252— Visiting City A

Pei Yueran stirred and woke up almost immediately his breath touched her skin.

The main reason was due to her excitement, but also because she wasn't tired out the night before. Why was that?

It was because due to natural causes, Chairman Li was unable to eat meat last night ah.

After he came back from his meeting with Li Yuchen, he naturally wanted to "exercise" with his wife. Feeling mischievous, Pei Yueran allowed him to do warm up activities first, before telling him about the situation.

His crestfallen look when he found out made Pei Yueran laugh. That painful feeling of being so close yet unable to eat, perhaps only Li Chuanmo himself could describe it.

She had to carefully hide her look of schadenfreude however, else she was sure that this petty husband of hers would have been driven to do something in desperation.

Thinking about it even now made her smile widen, which made Li Chuanmo's eyes narrow dangerously in response. Was she really rejoicing in his misfortune happily? Should he just damn the consequences and sort her out properly?

Finally taking note of the look in his eyes, she quickly wiped the smile off her face and greeted him with a hug, "Good morning Honey."

Unfortunately, the call of "Honey" only served to remind Li Chuanmo of last night's disappointment. When he wanted to hear her call him that everyday, she didn't. Now it sounded like she was laughing at him.

Instead of releasing her after the hug, he pressed her even closer and captured her lips. The softness he felt as they rubbed against each other was more intoxicating than a bottle of fine, aged wine, making him want to indulge even further.

Pei Yueran soon started drowning, because of the overwhelming sensation, but also due to the obvious lack of air. When they parted lips, she could see through the soft light in the room that his eyes had turned completely dark green.

Startled, she admired a bit more before quickly urging him to go wake up the boys. If they continued to indulge, —forget about natural causes— not only would he eat her till nothing was left, their flight to City A would have to be rescheduled.

She would die of embarrassment if she had to explain such a thing to anyone.

Pressing his lips once against the mark on her chest, Li Chuanmo finally got out of bed to go and wake the boys up and get them to start preparing.

Surprisingly, both boys were awake already. Li Chuanmo was relieved to see that Li Yuchen was his bubbly self again, then he became pensive when he wondered how much of this bubbly look was a front.

Within the hour, the four of them were done preparing and assembled downstairs for breakfast.

A few workers had resumed duty that day, but due to the festivities, they only had to come in for half of the day. Since the family was also going to spend a few days in City A, the workers would get a paid vacation for that period of time.

Breakfast was a simple meal of ingot-shaped dumplings in clear soup, but Pei Yueran got an additional bowl of chicken soup cooked with herbs. She smiled gratefully at Li Chuanmo's thoughtfulness.

They made it to the airport in good time for their flight. Their plane wasn't from Gaoyi Airlines this time, but it still reminded Pei Yueran of the fact that she met Gao Tinghua on a similar flight.

Throughout the journey, both boys were very excited. Han Yichen's excitement had a bit of reservation, but Li Yuchen's was as loud and enthusiastic as ever.

Due to his urging, Han Yichen began to share incidents that happened to him when he lived in City A. Stories about his teachers, school mates and friends from the orphanage poured out one after the other.

Pei Yueran listened to his vivid storytelling with genuine interest, and even Li Chuanmo,—who held his wife's hand throughout the flight— was not left out.

Han Yichen's ability to speak in a way that held his audience spellbound was top notch.

They got to City A just as the sun got to its peak high in the sky. Although the sunlight was blinding, the air was only slightly warm, even a bit chilly to someone who couldn't stand a bit of cold.

A car from AiChen Mobile's president was waiting to pick them up at the airport. The driver, a man who looked to be in his mid-fifties greeted them politely, enquired about their trip and helped them with their luggage.

His greeting to Pei Yueran carried more familiarity because he recognized her as one of their former directors.

Pei Yueran also greeted him warmly. Knowing he was President Qi's personal driver, she asked about him as well, then asked Li Chuanmo if they could squeeze a trip to see President Qi into their itinerary. Li Chuanmo had no objections.

They soon got in and were on their way to Director Zhou's house. As they went further, Han Yichen introduced some important city landmarks and of course, the history behind them.

Li Yuchen wasn't very interested in history, but since it was Han Yichen talking, his attention span was still satisfactory. Teacher Dan would have shed tears of joy if only Li Yuchen paid this much attention in Literature classes.

Pei Yueran had already messaged Director Zhou when they landed in City A, so she was waiting for them at the gate when the car pulled out.

The two boys got down from the car and went straight to hug her, Li Yuchen getting to her first. Seeing two adorable boys come towards her made Director Zhou's face crease in a smile.

Li Yuchen went straight into bootlicking mode, "You look amazing Grandma. Happy New Year."

Director Zhou's eyes almost formed a line due to her happiness. She rubbed his head and asked how he was doing. Then Han Yichen also came up and greeted her cheerfully.

The driver helped them bring down the luggage before driving off. By the time Pei Yueran and Li Chuanmo got to where they were standing, Li Yuchen was telling something Director Zhou about something that happened in school.

Li Chuanmo greeted her calmly before shooting Li Yuchen a look, "Shouldn't you wait to get inside the house before you start talking?"