Misalignment
Su didn't want to waste time with him. "Fine, this is fine. I'm going now. We'll meet again next time."
"good."
Upon reaching the top of the stairs and looking at the familiar front door, Su Yao felt a little dazed; perhaps she shouldn't have come.
The door opened. "You're all here, won't you come in and sit down?" An Chi's eyes were intense, and he didn't flinch.
"Mm," she replied, and went inside. The layout was the same, but the people were different.
He poured a glass of water and handed it to Su Yao, saying, "Warm water."
The water was always just the right temperature. Su was about to touch the glass when she pulled her hand back, pushed it forward, and stared at An Chi. "Let's change it. Let's change the wine."
“Drink tonight…” he asked with concern.
He interrupted, "I want to drink."
It was all Su's idea. She wanted to drink, and he obediently drank. She wanted him to go abroad, and he obediently took the IELTS exam. She wanted to marry Bai Lutong, and he obediently became the adopted son who didn't even deserve a proper status...
An Chi recalled that the only thing he had any control over was the "deception" he had gained from the Su family. From then on, nothing else was within his reach.
Once you enter the tiger's den, there's no turning back. He understood these principles, but the feeling of resentment still filled his mind.
He gripped the glass tightly, took a sip, and poured himself another glass of red wine—the kind she had always left in the house, which he had never touched.
When the cup was placed in front of her, Su said coldly, "Change the cup." He poured the one he had drunk from.
"How many times have we kissed? Does your foster mother already dislike me?" The older a child gets, the more sensible they become. This kind of thing doesn't seem to apply to An Chi. These words made Su Yao frown.
But she remained calm. Having experienced so much, she considered these little squabbles as trivial play in Su Yao's eyes. "Alright, I'm not drinking anymore. I'm going to sleep."
Just as she was about to get up, An Chi pressed her down on top of him. "Okay, let's sleep together."
Even a respectful and polite young lady can get angry. Su Yao was strong because of her fitness training, and An Chi didn't dare to control himself too much. Su Yao directly broke free of his hand and slapped An Chi. "Don't make me say it a second time. Get up, An Chi."
The handprint gradually appeared, and only Su Yao, who struck the blow, and An Chi, who felt it, understood just how heavy the slap was. Yet Su Yao remained indifferent, saying, "An Chi, I will be engaged to Bai Lutong. You should know your place. I'll take you to meet your adoptive father when I have time."
Su Yao's figure was hidden by the doorway. The heavy slam of the door closing, and the unusually clear click of the lock, were like replacing paper windows with iron bars. An Chi could only mutter in his sleep, "I won't agree, Su Yao, I won't..."
Naturally, it wasn't his place to agree to such a thing.
The next day, Su wanted to leave early, but An Chi was waiting for her outside.
"Did you sleep well last night?" An Chi asked softly as she handed over the milk. "Have a sip of milk before you go to work."
"It's fine." Taking the milk he offered, Su Yao smeared some white on her lips and was about to lick it clean when she was stopped.
An Chi kissed him, but it wasn't a kiss; he just rubbed his lips together, wiping away all the white residue. Then he separated them, licked his lips, and said with lingering desire, "Take another sip."
Su stared at him with exasperation, took a deep breath, and said, "It was my fault for provoking you back then. I can give you everything you need, but don't get entangled with me anymore, An Chi. It's pointless."
He approached step by step, Su Yao's back pressed against the room door, An Chi placed his hand on her waist, and whispered in her ear, "Su Yao, have you ever thought that no matter if you provoke me or not, I want to sleep with you? Tell me, now that I have such ambitions, is the outcome up to you alone?"
“Ambition and action are different. I’m not willing to do it, and you’ll never become An Chi.” Su pushed him away, not wanting to whisper in his ear.
Before An Chi could argue again, the doorbell rang.
Su thought that this was the time when Aunt Hong should come to make breakfast, but she didn't know that An Chi had already exempted Aunt Hong from making breakfast so that she could have an easier time.
When I opened the door, Bai Lutong was standing there. "Xiao Yao, I thought you probably hadn't eaten breakfast this morning, so I came to bring you a loving breakfast."
He had a sweet smile on his face. Su Yao had been very worried all morning, but when she heard footsteps behind her, a plan formed in her mind. Her expression changed quickly. "Why did you come so early? Why didn't you wait for me at the company? Thank you for your trouble. Come in quickly."
Bai Lutong looked up and saw An Chi's disgusted expression. After all, he was just a child and couldn't hide his true feelings. He smiled and took the initiative, saying, "This is our child now, right? It seems like you don't welcome me."
"I am not your child." He couldn't directly say he didn't welcome her; Su would get angry.
Su called out to Xiaobai, but after listening to their conversation, he was too lazy to get involved and decided to find something else to do. Rather than competing with others, he figured he might as well reap the benefits.
Still lacking social experience, Bai Lutong put on the slippers Xiaobai gave him. "Xiaobai, Daddy's back. Aren't you happy? Mommy and Daddy are here."
The robot only responds according to its own programmed instructions. This is a legacy left by Bai Lutong. He knows the real answer better than anyone else: "Of course I'm happy. Xiao Bai loves Lutong Daddy and Xiao Yao Mommy the most."
"Good boy." Bai Lutong didn't even look at An Chi.
He kept his anger bottled up inside, never revealing his thoughts too much, but he was going to gamble—gamble on Su Yao's words.
Anchi dislikes silence and mere presumptuous actions.
Su Yao's indifference was even more terrifying than Bai Lutong's breakfast presentation.
"There's plenty of breakfast, would you like to eat together?" Bai Lutong glanced at him sideways, adopting a gentle and welcoming demeanor.
Su remained silent, simply listening to the exchange between the two.
"No need, I've made breakfast."
Su Yao understood immediately, but she was still acting like a child. If she had known her situation, she wouldn't have gone against Bai Lutong; at least, she wouldn't have made that choice.
Suddenly, a bowl of white porridge was placed in front of her. She looked up along the arm and met An Chi's gaze. "Mom, eat more."
This was the first time she had heard An Chi call her that. In the past few years, An Chi had never called her that. He had called her "foster mother" or "mother" more often, but only in the intimate moments of whispering and whispering.
Unsure of An Chi's thoughts, she took a couple of sips of porridge, wanting only to end the stalemate. "Take me to the company, Lu Tong."
"Okay." Bai Lutong waved his hand, and Xiao Bai stepped forward, tapped the table, and looked like it was about to tidy up the table.
"Don't you need me to see you off, Mom? It wasn't like this before." An Chi had learned his lesson this time. He blinked, acting awkwardly like a child.
Su turned to Bai Lutong and said, "Go downstairs and wait for me. The child is throwing a tantrum."
Bai Lutong glanced at the two of them, his eyes narrowing slightly. "Alright, I'll wait for you, Xiao Yao."
The moment the door closed, An Chi embraced Su Yao, like a tangled snake, twisting and ambiguous.
"Is he better in bed, or am I better?" An Chi lightly smacked his earlobe near his lips.
Su tried to let go of his hand. "You should have thought through what I said this morning. If you really can't, then let me tell you, I slept with you to get revenge on you and the Su family."
"To take revenge on me?" An Chi continued.
She took a deep breath, not knowing how to communicate with this child. When he was first sent here, he was a shy little quail that no one could tease. "No matter what, going abroad is the best choice for you. After you finish your studies, I will arrange a job for you."
"You'll never come back?" An Chi was clinging to a sliver of her tenderness.
"Try not to come back. Anlan's health will be well taken care of in China, and Auntie will have a good life. I'll make all the arrangements." This time, Su Yao didn't discuss it with him or try to bargain; she only made a firm request.
“What if I don’t agree, Su?” He leaned forward, forcing her to step back. “And I don’t agree to Bai Lutong being my adoptive father.”
Su stretched out a finger and pressed it against An Chi's leaning chest. "Make it clear, An Chi. You don't have to go abroad, and I will give you the corresponding resources. But I will definitely get engaged to Bai Lutong. It's not that you will fail every time you disagree. To the outside world, you are surnamed Su, but to the inside, you can't even enter the Su family."
After saying that, she turned and opened the door, saying, "Think it through." Her last words as she left were uttered in one breath.
Downstairs, Bai Lutong had been waiting. After Su got into the car, he continued to probe, "The child is so hard to soothe, why keep raising him?"
“Consider it charity. Su Wensheng wanted me to marry him, but I refused.” Su Yao adjusted her seat back, closed her eyes, and found dealing with the two men more difficult than dealing with company contracts.
Seeing that Su Yao was unwilling to continue the conversation, Bai Lutong stopped talking.
After dropping Su off at her company building, Bai Lutong wanted to get out of the car to see her off, but Ge Jin got in next, and she followed him into the gate.
Looking at her back, Bai Lutong smiled. She was always surrounded by so many beautiful women, just like in college. Whether they were sparrows or eagles, they all liked to swarm around her.
He never considered Ge Jin a rival; he was just a working-class man, not someone to be compared to. As for An Chi, he was truly annoying.
Youth is always the most valuable investment, but Bai Lutong can't afford to gamble. He's already thirty-one this year, no longer a young man, while Su Yao is the best at weighing the pros and cons.
"How's things going with the Su family?" Bai Lutong opened the car window, white smoke drifting out. He held his phone in one hand and a cigarette butt between his fingers. He stuck his hand out of the car, lit the cigarette, and the ash fell lightly. He pulled his hand back, only to have it caught by the person inside the car.
The reply on the other end of the phone was, "Everything is going well."
The only thing Bai Lutong can do now is to make Su Yao see his value, so that he can catch the fox's eye and become its prey.
The car sped away, all of which was observed by the "fox." Su Yao suddenly fell into deep thought. She asked herself if she still resented Bai Lutong for leaving without saying goodbye, but found no ripples in her heart. She asked herself if she should be the villain who pushed An Chi away, and found the answer to be absolutely certain.
She should have disliked Bai Lutong, but in her heart she wanted to push An Chi away.
Why is that?
She had no idea, and even An Chi couldn't understand why Su kept trying to send him abroad. Severing ties with him and leaving him to fend for himself in the country was an option, even more resolute than supporting him.
Does she really lack a tool to make money?
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