150 Ch. 150 The Calvinsâ Visit (part 1)
âXia Xia, Harmonie will come here and stay at our house. She recently broke up with her fiancé, so I wanted to cheer her up.â Richard informed his wife about his sisterâs arrival while enjoying breakfast together. However, he didnât immediately tell her that the whole family was coming but one by one before throwing the main bomb.
âOkay.â
âYou donât mind?â
âHow could I? Your sister is lovely, and I already think of her as my big sister. But how did they break up? They should get married this year, considering they have been engaged for so long.
âI wish I know. Moni keeps her mouth shut when someone asks her.â
âIâm surprised you can still keep quiet. If I were you, I would hunt down all the men who make my sister broken heart.â
Richard chuckled at his wifeâs words. âTrust me. I would love to hunt him down. But Moni would hate me if I did, so I didnât do it.â
âWhat a lucky person.â
Richard felt his heart warmed to hear that his wife was sincerely upset about the treatment of the man who had hurt his sister. He knew that Anxia could accept Harmonieâs presence the most among his family members. Harmonie was a cheerful person and got along with everyone quickly. In her own way, Harmonie broke through Anxiaâs defenses and allowed his wife to become closer to Moni.
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Thatâs why Richard informed Moniâs arrival in advance, knowing Anxia would not mind welcoming her.
âAnd also⦠my father and mother will accompany her here.â
Anxia stopped chewing her food when Richard threw the first bomb. Well, Anxia didnât mind welcoming her mother-in-law, but⦠she still couldnât feel at ease when she met her father-in-law in person.
Every time they went on vacation to Delft to visit them, Anxia couldnât be herself and was always careful in front of Stanley Calvin.
Ever since she knew Stanley was against their marriage relationship, Anxia couldnât shake the thought that Stanley had other ways to keep her away from her husband. As a result, she always became tense, and suddenly she forgot how to act properly in front of her in-laws. Even when Stanley started chatting with her, Anxia needed time to respond to the manâs talk. Her brain had to think twice as hard to find vocabulary that would not offend her father-in-law.
In the end, Stanley never spoke to her again and avoided her. Stanleyâs attitude of avoiding her made her gloomy because she was sure Stanley officially didnât like her to be her daughter-in-law.
Hearing the news that her father-in-law was coming here froze Anxiaâs brain. She wanted to refuse and didnât want to face her husbandâs father and become someone she wasnât. But she couldnât reject her husbandâs family, considering Richard loved his family dearly.
âXia Xia? Are you okay?â
âI think so.â
âAre you sure? Youâre not happy my family would be here?â
âItâs not like that. They are your family, and I have no right to be unhappy about them coming here.â
Richard held Anxiaâs hand while stroking it gently. âThey are also your family, and never think you are a stranger in their eyes. Hmm?â Using his other hand, Richard fondly stroked Anxiaâs head.
âYour father doesnât like me.â
âWho said that? I thought you were the one who didnât like him.â
âWhat? I donât dislike your father. Itâs just⦠donât you feel that your father avoided me when we came to Delft on our last visit?â
âWell, he did keep his distance because he thought you were afraid of him.â
âIâm afraid of him? Iâm not afraid of him.â
One of Richardâs eyebrows rose as if he didnât believe his wifeâs denial.
âI mean, a little. I did feel uncomfortable when I met him, but that doesnât mean I didnât like your father. I wish I could treat him like my own.â
âThen why did you always get tense when my father tries to strike up a conversation with you?â
What?
âThatâs because...â she was too nervous!
âNow I get it. Itâs only a misunderstanding between the two of you. You assume my father didnât accept you when he accepted you long ago when we visited them the first time from London. My father thought you didnât like him, so he stopped approaching you.â
Anxia frowned as she listened to her husbandâs explanation. Today her brain was slow to work, so she had difficulty digesting long sentences from her husband.
âXia Xia, trust me. My father has completely accepted you and is eager to recognize his new member and treat you like his daughter. So, when our parents come here, you donât have to act uptight and pretend to be someone else. You have to be yourself because my dad doesnât like people around him pretending to be not who he is.â
âI can do it?â
âOf course.â Richard chuckled as he saw his wifeâs black eyes well up with tears. âWhy are you even crying?â Richard wiped the tears that had escaped at the edge of his wifeâs eyes.
âI donât know. I think Iâm becoming a crybaby when Iâm with you.â
âAw⦠You know, I donât mind seeing you crybaby at all. Come here.â
Anxia complied and allowed herself to be hugged tightly by her husband.
Lori was also not to be outdone and got out of her chair to wrap her arms around her motherâs waist, providing the same caring support as her father.
Anxia smiled happily and was satisfied with her new life. She wished time could stop and they could live like this forever. She hoped Master Yu would never come to demand something she no longer had and destroy her happy life with her family.
After breakfast, Richard got ready to go to the office. When the car driven by his driver stopped in front of his companyâs office, Richard felt he had forgotten something important.
Ah, it must not be that important, Richard thought to himself. Because of that, he decided to ignore it and go about his day as usual.
Two days later, Richard, Anxia, and Lori went to the airport in a large car to pick up Richardâs family.
It was then Richard remembered what he had forgotten a few days ago. He had forgotten to tell Anxia about Raymond and Micheleâs coming!!