Chapter 14

Huo Yuyan was stunned for a moment. This was unexpected. He didn't know why she suddenly became so approachable.

The person who caught up with them quickly added Shen Yuntang's contact information, put away his phone, breathed a sigh of relief, and said to them with a smile: "Goodbye."

She was in a hurry to get back to the hall to mock Shen Yunhe, and then share today's gossip with her sisters.

Shen Yuntang nodded slightly without any expression.

When they were the only two people left, the lights of the Golden Night Banquet hung down from the sky, the fountain was still spraying high and low, and the surroundings were extremely quiet.

Seeing that Shen Yuntang had already walked towards the garage before him, Huo Yuyan turned around and followed her in small steps, only slowing down when he walked behind her.

Not long after he walked out, he suddenly heard Shen Yuntang say, "Good performance."

Huo Yuyan paused, thinking he had heard wrongly.

When he lowered his head and wanted to carefully observe Shen Yuntang's expression to determine whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, he only saw Shen Yuntang yawning with his hands covering his lips.

Then she stood still.

Shen Yuntang raised his chin and said to him, "I'm so sleepy, run faster."

Huo Yuyan: “……?”

"Go get the car over here, I don't want to leave."

“…”

"Run faster!"

"...Okay, okay, Miss Shen."

Huo Yuyan glanced at her, frowned, looked away, smoothed his shirt cuffs speechlessly, and ran towards the garage.

After a while, a car drove out of the darkness.

He put on a fake but polite smile, leaned over to open the passenger door, put on a full show, and said to the girl on the street:

"Driver Huo Yuyan is dedicated to serving Miss Shen."

Shen Yuntang sneered, not sure if he was mocking him.

The car drove away from Liujin Yeyan and went onto the elevated road. When they returned to Huo's house, it was just past nine o'clock. Huo Yuyan parked the car, pulled the handbrake, and was about to unfasten the seat belt when he suddenly found that the person next to him was motionless.

He paused and turned his head away.

Shen Yuntang fell asleep.

He was a little speechless for a moment.

Are you that sleepy already?

…

"Miss Shen said she has to go to bed at eight o'clock and no lights are allowed in the house."

Butler Li's words that day suddenly rang in his mind. Huo Yuyan calmed down and looked at the time again, only to find that it was already past the time when "Shen Yuntang should go to bed."

…

He tapped the steering wheel with his hand, suddenly feeling a little uncomfortable.

So she really wants to go to bed at eight o'clock?

Then he must have woken her up twice on purpose.

Before the delicate mood fermented, Huo Yuyan calmed down, and then calmed down again, and uncomfortably took the coat from the car.

After hesitating for a while, he finally moved his hand and carefully placed it on Shen Yuntang.

Shen Yuntang didn't even open his eyes: "Take it away."

The voice was blunt and cold, and the disdain was evident in the words.

Huo Yuyan stopped moving suddenly: "..."

He was quiet for a while and found that Shen Yuntang still had his eyes closed, as if he was still sleeping.

He became even more silent.

She was so disgusted with him even when she was not sober. How much she disliked him was written in her bones!

Huo Yuyan took the coat back, paused, and put it on himself.

Just as he put on his coat, Shen Yuntang seemed to slip and fell on his shoulder with a "thump".

Huo Yuyan stopped immediately.

He was completely quiet for a few breaths before lowering his voice and asking tentatively, "Shen Yuntang?"

She slapped him and muttered, "Stop it."

Huo Yuyan was just fixing his collar, but now he was holding the collar of his coat, unable to move, and was hit by Shen Yuntang.

He was silent for a while, trying his best to ignore the stiffness in his right shoulder and arm, and said to himself: "You make me very embarrassed."

"Although we are husband and wife, it's not very appropriate to do this outside."

In the end, it even became a soliloquy: "Do you know where you are lying?"

“Is this what a couple should do?”

"Will you shut up?"

Huo Yuyan fell silent, blinked quickly, his movements were not very smooth, and even a little flickering, he lowered his eyes to look, he didn't know when Shen Yuntang had opened his eyes.

After being woken up, those beautiful eyes emitted a light that seemed capable of killing people in the dark.

Huo Yuyan paused for a while before he recovered. He raised his eyes slowly and calmly, adjusted his collar, and said coldly:

"OK."

Shen Yuntang sat up, smoothed his messy hair with his fingers, unbuckled his seat belt, pushed the door open with a sour face and got out of the car.

Huo Yuyan waited for a while before following him down.

Miss Shen, who had a bad temper, walked to the door with thumps, pressed the password, opened the door, and slammed it shut.

——Don’t mess with a woman who is grumpy when she wakes up.

Huo Yuyan advised himself this three times before he went forward to open the door.

Shen Yuntang was taking off her shoes in the entrance hall, and even the action of taking off her shoes revealed her extreme impatience and even irritability. From the price of the pair of shoes she took off and threw aside, it was clear how bad her mood had deteriorated.

Butler Li, wearing a night cap and old-fashioned pajamas, appeared in the living room in a panic. He put on his glasses in a hurry, holding the legs of the glasses with both hands and trying to look. He opened his eyes half-consciously and asked, "Miss Shen? Are you back?"

Shen Yuntang took off his other shoe and walked upstairs in slippers.

Butler Li suddenly woke up from his confusion, staring at her back with his mouth open. When he heard the second sound of the door closing, he turned around and saw Huo Yuyan.

The butler's dull and hesitant face showed a question like "Could it be...?"

Huo Yuyan's expression answered him, "That's exactly it—"

After the two exchanged looks, another pair of footsteps were heard on the stairs.

Huo Xihuai walked down the stairs and stopped.

Ever since hearing Huo Yuyan and Shen Yuntang leaving in a rage, Huo Xihuai's heart has been restless.

He was always worried that something terrible might happen when they went out, especially after today's incident of unrequited love, Huo Xihuai's heart was in his throat.

He had been distractedly listening to the noise downstairs. As soon as he heard the sound downstairs, he quickly stood up and ran downstairs quickly.

Now he was frozen on the stairs in a dilemma.

In front of him was Shen Yuntang, who looked extremely bad, and downstairs were the dazed housekeeper and Huo Yuyan, who was at a loss for words.

And he was still wearing that bright orange outfit, and for a moment his presence reached its peak, making him feel hot all over.

The Huo residence was quiet for a while.

He opened his mouth, but could only whisper: "Miss Shen..."

Shen Yuntang was stopped by him and paused.

She raised her eyes to look at the little boy, and suddenly remembered something, and said, "I brought you a cell phone. Replace the one that talks too much. It's so noisy."

Huo Xihuai was in a daze when he heard her shout in an unpleasant tone, "Huo Yuyan, give him the phone."

After saying this, she walked past him and went upstairs.

Huo Yuyan was stunned for a long time before he remembered the high-tech mobile phone he had snatched from Song Chengguang. He took it out of his pocket and was stunned.

He seemed to have never noticed what kind of mobile phone Huo Xihuai used.

It was at this moment that he noticed that Huo Xihuai was wearing very eye-catching clothes today. He was completely different from the gray-faced child he had seen before, and he almost didn't recognize him.

It turns out that if he dresses up, he is not a taciturn person anymore.

Huo Yuyan was silent for a moment before going upstairs and handing him the phone. He paused again and said, "Have someone go get you a new card."

As if he had just noticed that Huo Xihuai also had these needs, he continued, "Apply for a few new bank cards. Is your ID card expired? Ask Grandpa Li to take you to get a new one. You've grown up now."

He murmured, his voice becoming softer and softer, as if he was feeling a little emotional.

Huo Yuyan pressed his shoulder and said softly, "Buy a few more of these clothes. It's good for teenagers to be more lively."

Huo Xihuai, who had been staring at his phone in silence and daze, finally came to his senses briefly.

He subconsciously refused: "Miss Shen took me to buy it..."

Huo Yuyan was stunned.

"Did she take you shopping?" he asked uncertainly.

After seeing Huo Xihuai nodded slightly with some hesitation, Huo Yuyan remembered Shen Yuntang's voice on the phone and didn't know what to say.

All brightly colored ones are bought, and he wears whatever color of the rainbow.

…

This is really Shen Yuntang's style.

Huo Xihuai saw Huo Yuyan smile for some unknown reason and said in a low voice.

"She's pretty amazing."

After a moment of silence, Huo Xihuai slowly relaxed. The muscles in his hand holding the phone were no longer stiff, and he nodded very lightly.

When he returned to the room, the lights outside were off. He sat down at the table, turned on the desk lamp, and carefully turned on his cell phone.

The screen flickered and he connected to the network.

The first thing I did was to search for a set of the latest questions from the National Chemistry Competition, copy them down and do them again.

In the silence, the rustling sound continued until midnight.

After finishing and checking the answers, Huo Xihuai paused and did the next set without saying a word.

In the end, he wrote twenty full pages in his exercise book.

When it was almost dawn, he fell asleep on the table without realizing it.

When he woke up, it was already bright outside. Huo Xihuai sat up and continued to finish the last few questions.

After he finished writing, he looked at the time. It was already past eight o'clock. Butler Li should be waiting for him to have breakfast.

Huo Xihuai pushed the chair away, stood up, opened the door and walked out.

When I pushed the door open, I ran into Shen Yuntang.

Shen Yuntang was standing in the reception room, casually instructing them to clean and decorate. The servants were busy, one was moving flower pots, another was moving fake trees, a group was using ladders to pull decorative ribbons, a group was changing light bulbs and curtains. Butler Li rolled away the light camel-colored carpet on the floor of the living room.

Huo Xihuai paused, blinked, and almost thought he had moved.

The previously retro and low-key Huo's house suddenly became bright in color in the blink of an eye.

Their busyness ended when they finally pulled in the white couch.

Shen Yuntang finally nodded, expressing his satisfaction: "Not bad."

As everyone was flattered, she turned around and noticed Huo Xihuai.

Her eyes slid from Huo Xihuai's face to his clothes, and her eyebrows slightly raised.

Being stared at by her, Huo Xihuai slowly began to feel nervous, and his hand silently reached for the hem of his clothes.

"Playing on your phone all night?"

Shen Yuntang had an expression that said, "As expected, kids nowadays have no self-control." He pointed to the bathroom with his chin and said, "Go take a shower. There will be guests coming soon."

Huo Xihuai nodded dully after a moment.

When he entered the bathroom, he saw in the mirror that there were red marks on his face from the pillow. The marks had not yet faded away and were particularly conspicuous against his fair skin.

The clothes were still from yesterday and were wrinkled.

He suddenly felt embarrassed for a moment, and quickly took off his clothes from over his head. With his hair slightly messed up by the clothes, he pulled out his sleeves and started to take a shower.

Huo Xihuai took this bath for ten minutes longer than usual.

He dried his hair carefully, put on a towel, changed into new clothes and walked out. It was already very lively downstairs; probably the guests had arrived.

Huo Xihuai didn't even look downstairs. He stuffed the dirty clothes into the washing machine and waited quietly. When the time was up, he hung the clothes and returned to the bedroom.

He sat at the table, stunned for a while, and then continued to work on the next set of questions.

However, before he could finish, there was a knock on the door.

Huo Xihuai put down his pen, stood up and opened the door. The housekeeper outside said to him, "Xiao Huai, Miss Shen wants you to go down."

He paused and was about to ask what was wrong, but then he remembered that when there were guests at home, his mother would ask him and his stepbrother to go out and entertain them.

It’s just that one was sitting on the sofa chatting and laughing, while the other was peeling fruit and serving tea and water.

He didn't feel anything else, so he nodded, closed the door, and went downstairs with the housekeeper.

It was really lively downstairs.

A dozen ladies were sitting at the long table in the garden chatting and laughing. They were a little too polite because they were not familiar with the host. Compared with them, Shen Yuntang seemed to be very comfortable and at ease in this occasion. He introduced the garden he designed and had just begun to take shape with ease, his face was calm and confident.

She never lacks confidence.

Shen Yuntang raised his eyes and saw Huo Xihuai, and waved, "Come here."

Huo Xihuai stopped and started walking again.

He was ready to massage Shen Yuntang's shoulders and legs. This was his duty.

After Shen Yuntang called him, he withdrew his gaze and continued chatting with the ladies.

When Huo Xihuai approached, he heard her say, "This is my first time raising a child, so I don't know much about it. How can I make him fall in love with school?"

Huo Xihuai paused: "..."

When talking about this, the ladies who had been restrained just now finally perked up and started talking at once.

"My son also didn't like to learn, which made me very anxious. Later, my husband and I found out that he liked motorcycles, so we told him that we would buy him a full set of equipment if he could get into Shanghai Middle School. Only then did he become motivated."

"My daughter is the same. She spent hundreds of thousands of dollars chasing stars every day. Later, I asked someone to find the star and asked him to have a meal with my daughter and encourage her in person. Now she is burning her life in the struggle."

"Oh, the one in my family has always been very strict. He goes to a good school, has a high GPA, and has a little bit of expertise. But he's afraid that he'll be too stressed out and have health problems before he even goes to college..."

Huo Xihuai bit her tongue and wanted to say that she thought differently from them. She just wanted to rush him out so that she wouldn't have to worry about him.

But the ladies were discussing the matter animatedly, as if they were experienced people who were opening their hearts to Shen Yuntang.

Shen Yuntang supported his chin and nodded slightly, as if he had heard it, but also as if he hadn't.

After noticing Huo Xihuai approaching her, she pointed to the stool beside her and said, "Sit down and listen. Learn well."

He was silent.

The ladies were discussing until noon when someone else came outside the door, and Butler Li went to open the door to welcome him in.

The people in the garden stopped talking, looked toward the door, and said, "Ah, she's here."

Huo Xihuai raised his head and glanced towards the entrance.

But he couldn't take back this look.

A girl with round eyes and an oval face wearing a fluffy skirt came in with a furry bag on her back. Seeing that everyone in the garden was gathered together, she couldn't help but pause for a moment, feeling a little overwhelmed. She said carefully and apologetically:

"Is everyone here? I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. I brought some homemade cookies to make amends."

Among a group of noble ladies dressed in high-end and luxurious styles, this girl dressed in soft and youthful clothes seemed so simple that she was out of place.

Huo Xihuai stared at her closely, motionless, with a chill in his heart.

…

The woman is here.

Wen Yanyan.