Title: The Villain and the Cannon Fodder’s Mother
Translator: Fringe Fauna
Chapter 271-273
Chapter 271 - And she was that lucky person! (1)
The public opinion on the web was still very distant from those who were on vacation.
Lin Yiyi decided not to be bothered by these and let herself go.
To others, on the other hand, if the ones in the stories didn’t stand out to clarify immediately, they were silently admitting to them!
As such, the incident became facts just like that.
As soon as Lu Xun and the others got off the plane from Maldives, Yao Sen gave Lu Xun a call right away and congratulated him. “I heard that congratulations are in order. The paparazzi had already caught wind of the two of you showing up at the airport.”
Even their love affairs could, somehow, draw nationwide attention. Technically, neither one of them were celebrities either. They just happened to be in the entertainment circle; and that was what made others speechless.
Even Yao Sen couldn't help his daughter attract that kind of attention despite his best efforts!
Lu Xun gave Lin Yiyi a look with a guilty conscience.
The two of them were standing very close to each other. Even if she just perked up her ears a little, she would be able to hear the conversation from the other end, let alone that Yao Sen’s voice wasn’t low at all.
Even so, Lin Yiyi did not react to that at all.
Lu Xun felt a bit disturbed while feeling relieved at the same time.
He waited until they had driven all the way back to the mansion district. Lin Yiyi had gotten out of the car and was about to go get her suitcases from the trunk, and even Meng Yuran and Lu Mingzhe had gone over to help out before he twisted and turned and forced himself to walk over to the rest of them.
Lin Yiyi gave him a dubious look and turned back around to lift up that extra-large 28” suitcase of hers, but it was snatched from her.
Lu Xun had pulled the large and heavy suitcase out of the trunk, dragged it to the front of the mansion, and handed it over to Housekeep Zhang-ma had hurried over to help before he turned back around.
Each person only had one suitcase. With the exception of Lin Yiyi having the supersized one, the others had already left with their own suitcase. Lin Yiyi was the only one left standing there, looking at him with her arms crossed in front of her.
“What is it that you had wanted to say?”
She had an idea what the phone call he had earlier was about, and she could tell that there was something that Lu Xun had wanted to say the entire time, but he didn’t… He kept on holding it back. All the way until they were at her place!
Never mind about Lin Yiyi, even Lu Mingzhe and the others noticed that and all disappeared with their own suitcases.
There was nobody at the front of the mansion, except for the two of them!
That was the perfect opportunity to talk.
Lu Xun fished around and around in his pocket… And nothing came out!
Lu Xun, “……”
Lin Yiyi, “……”
Puuf!
Lin Yiyi recalled that he had shoved something into his suitcase on their way back, so she reminded him nicely while trying to stop herself from laughing. “Did you maybe forget something in the suitcase?”
He had attracted so much attention when he was doing that; one would have to be blind to not notice!
And he thought she had no idea whatsoever?
Reminded by Lin Yiyi, Lu Xun quickly went to look inside his suitcase that was still in the trunk of the car.
One really couldn’t blame him for being too nervous. He stroked the velvet box in his hand. Anyone would be equally nervous as him, alright?!
Lin Yiyi immediately noticed the item in his hand. “Are you trying to propose to me?”
That was abruptly straightforward!
Lu Xun was speechless all of a sudden.
By the time he had recollected himself, the velvet box had already been opened up.
This time, it was Lin Yiyi’s turn to be speechless.
She was just rambling. She didn’t think it could be true.
Lo and behold, it was a ring inside the box!
And what a ring it was.
A 19.7-carat diamond ring designed by a French designer. It was one of a kind in this world, and there was nothing else like it.
This was not what Lu Xun had in mind as the best time to propose. Even though he had been carrying the ring around with him, his intention was to wait for the right moment, look for a romantic location, and have a well-thought-out proposal.
Of course, those were just fleeting thoughts.
Even as romantic as Maldives was, he still never presented the ring. He had carried it with him for the entire trip and didn’t do a thing.
What was unexpected was all the congratulatory words on their way back made him veto all of his earlier thoughts.
Chapter 272 - And she was that lucky person! (2)
Ms. Lin Ping was right! We shouldn’t be scums! (How dare you eavesdrop on the conversation between the mother and daughter?)
When the entire world knew that they were a pair, anyone who was a real man should stand up and take on the responsibility!
With a righteous look, Lu Xun looked like he had just made a major decision. He thrusted the ring in front of Lin Yiyi and said, “Let’s get married!”
Lin Yiyi, “… …”
What the heck was this “let’s get married”?!
No fresh flowers? No down on one knee. Not even the super mushy, “Will you please marry me?”
How was this a proposal?!
“Besides, are we that familiar with each other already?”
To get to the point of getting married, they should at least have known each other for some three to five years?
With her phone in her hand, Ms. Lin Ping was trying to talk some sense into her from the other end of the phone. “You need to keep your own age in mind. It is hard enough to find someone decent. What more are you waiting for?”
You are going to be almost 40 years old in another three to five years. What was the point of being in a relationship and getting married then? You might as well skip straight to romance in your golden years!
Everything was going so well! Ms. Lin Ping hadn’t expected that her own daughter would be the one who ruined this!
Ms. Lin Ping very much wanted to slam on her chest and stomp her feet.
Lin Yiyi complained to her mother expressionlessly, “Mom, that was so not your tune before!”
Ms. Lin Ping was stumped.
The phone call between the mother and daughter ended in displeasure.
As soon as this call ended, Lu Xun picked up his phone while sitting properly.
Mother-in-laws in China were sure shrewd.
They were the gatekeepers of marriages!
A humorous story on the internet went something like this:- a boy and a girl went climbing. When they reached the peak of the mountain, the girl shouted at the sky, “Oh! My mother country, my mother!” When the boy heard her, he quickly shouted, “Oh! My mother country, my mother-in-law!” That ought to show the importance of a mother-in-law in the mind of boys! If a boy wanted to marry his girlfriend, they not only needed their girlfriend’s consent, they also needed their future mother-in-law’s.
Lu Xun had natural respect for Ms. Lin Ping.
As a successful female entrepreneur, her business acumen and her success stories deserved a lot of respect, let alone that fact that she was also Lin Yiyi’s mother in addition to that.
The pressure was doubled!
Luckily, she wasn’t an irrational one.
The-extremely-rational Ms. Lin Ping was educating her official son-in-law over the phone, “Look at you. How old are you now? How did you manage to botch your own proposal?”
Lu Xun, “……”
He felt he was being treated very unfairly!
“What did you do with the gold opportunity when you were in Maldives?”
Why else would she go to a different island if not to give the two of them more time to spend together?
What a waste of all of her effort?!
Ms. Lin Ping had most likely forgotten that she only begrudgingly visited a different island because the island that Lin Yiyi was at was booked full.
Naturally, you couldn’t possibly try to reason with this old lady.
Ms. Lin Ping was quite professional, however. After her “lecture”, she began giving him pointers.
With one wanting to teach and the other one very eager to learn, the two of them got along exceptionally well with each other.
From a certain perspective, it wasn’t that difficult to bring Ms. Lin Ping onto his side.
Even though it seemed very difficult for Lu Xun at first, as long as he was sincere and genuine, and proactive in his ways, he could score a lot of points. Even if Ms. Lin Ping wouldn’t say that out loud because of her stubbornness, she was quite pleased deep down inside.
Well after Lin Yiyi heard the proposal, she found out that the two of them were “in cahoots” with each other.
Chapter 273 - And she was that lucky person! (3)
Lu Xun brought Lin Yiyi to a private club.
Lin Yiyi rarely came to places like this. The only one time that she was here she came for her arranged date.
At the time, Ms. Lin Ping had set up an arranged date for her and showed her a group picture that she couldn’t even see the look of the other party. She was speechless for a long time when she saw the picture.
And, that was the reason that she took Lu Xun as her date of the day!
Lin Yiyi looked over at Lu Xun.
Lu Xun took her over to the table next to the floor-to-ceiling window, the one that they sat in on that day.
He was sitting right there the other day and Lin Yiyi sat down across from him. Just like they were right now!
What happened just a year ago seemed very far away but also seemed like it had just taken place.
Lin Yiyi looked up and looked around. “I can’t believe you still remember… I was here for an arranged date that day.”
“And you took me for the other person mistakenly.”
Lin Yiyi looked at Lu Xun who was sitting across from her.
The elite man from that day was not stuck up or cold at all. He was so… she didn’t even know how to describe him in reality.
Perhaps the “Mr. Lu” that she didn’t meet the other day was the true domineering CEO.
Looking back, Lin Yiyi didn’t feel awkward anymore. Quite the contrary, she found it amusing. “Well, both of you have the surname Lu. There were just the two of three patrons at the time, and the other two were sitting at the same table. Plus, I asked you right away whether you are Mr. Lu the minute I sat down.”
“And you told me that you had been married once, have two children, and the older one was 13 years old.”
Lu Xun had good memories.
Lin Yiyi pursed her lips. “You told me that you have a 13-year-old!”
As it turned out, he was referring to his nephew!
Lu Mingzhe was, indeed, 13 years old, and Lu Xun was his legal guardian!
“Is that the excuse that you use to turn down other girls?”
Lin Yiyi was genuinely curious.
How was it possible that a successful man of his caliber had no scandals whatsoever, nevermind that he was in the very complicated entertainment circle no less!
Lu Xun nodded, then shook his head.
He draped his jacket casually over the back of his seat and rolled up his sleeves, just like the day when he saw her.
“You know how it is in the entertainment circle. Everybody has their own agenda, males or females alike.”
He looked over at Lin Yiyi and said, “That being said, when you said you have been married and have kids, I knew that you are different from the others.”
Different, indeed…
Who would that be silly to first reveal one’s marital and family status when they were hitting on someone?
Not unless they were cray-cray!
Nevertheless, her stupefied look when she found out that she had the wrong person was so incredibly cute.
Come to think about it, Meng Shanshan’s expression was exactly like her mother’s!
Lu Xun liked Meng Shanshan so much because she was the one that resembled Lin Yiyi the most. He couldn't help but wanted to woo her, tease her, and dote on Lin Yiyi.
“I know this is a little early but I am ready, Lin Yiyi.”
He had, once again, presented her with the diamond.
This diamond ring was so ridiculously big that she would not be able to wear it on a regular basis. She worried that her hand would be chopped off!
Nevertheless, she couldn’t deny that a woman’s attention would be grabbed by it.
That very moment, Lin Yiyi seemed to suddenly have the desire to listen to what else he had to say.
“I want to be married to you. Will you marry me?"
As Lu Xun finished talking, as though on cue, a server walked over to them carrying with them a big bundle of roses and placed it in Lu Xun’s hand.
Lu Xun handed the flowers over to Lin Yiyi, picked up the ring, and looked at her.
Lin Yiyi had never planned her future in any specifics, but she had always planned to find someone who liked her and she liked to be with. They would have a house and car and a pair of children…
It seemed all of those were coming true when she wasn’t expecting…
The order, though, was a little bit out of whack!
But that was not important.
No woman could resist a proposal like that. It didn’t have to be super romance, but anyone could feel his sincerity.
And that was what was important.
Had Lu Xun not liked her that much, someone as slow as her would never have noticed. She didn’t even realize that till everybody else around her did.
Did she like Lu Xun?
Of course she did.
If she didn't, she would have blacklisted him a long time ago with the rate that he came over for free food and drinks.
It wasn’t everyday that one would run into some as shameless as him… And she was that lucky person!