Chapter 58

That's how much you like me.

This sentence has been controlling Xi Shu for many days. He had never thought of such a possibility, and he didn't know that his affection for the child had never been full after so many years.

How could it be possible? From the moment he knew the identity of the child, he had never changed his mind until now - the child must be his.

Even though the idea has changed a bit now, the result has never changed.

The child said that she was trying to find a way to keep her favorability level rising.

Xi Shu looked at the last bit of progress bar left, and always felt that once it was full, life would change drastically, but he did not reject the arrival of this change.

This is what scares him the most.

Mr. Xi, who is young but always decisive, has become a headless fly in this matter.

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At the Sheng residence, Sheng Ning, who had just returned from abroad, was surprised to find the child lying on the sofa playing with his phone. "Has it been a while since you last visited your brother? Isn't today the weekend?"

Not to mention that they are now in the same university and see each other every day.

Xiao Fusheng stared at the phone screen without looking up, mumbling: "Brother must be very busy recently."

"Your fifth uncle said that nothing big has happened in his company recently."

"Oh~" Xiao Fusheng shook his feet, "I was talking about other things."

Sheng Ning didn't know what they were keeping secret, but the two siblings had never quarreled since they were young. Sometimes she was quite surprised. She heard from her fifth brother that Xi Shu had a cold and somewhat strong personality since he was a child, but her child always did things in a hurry and did whatever he thought.

It is indeed shocking that these two people have been together for so many years and have been so harmonious.

However, since Xi Shu returned to China, they had not lived together for a long time. They just had dinner together every week. Sheng Ning just felt that she did not know him well enough.

Sometimes at the same dinner table, my own children don’t care about many table manners, and like to talk to everyone about many things they encountered in the past week.

Xi Shu never interrupted her, but would quietly look at her when she was speaking seriously.

Like he really enjoys listening to it.

Maybe this is the case of one thing conquering another?

"What's new recently?" Sheng Ning walked over to sit next to her. "Why are you always holding your phone?"

"Oh, I found an interesting game." Xiao Fusheng turned over to cover the phone screen.

Got a secret?

At that moment, Sheng Ning seemed to see a very familiar game interface: "It looks a bit like the one you had before?"

"Yes." Xiao Fusheng sat up, but still did not show his phone interface to his mother. Instead, he said, "I tried to restore the game, and now I find it's quite fun."

Sheng Ning was not surprised at all. With the child's IQ, no one would be surprised even if she made a better one, let alone restored it.

"There's no point in recovering." Sheng Ning didn't care much, "Logically, you shouldn't be in there."

"Yes."

Now, there is nothing left of the characters in that game, which is why Brother Xishu did not continue to develop the game after returning to China, but he did make other games to replace it.

"But some of its functions are very useful." Xiao Fusheng said, "I use it as a notepad."

Knowing that she had her own notebook since she was a child, Sheng Ning didn't care and had no intention of prying into her child's privacy.

She stood up and asked: "Do you want to eat at home or go to see your brother?"

Xiao Fusheng thought for a moment, got off the sofa and put on his shoes: "I'm going to look for my brother. I haven't seen him for a long time."

It's been almost three weeks.

On the surface, that's what it should look like.

Sheng Ning waved his hand: "Come back early in the evening and I'll take you to school tomorrow."

"Okay! Bye, Mom."

On the way to find Brother Xi Shu, Xiao Fusheng opened his mobile phone again and enjoyed what he had been watching with relish.

She modified the game slightly. Since they had a system, she should make good use of it. So now her mobile phone interface can show the mood reminders of each of her parents and brother Xi Shu.

Seeing Brother Xi Shu's mood like a roller coaster recently, Fusheng couldn't help but laugh.

In fact, compared with other parents, she rarely knows what her brother really thinks. Perhaps the most honest time her brother was with her was when he said goodbye to her before going abroad.

So it’s almost like this function is specifically designed for older brothers.

My brother, who was praised by all my uncles and aunts, is now so childish.

She deliberately didn't go to see him for a long time, and sure enough, her brother didn't take the initiative to look for her recently. However, the countless mood reminders updated every day showed that if she didn't go, things might get worse.

The car stopped in the garage. Fusheng was familiar with the place and just as he pressed the password to get into the elevator, a shadow fell in front of him as the elevator opened.

She was stunned for a moment.

I met my brother's dark gaze in the elevator.

After several seconds, Xi Shu did not come out, but took a step back and said slowly: "Finally."

Fusheng's heart skipped a beat. It seemed that he had made a mistake this time and was too late.

Judging from the way my brother is dressed, he should be going to catch her.

She was very tactful and didn't mention it. She walked into the space her brother had made. "I'm starving. What's delicious today?"

Xi Shu laughed: "There is air."

Fusheng opened his mouth and took two breaths: "Just enough to fill my stomach for now."

As she spoke, the person behind her had already walked to her side, but did not speak.

The elevator opened at the fourth floor. The nanny was a little surprised to see Mr. Xiao back. Didn't he say he wouldn't be back for dinner tonight? Then she looked at the person following him and immediately understood.

"We're making dinner now, so it'll take a while. If you're hungry, you can have a snack first."

"Yeah." Xi Shu took off his coat and hung it aside. He ignored the little follower behind him and went straight into the kitchen to bring out a plate of snacks and two boxes of sweet milk.

When Fusheng saw that all the food was what he liked, he simply stopped and followed him upstairs.

Seeing her brother open the door of the study, she ran in and turned back to take the snacks from her brother, but the plate was taken to the other side by her brother and he closed the door of the study with his other hand.

With a soft click, Fusheng's eyelids subconsciously twitched, and he opened his mouth and said, "I was very busy the past few weeks, so I didn't come over. Today I finally finished my work and came to see my brother right away."

Xi Shu turned around and gave her a look with a half-smile.

Fusheng covered his stomach and said, "I'm so hungry."

"Want to eat?" Xi Shu asked.

"Uh-huh."

After Xiao Shu's brother came to China, he found a house and a nanny on the spot, but the decoration of his house and the dishes made by every chef and pastry chef were all Fu Sheng's favorites. Although she was not that hungry, she was very greedy for them, especially when her brother took the ones she liked best.

Xi Shu picked up a small piece of sweet cake and handed it to her lips. Xiao Fusheng opened her mouth without thinking.

But the next moment, the sweet cake changed its position and was leisurely put into the brother's mouth.

Her eyes widened: "Brother, you were never like this before!"

"That was in the past." Xi Shu walked around her to the desk, leaned back and raised his eyelids, "You wouldn't have stayed away from me for so long before."

“That’s not what I mean…”

"He's very busy indeed," Xi Shu said. "He's busy watching my play, and he's watching it very attentively."

Xiao Fusheng suddenly shut up.

How did he know?

"How should I know?" Xi Shu curved his lips, his smile even gentle. "Do you think I haven't made any progress in these years abroad? What you took away was the source code my mother left behind."

Xiao Fusheng pinched his earlobe.

"come over."

Before he could understand, Xiao Fusheng had already walked in front of him.

Xi Shu picked up another piece of sweet cake and said, "Answer a question and I'll give you one."

"This is just a trick to fool children." Fusheng complained, "I'm not a child. I can go downstairs and get it again."

Xi Shu just looked at her and smiled: "Then will you answer or not?"

“…”

After several seconds, Xiao Fusheng snorted softly, but with a lack of confidence: "Answer it then."

"Teacher Fusheng is knowledgeable and talented. In many aspects, I am ashamed to be inferior to him." Xi Shu said in a calm tone, "Then, Teacher Fusheng, what do you think these mood updates mean?"

Xiao Fusheng rolled his eyes and said, "It means my mood has changed."

As he spoke, he took advantage of Xi Shu's inattention, snatched the thing from his hand, and stuffed it into his mouth: "Okay, a question."

Xi Shu wasn't annoyed. He looked at his fingertips, wiped off the fine powder from the pastry, and picked up another piece. "Second question, how dare Teacher Fusheng come to me alone after observing you for so many days?"

Perhaps his choice of words was a bit dangerous. Xiao Fusheng carefully considered the words "dare" and "alone" and felt a little guilty for no reason: "You can't beat me."

"You know it again?" Xi Shu chuckled softly. At this moment, he was leaning against the table so that his eyes were level with hers. "Are you sure?"

Actually, I'm not sure.

Fusheng heard from her uncle that Brother Xiaoshu has been like a superman abroad in recent years. He is so smart that if he really plays tricks on her, she may not be able to beat him.

She said confidently: "Are you willing to hit me?"

"I can't bear to leave." Xi Shu admitted frankly, "But I always feel angry when I think about it."

He looked at Fusheng and said, "You know everything. You dug a trap for me to jump into."

It wasn't really a trap. He was five years older than the child and had been in the real world longer than her, so naturally he would understand the emotions of men and women earlier.

Every day he waits for himself to grow up, and for his child to grow up, until he is almost numb to the fact that he is the child's older brother.

If the child hadn't exposed the matter that day, he might have been able to pretend for a while longer.

Pretend until you can’t put any more.

During this period, he was not waiting for himself to think things through, but waiting for his child to figure things out. He waited and waited, and also comforted himself that so many years had passed anyway, and he could continue to be with his child in any form.

But he felt unwilling to wait any longer. It was clearly she who brought it up, so how could he pretend nothing happened?

This bad kid actually ran away after being exposed. She didn't come to see him for such a long time. So he had to go find her, but he didn't expect that she would dare to come to him on her own initiative.

Xi Shu always had a vague premonition in his heart, but he was not sure whether it was because the child had no bottom line towards him as before, or because she had already noticed it.

He suppressed so many complicated thoughts and asked with a smile: "Have you become bad?"

This time, Xiao Fusheng didn't try to grab the sweet cake from his hand. Instead, he said softly, "I don't know anything."

Xi Shu was slightly startled.

"You didn't tell me anything, so I had to guess on my own." Xiao Fusheng was also a little unhappy. "If I weren't smart, then I wouldn't be able to guess anything."

"I didn't set a trap for you," she said. "I just wanted to hear your brother's affirmative reply. You're obviously the one with the worst heart. You lied to me when we were little, and you're still lying to me now that you've grown up."

After she finished speaking, she lowered her head.

This is indeed the case. Because she has been exposed to various scripts and has grown up with her peers, she has integrated well into this world and knows that there are other emotions in this world besides family affection.

She also went through puberty like other people her age and knew about those ignorant and ambiguous things, but there was no one like Brother Xiaoshu in her life.

After seeing those favorability ratings, she felt even more confused. Then she thought that Brother Xiaoshu was five years older than her, so he should have experienced all these things a long time ago. Why had she never heard of them? She was always the only one by his side.

Later, she gradually discovered that Brother Xiaoshu's eyes were different from those of other people.

But he never said it.

That's why she tried it, but it wasn't something she was sure of.

"I was just about to ask." She complained, "You clearly knew I hadn't come to see you for so long, and you wouldn't have come to see me. It's clearly your fault."

After a long time, in this quiet study, she heard a sigh.

Then the sweet cake that Xi Shu had been holding on his fingertips was passed to her mouth: "My bad."

Fusheng bit the sweet cake and then bit his finger hard.

Xi Shu let her bite him, and shook his head: "It's not that I won't look for you, nor that I won't tell you."

He lowered his eyes and looked into hers: "But I don't dare."

"Before I met you, I thought you would be my lifelong friend," he said. "After I met you, I thought, whether we were friends or not, you would stay by my side forever. But then more and more people came around you, and everything started to worry me, wondering if you would leave."

"Compared to my selfish and obscure thoughts, your leaving is what I find most unacceptable."

Xi Shu followed her biting movements, lifted her chin with his thumb, and whispered, "From the moment I was born, I never thought of being separated from you, so if you don't want me anymore, what should I do?"

Fusheng loosened his fingers: "What about now?"

"Right now." Xi Shu's eyes were filled with a smile. "Look at your phone."

Xiao Fusheng didn't understand why, but he still opened his phone.

The slender fingertips opened the game that she stared at every day. Just ten minutes ago, the moment the elevator door opened, the raising calendar was updated again.

【Xi Shu will always be with Fu Sheng. 】

"Xi Shu will be with Fusheng forever, because..." Fingers beside the screen held her face, and warm breath fell on her ear, "He has been learning how to love her since he was a child."

Wait until that breath falls on your lips.

Fusheng saw the phone flash again out of the corner of his eye.

[Favorability: 100%. 】

"Look." Xi Shu imitated her tone and chuckled, "It's increased."