136 Be honest and open with others

The queue was very long, and Huo Yanxi stood out like a crane among chickens.

The sun was scorching, shining brightly on his shirt, making it appear dazzlingly white.

The girls in front of and behind him couldn't help but stare at him, and some even tried to ask for his contact information.

But they were intimidated by the powerful yet cold aura emanating from him.

Half an hour later, Huo Yanxi brought over two glasses of butterbeer and handed one of them to Xie Yaoyao.

Xie Yaoyao saw the sweat on his forehead. "Thank you. It's so hard for you to queue up in this heat."

Huo Yanxi pulled Xie Ziyu into his arms and said calmly, "It wasn't hard work."

Xie Ziyu looked at the butterbeer in his hand, and without waiting for him to feed him, he leaned over and took a big sip.

A layer of white foam floated on the beer, clinging to his lips like a white beard.

He said, "It tastes good."

Xie Yaoyao took a sip and found it to be delicious, with little to no beer flavor.

Xie Ziyu's eyes were fixed on the cup, his gaze filled with longing.

"Want some more?" Huo Yanxi asked him.

Xie Ziyu nodded his head like a chick pecking at rice, "Uncle, I want to have one more sip, just one more sip."

"You just promised me you'd only have a sip," Huo Yanxi said seriously. "A person should keep their word."

Xie Ziyu hung his head, "But it doesn't taste like alcohol, so I'll take another sip."

Huo Yanxi adheres to the principle of integrity, and even when it comes to educating his children, he does not spoil them.

He said, "No."

Xie Ziyu, with a mournful face, turned to look at Xie Yaoyao, his expression extremely pitiful.

"Mommy..."

Xie Yaoyao naturally wouldn't be soft-hearted and let Huo Yanxi be the villain. She and Huo Yanxi exchanged a glance.

Having lived together for over a decade, even with a five-year gap in their relationship, they could still understand each other's thoughts with just a glance.

They both gulped down their butterbeers in one go.

Then she handed the empty cup to Xie Ziyu and said, "There's none left now."

Xie Ziyu looked at the empty cup, then at Huo Yanxi, and finally at Xie Yaoyao.

He angrily slid off Huo Yanxi's arms and onto the ground, saying, "I'm never going to talk to you guys again."

After saying that, he angrily rushed forward.

Huo Yanxi and Xie Yaoyao exchanged a glance, and Xie Yaoyao quickly followed after them.

It took a lot of coaxing, and finally an ice cream to cheer the little guy up.

The family of three then went to play with the Minions, which are all suitable for children.

After playing until mid-afternoon, they went to Harry Potter Town to queue for a meal at the Three Broomsticks Restaurant.

The meal included a roasted chicken and pork rib platter, fish and chips, cream of mushroom soup, and a pork rib.

A table was set with food, all of which were high-calorie foods that children love.

Xie Yaoyao only tasted a few bites of the pork ribs. She still needed to lose weight and couldn't eat too much of this high-calorie food.

Seeing that she wasn't eating much, Huo Yanxi asked, "Is it not to your liking?"

Xie Yaoyao shook her head. "No, it's a bit high in calories. I'll just have some vegetable salad."

Huo Yanxi knew she was bothered by her figure, so he said, "It's okay, you're cute even if you're chubby."

It's more comfortable to hold him than when he was thinner; he's soft and bouncy, and it won't hurt his bones.

Xie Yaoyao felt a little embarrassed when she recalled the time Huo Yanxi had seen her at her heaviest.

"I still prefer to be thinner."

Huo Yanxi then followed up on her question, asking, "Then why have you maintained your previous figure?"

Huo Yanxi didn't want to deny that he had investigated Xie Yaoyao twice.

Xie Yaoyao's life trajectory and changes over the past five years, from the moment he was able to find her information, showed that she was chubby.

Actually, if the doctor hadn't said that she was too fat and that it would affect her health, he wouldn't have wanted her to lose weight.

Xie Yaoyao pursed her lips.

Now she has nothing to hide from Huo Yanxi, and there are some things she can say.

“After the fire at the boathouse, I was constantly being followed. After I left the small fishing village, I tried to gain weight so that those people would find me and harm me or Yu Bao. I didn’t even dare to use my own name anymore.”

Huo Yanxi frowned slightly. "So you changed your name not to avoid me, but to avoid the people who are tracking you?"

“Yes,” Xie Yaoyao said, then realized, “You thought I changed my name to avoid you?”

Huo Yanxi was in a much better mood now, and he kept a straight face and didn't say anything.

Xie Yaoyao understood that he really thought that way, and that he had always misunderstood her.

She said, "Even if we separate and can't be husband and wife, we're still family. Why would I avoid you?"

"Didn't hide?" Huo Yanxi looked at her quietly. "You've been tutoring at my house for two months, and you didn't even try to tell me who you are. I almost thought you had amnesia."

Xie Yaoyao's eyes widened; she hadn't expected Huo Yanxi to have imagined so much.

"Then, how did you recognize me? Because I've lost weight and look like the old Chi Xiaoman?"

During those days, she looked in the mirror at the villa and was terrified to see her face becoming more and more like her former self each day.

Perhaps it was at that moment that Huo Yanxi recognized her.

Huo Yanxi said, "Even earlier than that time."

Xie Yaoyao looked at him in confusion, "When was it even earlier?"

"Perhaps I already recognized you when we met again at the teacher appreciation banquet that day."

He did not object to the tutor that Principal Yang arranged for him, and could not help but get close to her.

His eyes hadn't fully recognized her yet, but his bones remembered that he loved her.

Xie Yaoyao gestured to her face, "I was so fat back then, how did you recognize me?"

“No matter how fat you get, my feelings won’t change.” Huo Yanxi even thought he had betrayed Chi Xiaoman at the time.

He never imagined that she was Chi Xiaoman.

Xie Yaoyao found it amazing, "Were you sure it was me back then?"

"I'm not so sure. After all, I've lived with you for over ten years. In the past, you would jump up and down and try to lose weight if you gained even a pound, but you would never let yourself get this fat."

Xie Yaoyao pouted, "You said I was cute because I was chubby, but you still disliked me, didn't you?"

Huo Yanxi: "...It's not that I dislike you, I just felt that it didn't fit your personality, so even though a lot of information told me that you were Manman, I didn't dare to admit it, until..."

Xie Yaoyao pressed further, "Until what?"

Huo Yanxi looked at Xie Ziyu and, seeing him intently munching on fried chicken, lowered his voice slightly.

Speaking in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Until I took Xie Ziyu's hair to do a paternity test."

"What?"

Xie Yaoyao never expected that the loophole would be here, and Huo Yanxi was too decisive.

He suspected her, but couldn't find any flaws in her, so he directly had a paternity test done with Xie Ziyu.

If the child is his, then she is definitely Chi Xiaoman.

As expected of a top student, her logical thinking is so meticulous that even she didn't expect it.

She thought her face had betrayed her, but in fact, Yu Bao had long been the clear evidence proving her identity.