Chapter 4 Chapter 4 You are enough.
Fu Xici was pressing his palm against the bottom of the liqueur bottle to stimulate its aroma. He was clearly an expert. He said to Su Ting in a gentle voice, "Mr. Su, this is a free after-dinner drink from our restaurant."
In front of Ye Xiuming, Su Ting felt a little embarrassed - Fu Xici was, to some extent, one of those men and women who troubled him.
When Caos Ordinato chose to open at Threshold, Fu Xici asked someone to tell him that he had met Soutine in Rome.
Of course Su Ting didn't believe it at all.
Until Fu Xici took out the photos he took at the Trevi Fountain.
In the photo, there are crowds of people around the fountain, but Soutine can be spotted in the crowd at a glance. He is reverently throwing coins to Poseidon, the god of the sea, in the center of the fountain and making a wish.
He had an oriental look, with a hint of melancholy between his eyebrows and eyes, and was clearly distinguished from the tourists around him.
Su Ting was undoubtedly frightened when he saw this photo, but what made him even more tormented was what Fu Xici said to him when they first met.
"If you don't wish for 'return to Rome', it will be invalid."
Caos Ordinato had just opened at that time, and Su Ting, as one of the first people to arrive to celebrate, was doused with cold water on the spot, saying that his wish was invalid. He secretly pinched his pulse in the palm of his hand, and his eyes were almost out of focus.
"I guess your wish at that time was related to love?" Fu Xici asked, "May I ask what your wish was? It can't be fulfilled anyway, so it doesn't matter if you talk about it."
Su Ting: “…”
His wish at that time would never be shared with others.
Even Fu Xici, who had known him for two years and often gave him wine under various excuses, could not have known.
"Su Ting, who is this kid?"
Su Ting said calmly: "My son."
Fu Xici had sharp bones and the superior features of a mixed-race person. At this moment, his usually gentle face was suddenly filled with gloom, and the contents of his eyes were almost invisible in his deep eye sockets.
"Are you using a surrogate?" Fu Xici has a keen radar for his own group. It is an indisputable fact that Su Ting likes men, and the only possible way to have a son is through surrogacy.
Unexpectedly, Su Ting said: "Illegitimate child, conceived normally."
"You slept with a woman when you were a teenager?" Fu Xici stared at Su Ting in disbelief, and the bottle of lemon cherry made a slight sound when it knocked on the dining table.
Su Ting was twenty-seven years old, and Ye Xiuming was eleven years old. The sixteen-year age difference was indeed possible.
Su Ting chuckled: "I was ignorant when I was young."
At this moment, Ye Xiuming was watching the interaction between the two as if he was watching a play. The sauce on the T-bone steak was almost smeared into the meat.
He suddenly felt like having fun.
She said in a baby voice, "Dad, let's go home early. Uncle Zhou said he bought me a lot of toys. I want to go back and see them early."
Su Ting was stunned. Uncle Zhou? Zhou Xubai? He looked into Ye Xiuming's playful eyes and immediately understood that this was Ye Xiuming's trick for the emergency room.
He then said, "Xi Ci, I appreciate your kindness. Please give this bottle of wine to someone who needs it more."
Fu Xici knew that Su Ting was referring to more than just this bottle of wine.
But he wanted Su Ting so much that he was almost going crazy. He could even abandon his prejudice that gay men should find women to have children for Su Ting and accept the young man in front of him.
Uncle Zhou...isn't he just Su Ting's assistant? This kid wants to use Zhou Xubai to deceive me, but he's still a little immature. Fu Xici's eyes moved, and a smile reached his eyes. "Zhou Xubai has also spent a lot of money to force his relationship. But Su Ting, isn't he just an assistant? Using him to block me is unreasonable."
Su Ting was left speechless.
It's a pity that Ye Xiuming only knows the man next to him. Next time... after he trains well, maybe he can really play the role of a surprise weapon.
This time, let’s just treat it as a training exercise. It will eventually be effective.
"Xi Ci, I have something else to do. I want to take my son out for a ride." He stood up, grabbed Ye Xiuming's sleeve, and pulled him out of the steak he had not finished. Ye Xiuming glared at him. Although he didn't understand why, he had to leave with him tactfully.
"I'm not full yet." Ye Xiuming said angrily, as if he was really angry at Su Ting's abrupt interruption.
Su Ting pressed the elevator button for the first floor with his slender fingers, "I'll go back and make you a midnight snack."
This was the first day Ye Xiuming adopted the child, and he couldn't show any impatience.
Ye Xiuming crossed his arms, looking like a little adult. He stared straight at Su Ting's back and said, "Does Dad know that you're attracting so many women out there like this?"
Su Ting turned back silently, his face stern and said: "Zhou Xubai is not some big boss. We are just ordinary superiors and subordinates. It's not as bad as you say."
"Even if he is my eldest father, it is not appropriate to describe him as 'unbearable'."
"You..." His little mouth was like poison. Su Ting's face turned pale and blue, and he was almost completely defeated by this kid.
The evening breeze was chilly, and the winter street scene seemed somewhat silent. Two figures, one tall and one short, were walking against the cold wind. Ye Xiuming, clutching the collar of his down jacket, said, "I'm hungry again."
"Because you insisted on eating artichokes."
"You can't stand that person's harassment."
There was something Su Ting wanted to say but didn't dare to say. Maybe this child was abandoned by his parents because of this mouth.
Suddenly, a little girl in ragged clothes came up to the two of them with a bunch of roses. She stopped them with confused eyes and said, "Uncle, buy some flowers."
Su Ting, who wasn't buying it, looked gloomy and was about to leave, but Ye Xiuming squatted beside the girl and asked, "Where are your parents? Did they ask you to sell flowers?"
The girl's eyes suddenly turned red and she shook her head.
"Then you were forced?"
The girl hesitated for a long time before she said, "Yes..."
Suddenly, a middle-aged man with a face full of flesh stood between the girl and Ye Xiuming, as if he didn't want them to have too much communication. He pulled the girl's collar and walked towards a place where the crowd was sparse.
Ye Xiuming stretched out his hand, the back of which still had faint scars. He pinched Su Ting's black sleeve, pointed at the girl's receding figure and said, "She must have been abducted. Daddy Su, can you adopt her home as well?"
Putting aside whether a young single man can adopt a girl, Su Ting is unwilling to wade into this muddy water, both emotionally and rationally. His emotions have been sealed deep at the bottom of the river, indifferent and distant. The last time he gave himself up without reservation, he was almost shattered and his reputation was ruined.
It took him five full years to get over it.
Thinking of this, Su Ting's already gloomy face suddenly hardened a little, and he said in a firm tone: "You are enough."
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