The phone rang continuously about three times and then fell silent.
Su Xiaomeng thought angrily: Only three times and gave up! Hmph!
She pulled open the quilt, took a breath of fresh air, sat up, and squinted at the phone not far away:
Ring again, ring again, if it rings again I’ll pick it up...
Just as she was muttering this to herself, the phone really rang once more.
Su Xiaomeng pursed her lips, holding back a smile, and amusedly crawled to the end of the bed to get the phone. However, when she saw the unfamiliar number displayed on the screen...
The smirk disappeared without a trace.
An unspeakable sense of disappointment and dejection filled her, as she listlessly answered the call, "Hello..."
"Su Xiaomeng, you’ve got guts now, hanging up on your man’s call just like that."
The deep, magnetic voice of Yin Shixiu came through the phone.
Su Xiaomeng felt like her heart took a heavy blow, with a "thump" it went...
Then she knew, she might really be hopelessly in love with Yin Shixiu.
"Haven’t you also gotten bold..."
She muttered, "Daring to say things like ’not suitable’..."
Yin Shixiu leaned against the floor-to-ceiling window and hearing the little girl’s muttering, the annoyance that had just risen dissipated, and he chuckled softly...
"Meng Meng..."
"What?"
"I love you very much."
"...Hmm."
"You’re not that ordinary, and I’m not that capable."
"Actually, I think you understand all these things, there’s no need for me to say it again, but... I guess sometimes, women are just so troublesome. Even if they know it perfectly well, they still need to hear it once more to feel at ease."
Yin Shixiu said this with a tone of helplessness, but... also very patiently.
After all, the person on the other end of the phone was his beloved.
Su Xiaomeng hugged her knees, bowed her head, and listened to Yin Shixiu’s pleasant voice.
"You think you’re particularly ordinary, so when others see no worth in you, you start to doubt if my love is inexplicable. But Meng Meng..."
"In other people’s eyes, I may be considered a rich, talented, and handsome guy, right? So can I suspect that you love me just because of my money, my power, my status, my family?"
"I didn’t..."
"See?"
"Others might think you’re up to something by loving me, others might think I’m crazy for loving you... but only we know what Su Xiaomeng means to Yin Shixiu and what Yin Shixiu means to Su Xiaomeng."
"Shixiu..."
"Hmm?"
"I really think you talk too much..."
The gloom in Su Xiaomeng’s eyes shone with a hint of brightness, gradually radiating in the dark room.
"You can even make a piece of grass sound poetic..."
She teased softly, "And so cheesy too..."
"Eh, did I misunderstand? Isn’t it cheesy lines my wife wants?"
Su Xiaomeng pouted, "You just talk nonsense..."
"I’m telling you, girl, being melodramatic doesn’t suit you... if you think you’re plain, ordinary, then what is it to be extraordinary, remarkable?"
Su Xiaomeng raised her eyebrow, "Do you really think I’m good?"
Yin Shixiu smiled slightly, his gentle eyes reflected in the window, "I’m not stupid, I know what’s ordinary, common."
"But... why don’t they like me, why do those in your world not like me..."
"Those in my world? Haha... Who?"
Su Xiaomeng blinked her eyes and whispered, "Like your mom, your dad, your family... uh, also Bai Shunyuan..."
Mr. Yin and Mrs. Yin’s issues are water under the bridge, Yin Shixiu could tell, the real issue was with Bai Shunyuan.
He knew the problem lay with Bai Shunyuan.
"Meng Meng, that’s where you’re wrong."
"Huh?"
"Firstly, your positioning is wrong, my parents are antiques, as for those relatives, you should refer to Meng Meng’s parents, refer to Ming Lang who likes you a lot, not those Chairman Gu’s types like my parents."
"Secondly, measuring Bai Shunyuan with my standard, isn’t that a bit of an insult to me?"
"Pff..."
Su Xiaomeng burst into laughter suddenly, "Can you stop being so narcissistic?"
"If everyone could have such discerning eyes, would it be my turn then?"
"Um... I like to hear that."
Seeing Su Xiaomeng in a better mood, Yin Shixiu felt relieved, "Stop overthinking, listening to everybody’s opinions will bring you undue suffering."
"Um... I don’t listen to everyone’s opinions..."
Su Xiaomeng denied a bit sheepishly.
"Even if you don’t trust yourself, you should trust your husband’s judgment, shouldn’t you?"
"Hmph, must you always flatter yourself within three sentences?"
Su Xiaomeng lay down with the phone, wrapping herself up in the quilt again...
"Going to sleep?"
"...Are you busy?"
"No, just finished a meeting, resting now, it’s Christmas Eve, most employees have the day off."
"Then... stay with me a little longer."
Su Xiaomeng murmured.
"Miss me?"
"Um... a little starved for love."
"Love-starved... or needy?"
Su Xiaomeng’s drowsy brain instantly cleared, then her eyes widened, her face flushed.
She truly admired how Yin Shixiu could make her tongue-tied with just a few words!
"Surely you’re not... feeling it now?"
"Yin Shixiu, you’re such a rascal!"
"Haha... don’t worry, back tomorrow."
"Who’s worried!"
"Then should I stay a couple more days?"
"I dare you!"
"Haha, wouldn’t dare, wouldn’t dare."
Yin Shixiu quickly responded.
Su Xiaomeng took a soft breath and then said, "Shixiu... today, Bai Shunyuan said some very harsh things to me..."
Yin Shixiu’s eyes darkened, "What did he say?"
"He said he really dislikes me, thinks it’s embarrassing to be cousins with me..."
"I feel hurt..."
"Xiao Meng, whether it’s relatives from the Bai family or Yin family, you don’t need to cater to them."
"...Mm."
"Though your grandfather is your grandfather, you haven’t lived with him for these twenty years, and those relatives from the Bai family are also unfamiliar to you."
"...Yeah, really unfamiliar."
"No need to deliberately interact, the environment Bai Shunyuan grew up in is different from yours, and the impact of being cousins affects you both differently."
"Yeah, I definitely don’t want to acknowledge him as my cousin..."
Su Xiaomeng said, but then pursed her lips and shifted the tone of the conversation, "But uncle and mom have a great relationship, I feel like having a fallout with Bai Shunyuan... will be awkward, and if mom knows, she might feel uncomfortable."
"Your uncle knows very well what his son’s personality is like, there’s no need for you to worry unnecessarily."
"...Mmm, I’ll listen to you."
After Su Xiaomeng said that, she yawned, keeping the phone by her ear, "What time is your flight tomorrow... when will you arrive in Beijing? I’ll pick you up..."
"Arriving in Beijing should be around four or five a.m. Beijing time... I’ll have someone book a place at the hotel, in the evening... let’s stay out?"