Love, Chef. - A Chen Qing Ling/Modaozushi Fanfic

Chapter 15

Xiao Xing Chen

Song Lan brought out some of our best wines from the collection, while I cooked some starters to go with them.

"A-xing, don't you think that's too much food?" Song said.

"A-song, you don't know your friends do you? They can eat twice as much as they drink. This is nothing for everyone." I said while I set aside the last set of fried chicken. The bell rang and Song rushed towards the door to open it, I untied my apron and threw it in the washer before going out.

"HUAISANG! MOMO!" Song said, excited.

"How have you been my man?! We haven't seen you in, like, forever!" Huaisang said.

"Welcome boys." I said with a smile.

"A-xing! How long has it been?!" Momo said and gave me a tight hug.

"Hey hey, why are you all getting sappy by the door?" Another voice said.

"Jiang Cheng, Wei Ying!" Song said.

The reunion was quite touching between everyone, greetings were shared, everyone caught up on how everyone was doing. Through all the smiles and laughs, nobody knew when the time flew by. Evening turned to night and night turned to midnight.

Everyone started to doze off a little when I saw A-cheng standing by the veranda railing and sighing.

"You sure have a lot in your mind." I said, walking upto him.

"Yeah. It hasn't exactly been the best time." He replied honestly.

"It must be hard, coming home to this chaos, isn't it?"

"It is. But I have been so busy that I don't really have the time to think."

I looked at him and he was averting his eyes from me. I knew what he wanted to know, given the fact that I was really close to Lan family.

"You want to ask, don't you?" I asked him.

"I want to but I shouldn't. It will ruin everything." He said, with a sad expression on his face.

"He isn't doing great you know?" I said, despite him not wanting to know.

"I heard he has a son too now?"

"Yeah. He adopted the kid almost 4 years ago, when the kid was a new born."

"Adoption?" He asked, pleasently surprised.

"Yeah, both the Lan brothers adopted the pair of brothers. Shizui and Jingyi, they came to the orphanage when I was still volunteering there and took a liking to both of them instantly."

"I didn't know that."

Jiang Cheng's face finally lit up with happiness, knowing how he would react, I kept to myself everything else and gave him just a piece of good news.

"Jiang Cheng, let's go. It's late now." Wei Wuxian said.

"You guys are already leaving?" I said, instantly pouting.