"...Is this little boy from the Ren Family?"
He asked casually.
"That’s right, Ren Yixuan was handso when he was young, unlike ng ng, she was quite round when she was little."
Yin Shixiu was flipping through the photo album... the pages were filled with pictures of Su Xiaong and Ren Yixuan...
Although Su Chengji was often scatter-brained, he clearly felt the storm clouds gathering over Yin Shixiu’s head.
"They were just kids. Xiao ng used to cry a lot when she was little, but as long as she was with Yixuan, she would calm down, so her mother often left her at the Yixuan’s house."
Dad explained, while Su Xiaong felt her heart sway.
"Kids their age were all only children, very lonely on their own."
"Exactly."
Yin Shixiu’s tone was still natural, which made Su Chengji sigh in relief.
Su Xiaong wasn’t sure why she felt so anxious. These were just childhood photos...
Yin Shixiu shouldn’t be jealous over sothing like this, right?
While thinking this, she also felt that it would actually be good if he was jealous. It could show how much he really cared about her.
After flipping through the thick album, Yin Shixiu handed it back to Su Chengji, smiling faintly, "If Shuangshuang turns out just like Xiao ng did as a child, I might really have a headache."
"Haha!"
Su Chengji laughed heartily, holding the album as he left the room. He brought the album probably just to hear Yin Shixiu say sothing like that.
Mission accomplished, retreat.
Su Xiaong glanced at Yin Shixiu, "What’s the headache for? Wasn’t I just fine?"
Yin Shixiu walked over to her, wrapped his arms around her waist, and rested his forehead on hers, "Why were you so chubby as a kid?"
"That’s called baby fat, baby fat!"
Su Xiaong hurriedly retorted.
Yin Shixiu gave her a light kiss on the lips, his eyebrows lowering as he suddenly asked, "Did you ever love him..."
Su Xiaong’s heart skipped a beat, then she quickly pulled his cheek, raising her eyebrows with a playful smile, "Co on, jealous?"
As if this could ease a bit of the uneasiness in her heart.
"Answer ."
Yin Shixiu’s voice was very soft, yet there was an assertiveness that left her no room to evade.
"Uh... you want the truth?"
Su Xiaong rolled her eyes, then asked.
Yin Shixiu nodded, unsure why he was being so awkward...
Clearly, it’s all in the past, clearly, this girl now belongs entirely to him.
He believed this so firmly, yet when he opened that heavy photo album, he wavered.
That thick album contained not just monts, but nineteen years strung together by all those monts.
From infancy to adulthood, from naive and ignorant to youthful and half-mature... her changes were dramatic, but the one constant was... the boy standing next to her.
Jealousy roared like a tiger or dragon, engulfing him.
As soon as he asked the question, he regretted it, wishing he could swallow his tongue, yet stubbornly waiting for her answer.
How foolish a question is this?
If she nodded and said she did love him, what would he do? Even though he ca after Ren Yixuan, he sohow won her over. What else could he want?
If she shook her head and said she never loved him, it’s the answer he wanted... but Yin Shixiu, would you believe it?
If you were willing to believe, then why ask such a foolish question?
Su Xiaong held onto his neck, looking directly into his eyes...
"I don’t know."
This answer left Yin Shixiu a bit stunned.
"If you ask if I love you, I think... uh... heaven and earth can bear witness."
At this point, Su Xiaong was still teasing with a playful tone.
Yin Shixiu didn’t know whether to feel relaxed or frustrated by her words.
"But if you ask about Ren Yixuan... and you want the truth, uh... Uncle, I don’t want to lie to you, I truly don’t know."
"At least before I realized I loved you, I thought the feelings I had for him were probably akin to, approximately... love, right?"
"Otherwise... why don’t you analyze it for ?"
"Analyze what?"
"Uh... back when Ren Yixuan asked to be his girlfriend, I was really excited. Does that an it was love?"
"Bullshit, that was just you being immature!"
Yin Shixiu grumpily nibbled on her nose, her ambiguous answer akin to a cat’s paw scratching his heart little by little.
"So young, do you even know what love is? Huh?"
His low voice carried overwhelming dominance.
"If I ask you again in the future, or if soone else asks you this question, you have only one answer, which is you never loved him! Got it?"
Su Xiaong was tickled by him, bursting into laughter and then nodding.
Yin Shixiu’s expression softened too, stupid as it might be at the mont, calmness returned and he found himself quite amusing.
Seeing her proud eyes, with their rippling charm, was truly irresistible.
His heart stirred, and he leaned in to kiss her rosy lips...
Just as he kissed her, Shuangshuang lifted her little hand and slapped Yin Shixiu on the butt!
Yin Shixiu furrowed his brow, turned around, and faced Shuangshuang’s continuously grinning face, as if she was waiting for him to turn.
Su Xiaong stifled her laughter, giggling inwardly.
Seeing that Yin Shixiu didn’t speak, Shuangshuang raised her hand and slapped his butt with a "pia."
Yin Shixiu turned around and hugged the little one into his arms, "Girl, what are you up to?"
Then Shuangshuang began her unrestrained, devilish laughter.
Yin Shixiu and Su Xiaong exchanged a glance, feeling helpless.
By dinner ti, the two of them left the bedroom together.
Shuangshuang slept, and Prince Huang then woke up.
The little one sat fixed in a high chair, occasionally sipping soup handed over by Dad, tasting the fruit and then the little pastries.
Perhaps the dishes weren’t to his liking; he leaned back, clutching his bottle, watching the four adults eat like a little king.
On New Year’s Eve morning, Su Chengji and Yin Shixiu got up early to stick couplets by the door.
Su Xiaong joined Mom in the kitchen to make dumplings and cook glutinous rice balls.
After the two kids woke up, they changed into new clothes.
The new clothes were prepared by Yin Shaohui and Zhou ngqin.
They were two handmade Tang suits tailored for Huang Huang and Shuangshuang, one red and one yellow, embroidered with dragon and phoenix, symbolizing auspiciousness.
After taking photos, Su Xiaong sent them to Yin ng, who then showed them to Yin Shaohui and Zhou ngqin.
Busy with the New Year’s Eve dinner, the mother and daughter worked from morning till night.
Yin Shixiu and Su Chengji, the two big n, were responsible for looking after the kids, cleaning up, and playing chess.
A big table full of dishes was set, truly no worse than those at a restaurant.
With fewer people in the house, each dish wasn’t large; the family didn’t like eating leftovers, so Su Ma controlled the portions well, avoiding overeating or wasting food.
Because it was New Year, Su Chengji pulled Yin Shixiu to drink a few more glasses.
One of Su Xiaong and Su Ma’s yearly pleasures was using the cara to capture Su Chengji’s drunken embarrassnt and showing it to him later.
Yin Shixiu could hold his liquor, but after knocking Dad out, he was also not clear-headed.
Su Xiaong raised the cara, capturing a few close-ups of Yin Shixiu’s drunken face.
"Mom, take a look... Aren’t Shixiu’s eyes particularly beautiful?"
Su Ma really leaned over for a close look. She truly couldn’t see any difference compared to others’ eyes.
"Right?"
Su Xiaong insisted on an answer; Su Ma chuckled, "Yes."
And so she continued happily photographing close-ups of the handso uncle.
Yin Shixiu wasn’t too muddled; noticing her waving the cara around, he squinted his eyes and snatched it over, pulling Su Xiaong into his arms too.
Su Xiaong blushed, oh... Mom was watching.
She wanted to push him away, but Yin Shixiu held her tighter, his gaze blurry yet sowhat sly and cunning.
His dark brown pupils seed dyed as black as ink, yet within them danced small, small sparks of fire.
He hugged Su Xiaong, adjusting the cara lens to face them.
Su Xiaong saw his lips approaching her earlobe, half-squinted eyes, enjoying a gentle nuzzle.
Su Ma sensibly got up, walked over to nudged Su Chengji, who was drunkenly out of sorts, not planning to move.
Su Xiaong wished she could sink into the earth.
She firmly pinched Yin Shixiu, but unexpectedly, he bit her neck.
Su Ma pretended not to see and gave a fierce pinch to Su Chengji, who remained unresponsive.
She leaned in to whisper sothing in his ear, and he imdiately revived, saying, "No way!"
Su Ma chuckled and then took her husband’s hand, "Alright, let’s go to bed."
And so soone followed Su Ma upstairs to the bedroom like a child.
Su Xiaong wanted to grab her mom and ask what she had said to Dad.
"Focus..."
Yin Shixiu held the cara in one hand...
"Focus on what?"
Su Xiaong was almost in tears, especially looking at herself captured by the cara at that mont.
Yin Shixiu planted a kiss on her cheek, his eagle-like eyes shedding cleverness, revealing a domineering and sly charm.
His husky voice tugged at her heart, "I should have shown you this self long ago... Aren’t you especially beautiful?"
Su Xiaong replied coldly, "I don’t see beauty; I only see a perverted uncle..."
"Perverted? If that’s perverted, then what the uncle wants to do next... what is that?"
Su Xiaong was at a loss... What nonsense was this guy thinking again?
"Shixiu, are you drunk or not?"
She began to speculate.
"Guess..."
"Guess your big head ghost!"
"Don’t forget, we still have to call Mom and Dad... and also Grandpa..."
"Let’s talk about it tomorrow..."
At so point, the cara fell onto the carpet, its screen showing only so table legs and the distant sofa...
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