Chapter 582 You Take Me Home, She Knows
The wind was strong at night, and it had rained even though it was early autumn, making the night a little chilly.
Xia Ningxi shivered as she held a cup of hot water and gulped it down several times before she felt a little warmer.
Huo Nanxiao noticed her unusual behavior, took off his coat and draped it over her shoulders, reminding her, "It's getting chilly, wear an extra layer tonight."
Xia Ningxi looked at the coat on her shoulder and said softly, "Thank you."
"Don't you have anything to say to me?" Huo Nanxiao asked her.
Xia Ningxi asked, puzzled, "What do I need to tell you?"
"Why are you out so late? Don't you know it's dangerous to be out alone in the middle of the night? You were lucky this time, but you might not be so lucky next time." Huo Nanxiao's cold face was very serious.
Xia Ningxi said, "I understand, I'll be more careful in the future."
"Weren't you very close to Li Yancheng? Why didn't he come to find you after such a big incident?" Huo Nanxiao asked, dissatisfied.
Xia Ningxi tilted her head to look at him: "Are you alright?"
"Did I say something wrong?" Huo Nanxiao scoffed.
The skewers in Xia Ningxi's hand suddenly lost their appeal. She put them on her plate and looked Huo Nanxiao up and down seriously: "You're not going home so late? Are you just here eating street food with me to mock me? Why don't you go back and spend your time with your Xia Wanwan? She's so weak and pitiful and needs your company the most."
"Answer my question, don't change the subject."
The man was very dissatisfied.
Xia Ningxi rolled her eyes at him, wondering where this guy got the confidence to think that Xia Ningxi would answer his question.
She lowered her head, picked up a roasted chicken leg, and silently began to eat it, without saying another word.
Xia Ningxi ordered a lot of late-night snacks; she was really ruthless and ate an enormous amount.
Huo Nanxiao also noticed that Xia Ningxi had eaten quite a lot, so he pushed all the skewers in front of him to Xia Ningxi and let her eat them.
The two fell into an endless silence.
They were sitting at the same table, yet they looked like two complete strangers.
The proprietress noticed this too and nudged the old man next to her: "That couple seems to be arguing."
The old man said, "These young people just don't know how to be considerate of each other. They're not as nice as us. Go give them a balloon and tell them to stop arguing."
The proprietress smiled and actually brought over a heart-shaped balloon, saying to Huo Nanxiao with a smile, "Sir, everyone who dines here today gets a free balloon. This one is for you."
"I don't need it, thank you," Huo Nanxiao refused.
The proprietress smiled and said, "If you don't need it, doesn't your wife need it too?"
"I'm not his wife, thank you, and I don't need it," Xia Ningxi said politely.
The proprietress said, "You're not giving me any face. I don't care if you want it or not. Once you've given it away, just keep it!"
After saying that, she shoved the balloon into Huo Nanxiao's arms and walked away without looking back. Her back looked angry, as if she was about to hit someone at any moment.
Huo Nanxiao had never encountered anything like this before. Suddenly, someone stuffed a balloon into his arms. He was speechless. There were so many customers around, but he hadn't seen other tables receiving balloons either. He guessed the proprietress's intention and handed the balloon to Xia Ningxi: "Here you go."
"I don't want to," Xia Ningxi refused.
Huo Nanxiao: "Do you think it looks good for a grown man like me to hold a pink heart-shaped balloon?"
"Since it's a gift for you, then take it." Xia Ningxi continued eating.
Huo Nanxiao said, "You can't tell that the landlady deliberately put this in my hand, can you?"
She paused for a moment, glanced at the proprietress not far away, and saw that she was looking at them expectantly. She suddenly realized what was going on.
Although Xia Ningxi appears cold on the outside, she is a very warm-hearted person and cannot bear to let others down, so she accepted the balloon from Huo Nanxiao.
She didn't argue with Huo Nanxiao anymore. After she finished eating and drinking, she called the proprietress to pay the bill, and they even gave her a discount.
As she was leaving, the proprietress smiled and said, "Young lady, don't be angry. Couples should be considerate of each other. Just give him a way out and let him take it. Don't be so hard on yourself."
"I understand, thank you for reminding me." Xia Ningxi remained polite.
After leaving the barbecue restaurant and getting into Huo Nanxiao's car, Xia Ningxi fastened her seatbelt and fell asleep immediately.
Huo Nanxiao glanced at her, asked nothing, and drove back to Lan Courtyard.
"We're home, get out of the car." Huo Nanxiao reminded him only after they arrived at his door.
Xia Ningxi opened her tired eyes, opened the car door and prepared to get out, but when she saw the magnificent villa in front of her, she was stunned for two seconds, and her hand froze on the car door.
"Weren't you going to my house? Why did you drive here?"
Huo Nanxiao: "You didn't say."
Xia Ningxi felt like vomiting blood. From the very beginning, she just wanted to go home, okay?
This guy clearly knows that she has been living in a rented house with the children all this time. Sending her back is naturally to her own home. Why would he bring her to his house?
Xia Ningxi was at a loss for words. She stared at Huo Nanxiao with a dark and menacing expression, her dissatisfaction obvious.
“It’s almost dawn. If you go upstairs to take a shower now, you can get a few more hours of sleep. You can’t get a taxi here. If you walk down the mountain and then take a taxi back, it will be dawn by then. It’s up to you whether you stay here for the night or rush back overnight.”
After leaving a message, the man got out of the car, showing no intention of taking Xia Ningxi home, let alone lending her a car to drive back.
If Xia Ningxi remembered correctly, there were twenty commercial vehicles in Lanyuan's garage alone, not including other sports cars and SUVs.
When did this guy become so stingy? He can't even afford to pay for gas?
Suppressing the fire in her heart, Xia Ningxi asked, "You brought me home in the middle of the night, does Xia Wanwan know?"
"You live with me, and Li Yancheng knows that too?" Huo Nanxiao asked back.
Xia Ningxi snorted coldly: "I can't compare to you. You held such a grand engagement banquet for Xia Wanwan. Even if Li Yancheng finds out, it won't have any impact. On the contrary, your weak and helpless fiancée would cry, make a scene, and even threaten suicide if she knew we were living together."
The man stopped, turned around, and stared intently at Xia Ningxi's face, saying each word carefully, "You know Wanwan isn't that kind of person, so why say such derogatory things?"
"Doesn't she have one?" Xia Ningxi retorted.
Huo Nanxiao said, "My engagement to Wanwan was just an agreement. She was in poor health and in a difficult situation. She needed a noble status to live with dignity."
"Why bother telling me all this? I don't care." Xia Ningxi walked past him, indifferent like an outsider. She didn't want to listen to Huo Nanxiao's words at all; they meant nothing to her.
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