Chapter 127: Chapter 120: If I Come, Can You Still Like Me? (Part 2)
This anticipation turned out to be more urgent and eager than being locked in a warehouse.
Yet... the hope fell through.
The heart, heavily crashed to the ground.
She swore she’ll never like Yin Shixiu again!
The less than ten-minute conversation seemed to mark their full stop.
Su Xiaomeng walked toward her parents without looking back, tears streaming down, feeling disappointed, uncomfortable, annoyed, angry at herself...
"Mom... Mom... let’s go..."
Su Chengji’s face darkened, glanced at Yin Shixiu still sitting by the window in the cafe, and wrapped his arm around his daughter’s shoulder, heading into security.
Yin Meng stood aside, opened her mouth but ultimately said nothing.
Ran to Yin Shixiu’s side, but before she could speak, Yin Shixiu had already gotten up and left...
No one knew what he was thinking.
Su Xiaomeng got on the plane, still sobbing a bit, looking very sad.
"...Do you like him that much?"
Su Xiaomeng puffed her cheeks, looking aggrievedly at her mom, then shook her head desperately, "Don’t like him anymore, never want to like him again... boo hoo..."
Su’s mother pulled her into her arms.
All the way, Su Xiaomeng stared out of the window in a daze and eventually fell asleep from exhaustion.
After waking up, the plane had already landed at Chengdu Airport.
Su Xiaomeng followed her parents home.
She had dinner, but didn’t eat much.
Accompanied her parents to watch TV for a while before she returned lethargically to her bedroom.
Lying on the bed, sadness flowing like a river, the little girl pouted, muttering curses about Yin Shixiu...
Her eyes turned red again and again, feeling particularly disappointed in herself!
Why cry? Anyway, the marriage will end sooner or later...
Boo hoo... Damn uncle! Boo hoo...
As her muffled cries grew uncontrollable, her phone rang.
She sniffed, picked up the phone, and glanced at the caller—Uncle.
Pa! Hung up!
Just after hanging up, the phone rang again!
Pa! Continued hanging up!
This repeated four or five times, and just as Su Xiaomeng was about to switch off her phone, a text from Yin Shixiu came in...
Fortunately, the text would jump straight to the page, Su Xiaomeng didn’t have time to block it.
—Girl, if I come to Chengdu, can you continue to like me?
—Get lost! Get lost, get lost, get lost! Don’t like you!
—But I’ve already arrived, come down.
Su Xiaomeng momentarily froze, her eyes fixed on the text, staring at the words over and over again...
Not caring whether her eyes were red or her face was tear-streaked, she slipped on her slippers and dashed out of the room, running quickly downstairs!
Telling herself it’s impossible, it’s impossible...
But when the door opened, Yin Shixiu stood right in front, dragging a big suitcase.
"Uncle..."
That person... really came.
Su Xiaomeng blinked, still not enough, then rubbed her eyes hard.
Yet she found the more she rubbed, the blurrier her vision became.
Seeing her dressed in pajamas, cotton slippers, but not even wearing socks, stood before him, Yin Shixiu frowned slightly, stepped forward, opened his coat, and wrapped her in an embrace.
The protruding belly bumped into him...
A satisfaction born from the heart.
"Not cold?"
March in Chengdu is warmer than March in Beijing, but remnants of winter chill remain.
"Why... why did you come?"
Her muffled voice sounded hoarse...
"I was driven out by your parents-in-law, um... temporarily need to rely on the wife’s family."
Su Xiaomeng stared blankly, her head resting against his chest, muttered a sentence, "Even wife’s family doesn’t welcome you..."
"Why do I love hearing you say these lip-service words?"
"I do not give lip service..."
"Saying divorce, but actually not wanting divorce, saying not liking me, but actually liking me, saying leave, but actually wanting me to stay, saying—"
Su Xiaomeng raised her eyes, furrowed her brows, "Yin Shixiu, you—"
Before she finished speaking, her lips were gently taken, carrying the dusty scent of Yin Shixiu.
"Oh! With this light, look... Xiao Meng, your face looks like a crying raccoon cat?"
Yin Shixiu bent down, lowered his head, closing the distance, the tip of his nose almost touching hers, a large hand caressing her half-dried tears.
A little heartache, mixed with some joy.
Su Xiaomeng quickly turned her face away, "You’re the raccoon cat..."
"Why crying... because of me? Because I didn’t come with you to Chengdu?"
"Don’t be narcissistic!"
"Meng Meng, let’s not be angry, alright?"
"It’s not good for the baby to be angry."
Su Xiaomeng pouted, gave Yin Shixiu a fierce eye-roll followed by another, "Now you come trying to coax me, too late!"
"Yes, you see it’s already late, shall we go inside? Feeling cold..."
Su Xiaomeng raised her chin, "You know cold now? Then do you know the night before I—"
Yin Shixiu didn’t let her finish speaking, pulling her head into his chest, "I know."
"I know, I know... it won’t happen again, trust me, Xiao Meng... it won’t happen again..."
Hmm... the book says, a man’s words can’t be trusted, because most of the time they end up defeating themselves.
But Su Xiaomeng... still believed him.
Because she feels that believing is more enjoyable than not believing, at least for this moment.
"Hmph..."
Su Xiaomeng lifted her head from his embrace, "Don’t think that just because you’re being sweet and talking nice to me, I’ll fall for it..."
"Then... what will make you fall for it?"
"You at least have to treat me well with good food and drinks, and then listen to me, and also..."
As she spoke, Su Xiaomeng noticed the man in front of her was smiling like a fox, leisurely watching her...
Slowly realizing, "Yin Shixiu, did you come all this way just to trick me?"
Yin Shixiu wrapped her waist, covering her with his coat, lowered his head, his voice soft yet extremely charming...
"I came to apologize, to make up. To continue dating you, to keep holding you, kissing you... to keep being liked by you."
"... Shameless, I knew your intentions weren’t pure, see, without me around, no one warms your bed, right?"
"Hmm... why wouldn’t there be?"
Just after Yin Shixiu finished speaking, Su Xiaomeng stepped on his shoe!
But what attack power could a pair of cotton slippers and her soft feet have?
It was just a small spark on the top of his foot.
"You can go back now!"
"I fell asleep on the plane holding that Winnie the Pooh... the crew laughed at me for quite a while."
He said with a hoarse voice.
Su Xiaomeng pouted, her face showing a "I don’t believe you" expression...
"Let’s go inside, don’t catch a cold."
Su Xiaomeng came out of his embrace, glanced at him, "I’ll tell you, even if you came all the way here, I don’t plan on forgiving you!"
After saying that, she turned around and reached for the apartment building’s door, Yin Shixiu laughed lightly watching her open the door for him...
He followed in with his suitcase.
Su Xiaomeng heard the person behind her was smart enough to follow, so she continued upstairs, muttering as she went, "I’m just upholding a decent sense of contract spirit, letting you come up reluctantly, but if my parents don’t let you in, you still have to go back home..."
She chattered on about something, Yin Shixiu didn’t care, what he cared about was her tone, her expression when she saw him, it was her... no matter what she was saying, she was leading him inside.
From the moment he met this girl, from being interested in her to liking her, to liking her a lot...
He was sure that now it couldn’t simply be expressed as "liking".
He loves her, and this thing called love is the kind of spell that can make someone heaven one moment and hell the next...
How emotions change, whether joy or sorrow, all depends on her.
And Su Xiaomeng at this moment?
She was saying things she herself found hypocritical and pretentious, yet she just couldn’t stop.
She didn’t want him to think she was easy to manipulate, didn’t want him to think forgiveness came easily, but her face facing away from him already showed a cat-like grin of mischief.
Very happy, very thrilled, very pleased...
And before this moment, her complaints, her anger, her unwillingness...
Her determination to cut all ties and never interact again, like a wall made of foam, was so easily torn down.
So useless.
But... she would be happier.
When Su Xiaomeng led Yin Shixiu to stand at the doorway, Su’s mother just came out of the shower, with semi-wet hair, she raised an eyebrow at them.
Su Chengji was also momentarily confused.
"Girl, what’s... the situation here?"
Su Xiaomeng smiled broadly, "Uncle got kicked out by Yin Family Dad and Yin Family Mom!"
Su’s mother’s brow furrowed higher, giving Yin Shixiu an icy glare.
"Over there in Beijing... it was my failure to handle things well, and bringing Xiaomeng back to Beijing was inconsiderate of me, so at least until Xiaomeng has the baby, I’ll stay in Chengdu with her."
Su Xiaomeng felt all warm and fuzzy inside.
Su’s mother looked at the touch of joy in her daughter’s eyes, wishing she could slap it away!
This Yin Shixiu, no one knows what kind of potion he’s fed this girl!
How long has it been? Huh?
It seemed like just a minute ago she was crying and screaming about wanting a divorce with all the determination in the world! And the next minute she’s blissfully holding hands!
Making her, the mother... feel a bit like an outsider!
"You’re staying in Chengdu? Ha... what about explaining to the elders in the Yin Family? And your work?"
"Mom, you don’t have to worry about that, I said I’ll stay with her, so I will stay with her."
"I can’t bear you calling me Mom."
Su’s mother snorted coldly.
Su Chengji looked at Yin Shixiu, "This... things can’t just be settled like this."
"Dad, tell me, what can I do to make it up?"
"Well..."
Su Chengji suddenly fell silent, Su’s mother looked toward her husband, somewhat anticipating to see what kind of request he might make...
"Haha! Come play another couple of rounds of chess with me! If you don’t come, the chess would be useless! Haha!"
Su’s mother’s face darkened, "Su Chengji."
"Oh my, wife, you see Xiao Yin came all the way to Chengdu to chase Meng Meng, let’s not dwell on past matters! Besides, didn’t that girl at the airport say, Xiao Yin was also a victim, quite innocent..."
Su Xiaomeng quickly nodded, "Mom... we can’t let Uncle go sleep on the streets so late, can we? Just kindly take him in for a bit..."
"You two! Don’t you have any backbone?"
Su’s mother was simply exasperated!
Last night, who was the one feeling sorry and distressed, who was the one crying dumbly at noon, wasn’t that also someone!