Chapter 1511 - Candlelight Dinner (1/2)
By the time Si Yiyan returned home, the living room was basked in a warm and romantic yellow glow. Flickering candles and exquisite cuisine was spread sumptuously across the long dining table.
With just one glance, Si Yiyan could see that all that food had been personally prepared by Xinya.
He knew Xinya had great culinary skills. Since they started being together, she had carefully nurtured his taste buds. However, he didn’t know that apart from tonic foods and Chinese cuisine, she was also well-versed in the Western fare.
Si Yiyan felt like his heart had been instantly surrounded by the candles’ warm glow.
No wonder she had tried all sorts of means to get him out of the house that afternoon. She had even lied to him saying she had to visit Lanxin Company and so couldn’t accompany him. He had thought she was truly troubled by this morning’s incident and was angry at him and didn’t want to celebrate his birthday anymore. Although he didn’t regard birthdays with high importance, he still felt rather disappointed. He never realized that she was actually preparing such a lovely surprise for him.
Wen Xinya came out at this moment bearing a plate of foie gras, which she had personally cooked. “You are back!”
It was a simple greeting, but it held the natural warmth and sense of stability of a long-time couple who had already experienced a lifetime together.
Si Yiyan looked at Wen Xinya’s soft, beige apron edged with flowers. She was also wearing a matching scarf on her head. Although she had not made any special attempt to doll herself up, she was still so lovely that he couldn’t tear his eyes away from her.
Wen Xinya noticed him just standing there and staring at her solemnly. “Why are you in a daze? Hurry up and go wash your hands. Dinner will be ready soon!”
With that, Wen Xinya turned around and went back to the kitchen.
Si Yiyan instinctively followed her into the kitchen. There were steaks cooking in the oven, the sizzling noises sounded extremely tantalizing.
Wen Xinya turned to look at him. “Why are you standing there so woodenly? Didn’t I ask you to wash your hands?”
Si Yiyan didn’t speak but slowly walked over and hugged her from behind. His chilly and aloof aura vanished without a trace like snow melting.
Wen Xinya instinctively wriggled. “Don’t, I reek of oil and smoke.”
To give Si Yiyan this surprise, she had slaved away in the kitchen for an entire afternoon and smelled strongly of oil and smoke from all the cooking. Si Yiyan would definitely be unused to this smell.
Si Yiyan buried his head into her neck and inhaled deeply. He whispered by her ear in a low voice, “It’s the smell of a real home. I like it very much.”
To someone like him, who wandered along the fringes of the law and navigated the gray area between black and white, the word home was a luxurious concept. It was something he had never dared to think about before meeting Wen Xinya.
His mother’s death. His father’s suicide. These two events were constant reminders that people like him did not deserve happiness. Since a young age, he had purposely rejected the advances of all girls. He had previously considered that, after avenging his parents’ death, he would make use of artificial insemination and surrogacy to continue the great Si family name.
But he had now met Wen Xinya!
After meeting his destined other half, all his pursuits, hopes and resolutions were shattered. At that moment, he suddenly realized that he had scorned and rejected all those women only because they were not her!
Si Yiyan was an extremely prideful person.
As a result, he had never been willing to just settle for anyone or anything. Especially when it came to the woman whom he was going to spend the rest of his life with—it would be her or no one else!
Wen Xinya gave a low laugh. “You know just how to make me happy.”
The happiest thing in life was when someone whom you loved and who loved you back, understood all the hard work you put in for him and never took your efforts for granted.
In love, we must show gratitude.