Chapter 186 - INSIDE THE BLACK EGG IS... (1/2)

”IS it really okay for Brother Ji Yun, Brother Ze, and Sister Yuqi to wait here with me?” Luo Yan asked as he put the black egg on the table.  ”It may take a long while before Little Ancestor hatches.  It might get boring.”

”Xiao Yan, it's fine.  Ji Yun and I are taking almost the same classes and I tell you, the both of us don't have anything important to do right now.  So, we don't mind waiting here with you.”

”He's right,” Shen Ji Yun agreed.

He was sitting in front of the rabbit.  He actually wanted for him to sit beside him.  But before he could offer the said seat, that gnome already pulled Luo Yan to his side.  Seriously, he truly couldn't understand why that gnome was so against him since day 1.

”There's also nothing important on my side,” Su Yuqi followed.

”That's great,” Luo Yan said, smiling brightly at them.

”How come you only asked them?” Luo Jin suddenly inserted.

Luo Yan glanced at his younger brother.  Because of his game avatar, he looked like a cute, sulking kid.  With cheeks bulging and lips pouting.  Which was even more adorable considering how he really looked like in reality.

”Oh, then does Ah Jin have something else to do?  I'm sorry if I just assumed things,” he said looking all apologetic.  ”If you have, then you can go and do that,” he added with an understanding smile.

Argh.  Luo Jin felt like he just kicked his own foot.  He crossed both arms in front of his chest and sulked even more.  ”W-whatever.  I'm free anyway.”

Bai Ze burst out laughing when he saw the interaction between the two.  ”Xiao Jin, how can you act so childish?”

Luo Jin glared at his older cousin.  ”Your childish!  Your who—” he stopped right in time.  If he said 'your whole family is childish' wouldn't that also include him?

He then heard a little chuckle from Su Yuqi.  He glanced at her and saw her looking at him with a small amused smile on her lips.  His face immediately heated up uncontrollably.  He quickly glanced away and chose not to say anything that would only make him appear more foolish.

Shen Ji Yun, on the other hand, cluck his tongue.  It was not that loud, the others probably didn't even notice of hear it.  The reason was most likely his expressionless face.  So no one noticed that he was disappointed that the gnome did not really leave.

”By the way, tomorrow is the start of Mid-Autumn festival, have the two of you already packed?” Bai Ze asked his two cousins.

Luo Jin just shrugged.  Contrary to him, Luo Yan's answer was bit more laced with excitement.

”Yes, I've already packed my bags since yesterday.”

”Is Xiao Yan excited to come and visit us?”

”I am.  I want to meet Uncle Chen again.  Also Auntie and Granpa.  As well as the little cousin.”

Luo Yan already knew about the members of his mother's maiden family.  There's the uncle who visited him at the hospital when he was still confined there.  Bai Chen.  His wife – Sun Xiulan.  They had two sons – the twenty-year-old Bai Ze and the five-year-old Bai Ye.  Then there's the patriarch of the family – Bai Zhen.  Although the one who was truly acting as the head of the family now was Bai Chen.

It's mainly because of the illness of Bai Zhen.  According to Luo Ren, their grandfather had Alzheimer's.  An illness where one slowly forgot the memories that they had gathered throughout the years.  Memories that made them who they were as a person.  The memories of their loved ones were being eroded from their mind.  Truly, it's one heartbreaking illness.

Luo Ren said that their grandfather's illness only worsened when that accident happened seven years ago.  Luo Yan wondered if it would really be okay to meet him.  After all, he looked so much like his mother.  Wouldn't his appearance off-set an attack or something?  Oh well, he'd just deal with it if it ever happened.

But despite his small worries, Luo Yan truly wished that he could also be like a family to them.

”Don't be too excited in wanting to meet Xiao Ye.  I'm warning you now, Xiao Yan.  That brat is a little devil,” Bai Ze said in a very serious tone as if his little brother was indeed the devil.

”I think Xiao Ye is really cute,” Su Yuqi said, refuting Bai Ze.  ”He took all the cute genes from your parents.  That's why none was left to you.”

”Hey, Su Yuqi!  Are you picking a fight?”