Aoi’s POV I seriously don’t know what my mom’s doing here right now. I thought that she’s going to wait for me in Japan, she didn’t even leave me a message that she’s going to the Philippines. God, I don’t even know how she found out about this supposed to be a private villa of Vlarius. The both of us are sitting on the dining table while sipping our teas but instead of asking me questions, my mother’s eyes are focused and squinted while looking at Vlarius and Merie who are cooking our food. I tried to help earlier but Vlarius insisted to cook on his own with the ‘help’ of Merie. Merie is helping him by passing him the ingredients whenever he’s asking for it, Merie, knowing how responsible my daughter, she obviously didn’t mind helping him with that. My mother’s eyes squinted even