If You Could Hear My Heart

Chapter 776: Chapter 776: Wish Love is as Sweet as Chocolate

By the end, there was one piece left, and Chaomu just took it for herself to eat.

“Chaomu, that chocolate looks pretty good,” a young girl commented.

“Yeah, it looks really tempting, probably tastes great too. But I can’t understand the writing on it, is it indicating the flavor or something?”

The girl who knew German took a serious look and said, “It says ‘Handcrafted chocolate, may your love be as sweet as this chocolate.'”

She pronounced each word carefully for them to hear.

“Really?” Chaomu laughed, “These days packaging always likes to use some fancy foreign phrases to charm people.”

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However, Chaomu was sweating bullets. May your love be as sweet as this chocolate? Shen Chi actually bought such cheesy chocolate! But didn’t he know that she couldn’t read German?

“Chaomu, your husband is so loving, buying you such romantic chocolate.”

Chaomu gave an embarrassed smile, “I guess… I guess he couldn’t understand it either and just bought it casually.”

“Xiaoxu, did your husband bring this back from a business trip? Or did you find it on some website? It looks fake,” Sister Chen came over and said.

Chaomu also gave her a piece, which she examined in her hand, looking quite disdainful.

Before Chaomu could speak, Sister Chen added, “There’s so much fake stuff online, a lot of chocolate is just filled with coloring and stuff, sickeningly sweet and tastes bad. I’ve eaten plenty of chocolate, but I’ve never seen this kind before.”

“I don’t know where he bought it,” Chaomu said with a smile, “If he gave it to me, I just take it as a token of his affection.”

Chaomu’s words were a double entendre, and a few colleagues understood.

Indeed, it’s about the thought, not the chocolate. It’s a favor to share it, but no obligation to do so; there’s no need to say such a thing.

Sister Chen was displeased and snorted coldly, tossing the chocolate carelessly onto the table, “I don’t want it, chocolate from some small workshop, gives you stomach ache if you eat it.”

Suddenly, the atmosphere got a bit awkward.

Luckily, Chaomu had a good temper, she didn’t take it personally against Sister Chen.

Chaomu thought to herself, this kind of delicious chocolate, you wish you could have it but you can’t!

If you don’t eat it, that’s fine, it just leaves one more piece for others.

Some colleagues had already started eating their chocolate, and one girl praised while eating, “Chaomu, this is really delicious, such a pure chocolate flavor, better than any I’ve had before!”

Hearing this, others began to unwrap theirs too.

“Really? Let me try some too.”

Another girl came over to comfort Chaomu, whispering, “Don’t mind Sister Chen, her family is wealthy, probably looks down on this. But to us, it’s already very nice chocolate. Your husband really treats you well!”

“Yeah, Chaomu, your husband is really good to you.”

Chaomu smiled, “He is pretty good to me.”

Everyone who took a bite offered praises.

“Chaomu, this chocolate is too delicious!”

“Isn’t it, it’s amazing!”

Chaomu wasn’t sure if they were just comforting her, and she unwrapped a piece for herself.

Who would’ve thought, it was indeed extremely delicious!

It melted as soon as it hit her tongue, a rich dark chocolate taste that burst with flavor as she bit down.

Chaomu happily examined the packaging, it was the first time she had such delicious chocolate. Shen Chi hadn’t really bought her stuff before.

Too bad, she had given it all away to her colleagues.

No help for it, she shrugged her shoulders, she would just have to act coquettishly later that night and ask for another jar.

“Tasty, tasty, Chaomu, do you have any more?” a colleague asked while eating and complimenting.

“No more, look, the jar’s empty,” Chaomu shook it.

A girl snatched up the piece Sister Chen had rejected, waving it, “So, this one’s for me?”

“Sure, take it,” Chaomu said with a smile.

“Chaomu, your husband bought you a whole jar, and we’ve eaten it all up, aren’t you going to resent us?”

“Good things are meant to be shared. Next time, I’ll have him bring more,” Chaomu said smiling.

Sister Chen, who hadn’t spoken for a while, scoffed again, “Obviously it’s something cheap. Where could her husband afford genuine chocolate, probably not even willing to buy those slightly better ones that cost hundreds per box.”

A colleague disagreed, standing up for Chaomu, “Sister Chen, Chaomu’s chocolate is really good, it must be from abroad that her husband brought back. Sister Chen, why don’t you give it a try?”

“I don’t eat that kind,” Sister Chen maintained her disdainful expression.

People shrugged their shoulders, and so did Chaomu, everyone had a take-it-or-leave-it attitude.

Everyone knew Sister Chen was the wealthiest in the design department, probably too snobby for this.

“Chaomu, your husband’s work must be going pretty well lately, even has extra money to buy you chocolate?” Sister Chen said ambivalently.

Chaomu chuckled awkwardly, “We recently got a bonus, it’s the bonus.”

“Oh, that’s good,” Sister Chen said, “Just making sure it wasn’t bought by some unsavory man.”

Uh… unsavory man? Was she talking about Shen Chi?

Chaomu held back her laughter, but Sister Chen’s attitude irritated her.

She was here to work, not to get annoyed. Everyone else was fairly friendly, at least superficially, why was Sister Chen so disagreeable?

So, Chaomu said, “Sister Chen, is my husband really so poor that he can’t even afford a box of chocolate? He might not have much money, but he’s working hard, and he gives me whatever I want, isn’t that enough? It’s better than those who have mansions and BMWs but whose husbands never come home.”

Chaomu was of course speaking about Sister Chen, everyone in the design department knew that although her husband was rich, he was often out at night, rumored to have a bunch of mistresses.

Naturally, Sister Chen often boasted about how wonderful her husband was to her.

“If that chocolate is real, then God knows which man bought it,” Sister Chen said scornfully.

A female colleague intervened, “Sister Chen, come on, give it a rest. We’ve never seen Chaomu’s husband, but for all we know, he might be quite decent.”

“If he was really that great, she wouldn’t hesitate to show us a photo,” Sister Chen said.

A few young girls egged Chaomu on, “Chaomu, just show us a peek, you said your husband is very handsome, didn’t you?”

They had been eager to see how handsome he was for a long time, and today was a good opportunity!

“It’s nothing special, he’s handsome in my eyes, but not necessarily in someone else’s,” Chaomu said.

Even if she had a photo, whose would she show?

She only had a few sneakily taken pictures of Shen Chi on her phone, almost all of them profile shots.

There were very few photos of them together. Besides, even if there were, she wouldn’t show them.

“That just means he’s not handsome, not handsome and with no money, what’s there to show off about,” Sister Chen scoffed.

“Chaomu, show us, we’ll help you judge whether he’s handsome!” a few girls encouraged Chaomu.

Chaomu sweated bullets, wasn’t Shen Chi’s handsomeness commonly accepted?

“Forget it, forget it, let’s get back to work,” Chaomu told them.