Chapter 73

This lunch with extremely complicated characters took a long time to end.

Shen Mingye was feeling sleepy after lunch so couldn't help covering his mouth and letting out a small yawn.

Ahaz stared at the young man's tiny tiger teeth and stepped forward, asking him in a butler's tone if he was going to take a nap.

"No, I'm not sleepy yet." The young man obviously wanted to stay with Feng Fei Ming for some more time. Even though he couldn't resist yawning again, he still held on.

Seeing Feng Fei Ming come over and ask warmly because of Shen Mingye's yawning, jealousy surged in Yoder's heart. He eventually couldn't resist taking out his gift in advance to gain Feng Fei Ming's attention.

"Feng, some time ago I asked a friend to bring some tea from C country. Would you like to try it?"

Yoder knew that Feng Fei Ming was very fond of these things, and as expected, Feng Fei Ming immediately looked at him when he heard the words.

Yoder smiled and took out a small box with an auspicious cloud pattern that Feng Fei Ming liked.

"Looks like you are not too busy after all. Otherwise, how can you still have the thought of looking for these things." Feng Fei Ming's tone was teasing but obviously extremely pleased because of Yoder's attentiveness.

"No matter how busy I am, I remember your preferences." Yoder's gaze burned at Feng Fei Ming. Perhaps Shen Mingye's presence really worked, as Yoder's appreciation for Feng Fei Ming was no longer just between simple friends.

Seeing that the atmosphere between these two was getting better, Qing Yun could not help but yawn again. If these two people get together, his mission in this world can be considered a failure.

Yoder said to Feng Fei Ming, "Robot butlers are equipped with the program of tea art. Although it is rigid with no mood, it is better than nothing. So let K perform it?"

"K, go and bring the tea set." Feng Fei Ming nodded and ordered towards Ahaz.

Ahaz's mood darkened again. He could take care of Shen Mingye without any problems, but he couldn't stand Feng Fei Ming's orders. However, the robot's body had moved on its own.

At this time, Shen Mingye's voice interjected: "I'll do it, I seem to know a little bit of tea art."

Hearing this, the three present all turned their eyes to Shen Mingye. Feng Fei Ming's always gentle voice brought a cold tone: "Mingye, don't make a scene. Yoder worked hard to find the tea, so let's not waste it."

It is not surprising that Feng Fei Ming did not believe him. In this era of extreme technological development, many classical arts withered. Not to mention the tea art, natural tea leaves are also rare. This is also why Yoder brought a small box of tea leaves, allowing Feng Fei Ming to feel his heart.

Robots can simulate the skills of tea art, but they cannot perform the most attractive feeling. Nowadays, the few tea masters are all in C Country. Shen Mingye was born and raised in E Country, so where could he learn about the art of tea?

Just the technique of making and serving tea alone, how can this pampered teenager do it?

"I really can..." The young man lowered his head because of Feng Fei Ming's refusal.

Feng Fei Ming's fingers knocking on the desktop stiffened. These days, Shen Mingye has been looking at him with a bright, charming gaze. Now, after seeing the teenager's dim eyes for the first time, Feng Fei Ming is a bit unaccustomed to it.

He has been overly doting on Shen Mingye in front of Yoder these days, so is it bad to refuse him like this now? Feng Fei Ming's heart wavered in a rare moment.

Yoder said, "If he wants to do it, let him try. It's just some tea. It's not that precious."

Yoder did not look at Shen Mingye's eyes as he held his glass of wine but turned to the window. Letting Feng Fei Ming see the child's capriciousness was just right. Perhaps Feng Fei Ming himself did not notice, but Yoder could see clearly that Feng Fei Ming was becoming more and more gentle to Shen Mingye these days.

Ahaz has already brought the tea set. Qing Yun gave it a fussy look, but he still reached out to take it, although he disliked it.

As soon as the young man took the tea set, his aura was suddenly calmed down. The sunlight outside the window sprinkled on him, which was warm and unrestrained.

Although he is a mixed-race face and is sitting in such a European-style dining room, Shen Mingye's every move, accompanied by a clear tea flowing between the cups, ultimately attracted their attention.

They sat in the richly colored dining room, but it was as if they were seeing emerald bamboo and ethereal clouds. The faint fragrance of tea was accompanied by a breeze that blew away the distracting thoughts and desires in everyone's mind, allowing them to only gaze at Shen Mingye's glistening white fingers.

He did not confine himself to the steps of each movement, and his etiquette was more casual. Still, it was because of this movement that he brought a sense of flowing elegance.

When the cup of fragrant tea was placed in front of them, Yoder and Feng Fei Ming came back to their senses and looked at the boy's serene face.

After sipping a bit of tea from the cup, the dining room was quiet for a while before Feng Fei Ming opened his mouth to break the momentary indulging silence. He looked at Shen Mingye with a complicated gaze, "When did you...learn this?"

"No…I didn't deliberately learn, just recently prepared a script related to C country. You said before that you liked it, but I really didn't spend much time..."

Seeing that Feng Fei Ming asked a question, the young man changed from his calmness when making tea and becoming overwhelmed. His speech was also incoherent, saying at one moment that he learned it when preparing the script and at another moment emphasizing that he had not learned it for too long.

The truth that he was trying to conceal was evident to everyone.

Although Shen Mingye's movements were not as standard as a robot's, they were incomparably skilled. They were definitely not practiced in a short time. Besides, the art of tea is something that if one does not take the trouble to experience, how could it be possible to get all of them to indulge in it in a single move?

Moreover, no one understands better than Feng Fei Ming what Shen Mingye has been doing recently. He has not prepared a script with a C country background, and he has not practiced the art of tea recently.

The only possibility is that when Feng Fei Ming mentioned his love of tea art to Shen Mingye as a child, the boy took it to heart and bothered to practice but was too embarrassed to tell others that he had done it for so many years and was too shy to perform it.

If not for this time that Yoder brought precious tea by chance and also happened to be seen by Shen Mingye, perhaps Feng Fei Ming would never know in his life that someone actually made such an effort because of his words.

The youth lowered his head because of the gaze of the two people on the table. The tips of his ears exposed on both sides were red and flushed.

Qing Yun's eyes were very calm. He chose to perform the tea ceremony because Shen Mingye had really practiced and learned it. He had spent a considerable amount of effort to learn the rhythm of tea as a person who grew up with a Western education.

Unfortunately, in the world's original direction, this shy guy had not been able to perform it for Feng Fei Ming.

Yoder looked deeply at the teenager on the side, who had his head lowered almost into a ball. To be honest, although Yoder was jealous because of the way Feng Fei Ming treated Shen Mingye, he really didn't consider this weak little guy as a rival.

Because he was much stronger than Shen Mingye and could do a lot more for Feng Fei Ming.

However, Yoder did not expect that Shen Mingye, a little thing that was incredibly weak in his heart, would be able to go this far for Feng Fei Ming. Learning a nearly lost art from halfway across the world is not an easy task.

And the teenager had covered up his efforts until now.

Yoder could understand him perfectly. It was just like how he had gone to great lengths to find natural tea that was native to C country but acted in front of Feng Fei Ming as if it was easy. Everyone wants to appear like they are capable in front of the person they like.

The young man's head was lowered, and Yoder could not see his eyes, but he could imagine how warm and how soft his gaze should be.

Yoder never thought he would really see such genuine emotions one day, and it was in his opponent.

"You...had remembered all along what I said at that time?" Feng Fei Ming quietly looked at Shen Mingye.

That time refers to when he first came here. To please his aunt, Feng Fei Ming deliberately pleased Shen Mingye and gave him many seemingly genuine words.

The top of the young man's fluffy hair gently swayed a couple of times.

Feng Fei Ming partially lowered his eyes, covering the blankness in them.

His childhood experience has been too sad. When he was very young, he also had a good family, and a group of relatives like the stars supported his parents. But once the accident happened, the group of relatives who were initially pleasant and harmonious were like blood-sucking evil spirits who robbed his family of all its assets and even used tricks to rob Feng Fei Ming of his rightful inheritance. After that, Feng Fei Ming became a complete drag, like a ball being kicked around, and eventually kicked halfway across the world to his distant aunt's house, which he had never heard of.

From then on, Feng Fei Ming made up his mind that emotions are false and that money and power are the most useful things.

So he took advantage of the situation and robbed the Patterson family without hesitation. He didn't feel any guilt towards Shen Mingye. Feng Fei Ming even thought he should thank himself because without him, there would be others in power, and then Shen Ming Ye's life would not be as good as it is now.

But Feng Fei Ming could never have imagined that after so many years, he could still feel a kind of warmth and throbbing that he had almost forgotten and that it would come from this teenager whom he had robbed of everything.

He actually…..really kept in mind what he said and kept...quietly...loving him all this time.

It's ridiculous.

The entire room was in silence. The silent robot butler looked at Shen Mingye at the table in a daze.

If someone looks carefully, they should be able to see a deep shock in the robot butler's electronic eyes.

In fact, the most shocked among the people present was none other than Ahaz. Because he actually saw the shadow of the man on his painting in the body of Shen Mingye, a mixed-race youth.

The two did not have any similarity in appearance. They even showed a very different temperament, but Ahaz felt the resemblance, and his heart rose with a "finally found him" excitement.

When the young man poured tea, a hint of his unique aura faintly enveloped in the entire space and was keenly captured by Ahaz.

In the past, when he was at home, Ahaz would spend his time in the studio every day even when he was not painting, or else he would be so agitated that he would seem like he had lost the goal he was pursuing.

But now, it's been almost more than 24 hours since Ahaz entered the robot's body, but Ahaz has not had a single reminder of that painted scene. Because here, he could always follow the young man's figure and keep him in his line of sight.

Ahaz, who was bitter about his current situation, even had a sense of gratitude that he had this opportunity to touch the youth and that Feng Fei Ming had even given this robot the order to keep a watchful eye on Shen Mingye.

In this way, Ahaz could always watch him, follow him, and no longer have to endure the anxiety and pain that comes with the loss of him.