ABLO Chapter 18

When Lu Yang, Grandpa Lu, and Ning Mixiang walked into Ruan’s house, the Ruan family stood in a row, holding flowers in their hands and wearing iconic smiles on their faces, just waiting to line up to welcome them.

Ruan Donglin, Wu Yongjuan, and Ruan Heng were all smiling. When they saw them coming in, they clapped their hands in unison and said loudly: “Welcome Marshal Lu, welcome Madam Ning, welcome Young Master Lu!”

Ruan Mian stood at the last position, “…” and felt a little embarrassed for some reason.

Faced with such an embarrassing scene, Grandpa Lu and Ning Mixiang were still calm and had no reaction. They just took the flowers and nodded lightly.

Lu Yang was always cold and distant in front of outsiders, and he didn’t even bother to give them a glance.

Ruan Heng, with his slightly flushed cheeks, glanced up at Lu Yang with a hint of hesitation. It might have been his imagination, but he felt that Lu Yang seemed to exude a strong scent of pheromones today. Although he couldn’t actually smell Lu Yang’s pheromones, he imagined they must be incredibly alluring. Just thinking about it made his legs go weak.

He handed over the exquisite and luxurious bouquet in his hand, raised a bright smile, “Brother Yang, for you.”

Lu Yang took a look at the flowers he handed over, withdrew his eyes expressionlessly, looked at Ruan Mian standing next to Ruan Heng, raised his chin slightly, and asked: “You didn’t prepare flowers for me?”

“…” Ruan Mian took out a dandelion that he had just picked up in the backyard.

Lu Yang took the dandelion with some disdain, and put it in his jacket pocket carefully.

Ruan Mian couldn’t help but purse his lips and smile. Ruan Heng’s face darkened instantly, and he threw the bouquet in his hand on the shoe rack in frustration.

Wu Yongjuan secretly winked at him, signaling for him to be more enthusiastic towards Lu Yang.

Ruan Heng took a deep breath, looked up at Lu Yang and smiled flatteringly, changing his previous attitude of disliking Lu Yang, and said enthusiastically: “Brother Yang, come sit over here. My mom made a lot of your favorite dishes today.”

Lu Yang glanced at him coolly upon hearing this. “Your mother knows what I like to eat?”

Ruan Heng was taken aback. He had mentioned it casually and didn’t expect Lu Yang to take it so seriously. He looked at Ruan Mian, who was standing there awkwardly, and decided to pull him into the conversation as a shield. “My mom doesn’t know, but my big brother does. Mom already asked him about your preferences a long time ago.”

Lu Yang looked up at Ruan Mian, pulled him over, stretched out his hand to knead the back of his neck, and said: “Did you tell them what I like to eat?”

Ruan Mian couldn’t help but feel a tingling sensation on the back of his neck. Lu Yang always had a habit, that is, when he turned into a rabbit, Lu Yang liked to touch his rabbit ears, and when he was in human form, Lu Yang liked to knead the back of his neck. It was okay before, and it didn’t matter if Lu Yang did this, but since Lu Yang became an Alpha, every time Lu Yang touched the back of his neck, his glands would feel uncontrollably tingling.

Ruan Mian was in a trance for a while, and only raised his head after the tingling sensation passed. He saw Lu Yang narrowing his eyes slightly, and hurriedly explained: “I was worried that you would not like the food cooked by second aunt, so I just randomly told them of two dishes.”

In front of everyone, he still saved face for his good friend and did not directly say that Lu Yang’s a picky eater. If the food cooked by Wu Yongjuan did not suit his taste, he would probably not touch it with a chopstick, and he would have to starve in the end.

Lu Yang curled his lips. No matter how delicious the food cooked by Wu Yongjuan was, he did not want to touch it.

Ruan Mian naturally understood him and whispered in his ear: “I made the braised pork ribs on the table myself. If you don’t want to eat Wu Yongjuan’s meal, just eat that one.”

Lu Yang couldn’t help but smile a little when he heard it, “When did you learn to cook?”

“I just made it according to the recipe, it may not taste good.”

He was worried that Lu Yang would be hungry, so he looked up the recipe online and made it bit by bit according to the recipe. He doesn’t think it would taste very good.

Lu Yang smiled softly, and couldn’t help but knead his neck again, saying softly: “Good Tutu.”

Ruan Mian quickly dodged his hand and whispered, “Stop that.”

Lu Yang pulled him back into his arms, his arm domineeringly hanging around his neck, and he deliberately lowered his head to tease him, “What’s wrong with it? Rabbits are so soft, aren’t they meant to be kneaded?”

Ruan Heng stood aside and watched them. Although he couldn’t hear what they were saying, he couldn’t help but frown when he saw their intimate movements, and reminded them: “Brother Yang, you are an Alpha now, my big brother is an Omega, you can’t be so close to my big brother.”

Lu Yang raised his eyebrows and looked at him coldly, his eyebrows slightly frowning, his expression unhappy, like frost on ice cream, chilling.

Wu Yongjuan observed Lu Yang’s expression and quickly pushed Ruan Heng, smiling and saying, “Yang Yang has just become an Alpha, and it is understandable that he has not yet adapted to his new identity.”

She winked at her son secretly, and said meaningfully, “When Yang Yang has his own partner in the future, he will naturally pay more attention to this aspect.”

Ruan Heng felt better when he heard her words, and his eyes drifted towards Lu Yang, almost sticking to Lu Yang.

Grandpa Lu and Ning Mixiang could see why this family would invite them over, and they could not help but look at each other silently.

Ning Mixiang smiled, looked at Wu Yongjuan and said calmly: “Madam Wu, no one in our family calls Lu Yang ‘Yang Yang’, so don’t call him so intimately, we are not used to it.”

Ruan Mian smiled secretly, they didn’t call Lu Yang Yang Yang, because they all called him Baby Lu.

Wu Yongjuan’s smile faltered for a moment but quickly returned. She nodded gently and said, “Alright, I’ve watched Yang—Lu Yang—grow up. We’re like family, so I felt we should have more interactions. That’s why I naturally wanted to be a bit closer.”

Lu Yang snorted disdainfully, his arrogant attitude was as usual. Although Ruan Heng felt that his attitude was too cold, he couldn’t help but get excited when he thought that Lu Yang was the only heir of the Lu family, and marrying Lu Yang was equivalent to reaching heaven in one step.

Ning Mixiang smiled gently after listening to Wu Yongjuan, and took Ruan Mian’s hand and said: “Mian Mian is like our child. We are, of course, a family. It would be great if we could be closer.”

Her words completely excluded the Ruan family except for Ruan Mian, but Wu Yongjuan did not notice this. She only noticed Ning Mixiang’s last word, ‘closer’.

She couldn’t help but brighten her eyes and respond repeatedly: “Yes, yes, yes! When we are closer, we will be a real family.”

Ruan Donglin smiled and pretended to be a decent person. He stretched out his hand and said: “Come on, everyone, please, let’s eat and talk.”

The group moved to the dining room. The table was full of dishes. Lu Yang’s eyes swept over the dishes one by one and finally stopped at the plate of braised spare ribs. The braised spare ribs seemed to be overcooked and looked a little black.

He couldn’t help but chuckle and sit down on the stool in front of the plate of braised short ribs.

Ruan Heng wanted to grab the seat next to Lu Yang, but Lu Yang looked up at him and said to Ruan Mian: “Mian Mian, come and sit.”

Under Ruan Heng’s murderous glare, Ruan Mian nervously sat down next to Lu Yang. Although he knew that Ruan Heng would definitely give him trouble once Lu Yang left, he was determined not to give up his spot next to Lu Yang. After all, he still needed to help Lu Yang eat the carrots.

Ruan Heng had no choice but to pout unwillingly, so he walked to his mother and sat down.

Wu Yongjuan patted his hand gently, “There is a long way to go, take it step by step.”

“Yeah.” Ruan Heng nodded, his eyes continuing to stare at Lu Yang’s handsome face.

Wu Yongjuan smiled and entertained everyone politely. Ruan Donglin smiled throughout the whole process and occasionally picked up the wine glass to toast Grandpa Lu, maintaining the harmonious atmosphere at the table. Ruan Heng sat there, showing a well-behaved look that he had never had before.

It was just that Grandpa Lu and Ning Mixiang’s attitudes were always lukewarm. They occasionally picked up chopsticks to eat a few bites of food, but they ate very little and did not react to their enthusiasm.

Ruan Heng couldn’t help but feel a little discouraged. He didn’t want to deal with these two elders anymore. He turned around and wanted to talk to Lu Yang and please Lu Yang directly.

He turned his head and looked over. After a while, he found that Lu Yang had been eating the plate of ribs in front of him. He picked all the carrots in the ribs onto Ruan Mian’s plate. Ruan Mian helped him eat the carrots, but occasionally he would pick up a piece of green vegetable for him and force him to eat it.

Ruan Heng looked at them and frowned slightly. He knew that they had a good relationship before, but now he found that the relationship between these two people too good, even closer than that between brothers.

He was a little unhappy, but now that he wanted to seduce Lu Yang, he couldn’t do it without Ruan Mian’s help, so he could only bear it for now. He secretly planned in his heart that when he married Lu Yang in the future, he would force Lu Yang to break off contact with Ruan Mian.

Grandpa Lu and Ning Mixiang also noticed that Lu Yang didn’t eat other dishes on the table, but just focused on eating the plate of ribs in front of him.

Grandpa Lu looked at him for a while, and couldn’t help asking curiously: “Is that plate of ribs delicious?”

Lu Yang spit out the bones in his mouth, picked up the glass of water and gulped down half of it, and said in a flat tone: “It’s not delicious, too salty.”

After he finished speaking, he picked up the chopsticks and picked up another piece of ribs and put it in his mouth.

Ruan Mian sat next to him, his cheeks couldn’t help but blush, and he lowered his head, slightly embarrassed. It was his first time cooking, and he really lacked the skills.

Grandpa Lu couldn’t help but feel a little surprised when he heard what Lu Yang said. Lu Yang was always picky about food and refused to eat if the food tasted bad. Now that he said the ribs were not tasty, why did he keep eating? It seemed that he wanted to eat all the ribs.

Ning Mixiang looked at Ruan Mian’s slightly red cheeks, and suddenly she had an idea and asked with a smile: “This plate of braised ribs was made by Mian Mian, right?”

“…Yeah.” Ruan Mian nodded gently and seeing that Lu Yang had drunk the remaining half cup of water, he quickly filled his glass with guilt.