The next day, everyone got busy with the restaurant"s opening preparations.

Sara also had to help out a bit before going out. Herself and Hoy were to go over to Muchen"s hotel where Sun would be having her birthday party the next day which was the 24th of December. She had to familiarize herself with the place and the organisation team so she could easily work with all of them.

Sara ran her eyes over the place and smiled. This was way better than his former restaurant. It was bigger so there was no need to put extra chairs and tables outside at nights. The furnitures this time wasn"t the old wooden type of furniture he had used in his previous restaurant. He had contracted a nice carpenter to help him this time and thankfully, it was cheaper since he needed it in bulk. 

Because this place was in the main town and he was expecting more customers, he had to put in a lot of money to make it look nice and presentable and she must admit, he did achieve that. 

Now, he didn"t just sell liquor, he sold other types of drinks that suited each person"s tastes whether children or adult. And he had put a limit on the number of liquor a person could buy. He didn"t want any inappropriate behaviours in his restaurant.

The money had come from herself and her Aunt. It gave her joy whenever she remembered she was a shareholder. But even though she was currently penniless after deciding at the last minute to invest the rest of her money on the restaurant, she was still going to brag about it to Muchen once he got back. 

She was now a shareholder just like him but only on a smaller scale. How exciting! She thought.

Jianjun didn"t have time to play around or say a word to Sara. But whenever she saw him, she glared at him. Remembering how he was treating Changyu, she was displeased. She hadn"t bothered to ask him about anything. But she only hoped Changyu would come over today. 

He was busy in the kitchen with a new employee of his—A guy in his mid twenties. Her aunt was also there to help him out with whatever she could. While herself and Joreen—

"Please pa.s.s me the napkin behind you" Miss Kang"s gentle voice said to her.  

Oh, and Miss Kang also, were cleaning the place one final time before they officially open it in an hour.

Miss Kang had been coming around once in a while. It seemed she was serious about the crush she had for her father. 

Sara had always liked her. She was a pretty woman and always looked adorable whenever she was talking to her father. Sara hadn"t found it weird that she was only ten years older than her. But now, she was beginning to have second thoughts. 

She suddenly didn"t want her as her stepmother. Not because Miss Kang was lacking in any way but because, she already had a potential stepmother in her mind. 

Secondly, her father didn"t fancy Miss Kang in that manner. He was always trying to hide or run away from her. Either Miss Kang was oblivious to it or she was pretending like she didn"t know.

Hearing that he was opening a new restaurant today, she had taken her time to come help out looking all dolled up. 

"Why are you looking like that? Did she annoy you? Because she is really p.i.s.sing me off. Always acting like she is the boss here. Does she think we are in school?" Joreen whispered behind Sara"s ears.

Sara was startled when she heard Joreen"s voice behind her ear so she turned immediately. Joreen was climbing on top of a chair with a lollipop in her hand. Her lips were pursed as she looked at Miss Kang clean one of the tables for the umpteenth time.

"Jo, come down. Dad is going to get annoyed when he sees you"

Sometimes, Sara do forgot Joreen was still a child. She was very smart and outspoken so Sara had really blocked out the fact that she was still only seven years old. Well, until times like this when she acted childish.

Joreen jumped down with a sad face. "I liked meeting your height" 

Gently patting on her braided hair, Sara a.s.sured... "One day, you"ll be as tall as I am okay?"

Speaking of Tall, she remembered her boyfriend. She so much antic.i.p.ated seeing him tomorrow. He had said his coming was going to be under probability but she had to have faith that he would come. 

How was she supposed to do anything there when he wasn"t even there? 

She missed him so much. In fact, the past few days had been h.e.l.l for her. 

She suddenly missed it when he hugged her or played with her hair. The way he teased her, smiled at her and kissed her. 

The word "kiss" suddenly made color rise to her cheeks.

"What are you daydreaming about? You better hurry if you"re going out. The traffic may get worse soon." 

Sara came back to her senses when she saw her father and Aunt appear from the kitchen. He was wearing a black pants and grey polo s.h.i.+rt which an ap.r.o.n was covering. 

Sara remembered the dress she had gotten. It had all been neatly sealed in the gift box she was going to place under the Christmas tree  for them.

Her family had never celebrated Christmas that way but since they just entered a new apartment, Joreen had asked for a tree and Jianjun hadn"t declined. So to complete Christmas, she was going to place the gifts under it.

"What could she possibly be daydreaming about if not her boyfriend. You should watch your daughter, she might go crazy soon" Cixi advised as she pa.s.sed by Sara with a tray of G.o.d knows what. 

"Jo, tell your mother to stop being jealous and go get a boyfriend" 

"Geez... What are you saying to her?" Cixi dropped the tray on one of the tables and ran over to cover Joreen"s ears while Jianjun glared at her. 

"Don"t spoil my baby girl." Cixi warned.

Sara giggled before pointing at Joreen who was grinning with her ears still covered. "You don"t know your daughter"

All of a sudden, Miss w.a.n.g popped out from no where to lecture Sara on how bad it was to expose kids to such languages blah blah blah.

Sara rolled her eyes at her. "Just when I was looking for an exuse to strike you off. Well, Namaste!" 

Miss Kang went on and on and even Cixi and Jianjun got tired of her. 

"I told you she"s p.i.s.sing me off" Joreen whispered behind Sara through gritted teeth.

"Miss Kang. As much as I love to listen to your lecture, I have to hurry out now" Sara said with a smile but before she could go out, Jianjun stopped her. 

"Wait. Let"s have a toast first." He brought out a nonalcoholic wine and shared it into different gla.s.ses. For himself, Cixi, Sara, Joreen, Miss Kang and his new employee Lisa.

Coincidentally, Bilike and Mr Chu came at that time to come help Jianjun serve in the restaurant so they also joined in on the toast.

"To DELIMEAL." Jianjun raised his gla.s.s. 

"And to all the shareholders..." Sara didn"t forget to add that part.