Chapter 326 Are you angry with me?
How could Mu Nanyan not see that Tang Yutong was avoiding him? She really wanted to have a good chat with Tang Yutong, but she never gave her the opportunity. It seemed that only by avoiding her could the two of them maintain superficial decency.
Mu Nanyan squatted down and gently smoothed the wrinkles on Chenchen's collar with her fingers. The fingertips felt the cool touch of the fabric:
"Godmother is very busy at work recently. Can we look for her when she's free?"
Chenchen pouted her lips, twisting the corner of her clothes with her fingers and muttering:
"You adults always say you're busy, but even if you're busy, you can't be too busy to answer a phone call."
He suddenly looked up, his big dark eyes staring directly at Mu Nanyan.
"Mommy, did you have a fight with godmother?"
Mu Nanyan's fingers paused slightly.
Whenever Chenchen said he wanted to video chat with his godmother, she would smile and immediately dial the number.
But now... she subconsciously looked away, but this subtle movement did not escape Chenchen's eyes.
Chenchen tilted his head and asked, confusion in his childish voice:
"Mommy? Godmother is so nice, why are you arguing with her?"
Mu Nanyan looked at her son's innocent eyes and her throat tightened a little.
Is this considered a quarrel between her and Tang Yutong?
Ever since that night when Tang Yutong mentioned Chu Ci while drunk, there seemed to be an invisible veil between them.
Every time they talked, they were polite and awkward. Tang Yutong never mentioned Chu Ci. She didn't dare to ask, for fear that mentioning Chu Ci would make Tang Yutong feel uncomfortable. She didn't know how they were doing now.
Mu Nanyan forced a smile and reached out to scratch the tip of Chenchen's nose.
"Don't make wild guesses, kid. Your godmother and I are getting along fine, why would we have a fight?"
She glanced at the time and then said to Chenchen:
"After dinner, let's video call our godmother, okay?"
"real?"
Chenchen's eyes lit up instantly, as if filled with stars.
"Of course it's true."
Mu Nanyan rubbed his little head.
Seeing Chenchen happily running back to the living room to continue building Lego, Mu Nanyan breathed a sigh of relief.
She turned and went back to the kitchen, and the sound of water running from the faucet covered up her sigh.
The soup in the pot was bubbling, and the steam blurred her vision.
She stirred the soup spoon mechanically, but her thoughts drifted away. Wait, will Yutong answer the call later?
Mu Nanyan took out her phone, found Tang Yutong's chat box, tapped her fingers on the screen, and quickly edited a message:
[Chenchen misses you and wants to video chat with you. Is it convenient? ]
Mu Nanyan looked at the message, hesitated for a long time, and finally clicked send.
The moment she pressed the send button, her heart skipped a beat.
The phone screen lit up and dimmed, dimmed and lit up again, but the familiar reply prompt never came.
The gurgling sound of the stewing soup and the roar of the range hood in the kitchen intertwined together, making the silence even more glaring.
"never mind……"
She whispered to herself and stuffed her phone back into her apron pocket. The sound of the spatula hitting the iron pan was particularly crisp, as if she was hiding something.
…
After dinner, when Mu Nanyan cleaned up the dishes and walked out of the kitchen, she saw Chenchen sitting on the edge of the sofa, with her two little feet dangling in the air.
Seeing this, Mu Nanyan was melted by Chenchen's cute look.
She smiled and walked towards Chenchen, rubbed his little head with her hand, and said softly:
"What are you doing sitting here? It's time to wash up and go to bed."
Chenchen was instantly displeased when he heard this. He turned around abruptly, his puffed-up face looking like an angry pufferfish:
"Mommy, you didn't keep your word! You clearly said you wanted to video chat with godmother! I've been waiting for you here for a long time, and you actually told me to go to bed!"
He hugged his arms angrily, and even the word "unhappy" was written on the back of his head.
Mu Nanyan burst out laughing. How come kids these days have such good memories? She thought Chenchen would forget it after a while, but she didn't expect him to still remember it.
Mu Nanyan was helpless. She couldn't say that she had just lied to him, right? She didn't want to leave a bad impression on Chenchen.
She had no choice but to take out her phone. It was at this moment that she discovered that Tang Yutong had actually replied to her message:
【convenient. 】
It was just two short words, but Mu Nanyan felt a surge of bitterness in her heart, like a tiny thorn gently piercing her heart.
She took a deep breath, and the video request ringtone rang in the quiet living room.
"Yeah! I'm going to video chat with my godmother!"
Chenchen immediately turned his anger into joy and jumped to her side like a happy little sparrow.
Mu Nanyan looked at her son's expectant face and suddenly felt her throat tighten. How should she face the person on the other side of the camera?
The moment the video was connected, Tang Yutong's face with a white mask on appeared on the phone screen, revealing only a pair of slightly red eyes.
Chenchen immediately leaned in front of the camera like a cheerful puppy, his nose almost touching the screen:
"Godmother!"
"I heard that a certain little greedy cat missed me?"
Tang Yutong's voice still carried the same intimacy as before, and her fingertips tapped on the other side of the screen, as if she wanted to poke Chenchen's forehead through the screen.
Mu Nanyan's tense shoulders relaxed slightly.
Chenchen gestured with his little hands in front of the screen and said with a hint of grievance:
"I miss you so much! Mommy said you're busy with work and I can't disturb you. I haven't seen you in a long time."
When Tang Yutong heard this, the corners of her mouth under the mask seemed to stiffen for a moment, but she quickly adjusted her tone and said with a smile:
"Then when Godmother is done with her work, I'll take you to Disneyland, okay?"
"Okay, godmother, you have to keep your word."
"Of course I keep my word. When has your godmother ever lied to you?"
"Then let's make a pinky promise!"
As Chenchen spoke, he had already stretched out his little finger, seriously preparing to pinky promise with Tang Yutong.
Tang Yutong smiled helplessly. A few wrinkles appeared on her mask. Seeing this, she quickly put on a serious face:
"Don't make me laugh, or my facial mask will be wasted."
As she spoke, she used her hands to reapply the mask, and then reached out and made a pinky promise with Chenchen.
The agreement was fulfilled, and Chenchen suddenly yawned loudly, with two sleepy tears squeezed out of the corners of his eyes:
"Godmother... I'm sleepy. I'm going to sleep. You can chat with Mommy..."
After Chenchen finished speaking, he jumped off the sofa and ran towards his bedroom without looking back, as if he was really sleepy at the moment and couldn't wait to go to sleep.
Mu Nanyan watched Chenchen leave with mixed feelings. He...left just like that? So he wasn't the one who had just been clamoring for a video?
Mu Nanyan and Tang Yutong stared at each other on the two ends of the phone. The atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment. Neither of them expected the situation to end up like this.
There was an eerie silence on both ends of the screen.
Tang Yutong's facial mask became the best mask, and Mu Nanyan was exposed.
She looked at the blurry familiar yet unfamiliar face in the video, her fingertips unconsciously stroking the edge of the phone.
In the end, she was annoyed by you breaking the silence:
"How are you doing lately? Is work going well?"
"Well, I just signed a few big deals."
Tang Yutong's voice sounded a little muffled through the mask.
After one question and one answer, the topic ended and the two people fell into awkwardness again.
My best friend, who used to be able to talk on the phone until dawn, can now hardly find a suitable topic to talk about.
Mu Nanyan looked at the pair of evasive eyes on the screen and suddenly felt a tightness in her chest.
She took a deep breath and spoke softly as if she was afraid of disturbing anything:
"Yutong...are you angry with me?"
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