Shen Changan sat upright, feeling inexplicably irritated.
Why did his mother insist on calling him to this meaningless chat? And these two people were secretly looking at him.
Shen Changan remained calm on the surface, but in fact he had already noticed their little movements.
His mother was chatting animatedly with Li Sixue, and Shen Changan sat for a while before preparing to leave.
"Mom, I haven't had breakfast yet. I'm going to go eat something first. You guys can chat slowly."
Shen Changan stood up and left. As soon as he stood up, Wang Cuimei immediately grabbed his arm.
"Who told you to get up so late? Stop eating and have a good chat with Si Xue."
Li Sixue also raised her head and looked at him expectantly. Her lips moved, wanting to talk to him but feeling a little embarrassed.
"I don't know her well, so there's nothing to talk about."
As soon as Shen Changan said this, Li Sixue’s little face turned pale.
They were indeed not familiar with each other, but they were here for a blind date today, and Shen Changan’s words made her a little sad.
"How do you talk like that, kid?"
Wang Cuimei immediately scolded her son when she saw the situation. Although Shen Changan did not refute, he still shook her hand off.
"you!"
Wang Cuimei was so angry that she jumped up and down. Shen Changan went to the kitchen alone and asked the nanny to make him something to eat.
Originally he could have come out and wait, but Shen Changan stayed in the kitchen and refused to come out.
"This child might be hungry. Sixue, don't bother with him."
Wang Cuimei quickly tried to smooth things over. Li Sixue covered her stomach and said embarrassedly, "I didn't have breakfast today, and I'm a little hungry now. Can I eat with Brother Shen?"
"Of course, what do you like for breakfast? I'll ask Auntie to make one for you too."
"It's all right. I'm not picky about food."
"Okay, I'll arrange it now."
Wang Cuimei got up and went to the kitchen, and asked her aunt to cook some noodles for Li Sixue.
"Chen Changan, there are guests at home and you don't go to accompany them but stay in the kitchen. Is this your way of entertaining guests?"
Wang Cuimei scolded her son with a stern face, but Shen Changan didn't buy her at all.
"I will accompany the guests I invite, and the guests you invite will be accompanied by themselves."
Shen Changan decisively rejected his mother, but Wang Cuimei refused to give up.
"This is your uncle Li's daughter. She's a very nice girl. You're already old and still single. Now there's such a good girl in front of you. Don't you want to seize the opportunity?"
Wang Cuimei persuaded her son earnestly, and Shen Changan confirmed his mother's intention from these words.
"Mom, I don't know how to go on blind dates. Please let this girl go back. I don't have any feelings for her."
Shen Changan expressed his thoughts directly, and Wang Cuimei almost exploded when she heard it.
"You have no interest in such a good girl. Do you want to be single forever? Don't you see how old you are? Si Xue is only 22 years old. You are secretly happy that she likes you. Why are you still acting so arrogant?"
Wang Cuimei was very angry and said things without considering her son's feelings at all.
"So what? If she likes me, should I like her? If finding a partner was that easy, there wouldn't be so many bachelors in the world."
What Shen Changan said was also sincere, and Wang Cuimei was almost mad at him.
"I just don't want you to be an old bachelor, so I'm helping you find a partner. Don't be ungrateful. Go out and have a good chat with that girl. Let's get married by the end of next year, so I can have a grandchild the year after!"
"Mom, I don't have any feelings for her. A forced melon is not sweet. Isn't that what you said?"
Shen Changan rejected his mother decisively. Since he had already decided on Jiang Li, he would not secretly go on a blind date at home, as this would be disrespectful to their relationship.
"Whether you have any thoughts or not, she's a very nice girl. Try to get along with her. Isn't love something that develops through interaction?"
"Like me and your dad, we only met a few times before we got married, but we got together because we were a good match. Aren't we living a good life now?"
"Mom does all this for your own good. Don't be ungrateful. I've let you live a carefree life for the past 26 years. You should also consider your parents' feelings in the days ahead!"
Wang Cuimei said earnestly, but Shen Changan still shook his head.
"I'm different from you guys. I can't force relationships. If I like someone, I like them. If I don't like someone, I don't like them. I won't marry someone just because they're suitable."
"I am a person, a living person, not some cattle or sheep that you guys are dragging around to be paired up with. I have my own ideas, and I will be responsible for my own future. Please, mother, stop finding blind dates for me."
No matter how Wang Cuimei persuaded him, Shen Changan's attitude was very firm, with no room for maneuver.
"Even if it's not a blind date, just treat it as making another friend and try to get along with Sixue, okay? Just think of it as giving mom some face."
Wang Cuimei saw that the hard approach didn't work and she had to try the soft approach, so she almost begged her son in a humbly voice.
If Shen Changan didn't know about the existence of Jiang Li and the two children, perhaps he would agree to make his mother happy, but it is absolutely impossible now.
"Mom, I'm going back to my room. Auntie, please bring the noodles to my room later."
Shen Changan no longer paid attention to his mother, but turned and went upstairs.
Wang Cuimei couldn't stop him, and she had no other way to deal with him except feeling so angry that her heart ached.
Auntie cooked two bowls of noodles, put one on the dining table and sent one upstairs.
"Si Xue, the noodles are ready, come and have some."
"Auntie, what happened to Brother Shen? Why did he go back to his room?"
Li Sixue stared at the direction of the second floor again and again. To be exact, she stared at Shen Changan's back for a long time.
Brother Shen is tall and has a broad back. Even his back is so charming, let alone the front.
"Your elder brother Shen is feeling a little unwell and wants to go back to his room to rest. If you're hungry, have some noodles."
Wang Cuimei could only calm down her anger and try to find excuses for her son. Li Sixue nodded thoughtfully.
She felt embarrassed to stay in the Shen family without Shen Changan, so after finishing her noodles, she followed her father and said goodbye.
The father and daughter returned home, and Father Li called his daughter to the study: “Si Xue, Shen Changan doesn’t seem to like you, what do you think now?”
When Li Sixue was little, she liked to follow Shen Changan, calling him "Brother Shen" all the time. However, Shen Changan at that time was as aloof as he is now, and he always ignored her.
No matter what his attitude towards herself was, Li Sixue never got discouraged. Instead, she looked at the door of Shen Changan's house from the window every day.
As soon as he went out, she would go downstairs and follow him.
"It doesn't matter that he didn't like me. What matters is that I liked him. I've liked him since I was little, for many, many years. I won't miss him again this time!"
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