Chapter 9
Later in the evening,
Mien and Matt takes a stroll around the village tracing their happy memories.
"P'Candle, why did you leave without saying goodbyes."
"I was forced to leave with my dad. Not intentional. Sorry."
"And you stole my diaries."
"Yes. As a keepsake but I didn't think that you would have like me that much."
"Who liked you? I didn't."
"It's a sin to lie."
Mien didn't say another word because she knows she can't win debating with Matt.
"P'Candle, who are you really? I remembered you were poor. How did you become rich? Why are you chasing me and why are you so good to me?"
"Do you want to know?"
"Yes."
"Then agree to be my girlfriend then I would say 50% of my life and if you agree to be my wife, I'll say 100% about me."
Mien doesn't know if Matt is serious or kidding but she knows he's mysterious and powerful. Mien then saw the boat noodle stall that they used to have when they were kids. Mien's parents weren't rich but Mien loves to eat boat noodle so she would save her pocket money and on the day the exams were finished, she would spend it all on noodle shop with Matt.
"Mien, long time no see."
The shop owner has seen Mien grow up under his eyes.
"Sawatdee, Luang. Can you give me two regulars?"
"Ok, Right away. Who's it with you? Is he your boyfriend?"
"Yes, I am."
Before Mien has a chance to answer, Matt replied quickly. The other customers thought they were seeing the gender reversed version of Beauty and the Beast with Mien wearing her old regular clothes.
"Can I sit with you guys?"
Suddenly there was a girl wearing clothes which are revealing her thighs and cleavages. The girl wears a heavy make-up. It was Namnao, the Gamnam's daughter. She was supposed to be the most beautiful girl in the village having won the beauty contest thrice in a row. When Namnao saw Matt, she thought she found her koo
"Actually, no. You can sit in other places."
Matt answered coldly. He hates everyone interrupting Mien and his date. But Namnao didn't intend to give up easily.
"Come on. Look at me. I'm more beautiful and sexier than her. Why would you choose to be with an ugly duckling?"
Matt is angry at Namnao's insult.
"If you don't shut up and go to other place, don't tell me I'm being cruel."
"What? Do you own the shop? You don't. I'm Gamnam's daughter. If I want, I can easily buy this small shop."
"Really? If you have that much money, we can bid for the stall."
"Bring it on."
"100,000"
Namnao is surprised that Matt bid at high price for the first time but she didn't want to lose easily.
"200,000."
"500,000."
"600,000"
"1 million."
"1.1 million."
Matt then stopped outbidding Namnao.
"Congratulation, you won."
Namnao is outraged that she bid 1.1 million for a food stall. The owner was in heaven because he didn't think his stall would be worth that much.
At that time, Namnao's brother, Chatchane who is a ruffian appeared with his gang.
"P'Chat, they tricked me to bid this stall for 1.1 million."
Chatchane is hot-tempered so he didn't listen for others and decided to strike Matt. But Matt was skilled in martial arts so after fighting for a while, all the gangsters were on the ground.
"P'Candle, how can you fight so well? You look so cool."
Mien then praised Matt's fighting skills.
"This is nothing. If you like me to fight, I can go and win Muay-Thai champions."
"No. I don't want you to get hurt."
"So, you are worried about me?"
Matt is glad that Mien's worry about his safety.
"No. I don't want to take care of you so don't get hurt."
Even Mien being hard-hearted is being cute to Matt. But there was Namnao who can't stand those two being lovey-dovey.
"I want you two out of this shop and never came back."
Matt then immediately goes out saying
"Mien, don't worry. This shop will be ours in a week at most. I promise. Then you can have boat noodle whenever you want."
"P'Candle. Don't be arrogant. How can this shop be yours in a week?"
"If I can make it, will you be my girlfriend?"
Matt then gives a call to his assistant, Ransel to investigate about Kamnam's illegal business. Kamnam has been notorious about abusing his power and bribing the government official about illegal wood-cutting and Matt believes Ransel can find the evidence within 3 days.
Mien knows Matt is sincere about wanting her to be his girlfriend but she's not so sure about him after seeing him hugging other girl in his bungalow.
"But you already has a girlfriend."
"She is not my girlfriend but my stalker. If you don't believe, I can bring her to explain it to you."
"Still, I don't know a thing about you."
"But we've known since 16 years ago."
"What I mean is I don't know much about the present you."
"What about present me?"
"The present you is domineering, over-confident, arrogant, powerful, rich and ruthless. And I don't know when you will kick me out like you did to others."
"Mien, don't worry. I can promise you I won't let a single tear fall when you are with me."