The Old Age Love Chapter 8

After a heavy rain, the sultry weather, like being covered in a big steamer, finally showed a little autumn coolness.

Hannah took the elevator to the underground parking lot after get off work. A familiar colleague joked, "Where are you going to eat with Director Ouyang today? You two have such a good relationship."

Hannah brushed her long hair and chuckled: "I think it's good to order takeout at home, but he said it doesn't have the atmosphere outside, and there's no need to save him money."

"Oh, so you're going to quit your job and become a full-time housewife in the future?"

"He said he didn't want me to work too hard, but I think women should still have their own careers."

"I also want my husband to say this to me, but our financial situation doesn't allow it. Who knows the pain of commuting four hours a day?"

Hannah got into Ethan's Maserati and immediately hugged the man's arm coquettishly, "Dear, have you been waiting for a long time? The team leader told me something when we got off work."

Ethan pulled his arm out impatiently and started the car.

The Maserati drove out of the underground garage, and Ethan saw Emily getting into a Maybach in front of the TV station.

Hannah also saw it, her eyes almost popped out, and she subconsciously said to herself: "Isn't that Emily? Why is she sitting in the Maybach? Impossible, I must be dazzled."

Ethan tightened his lips.

He instantly remembered the skirt that flashed by at Longting No. 1 a few days ago.

In the Maybach, Olivia asked the driver to turn off the intelligent control fragrance system, and smiled as she opened the lid of the thermos, but not completely. "Guess what soup I made for you today?"

Emily sniffed cutely, "Chicken with pig stomach?"

"Right! I started stewing it this morning. It's cooked to perfection and is very delicious."

"The food you made must taste great. It's so nice to eat it after get off work. The fatigue from work is gone. I feel so hungry that I can eat a cow."

These words made Olivia smile brightly.

Emily has always been very popular with elders. She speaks slowly but always accurately hits the most sensitive part of your heart, rather than just flattering them in vain.

This ability is terrifying.

Different from the happy atmosphere in Maybach, the atmosphere in Maserati is very weird.

Although she tried hard to maintain it, Hannah's face had already collapsed a little. She barely managed to slow down her tone and asked, "Aren't we going to eat Wagyu?"

Why did you keep following the Maybach that Emily got in?

She was just as curious as a cat scratching something, but that didn't mean she wanted to see her boyfriend running after someone else.

Ethan, who was in a bad mood, said angrily: "If you keep pushing me, get out!"

Ethan followed all the way to Longting No. 1 parking garage and saw Emily get out of the car. However, the next person to get out from the back seat was not a man, but a beautiful middle-aged woman.

Looks somewhat familiar.

Hannah also saw it clearly and almost broke her teeth.

Why?

Why did Emily appear in Longting No. 1, a place she never dared to dream of?

The middle-aged woman walking with me couldn't tell what brand her clothes were, but the only thing I could confirm was that they didn't look like ready-made clothes from a big brand produced on an assembly line. The bag she was carrying was a collectible Kelly that was out of print, because the material was very special, made of horsehair as thin as hair, which was more wear-resistant and shiny than leather, and felt like an ivory mat.

It is said that there are only ten in the world.

Who is the middle-aged woman? What is her relationship with Emily? Why do they look so close and enter the elevator together?

Ethan looked at the license plate number again and drove away.

After seeing Olivia off, Emily, who had eaten most of the pot of pork tripe and chicken, curled up on the sofa with a facial mask on. The sofa was ergonomically designed and very comfortable to sit or lie on, but it was gray in color and she didn't like it very much.

She took a fancy to a cloud-like cream-white sofa.

The first time Emily saw the sofa, she imagined the comfortable scene of lying on it and sleeping on a sunny afternoon in the bedroom.

At that time, she touched and pressed the white sofa reluctantly, and left looking back every few steps.

The reason is very simple: it’s too expensive.

In Ava's words: "This furniture dealer is so kind. He took away the customer's 980,000 yuan and gave him a sofa as a gift. I really cried to death."

Now, Emily, who became rich through marriage, can bring her dream sofa home without blinking an eye.

She decided to buy it this weekend.

Emily's good mood continued until the next day at work. She clearly felt that in the elevator, the tea room, the corridor... as long as she passed by, people who were originally whispering suddenly became silent at the same time, and saw her with a subtle expression of wanting to say something but not saying it. When she left, the "buzzing" sound instantly filled the air.

Emily walked into the dubbing studio confused.

The partner, Sister Zhou, is a veteran who has worked with Emily for a while. Holding a cup of water soaked in Sterculia lychnophora, she asked tactfully: "Xiao Fang, is your boyfriend very rich?"

Emily blinked, "Sister, if you have any questions, just ask."

"Today, I don't know where the rumor came from. You are being kept by a rich man. It's very detailed. It's said that you live in Dragon Court No. 1 and drive a Maybach. Well, there are other rumors. Don't take them seriously. I believe you."

The cell phone vibrated and Emily walked to the corner and answered it.

"Baby, you've heard it, don't be angry, just treat it as if you were bitten by a mad dog." Ava's voice was full of gunpowder even through the receiver, "Bring the marriage certificate tomorrow and slap Hannah in the face, and ask her to apologize to you in person!"
 
Emily: "Are you sure it was her who sent it?"

"That's her. People say she gossips behind people's backs, but she spreads rumors openly. Are you going to hold back today, or what?"

"Let me think about it after get off work."

"OK, I'll be busy now. I have a lot of work on hand."

While working, Sister Zhou was worried that the gossip would affect Emily's state and progress today. The girl looked soft-hearted and thin-skinned, and she must be angry and anxious when people talked about her like this.

As it turned out, Sister Zhou was overthinking.

Emily's condition today was the same as usual, even more stable. Several long lines were particularly accurate and full of emotion, which almost impressed Sister Zhou.

During lunch break, Emily bought a bottle of green tea from the vending machine and waited at the door of the news group office.

When Hannah came out and saw Emily, she panicked for a moment out of guilt, but then quickly adjusted herself.

Emily straightened her shoulders and said in a voice that everyone could hear: "I live in Longting No. 1. That's my home, my wedding room. If you are curious, you can ask me. If you don't ask and instead spread rumors and throw dirty water on me, I won't indulge you."

After saying that, he opened the bottle cap that had been frozen long ago and poured the bottle of green tea at Hannah.

Everyone was shocked: "............"

Colleagues were all shocked. Emily had not been very noticeable in the more than one year since she joined the company. Although she had strong professional skills, she was not outstanding in the TV station.

She is too salty.

Don't like to compete or show off.

Hannah never expected that the girl who looked like a timid little white rabbit who could be manipulated by anyone could be so strong.

There were so many colleagues around, and gossip and teasing were evident in their eyes.

Hannah's face looked grim, and she raised her hands in anger.

Ethan suddenly appeared.

He glanced at Emily with a complicated expression, grabbed Hannah's wrist and shouted, "What are you making a fuss about?"

"She splashed it on me."

"Shut up."

Ethan went home last night and thought about it again and again, and asked his eldest brother, and finally confirmed that the Maybach belonged to the "Cheng Group" and that the lady was the chairman's wife Olivia. His eldest brother said that the Cheng family had married a new daughter-in-law.

If Emily was really the daughter-in-law of the Cheng family, not to mention throwing water at Hannah, even if Emily slapped him, he would have to take it.

He could never afford to offend the Cheng family, who could make the Haicheng business world tremble with just a stomp of their feet.

"Puff."

In the cafeteria, Ava covered his mouth with his hands while eating and tried hard to hold back his laughter.

Emily picked up a piece of bitter melon stuffed with meat and put it on her plate. "It's dry in autumn, eat some bitter melon to clear your mind and improve your eyesight."

Ava rubbed his sore cheeks and handed the bitter melon back to Emily. "I won't eat it even if it's a fairy fruit. How can there be such an unpalatable and ugly vegetable in the world? But you have made a comeback today!"

Emily's momentum of throwing green tea at people disappeared completely, "No, it just turned over."

Ava: "Do you know? With Hannah's incident, everyone must be guessing which rich man your husband is? If our TV station had a hot list, you would definitely be the headline now."

Emily doesn't want this kind of headlines.

When she got home in the evening, she was rarely in the mood to cook. After using a cat toy to make sausage and pudding until they were panting like a puppy, she heated a cup of milk for herself.

The phone vibrated.

[The person who arranged the dinner: What do you have for dinner? ]

Emily took a photo of the milk in her hand and sent it over.

[The object of the arrangement: Can drinking two pounds make you grow one centimeter? ]

Why is this man such a jerk? He's dancing in her minefield?!

Emily: [Yeah, at 23, if I drink for half a month, I can be a supermodel walking on the runway.]

[The person being arranged: Then I can only see the top of your head]

Emily:......

She opened the search engine, and the data that popped up made her hold her phone in pain.

193cm.

Why doesn’t he become an athlete when he is so tall... Well, he is indeed an athlete and has won the world championship.

Ahhhh.

Caleb looked lazy and didn't care about many things other than training and competition, but he was actually very thoughtful. He keenly noticed that Emily was in a bad mood tonight.

[Target: Did you encounter something unpleasant at work? ]

Emily thought about it and felt that there was nothing to hide, so she took the initiative to make a voice call.

She wanted to hear Caleb's voice, simply wanted to hear a nice voice.

After hearing the whole story, Caleb was surprised. This did not conform to the core values of Xianyu: "So brave? Don't you want to be a Xianyu anymore?"

"I'm just lazy and don't want to get into conflict with others. But if someone throws dirty water on me, I tolerate it once, but it will happen countless times later. If we start a fight head-on, the louder the noise, the more timid she becomes, because she feels guilty."

Caleb raised his eyebrows and smiled. He couldn't imagine what it would be like when two people as gentle as domestic rabbits started quarreling.

It seems that the old saying is right: when a rabbit is angry, it bites.

"Aren't you afraid that the director will make things difficult for you?"

"I have a regular job. No matter what, Tie Niu...Ethan has no right to fire me." Emily said calmly.

"Do you like your current job?"

Emily nodded, "Yes, I do. When I was twelve, I participated in the 'Little Golden Microphone' competition and won the national championship. The judge at the time, Mr. Qi Yong, recommended me to audition for a domestic cartoon, and I passed. Later, dubbing became my interest and profession."

"That's impressive. You've been in this business longer than I have."

Emily was a little embarrassed by the compliment, "You are the world champion, I am just a lazy guy, there is no comparison."

Caleb discovered that he and his arranged wife had almost no similarities in terms of personality, attitude towards life, or how they behaved, or rather, they were completely complementary.

His life motto is the name of NSD - Never Say Die.

He would rather die standing than live on his knees.

No matter how strong the opponent is, we will fight if we have to, there is no fear.
 
For eight years, life has been nothing but training and competition, with no enjoyment at all.

He was like a bow that had been stretched to its limit and had been taut for too long.

Emily is completely different from him.

She walked slowly, would stop to admire the wild flowers on the roadside, and would stop to watch ants carrying food.

He works hard every day, and she lies down whenever she can.

But they are all living truly.

After hanging up the phone, Emily, who was in a better mood, was hungry. There were wontons in the refrigerator that Olivia had sent. Before the water boiled, her cell phone rang first, and the caller ID showed that it was a takeaway delivery.

After answering the phone, it turned out to be the delivery boy. The strictness of Longting No. 1's security is proportional to the high property fees. The security guard at the gate must get the owner's confirmation before letting the delivery boy enter the community.

Emily was puzzled: "I didn't order takeout, was it delivered to the wrong place?"

"Your husband Caleb ordered this." The delivery boy spoke in poor Mandarin, reading the notes on the order word by word: "Please deliver it faster, my wife will starve to death if I don't show off my food!"

Emily: "......"

The crayfish are fat and big, squeezed in two huge lunch boxes, with half of their bodies immersed in the soup. The bright color makes people drool just by looking at them, as if not eating them would be disrespectful to their short lives.

Emily sniffed.

One spicy and one thirteen spices.

They are all her favorite heavy flavors.

Emily sat on the carpet in front of the coffee table, selected a movie, and leisurely finished two large basins of crayfish by herself.

The delicious food completely cured Xianyu's rare negative emotions. Emily lay on the bed, and under the hypnosis of her biological clock, she had no desire to sleep.

Emily didn't have high expectations for this arranged marriage. Living together, the other party gave her a certain amount of respect, and most importantly, paid the household expenses on time. In return, she gave him a complete, warm and relaxing home, which was already an ideal state.

Now this is really beyond expectations.