Love Me Again (CN)

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LMA – Chapter Two

Luo An Hai used to be obsessed with opposing her father and Mai Fang that she didn’t care about having a school social life.

In her first lifetime she didn’t have close school friends. But she lived a healthy life, no drugs, alcohol, clubbing and she wasn’t in a gang.

She was always ranked first academically at school, because she thrived competition.

Although she inherited her mother’s beauty, boys were intimidated by her and they didn’t pursue her.

At school she didn’t have friends, but being her father’s daughter meant students feared offending her. She was a snob toward fake students who tried to befriend her because their families wanted business connections with Luo’s company.

Being a thirty-year-old woman trapped in her fourteen-year-old body was tedious during school lessons.

At lunch time she considered going home, but Han Ting Hua appeared and he plonked his lunch box on her desk.

“Why are you here?” she asked.

The last time she checked, he wasn’t a student at her school. Who let him into her school? It looked like he came to eat lunch with her.

“It’s a half-day at my school,” he said.

“My mother asked me to eat lunch with you, and I’ll be driven home after lunch.”

Half-day? She didn’t remember anything about his school having half-days. But back then she used to knock lunch boxes out of Mai Fang’s hands so Mai Fang wouldn’t ask him to eat lunch with her in case she mistreated him.

Her accepting Mai Fang’s lunch box in the morning must have changed the sequence of life events.

“Why won’t you this obedient in the car this morning?” she asked.

She didn’t know why the sight of him put her in a talkative mood.

He opened his lunch box. On the top tier were fruit slices, the middle tier were ribs with vegetables and the bottom tier were rice and omelette.

She salivated watching him eat the omelette.

On the other hand, he had no choice when his mother asked uncle Luo’s driver to take him directly to Luo An Hai’s classroom for him to eat lunch with Luo An Hai.

The sight of him eating made her hungry. She picked up the lunch box Mai Fang prepared for her and opened it.

Her lunch box had fruit slices, a small milk carton, scrambled eggs with tofu vegetables and combination noodles. How did Mai Fang know her favorite dishes?

“Last night my mother asked Mrs. Chen what are your favorite dishes,” he said.

His adoptive mother ignored Mrs. Chen’s cold treatment, and pestered Mrs. Chen until Mrs. Chen divulged all of Luo An Hai’s favorite dishes.

His adoptive mother even bought a new blue lunch box for Luo An Hai because blue was Luo An Hai’s favorite color.

She stared at her opened lunch box and knew Mrs. Chen must have given Mai Fang a hard time, but she wasn’t moved by Mai Fang’s gesture.

“Does your mother think she can buy my approval with a lunch box?” she asked, chewing the combination noodles. “Tell your mother to keep dreaming.”