☆, Chapter 35
Xi Mo waited in the empty house for two hours before Xi Yicheng and Ruan Wenwen finally arrived, followed by several assistants carrying luggage and bags.
"Mom and Dad."
"Momo."
Their family custom is to smile at family members they haven't seen for a long time, plainly and simply.
The reason why Xi Mo is emotionally dull is closely related to her original family. In this family, her emotional needs have never been met and can be said to have been completely ignored.
Xi Yicheng and Ruan Wenwen always had a calm and gentle demeanor, which made it difficult for her to perceive the emotional fluctuations of the people around her. She tried to imitate her parents' calm and gentle demeanor, but she only learned the basics and was actually indifferent.
When she was working in her previous life, she was criticized by her subordinates for being cold-blooded and ruthless.
Despite this, Xi Yicheng and Ruan Wenwen are still excellent. As a father, Xi Yicheng is handsome and wealthy, devoted to his family, full of enthusiasm for his career, capable and thoughtful, gentle and elegant. As a mother, Ruan Wenwen fully cooperates with and supports her husband's work. She is the perfect wife, beautiful and tolerant, and treats people with sincerity and kindness.
In the eyes of outsiders, the two are the best partners and the best couple, but to Xi Mo, they are not the best parents.
But Xi Mo couldn't blame them, because the rich life, the good family background and the superior looks were all given by them. Xi Mo was already very satisfied. She would no longer become depressed or even unhappy because of some trivial shortcomings of her parents.
If she could do it again, she would be better.
The family went out for dinner together at one of the best high-end restaurants in the city. To outsiders, the three of them looked like a family at first glance, with the same gentle temperament, dignified and elegant manners, and decent and generous conversation and behavior, which attracted the attention of other guests.
In the following time, Xi Yicheng and Ruan Wenwen took Xi Mo to meet friends, partners, heads of other companies, and their family children.
In a magnificent restaurant, the scene was filled with clinking glasses. A group of adults in gorgeous clothes were holding up their glasses filled with expensive and mellow red wine and chatting about obscure and difficult topics.
Xi Mo sat at the same table with the bosses' children, under the pretext of making friends, but there was no communication at all.
Xi Mo is a very passive person, but she is also a person with a strong sense of purpose and will take the initiative to achieve her goals. She chooses to remain unknown now because she feels there is no need to socialize with them.
At times like this, Xi Mo acted like a young lady, being self-centered, following her inner thoughts, and not doing things she didn't want to do.
Xi Mo did not study finance in her previous life, and she does not plan to study finance in this life. She has no interest in inheriting the Xi family's business, but now as a child without independent ability, she has to sit here and eat and chat with a group of children she does not know and does not want to know.
None of them went to the same school as Xi Mo. These second-generation rich people were basically concentrated in aristocratic schools, learning all the things that aristocratic children should learn, such as golf, horseback riding, chess...
These are what they are talking about now. Xi Mo has no common topics with them, and she feels lonely for the first time in a long time.
For the first time, she childishly took out her cell phone. This behavior was not allowed, but Xi Mo wanted to do it now.
There is no news, no news at all, and he has disappeared from the class group. It seems that the classmates are all busy.
Where's Xiu Yangui? Xiu Yangui didn't send her any messages either.
Is he busy too?
Do you want to send him a message? Yes.
She missed him.
【mol: What are you doing? 】
【mol: I miss you. 】
Xi Mo was slow-witted, but also had a simple and straightforward nature. She had no other thoughts. Her only thought at the moment was that she missed Xiu Yangui. In this venue, at this moment, the person who came to her mind was Xiu Yangui.
Xiu Yangui did not reply in time, which made Xi Mo feel disappointed. Now Xi Mo also lost interest in the mobile phone and continued to sit there bored.
In fact, Xiu Yangui never put down his mobile phone and was even typing all the time, but he was always deleting and reducing the text, and never sent out the text he had prepared.
If Xi Mo had opened the chat box between her and Xiu Yangui from the beginning, she would have had the chance to find that the message "The other party is typing..." kept jumping over Xiu Yangui's name.
It’s not that Xiu Yangui doesn’t want to go back now, but he can’t go back. His mind has gone blank. The huge ecstasy and heartbeat are spreading endlessly like growing vines, almost bursting his brain and body.
It turned out that the person he had been missing was also missing him.
A new round of deletions and cuts began. Her thick hair was pulled into a bird's nest shape, and she kept muttering to herself: "What should I do? What should I reply? This is too sudden. Is Xi Mo so straightforward..."
"How should I respond to something like this, ahhhh."
Xiu Yangui felt like he was going crazy, laughing and worried at the same time, and the message he finally sent was.
【xiuyG: I see.】
What "is that so"? Xiu Yangui started to get mad again. Are you crazy? Xiu Yangui's reply was like a pile of dog shit, simply a pile of excrement. He was so anxious that he almost crushed his phone, scratching his head while blaming himself.
【xiuyG: Nothing, what are you doing? 】
OK, I can reply this time. Xiu Yangui's hands were shaking while typing just now, trembling non-stop, as if he had Parkinson's disease.
【mol: Having dinner with someone. 】
Having a meal with someone? That's quite interesting. It seems Xi Mo was not very satisfied with the meal. Xiu Yangui didn't know what he was laughing at, but he was laughing happily.
I guess Xi Mo was unhappy about having dinner with others, and then started to miss him.
Thinking this way, I asked this question directly and wanted an answer.
【xiuyG: Are you unhappy eating with others? 】
【mol: Unhappy.】
Xiu Yangui suppressed the corners of his mouth that kept rising, and boasted arrogantly: That's right, eating with others is not as fun as eating with him. Who is he? Eating with him is the most fun.
【mol: Have you eaten? 】
[mol: Has Molli eaten? ]
【xiuyG: I've eaten. Moli has also eaten and is playing. 】
Then Xiu Yangui sent Xi Mo a lot of photos and videos of Moli from all angles, enough for Xi Mo to get through this unhappy meal.
It’s no wonder that typing and chatting can no longer satisfy Xiu Yangui. He wants to call or video chat. He really misses her, and this kind of longing cannot be satisfied by the cold words on the screen.
In other words, he wanted to hear Xi Mo say in person that she missed him.
Xi Mo held her phone and kept looking at it, slowly flipping through one video and one photo. Since no one was talking to her, she might as well enjoy the time and stay comfortably in the little world that Xiu Yangui had created for her.
Ruan Wenwen gently gestured to Xi Yicheng, and they both looked towards Xi Mo. They both found it quite strange to see their usually polite and well-behaved daughter playing with her cell phone.
Although this is against the rules and etiquette, seeing the happy smile and relaxed brows on Xi Mo's face, there is nothing wrong with it. They always feel indebted to this daughter.
They were busy with work and were patient and gentle to others, but they always ignored Xi Mo, who needed their company the most.
In a place they couldn't see, their daughter was growing hard like a young seedling, absorbing the essence of the heaven, earth, sun and moon, and blooming with the fragile yet tenacious color of life.
In the magnificent venue, a mother and son strolled over. Ruan Wenwen looked over and smiled in surprise: "Ayuan, Xiaoling, you're here."
Peng Yuan, holding Xi Ruoling, who was dressed in a suit, said hello to Ruan Wenwen and Xi Yicheng as they walked towards him: "I'm here, Wenwen, Yicheng, how are you guys doing lately? Long time no see."
"haven't seen you for a long time."
Peng Yuan and Ruan Wenwen have been friends for more than ten years. They are both rich girls who grew up in City Z. However, Ruan Wenwen later married Xi Yicheng and came to City A, while Peng Yuan married overseas Chinese Xi Tiao. The family went abroad and only came back during the Chinese New Year. Ruan Wenwen would bring Xi Mo and Peng Yuan and her son to dinner.
Therefore, Xi Ruoling and Xi Mo had indeed met a few times before, although not many, but Xi Mo should not forget this incident, nor should she forget Xi Ruoling as a person.
"Xi Mo, long time no see."
Wearing a tie, Xi Ruoling looks more mature and steady than in school. His temperament is elegant yet cool. The dark green suit chosen by Peng Yuan suits him very well. Paired with an emerald brooch, he looks like a child who is highly regarded by the Xi family.
It is normal that Xi Tiao is not seen. Not every man is as chaste and upright as Xi Yicheng. Xi Tiao is a well-known amorous and wealthy man. After Peng Yuan gave birth to Xi Ruoling, he continued to act recklessly and had no awareness of being a father. Of course, he also had illegitimate children, but none of them were as good as Xi Ruoling. Peng Yuan didn't care what kind of person her husband was. Anyway, she had an excellent son.
Xi Ruoling grew up in such an environment, with a strict but extremely serious mother, a philandering father who was always thinking about having affairs, and a bunch of relatives who were waiting to suck his blood, including mistresses and their children.
It can be said that except for his own mother, everyone is waiting for Xi Ruoling to fail, waiting for him to fall from heaven to hell, waiting to peel off his skin and eat his flesh and blood.
He had long been accustomed to appearing in public with a mask, and over time, he could no longer see himself clearly.
Xi Ruoling sat next to Xi Mo. After greeting Xi Ruoling, Xi Mo continued to look at her phone. It turned out that the little kitten was still a healing thing.
While other people of their age were chatting and talking, the two of them didn't make a sound. Although there was no communication, the atmosphere was still good.
Xi Ruoling was the first to bring up the topic, "My mother said that she would have dinner with your family tomorrow and asked me to dress up a little."
Xi Mo raised her head from the photo of Moli. Ruan Wenwen had not told her about this, maybe she hadn't told her yet. But why would Xi Ruoling tell her this? So she looked at Xi Ruoling, waiting for him to say the next word.
Xi Ruoling blinked innocently, "I've finished speaking."
"Okay, I get it." Xi Mo paused for a moment, "I'll dress more formally too."
Xi Mo looked at her phone again after she finished speaking, then thought, Xi Ruoling was already talking to her, so it would be impolite for her to ignore him, so she suggested: "Do you want to see the kitten?"
"Kitten?"
"Yes, a little kitty, a tabby cat, named Moli."
Xi Ruoling knew that the kitten was definitely not raised by Xi Mo, because Ruan Wenwen was allergic to cat hair. Even he knew this, so Xi Mo couldn't have been unaware of it.
Sure enough, the photos were all sent to Xi Mo by Xiu Yangui.
Xi Ruoling followed Xi Mo and looked at the kitten for a while. "Is this the cat that Xiu Yangui raised?"
"right."
Xi Ruoling hid the surprise in his eyes. Didn't Xiu Yangui usually not have a close relationship with girls? Why was he so intimate with Xi Mo?
Although Xiu Yangui seems to be fickle and talks in a smooth-talking way with girls, there is a truly romantic and passionate man in his family, so Xi Ruoling can still feel that Xiu Yangui is not as frivolous as he seems.
"You have a good relationship with him."
Xi Mo nodded affirmatively, "Yes, we have a good relationship."
Xi Mo admitted it openly and with a frank expression, without any shyness or embarrassment. It was probably that Xi Ruoling couldn't tell what kind of good relationship this "good relationship" meant.
Before they could finish looking through the photos and videos of the kitten, some people came to talk to Xi Ruoling. In order not to disturb Xi Mo, he stood up and walked back a few steps to leave Xi Mo a little space.
Xiu Yangui sent a message at this time.
【xiuyG: Have you finished reading it?】
【mol: I’ve finished watching it, and I want to watch more. 】
Xi Mo expressed her request, and Xiu Yangui would of course satisfy her, but not limited to photos and videos.
An idea came to mind.
【xiuyG: However, photos and videos take up a lot of phone memory. 】
[xiuyG: Moli is here right now. If you still want to watch, it would be more convenient to play video.]
That's right, he was trying to lure Xi Mo into having a video call with him. Based on his understanding of Xi Mo, Xi Mo would definitely follow her heart.
Good, he succeeded in the seduction.
【mol: I want to video chat, is it convenient for you? 】
【xiuyG: If you want, it’s not impossible. 】
Xi Mo walked out of the hall and went to the balcony. She clicked on the green icon and answered Xiu Yangui's video call. The picture captured Moli's small body. It was in selfie mode. Xiu Yangui was right behind it, with only his black sweatshirt showing.
"Moli."
Xi Mo called Moli on the other end of the phone. Little Moli recognized her voice and immediately raised her little head and turned around.
"fool."
A lazy, smiling voice came from the receiver, mixed with a slight electric current sound, refreshing and magnetic. Xiu Yangui held the little Moli's head and asked it to look at the phone screen, "Use your eyes to see, don't smell it."
The screen was occupied by Moli's little head and Xiu Yangui's fingers, which were slender and had distinct joints. Each nail was trimmed neatly and cleanly.
I don’t know if it’s because of the lighting or because he was cold, but Xiu Yangui’s fingertips are pink, just like Moli’s kitten paws.
Xi Mo suddenly asked, "Is the heating on?"
"It's on. Moli likes to crawl around everywhere. It has to be on. It's very noisy."
Xiu Yangui's fingers stroked Moli's chin again and again, and there was disgust in his words, but he actually loved her very much.
He was the one who called Moli stupid, and he was also the one who liked her so much.
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