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◎ His eyes still lingered on her lips.◎
Song Siyao's house is not far from S University, so it is very convenient to get there.
However, Xu Yingxi felt that their relationship was not yet to the point where they could visit each other's homes at will.
The three of them agreed to meet at a cafe downstairs in Song Siyao's community.
Xu Yingxi took a taxi and found the father and son in a secluded corner of the cafe.
Probably to facilitate tutoring, the two sat side by side.
There was a cup of coffee in front of Song Siyao, and several exercise books were placed in front of Xu Xingluo, with the top one open.
The two were talking about something in their exercise books and didn't notice her arrival.
Seeing this scene, Xu Yingxi was dazed for a moment.
From certain angles, Song Siyao and Xu Xingluo look really similar.
For example, when they lower their heads, their foreheads and eyebrows are almost a one-to-one replica.
Xu Yingxi walked over and sat down across from them. "How was your study today?"
The two men looked up at the same time.
Xu Xingluo was pleasantly surprised: "Very good!"
Song Siyao said gently: "He just set a new goal."
Xu Yingxi raised her eyebrows: "What goal?"
Xu Xingluo's eyes flickered unnaturally: "That is..."
He pursed his lips, as if he was embarrassed, but finally said, "I want to get into S University in the college entrance examination!"
Xu Yingxi was surprised.
Xu Xingluo scratched his head. "Um... I know it's a little early to say this now, so it's just a goal to work towards! And..."
Xu Yingxi: "And what?"
Xu Xingluo coughed lightly. "And I think, since you and my dad were both able to get into S University, I should have this talent too."
Xu Yingxi thought to herself, that might not be the case.
However, it was rare for a young man to have such ambition and ignite his passion for learning, so she decided not to discourage him.
Xu Yingxi: "You're right. Speaking of which, aren't you going to do the test for me?"
Xu Xingluo: “Oh…yes!”
Xu Yingxi: "So let's start now?"
Xu Xingluo: "Um...can I go to the bathroom first?"
Although he was full of confidence when he asked his mother to come over, he suddenly felt a little nervous when his mother said this.
Xu Yingxi laughed out loud: "Okay, go ahead."
She and Song Siyao were left face to face. Their eyes met, and Xu Yingxi was speechless for a moment.
Song Siyao was the first to break the silence: "Would you like something to drink?"
Xu Yingxi thought for two seconds: "Lemon tea."
She is not used to drinking coffee in the afternoon and tends to keep her awake.
Song Siyao: "Ice?"
Xu Yingxi nodded: "Yeah."
Song Siyao stood up: "I'll go buy it."
The conversation seemed ordinary, but when Song Siyao went to the counter, Xu Yingxi realized that something seemed wrong.
This person just queued up for her to buy lemon tea?
It would have been fine if she didn't react, after all, she was used to the opposite sex being attentive to her when she was with them.
Whenever Xu Yingxi dated each of her boyfriends, he would actively run errands for her.
But Song Siyao...why did he go there so naturally?
Xu Yingxi held her chin, wondering if it was possible that she had inadvertently assimilated Song Siyao when she ordered him around several times before?
Just as I was thinking about it, Xu Xingluo came back from the bathroom.
Maybe it was because he was too nervous, but he didn't even ask where his father had gone.
Xu Xingluo sat down and cleared his throat, as if to give himself courage: "Then...shall I start?"
Xu Yingxi: "As long as you are ready."
Xu Xingluo took a deep breath and picked up the pen: "...Hmm!"
Not long after the boy started writing, Song Siyao came over with a cup of lemon tea and placed it in front of Xu Yingxi.
After Xu Xingluo came back from the bathroom, he sat in his original seat, leaning against the aisle.
Song Siyao's seat was against the wall.
Xu Yingxi was just about to ask Xu Xingluo to get up and make room for his father when she saw Song Siyao naturally pick up his cup of coffee on the table and sit next to her.
The man looked calm, as if he didn't think anything was wrong.
Xu Yingxi: “…”
Okay, she's not a stingy person.
She had sat next to Song Siyao during a previous group meeting, and it was nothing.
Xu Xingluo was concentrating on doing the questions, so of course he didn't care about anything else.
Xu Yingxi took a sip of the lemon tea and couldn't help but glance at the man next to her.
Song Siyao looked calm and took a sip of the iced American coffee in his hand.
Xu Yingxi secretly complained: If you drink American coffee at this time, you may not be able to sleep at night.
Just as he was thinking this, Song Siyao suddenly turned his head and their eyes met.
Xu Yingxi had the illusion that she was caught saying bad things about someone, and her heart skipped a beat.
She took a deep breath to calm her inexplicably accelerated heartbeat, and thought that Xu Xingluo was still working hard on the questions over there, so she didn't say anything.
Xu Yingxi asked him with her mouth: What's wrong?
Song Siyao's eyebrows moved slightly, and he replied silently: Nothing.
Xu Yingxi: What do you mean by looking at me suddenly?
It was too difficult to make the other person understand this sentence simply by lip-reading, so she gave up after saying only the first few words.
Song Siyao's gaze still lingered on her lips.
Xu Yingxi pursed her lips subconsciously when he looked at her like that, remembering that she hadn't put on any lipstick or lip gloss today.
She only dresses up carefully when she goes out to play, and usually goes without makeup at school.
She was just discussing homework with her classmates today, so she only put on a layer of sunscreen and no makeup when she went out.
Then Xu Yingxi realized, why should she care whether she wore lip makeup?
What's there to worry about?
Such thoughts made Xu Yingxi a little annoyed, and she glared at the man next to her.
Song Siyao had already withdrawn his gaze from her lips and lowered his eyes.
There are images lingering uncontrollably in my mind.
The girl's pale pink lips were slightly open, stained with water from the drink she had just had.
Song Siyao: “…”
He picked up the coffee and took a long sip.
A bitter taste spread in the mouth, and the scene that shouldn't have happened finally disappeared.
The two of them remained silent for a long time, and no one spoke.
Until Xu Xingluo put down his pen: "I have finished writing the multiple-choice questions!"
As the boy raised his head, he suddenly realized that the atmosphere between his parents seemed a little subtle.
Xu Xingluo blinked blankly, his mind still not fully grasping the situation.
Song Siyao said calmly: "Let your mother check it out."
Xu Xingluo: "Oh... OK."
He handed the exercise book to his mother obediently.
Xu Yingxi took it and heard a man's cold voice: "The answer is on the last few pages."
She flipped to the back and found the answers to the set of questions Xu Xingluo had done.
There were fifteen questions in total, I got fourteen correct and the last one wrong.
The answer is D, but Xu Xingluo chose C.
Xu Yingxi told Xu Xingluo the result of the answer.
The boy's emotions were all written on his face. He was very upset when he heard that he had made a mistake: "Ah, how could I make a mistake..."
If I had known earlier, he should have done this set of questions first, and then done the previous set in front of his mother.
He got all the answers to the previous set of questions right.
Xu Yingxi looked carefully at the question that Xu Xingluo got wrong.
More than three years have passed since the college entrance examination, and she has returned most of her high school knowledge to her teachers.
Fortunately, Xu Xingluo had just entered the first year of high school, and the knowledge points involved in this question were very classic, so Xu Yingxi found that she still remembered it.
Xu Yingxi: "This question is indeed easy to choose wrong. Can I explain it to you?"
Xu Xingluo: "Okay!"
Xu Yingxi stood up with the exercise book and sat down next to Xu Xingluo: "First, tell me why you chose C?"
…
Xu Yingxi explained to Xu Xingluo why he chose D for this question, and also helped him sort out several knowledge points that are easy to make mistakes.
If there was something she was not sure about, she would ask Song Siyao to add to the information.
After reviewing all the relevant knowledge points, Xu Yingxi looked at the time.
Exactly five o'clock.
Xu Xingluo noticed Xu Yingxi's movements and asked, "Mom, are you hungry?"
Xu Yingxi: "It's okay, I'm just thinking about what to eat for dinner."
Xu Xingluo's lips moved.
Xu Yingxi noticed that he was hesitant to speak: "What's wrong? Just say whatever you want to say."
Xu Xingluo looked a little guilty.
"Um..." He stumbled, "I had lunch today with the meal my dad made. It was quite delicious."
Xu Yingxi: “…”
Xu Xingluo coughed and said, "When we went to the supermarket to buy groceries, my dad seemed to have bought some food for dinner, right, Dad?"
Song Siyao: “Yeah.”
Xu Yingxi: “…”
When did the relationship between these two people become so good that they even go to the supermarket to buy groceries together?
Could it be that the "bond" between father and son was suddenly triggered?
Xu Xingluo cautiously extended an invitation: "Mom, do you want to... try the dinner my dad made with me?"
…
Xu Yingxi told herself that she was simply curious about Song Siyao's cooking skills.
In addition, Xu Xingluo's eyes were so pitiful that she felt that if she rejected him, the child might secretly cry in the middle of the night holding the corner of the quilt.
In short, Xu Yingxi arrived at Song Siyao's doorstep inexplicably.
After seeing Xu Xingluo take out a pair of light purple women's slippers from the shoe cabinet, Xu Yingxi frowned.
Xu Xingluo quickly explained, "My dad and I bought these at the supermarket this afternoon. Mom, don't you like purple? So I asked my dad to buy me a pair of purple ones."
Xu Yingxi glanced at Xu Xingluo, then looked at Song Siyao who was walking in front of her, leaving her with a tall and straight back.
She really wanted to know whether the father and son had reached some consensus that she was not aware of during the half day she was away?
Xu Yingxi changed into slippers and hung the small bag she was carrying at the entrance.
Song Siyao went to the kitchen to prepare ingredients.
Xu Xingluo said enthusiastically, "Mom, do you want to visit my dad's house? He's already taken us around it today. I can show you around!"
Xu Yingxi thought for a moment and said, "Okay."
Xu Xingluo's eyes sparkled. "Then let's go to the study first. My dad is helping me with my homework there this afternoon!"
Xu Yingxi followed Xu Xingluo and took a quick tour around the house.
The house is not small, probably about 150 square meters.
The decoration style is simple and retro, with wooden floors and clean white walls, without any decorations such as wallpaper.
Most of the furniture is made of solid wood with a dark color. It must be quite old, but the quality is very good.
It can be seen that this house was indeed left to Song Siyao by his mother, and it is not often occupied.
Except for Song Siyao's bedroom and the kitchen, Xu Yingxi went to all the other rooms.
Back in the living room, Xu Yingxi asked Xu Xingluo: "Haven't you been here in the future?"
Xu Xingluo said truthfully: "No, I don't have much impression of this place."
Xu Yingxi thought that Song Siyao might move to a new house in the future and sell this place.
There were sounds coming from the kitchen. It should be Song Siyao preparing the ingredients.
Xu Yingxi looked at the boy in front of her again: "I have a question for you."
Xu Xingluo thought Xu Yingxi was going to continue asking about the house, so he patted his chest and said, "Okay, Mom, go ahead and ask!"
Xu Yingxi: "Did you and your dad have a secret conversation this afternoon?"
Xu Xingluo's back stiffened.
"Wh, what do you mean secretly?" He stuttered, "No, we were just studying in the study."
Xu Yingxi: "Didn't we say we went to the supermarket together?"
Xu Xingluo: "Then... then I went to buy some vegetables."
Xu Yingxi: "Anything else?"
Xu Xingluo: “…”
Under Xu Yingxi's gaze, the boy couldn't bear the pressure and told the truth: "It's nothing, I just asked my dad a question..."
Xu Yingxi raised her eyebrows: "What's the problem?"
Xu Xingluo: "I asked my dad...why you hate him."
Xu Yingxi's first reaction was surprise: "Did I ever say I hate your dad?"
Xu Xingluo shook his head: "No, but you said that you and my father's auras don't match."
Xu Yingxi recalled that she seemed to have said something similar.
It seemed that when she didn't know at the beginning that her future husband was Song Siyao, Xu Xingluo asked her if she and Song Siyao were friends, and she answered like this.
I didn’t expect Xu Xingluo still remember it.
Xu Yingxi: "And then? How did Song Siyao respond?"
Xu Xingluo: "My dad said he didn't know either, but he also said...if he gets the chance, he'll ask you in person."
Xu Yingxi understood: "So you tried every possible way to get me to come and meet your dad, and then asked me to come here to have dinner with your dad?"
Xu Xingluo nodded somewhat guiltily.
After a pause, he added, "But I really want you to watch me do my homework!"
Xu Yingxi was silent for a few seconds, then took a step forward.
Xu Xingluo asked anxiously, "Mom, where are you going?"
Xu Yingxi turned around and gave the boy a soothing look: "Don't worry, I'm not going to argue with your father."
There was just something she wanted to take this opportunity to ask clearly.
…
In the kitchen, Song Siyao was washing ingredients with his sleeves rolled up.
Seeing her come in, the man slowly wiped his hands and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xu Yingxi got straight to the point: "I admit, when I first met you, my impression of you was indeed average."
Song Siyao's eyes moved slightly.
"That's because you were also very cold to me. I don't like to be treated coldly." Xu Yingxi said bluntly, "And I didn't hate you at that time. I just treated you as a senior brother who I didn't know very well and was difficult to get along with."
Song Siyao: “…”
The man moved his lower lip, as if he wanted to explain something.
But in the end, he just said "hmm".
Xu Yingxi: "But then, something happened."
She stared at him with burning eyes: "Do you remember that at the beginning of this semester, I was with Qi Wangzhou and I met you by chance?"
A barely perceptible emotion flashed across Song Siyao's eyes, and his fingers tightened slightly.
He lowered his eyes: "Remember."
Xu Yingxi: "Let me ask you, why did you look at me with such a mocking look at that time?"
A hint of surprise finally appeared in Song Siyao's eyes.
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