Chapter 100 May you be happy and worry-free every year
Cen Wan bit her lips hard, trying to push back the heat and moisture in her eyes.
She didn't move for a long time. Shen Yixiao looked at her sideways, and the corners of his mouth froze.
Cen Wan's crow-feather eyelashes kept trembling, and she bit her lower lip tightly, almost breaking the soft lips. Her lips turned white due to the force, and then turned a touch of crimson in an instant.
Endure and suppress to the extreme.
Shen Yixiao twisted his fingers slightly to hide the darkness in his eyes, and said in a lazy tone: "Are you moved to tears?"
He is so easily moved, why don’t you show any softness towards him?
Cen Wan sniffed and adjusted her mood: "No..."
Her voice was soft with a hint of hoarseness, and she only said two words and stopped.
What is not? Didn’t I feel moved or didn’t cry?
She couldn't deny it.
The snow outside the window was falling even harder, and the whole world seemed to be muted. Only the breathing of the two people could be heard clearly.
Everything around was white, and there were no pedestrians or vehicles on the road.
Shen Yixiao suddenly leaned closer, and when she was surprised, he raised his hand and pulled down the passenger side mirror, grinning, "If you get out of my car like this, people will think I did something to you."
Cen Wan was stunned for a few seconds and turned to look at herself in the mirror.
Shen Yixiao held her seat with one hand and glanced sideways into the mirror.
Her eye sockets were slightly red, and her pupils were as clear as if they had been washed with water, with a slight mist. Her eyelashes were wet and trembled slightly, like wet butterfly wings, fragile and lovable.
When Cen Wan raised her eyes, she met another pair of deep eyes.
She looked at him in the mirror. His dark pupils were like a deep, boundless ocean, its calm surface hiding a turbulent undercurrent. Once it burst, it would devour everything, leaving her with no way to escape.
Cen Wan's heart trembled when she was looked at by his fiery and aggressive gaze.
She looked away and tried to change the subject: "Didn't you go back home for the New Year? Why are you here?"
Shen Yixiao saw through her at a glance and spoke lazily, "Andersen came to me in a dream, saying that I could find a poor little thing here, so I came here."
Cen Wan: "..."
"So now you want to..."
Shen Yixiao looked at her with a half-smile, and said nonchalantly: "Isn't it obvious? Kidnapping children."
After saying that, he started the car and drove straight towards No. 1 Mansion.
He didn't ask her if she wanted to go with him, and just took her people back.
The two of them walked in one after the other and bent down to change their shoes at the entrance.
Cen Wan had been waiting for him to ask her, but he didn't say anything.
Shen Yixiao hung his coat aside and turned on the TV. The lively sounds immediately filled the entire living room.
"Go take a hot bath first." Shen Yixiao said to her.
Cen Wan: "Okay."
She obediently turned around and went to the bathroom in the master bedroom.
When she came out, Shen Yixiao had already finished washing and changed into home clothes. He was sitting on the sofa, lowering his head and replying to messages.
In the group, Ji Yuanchen sent several messages:
[I received a lot of New Year’s money again this year, hahaha]
[Ayan, Brother Yi, when are you free? I'd like to invite you out to have fun.]
Shen Yixiao exited, took a screenshot and sent it to the group.
Three seconds passed.
Ji Yuanchen: [!!!]
[Big brother, do you still need a younger brother? I can also have the surname Shen! ]
Shen Yixiao's bony fingers tapped the screen lightly: [Our family has high standards for both appearance and IQ]
Ji Yuanchen: [Brother Yi, are you scolding me? ]
Qin Yanxiu: [Isn't this obvious?]
Ji Yuanchen: […I’m not going to play with you guys anymore.]
The corners of Shen Yixiao's mouth curled up slightly. He caught a glimpse of Cen Wan standing beside him. He put away his phone and glanced over. "Why are you standing there like an idiot? Come and sit down."
Cen Wan walked over and sat on the sofa beside her. As soon as she sat down, a slight gurgling sound suddenly sounded in the air.
Cen Wan covered her stomach and heard another gurgling sound.
A hint of surprise flashed in Shen Yixiao's eyes, and then he chuckled: "Are you hungry?"
Cen Wan felt her face getting hot, her cheeks instantly flushed, and her ears turned red.
Listening to Shen Yixiao's low and magnetic voice, she didn't dare to meet his gaze.
It's really, really embarrassing.
Shen Yixiao looked at her, narrowed his narrow eyes, stood up, and walked towards the kitchen.
He opened the refrigerator, took a look, and took out a bunch of vegetables and spread them on the table.
Cen Wan looked at his figure and stood up and followed him.
Shen Yixiao was already cutting the meat. He had excellent knife skills and cut the beef into thin strips.
Cen Wan moved her lips, wanting to say that there was no need to go through so much trouble, but when the words came to her lips, she was afraid that he would say that she was being too sentimental, so she closed them.
Shen Yixiao lowered his head to cut vegetables, with his sleeves rolled up, revealing his lean and smoothly contoured forearms. His movements were smooth and pleasing to the eye.
Cen Wan stood in front of the cooking table and couldn't help but ask, "Is there anything I can help with?"
Shen Yixiao: "Go get an egg from the refrigerator."
"Oh." Cen Wan did as she was told.
When I came back, I saw that he had already started two pots, one for boiling water and cooking noodles, and the other for stir-frying beef.
The flavors of pickled peppers, ginger, garlic, and young ginger mixed together, and the fragrance was instantly stimulated. With plenty of coriander, Cen Wanguang's taste buds began to stimulate as soon as she smelled the flavor.
After a while, Shen Yixiao had prepared a bowl of delicious beef noodles with a poached egg on top of the soup, stir-fried beef as topping, and a few green vegetables on the side.
Shen Yixiao brought the bowl to the table and looked back at her: "Come and eat noodles."
Cen Wan sat down at the table. Shen Yixiao took out grapes and lychees from the refrigerator, washed them and put them on a plate before sitting down opposite her.
Cen Wan looked at him while holding her chopsticks: "Aren't you going to eat?"
He only made one bowl.
Shen Yixiao picked up a grape and threw it into his mouth: "I'm not hungry."
"Oh." Cen Wan then lowered her head and started eating noodles.
Shen Yixiao picked a lychee and peeled it slowly, watching Cen Wan eat noodles in small bites. Her movements slowed down little by little, the laziness on her face faded away little by little, and her eyes became dark and unclear.
Her stomach was filled with warm food, and the feeling of fullness spread from her stomach to her whole body. The soft light of the restaurant shone down, and Cen Wan seemed to relax every nerve in her body.
She finished the bowl of noodles and when she looked up, she saw peeled lychees neatly arranged on the plate beside her. The flesh was crystal clear and had a faint luster, as if you could squeeze out water.
A trace of surprise flashed in her eyes, and she looked up at Shen Yixiao.
The latter naturally took the dishes from her hand, stood up and put them into the dishwasher.
Snow fell outside the window, and the world was a silent white. The warm light in the house isolated the coldness into another world.
Cen Wan sat on the sofa, lowered her head and replied to the messages and blessings from Jiang Yuan and others.
Shen Yixiao also leaned lazily at the other end, scrolling through his phone boredly, occasionally replying a sentence or two in the group chat.
Cen Wan didn't expect that she would spend this New Year's Eve with Shen Yixiao. It was a rare warm and quiet moment.
When the countdown to midnight sounded, she put down her phone.
At the moment the bell rang, she looked up at the man beside her and said softly, "Chen Yixiao, Happy New Year."
May you be happy and worry-free every year.
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