At an Advanced Age

"There really are so many people. Yuyou, Yuyou, are you listening to me?"

Bai Yuyou, who was currently chewing on some roast goose, turned her head around. Seeing Keke pulling her arm, she tilted her head slightly. "Oh?"

"Yuyou, look, it seems like I've seen some of these people online before." Keke pointed at the people in the venue. However, Bai Yuyou didn't recognize any of them; after all, she didn't enjoy surfing the web as much as Keke did.

Of course, it wasn't that Yuyou didn't know how to go online to learn about various things or memes. It was just that a while ago, she had used an old internet catchphrase, only for Keke to roast her for using such a stale, outdated meme. From that moment on, Yuyou stopped paying attention to those kinds of things.

"Aren't the dishes here super expensive?" Zhixia and the others looked at the food on the table. If it wasn't lobster and king crab, it was roast suckling pig and bird's nest. In any case, there wasn't a single cheap ingredient in sight.

"Well, it's not like we're the ones treating, so it doesn't matter," Keke said.

"That's true, but it still feels a bit awkward eating all this..." Linlin scratched her head in embarrassment while looking at the king crab leg in her hand. After all, they had just tagged along for a free meal and hadn't even prepared a red envelope. They didn't even know what this banquet was really for.

"Look over there, what's there to be embarrassed about?" Keke reached out and pointed.

Following the direction Keke was pointing, Linlin and Zhixia noticed two fishes who were currently stuffing their faces with food.

Why wouldn't we eat? Is it better to waste food? I'm just going to eat, eat, eat like a tornado. Whoever bothers me gets a kick, and then I'll keep eating. I came here to eat. If I'm not eating, why even attend a banquet? Eat, eat, eat. Eat while dancing.

An Shiyu and An Shiyi weren't holding back at all. Just the two of them had already cleared out more than half of the seafood, and they even asked Kou Kou to bring out some more.

"Uh..." Linlin and Zhixia stared at the empty plates. So An Shiyu could eat just as much as Yuyou?

"See? We can eat without worrying," Keke said with a shrug.

"True."

The girls finally relaxed and began to enjoy the delicacies on the table. Meanwhile, Kou Kou had instructed the kitchen to prepare even more dishes. Even though there was a set amount of food for each table, An Shiyu and Chao Yiyu had somehow turned it into an all-you-can-eat king crab buffet.

However, Ye Shuang had told Kou Kou to take good care of everyone, so Kou Kou didn't feel any psychological burden and simply joined in on the feast.

"Oh? I can run into you guys here too?" Just as Bai Yuyou and Keke were eating, they heard a voice from behind. Turning around, they saw a blonde girl standing there. She was wearing an incredibly exquisite black evening gown, and even her twin-tails were adorned with jeweled crowns that sparkled under the lights.

"If you eat that much, you'll get fat," Alice said, revealing her little canine teeth. She then used a small fan to cover half of her face, her eyes narrowing cutely. "Hmph, hmph."

Standing next to Alice like an iron tower, Bobo also greeted everyone present. "Good evening."

"Alice, why are you here too?" Keke was curious to see her.

"I've endorsed products for the Chen family before. Isn't it completely normal for them to invite a lady like me?" Alice said, looking left and right.

"Where's my chair?"

"Chair?" Keke pointed at an empty seat at the table. "You can just sit there."

"The chair I'm talking about isn't that one. It's a human chair named Ye Shuang." Alice closed her lady's fan and searched for Ye Shuang's figure.

"To actually treat my brother as a chair, you really are a piece of work, you blonde," Keke said.

"Ye Shuang is not a chair," Bai Yuyou added.

Alice gave a light hmph and sat down in the empty seat. "Since that's the case, I suppose I'll just make do with this chair for a while."

"That really is asking a lot of you," Keke remarked.

"After all, Lady Alice has been looking for Mr. Ye Shuang the moment she walked in," Bobo chimed in from the side.

"Shut up, Bobo!"

Bobo merely smiled. His gaze then fell upon the two fishes sitting across the table. Seeming to sense something, his eyes lingered on the two of them for quite a while before he casually looked away.

"Here." Bai Yuyou used her chopsticks to place a piece of roast goose on Alice's plate.

"No, that'll make me fat. I'll just eat vegetables," Alice shook her head. She then noticed the little girl sitting next to Bai Yuyou. "Oh, where did this kid come from?"

"My daughter," Bai Yuyou introduced Little Yezi.

"Your... your daughter?" Alice froze for a moment. She observed Little Yezi for a few seconds before asking Bai Yuyou, "At what age did you give birth to her?"

Isn't this a crime?!

"Hello, big sister," Little Yezi spoke up.

"Oh, hello," Alice replied, her focus still entirely on Bai Yuyou.

Could she have had a child with Ye Shuang?

Even taking hormones wouldn't make her grow that fast, right?

"Actually, she's my brother's daughter," Tang Keke interjected, seemingly wanting to observe Alice's reaction.

"He has a child?!" Alice was in disbelief.

"Yeah, isn't she cute?"

Alice bit her fingernail, seemingly unable to accept this reality. After all, that kid wasn't even that much younger than she was.

While her imagination was running wild, Bai Yuyou added, "Ye Shuang picked her up."

"Picked her up?"

"Mhm."

Alice remained silent for a few seconds before looking at Keke, who was trying hard to hold back her laughter. "You jerk! Bobo, smash her backpack flat!"

"Lady Alice, please mind your image at the banquet."

"Hmph."

Just as the girls were bickering, two people approached them, stopping next to An Shiyu.

Sensing someone standing beside her, An Shiyu glanced back and saw Luo Qunfa and Luo Meng.

An Shiyu didn't recognize Luo Meng, but she remembered this chubby, balding man very clearly.

"Why is it you again?" Seeing Luo Meng, Tang Keke crossed her arms.

Is this woman here to pick a fight again?

How annoying.

Luo Meng hadn't expected to run into Keke and the others here either. Remembering the purpose of her visit, she felt so awkward her toes could have curled right through the soles of her shoes.

"G-Good evening, everyone," Luo Meng smiled awkwardly.

Seeing Luo Meng's current attitude, Keke seemed to understand something. "We actually preferred the arrogant way you were acting earlier. How about you switch back?"

Luo Meng took a deep breath, suppressing her inner emotions, and just smiled.

An Shiyu looked at Luo Qunfa. "What do you want?"

Luo Qunfa offered an apologetic smile, completely lacking the aggressive aura he had during the day when he was pointing and cursing at the two fishes. He simply said, "Um, Miss An Shi, this is a classic case of friendly fire. It was all a misunderstanding."

"We came over to apologize to you."

Hearing this, An Shiyu raised an eyebrow.

"What? You're this old and you still want to sell your ass?!"

Her voice wasn't too loud or too soft, but it was just enough to attract the attention of several surrounding tables.

Luo Qunfa was stunned: "Huh?"