Perfect Fiancé Chapter 57

The seventh day of the first month in the lunar calendar.

Beijing, Binhai Villa No. 19.

Holding onto a gla.s.s of champagne, Xiao Ya walked towards the man that reclined on the nook of the sofa and stood before him.

"Hey, our most promising, youngest Oscar award-winning director, what are you thinking about?" Rather unhappy, she lifted her leg to kick his calf, "with such a frown, you can probably squeeze a mosquito to death."

"That's right, Lu Erge[1], anyways we fellows have sent out a signal and got everyone together to celebrate your birthday, at least give us some face[2]." Not too far away, a youth dressed in black athleisure clothes had followed suit and yelled out to him.

[1] 二哥 (èr gē) – This means the second brother of the Lu family, or second brother Lu. But, it does not sound as casual and friendly in English as it should be.

[2] 面子 (miàn zi) – A common word found in Chinese novels, it means giving support or at least patronising and appearing in a venue/event.

As he yelled out, several people in the hall had stopped moving their hands and looked over.

However, as for the youngest master of the Lu family, what on earth was he bothered about?

During the year-end Oscar award ceremony, at the age of twenty-seven, Lu Xi had the honour of receiving the Best Director and had immediately smashed the Oscars Academy records. Due to him receiving the award, his newest drama《Sunflower》had also become popular before even airing. Afterwards, when it began broadcasting on the second day of the new year, its show ratings had sharply risen and the public opinion about it had also grown.

In other areas, although both the Lu Family and their properties were equally large, their family relations were uncomplicated and both brothers had always gotten along harmoniously and had great affections for each other.

A smooth sailing career and an amiable family; so what in the world could cause this young master to be unhappy?

What he was thinking about huh…… Lu Xi lowered his head to look at his phone in his hands and sighed as he waved a hand towards the person in the hall, "nothing, you all can have fun, don't need to bother about me."

Hearing this, the people in the hall shrugged and continued with what they were doing.

The young man, who had opened his mouth previously, had gotten close and just so happened to have noticed Lu Xi lowering his head to look at his phone. With a sudden stray thought, he asked with a strange expression on his face, "I say Lu Erge, you wouldn't be thinking about a girl from some family right?"

Hearing him say this, Xiao Ya blinked and then finally had some reaction.

This sort of inattentive expression of his that he had while looking at his phone, was this, not a carbon copy of how she usually behaves while waiting for Lu Jing's message?

"So……" She too had followed along and raised an eyebrow, "Su Jin?"

The matter about the Lu Family and Shenhai's Su Family becoming related through marriage, she too had known a smattering about it. Initially, she had thought it was only just both of them having a mutually favourable impression of the other- however, she never thought that this fellow would have actually had such deep-rooted feelings.

Su Jin……

Hearing this name, Lu Xi had at first subconsciously lowered his head to look at the phone in his hands. Then, he had firmly gritted his teeth.

"Don't mention that little ingrate!"

Little…… Ingrate?

Xiao Ya had given a glance to Xiao Chen and in both of their eyes, their gazes were somewhat startled.

Lu Xi did not care about the expressions on both of their faces and only relaxed his body as he leaned against the sofa. Immaturely, he took one glance at the clear screen on his phone and then, he inwardly scolded the phrase 'ingrate!' once more.

Wasn't she exactly an ingrate?

Before leaving Shenhai, he had clearly told her that today would be his birthday and he would be coming here. Yet this girl, after she had found out he had won an award, she had congratulated him. Then when she found out that《Sunflower》 ‘s rating has steadily risen, she shared some of her joy. Even when she had seen those Weibo discussions, as usual, she would tag him. Yet just on this very day, she had obviously known it was his birthday- to not even mention a call, there was not even a text message from her.

Could it be possible that…… That little girl had truly forgotten?

Once more, he frowned and thought before he swiped away the screensaver on his phone. Forget it, if the mountain[3] would not come, then would I, this young master, not be able to go there instead?

[3] Similar to the term Mount Tai, here, a mountain refers to a venerable or important person.

Speaking of this, it was truly him pulling his own chain. She had an indifferent personality and it was not like he did not understand how, on a day to day basis, nonchalant she was. After all, he had been living for more than a thousand years already, what use was there to be this fussy with a young girl?

As the slender finger paused before the three words, 'Xiao Jin'er', a flash of sadness glimmered through those peach blossom eyes.

With a light snort, Xiao Ya sat on the single sofa beside him and glanced at the screen on his phone, “if you want to call, just do that then. For such a great young master to be this unreasonable, how immature.”

Unreasonable? Immature? Lu Xi raised his eyes and cooly cast a glance at the bobbed-haired girl in front of him.

“My car has broken down, my brother said he'll come to pick me up later.”

Your brother? Lu Jing!

Xiao Ya was astonished and soon after, her eyes immediately lit up.

With the company's holiday period, she had no place to honourably and squarely block him off anymore; that fellow had long since hidden himself from her for a long time.

Thinking till this point, she raised her gaze and looked towards that man, who on the surface, seemed to be still in that daze as she remarked in suspicion, "he doesn't know that you're at my place?"

Otherwise, why would he take the initiative to come here?

"Of course, he does." Lu Xi absent-mindedly nodded.

"Then……" At this, Xiao Ya was truly unconvinced; with this man's personality, she had reckoned he could not wait to be as far away from her as possible right?

"Unreasonable? Immature?" Lu Xi lightly raised an eyebrow.

"Huh?" Xiao Ya was stunned then immediately reacted as she inwardly disdained at this sort of narrow-minded man and abruptly retorted, "I'm unreasonable, I'm immature, all right!"

Lu Xi lightly snorted and thought for his family's iceberg older brother as his eyes became warm, "it's probably because the spectator sees more than the person involved."

The spectator sees more clearly?

Xiao Ya was stunned for a while.

Before even waiting for her to think and understand, at this, the doorbell rang.

"Xiao Chen, go open the door."

Listening to Xiao Ya's command, Xiao Chen[4] rolled his eyes, yet he followed her words and walked to the entrance hall.

[4] 小沉 (xiǎo chén) – A diminutive endearing nickname for Xiao Chen, Xiao Ya's younger brother. Previously, when others had addressed him or as the narrative had addressed his name, the name used for him was 肖沉 (xiāo chén), the intonations for the word is different. Thus, when she is speaking to him, Xiao Ya uses the nickname that is only used by people such as extremely close friends or family.

On the screen beside the door, one could clearly make out the figures of two people.

Xiao Chen blinked his eyes and turned his head to look towards Xiao Ya who was inside, yelling, "Jie."

"Hm?" Xiao Ya raised her head, "why haven't you opened the door?"

"It's Lu Dage[5]……"

[5] 大哥 (dà gē) – A polite form of address for a man about the same age as oneself, also an affectionate name for an older man you're close to which means big brother.

Hm?

All at once, Xiao Ya widened her eyes and was stunned for two seconds before she leapt up from the sofa.

"Don't open the door yet!" As she said this, she dashed down the staircase.

Xiao Chen looked at his own family's elder sister's figure that vanished in the speed of light and silently swallowed back down the seven words: "he brought a girl with him too." Then, once more, he inwardly said his prayers, hoping that the scene that would happen later would not be too unsightly.

Obviously, Lu Jing, who was outside, understood this point too. So after pressing the doorbell once, he quietly waited by the door.

Not three minutes later, Xiao Ya had walked down from upstairs.

From that casual and comfortable athleisure wear, she had changed into an elegant and stylish cream-coloured knitted long wool sweater. Matching it with thin heeled knee-high boots, a generous, fair area of thighs had been revealed. On her face, there was even some light make-up on.

In the hall, no matter if it was Lu Xi or Xiao Chen or anyone else, no one revealed an expression of surprise.

For someone to be able to enter Xiao Ya's personal residence- although the friendship between Xiao Ya and themselves may not necessarily be great, however, one must have a certain extent of personal, sincere and true friendship with Xiao Ya. In this aspect, this was not the first time for everyone to have experienced this.

Treading on her high-heeled boots as she walked to the entrance hall, Xiao Ya took a deep breath and without even looking at the screen, she had immediately opened the large door.

"Lu Jing Ge……"

Her words weren't finished before she suddenly paused.

Xiao Ya quickly withdrew the hand that had been opening the doors as she used it to block that way instead and closed the doors, stealthily opening up a slight slit.

"Who is she?" Xiao Ya slightly raised her chin as the expression on her face became stern. Her beautiful features looked towards the man with a grave and stern expression before her as the depths of her eyes had almost seemed to be holding back a flame ready to burst forth.

Xiao Chen blinked before letting his eyes drift towards the girl standing beside Lu Jing.

He clicked his tongue with a light sound, "tsk". Just now, on the screen, it was still not too clear but now that she was before his very eyes, it truly was a rarely seen kind of beauty.

Speaking of which, Lu Dage's personality had always been honest, elegant, grave and stern. After so many years, although he did not particularly pay heed to his own family's older sister, no other woman has ever appeared beside him.

This……

"Are you Xiao Ya?" Lu Jing had not spoken and contrary to expectations, the girl standing beside him had smiled at her as she spoke.

What did she mean by this? Was this a provocation to her?

"h.e.l.lo." At the edge of her lips, her smile deepened as those beautiful phoenix eyes slightly curved. In that voice of hers, it carried a soft and sticky sweetness to it that was exclusively heard from people who came from Jiang Nan[6].

[6] It might be a little confusing since Jiang Nan is one of the provinces of China and one may not know the geography of China. The fictional city Shenhai (which is a h.o.m.onym on the city Shanghai) is located in the province of Jiang Nan as one of the munic.i.p.als. What this means is that this was a likely stereotype that the Chinese have on themselves and the various different people who live in different provinces. Since there is regional and slight cultural disparity, the differences in how the people are like will be shown in various areas, just like Su Jin's voice here (sweet and soft).

"I'm Su Jin."

"Su-Su-Su…… Su Jin?"

All of a sudden, Xiao Ya widened her eyes.

Translated by Irisu

Edited by TokyoFool

It's a pity Xiao Ya entered this late, she's the kinda rich lady I like~ ❤

Also, here are Tokyofool's thoughts about this journey of editing PF: Perfect Fiance is how I got sucked into Meraki. Lu Xi is a determined and rather honest man compared to most sc.u.m male leads who can't tell their front end from their behind. Su Jin is a fiery but sweet woman who has experienced quite a bit but doesn't let it completely control her. She fought for what she thought was right.