Shi Nianyao immediately got worked up. Staring at the cell phone, she almost jumped when it rang.
She picked up the call at once and heard Mo Xicheng’s voice, “Are you home?”
Shi Nianyao replied, “I- I’m home. Hey, how did you know I went out?”
Mo Xicheng kept silent.
Shi Nianyao cautiously asked, “Mo Xicheng, what did you do today?”
“I went on a blind date.”
Shi Nianyao demanded, “… How could you go on a blind date? You have to know you have a girlfriend!”
Fortunately, it had been her this time. But if the daughter of the Shi family hadn’t been her, would Mo Xicheng have also agreed?
She felt she had every right to be angry. Unexpectedly, the next thing he said was, “What did you do today?”
She replied, “… I went on a blind date.”
Hence, did that mean they were even?
Urgh!
Could one get even over something like this?
Shi Nianyao grimaced and continued, “You- I—”
Before she could finish speaking, Mo Xicheng interrupted, “Yao Yao, I didn’t expect that you would come from such a prominent family.”
That remark caused her to stop short at what she was going to say. She bit her tongue.
She stared blankly at her cell phone, suddenly at a loss for words.
Mo Xicheng continued unhurriedly, “When I saw you today, I had a fright.”
Pursing her lips, Shi Nianyao hung her head and said, “I- I wasn’t purposely hiding things from you. It’s just—”
It was just that she had never had the habit of telling others about her family.
Hopefully, Mo Xicheng… wouldn’t be angry with her?
As she started worrying about losing this man, Mo Xicheng continued, “You’re the daughter of the Shi family and I, on the other hand, am only an illegitimate child. If you really do end up with me, you’ll see over and over again the sort of situation you saw today.”
“Yao Yao, if you marry me, you’ll only get bogged down because of me. And you’ll never be able to hold your head up high in front of the Mo family members. You—”
The more he said, the more nervous Shi Nianyao became.
Was he hinting for them to break up?
The thought of this made her panic.
She quickly said, “Mo Xicheng, listen up. I, Shi Nianyao, will not break up with you! Don’t even think about it for a moment.”
Mo Xicheng fell silent when she said this.
The silence made her panic even more. She spoke into the phone frantically, “Mo Xicheng, say something!”
“Mo Xicheng, are you still there?”
He faintly grunted, “Uh huh.”
She sighed in relief.
Then she continued, “Mo Xicheng, it’s you, and not your family background, that I’m in love with. So what if you’re an illegitimate son? The one who erred was your mother, not you! Hence, I will not break up with you.”
Mo Xicheng couldn’t help but laugh aloud at her insistence on not breaking up.
Shi Nianyao was taken aback. “What are you laughing at?”
“Yao Yao, I’m asking you for the last time. Have you really thought this through?”
Shi Nianyao bit her lip and then said, “I’ve thought it through.”
He was silent for a moment and finally said, “Yao Yao, I won’t mention break up again.”
Recently, he had increasingly grown to like having someone by his side.
As someone who had grown up in a dark and gloomy world, Shi Nianyao was the only light in his life.
He had tried to avoid her, but she had made all her efforts to be around him and close to him.
And gradually, he had grown addicted to this feeling of being in love. He could no longer let go.
Since this was the case, he wasn’t going to let her leave him again.
And this would be the last time he was asking this question.
