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.

there, his eyes following the

he didn't take

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

his sons to the zoo to 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

hour later, Erica fed the pandas with the bamboo in her hand and reluctantly followed Matthew out

leaving, Erica looked at the stone board with the names of the three pandas engraved on it again, and a

the car,

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

down, he asked helplessly,

turned to him and held his hand tightly, tears

could say anything, he frowned and asked,

their names. Lili, Riri and Kaka were all named that for a reason. Each name represented a syllable of

and answered him in a choked voice, "No... Matthew, how long have

pandas had been adopted by

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

he nodded. 'Did she... figure it

in his arms and burst into

couldn't think of

her. He summoned up his courage and asked his boss, "Mr. Huo, what

Let me handle this." 'Those

"Okay. Very good, sir!"

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?

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

her father and then running all day to escape him. When she didn't know

on her face. He didn't deny anything, but said gently, "I didn't like the idea of