Purple Mountain, River Moon.
Nanako held her phone and ran out from her boudoir, shouting joyfully: “Otosan, Otosan! Ye Chen will come home for dinner later!”
At this moment, Ito Xiong Yan was fiddling with his five-needle pine tree in the central courtyard of the villa.
This five-needle pine had been transplanted by Ito Xiong Yan from his estate in Kyoto, Japan. As one of the top tree species in Japanese gardening, this sturdy and full-bodied five-needle pine was worth at least several million dollars. It was Ito Xiong Yan’s favourite.
Previously, he had always lived in apartments, so he had no chance to plant trees. Now that he had moved to a Chinese-style standalone villa, he immediately started tinkering.
Old money in Japan, like old money in China, had some special and retro hobbies. Chinese old money liked playing with wood and jade, while Japanese old money all had the heart to become gardening masters.
Owning a large estate in Kyoto did not count as a true big shot. Owning a large estate, plus having top varieties and top-quality trees filling the entire garden, that was the mark of a big shot among big shots. When guests arrived, even without the host saying a word, just the trees in the courtyard were enough to make the guests feel the host’s strength.
As one of Japan’s top tycoons, Ito Xiong Yan was naturally a big-shot figure in gardening. Now settled in China, and since Kyoto’s climate was similar to Nanjing’s, he planned to gradually transplant all the precious trees he had planted in Japan over here.
He was busy with full focus when suddenly he heard Nanako say that Ye Chen would come home for dinner in the evening. He immediately said joyfully: “Mr Ye has finally come out of seclusion.”
“Yes.” Nanako nodded and said: “It seems Ye Chen came out of seclusion just today.”
Ito Xiong Yan smiled slightly and said: “This period must have been very tough for Mr Ye. Today when he comes to our home, we will accompany him and drink a few more cups.”
With that, he looked at his daughter with both eyes and instructed her meaningfully: “Nanako, this is currently your best chance to seize Ye Chen. You must grasp it firmly.”
When Nanako was arranging to buy a new house, Ito Xiong Yan had asked her why she wanted to move out of Tomson Riviera. After all, in Ito Xiong Yan’s view, his daughter loved Ye Chen to her very bones, and by extension, she was extremely fond of Tomson Riviera. Suddenly wanting to move out seemed clearly off.
Nanako had not hidden anything and roughly explained the situation to her father.
When he heard the moment Xiao Churan left Ye Chen, Ito Xiong Yan said “good” more than a dozen times, so excited that his hands itched to rub off a layer of skin.
Because in his view, Xiao Churan leaving Ye Chen was the best opportunity for his daughter to take her place. No matter how many confidantes Ye Chen had around him, he believed his daughter was the most special one in Ye Chen’s heart. Or to put it bluntly, his daughter was definitely the most alluring among those confidantes.
This judgement was not blind confidence, but because he had analysed Ye Chen’s various behaviours towards his daughter over time.
Not only had Ye Chen specially gone to Kyoto to treat his daughter’s injuries, he had even saved her life. In the subsequent great chaos in Tokyo, it was he who helped the Ito family laugh to the end.
What moved Ito Xiong Yan even more was that Ye Chen had used the extremely precious Rejuvenation Pill to regrow his legs. If Ye Chen did not have feelings for his family’s daughter in his heart, how could he have had the chance to receive such fortune?
It could be said that in this recent period, the most beautiful dream Ito Xiong Yan had was that Ye Chen became his son-in-law.
Now that the opportunity had come, he had to make Nanako go all out.
