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.

had been five years

grateful lungs.

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

should have no clue. Up until just a few days ago, neither of them had even suspected the connection they shared from that night five years ago. They had only been colleagues at the

was the CEO in charge of a massive and successful company, while she was

his position would be bothered to learn the likes and dislikes of the least

seemed pleasantly

two of you have plenty in common with each other! Thank goodness... I'd have to object to this courtship, otherwise! Instead, it looks like the two of you are a match made in heaven! To think that

gaze, Willow bowed her head bashfully, and giggled a

though, truly! What were the odds that

beside Cindy,

silent and severe as he extracted a sizeable hunk of lobster flesh, and placed it onto Cindy's

same: He removed the shell from a section of lobster, and left

had still been keeping up a show of being polite and reserved... but now, here was a whole chunk of lobster goodness, staring up at

from

and mollified by this gesture of

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