Meanwhile, Shi Xi, who was still in the lounge, was restless.
It's too quiet.
A staff member knocked on the door, asking Hua Wenying to handle a problem.
Hua Wenying: "Please have a seat, I'll be back in a bit."
Shi Xi: "Okay."
Tao Boli: "I'll be waiting for you here."
Shi Xi: ?
After Hua Wenyin left, Shi Xi stared at Tao Boli.
Tao Boli noticed her gaze. "What's wrong?"
"You..." Shi Xi carefully chose her words, "...do you want to be my stepfather?"
Not a single euphemistic word was chosen.
Tao Boli asked nervously, "Why do you say that?"
“Your eyes haven’t left my mother since you came in,” Shi Xi said, peeling an orange with a wary look in her eyes.
"Is it that obvious?" Tao Boli pondered.
It seemed that he hadn't looked away from Hua Wenying since he first saw her.
“You’ve known each other for a long time, could it be—” Shi Xi thought of a possibility.
Tao Boli's heart jumped.
He didn't tell Shi Xi.
Shi Xi figured all of this out herself!
Shi Xi guessed, "Could it be that you had a crush on my mother back then, and were so heartbroken after she got married that you left home to study abroad? Now that you see her alone, you want to pursue her again?"
Tao Boli: ...
Except for one small error in the middle, everything else is correct.
Tao Boli ignored Shi Xi's guess and asked, "Do you think I'm not good enough for her?"
Shi Xi leaned back on the sofa, eating an orange, and pondered, "It depends on her own thoughts. I neither agree nor disagree; I remain neutral."
Tao Boli: ...That unlucky kid!
But considering she's his own daughter, he had no choice but to accept it.
When Hua Wenying returned, she brought Shi Xi coffee. "I'll be here in a few minutes, sweetie. I'll take you out for a big meal later."
Shi Xi nodded obediently, "Okay~"
Hua Wenying patted Shi Xi on the head, took the design template, and went out again.
He didn't look at Tao Boli even once throughout the entire process.
I didn't even bring him a cup of coffee.
Shi Xi took the coffee and handed it to him, saying, "You drink it, I don't want any."
"No need, I'll just eat oranges." Tao Boli said dejectedly.
It's so hard to win back a wife.
There wasn't even a cup of coffee.
Shi Xi suggested, "You should try to win her over with your sincerity."
Tao Boli sighed.
Shi Xi has even messed up her own love life, so she can't offer any constructive advice to others and can only silently drink coffee.
I sat for a while.
Tao Boli suddenly tried to get closer to her, saying, "Xixi, what do you think of me?"
Shi Xi: ?
Offering unsolicited favors.
"What do you want me to do?" Shi Xi asked warily, clutching her coffee.
"Let's go eat together later. After we finish eating, can you go back first? I'll take her home." Tao Boli just wanted some time alone with her.
"That's not a problem," Shi Xi said hesitantly and cautiously, "but, what if, I mean, what if, my mother doesn't invite you to dinner?"
Tao Boli: ...That's highly likely.
Hua Wenying came in to deliver coffee, but he didn't get any.
Not to mention eating!
“If I stay with you, she won’t kick me out, will she?” Tao Boli thought about the scenario.
Shi Xi: "Maybe."
Tao Boli: "My treat!"
Hua Wenying came in from outside and heard that Tao Boli was going to treat everyone. She smiled and said, "Since you said you'd treat everyone, let's go."
Tao Boli happily put down the oranges.
Shi Xi was stunned for a moment.
What happened?
Is she going to have a stepfather?
No way!
Wait for me!
Goodnight~
(End of this chapter)
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