School Beauty's Personal Martial Expert
Chapter 320: Imperial Cuisine House 3

Chapter 320: Imperial Cuisine House 3

In the lull between courses, Ling Xuejiu shook Madame Ren’s arm and laughed, "Mom, didn’t you bring a gift for your daughter?"

Madame Ren looked at Ling Xuejiu with a face full of doting affection and laughed, "You little thing, I don’t know if you miss Mom or the gift more?"

"Hey, I missed both!" Ling Xuejiu blinked playfully.

Madame Ren laughed bitterly and took out several beautifully wrapped tote bags from beneath the table, and then from one of those bags she pulled out a small box, which she handed to Ling Xuejiu.

"Mom, what’s this?" Ling Xuejiu happily took it, opened it, and saw a sapphire necklace shining beautifully in the restaurant light, truly a sight of luxurious splendor!

"Wow~!" Li Mengjie said with an envious smile, "That’s so pretty, Xue Jiu, Aunt Ren is really good to you."

"Of course, I’m her daughter, if she’s not good to me, who would she be good to?" Ling Xuejiu replied with a laugh, then glanced at Madame Ren again, "Right, Mom?"

Madame Ren laughed good-naturedly and said, "Yes, yes, yes. Let me put it on for you, let’s see if it looks good?" While speaking, she took the necklace and put it on Ling Xuejiu herself.

"How does it look, good?" Ling Xuejiu asked excitedly.

Madame Ren said with a smile, "It looks beautiful, very pretty!"

"Xiao Jie, is it really?" Ling Xuejiu asked Li Mengjie.

Li Mengjie said enviously, "Yeah, you look like a princess now, hehe, if I were a boy, maybe I’d fall in love with you right now." As she spoke, she glanced at Leng Xuan meaningfully.

"Go on, Xiao Jie, you’re never serious," Ling Xuejiu pouted, pretending to be annoyed on the surface, but actually feeling very pleased inside. Following Li Mengjie’s gaze, she suddenly noticed that Leng Xuan was also looking at her. Remembering Li Mengjie’s earlier words, ’if I were a boy, maybe I’d fall in love with you right now,’ she blushed involuntarily. Leng Xuan was also a boy, would he fall in love with her? At that thought, she immediately countered herself, ’I don’t even like him, why would I want him to like me?’

Madame Ren also noticed her daughter’s unusual behavior and glanced at Leng Xuan, her brow furrowing slightly. Although she felt somewhat uncomfortable inside, she still strived to maintain a smile. Then she took out another little bag and handed it to Li Mengjie, saying, "Xiao Jie, this is for you from Auntie Ren, take a look and see if you like it?"

"I have one too?" Although Li Mengjie knew Madame Ren would surely have bought her something as well, she still politely demurred before taking it with a smile and saying, "Let’s see what it is." She opened the small bag and pulled out a collector’s edition DVD of the Hollywood superstar ’Alina’. She was overjoyed and couldn’t stop smiling – Alina had passed away three years ago, and to this day, you couldn’t buy her collector’s edition DVDs unless you had connections. A year ago, at the second anniversary of Alina’s death, the collector’s DVDs went for as much as eight thousand US dollars, and this year they were likely to fetch even more.

More importantly, Alina had always been Li Mengjie’s ultimate idol, so owning one of Alina’s collector’s edition DVDs was naturally a matter of great pride.