"Alright, I'll feed you." There was really no way to deal with him, so Bai Xiaoruo had to pick up the white rice from the plate, put some vegetables in the bowl with her chopsticks, and feed Xian Mingyu bite by bite.
He was probably really hungry, because he ate very quickly, his eyes fixed on the bowl of rice in Bai Xiaoruo's hand, as if he thought she was feeding him too slowly.
Seeing that he was getting tired of kneeling to eat, Bai Xiaoru couldn't help but say, "Grandpa and Grandma aren't here, so don't kneel, just sit down."
Hsien Mingyu swallowed the food in his mouth and replied, "These are the Hsien family rules, rules passed down from our ancestors. They can't be disobeyed just because someone is present."
Such punishment is too lenient.
Although her grandparents doted on her from a young age, she wasn't their only precious child.
When he was a child, whenever he did something wrong, he was forced to kneel down. His grandfather would order someone to bring a rattan cane and whip him hard on his tender back. Even now, there are still faint scars. However, he never exposed his back to Bai Xiaoruo, so she didn't know.
Since then, Hsien Ming-yu has rarely made any mistakes, but the devilish training he received as the heir continued to increase day by day. He trained his physical strength and fought, and every day he was covered in bruises. He had to memorize all the thick stacks of documents, as well as the Hsien family's rules and principles. If he made the slightest mistake, he would be whipped with a rattan cane.
Gradually, he began to isolate himself, no longer willing to try to please others, and rarely showing his true self to outsiders. He believed that he lived in the deepest darkness.
Unlike other children, who are always loved by their parents and have a happy family of three...
When Xian Mingyu was a child, every time he was taken back to Xian Shaodong and Fang Peiru's side, apart from his father occasionally praising him and hugging him, his mother was afraid that people would know she was a woman who had given birth. She was unwilling to acknowledge him, distanced herself from him, and never hugged him, coaxed him to sleep, or even bathed him once. The only thing she said to him most often was to teach him to always be aware of his identity, what kind of people to associate with, what kind of wife he should look for when he grew up, that his grades should always be better than everyone else's, and that he should never play with inferior people...
In the past, it was Su Yulu's appearance that opened his heart, which had been closed for many years. After she left, his heart closed again, and he was no longer willing to accept anyone around him.
Now, Bai Xiaoruo's unexpected appearance is like a small, inconspicuous pebble, constantly knocking on the door of his heart. Sometimes he wants to open the door and embrace her, to carefully cherish her, but other times, he is too afraid of losing her, afraid of betrayal, so he closes the tiny crack in his heart again, avoiding her, choosing to hurt her time and time again...
The mistake made this time was exactly what Xian Zhengsen feared most. For a hundred years, every descendant of the Xian family, regardless of gender, has practiced monogamy. They must be good men who love their wives and good wives who take care of their husbands. There has never been a precedent for divorce. No stain or gossip can tarnish the Xian family's reputation built up over the past hundred years.
However, Hsien Ming-yu deliberately allowed the media to expose his whereabouts with those women. Although Hsien Cheng-sen immediately had someone spend a lot of money to monopolize the market and erase all topics related to him, the mistake he made was a fact, so he had to be punished.
Bai Xiaoru pouted, "If that's the case... then why do you still break the family rules?"
He remained silent and did not answer her.
Bai Xiaoruo stopped pressing the question, put some meat in his rice bowl, and continued feeding him.
Seeing him eating so heartily, Bai Xiaoruo felt a little hungry herself, even though she had just eaten a full meal not long ago.
"Is it good?" she couldn't help but ask him.
Xuan Mingyu looked up at her and saw that Bai Xiaoruo pursed her lips and stared at the food in his bowl.
"Try it."
With his permission, Bai Xiaoruo, almost miraculously, used the chopsticks he had used to pick up a piece of meat from the bowl and put it in her mouth.
"Mmm! This meat smells so good and is so tender, it's delicious!"
There were so many dishes during dinner that she was full after just a few, and the meat was placed far away, so she didn't notice it at all.
If I had known this meat was so delicious, I would have eaten more.
Bai Xiaoru ate one piece, then picked up another piece with her chopsticks and put it in her mouth.
She ate with relish, having completely forgotten about feeding Xian Mingyu.
"Bai Xiaoruo".
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
Just as she picked up the next piece of meat, Xuan Mingyu suddenly called her name. She looked up at him with a blank expression.
"This is my food."
She was so focused on eating that she completely ignored him; he wasn't even full yet.
"Ah? This..." Bai Xiaoruo quickly put down her chopsticks. "Oh, I'm so sorry, I forgot..."
Good heavens, how did I become addicted to it?
These chopsticks were just used to feed him, and now she's just picking up meat and eating it directly. Does that mean they're sharing a pair of chopsticks now?
She even licked the meat sauce off her chopsticks while she was eating, and now they're covered in her saliva...
"Then I'll go get you a clean pair of chopsticks." She had just stood up to get the chopsticks when Xuan Mingyu grabbed her wrist. "Come back... I don't mind your saliva. Why didn't you run away so fast when we kissed?"
"I...I..." His words left Bai Xiaoru speechless.
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