My Youth Began With Him

“Yeah. I’m envious, jealous and I hate you for your good luck.” Little Bean was frank.

“Hahaha! Okay… Now go to your room to nurse your envy and jealousy. My sister and I will retire to the bedroom now.”

“Auntie, can’t you take me with you?”

“Of course not. My sister and I will have a private world of our own and no one is allowed to intrude. Good night.” Lu Yan was so smug that she even excluded her nieces.

“Auntie, if you do this, I won’t love you,” Little Bean threatened.

“Won’t love me? Okay, but you must return the 20,000 dollars that I just gave you.” Lu Yan extended her hand.

“Heihei. I was just kidding. Auntie, my love for you is as endless as the great river…”

“Stop it. If you continue, you’ll say that I’ll live forever in your heart, right?” Lu Yan laughed.

“Hahaha! I didn’t say it. You said it. You can’t put those words into my mouth.”

“Go and find your own elder sister while I go with my elder sister.”

Finally, Little Bean returned to their room with Pudding for the night.

Happily, Lu Yan went up to the main bedroom with her arm around her sister.

Qin Chu went to work in the study with his laptop.

Lu Yan put on Huo Mian’s cotton sleeping gown and looked much more beautiful in it than Huo Mian. After all, she had great looks.

“Yan, we’re sisters by blood, but why are you so much more beautiful than I?” Huo Mian lamented.

“Hahaha! It’s because you look like Dad and I look like Mom.” Lu Yan was smug.

“Our mom is very beautiful?” Huo Mian suddenly remembered she had never seen their mom’s pictures and didn’t know how she looked.

She only knew their mom’s name was Lin Ya, but Lu Yan and their dad didn’t want to talk about her.

“Right. Our mom is ridiculously beautiful. They say I’m not even one-tenth as beautiful as our mom…”

“Is she a great beauty like Audrey Hepburn?” Huo Mian tried to imagine their mom’s looks.

“I think she’s more beautiful than Hepburn… I’m not exaggerating.”

“Do you have her photos? Can I see them?” Huo Mian thought Yan might have their mom’s photos on her cellphone.

“Yeah. But… Dad told me not to talk much about our mom with you.”

“Why not?” Huo Mian was surprised.

“Um… I don’t know how to explain it. Many things happened with our mom and she is now on the list of Red Notices. You can’t find any information about her in any files in any country. In short, there’s no information about Ms. Lin Ya on Earth.”

“Is our mom an alien?” Huo Mian was astonished.

“Hahahaha! Sis, you are silly. An alien? You watched too much Star Wars, right?” Lu Yan burst into laughter.

“You made her sound so mysterious that my imagination ran wild.”

“Ha. Your imagination is a bit too wild. Anyway, don’t think about it. You’ll know it when it’s time.”

“Can I see her photos?” Huo Mian had only one small request.

“In fact, all her photos have been destroyed. I only have this.”

Lu Yan activated the system on her watch with some dizzying operations.

Finally, the virtual image of a sketch appeared in midair.

“Did you draw it?” Huo Mian asked.

“Yeah. Dad destroyed all of our mother’s photos. I couldn’t bear it and saved this sketch.”

“She… is so beautiful,” looking at the sketch, Huo Mian murmured to herself.