Alina smiled at him and said, "Okay. If you don't want me to call you brother, I can call your name. How about little Sheffield?"
"No!" Sheffield objected strongly.
"Well... How about Sheff?"
Sheffield was even angrier and he protested, "No!"
"Little Sheff? Dear Sheff?"
Peter, who was serving beside, almost spilled the fish soup out as his hand shook.
Hearing this, Sheffield was stunned. He shouted, "Shut up!"
"Not this, not that. What shall I call you?"
Sheffield was so angry that he didn't want to talk to her. He began to eat gloomily.
She just played a joke with him, and the hero was mad at her. Alina regretted it.
She looked at the fish soup and found no coriander on it. Then she muttered unhappily, "Peter, why don't you add coriander in the fish soup? It's not perfect if there is no coriander in it!"
Sheffield suddenly stopped eating.
After casting a glance at Sheffield, Peter continued, "Miss Alaina, Mr. Sheffield doesn't like the smell of coriander at all."
What? Alina was shocked to hear this. She couldn't believe that Sheffield didn't eat coriander!
No wonder last night when she brought noodles to him, he frowned with distaste. It turned out that he didn't like her putting coriander in it.
"Oh... Yes..." Alina peeked at Sheffield and smiled awkwardly, pretending that she had forgotten it by accident.
She was not Alaina. Of course she was unaware of his likes and dislikes.
Sheffield saw her reaction, and a suspicion crept into his mind. She did not look as if she had forgotten, but... She had no idea about it at all.
Last night, she cooked noodles for him. But she put coriander in it. At that time, he thought she did it on purpose to annoy him. Now he thought that she might not have meant it, but because she didn't know.
Everyone in the family knew that Sheffield didn't like the smell of coriander. There were two possibilities. One was that she did it on purpose, and the other was that... She forgot.
Realizing that her overreaction might attract attention, Alina stopped being naughty and had dinner quietly.
Only the sound of chewing was left in the dining room.
Alina ate a lot and was satisfied.
After the meal, Peter served the fruit. When Alina was about to eat the fruit, Peter reminded her, "Miss Alaina, aren't you on a diet today?"
On a diet? Upon hearing this, Alina came to her senses. 'This must have something to do with Alaina, ' she speculated.
"From now on, I'm not going on a diet anymore, because one of my classmates on a diet nearly fainted today. It's so scary!" In order to be able to eat happily in future, Alina quickly told a lie.
Hearing her explanation, Sheffield curled his lips in contempt.
Peter nodded, "I see."
It was great to be in a rich family. Not only did she not have to do the dishes, but she had fruit right after dinner. Alina felt so happy!
After eating two pieces of fruit, she was full and couldn't eat more. She ate too much at dinner. If she had known there was fruit after dinner, she would have eaten less.
Looking at Sheffield who ate ceaselessly, Alina looked resentful.
"I'm going to take a shower." Out of sight, out of mind.
As soon as Alina left, Sheffield stopped eating. He looked in the direction of her departure and suddenly raised a faint smile.
It was about ten o'clock in the evening. It was raining heavily outside. Wendy came back home alone and she was not in a good mood.
"Welcome back, madam." Peter didn't go to have a rest because the master hadn't come back yet.
"Where is Alaina? Is she asleep?"
"Miss Alaina went back to her room after dinner. I don't know if she is asleep now."
"I'm going to see her. You can go to rest." Clenching her bag with a cold expression, Wendy went upstairs to Alina's room.
Wendy pushed the door. It was locked.
"Alaina, open the door!" Wendy frowned. Why locked the door at home?
At this time, Alina was still studying hard at her desk. Upon hearing the voice of Wendy, she stopped writing and ran to open the door.
"Mom, you are back. Have you had dinner yet?"
Wendy's hair was still damp. She felt better because of her daughter's concern.
"Yes. Why are you up so late?"
With a smile on her face, Alina replied, "I'm working on my previous courses and ready to go to bed."
"Don't sleep. I have a question for you." Wendy sat down on the bed with her daughter, and asked seriously, "I told you to go after the young master of the Tang family. Did you do what I said?"
The young master of the Tang family? Who was that? Without the memory of Alaina, Alina felt flustered.
She lowered her head and said ambiguously, "... Yes. But... He doesn't seem to like me."
"You are beautiful and have a good figure. Why doesn't he like you?" Did you do it in a wrong way?" Wendy stared at her daughter and asked.
Alina answered reluctantly, "Well... Maybe... He doesn't like my type."
"What about the young master of the Song family?" Wendy believed that it was important for a woman to marry a good man. She had been telling her daughter to jump at the chance to marry a good man.
What? The young master of the Song family! Who was he?
"He seemed to be... not interested in me."
Seeing her daughter hesitate, Wendy suddenly stood up and her face darkened.
"Alaina, are you deaf? Don't you know that the men I choose are all from rich families? Why don't you just take one of them when they're still young and naive? Why don't you understand what I mean?"
Alina didn't know what Alaina thought of what her mother said, but she wouldn't agree.
She didn't think it was necessary to force a marriage in exchange for high position and great wealth.
"Mom, it is not up to me to decide whether they love me or not. Even if I had the audacity to go after them, it would be no use if they don't like me. I can't just force them to be with me, can I? That will degrade myself! After all, you are the hostess and I am the daughter of the Xu family."
She didn't know what she said wrong, and Wendy suddenly screamed.
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