The Unstoppable Comeback Of the Unrivaled Ex-Wife-Chapter 366 - 362
The twins ran happily towards the kitchen, and from then on, Ace could hear the clanging of kitchen utensils emerging from the kitchen mixed with the sound of children laughing.
Ace walked around the house as if he was back in his own home. After a while, he headed towards the kitchen and asked the twins, who were mixing a batter. "Do you need any help?"
Abby gazed at Ace sweetly, her eyes sparkling as brightly as stars in the sky. "Do you know how to cook, Uncle Handsome?"
The sight of Abby made Ace feel as if his heart was soaked in sugary syrup. He smiled without realizing it, then shook his head and replied, "I never knew how to cook. It’s too trivial and such a waste of time. It’s the kind of thing best left to the servants."
"But it won’t be the same!" argued Abby. "The servants are not your family members, so the food they make won’t taste as good..."
Abby was a bona fide foodie, so she had high expectations for the food she ate. To her, good food not only had to be tasty, but it also had to be prepared with love, something that servants could not do.
"Mommy always cooks delicious food," she said. "So does Daddy Q! He makes tasty food as well! Sometimes they would cook together, and we’d all sit at the table and eat all the food! That was the happiest time for all of us! It’s a pity that you don’t know how to cook, Uncle Handsome because that means you’ll never experience that kind of happiness!"
Ace did not expect to hear such heart-wrenching words from Abby. He shook his head helplessly and said, "When you put it that way, it sounds like I’m the most wretched man in the world!"
"It doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to cook," said Adie as he was creaming butter with the electric mixer. He then suggested, "You can start learning! Q did the same. He was completely useless in the kitchen, but he learned and practiced until he became a master cook! In a short time, he managed to impress all of us!"
Although Adie hated his evil daddy very much, he still subconsciously wished to "reform" Ace Moran, thinking that it would really cheer his mommy up if he could transform this broken and erratic "machine" into a brand-new useful one.
Ace raised his eyebrows slightly and stared at the children with curiosity, commenting, "It looks like both of you like this Mr. Q very much! You’ve been talking about him all evening! What is that man to you... or should I say, what is he to your mommy?"
"Of course we like him!" Adie replied with his head held high, his expression full of pride. "Q is an awesome guy who treats our mommy very well! In any case, he’s a million times better than those men who hurt women. Right now, he’s our daddy, and he’s our mommy’s husband. He takes care of all of us every day, and every time we’re with him, we’re all very happy!"
Adie wanted to praise Q as much as possible so that his evil daddy would feel ashamed of himself and realize what a horrible person he had been!
Ace’s eyes revealed a complicated mix of emotions. There was a cryptic smile on his lips as he asked, "So, are you all going to live with this Mr. Q for the rest of your lives? What if one day, you discover that this man isn’t as good of a guy you thought he was? What if he turns out to be a bad guy? Would you still be willing to live with him?"
"Impossible!" Abby pouted her pink lips, then earnestly added, "Daddy Q is a good man! He’s the greatest man in the world! No one treats us better than him, so there’s no way that he’d turn out to be a bad guy..."
"But what if?" Ace pressed on, for the first time speaking in a serious tone with the children, hoping to get a definite answer from them.
"If Daddy Q turns out to be a bad guy, then we’ll... then we’ll..."
Abby grabbed the hem of her clothes. Her eyes were reddening as she was on the verge of tears. She really liked Daddy Q, so she simply could not entertain the thought that he might be a bad guy, much less consider that he might leave them one day. As soon as she thought about it, her eyes and her nose stung, and she felt like crying.
"It doesn’t matter if Q turns out to be bad," Adie reasoned in a mature and rational tone, wise beyond his years. "We’ll just give him another chance and try to change his bad habits so he’ll transform into a good guy. Mommy, Abby, and I will never give up on him, and he will never give up on us either, so you don’t need to worry about us!"
Ace fell silent for a few seconds. He then smiled wanly and vaguely replied, "In that case, that must Mr. Q must be the luckiest man in the world."
And just like that, the twins successfully baked a cake for Ace, which they then presented before him.
"Uncle Handsome," Abby called with a sweet smile. "This is your first time visiting our house, so we specially made this cake for you to welcome you here. You must eat the whole cake! You don’t want to waste our efforts, do you?"
"No problem," Ace promised. "I have a bit of a sweet tooth anyway."
He then took a spoonful of the cake along with the icing and put it in his mouth. It was sweet, fluffy, and creamy—every bit as heavenly as a cake made by a professional bakery. He continued to eat mouthful after mouthful, finding himself enjoying more with every bite.
But then, the more he ate, the heavier his eyelids felt, until eventually, his whole body slumped onto the couch...
After leaving Stellar Group, Joanna headed towards Celestial Pavillion by following the address given to her by Rubio Pascal. The place was one of the most exclusive restaurants in the city, where the food and the reputation were both first-class.
"Good evening," a waiter greeted Joanna when she arrived. It seemed that her arrival had been anticipated when he added, "May I ask if you are Ms. Joanna Pierce? A gentleman has been waiting for you for a long time. Please follow me."
"Yes," Joanna nodded, "I am Joanna Pierce."
She then followed the waiter as he enthusiastically led her to the most luxurious private lounge in the restaurant. She spent the whole journey wondering who this "legendary god" could be. Who would be so badass that even Rubio Pascal would be impressed? And why did this person specifically ask to see her?
"Here it is, Ms. Pierce."
The waiter pushed open the tall magnificent door, revealing the well-built figure of a man who was standing with his back facing the door in front of the window where bright lights were streaming in. As soon as he heard her arrival, he turned around, holding a glass of red wine in one hand.
"We finally meet again," he said with a smile on his lips.
After taking a good look at the man’s handsome face, she was speechless. She was barely able to restrain herself from beating the man up right then and there.
"Are you out of your mind, Vernom?! So the person who’s been tormenting me, pushing me around from behind the scene as if I’m an idiot, was you?!"
Initially, Vernom had been like the cool and handsome protagonist in a drama, but now he turned out to be the abominable villain who deserved a good beating.
"Are you surprised to see me?" he asked with a sly smile. "Are you shocked? Don’t you think I look pretty cool appearing like that just now?"
"I think you need to get punched once or twice!" Joanna yelled through gritted teeth.
She thought of how she scrambled all over the place doing everything she could to get the Pierce Residence back, how she even lowered her pride and stooped as low as begging for the Rainbow Glaze from Ace Moran, and it turned out that Vernom was behind all of this. It made her really want to... stab the man!
"I did give you a hint," Vernom argued with an innocent face, his arms stretched out helplessly. "I told you that you would need me someday. It was you who completely disregarded me. I’ve been waiting for you to come to me, asking for my help, but... you insisted on doing everything yourself."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Joanna was not in the mood to chat with Vernom. She just wanted to solve this tricky problem as soon as possible, so she asked him bluntly, "Just tell me now, what do I need to do to get you to transfer the rights to land to me?"
"If I tell you," Vernom smiled impishly, "are you going to do absolutely everything I want without question?"
If he had known that it took some "shameless" tricks to pursue a woman, he would not have been such a gentleman in the past and wasted so much of their time...
