“I am a person. A person has life and things don't.” Annie lectured him earnestly.
Having a child in a family is like having someone who always brings joy.
On this side, the gaze of the two men met, gestured slightly, and understood each other. Before
everyone’s laughter came, they already flashed towards the kitchen.
Mr. Steele was about to follow them, but being held by Olive, “Just let them go.”
They seemed to have something to say. This was what she noticed when she saw both of them
exchanging gazes.
Mrs. Steele was a bit worried as she looked at the closed kitchen door, “There will be no problem,
right?”
Olive laughed it off, “Could it be that you’re worried that those two grown-up men would set your
kitchen on fire?”
“It’s not that bad.” Mrs. Steele said.
During the short time when Alan was here, he didn’t behave like a man from a rich family. When he had
time, he would roll up his sleeves and help in the kitchen. He definitely didn’t look like a young master
who never did house chores before.
As for Ivy, he is a very diligent young man. Every time he came here, he never spent his time leisurely.
At that time, her parents thought that it would be nice if their daughter could end up with him.
It’s just everything could change. Nobody expected that things would turn out this way.
Of course, it’s not that Alan was not good. They couldn’t find any flaws in this man who appeared
unexpectedly.
After closing the kitchen door, although they couldn’t block the noises from the living room, the
conversation between both of them couldn’t be heard outside.
The duck soup that had been simmered on the stove was ready to be cooked. The vegetables were
already washed and placed in the wooden fruit basket at the kitchen counter. The rest just needed to
be cut and pan-fried.
They were a weird combination. The people outside couldn’t help but be curious and worried, but on
the contrary, the concerned party just ignored it.
“Preparing the meal or assisting to cook, you can choose first.”
“I heard that Mr. Hoyle, you have an incredible cooking skill. It’s rare to have such an opportunity, of
course, I’d like to taste it.” Ivy smiled lightly, He picked up the knife and neatly cut the shredded pork on
the cutting board.
“I only know that you were good at mixing cocktails but I didn’t expect that your knife skills are also
superb. I assume, your cooking skill won’t be bad either.” Alan glance slightly and brought the
earthenware pot of the duck soup off the stove.
“Let’s stop flattering each other, it’s boring. I’m curious about how you found out my identity.” He had
thought of it for several days, he didn’t feel that he had made a careless mistake all along.
Alan smiled lightly, “I’m just following the clue. I have to thank your friend, Dave for telling me his family
name, which is a small reminder.”
No walls didn’t have a crack. No matter how tightly wrapped it was, there’s always a moment of flaw.
Alan’s cooking skill conquered Dave’s stomach. He wasn’t courteous toward everyone on the table and
asked bluntly, “Mr. Hoyle, did you really cook all of these by yourself?”
“There were only two people in the kitchen. Unless you think your friend joined hand with me to fool
you.” Alan raised his eyebrows slightly, but he wasn’t angry.
“Mr. Hoyle, you are really capable to attend the meetings, cook nice dishes, manage the company,
clean up the internal enemy, deal with the foreign enemy, and can even put a hold on the underworld
syndicate. You are an all-rounder!” Dave gave him thumbs up.
Alan smiled lightly, “Mr. Chou you’re not bad either. You can win a championship, climb Mount Everest,
dating a younger woman, open a martial art gym, plan a strategy…”
Annie was at a loss as she frowned her small eyebrows, “Mommy, are we having a conference for
flattery today? I’m dizzy hearing all of it.”
Chloe patted Annie’s small head as she said, “Honey, you’re really my soul mate. Both of you aren’t
tired of flattering each other, but I’m tired of listening to it. I say, both of you, it’s not the first time you
met, why don’t you put away your hypocrite politeness?”
In the end, she quickly scanned both the men again, and quickly added, “Well, he said that you’ve ever
climbed Mount Everest, is it real?”
“I’ve even walked across Lop Nor, do you believe it?” Dave said lightly, but his pride of accomplishment
was shown through his brows as if the adventure was one of his joy in life.
“I believe it.” Olive thought of the first time when she met this man. He looked travel-worn and weary,
as if he’d just walked out of a primitive place that was far away from the city, and had no time to change
his clothes.
Chloe said to Dave, “You really know how to go around.”
“Dave, you’re so amazing. Mount Everest is so high, moreover, it is a huge snowy mountain. You can
actually conquer it. You have to know that it’s not a mountain that anyone can go as they want. As for
Lop Nor, I heard that is a place of doom. Many people can’t find their way out. You’re really terrific. I
want to treat you as my idol.” Mrs. Steele’s astonished smile couldn’t hide her admiration toward the
youngster.
“Auntie, you’re flattering me.” Dave still acted slightly modest in front of the elders.
Annie suddenly giggled, she stretched her hands to wipe the rice grain at the corner of her mouth,
“When I grow up, I want to go to the South Pole to see penguins and polar bears.”
“Fine, Daddy will go with you.” Alan was very lenient towards his daughter. Most adults would only
laugh at these ideas of their children. But he thought that his daughter’s dream was very cute and he
should actively support it.
Aoba also said from the side, “Then, Uncle will also go with you.”
“Okay, okay!” Annie clapped happily, then cast her eyes on Ivy with expectant, “What about you
Godfather?”
Ivy smiled lightly, “Do you want me to go?”
“Of course, the more the merrier.” It’s the nature of a child, it will be livelier with more people, “Big
Beard you should also come.”
Dave said, “If you call me Master, I’ll go.”
“You’re already an adult, yet you still have the nerve to bully a kid, hmph!” The little girl raised her tone,
pouting her mouth, but she didn’t shout, “It’s fine if you don’t want to go. Just admit that you don’t dare
to go.”
At a young age, she could actually use sarcasm already.
Dave found it funny and annoying, he glared with his thick eyebrows, “Is there any place that your
Master doesn’t dare to go in this world?”
“My teacher said that you can’t talk too much. The TV said there’s still a lot of unknown places on the
earth that is full of mysteries. The human being is actually very small in nature and cannot be too proud
of themselves.” This little baby started to educate the adults.
Aoba almost wanted to jump up and applaud his niece. A naïve speech that instantly defeated
everyone as she spoke.
Dave didn’t expect that he would be speechless several times in front of this little girl. He could only
blow his beard and stare at her. Of course, the iconic beard that he was intensely proud of had long
gone.
“Big Beard, are you going or not?” Annie asked again.
“Look, I don’t have a beard anymore. So, you have to call me Master.” Dave raised his chin to show
her. In order to make this kid willingly calls him ‘Master’, he slightly felt at the end of his wits.
Compared to this, it’s because he used to like playing and teasing this small devil, and thought that
there were many amusing incidents in life. But now, he somewhat targeted her dad. Alan Hoyle, no
matter how cool and awesome you are, your daughter still hasn’t worshipped me as a Master.
It’s just that when this small devil once in a while requested him for something, she would be overly
sweet and call him Master Big Beard. But most of the time, she would still get into a confrontation with
him. She’s really a little baby that’s hard to deal with.
But there’s one thing that he must admit. This little devil may be a girl, but she could endure many
hardships that even the boy her age couldn’t. Her little brain is also nimble and clever, filled with wicked
ideas.
To such an extent that he felt love, hate, angry, and funny towards her.
“Then, Master without a beard, are you going or not?” Annie’s words caused everyone to laugh again.
Dave said, “I’ll go. Why won’t I go? Do you think I, as your master, will lose to a little devil like you?”
He’s afraid that when she grows up later, she won’t remember that she ever had such a dream.
Kids, after they slept, usually they wouldn’t remember what they said yesterday.
But this kid was very determined, “Who said that I won’t remember? Hmph, when I turn eighteen I will
go.”
Chloe stroked her forehead, “Olive, do you feel that we have a house full of crazy people? A big crazy
one and a small crazy one, all are here.”
“Birds of a feather flock together.” The little kid let out an idiom smoothly.
There was another burst of laughter on the table.
A kid’s words carried no harm and had no intention. It’s just the adults who had complicated minds and
their own worries.
“Little thing, you and your dad don’t look like the same kind. How can you be the same kind?” Dave
seemed to be looking at the little kid, but the corner of his eyes glanced across Alan with a faint
provocative smile.
Alan naturally understood him and smiled silently without any comment.
Annie looked left and right and curled her small mouth, “Both of you are old uncles, yet you still want to
act young?”
Dave drifted away with his mind filled with sinister lines, but when his gaze turned to Alan, he laughed,
and said, “Mr. Hoyle, your daughter thinks that you’re old.”
Alan was not upset by it and smiled lightly, “People will eventually become old. Compared to Summer
and Edgar, although I’m not young anymore, I’m surrounded by my wife and daughter. So, Mr. Chou,
you still have to work hard.”
Dave was gloomy again since his sore spot was touched. Isn’t it just a family and a baby? What a
show-off.
Annie persistently and asked again, “Master without a beard, when will you and Auntie Xenia give birth
to a baby to be my playmate?”
“Ask your parents for it,” Dave said angrily. How could he let his child play with this little devil? It would
be a blessing if she didn’t harm it.
“You should have one with Auntie Xenia too. Then Uncle and Godmother will have one too. Later, when
Godfather finds someone he likes, he will have one too. Then, Uncle Summer, Edgar, Colbert, and
Greg will all have one. That way, I’ll have a lot of younger siblings. I can protect all of them.” The little
kid excitedly said.
“Do you want to be the eldest sister?”
“I am an older sister.”
“If you don’t bully them to cry, it’s such a blessing already.” Dave groaned. He still didn’t understand
where did her wicked trait come from? He didn’t know that she was born with it, or inherited it from
Alan.
Speaking of children, when Mrs. Steele was washing dishes in the kitchen, she avoided everyone, and
asked Olive in private, “Have you thought of having another child?”
Annie was using the Steeles' last name. They had also married and they must have a child with Hoyles'
last name.
Olive was immersed in washing the fruit. In front of her mother, she didn’t try to hide this issue, “We’ve
talked about it, but now we have different opinions.”
“What do you mean?”
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