Chen Mi though optimistic was pretty certain about his limits, he knew that he wouldn’t be able to ever stand in front of the Emperor much less the Empress. Just because he could finish a mountain of sweets doesn’t mean that he will be able to use that talent to stand in front of the Empress, it was impossible and whoever said that he could do anything otherwise was stupid because he didn’t have any other talent other than that.

Even Shen Li and Ye Liu were startled as they turned to look at Chu Chang who raised one of his brows and smiled at them. ” Are you sure?” He has seen the exceptional way Chen Mi managed the bar and the witty ideas that Shen Li and Ye Liu come up with for their business saying that they have no talent would be such a shame because they did have a talent and their talent was nothing but excellence when it came to business.

Shen Li, Ye Liu and Chen Mi nodded as Chu Chang asked if they were really sure and the latter only chuckled lightly. ” Very well, you have more than two months to get an insight into your skills, I am sure that you will find something——” he was still speaking when Chen Mi who was sitting silently jumped up and shouted. ” What two months? Wasn’t it just one month? How come it moved to two months?”

”That’s right! Dong Dong told me that we only have to stay in the capital for one month at the most.” Shen Li chimed in as soon as Chen Mi finished shouting.

” Brother Chang what do you mean by two months?” asked Ye Liu as he looked at Chu Chang before slowly narrowing his eyes. ” Or did Dong Dong lied to us, so that she could send us to the capital?”

Under their questions, Chu Chang felt a bit uncomfortable and started sweating as he pointed outside the window and exclaimed, ” Wahh! What a beautiful bird!” He really had no idea that Yu Dong has lied to her husbands that the trip was going to be just for a month, now that he has slipped up will he have to pay the price in Yu Dong’s place?

How can Shen Li and the others not understand what happened to them after Chu Chang’s blatant reaction? They immediately felt a sudden loss in their hearts as they realised they have been betrayed and then they looked at each other before Chen Mi burst out screaming, ” Oi, Miss driver turn around and drop me back, I got on the carriage by mistake!”

” Dong Dong! How dare you lie to me!” Ye Liu felt like his heart was set on fire as soon as he realised what just happened and swore that he was going to teach Yu Dong a good lesson after he returns home. However, while he was cursing Yu Dong for being sly, he realised that Shen Li was exceptionally silent, a bit confused, he turned to look at Shen Li who was sitting calmly on his spot and asked, “Brother Liu are you not angry?”

Shen Li smiled as he looked at Ye Liu and tilted his head before asking, ” Who says that I am not angry? Did I say that I am not angry?”

” But you don’t look like as if you are angry,” said Ye Liu as he slowly blinked his eyes, why was it that he was imagining the devil incarnate sitting on the spot where brother Shen Li was sitting?

” Oh, I am very angry… I just don’t want to waste my energy by shouting and screaming, since I know nothing will happen now,” said Shen Li as he looked away and lowered his head to hide the fire burning in his eyes. To think she had the audacity to say ‘ I love you’ to him after planning such a scheme for him, how dare she! He will never forgive her for what she has done!

’Just you wait Yu Dong, when he returns home, it will be me, the roller and you!’ Shen Li inwardly swore as he clenched his fingers to teach Yu Dong, a good lesson once he comes back from the capital.

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” Achoo!” Yu Dong rubbed the tip of her nose as she finished washing the cabbage in the water vat and picked it up from the vat before plopping it on the kitchen counter.

” Someone seems to be scheming against me,” she said lightly as Fang Chi who was peeling the peas, rolled his eyes and commented from the chair he was sitting in. ” Must be one of my brothers, they must have found out that you sent them under the guise of one month when the actual duration was three months, I believe they must be quite angry with you at the moment, even Mi.”

Yu Dong sniffed and picked up the knife from the counter as she said, ” Why will he be angry? It’s not like I asked him to go, he was the one who stubbornly got on the carriage. Instead, I asked him to get down from the carriage but he didn’t listen to me, so how come it is my fault now?”

” If you think that he is going to be this understanding, then I am afraid you will have a newfound understanding of him once he returns from the trip,” said Fang Chi as he poured the peas into a pot full of spiritual water and washed them nicely before scooping them out and poured them in a bowl before walking towards the window that separated the kitchen from the living room and placed the bowl on it. Today he wanted to eat the simple green pea stir fry that his grandmother used to make for him which was why he requested Yu Dong to make some for him. ” I can still help you, you know.”