Li Huanhuan, 26 years old, is just a passerby in a book. She meets the protagonist at a blind date.
Qin Shi is the male protagonist of the book—a genius esports player, super popular, broad...
Chapter 25 Chapter 25 Surprise? Scared? Meet the parents in advance? …
Li Huanhuan paused for a few seconds, then nodded: "Okay."
She didn't refuse again.
The relationship between her and Qin Shi was like a mess. It was time to find an opportunity to sit down and talk it out.
The time they agreed to meet was one hour later.
But when it comes to washing, men are generally faster than women. In less than half an hour, Qin Shi took a shower, washed his hair, blew dry his hair, and then boiled a pot of ginger soup in the kitchen.
He poured the ginger soup into an insulated box and prepared to deliver it to Room 149 opposite.
“Ouch~”
As I passed the living room, I heard a dog whimpering from the balcony.
BBQ also took a shower and is now drying his hair in the pet dryer. Seeing Qin Shi coming out of the kitchen with the thermal box, the barbecue inside made a pitiful sound, trying to attract his attention.
Qin Shi originally wanted to teach it a lesson, but when he saw it hanging its head and drooping its ears, his anger dissipated a lot. Of course, it was also because of the barbecue that he accidentally found the opportunity to talk to Li Huanhuan again.
"By this calculation, you are still a hero." Qin Shi muttered.
“Ouch.”
BBQ didn't hear clearly what he said and continued to crane his neck to look over here, trying to get him to let him out.
Qin Shi came back to his senses and ordered, "Stay in there. I'll go to the opposite door to deliver ginger soup. I'll let you out after your fur is dried."
"Woof!"
Barbecue heard the three words "let it out" clearly, and stood in the dryer, wagging its tail at him frantically.
Qin Shi ignored it and walked towards the door with the ginger soup.
Ding Dong.
The elevator door opened.
Su Mei and Liu Jianguo came out of the elevator carrying two gift boxes.
Su Mei's friend's grandson was going to have a full-month banquet, so they notified them at short notice and they hurried back to the city from the suburbs. I have to stay in the city tonight, but I haven’t told Li Huanhuan yet.
This is nothing?
Although they usually live in the suburbs, they occasionally return to the city. But today, something is different. As soon as Su Mei and Liu Jianguo came out of the elevator, they saw a young man who was at least 1.85 meters tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was good-looking in every way. He was hanging a plastic bag on their door. Inside the plastic bag was a blue insulated box.
Qin Shi came out carrying the insulated box. He was not sure whether Li Huanhuan had finished it yet, so he planned to hang the plastic bag containing the insulated box on the door of No. 149 as usual.
Logically speaking, this is nothing?
A very normal day, a very normal behavior. Just as he hung up the bag and was about to turn around, he saw a middle-aged couple walking out of the elevator.
The husband looks kind and honest, with an ordinary but friendly face; his wife also has kind eyes and eyebrows, and one can tell from her facial features that she was a beauty when she was young. Although they were so different, Qin Shi still looked at the middle-aged woman again. He felt that this aunt looked familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere.
Qin Shi didn't think much about it. He just thought it was other neighbors on the same floor, so he turned around and went back to No. 150.
But his two glances back and his act of hanging ginger water on the door handle of No. 149 made Su Mei feel suspicious. At first, when she saw a young man standing at their door and hanging something on the door, she thought it was the takeaway ordered by Li Huanhuan. But who would have thought that the other party turned around and went back to the opposite door.
Is it a neighbor?
And, he is a very handsome young man?
"Hello, young man." Su Mei called Qin Shi.
Qin Shi stopped, turned around, and looked at the other party in confusion: "Auntie, what do you want?"
"Young man, you live opposite my house and you hang plastic bags on my door. Do you know my daughter Huanhuan?" Su Mei asked.
Qin Shi paused.
The expression on his face stiffened at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Oh, Auntie, are you Li Huanhuan?" He forced himself to suppress the guess in his heart and asked tentatively.
"Li Huanhuan is my daughter." Su Mei.
“……”Qin Shi.
Qin Shi looked at Su Mei who was looking at him, then looked at Liu Jianguo who was standing behind Su Mei with a curious look on his face. His mind was in a mess.
Li Huanhuan’s mother and stepfather?
Did he meet his parents in advance? !
After the initial confusion, Qin Shi calmed down quickly, straightened his waist, and no longer swayed his back. He stood up straight, and the indifference on his face disappeared. He put on a very decent expression that the elders liked and trusted.
Qin Shi smiled and said in a very decent and deceptive voice: "Uncle, aunt, hello, my name is Qin Shi, and I am Li Huanhuan's friend."
Li Huanhuan didn't know what was happening outside. She was taking a shower in the bathroom.
After washing, I took the hair dryer in the bathroom to dry my hair, and then started skin care. By the time everything was done, it was already 40 minutes later.
Li Huanhuan came out of the bathroom humming a little tune, wearing an orange set of nightgown with cat paw prints on it.
When she came out, she wondered why Her Highness the Cat was not squatting at the door? In the past, whether she was taking a shower or going to the toilet, His Highness the Cat would squat at the bathroom door and wait for her dutifully. Every time I come out, the first thing I see is always that beautiful emerald green cat's eye.
But today, His Highness the Cat has disappeared.
"strangeness?"
She scratched her hair, put on her slippers and prepared to go to the living room to drink water.
Just as her sight accidentally swept towards the sofa in the living room, the water she had just drunk was sprayed out: "Puff - cough cough cough!"
She held the water cup, widened her eyes, and looked in shock at the three people sitting on the sofa: Su Mei, Liu Jianguo, and Qin Shi.
At this moment, the three people sitting on the sofa were all looking at her.
Li Huanhuan rubbed her eyes and thought she was dreaming, otherwise how could she see Qin Shi appear in her house and sit on the sofa in her house with her mother and stepfather?
"It's broad daylight, am I seeing a ghost?" Li Huanhuan subconsciously poured saliva into his mouth.
"What the hell? I'm your mother!" Su Mei raised her eyebrows.
“Ahem…”
Li Huanhuan was choked again.
"Mom, Uncle Liu, why are you here? And Qin Shi, why is he in our house?" Li Huanhuan felt as if the sky had fallen, as if he had been forcibly awakened from an absurd dream. When he returned to reality, he found that reality was also continuing the content of that absurd dream.
Not only did she feel like the sky was falling, but also that her mother was sitting with Qin Shi, she felt alert and nervous as if her personal territory was being "invaded", and she showed a look of vigilance as if it was a conditioned reflex.
Li Huanhuan quickly rushed back to her bedroom, closed the door, and began to change her clothes.
"Meow?"
While putting on her pants, she saw Her Highness the Cat squatting under the bed with a vigilant look on his face.
Li Huanhuan was stunned.
So His Highness was scared and came here?
Don’t be fooled by the fact that Her Highness Cat is usually aloof and only loves cans. She once beat a Husky that ran into her house for barbecue. But in fact, Her Highness Cat is a "paper tiger" who is very timid and will hide when she sees strangers. She is commonly known as "a bully at home".
When Qin Shi came in, His Majesty the Cat was guarding the bathroom door.
Because of the sound of water and the sound of the hair dryer behind him, Li Huanhuan did not hear anything outside. His Majesty the Cat heard Su Mei's voice, stood up skillfully, swung his fluffy tail, made a clip sound, and prepared to go to meet the "keeper" of the two-legged beast, and perform some tricks to exchange for two cans of food.
As a result, as soon as he turned to the living room, he saw Qin Shi following Su Mei. He was immediately scared and his tail stood up. After letting out a scream, he ran towards Li Huanhuan's bedroom. During the process, my feet slipped several times and I didn't pay attention to it, and I even left an afterimage.
"Your Highness Cat, you were also scared by that man and hid here, right?" Li Huanhuan bent down and complained to His Highness Cat in a low voice.
At this moment, she suddenly felt that she and His Highness the Cat shared the same suffering. She seemed to understand Her Highness Cat's usual nervousness and timidity. Just like at this moment, they all hid in this bedroom because of Qin Shi's sudden appearance (intrusion into the territory).
However, His Highness the Cat can continue to hide here, but she cannot.
After changing her clothes, she still had to deal with everything in the living room. For her, this was a war that caught her off guard, and the smoke of war had already begun.
Li Huanhuan changed into a loose orange sweater and a pair of beige corduroy trousers. He stood behind the door, took a deep breath, then raised his hand, grasped the door handle, and twisted it down hard. When she came out of the bedroom, she found her mother Su Mei was enthusiastically pouring water and bringing fruit snacks to Qin Shi, while Qin Shi had always behaved very politely.
"Qin Shi!"
Li Huanhuan came to the living room and called him.
Qin Shi, who was trying to refuse, raised his head.
Su Mei, who was pouring water for Qin Shi but was rejected by Qin Shi and was planning to come by herself, raised her head.
Liu Jianguo, who was peeling fruit nearby, looked up.
Li Huanhuan realized that her voice was a little loud, but things had come to this point, and she had to take a firm stance to separate her mother and Qin Shi and resolve the current troubles.
"Come with me—"
She didn't dare to look at Su Mei's fierce eyes. She quickly walked to the sofa, grabbed Qin Shi's hand, and was about to drag him outside.
Qin Shi went from being surprised at first to being submissive. He stood up obediently and was dragged away by her.
"Huanhuan, what are you doing? Where are you going?"
Su Mei saw that Li Huanhuan had such a tough attitude. At this moment, what she saw was that Qin Shi, who had saved Li Huanhuan and was polite and sensible, was treated rudely by her daughter. Su Mei really couldn't figure it out, so she hurriedly said, "I just found out that Xiaoshi is not only your Aunt Zhao's son, but he was also the one who took you to the hospital when you had a high fever and fell unconscious some time ago. Have you thanked him?"
Aunt Zhao’s son?
Having a high fever?
Li Huanhuan's expression froze and he looked at Qin Shi behind him.
Everything she didn't want Su Mei to know was now known.
Seeing her expression, Qin Shi was afraid that she would misunderstand, so he quickly explained in a low voice: "I didn't say that."
Su Mei also heard it and said quickly: "It wasn't my childhood who told me. It was the guard at the gate of the community who told us when I came back with your uncle Liu."
It turned out to be the security guard...
Li Huanhuan was secretly annoyed.
Su Mei is not like her. She is not good at socializing. When Su Mei meets someone, no matter whether she knows him or not, she will always chat with him for a few words. After a long time, I became familiar with the community security guard. This time when she came back with Liu Jianguo, she met the security guard on duty that day and chatted with him for a while. As soon as they chatted, they talked about the day when Li Huanhuan had a high fever and fell into a coma.
That day, after Li Huanhuan fell into coma, Qin Shi carried him down the stairs. The community security guard must have seen it.
The security guard also knew Qin Shi and knew that he was a new owner of the community. When Su Mei asked, I described it to her. Later, when Su Mei and Liu Jianguo came out of the elevator and saw Qin Shi hanging ginger water on their door, they naturally asked a few more questions.
Qin Shi did not hide it.
This question revealed another identity of Qin Shi—Aunt Zhao’s son and the younger brother who had once been blindly dating Li Huanhuan!
He immediately became more fond of Qin Shi and warmly invited Qin Shi to his home for a visit. So, there happened the scene that Li Huanhuan saw when he came out of the shower.
"Shi Xiao saved you, have you thanked him? I also want your Uncle Liu to cook for Shi Xiao so that he can eat at home..." Su Mei.
"Mom, don't bother."
Li Huanhuan quickly interrupted her, "I, I..."
She looked at the hand she was holding, and an idea that could be perfunctory flashed through her mind, and she blurted out, "What I mean is, I just asked Qin Shi to come out because we had originally agreed to have dinner together tonight to thank him for helping me before! It's almost time for the appointment with the restaurant, so I'm so anxious! Is that right?"
As she spoke, she looked at Qin Shi again.
There is a hint of madness in the eyes.
Qin Shi received her signal and looked at her deeply. Amid her anxious and pleading, he turned his head and nodded politely to Su Mei: "Yes, auntie, Hao Huan is right. We have an appointment tonight."
He held Li Huanhuan's hand with his backhand, interlocked their fingers, and raised it up and shook it towards Su Mei.