??Chapter 56: Chapter 56 Childhood Playmate_1
Chapter 56: Chapter 56 Childhood Playmate_1
Su Wanxia paused for a mont, “No, I’ve been too busy lately, he’s busy, and so am I.”
The more Su Wanxia said this, the more certain ng Can was that the two of them must be having a disagreent, but since she didn’t want to talk about it, he didn’t feel it was right to expose it, “Hehe, that’s good then.”
“Yeah, I’m off to edit photos.” With that, she picked up the design renderings from in front of ng Can and headed back to her own office.
ng Can stared in the direction she left for a long while before shaking his head bitterly. He had no place in her love life.
After Su Wanxia finished retouching the image, she rendered and printed it, nodding with satisfaction only then. She compiled and printed all the materials needed and checked the ti. It was past five, Mu Yingchen was likely still at work, and it wasn’t a ti he’d be in a eting, so she decided to show them to him.
Just as she was about to step out with all the materials, her phone rang. She took it out and looked, her eyebrows raising in surprise, “Mom, what do you need your daughter for now?”
Her mother laughed on the phone, “Xiaxia, co ho early today. We have guests.”
“Guests? Do I need to entertain guests too?”
“Don’t give
lip. If I’m telling you to co back, then co back.”
“Hehe, alright, I’m on my way.”
“Mhm.”
After hanging up, Su Wanxia reluctantly placed the materials back on her desk, packed up her things, and walked out.
Driving ho, she opened the door and was actually a bit surprised to see the so-called guests. Wasn’t this Uncle Fang from the birthday banquet last ti where Dad ntioned his good friend?
“Xiaxia is back. Co, let
introduce you again,” Su Wanxia’s mother pulled her along happily.
“This is Auntie Fang. She was overseas during your last birthday, so she didn’t et you. Now you can get acquainted.”
“Hehe, hello Auntie Fang,” Su Wanxia greeted politely.
“Good, good. Feiyu, Wanxia has grown more and more beautiful,” Auntie Fang said to Su Wanxia’s mother with a smiling face.
“Hehe, Shuyuan is also becoming more and more handso.”
“If Wanxia could beco my daughter-in-law, that would truly be the fortune of our previous life,” Auntie Fang looked at Su Wanxia affectionately.
“Uh, hehe,” Su Wanxia laughed awkwardly.
“Look at you. Our Xiaxia here is quite stubborn, and sotis she gets
pretty worked up too.”
“Girls will be girls. They’re supposed to have a little temper,” Fang Shuyuan’s mother replied.
Su Wanxia watched helplessly as her mother and Auntie Fang chatted on and on without end. She went over to the coffee table to greet Uncle Fang and Fang Shuyuan, then sat down next to her father.
They were playing Chinese chess, and although she wasn’t interested in these things, occasionally watching them was quite entertaining.
From the mont Su Wanxia entered the door, Fang Shuyuan couldn’t help but glance over at her from ti to ti. She seed to have a fatal attraction that made him inadvertently fix his gaze on her, staring blankly.
He was four years older than her. When he went abroad with his parents at the age of six, she was just a tiny thing, but often snuck out following behind him.
Back then, his impression of her was that she was mischievous and playful. However, he hadn’t expected that now she would be so different from when she was a child—graceful, charming, beautiful, and elegant, but that stubborn streak inside her was just like when she was little.
“Wanxia, could I take a look at your work?” Fang Shuyuan asked Su Wanxia in a gentle, polite voice.
Su Wanxia had been engrossed in the chess ga and suddenly heard Fang Shuyuan co out with this request.
She looked up, laughed, “Sure, it’s in the study upstairs.”
“Xiaxia, Shuyuan—since you’re both in the sa field, you could exchange ideas and learn from each other,” her father also looked up and said with a chuckle.
“Hmm, let’s head upstairs then,”
Su Wanxia had no choice but to lead Fang Shuyuan to her own private little book room. The room wasn’t big, with paintings of world-famous buildings on the walls, and shelves full of books.
“These are so of the works I designed while I was abroad. Please feel free to critique,” Su Wanxia said half-jokingly as she pulled out a large portfolio and handed it to Fang Shuyuan from the shelf.
“I wouldn’t presu to give critique,” Fang Shuyuan, being the cultured type, joked along with Su Wanxia, his expression rather comical.
After this exchange, the two grew gradually more familiar with each other, the initial awkwardness faded away, and they found they had much in common. The conversation was certainly lively.
“Actually, seeing you again after coming back to the country really surprised ,” Fang Shuyuan said while browsing through the portfolio and speaking with Su Wanxia.
Su Wanxia looked at him in astonishnt. “Why, have we t before?”
Fang Shuyuan shook his head helplessly: “Sigh, it seems you’ve really forgotten everything.”
“Ah? Really?”
“But, you were just a little thing back then. It’s normal that you’d forget,” Fang Shuyuan said reminiscently.
Su Wanxia raised an eyebrow, “, just a little thing, and you talk as if you were much older.”
“I think I was 6 when I left for abroad, and you were barely over 2, always following
around asking for sweets,” Fang Shuyuan said, looking at Su Wanxia with a hint of amusent.
Su Wanxia’s face was a picture of mortification, “That can’t be true, can it?”
“It’s true. If you don’t believe , you can ask your mother,” Fang Shuyuan chuckled softly, heads down.
“Then, what was I really like as a child? Tell ,” Su Wanxia had truly no mory of her childhood.
“As a child, you always bullied other kids, causing their parents to co to your house all the ti,”
“And you were especially lazy, a complete little sloth,”
At the corner of Su Wanxia’s mouth, a twitch ford. She was still rather lazy now, just that he did not know that.
“So kids were older than you, and when you couldn’t beat them, you’d co and find
to be your backup,”
“And there’s more—-”
As Su Wanxia listened to Fang Shuyuan’s continual ‘and then’ and ‘and then,’ she felt covered in black lines. Was he really talking about her? Was it really her? Was she really such a rascal as a child?
No, she definitely had to ask her mother about this soday.
“Wanxia, that day at your birthday party, was that guy your boyfriend?” Fang Shuyuan asked casually.
Su Wanxia paused, not sure how to define her relationship with Mu Yingchen. To be honest, she didn’t know either.
She smiled faintly, “Not right now, I guess.”
She hadn’t seen him or made contact with him for half a month, and she had clearly refused the idea of eting his mother. He was probably angry about that, wasn’t he? Deciding to ignore her? Then what kind of girlfriend was she?
“Oh, haha,” Fang Shuyuan laughed sowhat awkwardly, not saying anything further. He caught the key word in Su Wanxia’s statent, ‘not right now.’ If he rembered correctly, that man at the party had clearly called her his girlfriend, and now Wanxia was saying they were not, indicating that sothing must have happened between them.
“Xiaxia, Shuyuan, it’s ti to eat,” Su Wanxia’s mother’s voice ca from downstairs.
Su Wanxia smiled nonchalantly, “Let’s go, it’s ti for dinner.”
“Hmm,”
Around the dinner table, everyone was lively and cheerful, chatting about old tis, the atmosphere warm and convivial.
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