Little Sprout has agreed?
Ye Moxuan would have been out of his mind to believe the nonsense George was spouting. He merely gave a cold snort before saying directly, “You are still not qualified enough to be her godfather. If you really want to be someone’s father, make a baby yourself.”
Upon hearing that, George immediately became upset.
“You just said that you owe me a favor. This is my only request.”
“Is that so?” Ye Moxuan looked calm, as if he was talking about something that was of no importance to him. “Since you said so, forget about the favor just now.”
With that, with a squealing Little Sprout in his arms, he turned around to leave immediately. Her laughter stopped before she appraised Ye Moxuan with a pair of curious and wide eyes.
However, George didn’t see the way Ye Moxuan’s expression change immediately right after he turned around. His coldness was replaced by gentleness as he looked at Little Sprout in his embrace. “You silly girl, you almost got yourself an idiot godfather,” he said in a low voice.
It’s better to not have such an idiotic fool as her godfather.
Isn’t being Uncle George good enough? Why does he want to be her godfather? It sounds ridiculous.
Ye Moxuan had decided not to let George become Little Sprout’s godfather.
However, after George knew that he could not get Ye Moxuan’s approval, he placed all his attention on Han Muzi, who was drowned by his pleadings.
“If Ye Moxuan disagrees with that, I have no way to help you. George, you know that Little Sprout is not just my daughter. Don’t you think that ‘Uncle George’ is a much affable salutation?”
George tilted his head blankly. “Is that so?”
“Of course!” Han Muzi nodded with a smile on her face as she patted his shoulder. “‘Uncle George’ sounds so much better. Think about it this way—recently, the term ‘godfather’ is being viewed in a negative way. Even though we don’t think about it with narrow minds, what about others? What if they misunderstand you? After thinking about it, I agree with Moxuan’s decision of not agreeing to this. No matter what, she’s bound to call you ‘Uncle George’ in the future, and it’s just a salutation. If you really like Little Sprout, you will have a close relationship with her regardless of this.”
Admittedly, George was convinced by Han Muzi.
Seems like being her godfather will indeed create more misunderstandings. When she’s grown up ten or twenty years later, I will be an old man by then. I won’t care what people say about me, but I can’t let this happen to Little Sprout.
At that time, she will be a beautiful young woman. What if her reputation is ruined then? Thinking about this, George immediately stopped thinking about being her godfather. Then, he smiled and said, “Fine, then I’ll be her Uncle George. Muzi, don’t you worry. I will definitely dote on Little Sprout!”
Hence, he stopped pestering them about this topic.
After remembering something, Han Muzi asked, “By the way, are you back alone this time?”
George pouted. “Of course not.”
“Really?” Han Muzi was quite curious. “You have someone else with you?”
George nodded. “Of course! You don’t know about this, Muzi, but the stinky old man insisted on coming back with me, saying that he also wanted to attend Little Sprout’s full-month celebration. Say, why does he still want to travel so far? He is already quite old, and his legs can’t move around that easily, yet he wants to create more trouble for himself.”
Han Muzi remained silent. Oh, his grandfather was the one who came back with him. I thought Rory was with him this time.
“What’s up, Muzi?”
Staring at him, Han Muzi smiled thoughtfully. “Nothing. I just thought of Rory and the times we spent working together. Is she doing well?”
At that time, Rory’s living environment was quite bad. However, Han Muzi was not a saint; as she was already very busy with her stuff, she had no time to care about Rory.
Thinking about her now, Han Muzi felt wistful.
After all, when she was abroad, Rory had accompanied her for quite some time.
“That woman?” Upon mentioning Rory, George’s expression suddenly became weird as he looked like he had something to say. “She’s… doing pretty well. Why wouldn’t she?”
“Why do you seem a little guilty?” Han Muzi narrowed her eyes to appraise George.
It was all good until Han Muzi pointed that out. After that, George looked even more guilty. “I’m not guilty at all! She is doing pretty well! I bring her out for scrumptious meals all the time, and she would get so touched that tears roll down her cheeks. What’s there to worry about?”
Han Muzi felt speechless upon hearing his description. “So she didn’t come back here?”
“No.” George shook his head. A peculiar look flitted across his eyes as he thought, Rory wouldn’t dare to come back here at all. Initially, she fled abroad to escape her marriage without any money on her. And when she was abroad, she didn’t hit her job targets and was not doing quite well. That’s why her life is so miserable.
Everytime when George helped her, Rory always told him tearfully, “George, don’t worry. Once I earn big bucks, I’ll definitely buy you all the meals you’ve treated me to!”
And everytime George saw her expression, he couldn’t help himself from flicking his fingers on her forehead until she covered it with her hands in pain, and only then would he be satisfied and mock her.
“Can you grow a backbone? You got so touched when I just treated you to a simple meal. If I bought you meals for a year, would you be so touched that you would want to marry me?”
He didn’t know if Rory was in a daze because he had flicked his finger on her forehead. Though in pain, Rory actually nodded with tears in her eyes upon hearing that.
Then, George’s smile froze immediately.
In fact, he was just joking when he said that to tease her. Who would have guessed that that dumb woman would actually nod while looking at me? Hence, George froze for a while before returning to his senses. Then, he knocked on her head with a huge force.
“Are you an idiot? You are convinced after just a few meals and even agreed to marry me? Does this mean that you will marry any man who buys you food? You are a woman, you know. How can you simply agree to this? You will be taken advantage of!”
While speaking, George kept knocking on her forehead until her fair forehead turned red. Rory became even more teary as she shook her head. “You don’t understand. Since I came here alone, you… you are the first person who treats me so well!”
“So you agreed to marry me just because of that? No, no, no. I just bought you a few meals; you don’t have to be so touched. After all, you and Muzi know each other. I’m just taking care of you on her behalf!”
With that, George noticed that Rory’s eyes had dimmed. However, he brushed it off and asked Rory to finish her food quickly.
Although he continued to bring her for scrumptious meals, George’s mood had changed, and he wondered if it was because he had teased her. Nevertheless, he felt satisfied each time he saw Rory’s eyes light up as she enjoyed the food obediently.
