Chapter 97: The First Meeting (Part 2)

As soon as the door to the room was closed, Verina Keld Kately immediately led the girl named Joey to tour the entertainment room and the small living room.

Such a place was clearly designed to allow power ful guests dining in the VIP rooms to easily entertain themselves after tea and meals, and to discuss private agreements or transactions that could be made.

She jumped and chirped like a happy little magpie.

This lively behavior possessed a unique charm that was infectious, full of childlike innocence.

It was like a poem about childhood fun, giving George a strange illusion of returning to his own childhood days before he traveled through time.

“Is this a moving feeling from the bottom of my heart? It has been so long since I felt this way,” George thought to himself. “It is like a clear spring from the mountains washing and soothing my soul, which has been tense and exhausted for a long time.”

George could not help but make a self-mocking comment.

It had been exactly fourteen years since he traveled through time.

In such a long time, how many hours did George spend wearing a fake mask in front of others?

Even George himself probably could not remember the exact number.

However, this must have occupied the majority of his time in front of people.

As he had said before traveling through time, how many decades can a person have in their life?

If one lived like this for a long time, it was certain that the soul would feel exhausted.

Thinking of this, George silently recited in his heart, “To my lost youth. No! In this life, it should be my childhood.”

As soon as Verina Keld Kately’s excitement about visiting here for the first time faded, she immediately sat down heavily on the soft cushion of a chair in the entertainment room.

She boredly fiddled with the bridge cards on the table.

For such a young girl meeting for the first time, if the girl did not have a personal maid following her closely, George would have immediately prepared to use the tactic he used before traveling through time to trick little girls, and try to please this little girl first.

However, using such methods to deal with his blind date partner was unreasonable and inappropriate.

The little girl might not understand, but her personal maid, who was clearly specially trained, should have understood.

If such an attitude was reported back to the other family, what kind of impact might it have?

Just when George was in a dilemma, the door to the room was knocked on again.

It turned out that the waiter delivering cold drinks had arrived.

When the two servings of condensed milk ice cream were placed in front of Miss Kately, the little girl immediately grabbed a spoon and prepared to eat heartily.

“Cough! Cough!”

Just then, the maid standing nearby coughed twice without any expression.

Miss Kately, as the owner, immediately stopped her forward-leaning action.

She started playing with the silver spoon in her hand instead.

From this point, it seemed that this maid, who was not very old, also took on the responsibility of teaching and supervising her young lady’s etiquette.

From this aspect, she seemed to be truly very excellent.

The sound of the lock clicking “Click! Clack!” signaled that the restaurant waiter had left.

Miss Kately pounced on the condensed milk ice cream like a puppy receiving a command from its master.

Her chubby little hand waved gently, and she used the spoon to scoop a small amount of ice cream from the large crystal glass into her mouth.

Immediately, she shivered all over, stretched her neck, and called out with a happy expression: “So cold!”

The maid standing nearby, with a forced smile and a very embarrassed expression, said to George: “My Lord, Miss is still very young. When she grows up in a few years, she will not be like this anymore.”

However, from her evasive tone, George could not tell what confidence the other party actually had.

“Children should act like children,” George said. “Miss Kately’s behavior now is consistent with her age. If I had to use one word to describe it, it would be ‘cute’. She is really quite cute! I wish I had a little sister like this.”

While speaking, George picked up the herbal tea that had been served at the same time and took a sip.

A kind expression, like that of an older person looking at a younger generation, appeared on his face.

Combined with his childlike face, the overall impression given to others was quite strange.

Although every word George just spoke came from his heart and was his true thought and voice, his usual behavior and the expression he just made might have had no persuasiveness at all in the eyes of that maid.

On one hand, he said he liked innocence, yet he, who could also be considered a child himself, looked so old-fashioned.

No matter how you looked at it, it felt like he was telling lies with his eyes wide open.

No matter how the tall maid tried to hide it, the look of suspicion in her eyes never escaped George’s observation.

For this, George did not dare to say too much, because explaining too much at this moment would look like covering up.

He simply pointed to the apple slush on the table next to him, indicating that her portion was there, trying to change the subject.

This maid, having been carefully trained, knew that continuing like this would only make the current atmosphere even worse.

So, she took the opportunity to go down the slope and silently went to the side to start eating her own portion of the slush.

Miss Kately ate very slowly!

Rather than saying she was eating the ice cream, it was more like she was licking the spoon.

The saying that children love sweets is an unchanging truth in human society, no matter where you go.

George, who had easily solved most of the problems, was also happy to enjoy some leisure.

After a long while, even the angle of the sunlight shining into the room had changed.

Having finished the two large servings of ice cream, Miss Kately leaned back in her chair and took a few deep breaths.

Then she rubbed her slightly bulging little belly and said to George: “This is the first time I have felt so happy eating! Lord Bolerum, you are a good person.”

George, who had just received a “good person” card from a little loli, did not feel there was any problem.

After all, in another world before he traveled through time, the extended meaning of the word “good person” was not clear to the people here.

And George himself was not crazy enough to cling to that meaning to make himself uncomfortable.

George felt deep in his heart that buying over this little loli with just two bowls of ice cream was truly a good deal!

With such a good start, even if the marriage alliance failed later, it could still lead the relationship between the two families in a positive direction.

However, seeing that the little one seemed to have no worries at all, George asked with some confusion: “Miss Kately, do you know what the purpose of our meeting today is?”

“My mother told me this is for us to meet and see how we feel about each other, to serve as a reference for future matters,” Miss Kately said without any hesitation on this topic.

She still had a smile on her face, squinting her eyes, as if the satisfaction and happiness brought by those two servings of ice cream had not yet faded.

George still had some doubts about Miss Kately’s performance.

Did she see through everything, or was she really carefree?

He put down the cup in his hand and tried to ask: “Then, Miss Kately, a little lady of the Kately family, what is your own view on this matter?”

“Anyway, given my status, I definitely cannot make this matter completely my own choice,” she said. “I heard that in other countries, many noble girls can only meet the person they will spend their lives with on their wedding day. Compared to them, I am absolutely much luckier. At least we now have the right to choose within a certain range, don’t we? And I believe my parents love me sincerely. Even if it is a marriage alliance for benefits, they will choose the person who is most likely to make me happy in the future.”

After saying such a long emotional speech, the little girl’s lung capacity might not be able to handle it for a while.

Sure enough, as George had expected, Miss Kately rolled over and lay on the chair, gently patting her flat chest like an airfield, breathing lightly.

“Children at this time are generally precocious,” George thought. “No, I cannot say that exactly. I remember hearing before I traveled through time that post-00s elementary school students were already dating. Besides, given that the marriage age is generally earlier here, having such thoughts at 12 years old is probably quite normal. Although she seems too innocent in other matters, perhaps due to overprotection. But who knows if this is the true side of Verina Keld Kately herself?”

George could not help but sigh here.

Before traveling through time, he felt that he was almost becoming an old fossil and could hardly keep up with the times.

After traveling through time, because of the little loli’s previous performance, he had formed a preconceived impression and labeled her.

From a certain point of view, George still had a long way to go in understanding people’s hearts, especially in the aspect of lacking vigilance and suspicion towards children.

Just then, the little girl rolled over again, propped her head up with both hands under her chin, and lay on the chair to say to George: “I feel like you were just thinking of something rude.”

“The intuition of women is really sharp,” George thought. “Even a little loli has such ability.”

George, feeling a bit guilty, pretended to remain calm on the surface. “How could that be? I was just considering what dishes to serve for the upcoming dinner to make our little lady satisfied.”

The little girl pouted and said: “Who knows if what you say is true or false? But I think you are really a good person. If you were the one spending your life with me, it might be a good choice!”

“The little girl actually means that I give her the feeling of being harmless to both humans and animals, doesn’t she?” George thought to himself, unable to resist the inner complaint.

However, Verina Keld Kately’s performance just now was so cute that it made George have new ideas.

“I seem to have heard someone say on a forum before I traveled through time that loli are meant to be cute, not to be pushed. This is indeed a profound truth. In the future, I must have a daughter to be cute with.”

Miss Kately’s performance at the dinner later made George even more surprised.

Watching her wolf down the food, George felt a strange illusion.

It seemed like an unprecedented hunger made him completely lose control of himself, wanting to have the impulse to eat heartily.

Watching the girl next to him busy wiping the corners of the little loli’s mouth, George finally understood the reason for sending the restaurant waiters away.

Even though she had already eaten two large servings of cold drinks, she could still maintain such a huge appetite not long after.

Looking at the other party’s small and delicate body, George could not help but ask: Is your stomach a dimensional bag?