Every cold night goes well with hot pot. The soup base in the copper pot is bubbling, and the rising white steam makes the space around the dining table warm and cozy. Jiang Sinian's cold-toned apartment also unconsciously takes on some human touch.
Xu Nuo was staring intently at the surging slices of meat in front of him, like a puppy staring at a bone, waiting for the right opportunity to take the bone back to his nest.
"It's cooked, eat it."
His chopsticks darted into the pot, picking up a slice of beef. Xu Nuo then rolled it in sesame paste and put it into his mouth. As the heat spread, his pale face flushed, looking rosy.
“Mmm…Mmm! Great! Great!”
Jiang Sinian's eyes were incredibly soft, and the fatigue from dealing with affairs in recent days seemed to have evaporated away with the steam. "Don't burn yourself, eat slowly."
Xu Nuo buried his head in the bowl and nodded perfunctorily, obviously not intending to listen. Jiang Sinian sighed helplessly, took out all the cooked meat from the pot and put it in the empty bowl next to him to cool.
"Do you like hot pot so much?"
"Of course..." Xu Nuo sat closer to him, rubbing his shoulder against his arm. "Before I ran away from home, I had to save money. Then I went on a mission with 666, and there were many small worlds where I couldn't eat hot pot..."
Jiang Sinian picked up another piece of food with chopsticks and put it into his bowl. Although Xu Nuo kept trying to stuff it into his mouth, the food in the bowl still piled up like a small mountain at an astonishing speed.
"Okay, okay," Xu Nuo turned sideways to block the bowl and prevent him from taking food from it. Jiang Sinian probably started to feel that he owed him again and wanted to make up for it frantically.
"By the way...how did you get into the book? Is there a system there?"
Jiang Sinian was putting vegetables into the pot, and he didn't stop when he heard this. "My father suddenly fell ill and passed away when I was just starting college. He was the one who controlled Jiang Group. At that time, the entire group was like a headless fly, and Jiang Group's stock plummeted."
"My mother... had been busy with her own work abroad before, so she had to leave her own career behind to come back and stabilize the Jiang Group. I also took a year off from school."
"Ms. He and I were so busy during those years. Fortunately, Jiang's company successfully survived the crisis and even became bigger than before."
"Later, I found out that my second uncle also played a significant role in the Jiang family's misfortune. His family doesn't have much business sense, but they are quite ambitious."
Jiang Sinian's eyes turned cold, and although his tone was normal, Xu Nuo couldn't help but think about the past that was just brushed aside with a few simple words. How helpless and exhausted Jiang Sinian must have been at that time...
"With Jiang's business now on the right track, they lost their patience. It was my carelessness that allowed them to succeed and orchestrate an accident. Fortunately, Ms. He had something urgent to do and didn't ride in that car with me."
"Then I unknowingly entered the book, and then I met you." Jiang Sinian turned his head to look at the young man leaning on his shoulder. He was visibly depressed, and his handsome lips were slightly pouting.
"I'm very lucky, Nuonuo." Jiang Sinian took Xu Nuo's hand and subconsciously stroked the base of his ring finger. "I have to thank them for meeting you..."
"Don't talk nonsense!" Xu Nuo sniffed and threw herself into his arms, "You have to be fine..."
"I will," Jiang Si-nian smiled and kissed the top of his head, "I want to stay with my baby for the rest of my life..."
"Then...what about your second uncle and the others? Will they come again...I'll ask my dad to help you too!"
His anxious look was so endearing that Jiang Sinian's heart, which had been calm for more than twenty years, began to beat violently uncontrollably again.
"No need...they won't have a good life in these few days." Jiang Sinian pinched the soft flesh on his cheek, which felt very good. "Eat it quickly, it will get cold soon."
Xu Nuo thought of this again and covered the bowl anxiously, "Enough! Don't give me any more food!"
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The table was a mess after the hot pot. Jiang Sinian put on an apron and rolled up his sleeves to clean up the dishes. Xu Nuo came over to help but was taken away by the man again.
"Go play by yourself, I'll be there in a moment."
Unable to get a word in, Xu Nuo gave up, but he still hung around Jiang Sinian like a little tail, talking incoherently.
"When I get home tomorrow, I'll ask 666 what happened when you transmigrated into the book before?"
"good."
"Are you still going to work tomorrow? At Jiang's or the entertainment company?"
"Do you want me to play with you? It's okay if I go or not... The entertainment company has someone to take care of it. I will only go if I can support you."
Xu Nuo chuckled, "Then I'll have a backer even if I run away from home again!"
"No," Jiang Sinian's eyebrows jumped, "If my uncle knew about this, he would probably never let me in again."
"I know, I was just kidding," Xu Nuo circled around him like a flatterer, and symbolically massaged his shoulders and back from time to time, but his hands were too weak, and Jiang Sinian was busy cleaning up, so he ended up making things worse.
Jiang Sinian just laughed helplessly and followed his disruptive actions.
"Is there a room for me here?"
"You dare to come back with me without even knowing whether there is any?"
"Tsk," Xu Nuo poked the man's back with his index finger. "If I did, it was with you. We've been sleeping together for hundreds of years... and you wouldn't do anything to me, right?"
He clearly didn't mean that, but Jiang Sinian suddenly remembered the misunderstanding they had in the supermarket, and a heart attack hit him. "Don't worry about me?"
"What's there to worry about..." Xu Nuo didn't understand the meaning of his words. After playing with his apron laces for a while, he went back to fiddling with the shiny spatula in the kitchen.
"I've remembered it all, baby...we'll get it back together when the time comes."
"What?" Xu Nuo turned around to look at the man who was laughing with gritted teeth, and continued to hum a song and explore the kitchen without taking it seriously, leaving Jiang Sinian, who had just made the harsh words, alone there, feeling both angry and amused.
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