True Love Waits

Chapter 1398 Playing With The Panda

The Panda House staffer kept eagle eyes on Erica as she held the panda. Although the panda wasn't that big, it seemed like he had handed her a bag of boulders instead. She couldn't lift it. "Oh, it's so heavy!" The staff member was on the verge of laughing, but he held it back. "Yes, Lili is six years old. That's an adult panda. She weighs about 110 kilograms, much heavier than you, Mrs. Huo."

"110 kilos?" Erica's mind was blown. 'Wow. He's right. She's a lot heavier. No wonder he seemed like he was straining when he held the creature. It took a fair amount of strength to do that!'

Soon, three pandas waddled up to Erica. She asked, "Since I can't lift them, can I 'rua' them here?" She used a Chinese Internet slang there, "rua" meaning that you like something a lot and you want to play with it.

"Rua?" Matthew asked. He'd never heard that term before. He was now standing next to Erica.

Even the staffer was confused by the word "rua." Erica then reached out two hands and made a gesture to explain, pinching a pretend panda in the air. "Yeah, rua. Like this." "Oh..." One of the staffers got it. He was a younger fellow who often surfed the net. He pointed at the panda next to her with a smile and asked, "Mrs. Huo, sure you want to rua it?" Erica nodded with a smile, "Yes!"

"You can play with it, but I wouldn't get too rough. They look defenseless, but they're not. If anything happens, don't say I didn't warn you."

"No problem!"

Looking at the woman gently touching the panda, Matthew asked the young staffer, "What was she talking about?"

The worker racked his brains, trying to find a more suitable word to help Matthew understand. "Mr. Huo, Mrs. Huo wants to...well...play with it. Yeah, that's it!"

"Play with it?" Matthew seemed to get even more confused.

"Yes, she wants to play with the panda!" Ignoring the confused man, the staffer turned to Erica and reminded, "Remember Mrs. Huo, be careful. If you piss it off, it will rua you instead!" "Okay! I will!" Erica decided to pinch the panda more before it got angry!

Matthew took out his phone and opened the Baidu app. He searched for the word "rua" and waited a second or two. Only then did he understand what it meant.

He put away his phone and shook his head helplessly. He watched the woman play with the pandas. She pinched them so much before they ran off, and then she ran after them trying to entice them back with shoots of bamboo.

The panda named Riri stretched out its paw and patted the woman on the leg. Erica loved it, and started giggling. Her bright laughter filled even the dark spaces in Panda House.

stood there, his eyes following the

take the kids along in

for her. Why would he bring the children? So they could tear up the

see pandas and hug them, but not here. Well... It was actually okay with him if he brought his kids here. After all, it was a testament to money spent well. But he'd only let them look through the fence. They didn't need to come

hour later, Erica fed the pandas with the bamboo in her hand

looked at the stone board with the names of the three pandas

she got to the car,

startled by her cry, and so was the driver. He quickly turned

down, he asked helplessly, "Why did you

held his hand tightly, tears

he frowned and asked,

and Kaka were all named that for a reason. Each name represented a syllable of her own name. After waiting for a

her cheeks, and answered him in a choked voice,

years." The pandas had been adopted by him the day

woman wiped her tears messily. "Their names... Did you give them

she... figure it

him nod, Erica leaned in his arms and burst into

of

courage and asked his boss, "Mr.

head, Matthew said, "No. It's okay. Let me

"Okay. Very good, sir!"

words, Erica stopped crying. She raised her head and asked the man in a choked voice, "When your dad asked you to marry me back then, You said no, right? I remember that..." She was starting to get it.

so it seemed. He was smitten with her a long time before their

running all day to escape him. When she didn't know what love was. He had a crush on her

out a tissue and dabbed at the tears on her face. He didn't deny anything, but said gently, "I didn't like