Chapter 088: Husband! Husband! Husband!
Lin Lang opened the hotel room door.
A hotel room attendant, pushing a dining cart, entered the room and set up a candelabra with lit candles on the dining table near the window. She then meticulously arranged delicious Western cuisine, dinnerware for two, and two bottles of imported red wine on the table.
Dragon Li Fish, Grapefruit, Fig Salad
Appetizer: Smoked Salmon and Avocado Tapas
Soup: Black Truffle Creamy Mushroom Soup
Side Dish: Cheesy Baked Lobster
Main Course: Charcoal Grilled Wellington Steak
Staple: Wagyu Foie Gras Rice
Dessert: Roasted Honey Toast Ice Cream
“Excuse me, sir, would you like me to open the red wine for you?”
Lin Lang replied, “Open both bottles.”
Upon hearing this, the hotel attendant skillfully opened both bottles of red wine and poured one bottle into a decanter.
Lin Lang took out his wallet and habitually gave a tip.
“Thank you for the tip, sir!” The hotel room attendant was very happy to receive a hundred-yuan tip.
“Sir and miss, please enjoy your meal, and I wish you a pleasant evening!” The attendant respectfully exited the room.
The romantic atmosphere of the candlelight dinner intoxicated Li Moli. The flickering candlelight danced on the table, creating a warm and beautiful visual scene.
“Wow ~ a candlelight dinner!”
Li Moli couldn't help but show a hint of pleasant surprise.
Lin Lang said with doting affection, “Tomorrow is your birthday, but Lang Ge will be busy with official business tomorrow, so I specially celebrated your birthday in advance today. Happy Birthday!”
“Love you ~”
After making a heart shape with his hands, Lin Lang kissed Li Moli on the forehead as a sign of protection and cherish.
At this moment, Li Moli was moved to tears, and her voice slightly choked as she said, “Thank you, A Lang, for being so thoughtful. You’ve gone to a lot of trouble.”
“With A Lang celebrating my birthday and us having a romantic world for two, I truly feel very happy and joyful!”
Lin Lang reached out and gently stroked Li Moli’s beautiful and moving face, responding softly, “Life, you know, always needs a sense of ritual.”
“It’s nothing for Lang Ge to spend this money on you.”
“Hehe…” Li Moli playfully stuck out her tongue and smiled.
Lin Lang continued, “From now on, with Lang Ge spoiling you, after today, your hardships will turn to sweetness. I will take you to taste all the delicacies in the world and let you enjoy all the glory and wealth, how about that?”
Li Moli leaned into Lin Lang’s arms upon hearing this and said emotionally, “A Lang, you are so good to me!”
Lin Lang gently pinched Li Moli’s collagen-rich little face and dotingly said, “And! In the future, you’ll have to give me a daughter as beautiful and cute as you ~”
Li Moli said with a shy expression, “I don’t want to!”
“Uh… Moli, could it be that you don’t want to have a baby for Lang Ge?”
Unexpectedly, Li Moli replied, “In those rich family TV dramas, only the concubines who give birth to sons have family status. I don’t want to give you a daughter; I want to give you a son.”
Lin Lang chuckled upon hearing this, gently stroking Li Moli’s fragrant shoulder, and said softly, “Alright, alright! Then we’ll have a son. Two sons are fine too. Anyway, I can afford to raise however many you have.”
Li Moli pouted and replied, “I don’t want to have so many children. If I get fat, you won’t like me anymore.”
Lin Lang casually turned off the lights. Only the flickering candlelight remained in the room, making the atmosphere even more ambiguous and romantic.
“Silly girl, the food will get cold in a bit. Come sit down and eat!” Lin Lang gallantly moved a chair.
After sitting down, Li Moli playfully stuck out her tongue and smiled, weakly saying, “A Lang, I’ve never eaten Western food before. Which hand should I use for the knife and fork?”
Lin Lang stood behind Li Moli, gently holding her hands, patiently teaching her Western dining etiquette and how to use a knife and fork.
“In Western dining, you typically hold the fork in your left hand and the knife in your right hand.”
“Using the knife in your right hand to cut food and the fork in your left hand to assist in bringing food to your mouth is a basic rule in Western dining etiquette and key to showing elegant manners. It’s actually very simple.”
Lin Lang hand-fed Li Moli a piece of steak, putting it into her mouth. Li Moli chewed the juicy steak and said with a sweet smile, “It’s so delicious!”
Lin Lang sat opposite Li Moli, pouring red wine from the decanter while saying, “In a formal Western dinner, multiple sets of knives and forks are usually laid out. According to Western custom, a new set of cutlery is used for each course.”
Li Moli obediently said, “I understand.”
Lin Lang smiled, raised his glass, and said, “Moli, this glass of wine is to celebrate our reunion after a long separation!”
Li Moli picked up her stemmed glass and gently clinked it against Lin Lang’s glass, producing a crisp sound, as if playing a melody of love.
Li Moli tasted the red wine. She couldn't say it was delicious, but it wasn't bad either; she just felt it was very elegant.
Ever since her mother, Zhang Qiaoyun, fell ill with kidney disease, the continuous medical expenses had overwhelmed Li Moli’s family. She had never enjoyed life so leisurely.
It was Lin Lang’s reappearance that brought a ray of light into Li Moli’s bitter life, giving her a sweet life once again.
So, Li Moli sweetly smiled, raised her glass, and said gratefully, “A Lang, I toast you with this glass of wine. It is you who gave my mother hope for life again. You are our family’s benefactor.”
Lin Lang clinked glasses with Li Moli and replied, “We are family now, so let’s not speak such polite words.”
“Call me husband and let me hear it.”
Li Moli lowered her head shyly upon hearing this, and bashfully whispered, “Husband!”
Lin Lang felt delighted but deliberately said, “Your voice was too soft; I didn’t hear it clearly.”
Li Moli gathered her courage, looked up, gazed at Lin Lang’s dark eyes with affection, and sweetly called out, “Husband!”
Lin Lang felt a tingling sensation all over and said with a happy smile, “From now on, when we’re alone, you call me husband and I’ll call you wife, okay?”
“Okay!”
“Then you call me wife, and I’ll hear if it sounds good,” Li Moli said with a sweet smile.
Lin Lang gently called out, “Wife!”
Li Moli’s face turned crimson upon hearing this, and she raised her face, playfully saying, “Not sweet enough, do it again.”
Lin Lang called out with extreme tenderness, “Wife, I love you ~”
“Ew… A Lang, you’re giving me goosebumps, hehe…”
“Why are you still calling me A Lang?!”
“Didn’t we just say that from now on, when we’re alone, you’ll call me husband!”
Li Moli shyly corrected herself, “Husband!”
Lin Lang responded with an “Aye ~”
Li Moli called out with tender affection, “Husband! Husband! Husband!”
Lin Lang couldn't stop smiling upon hearing this. He cut a piece of cheesy baked lobster and dotingly fed it to Li Moli, gently saying, “Good wife, husband will feed you lobster.”
“Thank you, Husband!”
“The cheesy baked lobster is so delicious!”
“If it’s delicious, wife, eat more. Seeing you eat with such relish makes me especially happy.”
“Oh, Husband, you eat too!”
Li Moli cut a piece of savory lobster meat with her knife and fork and fed it to Lin Lang’s mouth.
Lin Lang chewed the cheesy baked lobster and said with a smile, “The lobster you fed me, wife, tastes ten thousand times better. It truly is a feast for the eyes!”
“Hehe…” Li Moli’s laugh was truly beautiful.
During the candlelight dinner, Lin Lang kept coaxing Li Moli, and they frequently raised their glasses, chatting happily.
Li Moli ate the delicious Western food, sometimes reminiscing about childhood memories with Lin Lang, sometimes envisioning the future with him. Unconsciously, she became tipsy from drinking too much.
Lin Lang half-jokingly said, “Wife, shall we drink a cup of cross-cupped wine now?”
Li Moli, with a sweet, tipsy smile, replied, “Could it be that tonight is our wedding night?”
“Wife, tonight is our romantic night. Isn’t that pretty much the same as a wedding night?”
Li Moli happily raised her stemmed glass, linking wrists with Lin Lang. Their faces were almost touching as they gazed deeply into each other’s eyes and drank a cup of cross-cupped wine.
The two childhood sweethearts looked at each other, their eyes full of deep affection and love.
At this moment, Lin Lang had no acting; it was all genuine emotion.
In the intimate atmosphere of the candlelight dinner, the red wine slid down Li Moli’s throat with a hint of sweetness, as if it were the taste of love itself.
There’s a saying that all emotions are in the wine. At this moment, words seemed pale and powerless.
The two childhood sweethearts, innocent and pure, could feel each other’s love with just one deep gaze.
Other girls were for flirting with, but Li Moli was the only one Lin Lang cherished.
“Wife, it’s your first time drinking red wine, so take it easy. Don’t drink too much and get drunk.”
Li Moli, however, swayed her red wine glass, looking at the handsome and dashing Lin Lang with tipsy eyes, and replied, “This feeling of being slightly tipsy from red wine is really nice, hehe…”
“I haven’t been this happy in a long time!”
“When I was sixteen, my mother fell ill. My father had passed away early, and I had to study and take care of my sick mother. At sixteen, in the prime of my youth, I bore the heavy burden of the family.”
“I was forced to become sensible, learning to cook, wash clothes, clean the house. After school, I also had to work part-time at a restaurant. Because I was young and my ID card showed I was under sixteen, I was considered child labor, so I couldn’t be a server in the front. I could only hide in the back kitchen washing dishes.”
“To save money for my mother’s treatment, I didn’t even spend a single cent on myself.”
“Husband, I’m already twenty years old, and this is my first time eating Western food and drinking red wine. You won’t laugh at me, will you?” Li Moli’s eyes reddened.
Li Moli’s wronged and pitiful appearance made Lin Lang’s heart ache.
“Wife, how could I possibly laugh at you?”
“Let’s not talk about those gloomy past events. From now on, with husband loving you, I will spoil you rotten, elevate you into high society to become an extraordinary person, and give you everything you once couldn’t even imagine.”
“In a few days, get your driver’s license. What luxury car do you like? Husband will buy it for you.”
Li Moli was deeply moved upon hearing this and replied with blurred, tipsy eyes, “We grew up together. Don’t you know what kind of woman I am?”
“Husband, I’m willing to be your hidden girlfriend. I’m not after your money; I do it out of love for you. You don’t need to buy me those flashy, impractical luxury items. I don’t like those ostentatious things.”
“As long as you keep me in your heart, spend more time with me, and truly cherish me, I’m already very happy.”
“Silly girl, what am I to say about you?”
“I’ve never had such a strong protective urge for any woman. Moli, you’re so sensible it breaks my heart. I’m so damn heartbroken for you!”
“Come here, let husband hug you!” Lin Lang stood up and opened his arms.
The tipsy Li Moli, using the momentum of the alcohol, leaned into Lin Lang’s embrace, her eyes full of deep affection.
Outside the hotel window, thunder and rain lashed down, the heavy rain never stopping for a moment.
Lin Lang gently stroked Li Moli’s fragrant shoulder and said softly, “Moli, I will spend my life healing you and warming your world.”
Tears rolled down Li Moli’s cheeks. This was one of the most moving declarations of love she had ever heard.
Li Moli said emotionally, “In my gloomy and bitter world, you are the only antidote. I will use my original heart to walk the longest road with you, hoping I am worthy of all your tenderness!”
Lin Lang said dotingly upon hearing this, “You are my everything worth living for!”
“Crack ~ Rumble rumble…”
Outside the hotel window, the night sky once again echoed with a thunderous roar.
At this moment, heaven’s thunder ignited earth’s fire.
The candles of the candlelight dinner, at this moment, were like the flickering, intimate candlelight of a wedding night, their warm yellow glow illuminating the romantic shadows of the two people.
The candlelight flickered, bright and dim.
The scent of burning candles permeated the air, mixing with the scent of intimacy, forming a hazy, faint fragrance that made one involuntarily intoxicated.
A fleeting glance of destiny made the two childhood sweethearts ignite each other.