“What else can you cook?"

“You want me to cook for you again?" He wondered if he was being too good to this woman. It was making her bolder by the day.

Erica grinned, “Okay! Treat me to hot pot!"

He raised his eyebrows.

“Why would I treat you?"

“Because I'm stingy!" she Laughed cunningly in her mind.

“Because it's expensive. If you want me to treat you, I can buy you a bowl of Liuzhou river snails rice noodles."

“What is that?"

Erica was shocked to hear Matthew's question.

"What? You've never heard of Liuzhou river snails rice noodles*?"

(*TN: Liuzhou river snails rice noodles is the most famous Local delicacy of Liuzhou, Guangxi, China.) Erica held his face in her palms and added, “That's so sad. Let's go. I'll take you out for some smelly, yummy river snails rice noodles. Trust me, the first taste will keep you coming back for more!"

Matthew had already Lost his appetite when he heard the word “smelly.”

He grabbed Erica's hand as she was pulling him up, and stopped her.

“Let's just eat at home!"

Erica smiled innocently and said, "I'm too embarrassed to ask you to cook for me."

Matthew hid his gritted teeth behind a cheerful facade and said, "It would be my honor to be Mrs. Erica's cook."

"I'm flattered, Mr. Matthew,"

Erica replied with a grin on her face.

In Askor

The next morning after talking to Matthew on the phone, Wesley had someone look into the files of the Obstetrics and Gynecology department in a private hospital in Askor. Unfortunately, his contact couldn't find any files with Erica's medical record. In fact, much to their surprise, there wasn't even a single trace of Erica in any other department.

While Erica was eating hot and sour rice noodles in Matthew's office,

Wesley went to the office of the private hospital's president. He showed the man the original copy of the colored ultrasound report Erica had shown him and Blair when she had announced her pregnancy to them.

The president was an old man, who adjusted his glasses, looked at the colored ultrasound report and asked Wesley curiously, “Wesley, you didn't know about it?"

Wesley found the man's question to be pointless. If Wesley had known about it, why would he be standing there in his office?

After getting no response from Wesley, the old president of the hospital paused to think for a while and then said, “Erica told me that you asked her to come to me for a fake colored ultrasound report. I didn't think to interrogate her because she said it was urgent.”