CHAPTER 396: CHAPTER 290: TEA PARTY (4)

Aei blinked, seemingly not understanding his words.

Uesugi Sakura looked at her for a long while and then changed the subject: "How does the cake at the party taste today?"

"Delicious!~" came the energetic reply, with a soft, cute intonation unique to children, "It’s not cold or hard, with a warm and soft bite."

Right after she finished, Aei added, "But compared to the cake that sister Hanabi makes, it’s still much worse."

"Are you trying to flatter me?" Uesugi Sakura said with a smile, standing up and reaching over to the small table pushed by a waiter to take a plate of pastries and hand it to her.

Aei looked at the plate in front of her holding two pieces of mousse cake, then looked at him, lifting her chin, she opened her little mouth:

"Ah—."

She meant for him to feed her.

Kids, there’s no harm in indulging them a little.

Although Uesugi Sakura knew she was just being lazy and didn’t want to use her hands.

Aei swallowed the mousse being fed to her, speaking as she ate, "Mm mm... Big brother just likes to hear good things about sister Hanabi."

A phone rang in her little bag, she stealthily opened it and took out the ringing phone.

"Ah, it’s sister." Looking at the phone screen, Aei seemed very happy.

Then, she pressed the hang-up icon.

Uesugi Sakura holding the plate: "Why hang up?"

"It’s sister.

"Aei doesn’t want sister to find you?"

"Yeah, because I came to find dad."

To be honest, this tea party was quite a hassle for Uesugi Sakura because people kept coming up to greet him.

They said it was a greeting, but essentially, they were interested in him and wanted to probe a bit.

This tea party had a wide circle, involving various industries.

Which led him to repeatedly mention that he was engaged to prevent women from approaching for a chat.

"Brother, why do those aunties want your contact information?"

"I don’t know, don’t ask me that."

By five in the afternoon, the tea party had only reached halfway, with an evening session still to come.

The host went on stage to introduce the upcoming activities and the music ball for the evening session.

Why do social events like this always have a ball?

Beautiful music, wonderful lighting, graceful dance moves...

It sounds nice, but unfortunately, Uesugi doesn’t know how to dance.

"It’s dad..."

Aei’s brief words made Uesugi Sakura open his eyes from a state of resting with eyes closed.

He saw her staring at a certain middle-aged man in the distance.

That man wore a silver watch, looked younger than his peers, dressed in a formal suit, holding a goblet in his right hand while conversing with two women with deep V-necklines, standing tall and exuding confidence, he had quite a presence.

"Is he your dad?"

"Yeah." Aei nodded, but looked like she dared not admit it.

Upon seeing that man’s face, Uesugi Sakura thought to himself that he had guessed correctly that day.

The wealthy man who came to give a lecture at their school was indeed the father of the two sisters.

During this time, he thought about telling the two sisters about this man’s existence.

But back then, firstly he wasn’t sure of his identity, and secondly, even if he brought Aei and Chiaei to recognize him, the man probably wouldn’t acknowledge them.

Besides increasing the little girls’ sense of loss, it wouldn’t help at all.

"Do you want to go and talk to him?" Uesugi Sakura asked.

Aei lowered her head, shaking it.

It’s not that she was unwilling, it seemed she just didn’t want to. She had come here with her dad today.

Uesugi Sakura looked around.

Beside the long table, Tsubokawa Takahiro was still being forcibly set up on a blind date by his father, the girl across from him looked very awkward, speechless.

Turning back to look at Aei beside him.

Ever since she saw her dad, Aei hadn’t spoken, even her favorite milk was only half-drunk.

Forget it, Uesugi Sakura sighed inwardly, then said to Aei, who was wearing a little hat beside him:

"Shall I take you to find sister Hanabi, okay?"

She only reacted after he said that.

"Okay..."

Perhaps due to lacking maternal love, Aei was always fond of sticking to Hanabi.

Especially loved sitting in her lap while eating.

Clearly still an underaged girl, how did she become a mom?

Having eaten too many sweets, no one could eat the afternoon meal, so Uesugi Sakura could only sit idly at the long table, sipping juices or something.

"Sakisa, do you know that person?"

"Hm," Kitagawa Sakisa forcefully cut the steak, the knife grating on the plate, "Who?"

"The one wearing a silver watch."

Kitagawa Sakisa lifted her head, looking at the guy he mentioned, then answered, "I don’t know him, don’t ask me, I know eighty percent of the people at this tea party, I’m just here for fun."

Great, should’ve known not to ask you.

Uesugi Sakura glanced at Kyujuu Rika sitting next to her, then said to her again: "Come, switch seats with me."

Kitagawa Sakisa: "Why?"

Uesugi Sakura: "You sit next to Hanabi."

"Alright!" Kitagawa Sakisa immediately switched places with her own plate.

After switching positions, Uesugi Sakura asked Kyujuu Rika the same question.

"Kohara Kiyosaku?"

"Yeah, it’s him."

Kyujuu Rika looked at Aei sitting in Hanabi’s lap, then continued to say to Uesugi Sakura: "Why are you asking about this?"

"What’s he like? Last time he came to our university lecture hall to give a workshop."

Kyujuu Rika stopped her knife and fork, thought carefully for a moment, and then replied to him: "He’s called Kohara Kiyosaku, looks quite young, but is already fifty-two, used to be a senior at the bank, currently developing a Securities Company, doing very well."