Chai Meicen raised her hand and covered Hou RanXi's mouth.
"I can't remember anything after I drink, you can tell me again after I wake up." Chai Meicen was still aware of what she was like after getting drunk.
Hou RanXi was blocked by Chai Meicen for a moment, staring at Chai Meicen, finding her more and more adorable no matter how he looked at her.
He kissed her fingertips and then said, "Okay, as you wish."
The first kiss, you have to remember it.
Although I'm not sure if I can kiss you again when you're sober.
Hou RanXi stood up and reached out to support Chai Meicen, "Let me help you upstairs to rest."
Chai Meicen thought about it and shook her head to refuse: "No."
"What's wrong?"
"I remember you're a man."
"So?"
"Can't go into the room."
Chai Meicen struggled to go to the sofa by herself and lay down without getting up again: "Don't need your help, I'll just sleep here tonight."
Hou RanXi was really convinced by Chai Meicen's mindset: "If I really wanted to do something, would I still choose the venue?"
Chai Meicen thought about it, he was right, so she immediately sat up and slapped her face, then ran upstairs quickly, almost falling down once.
She rushed into her room and locked the door.
Hou RanXi didn't chase her either, he stayed downstairs tidying up the table.
With Chai Meicen's unsteady legs, he could easily catch up if he wanted to.
A sixteen-year-old body was much stronger than a thirty-six-year-old, at most she just danced with him this time.
Compared to before, when she pulled him to sing "Plateau of Tibet" in the middle of winter, and had to go downstairs to cover each small tree in the neighborhood with a quilt, afraid the small trees were cold, this was much better.
Thinking about it, he couldn't help laughing again.
The next day, Chai Meicen unusually slept in late.
When Hou RanXi knocked on the door, it took Chai Meicen a long time to come to her senses in a daze.
She crawled up from the floor...
How did she sleep on the floor?
The funniest thing was that she was actually hugging her slippers and sleeping curled up on the floor.
Fortunately, there was a carpet on the floor, otherwise she might catch a cold.
She had the problem of dysmenorrhea and was particularly careful about regulating it.
She got up and moved around, then went to open the door. As soon as she opened the door, she yelled at Hou RanXi angrily: "How could you let me sleep on the floor?"
She clearly didn't need him to take care of her last night.
"Slept on the floor?" Hou RanXi asked calmly.
"Yes!"
"I didn't accompany you in last night."
Chai Meicen opened the door and went back into the room, flopping onto the bed and finally feeling a little better.
Hou RanXi stood in the doorway of the room and asked, "What do you want for breakfast?"
"I don't want to eat anything, my stomach is full of gas."
After Zhou Rui grew up a little, Zhou Rui and Hou RanXi pampered Chai Meicen together, making Chai Meicen quite bad-tempered now.
She still had a little temper now, she was just messing with Hou RanXi.
"Oh, isn't it because you made a fuss last night?" Hou RanXi said pretentiously.
"What did I do?"
"You suddenly confessed to me, saying you wanted to find a dad for Zhou Rui, and asked if I was willing to be with you."
As soon as Chai Meicen heard this, she sat up in shock and looked at Hou RanXi incredulously and asked, "Really?"
"Yeah, you even insisted on kissing me, and got upset when I rejected you."
"How is that possible? I would never make a move on you."
"It is said that drunken words are sober thoughts. Do you actually like me and only dared to tell me when you were drunk? I seriously considered it all night last night, I even lost some sleep."
Chai Meicen stared blankly at Hou RanXi, trying hard to recall but her mind was completely blank.
She apologized immediately: "I, I, I didn't mean to take advantage of you. I was probably...single for too long, regained my youth, and regained my youthful vigor, and then..."
When she got to this point, she covered her face directly.
Being single for so long, even the dogs downstairs looked handsome. Hou RanXi, who was excellent to begin with, was simply a treasure now.
Hou RanXi leaned over with both hands on the bed close to Chai Meicen and asked, "Do you like me?"
Chai Meicen's face turned red all at once, completely red.
She really started to wonder if she liked Hou RanXi.
It shouldn't be. She had never thought about it before. Even when Zhou Rui teased her, she just laughed it off.
Could it be that she had ulterior motives after making eye contact with Hou RanXi yesterday?
She...she liked Hou RanXi!
Just as she was in a panic and didn't know how to answer, Hou RanXi suddenly leaned in to kiss her.
She immediately pushed him away: "Don't! Don't take it seriously, I was just drunk messing around!"
Hou RanXi said "Oh", but still pressed Chai Meicen's back of her head with his hand, and kissed her forehead: "But I agreed, if you make up your mind, we can start dating immediately."
"Ha!" Waking up to such a dramatic change, Chai Meicen wanted to choose not to wake up again.
Hou RanXi got up and walked out the door, while asking, "The porridge I drank last night was pretty good. Let me order a portion for you too."
"Oh...okay."
"Well, go get washed up then."
After closing the door, Chai Meicen completely collapsed. She instantly doubted life...
Did she like...Hou RanXi?
Really?
Ah!
After walking out the door, Hou RanXi immediately took a deep breath.
Just now his legs were shaking from nervousness, fortunately Chai Meicen was even more panicked and didn't notice.
He raised his hand and touched his lips, unable to hold back a smile.
The first time he openly kissed her.
He walked downstairs and was in a daze for a while before calling to order food.
While waiting in the villa, he kept looking upstairs, and Chai Meicen didn't come out for a long time.
He looked at the food in front of him without touching it. He waited until Chai Meicen pushed the door open and came out, before pretending to calmly look at his phone. When he came back to his senses, he realized he was pulling out his contacts list, even though he didn't plan on making a call.
"Let's go pick up Zhou Rui today." Chai Meicen said.
"Okay, sure."
"I still think I should make it clear to you that I was just messing around because I was drunk. Don't take it seriously. Let's pretend nothing happened, okay?" Chai Meicen said very eagerly. She even tended towards regret.
Hou RanXi nodded and seemed to generously agree: "Okay."
Chai Meicen was immediately relieved.
But then Hou RanXi added: "But I still stand by what I said, if you realize your own thoughts, we can start dating immediately."
Chai Meicen's sitting body almost collapsed instantly.
"Also, don't drink alcohol in front of others anymore. This time it was directed at me, what about next time directed at others?" Hou RanXi said again, and continued to eat slowly.
"You're right." Chai Meicen covered her face, not even daring to look Hou RanXi in the eye, extremely embarrassed.
After Hou RanXi finished eating, he said he would contact the yacht and Chai Meicen felt a little better. She took the porridge and started drinking.
While drinking the porridge, she was still thinking: Did she like Hou RanXi?
She released her true self when she got drunk, so her inner thoughts leaked out?
She tried hard to think about it, and had finished the whole bowl of porridge but still hadn't figured it out.
After eating, Hou RanXi also contacted the yacht.
Today no matter what, Chai Meicen refused to sit on the back of Hou RanXi’s bike again. It was especially windy today, and Chai Meicen rode unsteadily, with hair blowing into her face.
Hou RanXi couldn't stand to see it anymore. He rode his bike to her side to help push her bike while leading her. Chai Meicen felt uneasy as she followed Hou RanXi to where the yacht was docked.
The two were somewhat silent on the way to pick up Zhou Rui.
When they arrived at Zhou Rui's hut, they laughed together when they saw Zhou Rui.
It seemed that Zhou Rui had seen the yacht coming, and had been sitting cross-legged on a floatie in the swimming pool for a long time, with his legs crossed and his eyes closed, as if he was practicing qigong.
Chai Meicen got off the yacht and walked over to ask, "What are you practicing?"
"Having obtained the feng shui treasure land, I have to practice my skills, absorb the essence of heaven and earth. The sun and moon are spiritual energy, helping me achieve immortality as soon as possible, so I don't have to deal with you ordinary mortals."
"What have you been eating these past few days?" Chai Meicen asked again.
"Eating is full of immortal energy."
“What about drinking?”
"The morning dew."
Chai Meicen ignored him and strode into the villa. Seeing the mess, she was relieved.
Right, it was her son, still lively as ever.
Zhou Rui followed Chai Meicen into the house and said, "Test me on my Chinese textbook. I specially memorized the textbook, the second unit."
"Not bad, you know how to read books now."
"I knew you couldn't help coming early to get me, so I memorized a lesson for you to happily take me away. I can't really learn anything else by myself. At most I can do a few pages of homework."
Their international class had a different educational approach. There was very little homework, and much of it was group work that required collaboration.
The more difficult part was taking the IELTS, and the TOEFL if going to the United States.
So in Zhou Rui's view, his study attitude was simply too upright, too hardworking.
"Okay, recite it to me." Chai Meicen picked up the book. She had to tidy up the clothes on the sofa before she could find a place to sit. After sitting down, she looked at the text and listened to Zhou Rui recite.
Zhou Rui recited in a exaggerated manner. Chai Meicen looked around and found that Zhou Rui had actually written a cheat sheet on the small blackboard in the kitchen.
Zhou Rui immediately explained, "I just wrote an outline and recorded the parts I might forget."
Hou RanXi walked in, looked at the cheat sheet, and laughed, "This method is quite good actually. It's recording memory cues, better than rote memorization."
"Right? Even uncle Hou praised me. Do I have the potential to get into Harvard?"
"Yes." Hou RanXi nodded.
Chai Meicen was still embarrassed about the situation earlier, so when Hou RanXi spoke, she didn't have the heart to make things difficult for Zhou Rui anymore. She could only say, "Pack up your stuff, we're going back."
"Got it!" Zhou Rui immediately started packing his things.
This kind of house was novel the first day, still okay the second day, and boring by the third day.
No internet, no signal. Once out the door it was just a small courtyard with a lounge chair and a swimming pool. Although there was a waterslide leading to the ocean, he got bored of it after a few times.
Finally able to leave, Zhou Rui hurriedly grabbed his bag and left.
After getting on the yacht, he realized Chai Meicen was still in the villa checking if Zhou Rui had left anything behind.
Zhou Rui asked Hou RanXi, "If we leave now on the yacht, what would her reaction be? Wouldn't it be really interesting?"
"I'm here, do you think it's possible for you to leave her?"
"Tsk tsk."
On the way back, Zhou Rui keenly noticed that Chai Meicen was feeling uneasy and didn't even dare to look at Hou Ranxi.
Zhou Rui sat next to Hou Ranxi and asked him, "What's up? Did you confess?"
"No."
"Did you make a move on my mom?"
"Hmm...I don't know if that counts."
"What happened? Tell me quickly." Zhou Rui kept nudging Hou Ranxi with his elbow.
"She got drunk last night. So this morning I said she confessed to me and asked if she liked me."
"You think my mom looks silly and easy to fool, right?" After hearing this, Zhou Rui rolled his eyes.
"She did believe it."
Zhou Rui was exasperated. There was no helping having such a silly mom.
After thinking about it, he asked again, "Let her doubt herself whether she likes you or not, and then gradually realize it?"
"Yeah, that's what I was thinking."
"You sly monkey."
After thinking about it, Zhou Rui looked at Chai Meicen again. Finally he waved his hand, "Forget it, I won't get involved anymore. But my mom will definitely be angry when she finds out the truth."
"Yeah, I can only take a gamble."
"You should be the one pursuing her, yet you made it seem like she likes you."
"I'll pursue her too. It's just that I can't use normal methods on her, she wouldn't agree so easily."
"Why is that?" Zhou Rui didn't understand.
"Because of you."
At first Zhou Rui was stunned, then he understood.
With him, this deadweight, Chai Meicen would not be willing to be with Hou Ranxi. No matter how you look at it, it seems that Hou Ranxi could find someone better.
Chai Meicen herself couldn't let go of this point.
The rest of the few days of the trip ended in Chai Meicen's slightly awkward situation.
These past few days, Chai Meicen had been with Zhou Rui all the time. It seemed that only when she was with Zhou Rui could she feel at ease.
Zhou Rui didn't point it out either, he just watched the two people in their thirties go back and forth being overly sentimental - one daring enough to lie, and the other daring enough to believe it - he had nothing to say.
The day they returned was October 6th, there was still one more day left to rest before school started again.
After Chai Meicen returned home, she didn't stay in. After coming back, she started making dumplings and spring onion pancakes by hand, and also casually made some small pickles.
Together with some small gifts she bought abroad, Chai Meicen packed them all up and gave them to Zhou Rui, "Take these to your grandma, I've become like this now and can't go over there, don't scare the old lady again."
Zhou Rui's grandma was an auntie Chai Meicen recognized. The two families didn't visit each other very often, but on holidays and festivals, Chai Meicen would definitely go over.
She would bring gifts and food she made herself over there.
This grandma was one of the rare people still in contact with their family.
Zhou Rui saw that Chai Meicen had another package next to her and pointed to it, asking, "This one for Uncle Hou, should I take it to him, or will you take it to him?"
"I was planning to take it to his school..."
"Don't even think about it. Who would eat this at school seeing your bear look? Can't even go yourself. I'll take it to him for you." After saying this, Zhou Rui picked up one bag in each hand and walked out the door.
When closing the door, he could still hear Chai Meicen shouting, "How dare you talk to your mother like this, no respect at all. Is this how I taught you?"
"Did I say anything wrong to you?" Zhou Rui stood arrogantly outside the door, even daring to talk back.
If you've got the guts, come out and hit me.
"You've got to call someone when you get to grandma's house."
"I know, hello person!"
Chai Meicen closed the door forcefully and unhappily. Zhou Rui carried the things and quickly walked away, grinning.
First he went to his grandma's house, and ate an apple, a pear, and half a watermelon before successfully leaving.
He didn't know if this old lady's hobby was just feeding him fruit and treating him like a pet.
Carrying the other bag, he took the bus to Hou Ranxi's house.
Seeing the person inside through the video intercom, Hou Ranxi's expression immediately turned ugly.
However, that person was very calm, just standing outside waiting for him to open the door.
In the end, Hou Ranxi still opened the door and let Yi Qiange in.
After coming in, Yi Qiange looked around Hou Ranxi's house, pulled up the corners of his mouth in a smile and said, "Is it comfortable living in a coffin?"
"You still talk so unpleasantly." Hou Ranxi really didn't want to chat with Yi Qiange, it made him fuming every time.
"Your company is doing quite well, why don't you buy a bigger house?" Yi Qiange walked in and looked around before sitting on the sofa.
"It's close to my company here, quite convenient." Hou Ranxi answered while walking into the kitchen. He took out two bottles of mineral water from the fridge, and placed one bottle in front of Yi Qiange.
Yi Qiange glanced at the water bottle and didn't drink it. Hou Ranxi just twisted open his own bottle and drank a few sips.
After Hou Ranxi finished drinking the water, he tidied up his luggage in the room again. Yi Qiange still didn't say a word.
Hou Ranxi said coldly, "I thought you wouldn't come back to this country again."
"I came back to deal with some things. I'll go back in a few months."
"Oh, what a coincidence, coming to this city and sitting silently in my place. What exactly do you want to say?"
Yi Qiange's hometown was not in this city.
Even Chai Meicen didn't belong to this city, she moved here later, and her accent gradually blended into this place, and she lived quite well.
He followed Chai Meicen here, came to this unfamiliar environment and started from nothing, and built up his current business.
But the Yi family's roots were in the previous city, not here. Coming here was really...deliberate.
"If I went to find her, she would..." Yi Qiange hesitated and asked.
Hou Ranxi directly put the water bottle down heavily on the coffee table.
Yi Qiange looked at Hou Ranxi, "You really don't want me to find her, do you?"
"Is it necessary? After so many years, do we still need to hurt each other?"
Yi Qiange pursed his lips and didn't speak anymore.
At this moment, the doorbell rang at Hou Ranxi's house again. Hou Ranxi hesitated and didn't respond. After a while, he heard knocking on the door.
Hou Ranxi knew who had come.
Chai Meicen had the keys and access cards to his house. Whenever Zhou Rui or Chai Meicen came over, they would ring the doorbell first to notify him, then directly come in.
Hou Ranxi hurried to open the door. Seeing only Zhou Rui, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"My mom gave this to you, she's too embarrassed to come over herself." Zhou Rui handed over the things and wanted to come in.
"I have a guest, it's not very convenient. Go back first."
"I ate half a watermelon at my grandma's house, now I urgently need the toilet."
"There's a public restroom downstairs."
Zhou Rui immediately sensed something was off. Hou Ranxi had never treated him like this before.
He started pushing the door forcefully, "Is that sexy man in your house? Are you hiding a lover? Is that it?"
"I don't have..." Hou Ranxi blocked the door to stop Zhou Rui from entering.
Yi Qiange walked over and looked towards the door, asking, "Who is it?"
Zhou Rui peeked in and saw it was a man, then gave up, "Alright, I'm leaving."
As he entered the elevator, he couldn't help muttering, "The guest is quite handsome."
After Hou Ranxi closed the door, he brought the things Zhou Rui delivered into the kitchen, and casually replied, "A colleague's child, brought me some food."
Yi Qiange glanced at how Hou Ranxi was holding the bag, then left Hou Ranxi's house without staying any longer.
Author's note:
Zhou Rui: Who's my dad?
Chai Meicen: Yi Qiange.
Zhou Rui: One thousand? That many?
Chai Meicen started beating mode.
[Hmm, the biological father doesn't know he has a son.]
[Lying is wrong, so later Hou Ranxi will get beaten.]
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