"You ask too many questions, just enjoy your lunch," Huo Yan clicked her tongue, gesturing for him to have his seat.
Huo Feng stared deeply at her, but he didn't argue with her as he took his seat.
He washed his hands, and then took a bite. He involuntarily closed his eyes as he felt the flavour burst through his tongue.
He had to admit that this was the best meal he had ever tasted. After two bites, he turned to look at Huo Yan who was staring at him with expectancy in her eyes.
"Who prepared the meal?" He asked. He needed to know who made it.
"I will tell you only if you complete your meal," Huo Yan negotiated with him.
"You this brat," Huo Feng pointed at her feeling like he had been played.
In response, Huo Yan stuck out her tongue playfully. Huo Feng couldn't do anything to her, and hence he completed the meal.
"Brother, grandmother heard you got married, she told me to bring her home for recognition," Huo Yan informed him while he ate.
Huo Feng paused in his actions before saying, "I'll take her home when the time is right."
Huo Yan sighed. She could see that her brother didn't really consider Yue Ning to be his wife, but she would help him change that notion.
The room suddenly turned silent as both siblings were lost in their thoughts.
"Tell me," he demanded after he was done eating.
Huo Yan swallowed. She could sense the urgency in his voice.
"It was sister-in-law," she confessed with her head lowered.
Huo Feng was taken aback as his brows shot up.
"Isn't she supposed to be the Eldest daughter of her family? Why does she know how to cook?" Huo Feng asked with confusion.
Again, he was intrigued by Yue Ning. She was so different from what Yue Chen told him about.
"You are forgetting that she isn't loved by her family, so she has to pick up survival skills," Huo Yan replied, eyeing him as though he was supposed to have the basic knowledge.
Huo Feng couldn't speak as her words were true.
"Brother, she didn't want to cook for you, I was the one who convinced her, she is aware that you don't like her, I just want to tell you to open your eyes and see who has your best interest at heart," Huo Yan advised.
Huo Feng was quiet for a while as he listened to her words.
"You just got into college, why do you think that you can give me advice?" Huo Feng chuckled, changing the topic.
"I can always advise you regardless of being a fresher in college," Huo Yan snorted as she folded her arms.
Huo Feng laughed seeing her that way. Funny how he could be his real self whenever he was around his sister.
"Please bring her home early," Huo Yan pleaded, and walked away.
"Hey, take this with you," Huo Feng yelled after her. He was referring to the lunch boxes.
"You are heading home, just drop it off, I'm going back home," Huo Yan rejected, and swiftly exited his office.
While Huo Feng was wondering about how different Yue Ning was, the said girl was currently scrolling through the internet for novels.
"System, I need books, if I need to complete missions, I need to read, so I need recommendations," Yue Ning asked the system.
She had been scrolling through for an hour, but she hadn't found one which appealed to her.
'I don't have access to such information about novels,' the system coldly replied.
Yue Ning parted her lips in astonishment.
"Are you playing with me?" She asked. There was no way that the ever knowing system wouldn't have ideas about novels.
The system didn't reply, and Yue Ning chuckled mirthlessly. She knew the system was trying its best to make life miserable for her.
"You are hard to deal with," Yue Ning snorted, resuming her search.
'I can only give you ideas of a genres which you can read,' the system suddenly said.
Yue Ning sat upright, eager to hear what it had to say.
"Come on, speak up," she urged.
'The first genre should be horror, and should be written by a less-known author,' the system informed her.
Yue Ning was taken aback by the criteria needed for just a book.
"Is this necessary?" She carefully asked.
'Yes, Host.... Good luck,' the system replied with a clipped tone, and effortlessly 'shut down'
Yue Ning breathed out. She was speechless, but there was nothing she could do. She had one mission, and that was to save Huo Feng, but she couldn't do it as she was still 'weak.'
"How will I be able to get my hands on such a novel?" Yue Ning questioned out loud. She was relatively new in this novel world, and although she had read the novel, she was clueless when it came to certain locations.
While she was thinking of how she would complete her task, her phone rang. She picked it up without checking who had called.
"Yue! Ning!" She heard a furious Yue Chen yell from the other end of the phone causing her pull the phone away from her ear.
"I'm not deaf, you can quietly call my name, and I'd still hear you," Yue Ning scoffed, digging her ear in the process.
Her lack of awareness caused Yue Chen to be extremely furious.
"Didn't we agree to meet up? Why didn't you show up?" Yue Chen questioned, her chest heaving up and down due to the anger she felt within her.
"Oh! About that, I sort of forgot that we would be meeting," Yue Ning unapologetically informed her.
Well, it was sort of the truth. She had been scrolling for novels, she forgot that she had an appointment with Yue Chen. Not like she was going to show up anyway.
On hearing her words, Yue Chen was so angry that she was about to spit blood.
"What do you mean by you forgot? You can't act as you please just because you are married to Brother Huo," Yue Chen forced out through gritted teeth.
"But I think I can act as I please, he is my husband after all. That reminds me, I'd love for you to return all the money I gave you, you have helped me keep it enough, it is time for it to go back to its rightful owner," Yue Ning cleverly deviated rya topic from the issue of the appointment to the issue of money.
She thought that she would try her luck with Yue Chen as she desperately needed money.
"Are you crazy? Why would I give you the money?" Yue Chen was speechless.
She had no idea why Yue Ning was acting differently.
"That's right, why would you give me the money? Why am I even asking you when I have my husband?"
"I'll just ask my new husband for money," Yue Ning provoked her, and immediately disconnected her phone, putting Yue Chen's number in blacklist as well.