Chapter 169
\nA Flash Marriage Can Be A Treasure novel Chapter 169<\/p>\n
Lily is petrified and her phone almost falls onto the ground.<\/p>\n
What should she do now?<\/p>\n
Staring at the vibrating phone for a few seconds, Lily grits her teeth and answers the phone while trying to remain composed, \u201cPresident Smith.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLeigh said you had been busy with the company business recently and told me not to bother you.\u201d His voice still sounds pleasant although he is speaking at the other end of the phone.<\/p>\n
Was that his explanation?<\/p>\n
Lily feels nervous for no reason and stammers, \u201cYeah, I have been busy recently.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s Mid-Autumn Festival today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lily subconsciously replies, \u201cHappy Mid-Autumn Festival.\u201d<\/p>\n
Louis, who is at the other end of the phone, pauses and seems to laugh in a low voice. Lily just has an impulse to slap herself upon hearing it.<\/p>\n
Lily, are you out of mind?<\/p>\n
Louis utters the words slowly, \u201cJust now my father gave me a call and reminded me to come back to the Smith Manor to celebrate the festival together and brought you\u2026 my \u2018pregnant\u2019 President Lily, together.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Smith, I haven\u2019t been pregnant, sincerely.\u201d Lily feels awkward. It is all her fault, for she hasn\u2019t hided that bottle of wine. She adds, \u201cMy mom also gave me a call just now. And I\u2019m afraid that I have to come back home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival to reunion with families after all.\u201d Louis continues, \u201cThen I will come back alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Smith\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Why does she feel that she has done something wrong after hearing the words and feel sorry to him. Nevertheless, as she is about to say something, Louis tells her to continue with her work and hangs up the phone.<\/p>\n
So, the call ends in this way?<\/p>\n
Lily stares at her phone in disbelief.<\/p>\n
WTF! Why Louis is so aloof and arrogant? Can\u2019t he just make a concession and tell her that he needs her?!<\/p>\n
Later, as Lily has told Louis in the phone, her mom really makes a phone call to him and asks her to celebrate the festival together if she\u2019s free. Lily agrees and then calls Coffey.<\/p>\n
Coffey is attending the ceremony with Chloe in Paris and can\u2019t come back, and Joey is filming in Boston.<\/p>\n
Lily sighs.<\/p>\n
Joey has been accidently favored by a foreign director, from whom she gets some opportunities to film movies and be the spokesperson of some brands. It\u2019s like she is now living abroad, for she hasn\u2019t come back since then.<\/p>\n
Alas, she will be only child to celebrate the festival with her mom tonight.<\/p>\n
After finishing the work, Lily gets off work and brings her laptop back home with an intention to deal with the rest affairs at home. When she\u2019s taking the lift to the downstairs, she bumps into Leigh and Jessie who are also leaving.<\/p>\n
Lily glances at them and asks, \u201cAre you two going to celebrate the festival together?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah. Leigh said his mom and dad are all at abroad and there\u2019s no one in his home.\u201d Jessie replies, \u201cYou know, I\u2019m not a local in this City. Lily, will you come back home? If you won\u2019t, what about\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if she will not come back home, she will come to Louis.\u201d Leigh cuts in, \u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, we\u2019d better not bother her and celebrate the festival by ourselves. We can go and buy a moon cake.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy should I come to President Smith?\u201d Lily sulks when thinks of the phone call ended by Louis and sneers, \u201cHe\u2019ll come back to the Smith Manor, and I\u2019ll come back home to accompany my mom!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, won\u2019t you worry about him for he will come back alone?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not a child. Will he lose his way?\u201d<\/p>\n
Leigh rubs his chin and clucks, \u201cFor such a big festival, almost all members of the Smith family would come back to celebrate it together. But now Louis is on the wheelchair, aren\u2019t you afraid that he will be bullied?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s my relationship with him? Why should I worry about him?\u201d Lily refutes and sneers, \u201cPlus, you\u2019re Louis\u2019 buddy and you two are even more intimate brother-germen. It is you who should come back with him!\u201d<\/p>\n
Leigh immediately refutes, \u201cNo, no way, I should accompany my Little Fairy!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have to.\u201d Jessie chimes in, \u201cI can come back home and watch TV series lying on the sofa. It\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s Mid-Autumn Festival today. Isn\u2019t it a great waste of the good time by simply lying on the sofa and watching TV?\u201d Leigh grins, \u201cWe should come to the Moon Observatory to have a closer look of the full noon.\u201d|<\/p>\n
Following the handyman, Lily steps into the villa. The brilliant and luxurious living hall, which is as big as a venue for a grant party, first catches her attention. She can vaguely hear the laughter of the guests and there seem to be a lot of participants.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaster Smith, Miss Lily is here.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the report, Lily can clearly sense that the laughter quiets down. She slowly walks into the living hall and sees many people sitting on the sofas in the hospitality area.<\/p>\n
Men are all in suits while women are all dressing up. All of them are elegant and one can easily tell that they are from the upper-class with only one glance.<\/p>\n
Lily glances at them yet her expression remains unchanged.<\/p>\n
In the past, when she was dating with John, she had even met the members of the royal family of Country Y and had meal with them. So she\u2019s not stressed in the face of the Smiths.<\/p>\n
Lily walks over and greets Antony politely, \u201cMaster Smith, sorry, I should have come along with President Smith. Yet I had so many affairs to deal with in the company and I come late.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t say sorry. We\u2019re families after all.\u201d Antony, who was originally in a bad mood, beams with smiles when seeing Lily. He waves at Lily to motion her to come over and sit beside Louis.<\/p>\n
When she sits down on the sofa, Louis asks in a low voice, \u201cDidn\u2019t you say you\u2019ll come back home to celebrate the festival with your mom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve promised Master Smith to come here. It\u2019s not good to break my promise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Louis looks at her with a trace of gentleness creeping on his eyes.<\/p>\n
They, including Jason\u2019s mother, gather in the Smith Manor today to celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival together, with a purpose of attracting Antony\u2019s attention. However, Antony has been talking with Lily since she comes.<\/p>\n
Many of them are dissatisfied with this.<\/p>\n
\u201cBack then, Lily really has a deep relationship with us Smith family.\u201d Since it would be inappropriate for those seniors to bring up this topic, Katherine takes the initiative, \u201cYou married Jason before, and now you become the acting president of the Smith Group.\u201d<\/p>\n
Their expressions become weird. Katherine shifts her gaze onto Janet and smirks, \u201cAuntie, you had been Lily\u2019s mother-in-law for more than one year. I think you should tell us that she\u2019s so capable earlier, maybe she wouldn\u2019t have divorced Jason.\u201d<\/p>\n
Being the subject of the topic, Janet smiles awkwardly.<\/p>\n
Janet is just a lightweight relative of the Smith family and she has tried hard to get the invitation letter to this party. She just wants to gain some benefits from this yet indeed she has little power of discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-2106","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirvanaharapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirvanaharapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirvanaharapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirvanaharapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}