As promised, Shen You went to find Xie Chenxiao to walk the dog, and also brought a box of toys for Xiaopingguo.

Looking at the box of toys, the little Border Collie wagged its tail excitedly and looked at Shen You with sparkling eyes.

Compared to the overjoyed Little Apple, the boy seemed less excited. He stared at the box of gifts with a gloomy look in his eyes: "It already has a lot of toys."

The little Border Collie seemed to understand what he said. It barked at him unhappily, moved closer to Shen You, and wagged its tail non-stop.

Like a magic trick, Shen You stretched out his hand from behind his back and handed him the horoscope blind box. "This is for you."

The young man was stunned for a moment, his eyes brightened, and he looked at her in surprise: "Is there still a share for me?"

Shen Youdian nodded: "Of course, I want to thank you for taking care of Xiaopingguo, and you also helped me yesterday!"

It turns out I just wanted to thank him.

Xie Chenxiao lowered his eyes and responded indifferently: "Oh."

First, they asked someone to move the box of gifts for Xiaopingguo to the apartment. Then the two of them walked the dog in the park. Neither of them spoke actively and they fell into silence for a while.

Shen You noticed his subtle emotions and looked at him thoughtfully for several times.

After a moment, the boy couldn't help but blurt out, "Just a thank you gift?"

Shen You was stunned: "Huh?"

Xie Chenxiao slowly turned his head and met her distinct black and white almond eyes, and saw his own figure in her clear eyes.

He pursed his lips, and felt that his disappointment came out of nowhere, and said in a muffled voice: "...It's nothing, just pretend I didn't say anything."

Since he took the initiative to speak, Shen You certainly couldn't really pretend that nothing happened.

She lowered her eyes and glanced at the blind box that he had held in his hand and had not opened. "You don't seem to like this gift very much."

The boy blinked and said subconsciously: "I don't dislike it."

Shen You said "Oh" in a long tone, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Don't you want to open it and take a look?"

She took the leash from Xie Chenxiao to make it easier for him to open the blind box.

Seeing that she seemed very expectant, Xie Chenxiao thought she was very curious about what was in the blind box. When he was about to open the box, he found that the box had been opened by someone. He paused and took out the Pop Mart.

"I wasn't very lucky with the blind boxes. I bought 20 before I got the Scorpio."

Listening to the girl's slightly frustrated voice, Xie Chenxiao's eyes fell on the little figurine.

The Scorpio figure has a pair of pure black eyes and a crescent moon hanging on its tail, but both its face and the hat on its head have unhappy expressions.

Shen You's gaze followed him and fell on the little figurine, and he couldn't help but mutter in his heart -

[This unhappy expression is exactly the same as Xie Chenxiao's current one.]

Hearing this, the boy's eyebrows relaxed and the corners of his lips curled up, "I like it very much."

He couldn't let go of the little moon on the tail of the figurine and asked with a raised lip, "So it was specially given to me?"

"Of course!"

Shen You looked at me with a look of "what nonsense are you talking about", shrugged his shoulders, and said helplessly: "Okay, I admit that what I said just now was just an excuse to give you a gift."

"Oh, I see." Xie Chenxiao's smile deepened. "No need to make excuses in the future. I will like any gift you give me."

Shen Youdian nodded: "Okay, okay."

The cell phone rang suddenly.

Xie Chenxiao lowered his eyes to glance at the incoming call notification and frowned subconsciously.

The two of them stood next to each other. Even though Shen You had no intention of spying, an unconscious glance allowed her to see the words displayed on the screen clearly.

【mom】

It was Xie Chenxiao’s mother calling.

The scene where Madam Feng and Zhang Lingwei ridiculed Xie Chenxiao with this incident flashed through his mind. Shen You couldn't help but frown and asked softly, "You... don't want to answer it?"

Xie Chenxiao showed a trace of confusion in his eyes, "I don't know."

"Then let's listen to what she wants to say," Shen You smiled, "It's just a phone call."

If he didn't want to answer the call at all, he could have just hung up the phone, but he didn't. Instead, he hesitated.

Shen You made up her mind that if the person on the other end of the phone said something ridiculous, she would snatch the phone from Xie Chenxiao unexpectedly and hang up the call as quickly as possible.

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Xie Chenxiao paused his fingertips on the answer button for a moment, answered the call, turned on the speakerphone, and placed the phone between the two of them with the screen facing up.

In this way, Shen You doesn't have to worry about how to grab the phone and hang up later.

After the call was connected, Xie Chenxiao remained silent, and the person on the other end spoke first.

"Chen Xiao, I'm your mother."

Xie Chenxiao pursed his lips, his voice sounded tense and indifferent: "What's the matter?"

"You... have you been okay lately? I heard that you got very good scores in the college entrance examination, but you did not apply to Imperial University as your father wished, and your major was not..."

Before she finished speaking, Xie Chenxiao sneered silently and interrupted her: "Yes, Ms. Cheng is here to teach me a lesson for him?"

Shen You saw that his hand holding the phone turned pale due to tightening so hard.

Ms. Cheng on the other end of the phone seemed a little reserved and quickly explained:

[No, no, no, that's not it. Why would I teach you a lesson on his behalf? I'm just worried that he'll get mad at you because of this. And he's got a new wife. What if he doesn't keep his promise and has a child with another woman? Then the inheritance rights...]

Xie Chenxiao sneered: "You are already divorced. Even if the inheritance rights are in my hands, it has nothing to do with you, right? Then what does it matter who he wants to give it to?"

Ms. Cheng's voice sounded a little depressed.

[Mom is worried that you will be bullied, not that she cares about the Xie family’s property.]

Listening to the conversation between the two, Shen You felt that Xie Chenxiao's mother seemed different from what she had imagined.

She thought she was a cold-hearted mother who ignored her own son.

Xie Chenxiao raised his eyes to look at her, opened his mouth, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"Do you have anything else to say?"

[Chenxiao, Mom knows you are on vacation, I wonder if you are free now? If possible, I would like to trouble you to pick up Junze from school and take him to your place to stay for a few days.]

Xie Junze is Xie Chenxiao's younger brother. He attends elementary school in a private aristocratic school and has holidays later than them.

Shen You subconsciously raised his eyes to look at Xie Chenxiao. As expected, after hearing Ms. Cheng reveal the real purpose of the call, the young man looked at him with sneer, "Why? Can't you take care of your own child?"

[I've been too busy lately and can't spare the time, and Junze always says he misses his brother, so... Chenxiao, I'm asking you to do this, okay? ]