A New Life: Unwanted Marriage

Anhao left the restaurant and started driving home , as she drove she thought of her day the mall , Scott's reaction , everything just seemed like a workload but she was sure that the mall would be easier to handle than Scott. he'd ignore her for a week or a few days because that's what he always did whenever they had a fight or an argument that escalated or he heard something he didn't like from her he would just ignore her for a week , at first she thought he was closing off on her then she realized that was how he dealt with his anger , he would distance himself from her whenever she made him angry , normally she would also get angry with him but this time around she understood his anger , no one had other than Scott understood what Jason ( Shijun ) had put her through , no one understood the pain that she went through , she couldn't eat , she couldn't sleep . The only thing that she found worse than that was losing her mother .

Anhao realized that she had already arrived at the estate and she sighed at the thought of seeing Shijun .

Upon entering into the house she realized that Shijun wasn't back yet , Anhao decided to cook for him but she had to take a shower and change into a more comfortable outfit , she showered quickly and searched her wardrobe for something to wear , she picked a sweat pants and a hoodie and walked into the kitchen to prepare dinner for her fiance. It really sounded weird to her ' fixing dinner for her fiance ' , she shook her head to remove the thought as she strolled round the house while trying to find the kitchen , she finally found the kitchen after almost five minutes of walking . As she walked in , all the servants stopped what they were doing to greet her but Anhao just smiled and gestured for them to continue with their chores . she walked towards the cook

" excuse me ... um Mrs. " she scratched her head because she didn't even know the Cook's name ' ugh this is so embarrassing. '

" Mrs. Feng " the old lady smiled at her " but everyone calls me aunt Nuan "

" I'm sorry I've not had time to get to know everyone " Anhao said , she still felt guilty about it

" it's okay sweetheart , perhaps we can make sometime for that but why are you here now , if you are hungry we have some cookies or would you like something else , I'll have someone get you whatever you want "

" no aunt that's not why I'm here , I just wanted to cook for Shijun "

" I'm sure that can be arranged but I'll be here just incase you need some help "

Anhao nodded as she picked an apron from the drawer and washed her hands as she began to cook for her husband.

The servants had assumed that Anhao was a pampered heiress who didn't know how to do anything but sleep , eat and shop . But they were wrong , Anhao has lived most of her teenage years abroad pretending to be from a middle class family and middle class families don't have maids to cook for them or wash their clothes or do anything for them , she had learned how to cook from her mother , who had wanted to become a chef while she was young so Anhao could cook quite well .

Anhao made some dumplings with sweet and sour pork and also Dandan noodles for the evening meal and decided to do English dishes for desert , at first she wanted to bake a cake but realized that there was no time so she decided to make a pie instead as it would take less time. By the time Anhao was done cooking all the servants in the kitchen we're surprised , even the head cook was shocked . How had she made all these all by herself and to think they had imagined her to be a lazy heiress .

Anhao set the table for her and Shijun as she waited patiently for him to come back home so they could have dinner together but she didn't have to wait long as he came home a few minutes after she had managed to arrange everything .

Shijun walked into the house feeling tired after a long day of meetings , he walked straight to his room and took a quick shower as he prepared to have dinner but he noticed that he hadn't seen Anhao since he returned home , he began to panick

' Has she not returned ? , I really shouldn't have let her go out on her own '

He ran down to stairs looking for any maid that he could ask for her incase she'd come home and gone for a stroll or something , Shijun ran past the dinning room , he had gotten to the door before he suddenly realized that someone had been at the table , he walked back and saw Anhao sleeping at the table as he looked around the table her quickly realized that she must have fallen asleep waiting for him so they could have dinner together , he began to uncover all the dishes but the moment he saw the pie he realized that it was Anhao who cooked for him , a smile suddenly appeared on his face .

she had probably fallen asleep waiting for him to come home , Shijun stared at her for a few minutes contemplating on waking her up or carrying her up to bed but just as he was about to decide the door opened and Anhao woke up with a start , the maid thought she had interrupted something and began to apologize

" I'm so sorry , aunt Nuan had asked me to come get the left over and dirty dishes so they could be washed "

she bowed her head and ran out of the room immediately

Shijun was the first to speak

" I've never seen you sleep through a meal "

Anhao looked at him and laughed

" technically the meal has not begun so I'm not sleeping through "

Shijun smiled while thinking of how beautiful she was as she laughed , her wished he could tell her all that but he knew it was too early and that If he wasn't careful he'd push her away so he just said

" since you are awake let's enjoy our meal "

They ate in a comfortable silence for a while until Shijun broke the silence he had remembered that his mother had asked him to bring Anhao to their ancestral home so she could meet the rest pf his family and could plan an engagement party so they could officially announce their engagement .

" umm " Anhao looked up at him " my mother has asked for us to present at the ancestral home on Saturday , she wants you to meet the rest of my family and get acquainted with them at the get together she's planning "

Anhao looked slightly surprised but she smile politely

" I'd love to meet my mother-inlaw and the rest of the Yin family "

Shijun looked relieved

" Then I'll inform her that we will be there and please try to look your best although you do that without trying "

Anhao smiled widened

" Did you just call me pretty "

" no I didn't , you are just imagining things "

Anhao decided to let it go for now .

After the meal they both retired to bed for the night .