Chapter 158: Spouses With Benefits
Professor Li wasn't the perfect woman Qian ng had thought her to be. She was a partial parent… and she was a flawed parent. At that mont, she felt like de-escalating the situation.
"If you ask the hotel employees, they will let you know the number of tis we went on dates or boarded the sa plane, or we stayed over at each other's residence. You just ignored the signs," Qian ng explained softly.
Yize shifted her eyes to Qian ng and she glared. Until she suddenly rembered Qian ng sliding into the front seat and talking so seriously with Mo Qingchen that night they destroyed Bai Ye Qing's car. How Qian ng had called her older brother like she didn't think it was wrong to ask for help from him.
Mo Yize shook her head before sighing. "I'm a little tired. I'll freshen up and co down for dinner." She shook her head slowly and then turned on her heel and walked out of the room.
"She'll co around," Li Li Hua said, putting her hand on Qian ng's shoulder.
Qian ng looked at the woman and tried to give her a smile.
"I'm going to fix myself a drink. Does anyone want anything?" Mo Zichen asked.
"I'm alright," Li Li Hua said quietly.
"I'm going to go put my laundry in the utility room." Mo Xiao Chen answered before walking out of the room with his laundry bag.
Mo Qingchen didn't respond but took a sip of his water before looking away.
"I'm okay," Qian ng said politely and lifted her own drink.
Mo Zichen left towards the kitchen and Li Li Hua took her left hand in hers.
"Mo Qingchen!" she said in an accusatory tone. "You proposed without a ring?"
"I wanted to buy her a ring, mother. What kind of a man do you think I am?" he asked. "But Qian ng is picky and I want us to wear sothing personal and special to us. We decided that she would design our rings."
Li Li Hua gasped. "Oh, Mo Qingchen. You turned out to be a romantic! I'm so proud, son."
Mo Qingchen looked at Qian ng sheepishly and she had to laugh.
"He's romantic without knowing it. He'll say the most chanic things without realizing that they make my heart flutter," Qian ng said softly. Calling her picky? He had been the one who spent hours at the store!
Mo Qingchen looked at her with surprise, wondering where Qian ng was getting these dialogues from. She was a woman on a mission, that was for sure.
"I am dying of curiosity, but I don't think it's good to know about my son's love-life. I don't want to be a prying mother-in-law," she joked.
Qian ng snickered and didn't say any more.
And then Li Li Hua left the room as well. Mo Qingchen seated himself beside her once again and rubbed circles on her back, a soothing gesture.
Qian ng looked at him with one brow arched. There was nobody around them and he wasn't a physically affectionate person… at least, the platonic kind.
"What?" he asked with a smirk. "Am I not allowed to touch my fiancé?"
"I didn't say anything," she comnted. She had to say, the soothing circles were helping her nerves quite a bit.
He tilted his head to the side and watched her face curiously. "Weren't you the one who asked to be comfortable around you?" he teased.
"Yes. We'll be spouses with benefits soon," Qian ng said, joking.
"Exactly," he said, a laugh in his voice, his hand still on the small of her back. "My father doubts us. It won't hurt to show a little affection, what do you think?"
Before she had the chance to answer him, she heard the sound of soone coming through the door. Mo Qingchen also looked up and they saw that it was Li Li Hua. As she took a few steps towards them, she looked between the young couple.
"I just wanted to let you two know that dinner is ready," she told them with a warm smile.
"Good. I'm hungry. I didn't have much to eat today," Mo Qingchen claid, standing up.
He turned back around to face Yun Qian ng and extended his hand in an offer to help her up. She took it effortlessly and stood up, but Mo Qingchen didn't release her hand once she was on her feet. Instead, he intertwined their fingers together and held it firmly in his.
Li Li Hua glanced at their linked hands and her smile imdiately widened, but she didn't say anything. Instead, she just turned and walked back towards the door with Mo Qingchen and Qian ng following behind her.
Mo Yize never returned for dinner. Qian ng had no idea if it was because of her or Li Li Hua asking her not to co down, but nobody ntioned Yize for the rest of the night. Qian ng then knew for sure that Li Li Hua had asked Yize not to co down.
So, it was Mo Zichen, Li Li Hua, Mo Xiao Chen, Mo Qingchen, and Qian ng for dinner. It was a strange feeling to be eating with another family.
She had never spent any ti with these people and it was really weird at first.
Li Li Hua was nothing if not a warm spirit. Maybe she sensed Qian ng's nervousness and tried extra hard to make her feel accepted because she certainly did. Without Yize, no one voiced their judgnts or intolerance at the news.
Mo Zichen was eerily calm and Mo Qingchen couldn't help but think that he was waiting for the right mont to sow discord.
Other than that, Mo Xiao Chen seed to be excited about their announcent.
"So, does your family know about your engagent yet?" Mo Zichen asked halfway through dinner.
"No, not yet," Qian ng answered. "You are the first people we have told. So, I guess my family will be next."
Mo Zichen let out a small smile. "That's good. I'll give you points for telling before that senile old man." He snorted. "How is Yun Sui Bo doing though? Miserably losing his mind and trying to micromanage?"
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