Remembering another person’s name would most certainly leave a good impression on them, and Yan Huan was apparently doing a good job at it. In fact, she was doing more than good.
“Oh right.” Yan Huan presented the dumplings in her hand and asked, “I made dumplings, do you want some?”
“No, no.” Shen Ling shook his head hurriedly. How could they eat any of Prosecutor Lu’s food? If they did, they would probably lose their lives.
Sob, how could a creature like Lu Yi exist? Just one look from him was enough to scare anyone to death.
“I’ll go in first then,” Yan Huan said as she put down her dumplings. She honestly thought that her dumplings were really delicious. Why didn’t anyone like it? Lu Yi was still the best since he was the only one who did not bruise her pride.
She came to the front of Lu Yi’s office and peered inside to see that Lu Yi was still sitting behind the table. He had probably been so busy from morning until now that he had not even moved an inch. Lately, he had slimmed down so conspicuously that even Yan Huan who saw him every day had realised this, let alone other people. Indeed, he was too tired. Not only did he have to deal with the flood, but he also had to handle the matters of the procuratorate. In the first place, settling the matters of the procuratorate was not an easy task and with so many cases to manage and analyze one by one, any other person aside from Lu Yi would have ended up becoming crazy or have a meltdown. Yan Huan could already imagine it happening in her head.
Thus, this was why it was said that it was hard to be a prosecutor in Sea City. The title had a nice dignified ring to it, but in all honesty, no one could understand what he had sacrificed for that position.
Yan Huan pushed the door open and walked in. Upon hearing the door, Lu Yi looked up. Upon seeing her, his tense posture from work finally relaxed.
In fact, this was the first time he realized that Yan Huan’s presence had the ability to soothe him. She only had to come up to him, without even doing anything, and all his stress would evaporate in an instant.
Yan Huan cleared the table, then set down her dumplings and took a glass from the table to get some water from the water dispenser. The fact that the glass was placed here and that it was so clean was enough to tell her that Lu Yi had been so busy to the point that he had only drank a few gulps of water.
When she brought the glass of water around, Lu Yi was already sitting there and picking up a dumpling with his chopsticks. At his first bite, he knew instantly that it was hand-made by Yan Huan and that it was his favourite kind of dumplings – prawn dumplings. Regardless of what else Yan Huan could do, it sufficed to say that nobody else could make dumplings as tasty as Yan Huan did.
“Tell me, why are your dumplings so delicious?” Lu Yi ate another one as he asked Yan Huan.
“Um…” Yan Huan sneaked a dumpling into her mouth too. The prawn almost melted in her mouth when she bit into it. It was that explosion of flavour that brought the perfect enjoyment to her taste buds.
“It’s my mom’s secret recipe and much like your mom’s recipe for dumplings, it was passed down by my ancestors. No one else could possibly learn it.”
Yan Huan ate another one. It was indeed delicious, but she did not eat much. Moreover, she was already full from drinking an entire bowl of soup made by the housemaid this morning, along with a huge amount of rice, therefore she was not hungry at all now. She only ate because she wanted to accompany Lu Yi, so that he did not get bored eating all on his own.
She complained about the housemaid as she ate with him, telling him of the suffering the housemaid had imposed on her life.
“You don’t even know, but she gave me such a huge bowl to drink! Is she treating me like a pig?”
She put down her chopsticks and gestured the size of the bowl.
Lu Yi took a dumpling and put it in front of her, motioning for her to eat.
Yan Huan bit into it. It’s really tasty.
“Are you sure that’s a bowl and not a washbasin?”
Yan Huan suddenly coughed, almost choking herself. Lu Yi then picked up his glass and placed it in front of her before patting her back, wondering how a person of her age could still choke.
Yan Huan drank the water and took off her shoe to kick Lu Yi lightly. If it weren’t for you, how would I end up choking?
Lu Yi let her kick him since it was not much of a forceful kick anyway. Thus, after kicking him a few times, Yan Huan lost interest when he did not react, making her feel as if she was doing it for self-entertainment. In the end, she simply took off both her heels and put her feet on Lu Yi’s lap before continuing to eat the dumplings. She could not eat any more after devouring just a few more.
She pushed the bowl forward.
“You’re not eating anymore? You only ate five,” Lu Yi chided as he touched her stomach. She ate so little today. The contents of these dumplings were quite meagre and just one of them did not amount to much. In fact, he could eat up to twenty or thirty of them himself. When did her appetite shrink so much that she only ate five?
“I haven’t finished digesting that whole washbasin of soup,” Yan Huan complained as she rubbed her own stomach. She felt so full now that if she ate a few more, she was afraid that her stomach might burst.
Lu Yi took his phone and passed it to her for her to play with as he continued to eat the dumplings. With both of the lunch boxes for him, he might not even need to eat after this meal.
“Can we please eat more dumplings tomorrow?” Yan Huan propped herself up on her hands as she asked Lu Yi, who was still eating with pleasure. His good appetite was infectious and even induced her to eat a few more than she originally intended.
“Sure,” Lu Yi nodded. “But it has to be at night. I have to go to the riverside to check on the progress of the engineering there in the afternoon.”
Yan Huan lowered her head, her fingers poking hard on Lu Yi’s phone screen, putting a lot of stress on it as if she wanted to break the screen.
“I’ll come back for dinner at night,” Lu Yi could only cajole her like he was talking to a child that was throwing a tantrum.
“After these few days, I promise you, I won’t come to work, I’ll stay with you every day, okay?”
“Are you sure you won’t lie to me?” Yan Huan leaned forward. She wanted to be sure, because he had never been the best at keeping such promises in the past. Sometimes, as soon as someone from the procuratorate called him up, he would be back again, breaking the numerous promises he had made to her.
“Mmhmm, don’t worry, this time I won’t.”
Lu Yi had already made arrangements for a month-long holiday to accompany her properly for a month, knowing that they had not gone out just for fun in a long time. However, he did not know that for all the surety he had promised, despite the month-long holiday he had planned and the zero complications he had expected, he would still end up breaking his promise as problems would eventually crop up.
After finishing their meal, Yan Huan washed the containers, sat down and accompanied Lu Yi quietly. Since Lu Yi was busy, she would sit here with him and then they would go home together.
