Ni Sitian thought Xiang Zhilan's words seemed to make sense, so she looked at her and asked, "So you want to make chocolates yourself and give them to your brother A-Xian?"

“BINGO!” Xiang Zhilan said with a smirk, “Let’s go shopping after we finish eating and buy some ingredients for making chocolate.”

“But I don’t know how to make chocolate.” Ni Sitian frowned slightly.

"Leave it to me," Xiang Zhilan patted her chest.

Seeing how confident she was, Ni Sitian let her go.

After lunch, the two strolled around the streets for a while and bought the ingredients needed to make chocolate.

Then they went to Xiang Zhilan's house. Xiang's parents had gone to the countryside, so there was no one at home. This gave the two of them a perfect opportunity to cook to their hearts' content in the kitchen.

"Didn't you say you could do it?" Ni Sitian looked at Xiang Zhilan, who was even more flustered than her, and smiled helplessly.

"I'll just say I'll take care of it. Look, this is the simplest chocolate-making video I found." Xiang Zhilan placed the iPad in front of Ni Sitian.

Ni Sitian was speechless. She shouldn't have trusted this unreliable person!

But now that she's bought the stuff, it would be a waste not to use it, so she has no choice but to study the steps in the video with this unreliable person.

It wasn't until seven or eight o'clock in the evening that the two of them managed to make something somewhat decent.

They each put the items into the gift boxes they had bought, looked at each other's disheveled state, and smiled.

Ni Sitian hid the chocolate in her shopping bag and carried it home around nine o'clock.

Xu Tingchuan was watching the financial channel in the living room when he saw Ni Sitian return. He smiled faintly and asked, "You and Xiang Zhilan were out shopping so late? What did you buy?"

"I just bought a few things," Ni Sitian mumbled in response. After changing into slippers in the entryway, she carried the shopping bags directly to the bedroom.

She originally intended to hide the chocolate in the closet, but then she thought that the house was heated and it might melt if hidden in the closet, so it would be better to put it in the refrigerator.

But Xu Tingchuan was watching TV outside. The living room faced the kitchen, and he would definitely notice when she went to open the refrigerator.

"Tingchuan." Ni Sitian, holding the box with her hands behind her back, walked to the living room and called out to Xu Tingchuan.

Xu Tingchuan turned to look at her. "What's wrong?"

"My computer seems to be having some problems, could you take a look at it for me?" Ni Sitian made an excuse, trying to lure him into the small study first.

Without saying a word, Xu Tingchuan stood up and walked towards Ni Sitian's study.

Seeing him go inside, Ni Sitian quickly ran to the kitchen and put the chocolate in the top drawer.

"No problem." Xu Tingchuan walked out of the study, only to see Ni Sitian coming out of the kitchen. She smiled faintly and said, "Are you hungry? Would you like me to cook you some noodles?"

"No, no, I'm not hungry." Ni Sitian hurriedly stopped him from going to the kitchen, changing the subject: "Is the computer okay? But I couldn't type in the document I just opened."

"That's because you set it to read-only mode." Xu Tingchuan patted Ni Sitian's head.

"Oh, is that so?" Ni Sitian pretended to suddenly understand, hugged Xu Tingchuan's arm, and grinned foolishly: "Honey, you're so amazing, you even know that."

Xu Tingchuan was speechless that he was praised for being so clever for such a basic question.

However, being praised by Ni Sitian seemed to make him even happier than when his doctoral dissertation was praised by a strict professor.

Ni Sitian was worried that Xu Tingchuan would go into the kitchen, so she simply kept holding onto his arm.

He went to the living room to watch TV, and she followed him. He wanted to get a glass of water from the kitchen, and she volunteered to do so.

Xu Tingchuan noticed that she seemed unusually clingy tonight and assumed she wanted it, so he simply picked her up and carried her back to the bedroom.