Chapter 42: Heavy Rain is Coming (Part 3)
After Xia Beibei's mouth wound healed, Gao Bochuan gave her a day off.
"There is a dinner party at home tonight. Come home with me. I have prepared a gift. You have dark circles under your eyes. Have a good rest at home today."
Xia Beibei was sweating profusely, looking a little embarrassed, "Boss, isn't it too early to meet the parents now? Wouldn't it be inappropriate for me to appear at a dinner party?"
Seeing her refusal, Gao Bochuan stretched out his hand to pinch her face and raised his eyebrows and said, "Are you sure you don't want to go? Mo Tan is here tonight."
Mo Tan?
Xia Beibei paused for a moment, then quickly nodded and said, "Go, I'll go."
Although she didn't go home with Gao Bochuan for the purpose of meeting his parents, it was a big occasion after all, so Xia Beibei thought it would be better to be cautious. She called Lin Qi, who took her to the mall, the beauty salon, and the barber shop. After running for a whole morning, her legs were weak, and she felt more tired than running ten kilometers with a weight.
"Boss Bei, the boss is really quick. As soon as he got you, he found a way to bring you home to meet your parents. I didn't realize it before, but it turns out that the boss is the most scheming one in the team. He is really amazing."
Xia Beibei invited her to a big meal, and seeing that she couldn't stop eating, she stuffed a whole steak into her mouth and corrected her again:
"I'm mainly here to handle a case, not to meet his parents. The boss said Mo Tan came back temporarily and has to leave tomorrow. We can't just bring him back for questioning without any reason, so I must take this opportunity to meet him and get some information from him."
Lin Qi took the steak out of her mouth and scolded with a smile, "Since you can attend the boss's family dinner, then the relationship must be very good. There is no problem for the boss to ask Mo Tan out. He insisted on asking you to meet him at his home, so he must want to take you home."
Lin Qi's words kept popping up in Xia Beibei's mind, so much so that she was still uneasy when she followed Gao Bochuan to Gao's house in the evening.
Gao Bochuan helped her unbuckle her seat belt, pinched her chin and looked at her face, "What's wrong? You look absent-minded. Are you worried about something?"
Xia Beibei stared at him in a daze until Gao Bochuan rubbed her lips with his warm fingertips and then her face slowly turned red. "It's okay, I'm just a little nervous."
The atmosphere in the car was somewhat ambiguous. Xia Beibei looked at Gao Bochuan's face approaching her and scratched the seat nervously. Gao Bochuan's lips had just landed on hers when suddenly someone knocked on the car window a few times.
Xia Beibei shuddered all over and quickly pushed Gao Bochuan away. She sat up straight in panic and looked up. She saw two people through the windshield. She knew Maureen, but she didn't know the elegant and noble woman next to her.
After getting off the car, Gao Bochuan took her to the lady next to Maureen and said, "Mom, this is Beibei, my girlfriend."
Obviously, Gao Bochuan's mother didn't like her. She completely ignored Gao Bochuan's introduction and even patted Maureen's hand soothingly. She looked at Xia Beibei with disdain and disgust.
Xia Beibei always ignored these glances. She smiled with curved eyebrows and lips, and her attitude was absolutely respectful and polite. "Hello, Auntie."
Gao's mother didn't even look at her. She turned to look at Gao Bochuan and said, "Bochuan, your aunt Mo and uncle Mo are already waiting in the house. You should take Linlin in quickly. You two are the protagonists tonight."
After saying that, she pushed Maureen towards Gao Bochuan. Gao Bochuan took Xia Beibei's hand and dodged to the side, leaving Maureen empty-handed.
"Mom, there is one thing you need to understand. The reason I came back this time is because I wanted to bring my girlfriend to meet you. If it wasn't for Beibei, I wouldn't go home. So, if you reject her, you are just trying to drive me away. If you treat her well, our mother-son relationship will ease."
Xia Beibei looked up at his profile and felt a warm and peaceful feeling in her heart.
Perhaps Gao Bochuan's words frightened Gao's mother. In the following period, although Gao's mother still had a bad attitude towards Xia Beibei, she did not deliberately make things difficult for her.
The Gao family and the Mo family have been friends for generations. Tonight's dinner was arranged by the parents of both Gao and Mo families in order to bring Gao Bochuan and Mo Lin together. They planned to have the two get engaged first, but no one expected that Gao Bochuan would bring Xia Beibei with him.
"This is my girlfriend, Xia Beibei"
Gao Bochuan's words made the atmosphere in the living room fall into a terrible silence. Xia Beibei took the tea handed to her by Gao Bochuan. No one spoke, and she didn't say anything either. She drank the tea quietly and looked at the man on the single sofa opposite.
Gao Bochuan had just hinted to her that the man was Mo Tan.
The man was in his early thirties, with regular features and wearing a pair of light-colored glasses. He looked weak and delicate, but there was a scar about two centimeters long between his left eyebrow, which was a bit abrupt, but it added a bit of masculinity to his appearance. He wore black leather shoes, black trousers, and a white shirt with a slightly open collar and the cuffs rolled up to the middle of his arms.
When Xia Beibei was looking at him, he was also looking at Xia Beibei, as if he was curious and excited about his prey. He was not afraid of her gaze at all, and even when she looked at him, he took the initiative to look her in the eye.
Xia Beibei retracted her gaze, put down the cup in her hand, rubbed her eyes and patted her face, then looked up at Mo Tan again, her brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and then Gao Bochuan held her hand.
She was stunned, then realized that something was wrong with the atmosphere around her. She looked up and saw that everyone was looking at her. She felt a little embarrassed and was about to find an excuse when Maureen said with disdain:
"Xia Beibei, have you seen enough? Are you ashamed to seduce my brother in front of so many people?"
After saying that, he took Gao's mother's arm, looked at Gao's father and said, "Uncle, she usually likes to flirt with other people. She has a boyfriend, Zhou Xun, the son of Uncle Zhou. She is Zhou Xun's girlfriend."
When Zhou Xun was mentioned, everyone's faces changed. Father Gao then took a good look at Xia Beibei, then turned to look at Gao Bochuan.
"Is she really Zhou Xun's girlfriend?"
Gao Bochuan said: "No, she and Zhou Xun are good friends, Zhou Xun just uses her to ward off peach blossoms. Dad, can't you hear that Mo Lin is deliberately making trouble? Do you think I am a despicable person who steals someone else's girlfriend? If there is not even this little trust between father and son, I don't think there is any need for me to return to this family."
Gao's mother got anxious when she heard this, and quickly said, "Bochuan, your father didn't mean that. This... this isn't it? Your girlfriend has been staring at Xiaotan just now. Everyone misunderstood. Linlin didn't mean it."
Gao Bochuan pinched Xia Beibei's palm and said, "Beibei, why are you staring at him? Is he more handsome than me?"
Xia Beibei's eyes flickered, and she blinked innocently, "Of course he's not as handsome as you, but I've always heard from Maureen that her brother has a scar on his face and is so ugly that he hasn't found a wife yet, so I took a closer look at him."
After saying that, he looked at Mo Tan apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, your sister always says you're ugly, and I wondered how ugly you can be. In fact, it's just a scar, you don't have to feel inferior."
Mo Tan twitched his lips and said with a half-smile: "Really?"
Maureen was so angry that she threw the orange in her hand at her, "What nonsense are you talking about!"
Gao Bochuan put his arm around Xia Beibei's shoulders and leaned back slightly. The orange hit the sofa directly and bounced back. It was obvious that she used all her strength.
Gao Bochuan smashed the cup on the spot in anger. The two elders of the Mo family took Mo Lin away with gloomy faces. The dinner party ended before it even started. Gao's mother went upstairs angrily.
Father Gao, on the other hand, chatted with Xia Beibei for a few more words. He first asked some questions about Zhou Xun. After being frightened by Gao Bochuan's unhappy looks, he asked some simple questions and then went to the study.
In the living room, only Gao Bochuan, Xia Beibei and Mo Tan who was left behind by Gao Bochuan were left.
Gao Bochuan took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Mo Tan. Xia Beibei took out a lighter from her pocket and skillfully helped Gao Bochuan light the cigarette. Then she turned to look at Mo Tan and threw the lighter over to him.
Mo Tan lit a cigarette, looked at Xia Beibei, then looked at Gao Bochuan, and said with a half-smile:
"You never attend this kind of gathering. Why do I feel like today is a Hongmen Feast? Are you two here for me?"
Gao Bochuan took two puffs of his cigarette, looked at him through the smoke, and said with a smile:
"You're overthinking. It's true that your sister said that you're too ugly to get married. Our Beibei is too curious. When she heard that you were here today, I brought her over to see you."
He flicked the ash off his cigarette, changed his hand to hold the cigarette, crossed his legs, and casually placed one hand on the sofa behind Xia Beibei.
Mo Tan narrowed his eyes and reached out to touch the scar on his left eye. Xia Beibei looked carefully at his expression at the moment. He had his head half lowered, and it was not very clear in the white smoke, but one could still glimpse his hostility and hatred.
However, these emotions only flashed by, and when he raised his head again, he had returned to his previous cheerful and talkative state.
"Bochuan, since when do we have to be suspicious of each other when we chat?"
Gao Bochuan said: "Since the scar on your left eyebrow, our positions have been doomed to be unable to speak freely. Mo Tan, today I still ask the same question as five years ago: what exactly is your laboratory researching?"
Mo Tan lowered his head and smoked without saying a word. Gao Bochuan pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray on the coffee table and was about to get a cigarette from the cigarette box. Xia Beibei held his hand and took the cigarette away first.
"You've smoked five cigarettes today. You can't smoke anymore. Smoking too much is bad for your health."
After saying that, he threw the remaining half pack of cigarettes to Mo Tan. Both of them were stunned. Gao Bochuan put his arm around her shoulders, lowered his head and kissed her on the forehead, and said with a smile:
"If you don't like it, you can ask me to quit smoking"
Xia Beibei blushed, and before she could say anything, Mo Tan on the other side suddenly said, "Bochuan, can I talk to your girlfriend alone?"
Gao Bochuan went to the study, where tea was brewing on the coffee table. Mo Tan held a cigarette between the index and middle fingers of his left hand, and used his right hand to pour a cup of tea for Xia Beibei and another for himself.
"How did you find me?"
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