Meeting of both sides (2)
“Mm…… If you insist on calling it wrong, this bow tie is not right. It should be tied differently.”
Uncle Xi immediately raised his hand to pull the bow tie.
Aunty: “Let me do it. I saw you spent almost half an hour tying a tie.”
This was simply the first f**king time in many years of marriage that there had been such a pleasant sentence!
Uncle was happy.
It didn’t matter if he wanted to pluck the flower field or not!
He would pay Bai Qi right away!
On this side, they finally tidied up, got into the car, and asked the driver to drive the car over to the address given by Xi Chengyun.
At the same time, Bai Qi and Xi Chengyun hurriedly returned to the apartment, took a shower, changed clothes, and rushed over.
Bai Qi was a bit nervous.
This was completely different from the first time he brought Xi-laoshi home.
He couldn’t help but fiddle with his cell phone, then quietly logged on to the same forum and made a post.
The post sunk fast to the bottom anyway.
Everyone thought he was an impostor.
He skillfully hit the keyboard to type:
[Help! Both parents will meet; how to avoid awkwardness during the meal?]
As soon as the subject was posted, he felt his tension relieved.
Bai Qi quietly exhaled, then heard Xi-laoshi’s cell phone ring.
Was it uncle?
“Hello.” Xi Chengyun picked up the call, and Shang Guang’s voice came out on the other end.
Shang Guang gasped lowly, slightly flustered, “Xi-laoshi, I, I……” He could barely restrain himself from trembling, “I couldn’t find that original copy.”
The expression on Xi Chengyun’s face changed, but he quickly regained his composure.
“Where did you put it?” He asked calmly.
“My house, the safety… box.” Shang Guang was completely unable to suppress himself. He felt like the sky was spinning before his eyes while speaking, and his hands and feet started shaking.
He never imagined that what he had been wary of not messing up for so long, in the end, it was him who dropped the ball here.
“Is there a password?”
“There…… is.”
“Think calmly for a moment. Who might even have access to this safe? The range should be small.”
Listening to Xi Chengyun’s calm tone without a hint of anger, Shang Guang gained more or less a bit of peace.
Shang Guang swallowed his saliva.
His hometown was not here, and his home only had a part-time worker coming in and out and her girlfriend…… but the other party did not know his password……
Shang Guang: “I, I’ll look for it immediately.”
Xi Chengyun: “Mm.”
On this side, Bai Qi heard something was wrong.
“Is something wrong?” He asked in a low voice.
Xi Chengyun hung up the call. “A small matter…… Shang Guang’s original copy is missing.”
Bai Qi froze.
This was not a small matter!
Xi-laoshi had a high level of topic-worthiness. If it fell into someone else’s hands, the other party would definitely have no qualms about sending it out. How much profit could it get in return? It could directly detonate the Hot Search!
Then, today’s scheduled meeting with parents…… was also basically all ruined.
At that time, would his parents suspect that they did not really like each other? His parents had always felt that marriage was sacred, and if the contract blew up, they would be angry…… Xi-laoshi probably couldn’t step on the Bai family’s door again within a year.
They might even suspect he had to marry a man reluctantly to settle things at home……
Bai Qi rubbed the corner of his forehead before Xi Chengyun grabbed his hand.
“Don’t be nervous.” Xi Chengyun was still calm.
Bai Qi asked in a low voice, “Isn’t Xi-laoshi worried?”
Xi Chengyun: “No.”
Bai Qi couldn’t help but ask, “Hasn’t Xi-laoshi…… ever been nervous?”
Xi Chengyun: “Of course I have.” He looked sideways at Bai Qi. “I pushed the door in and heard you complimenting Yang Xia on his long legs and Lang Ye on his handsome look……”
Bai Qi:?
‘I can’t believe you remember so well! You even remembered every word of how I complimented them!’
Xi Chengyun: “I couldn’t stop myself from kissing you. At that moment, I was very nervous. I wondered if you would be shocked, push me away, and slap me. That’s not so bad. What’s worse is that you felt disgusted by it and tore up the contract at top speed, never to have anything more to do with me again.”
Bai Qi froze.
It was the first time he heard Xi-laoshi talk about how he felt then.
Xi Chengyun: “There was also when I received my mother’s inheritance. I told you before that I needed someone to get married to fulfill an inheritance condition. So, now that the item has been received, there is no longer an excuse to continue with you. At that moment, I was nervous.”
“Qi Qi, there are many more moments.”
Bai Qi felt his mouth go a little dry.
He unconsciously swallowed.
Xi-laoshi’s appearance immediately seemed to become further fleshed out in his heart.
All of Xi-laoshi’s nervousness…… was related to his behavior.
Bai Qi gently exhaled and whispered, “I’m not nervous now.”
He couldn’t help but quietly hook Xi Chengyun’s finger.
He wasn’t nervous anymore.
He also hoped that Xi-laoshi would never be nervous again.
The road seemed extraordinarily long today.
When the car arrived under the residents’ building, Bai Qi moved the phone in his palm and realized it was sweaty from his grip.
“If things have been blown out of proportion when we go up there in a while, um… Xi-laoshi, don’t say anything. I’ll do the talking, okay?”
“Okay.”
“My dad won’t do anything if he’s angry. He just scared us last time with the rolling pin.”
“Mm.” Xi Chengyun responded in a low voice, his heart almost turning into a puddle of water. Bai Qi, who would seriously protect him, was too cute.
Bai Qi slowly finished climbing the stairs.
When the door opened, Uncle Xi’s face appeared first.
‘?’
‘Uncle has arrived so early!’
Bai Qi was nervous.
‘Then…… have they met?’
Uncle lifted his eyelids, “Your father is cooking in the kitchen.”
“Tick-tock,” as if it was the sound of something dripping on the ground.
Bai Qi glanced over.
Aunty had already shouted from behind first, “Xi Feng! You’re dripping water on the ground!”
Uncle hurriedly clutched both hands.
Xi Chengyun: “…… What is this?”
Uncle looked deeply at Bai Qi and said, “Your family is amazing.” ‘They’re all very good at romance from top to bottom!’
He was about to learn a dish from Bai Shan when the doorbell rang! Bai Shan insisted on him answering the door, saying something about, “How could you let your wife do it?” That made sense. He also didn’t tell Bai Shan that the people responsible for opening the door in their house were all maids.
Bai Qi: ?????
Uncle Xi: “Eighty million dollars. No, I’ll give you 1% of the shares, a one-stop package until I have a child. Won’t you consider it?”
Bai Qi: ?????
‘How much of this differs from my imagined meeting with the parents?’
‘Not to mention the Shura field* of the overturning contract!’
*Shura field: an Internet buzzword, refers to a scene in which interpersonal relationships are intricate and complex, and the people present have multiple associations with each other or unequal identity perceptions.
Xi Chengyun expressionlessly pushed Uncle Xi away. “My wife is very expensive.” ‘Who doesn’t have money or shares?’
“And at this age, you may not be able to have a child anymore.”
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