A Flash Marriage Can Be A Treasure novel Chapter 169

Lily is petrified and her phone almost falls onto the ground.

What should she do now?

Staring at the vibrating phone for a few seconds, Lily grits her teeth and answers the phone while trying to remain composed, “President Smith.”

“Leigh said you had been busy with the company business recently and told me not to bother you.” His voice still sounds pleasant although he is speaking at the other end of the phone.

Was that his explanation?

Lily feels nervous for no reason and stammers, “Yeah, I have been busy recently.”

“It’s Mid-Autumn Festival today.”

Lily subconsciously replies, “Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.”

Louis, who is at the other end of the phone, pauses and seems to laugh in a low voice. Lily just has an impulse to slap herself upon hearing it.

Lily, are you out of mind?

Louis utters the words slowly, “Just now my father gave me a call and reminded me to come back to the Smith Manor to celebrate the festival together and brought you… my ‘pregnant’ President Lily, together.”

“President Smith, I haven’t been pregnant, sincerely.” Lily feels awkward. It is all her fault, for she hasn’t hided that bottle of wine. She adds, “My mom also gave me a call just now. And I’m afraid that I have to come back home.”

“I understand. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival to reunion with families after all.” Louis continues, “Then I will come back alone.”

“President Smith…”

Why does she feel that she has done something wrong after hearing the words and feel sorry to him. Nevertheless, as she is about to say something, Louis tells her to continue with her work and hangs up the phone.

So, the call ends in this way?

Lily stares at her phone in disbelief.

WTF! Why Louis is so aloof and arrogant? Can’t he just make a concession and tell her that he needs her?!

Later, as Lily has told Louis in the phone, her mom really makes a phone call to him and asks her to celebrate the festival together if she’s free. Lily agrees and then calls Coffey.

Coffey is attending the ceremony with Chloe in Paris and can’t come back, and Joey is filming in Boston.

Lily sighs.

Joey has been accidently favored by a foreign director, from whom she gets some opportunities to film movies and be the spokesperson of some brands. It’s like she is now living abroad, for she hasn’t come back since then.

Alas, she will be only child to celebrate the festival with her mom tonight.

After finishing the work, Lily gets off work and brings her laptop back home with an intention to deal with the rest affairs at home. When she’s taking the lift to the downstairs, she bumps into Leigh and Jessie who are also leaving.

Lily glances at them and asks, “Are you two going to celebrate the festival together?”

“Yeah. Leigh said his mom and dad are all at abroad and there’s no one in his home.” Jessie replies, “You know, I’m not a local in this City. Lily, will you come back home? If you won’t, what about…”

“Even if she will not come back home, she will come to Louis.” Leigh cuts in, “As far as I’m concerned, we’d better not bother her and celebrate the festival by ourselves. We can go and buy a moon cake.”

“Why should I come to President Smith?” Lily sulks when thinks of the phone call ended by Louis and sneers, “He’ll come back to the Smith Manor, and I’ll come back home to accompany my mom!”

“So, won’t you worry about him for he will come back alone?”

“He’s not a child. Will he lose his way?”

Leigh rubs his chin and clucks, “For such a big festival, almost all members of the Smith family would come back to celebrate it together. But now Louis is on the wheelchair, aren’t you afraid that he will be bullied?”

“What’s my relationship with him? Why should I worry about him?” Lily refutes and sneers, “Plus, you’re Louis’ buddy and you two are even more intimate brother-germen. It is you who should come back with him!”

Leigh immediately refutes, “No, no way, I should accompany my Little Fairy!”

“You don’t have to.” Jessie chimes in, “I can come back home and watch TV series lying on the sofa. It’s good.”

“It’s Mid-Autumn Festival today. Isn’t it a great waste of the good time by simply lying on the sofa and watching TV?” Leigh grins, “We should come to the Moon Observatory to have a closer look of the full noon.”|

Lily turns around expressionlessly.

It is Mid-Autumn today and there are many people on the streets. Lily finally manages to work her way out of the crowd and buys a box of moon cakes. When she drives back, she is stuck in a serious traffic jam.

She waits in her car quietly.

When she looks through the car window, she sees a woman pushing forward the wheelchair of a man who is still having an intravenous drip on the pavement. Although the scene seems to be miserable, there are smiles of happiness on their faces.

At that moment, she thinks of Louis and that phone call.

As Louis is a foster child, most members of the Smith family don’t favor her. Plus that there’s much internal strife in the family, if Louis really comes back on the wheelchair, those people will definitely taunt at him.

The honking rumbles from the car behind, which startles Lily and pulls her out of her thoughts.

Lily finds that the turn signal has turned green and immediately starts her car. When she drives steadily on the road, she calls her mom, “Mom, don’t wait for me for the dinner. I may come back late.”

“Are you with my dear son-in-law?”

Lily is choked by her words and refutes unnaturally, “No. He has something to deal with and needs my help. I will come back when it is finished.”

“Don’t forget to bring him back together.”

“…”

Lily drives for about twenty minutes and finally reaches the Smith Manor. She then stops at the iron gate of the manor.

Just as she is about to get off the car to ask someone to open the door, the iron gate is automatically opened.

Oh, the doorkeepers of the Smith family even recognize her car?

Lily drives into the manor and parks her car on an outdoor parking lot. When she gets off a car, a handyman comes over to greet her, and then takes the moon cakes and brings her to a sightseeing vehicle.

Lily has no idea about how much area that the Smith Manor covers, anyway, the manor is so ‘big’ in her eyes and she has the same feeling when she first entered the University of Newcastle. Although she has come here several times, she is still astonished.

After around six minutes, they reach the main villa.

Following the handyman, Lily steps into the villa. The brilliant and luxurious living hall, which is as big as a venue for a grant party, first catches her attention. She can vaguely hear the laughter of the guests and there seem to be a lot of participants.

“Master Smith, Miss Lily is here.”

With the report, Lily can clearly sense that the laughter quiets down. She slowly walks into the living hall and sees many people sitting on the sofas in the hospitality area.

Men are all in suits while women are all dressing up. All of them are elegant and one can easily tell that they are from the upper-class with only one glance.

Lily glances at them yet her expression remains unchanged.

In the past, when she was dating with John, she had even met the members of the royal family of Country Y and had meal with them. So she’s not stressed in the face of the Smiths.

Lily walks over and greets Antony politely, “Master Smith, sorry, I should have come along with President Smith. Yet I had so many affairs to deal with in the company and I come late.”

“Don’t say sorry. We’re families after all.” Antony, who was originally in a bad mood, beams with smiles when seeing Lily. He waves at Lily to motion her to come over and sit beside Louis.

When she sits down on the sofa, Louis asks in a low voice, “Didn’t you say you’ll come back home to celebrate the festival with your mom?”

“I’ve promised Master Smith to come here. It’s not good to break my promise.”

Louis looks at her with a trace of gentleness creeping on his eyes.

They, including Jason’s mother, gather in the Smith Manor today to celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival together, with a purpose of attracting Antony’s attention. However, Antony has been talking with Lily since she comes.

Many of them are dissatisfied with this.

“Back then, Lily really has a deep relationship with us Smith family.” Since it would be inappropriate for those seniors to bring up this topic, Katherine takes the initiative, “You married Jason before, and now you become the acting president of the Smith Group.”

Their expressions become weird. Katherine shifts her gaze onto Janet and smirks, “Auntie, you had been Lily’s mother-in-law for more than one year. I think you should tell us that she’s so capable earlier, maybe she wouldn’t have divorced Jason.”

Being the subject of the topic, Janet smiles awkwardly.

Janet is just a lightweight relative of the Smith family and she has tried hard to get the invitation letter to this party. She just wants to gain some benefits from this yet indeed she has little power of discourse.