Chapter 31

Scarlett walked into the kitchen. "Yo, idiot!"

"Yes, Scarlett?"

"What did you bring?"

"Normal food? Like what we eat every day?"

"What?!"

"I bought it because Chinese food people make here tastes like shit and you haven't eaten my grandmother-in-law's food."

"Language!" his grandma yelled from the living room.

"Sorry, grandma! Also, I don't want to burden her. My grandmas do like them though."

"Oh. That's strange."

Then world war 4 started. Manchu yelled at them to stay quiet, but they did quietly fight over food. The grandmas also ate the food. Scarlett thought they would complain or something, but they actually liked it.

So everyone's here for a good time, not a long time. Which will eventually happen to them. Oh my god, that was dark!

In the middle, one of Manchu's cousins asked. "Aunt Guizhi, Dage's classmate, is interested in how you met Aunt Mei."

Ye Guizhi and Cheng Mei blushed. "Uhhh."

"Come on! Tell us again! It's the best love story ever!"

"Please, aunty!"

"Ma'am it's okay if you don't tell me about it." Scarlett said.

"No, it's okay. I'll tell." Guizhi cleared her throat. "So I was like about to go to university and my dear little sister was about ten years old and was so obsessed with the little mermaid.

"She would sing the song all day in a weird English accent. Sometimes I would also sing along with her because I had fully memorized that song.

"My and my guy friends had decided to go to a karaoke and my mother had gone outside with her friends, so my sister had to tag along with us.

"We had a lot of fun and my turn came. I didn't know any of the songs, but 'under the sea' was there on the list. Me and my sister were singing it and my friends were also singing along while laughing.

"Then a little boy about seven years old opened the door of our booth because he also wanted to sing that song as well. We said okay, and we started singing.

"Later, his sister came inside yelling 'you idiot! Why did you run away from our booth?! I was so scared some stranger picked you up!' and started apologizing to us. That was the time I thought I'm going to marry this woman.

"But since she had already left because I kept staring at her in shock and didn't ask her her number. University came, and I was like meh, time to forget her I guess.

"But then on the first day, someone ran into me and smeared all of their food on my shirt. And it turned out to be my wife. She apologized to me about it and gave me one of her shirts.

"We became friends over time and at like the last day of our university years, like when we graduate. I became drunk, and I confessed to her.

"She was shook at first and I thought she's disgusted by my sexual orientation. I was going to apologize to her but then she kissed me and three years later, we got married. We then got a sperm donor and got our kid.

"And now that boy's married as well."

"Aww!"

"I'm never getting bored with listening to it!"

"This is so much better than c-dramas mom watches!"

(I mean no offense to people who watch c-dramas)

Everyone chatted and ate. The kids were kind of fussy and their mothers glared at them to make them eat. Their husbands did tell them to listen to their mothers and made plans about going fishing together.

The older cousins chatted in one corner away from them. The grandmas chatted about probably something she couldn't hear.

Scarlett didn't know how did this family survive like wow, just wow. Huge families must have a lot of drama going on though, but this one didn't. Probably.

Scarlett then remebered something. "Ayo idiot! Don't you remember simping for that protagonist in that anime? Where he and his brother just murder people who are corrupting society?"

He rolled his eyes. "As if you don't remember shipping him and the detective dude."

"Hey, they were cute together, okay! The sexual tension was prominent!"

Manchu came in between their argument. "What anime are you talking about?"

"Oh, what was the name again?"

"Even I forgot it. Meh, I'm hungry."

When they were done eating, eventually everyone started leaving. Scarlett left as well, but the couple's parents stayed. They helped them to clean, then laid down mattresses.

"Guizhi!" Michael's mother yelled.

"What?!"

"You two can get the bed, me and my daughter will sleep on the mattresses."

"What! No! Me and my wife will do that!"

"No, you two sleep on the bed instead!"

"No! You can sleep on the bed!"

"Ya know what?!" Manchu shouted. "Let's just take the mattresses, lay them down, and all of us would sleep on the floor instead."

"Okay. Good idea. I'll go get the blankets."

"Okay."

On the way home, Scarlett nearly slept. She tried to keep her eyes open but couldn't. The driver peeped into the back mirror and saw her head falling down.

He asked with concern. "You sleepy?"

Scarlett yawned. "Yes sir. When I eat a lot, I feel sleepy."

"Oh. is it okay if I keep the music on high volume?"

"That'll be great. Thank you."

Electronic music started bursting in the taxi and her head started hurting. Electronic music always gave her a headache unless it was relaxing. Well atleast it's better than sleeping in someone else's car.

The taxi came to a sudden stop, making scarlett jerk forward. Her head hit the front seat. The driver started cursing at the people who just passed by them.

"Stupid kids nowadays take their sports car and go on high speed. It may be night but they still don't realize that people do work at this time." he mumbled and looked behind.

"Oh, sorry about that. Are you okay?"

"Yup, it's nothing. You can go on, sir."

When she arrived at the penthouse, Avery was waving at a car. Scarlett crept behind them to scare them.

"Ayo!" but it didn't work. They just gave her a pissed look.

"What are you? A grandma now?"

"You're mean."

"I don't care. Let's go."

"Why were you waving at the car though?"

"Oh, Anastasia had to go to her parents' home quickly because something happened that can be called an emergency."

"Aww! Why didn't you tell me? I could've come faster!"

"I was going to, but that tall stick told me to not call you because she wanted you to enjoy yourself. To be honest, you were down for a while that's why she didn't want to ruin your schedule."

"Oh."

"Anyway, let's go. I'm sleepy."

"Okay~"

When they were at the door, Avery turned around and narrowed their eyes. "Hey what happened?" Scarlett asked.

"Nothing. I thought I saw someone I know."

They did. But that person slipped into the shadows. That person kept staring at the two until they were gone. He glared at them in disgust. "That bitch and the stupid demon. Only if they were eliminated," he muttered and then disappeared into the night.