Xia Xingchen borrowed the kitchen from Chi Weiyang. Knowing that she was coming, Chi Weiyang had already met her downstairs. When she saw Yu Zenan coming with her, her eyes were full of gossip.
"What's the relationship between you two?" Chi Weiyang couldn't help but ask while busying with her in the kitchen.
"We are just friends." Xia Xingchen replied calmly.
"You're still able to come to my place and cook a meal for him even though we're friends. Do I look so gullible?"
“I owe my job to him.”
"Him?" Chi Weiyang glanced outside the kitchen. Yu Zenan was watching TV in the living room outside. He was not twisting his body like he usually did in front of Xia Xingchen. Instead, he sat straight and had a very good temperament, which made him particularly popular in front of Chi Weiyang.
"Wasn't it the President who let you join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?"
When Xia Xingchen mentioned him, she thought of what happened on the court just now, and a complicated expression flashed across her face. She shook her head and said in a light tone: "It has nothing to do with him."
… …
A little after six in the afternoon.
Bai Yeqing asked Leng Fei to turn down the Ministry of Finance's event in the evening and return to the Presidential Palace early.
"Mr. President, do you want to eat now? The kitchen is already ready."
The butler stepped forward and asked.
Bai Yeqing lifted up his shirt sleeves, glanced at his watch, and asked coldly, "Where's Miss Xia?"
"Miss Xia hasn't come back yet."
He frowned, "Then wait a little longer."
"Okay." The butler nodded.
Xia Dabai came down from upstairs wearing home clothes and furry slippers. He glanced at his father who was sitting on the sofa reading documents, and he could tell at a glance that the president was in a very bad mood at the moment.
"Dad." He approached cautiously, crossing his legs on the sofa.
"Sit down." His eyes drifted towards Xia Dabai.
He exclaimed "Oh" in surprise and quickly put his white and tender little feet down from the sofa, and put his little feet back into his slippers.
"Xiaobai, are you waiting for Dabao to come back and cook for you?"
“…No!” He denied it with a gloomy face.
"Really?"
"You're so long-winded." Someone said with disgust.
Xia Dabai frowned, "If you're waiting for Dabao, then don't wait any longer. It's so late, Dabao must have forgotten to make dinner for you."
Bai Yeqing's expression suddenly became even uglier, and his gaze paused on the document.
"Xiaobai, let's go eat, okay? Okay?"
Bai Yeqing then realized that the boy was hungry, nodded, and ordered: "Butler, prepare the food!"
As a result, Xia Dabai was the only one left in the restaurant eating chicken legs. Bai Yeqing sat on the sofa and looked at his watch for the third time.
The butler came over and asked him, "Mr. President, please eat something first."
"Do not bother me."
"I asked the kitchen to make some soup for you. How about I bring it over for you to try?"
"No need, I have no appetite."
Since he insisted like this, the butler said nothing more and retreated in silence.
… …
after a little while.
The telephone in the house rang. The servant quickly answered it, and after a while, he walked into the dining room, "Young Master, it's Miss Xia calling, and she asked you to come and answer the phone."
Xia Xingchen’s phone number
Bai Yeqing glanced at the phone, thought about it, picked it up and was about to put it to his ear.
"Dad, Dabao asked me to pick him up!" Xia Dabai came out just in time and ran over in a few steps.
Bai Yeqing's face darkened, and he handed the phone over unhappily, "I'm handing it to you."
"Really?" Xia Dabai expressed his doubt.
Bai Yeqing didn't look at him, but went upstairs with a gloomy face.
… … …
"Dabao."
"Have you taken a shower?" Xia Xingchen asked from the other side.
"Yeah, I've washed it. It smells so good now." Xia Dabai said as he lowered his head and sniffed his arm. "Dabao, why haven't you come back yet?"
"Mom won't be home tonight."
"Huh? Are you and the uncle you dated this morning going to date all night long?"
"Of course not." Xia Xingchen laughed, "Dabao will stay at godmother's place tonight."
"I see. Then you should spend more time with my godmother. But..." Xia Dabao thought of something and looked upstairs, "Dabao, if you don't come back tonight, won't Dad's dinner be ruined?"
"What dinner?" Xia Xingchen was suspicious.
"Didn't you get up early in the morning to prepare dinner for Dad? Dad has been waiting for him and hasn't had dinner yet!" It's already past 7 o'clock!
Xia Xingchen was even more confused, "I didn't plan to prepare dinner for him?"
"No? But, Dad said..."
"I prepared those this morning for the uncle I was dating today."
Oops! It seems like there was a huge misunderstanding.
Poor old dad!
I waited for a whole day, and the result was... I was just being too sentimental.
When Xia Dabai was feeling full of sympathy for Xiaobai, he heard a loud "click" from the phone.
Xia Xingchen was stunned.
This was obviously the sound of someone hanging up the phone.
And at this moment the phone was not disconnected at all.
can only be…
"Dabao, it seems... Dad just eavesdropped on our phone call upstairs."
"… "
Xia Dabai felt even more distressed for his father. After hanging up the phone, he called out, "Uncle housekeeper, uncle housekeeper!"
"Young Master, why are you so anxious?"
"Hurry up and ask the kitchen to prepare a few dishes and send them upstairs for Dad to eat. He will definitely not come down again."
Being sentimental is a very shameful thing. A person who cares about face like my dad must feel ashamed and dare not go downstairs.
The butler didn't know the inside story, so he just nodded and said, "Oh, okay. I'll get it ready."
… … … … … … …
After hanging up the phone, Xia Xingchen huddled at the head of the bed with Chi Weiyang. She couldn't understand how he could have eavesdropped on her conversation with the child.
"You don't live in the Presidential Palace, but stay here with me. What are you thinking?" Chi Weiyang was playing games on his phone while talking to her.
"dislike me?"
"How dare I? Let alone you staying here for only one day, I wouldn't have any objection even if you stayed for a month or half a year. You are the mother of the president's son. I have to give the Buddha a favor, right?"
"Who said I only stayed for one day?"
Chi Weiyang sat up straight and looked at her, "Do you really have to live here for half a year?"
Xia Xingchen didn't say anything, but just hugged her knees in a daze.
After what happened today, I still don’t know how to go back and face him.
… … … …
Bai Yeqing didn't have dinner. He was so angry that he had no appetite.
So, the housekeeper brought the food upstairs the same way he brought it down a while later.
Xia Dabai was in the children's room, looking into the study room with his little head poking out. He really felt sorry for his father. So, after thinking it over again, he decided to risk his life to "comfort" him.
But is it really a comfort
The little hand knocked twice on the study door, but the person inside ignored him. He was not polite at all, and just said "Xiao Bai, I'm coming in" and pushed the door open.