Chapter 24: Where Xia Zhi is useful

The handsome boy's blood-red eyes stared at Xia Zhi, causing Xia Zhi's heart to slow down.

But when he saw the word "I", Xia Zhi couldn't help laughing.

Isn't that the emperor's self-proclaimed title? As expected, the people Leona and Asis know are all really idiotic!

Having long accepted Yasis's self-proclaimed title, Xia Zhi tried his best to ignore this "I" and reached out to gently tap Lin Cang's head.

Suddenly, he felt a touch on his head, and Lin Cang froze instantly.

——It was a very gentle touch, a bit like the hand of his heroic father in his memory.

The inexplicable heat in my body that had arisen due to entering adulthood seemed to be dispelled a lot by the touch.

Lin Cang savored it carefully and didn't move for a long time.

Xia Zhi thought Lin Cang was stuck.

After waiting for a while, Lin Cang still didn't move.

This made Xia Zhi bolder. She zoomed in and quietly observed Lin Cang's delicate face.

Even though he knew that human characters in current games would have skin texture, pores, and so on, Xia Zhi still felt that Lin Cang's face was too real.

Especially the eyelashes that trembled with Lin Cang's breathing, and the small mole under the eye that seemed to be trembling slightly.

Xia Zhi carefully reached out and touched the two places that particularly caught her attention. As a result, Lin Cang on the screen suddenly stepped back, and a sentence popped up in his head: [How dare you touch my eyelashes and face?]

No way... Lin Cang actually accurately said where she touched?

"You, can you see where I touched?" Xia Zhi asked in a text message. "Also, it's so strange, why are your reactions so genuine?"

Lin Cang narrowed his eyes and looked at Xia Zhi.

Funny, the little females didn't even know they felt it when she touched them? Leona and Assis knew, but they didn't tell her.

Are they afraid that Zhizhi will find out and won’t want to touch them anymore?

——There is also the possibility that the female is unwilling to be touched again.

Thinking of this, Lin Cang didn't want Xia Zhi to know anymore.

Since the heat in his body can disappear by being touched, he will have many uses for Xia Zhi in the future.

Lin Cang smiled again, tilted his head and asked obediently: [Zhizhi, can you pat my head again?]

Xia Zhi noticed that Lin Cang did not respond to her second question.

She frowned slightly and was about to type a reply to Lin Cang when Jiang Tian sent a message on her phone.

Jiang Tian: [Oh, my family introduced me to a blind date, but it's not the athlete-type guy I want to date.]

"Then just reject them." Xia Zhi cuts out a split screen, "Our sweet baby can find someone to talk to on her own. No introductions are needed."

Jiang Tian: [I've enjoyed a lot of love, but my dear Zhizhi, you really don't want to be in love at all. Aren't you curious about this feeling? We grown women need to taste the flavor of men more often, so that we can be as nourished as flowers.]

Accustomed to Jiang Tian's generous way of speaking, Xia Zhi glanced at Lin Cang who was quietly sitting on the split screen.

If I really become an actor, it seems that I can only have a secret relationship. It would be bad if I accidentally caused a scandal.

If you think about it this way, it's not impossible to fall in love.

It would be best if he has a delicate and handsome appearance, such as a man like Lin Cang who has a special temperament. She will feel good at the first sight of him.

But is it possible to find a man with such good looks in real life? Even if you do find one, would he be willing to date a girl like her?

While Xia Zhi was hesitating, a WeChat call came in.

The note is Ms. Liao.

Xia Zhi lowered his eyes to hide the trembling in them.

This is her biological mother Liao Meili.

At the age of twelve, Liao Meili filed for divorce from her father and gave up her custody rights on the grounds that she had no source of income.

Not long after, Liao Meili remarried a wealthy man in North City. At first, she would take the initiative to call Xia Zhi to check on her. But after she had another child, she rarely contacted her.

At first, young Xia Zhi was very sad. Later, her father remarried, and her new mother didn't want to have any more children, so she was especially good to her stepdaughter.

Other children have cell phones and pretty dresses, but she has them all.

Xia Zhi accepted his new parents and occasionally sent messages to Liao Meili to show his concern.

The last time we were in contact was four years ago.

That year, my father was diagnosed with early-stage kidney cancer, which was curable.

Even after investing all their family savings, they were still short of 100,000 yuan. They approached relatives for a loan, but they were afraid the family would fall apart and they wouldn't be able to repay the debt, so they were unwilling to lend a hand.

Xia Zhi had no choice but to ask Liao Meili to borrow 100,000 yuan to treat her father's illness.

Liao Meili had been typing the money in several times before transferring it to her, telling her she didn't have to pay it back. She also said she hoped she wouldn't ask for money again and that she understood the difficulties of reuniting with her family.

Later, my father recovered from his illness and set up a stall with my new mother to sell breakfast. It took him a year to pay back the money.

Now, their family is living a good life, but why did Liao Meili contact her suddenly?

Unable to describe the feeling in his heart, Xia Zhi hesitated for a moment before clicking to answer the call.

A familiar yet unfamiliar voice came from the other end of the phone: "Zhizhi, did this call from Mom disturb you?"

The tone of her voice was exactly the same as that of her mother who always fanned her when it was hot when she was a child.

Xia Zhi's nose felt sore, and he suppressed the surging emotions and replied, "No, what's the matter?"

After saying this, Xia Zhi heard the other person's breathing pause.

After a while, the phone finally spoke again: "Zhizhi, Mom asked around. After you graduated from college, you didn't get a successful acting audition, did you?"

"Hmm." Xia Zhi thought, could it be that her mother suddenly wanted to help her and let her continue acting?

Just as I was thinking this, I heard the next sentence: "It's okay if you don't succeed. Girls can live a fulfilling life if they find someone to rely on as soon as possible."

Xia Zhi was about to retort, but the other party hadn't finished speaking yet: "Mom is calling you because I want to tell you that it's the 12th anniversary of Mom and your Uncle Xu in a few days. Your Uncle Xu wants to have a big celebration at the hotel, and Mom wants you to come along."

She hadn't contacted him for two years, and Liao Meili hadn't sent her a message either.

He called her out of the blue today and said he wanted to invite her to a celebration party for their wedding anniversary.

Xia Zhi felt that there might be other purposes behind this, so he quickly sent a message to Jiang Tian to discuss it.

Jiang Tian was shocked after reading Xia Zhi's retelling: "What did you say? A wedding anniversary banquet in two days? Is the man's last name Xu?"

Xia Zhi: [Yes, what's wrong?]

Jiang Tian was silent.

She had always known that her good friend Xia Zhi's father had remarried, but she had no idea that Xia Zhi's biological mother had actually remarried into the Xu family in North City.

In the business circle, the Xu family of Beicheng is considered a top-tier wealthy family that has stood for over a hundred years.

The current president, Xu Runda, after taking complete control of the Xu family, resolutely broke up with his marriage partner, the Gu family, and married a divorced woman.

The couple had a boy who is now 11 years old.

Our family was also invited, but my parents told me that Xu Runda, the CEO of the Xu family, had a very ugly divorce, and the hidden dangers have only slowly exploded in the past two years. Now that the Xu family is gradually declining, Xu Runda wants to save it and is trying every possible way to find someone to marry into.

[The funny thing is that there are no men or women of marriageable age in their family.]

Xia Zhi just saw the message from Jiang Tian when a voice came from WeChat and called her: "Zhizhi, are you still listening? Mom wants to invite you over. You haven't seen Mom for so many years, don't you miss Mom? Mom really wants to see you."

"Are you really just thinking about me?" Xia Zhi replied.