The second time Zhou Qinhe visited Sunshine House was also an afternoon, but this time it was the weekend and the shop was busier than usual. Yan Shuyu couldn’t slack off in the back, so she was able to spot the father and son right away.

The male lead did not look too much like his father. In the novel, the male lead was the type of icy boss most commonly seen in all boss novels. His father, on the other hand, was your everyday wolf in sheep’s clothing, always giving others the false impression of being a friendly person. Which was why when compared with the always expressionless and heartless male lead, the gentle and refined villainous stepbrother was more similar to Zhou Qinhe. In the male lead’s memory, it was not uncommon when others mistaken the stepbrother as him.

Seeing the closeness between doting father Zhou Qinhe and his loving stepson Zhou Yuanjia together, many others started speculating that Zhou Yuanjia was Zhou Qinhe’s bastard child and his mother was so resourceful to have him become a “Zhou’s” in a whole different way. This was also when after he had grown up and the villainous stepbrother was competing with the male lead to be the heir, many people even put their money on the villainous stepbrother.

Yan Shuyu, who had read the book, was already prepared for this. Looking at the expressionless little boy standing next to the Boss, she was a little surprised, but she was also able to think rationally at the same time: this must be the legendary male lead.

The first time meeting the male lead, who would eventually send her to jail, Yan Shuyu was neither nervous or emotional. She was emotionally stable. She even wanted to bust out laughing, in fact. His 3-feet tall body was prettier than she had expected.

Certainly, her own instant son was quite pretty as well, but not so much like his mother with unrivaled beauty. For whatever unknown reason, he looked more like her in her previous life. Yan Shuyu was a pretty woman in her previous life as well, little kiddo Zhang Yuanjia, who potentially had her genes was still a pretty thing.

But Zhang Yuanjia was a pretty boy in a refined and delicate way. On the other hand, the male lead was above gender restrictions. His delicate little face, his limpid big eyes, and his bright red lips made him looked more like a girl than a boy. Even when he had on a suit and tie and his face was expressionless, he still looked like a girl in a boy’s outfit.

She had not expected the legendary iceberg boss would look like this when he was a child; no wonder he started to become expressionless at such a young age. That might be the only way he could avoid creepy uncles and aunties that teased him because he looked like Lolita.

Yan Shuyu wanted very much to laugh out loud to express her excitement for witnessing this.

But when she thought about it some more, the pair of well-dressed father and son standing nearby were her future “husband” and her future “archnemesis”. This encounter was sort of awkward, even more so than running into boss and his date a few days ago. Instead of standing there and laughing at the little male lead, she should figure out how to get out of the situation as soon as possible!

Once she arrived at that conclusion, she immediately turned around and wanted to dash, but as luck would have it, Zhou Qinhe had already spotted her

In a very friendly tone, Boss called out to her, “Miss Yan…”

Yan Shuyu shuddered and stopped in her tracks. She realized the difference between Zhou Qinhe and the other customers – the other customers didn’t know her name, she could easily slip away, but this boss man could call out her name any minute.

Once he had called out her name, all her colleagues at the restaurant came to see what was going on. These young people loved gossiping and also had a very active imagination. They could create stories after stories just from their imaginations, let alone when there were indeed some backstory here.

Yan Shuyu, not wanting to become the future center of gossip, had no choice but to walk up to them and greeted them warmly and politely before the boss attracted any more attention. Speaking like a professional server, she said, “Boss Zhou, welcome….”

Yan Shuyu wanted to seat this father and son pair in the most business-like manner, take their orders, then she could retreat nicely and appropriately. She hadn’t expected the boss to be so polite as to introduce his own son to just a lowly server, “Xiao Yi, this is Aunty Yan.”

Even though the male lead, just about 4 years old, had already started to show his icy side, he still had the nature of a child. This might be because his dad has yet to begin his elite training. The little male lead’s large doll-like eyes flickered with curiosity, and he said obediently to Yan Shuyu, “Hi, Aunty Yan.”

Yan Shuyu forced a smile on herself and said, “Hey kid, haha….”

Shoot! Why would you address such a young, pretty girl like herself as “Aunty”? ╰_╯

Naturally, she quickly recalled that she was already a mother at her young age, and her instant son was even 6 months older than the male lead. He was already being polite for addressing her as “Aunty”. Shortly thereafter, her disgruntlement was replaced by rejoice. Today is a weekend day. Normally. her instant son would spend the entire day at the restaurant. Luckily, her son’s kindergarten has a play coming up and it was said that the ones with the best performance would be nominated to enter into some sort of competition. Zhang Yuanjia, who has demonstrated outstanding performance in all aspects at the kindergarten, had been selected to participate, and Teacher Zhou would be rehearsing with them over the next few weekends.

And if her instant son was not at the shop, then he wouldn’t run into male lead’s father and glue onto him, nor would he see how nice the boss was to his own son and wanted to fight over the boss with the male lead.

Having thought of that, Yan Shuyu’s spirit was lifted once again. She immediately put on a bright smile. When she placed the menu in front of the little male lead, she even used the tone that she normally talked to her instant son in, “Let me know what you like, okay?”

His dad was rich anyway. Yan Shuyu could afford to be tender and generous.

Smiling so brightly with her current look could be very damaging. Even the barely 4-year-old little boy was lost in thought as he looked at her. After a few seconds, he finally struggled to look at the menu with his ears flushed.

As for his father, Zhou Qinhe, he was much more experienced and worldly so he wasn’t dazed by her beautiful smile like his son was. Even Yan Shuyu’s gorgeous looks could only put a flicker in his eyes as though he was somewhat interested.

Yan Shuyu hadn’t noticed the looks on the two of them. Had she noticed that they were interested in her, she wouldn’t still be standing here calmly taking their orders – she would have dashed as fast as she could.

Ignorant and thus fearless, Yan Shuyu stood next to her little customer happily. She thought that the little male lead could not read yet. Regardless of how talented he was, he wasn’t even 5 years old yet; even her instant son was still learning how to read from picture books. So, she planned on standing there to help her little customer with the menu.

Naturally, she wasn’t doing that entirely out of her own goodwill; she had other plans. Seeing how boss daddy sat there nonchalantly across from him, he didn’t look interested in helping his son place his order. That had given Yan Shuyu a lot of room to work with; she could trick the little kid to order a lot of food. It didn’t matter whether he could finish them all, the boss would have to pay the bill regardless.

As for the extra money that the boss had to spend, well, that would just be compensation for some of her esteem. The Zhou’s didn’t lack money, and he probably wouldn’t care that much anyway. _(:3J∠)_

Yan Shuyu thought she had the perfect plan, but she had underestimated male lead’s intelligence. Regardless of whether he could read the menu, he could still look at the pictures on the menu. The little male lead was very focused on the menu, showing no signs to ask for help. Yan Shuyu stood by one side awkwardly for a bit but finally used her wit and had him ordered more food than he could possibly eat.

The method was simple, all she needed to do was shamelessly stuck her head over to the male lead when he looked at the pictures, and using the voice of grandma wolf coaxing little red riding hood, said, “Awww, is this what you want? Excellent choice. This one is delicious!” She didn’t really need to come up with many ideas and it worked every time.

Yan Shuyu was a bit surprised as well. The male lead looked stern, but he was so easy to convince. As soon as she said “such excellent choice”, he would nod right away before she could even finish the rest of her sentence.

Her plan worked way better than she had expected. Yan Shuyu also knew that if the male lead was just 2-3 years older, it wouldn’t have been so easy.

Yan Shuyu was happily fooling the little male lead. She played her trickery openly and honestly and completely ignore the fact that the parent was sitting right across from the child. But, just as she had expected, this amount was nothing to the Zhou’s.

The boss watched her interacted with his son the entire time with a gentle look. When Yan Shuyu finally felt that she should stop wasting hard work of the uncle famers that had grown this food, he even smiled at her and asked, “Is that…. Everything you recommend in your shop?”

“I think everything in our shop is delicious!” Yan Shuyu could tell right away that the boss had saw right through her, but his smile was so genial it was obvious that he didn’t care at all. So, she unabashedly and rightfully said, “But I am afraid you won’t be able to finish if we order them all.”

Perhaps, the interaction earlier made the male lead feel that they had grown closer. The well behaved little boy suddenly chimed in and said, “It’s despicable to waste food.”

“You are right, let’s just order these for now them.” Zhou Qinhe properly and elegantly thanked Yan Shuyu, “Thank you for your concern.”

Oh, pssst, who was concerned about you? Jie jie would love for you to order every single dish of the shop, preferably you’d eat yourself to death on the spot! Yan Shuyu was quite happy before, thinking about how witty she was. Nonetheless, the very last line out of the boss’s mouth made her feel defeated…. No wonder it was said that the non-barking dog would bite. Men, who always have a smile on their face, were the most insidious.

Yan Shuyu was a little displeased, and her spirit was dampened. Plus, she was still on the clock, so without further ado, she picked up the menus and walked away.

Her little buddies at the shop was gossipy indeed. Even though they did not head over where she was when she was taking orders for Zhou Qinhe and his son, they had already noticed the unusual chemistry between them. As soon as Yan Shuyu went to the back, they all went up and enthusiastically surrounded her and started asking questions at the same time, “Yanyan, did you know that father and son who just came in? I heard the dad call you by your name.”

“Didn’t that dad just come here two days ago? And didn’t he have afternoon tea with a young and pretty girl? But he is such a sweet man, I guess it all makes sense.”

“Yan-jie, you still haven’t told us how you are related to that handsome man. Are you friends? Is that his kid? Is he single or married?”