surprised you still remember this kind of holiday."

Although Li Luo and the other three have been together for a long time, they don't really care about Valentine's Day, 520, or Qixi Festival.

So Xu Youyu hadn't thought of this at first, but after realizing it now, he looked down at the chocolate wrapper in Li Luo's hand and his face immediately darkened.

"If it's some important day, are you just going to use the chocolates on the coffee table in the living room to appease me?" Xu Youyu complained speechlessly. "It's not romantic at all."

"You're quite picky." Li Luo lifted her chin. "Does it have to be chocolate I make myself?" "Not really, but..." Xu Youyu had already sobered up and reached in with a grin. "I prefer white chocolate."

Li Luo: "...Stop fooling around, get up quickly, let's go downstairs for dinner."

……

While Li Luo and Xu Youyu were flirting in the room, Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng had already put their suitcases away and returned to the living room on the first floor.

By this time, Li Guohong and Ying Zhicheng had already returned from the backyard and were sitting on the sofa chatting and watching TV.

But Lin Xiuhong was nowhere to be found.

This puzzled Ying Chanxi, who couldn't help but ask Ying Zhicheng, "Dad, where did Aunt Lin go? I saw her just here."

"Hmm?" Ying Zhicheng looked puzzled. "Didn't she go up to find you? When we came back just now, we saw her take the elevator up."

"Really?" Ying Chanxi blinked, somewhat confused.

But the housekeeper, Liu, whispered a reminder: "Ms. Lin went upstairs and is currently... in the cat room."

Upon hearing this, Ying Chanxi was stunned for a moment, and then his expression became somewhat strange.

She asked Zhusheng to stay on the first floor to keep the two fathers company, while she took the elevator to the second floor and slowly walked towards the cat room.

As they approached the door, Ying Chanxi could clearly hear "sucking" sounds coming from Lin Xiuhong's mouth.

"Mimi, Mimi, come here, let Auntie give you a hug."

"Hey, you're so good."

"Its fur is so smooth, it's been well cared for."

"You're just too thin. Look at you, do you not eat much usually?"

"That brat Li Luo hasn't been starving you guys, has he?"

"So cute, Auntie wants a kiss."

Ying Chanxi walked to the door, but when she heard this, she quickly retreated to the wall, her face full of embarrassment, yet she couldn't help but laugh.

She peeked into the cat room and saw that Lin Xiuhong was facing away from the door, so she breathed a slight sigh of relief and took a quick look.

Because the cat walkway between the cat room and the study was closed, all four kittens were in the cat room and were caught red-handed by Lin Xiuhong.

Seeing Lin Xiuhong petting every single kitten, Ying Chanxi almost couldn't hold back her laughter and quickly retreated to the corridor to take a few deep breaths.

She then glanced at the time; it wasn't long before lunchtime. So she retreated to the elevator entrance, pretending she had just come up, and called out to both sides of the corridor, "Aunt Lin? Aunt Lin! Are you over here?"

Before the words were finished, a series of hurried footsteps came from the cat room, but they quickly became steady again.

Before Ying Chanxi could even reach the cat room, Lin Xiuhong calmly walked out and closed the door behind her.

"Aunt Lin, what are you doing here?" Ying Chanxi asked with a surprised expression. "Did you come to see the kittens?"

"Ahem..." Lin Xiuhong's expression was slightly unnatural, but she quickly composed herself and said calmly, "I just came up to see how your pets are doing."

"After all, there are four cats. What if they break the furniture if we let them roam freely around the villa?"

"And I've heard that cat poop smells pretty bad. If they poop and pee everywhere and it's not properly managed, the whole room will smell."

"But I see that you're raising them quite well, so I'm relieved."

As she said this, Lin Xiuhong walked to the elevator and waved to Ying Chanxi: "Let's go downstairs for lunch."

"Mmm." Ying Chanxi tried hard to suppress her laughter, ran to Lin Xiuhong's side, and accompanied her downstairs.

She didn't expose Lin Xiuhong, feeling that Aunt Lin was quite cute, but in private she ultimately couldn't resist the temptation of cats.

Even in the elevator, Lin Xiuhong asked, "We're going back to the countryside to stay for at least half a month before we come back. Is it okay to leave the cat at home? Won't it starve to death?"

"No, Aunt Lin, don't worry." Ying Chanxi covered her mouth and chuckled. "Butler Liu will arrange for someone to come and feed them and clean up their poop every day."

"but……"

"If Aunt Lin wants, we can take one or two back to our hometown."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiuhong was immediately tempted, but she still turned her head and refused: "No, no, if we take him to the countryside, he'll become wild, and it won't be easy for you to manage him if we bring him back. Let's just forget about it."

Ying Chanxi didn't insist, but found it increasingly interesting and almost couldn't help but laugh out loud.

……

After Ying Chanxi and Lin Xiuhong came downstairs to the living room, a few minutes later, Li Luo also came downstairs with Xu Youyu.

The family sat around the table in the restaurant and enjoyed a simple lunch. Xu Youyu then said goodbye and went upstairs to catch up on her sleep.

"Youyu won't be coming until tomorrow, right?" Lin Xiuhong asked Li Luo.

“Yes, she has to go home for dinner tonight,” Li Luo nodded in agreement. “She’ll come to the countryside tomorrow to celebrate the New Year with us.”

"That's great." Lin Xiuhong smiled broadly, her anticipation growing.

After quickly tidying up, the group got into the car.

This time they drove three cars back.

Originally, the plan was to only drive two cars, one for Ying Zhicheng and one for Li Luo.

But Li Guohong couldn't bear to part with his precious car, so he insisted on bringing his own as well.

So Li Guohong drove his own car, while Yan Zhusheng drove her Mercedes with Ying Chanxi and Lin Xiuhong in tow.

Li Luo was stopped by Ying Zhicheng and asked to get into his car. They chatted about the follow-up publicity for "The Beginning" on the way.

By 1:30 p.m., they had successfully returned to Lijia Village.

As soon as they got off the car, Ying Chanxi didn't even take her own luggage, but instead took out Yan Zhusheng's luggage first, looking like she was guarding it closely.

"Sister, aren't you being a little too sensitive?" Yan Zhusheng glanced at her. "We already agreed on this, and I won't go back on my word. What are you afraid of?"

"If you're not planning to back out, then why are you criticizing me? I was just helping you with your luggage."

As always, the two sisters carried each other's luggage and went into the Ying family's house next door.

(End of this chapter)