My Four Miraculous Treasures

Chapter 172 The dining room of the Hughes family mansion was one-of-a-kind.

The walls were glass, from floor to ceiling, offering a sweeping panorama of the scenery. Through the open windows, the scent of countless flowers wafted in on a light breeze.

If you listened closely, you could even hear the clicks and chirps of the wildlife outside.

Having a meal in a place like this would be a feast for all the senses!

Rich people sure have it good, Willow thought to herself.

Presented upon the dining table were luxuries flown in by air from abroad: premium-grade king crab, lobster, a whole platter of assorted raw fish sashimi...

It was a feast of seafood... a fantastic festival of flavors and colors!

Just the sight of it already had Willow drooling.

She'd always loved seafood... but Buscen City was nowhere near the sea, which made seafood items costly there. Struggling to feed four children meant that having seafood was out of the question.

years since

sight of an entire table fully laden with seafood delights... the delicious aromas filled her grateful lungs.

the audible sounds of her hunger, Cindy smiled benevolently. "Willow, go ahead and tuck right in! Make yourself at home, don't be shy! This feast was prepared especially in your honor!" Willow tried to salvage her tattered dignity with a wretched attempt at courtesy: "But how kind of you, grandma! How in the

of them had even suspected the connection they

that workplace, he was the CEO in charge of a

reason someone in his position would be bothered to learn

seemed pleasantly amused

was only a guess, although it appears to have been a very lucky guess, at that. The truth is, I adore seafood myself-and so does our Jasper! It seems to me that the two of you have plenty in common with each other!

searching gaze, Willow bowed her head bashfully, and giggled a

odds that Jasper Hughes might also have a taste for

beside Cindy, Frank

lobster flesh, and placed it onto Cindy's dish. "Go on, eat

removed the shell from a section of lobster, and

up a show of being polite and reserved... but now,

from Jasper's

mollified by this gesture of affection, she turned to