Chapter 158 - How Self-absorbed Could He Be To Articulate These Things So Confidently? (1/2)
Song Yu conveyed Yu Qianying and Song Donglin’s message to Qi Chengzhi.
Qi Chengzhi frowned and said, “It’s fine even if we go back. If I’m there, I can also deal with Yu Zixiu once and for all. If mum doesn’t mind, I can make them suffer some losses to stop them from bothering you guys any further. It is not possible to destroy the whole Yu family just like that, even though they’re not a powerful family, they still have their own reserve. Moreover, they own a mega-company, it’s not an easy task to bring them down.”
Song Yu was fine with his idea. She said, “I don’t mind at all and I think my mother would be on the same page too. But for today, I think we should follow mum and dad’s will and not go home. To be honest, I don’t really want to see those people. Furthermore, we should respect mum and dad’s opinion since they told us to. If we go home and Yu Zixiu saw you, he probably won’t feel anything regardless of what kind of expression you give him, but my parents may not feel comfortable on the inside.”
Qi Chengzhi nodded his head and did not press the issue further. However, Song Yu felt rather downhearted because of it.
He held her hand gently while he used his thumb to caress the space between her thumb and her index finger. Even his thumb seemed to be longer than normal.
“Where do you want to go now?” he asked.
Song Yu thought for a while and finally went to the Qi family’s old mansion together with Qi Chengzhi.
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Grandmother Qi was filming in the set and Grandfather Qi brought Qi Youxuan out, leaving only Aunt Liu at home.
When they arrived, Aunt Liu was just starting to prepare Grandmother Qi’s lunchbox since she was not fond of the food prepared by the film crew.
“What does grandmother like to eat usually?” Song Yu asked Aunt Liu.
Before Aunt Liu could answer, the house phone rang. Aunt Liu hurried over to pick up the phone call, “Madam Qi!”
“…”
“Young Master and Miss Song dropped by.”
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“I’m about to prepare your lunchbox.”
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“No, I haven’t started yet.”
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“Okay.”
Aunt Liu hung up and returned to the kitchen and told Song Yu, “Madam Qi wants to eat mushroom with choy sum and soy sauce romaine lettuce for lunch today.”
Grandmother Qi’s order could be considered ordinary, perhaps she was craving for home-cooked food.
Since Grandmother Qi was getting old, she became more health-conscious. She had reduced the consumption of meat and only ate a certain amount of it, never exceeding the fixed portion.
Song Yu gave a thought before saying, “Aunt Liu, do you mind if I cook for grandmother? I’ll send it to her later too.”
“It’s…” Aunt Liu did not mind at all for Song Yu to do this, “I don’t really mind if you want to do it, but since it’s my job, I feel a little embarrassed.”
“It’s fine,” Song Yu said. Aunt Liu thought about it and felt that Madam Qi probably would not mind as well, so she agreed to her request.
However, she did not just leave everything to Song Yu. She still stayed back and helped out with the groundwork such as washing vegetables.
The dishes that Grandmother Qi ordered were not that difficult to make. Song Yu used to cook for herself back in the days if she got off from work on time, thus she was quite familiar with the whole process.
Aunt Liu brought a vacuum flask over after organizing the rice and vegetables in the lunchbox.
Grandmother Qi was not the one who requested the soup, but her diet had always revolved around health and beauty rejuvenation. Aunt Liu had started to boil a fish maw soup this morning, a whole pot of soup reduced to a thick, fragrant essence, just right to be served.
She poured the soup into the vacuum flask and handed all of it to Song Yu.
Qi Chengzhi saw Song Yu appearing from the kitchen with the lunchbox in hand. She explained, “Since we’re already here, we can’t just stay here and do nothing. Why not pay grandma a visit.”
Qi Chengzhi stood up without saying a thing. He took her hand silently and lead her out of the door.
Song Yu lowered her head and saw their interlaced hands, before looking up to see the focused gaze on his charming face. She could not resist leaning against him, pressing into his arms closely, the corner of her mouth could not help but curve upwards into a blissful smile.
“The real reason that you suddenly decide to send the lunchbox to Grandmother Qi is just to protest against Shu Li right?” Qi Chengzhi who remained quiet throughout the journey spoke all of a sudden, his mellow voice had a hint of mockery.
Song Yu blushed in guilt as his guess of her intentions was on point.
Other than wanting to have a peep of the set, her initiative to deliver Grandmother Qi’s meal was partially motivated by her wanting to show some colors to Shu Li.
How self-absorbed could he be to articulate these things so confidently?
Even though he guessed it correctly, Song Yu did not want to let this man brag right to her face. She said, “I told you, Shu Li was never my concern. Why should I demonstrate anything? I just wanted to visit grandmother, that’s all.”
“Tch!” Qi Chengzhi scoffed and squeezed her hand, “No one will mock you for being protective of me.”
Song Yu’s mouth twitched but she did not retort back. Instead, she looked at him embarrassed with a flushed face.
Qi Chengzhi looked at her shy expression, an indescribable tenderness without any affectation. Even though she became more alluring, she still exuded an elegant aura.
He could not resist squeezing her delicate hands, the more he did that, he became more enthralled with her.
She agreed in silence since she did not argue with him any further. He was not angered by her intentions. Instead, he was very glad about it, perhaps more than he expected. It was as if his heart was about to jump out of his body.
He did not even realize how happy he was. Was it even necessary?
After that, before he was able to clear things out, he lowered his head suddenly and kissed Song Yu’s lips deeply.
In fact, he made quite a loud sound by kissing her.
Song Yu’s lips got seared by his sudden kiss. Even though he released her shortly after before deepening the kiss like he usually would, her face was already burning up.
“What are you doing! We’re in public, someone on the street saw us,” Song Yu said in a lowered voice. Her face was scorching hot as if it was on the verge of exploding. Her lips were still tingling when they grazed against each other while she spoke.
“When did you start to care about being seen by others? You used to kiss me in public rather often,” he arched his eyebrow and teased her,
Song Yu felt as if he was insinuating that she was quite thick-skinned and said, “I won’t do that in the future.”
All of a sudden, Qi Chengzhi stopped walking. She did not notice at first and continued walking, but she got pulled back by his sudden stop.
Only then, she stopped and turned around. She tugged his hand, but it was as if he was deeply rooted to the ground and remained motionless.
“Why did you stop walking?”
Then, Qi Chengzhi pulled Song Yu towards him and she fell right into his arms.
His chest was muscular and sturdy, Song Yu’s nose felt a little sore when she collided with it.
“You won’t kiss me in public from now onwards?” Qi Chengzhi put up a stern face. His expression looked very fierce when he made a serious face.
“The way you said it made me seem very thick-skinned,” Song Yu mumbled softly, she lowered her head until the only thing he could see was the top of her head.
“Are you going to kiss me in public in the future?” Song Yu heard his voice sounded from above her head. His mellow tone caused a prickling sensation that swept over her scalp.
When she did not answer, Qi Chengzhi squeezed her hand and urged, “Kiss me and I’ll walk.”
“…” Song Yu lifted her head. She did not expect him to take it so seriously and even tried reasoning with her there and then. Therefore, she came up with an excuse, “If we keep delaying, grandmother’s lunchbox will turn cold.”
Qi Chengzhi arched his eyebrow and gave a mocking laugh. His laughter and the curvature of the corner of his mouth made her skin boil, “That’s why you should hurry up.”
“…” Song Yu was speechless. If she would not kiss him, he would refuse to leave, causing the lunchbox to lose its warmth.
Qi Chengzhi stopped urging her and eventually, he stopped talking and just stared at her with his dark and deep-set eyes.