You Are The Apple of My Eyes
Chapter 598 Flatter Him

Nina was trying on her wedding dresses in the fitting room. They were two wedding dresses and both were called the Starry River. One was white and the other was black, each of which was decorated with a beautiful galaxy pattern made with crystals.

While the white dress was romantic, the black one made her look sexy and mysterious. When she put on the dresses, she felt complete, as though her beauty had been elevated to a whole new level. Lisa gasped as she gazed upon Nina's breathtaking beauty. "I am sure that Mr. Shi is going to be smitten with you."

Nina looked at her reflection and smiled. John had designed both the dresses for her. She decided to show herself in the dresses at their wedding with delicate makeup and walk toward John. 'I can't let him see me in the dresses yet.

He deserves to see me when I look my best,' Nina thought to herself.

She then took off the dress. Seeing that, Lisa was shocked. "Why did you take it off, ma'am? Is it not fitting you right? Does it feel uncomfortable to wear? Why did you take it off?"

"The dresses are too beautiful and I don't want my husband seeing me in them just yet. I want to surprise him on our wedding day," Nina said with a smile.

Upon hearing that, Lisa sighed and gave her a bright smile.

When Nina did not walk out of the fitting room wearing any wedding dress, John panicked. "Why aren't you wearing one of them?" he asked with a frown.

'Did they not fit well?

That can't be. I know her size better than anyone!

Perhaps, she felt uncomfortable wearing them.

That's also very unlikely as I had thoroughly checked every stitch and seam, making sure that it was very soft. I know Nina's skin is quite sensitive and could turn red at the slightest discomfort,' he thought to himself.

Nina saw his expression change and understood that John would imagine the worst if she did not tell him the truth.

"No. There are no issues with the dresses. I've tried them on and they look gorgeous. They fit me like a second skin," Nina said, hugging him.

"Then why aren't you wearing them?" John lifted his hand and gently stroked her cheek.

"A wedding dress is to be shown to the groom only on the day of the wedding. If you see me wearing a wedding dress now, what would I wear on the wedding day? Should I not wear them on my wedding day? Is that what you want?" Nina teased with a laugh.

John pinched her chin and said coldly, "Don't wear them on the wedding day if you have a death wish."

"Let go of me, it hurts!" Nina lifted her hand and pushed his arm away while John glared at her before he let her go.

After they walked out of the dress fitting, Nina and John went on a lunch date. Then, they went to the kindergarten to pick up Don and Van, where they coincidentally met Henry, who had come with Adrian to pick up Cherry from school.

"Henry, there's a computer store ahead, right? Or am I remembering it wrong?" Adrian asked.

"You're wrong. It isn't ahead," Henry replied.

"Maybe I remembered it wrong," Adrian said with a wink.

Henry understood what he meant. "Do you want to buy a computer?"

"Yeah, I do. Would you like to accompany us, Mr. Shi?" Adrian asked with a smile.

John immediately understood what they meant.

"I don't need to go to the store to buy a computer, I can have my assistant do that for me," John replied flatly as he walked out of there, holding Nina and one of the kids.

Once they were back at the house on Stone Road, John gave a cold smile to James.

He proved that the man smiling in the photo was indeed him. He then placed a laptop in front of James.

James was utterly embarrassed and hung his head.

"Come on, Uncle John! I was just making fun! How am I going to fit this huge laptop into my mouth?" James pleaded.

"Well, I was not joking, James," John said. "Someone, come in!

Pound this laptop into a powder and shove it down his throat. If he's not able to swallow it, pour him a glass of water." Upon hearing that, James was stunned. He wanted to run away, but could not.

He was too scared to even move.

Seeing that the maid was almost about to grind the laptop into a powder, James helplessly turned to look at Nina, who sat there smiling as she watched them.

James turned to everyone else and gave them a pitiful look, but no one came to help him. Even his wife stood there as she gave him a sympathetic smile.

He was terrified when he saw the maid bring him a glass of thick black paste.

'Did she really grind the laptop into a paste? Why is it so thick?'

Thinking that, he became afraid that he would choke to death trying to eat it.

He was so scared that he banged the table, startling everyone.

'Is he going to rise in revolt?'

Everyone wondered as they looked at him.

Although James himself was shocked too, he tried his best to stay calm.

"Uncle John! You can't blame me for this, it is not my fault."

John lifted his eyebrow and asked, "Is this my fault, then?"

"Yes! You look good even when you don't smile, but you look a lot younger when you do. That's the reason I even doubted if the man was you. Can you really blame me for that? Come on! Why can't you see your own problem? You still look very young and your skin is flawless. Any woman would be attracted to your smile, and not just Aunt Nina. Are you really going tell that I'm the one at fault for thinking it was not you?"

His flattery came like a series of bullets, shocking everyone.

A faint smile appeared on John's lips. James was using the same trick again to escape from punishment.

Upon seeing him smile, James continued, "You barely look a day over twenty. Whenever people see us together, they think that you're my younger brother, and not my uncle! I have been trying so hard to keep that from you, and yet you are forcing me eat that laptop paste. How can you be so cruel?

Just because you look handsome and young, doesn't mean that you can bully me, right?" Upon hearing that, John snorted.

Everyone was shocked to see that.

Seeing that his trick had worked, James sat down on a chair. "Uncle John, if you think that everything I said was wrong, then you can go ahead and punish me."

He then closed his eyes tightly as though someone was swinging an axe at him.

The room became quiet as everyone stared at James in shock.

All of a sudden, someone laughed. Soon, another person's laughter came.

Everything seemed to be solved by James' flattery.

James had really worked hard on his praises, and John decided to forgive him.

Although James was not afraid of becoming the family's laughingstock, he was afraid of eating the laptop paste. 'How am I going to eat that if he still chooses to punish me? Is it even edible?

I'm pretty sure that thing would send me straight to hell if I even tried to eat it.'

Everyone else was laughing, while James squatted beside a street lamp, contemplating.

'Why couldn't I win against Uncle John?'

Emma could not find James, so she went looking for him. Nina offered to go with her, so they both walked until they found James squatted under a street lamp.

He looked like a lost child under the pale yellow street light.

"James, are you okay? Your uncle was just playing with you. It was black sesame paste," Nina said as she walked over to him.

James was still angry. "I was scared to death."

"Drink some water and calm down," Emma said, holding a glass of water in her hand.

James took a glance at the glass of water and asked, "Are you sure there's nothing poisonous in it? You did not mix any weird stuff, right?"

Nina lowered her head, trying so hard not to laugh. James was so scared that he was paranoid of even drinking water.0000