After settling Alessia Rossi, Aurora Morales dropped by a hotel.
When Leonard saw her, he was overjoyed. He hugged her tightly for a long time, then wiped the tears streaming down his face and said, "You heartless little thing. Don't you miss this old man at all? Calculate it yourself. How long has it been since we last met?" Aurora Morales placed the pastries she brought on the table, pondered briefly, and said, "It has been quite a while."
"You naughty girl."
Aurora Morales looked at Leonard, whose hair had turned completely white. His face was covered with fine wrinkles, and his expression was kind, with a broad, happy smile, looking like a child who had gotten hold of candy.
"Are these for me?"
"Yeah."
Leonard opened the package, picked up one piece of pastry and put it in his mouth. The pastry melted in his mouth, being fragrant, soft, and delicious.
"Delicious." After that, he turned his head to the blond - haired man standing beside him and said, "Go, call my student and tell him to come over quickly!" A hint of surprise flashed across Aurora Morales' brows. "You've taken in a student?"
When this topic was brought up, Leonard raised his chin proudly.
"I had a student even before I met you."
Aurora Morales gave him a sidelong glance. "Then you tricked me before, saying you wanted to take me as your only personal disciple?"
Leonard snorted softly. "I said that, but you still didn't become my disciple. If I didn't say that, you surely wouldn't have. Your personality is exactly the same as that of my student! Sigh!"
Aurora Morales waited for him to continue, but there was no more words for a long time. Helplessly, she had to turn her gaze to the blond - haired man.
He immediately explained in English, "The student the old gentleman took in was only temporarily registered under his name during a competition that year. In fact, he's not a real student."
Leonard let out a long sigh, looking at Aurora Morales with regretful eyes, as if she were a rare treasure.
"In my whole life, I've only seen two people as talented as you two. But unfortunately, neither of you cares about this old man."
The blond - haired man put down the phone in his hand and said, "No answer."
"Forget it, if he doesn't come, never mind!"
Aurora Morales covered her lips and smiled softly. "Your Chinese is getting better and better."
Ding - dong
Just then, the doorbell rang suddenly.
The blond - haired man walked to the door and said loudly, "No need for cleaning."
Outside the door, Diego Morales and Valentina Morales felt a bit embarrassed.
"We've come to visit Teacher Leonard."
Hearing this familiar voice, Aurora Morales' eyes flickered slightly. She picked up the teacup and took a sip unhurriedly.
"Sorry, Mr. Leonard doesn't receive guests."
Diego Morales seemed to have expected this answer.
"We came too early and disturbed the teacher. We're willing to wait outside."
"Oh, as you like."
At the door, the two stood there properly. Diego Morales was holding many valuable - looking items in his hand, which were obviously of high value. In order to get Valentina Morales accepted as a disciple by Mr. Leonard, he had really put in a lot of effort. They waited for two hours like this.
Both of them were arrogant people and not used to being left aside like this. Valentina Morales rang the doorbell again. But this time, there was no response from inside.
"Is it really necessary to be so pretentious?"
Valentina Morales' beautiful brows knitted tightly, and her tone carried a bit of petulance. She pouted her lips and kept pressing the doorbell with her fingers, making a series of ding - dong sounds that were extremely annoying.
The door was suddenly pulled open from the inside. The blond - haired man looked displeased.
"The old gentleman is resting. Could you stop disturbing him?"
Valentina Morales opened her red lips, about to speak, when she heard Leonard's hearty laughter from inside the room. From this angle, she happened to see the slender back of a woman.
"What resting and not receiving guests? These are just excuses you made on purpose! I've liked Teacher Leonard for many years. I know exactly what kind of person he is. He would never leave someone outside the door for two hours!"
The blond - haired man was enraged. "Miss, I didn't ask you to wait. You chose to do so. What does it have to do with the old gentleman? Do you think the old gentleman has to meet every person who wants to see him?"
Valentina Morales raised her chin, looking at him with a sidelong glance, her eyes filled with a bit of contempt, as if she looked down on him.
"I'm different from them. I've come here specifically to become Teacher Leonard's disciple!"
Diego Morales stepped forward, lifting the things in his hand a little higher.
"Yes, we're sincere."
The blond - haired man took a casual glance and didn't take them seriously at all. There were so many people queuing up every day to give Mr. Leonard things that were thousands or even millions of times more precious.
"Get out."
Valentina Morales' eyes widened, her voice became slightly sharp, and her beautiful face turned fierce. "Is this how you do things? You say you don't receive guests, but there's someone hiding inside! It's so sneaky. People might think you're up to something shady!"
The blond - haired man growled angrily, "That's our most honored guest! Watch your words!"
Valentina Morales laughed sarcastically, and the words she said were particularly harsh.
"Guest? Oh, right! There are many girls who keep talking about looking for all kinds of 'guests' every day! I'd like to see who this is, daring to stand in my way!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Valentina Morales rushed forward, fuming with anger, as if she was about to catch a mistress. She grabbed a corner of the curtain and yanked it open!
A slap came flying towards her, hitting her face directly!
For a moment, her mind went blank.
Aurora Morales stood in front of her, looking at her coldly. Deep in her pitch - black eyes was a cold, icy chill, without a trace of warmth.
"If you don't know how to speak properly, I, as your sister, can teach you."
Valentina Morales covered her face in disbelief, staring at her in shock. Her voice rose sharply, breaking due to excessive shock.
"Aurora Morales! How dare you hit me?!"
Diego Morales' expression changed drastically. He put down the gift box in his hand, rolled up his sleeves in anger, and was about to hit Aurora Morales. But before he could even touch the corner of her clothes, the blond - haired man threw him over his shoulder, slamming him to the ground!
"Ouch..."
Diego Morales immediately cried out in pain.
"Dad!"
Valentina Morales quickly stepped forward to help him up, glaring at Aurora Morales resentfully.
"Why are you here?!"
"Oh... I get it. You must have known that Leonard came to Westbrook city, so you deliberately came here to seduce him! Aurora Morales, you're such a slut. You can even go after men of any age!"
"Dad, I said Aurora Morales couldn't possibly have so much money. Now you see it!"
Diego Morales stretched out his trembling finger, pointing at Aurora Morales, but couldn't utter a word for a long time.
Aurora Morales gently bent down, grabbed Valentina Morales' face, and tightly squeezed her five fingers.
She had a smile on her face, but it made people feel cold all over. Speaking slowly, word by word, her voice was like a frozen vine, wrapping around a person's limbs, bone - chillingly cold and impossible to break free from.
"Somehow, your mouth has become so foul. Thinking about it, I seem to have failed to fulfill my duties as a sister. But it doesn't matter. This time, sister will help you. Clean up that mouth of yours."