Chapter 1252 - 836: The Grand Finale: My Dad and Mom Will Come Too!

"Then I’m going to bed."

Xiao Xiaoang was secretly delighted. He said "good night" to Su Xiaomeng, then hung up.

Xiao Meng took a shallow breath; her earlier sleepiness suddenly vanished. She was holding her phone, and she couldn’t tell if it had heated up from such a long call, or if her palm had inexplicably tightened and turned hot.

She got up and cracked the window open a little, then sat back down in the rocking chair, toes touching the ground, gently swaying...

She thought, that kid probably likes her. Even though he always looks cold and distant, not really willing to talk to her much.

Kids all seem to be like that—trying to act like adults, yet unable to hide the nature they’re born with as children.

For the school’s parent–child activity, neither Xiao Yan nor Pu Yang had time to go. That left Su Xiaomeng feeling a bit wistful, but on second thought, being a surgeon is different from other professions in some ways.

You can ask for leave, but the sick patients waiting for surgery can’t wait.

When both Xiao Yan and Pu Yang didn’t have time to accompany him to the school’s parent–child activity, Xiao Xiaoang thought of her...

On top of feeling flattered, she was also pleasantly surprised.

Yin Shixiu turned over. As soon as he stretched out his hand he realized the space beside him in bed was empty. He opened his eyes in a daze—sure enough, Xiao Meng wasn’t there. Seeing the dim light on the balcony was on, he got out of bed, walked over, and saw Su Xiaomeng asleep alone, leaning in the rocking chair...

The rocking chair swayed gently, her whole body curled up in it, and the window was cracked open just a little. It was already November, the weather had turned chilly, and the night wind blowing in brought a clear chill.

Yin Shixiu walked over and picked her up. His movements were very light, but Xiao Meng still opened her eyes, raised her brows, and muttered, "How did I fall asleep?"

"Exactly, that’s what you should be asking yourself. How’d you end up falling asleep out here?"

Su Xiaomeng looped both arms around his neck and chuckled. "Maybe it was just too comfortable sitting in the rocking chair, and then I just drifted off..."

"I see you’re still holding your phone. Who called you?" Yin Shixiu lifted one eyebrow and asked.

Su Xiaomeng pressed her lips together and smiled, then tilted her head, teasing Yin Shixiu,

"Secret! Not telling you!"

Yin Shixiu gave her a look. "Look at you, ’secret’... saying it like I’m dying to know."

"You don’t want to know?"

Su Xiaomeng’s brows arched even higher as she looked at Yin Shixiu with clear provocation.

Yin Shixiu tossed her onto the bed. "If it put you in such a good mood after the call... it’s probably Yin Meng, right?"

"Tch... it was not Yin Meng. I’m just not telling you, and anyway you don’t want to know." Su Xiaomeng yawned and burrowed into the covers. Yin Shixiu lifted the quilt, reached out and pulled her into his arms, pressing his face against her small shoulder, mumbling,

"Well, it definitely wasn’t some lover you’ve got out there."

"And you’d know that?"

"Of course I’d know."

"Yin Shixiu, don’t get too full of yourself, okay? You’re already forty. Even if you still look okay now, give it another ten years and you’ll be a little old man. By then I—I—ah ah ah—"

Su Xiaomeng hadn’t finished her taunting when Yin Shixiu’s big hand at her waist suddenly dug in and scratched her ticklish spot, cutting her off mid-sentence.

The two of them fooled around, and who knows how long they played before they finally felt a bit tired and fell asleep.

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The incident of Pu Wei plagiarizing Su Xiaomeng’s thesis, and the incident of Pu Wei falsely "bumping into" and framing Yin Shixiu, had more or less come to an end. The Pu Family’s reputation had taken a hit, but this was already the least damaging outcome.

The next day, when Yin Shixiu ran into Chen Lan at the company, Chen Lan was still talking to him about how they could make the Pu Family even more regretful going forward. Yin Shixiu was quite in favor of Chen Lan’s suggestions. In his view, whether Pu Wei apologized or went blind, none of it was enough to offset those two disgusting things she’d done.

But then he thought back to what Xiao Meng had said last night, and decided to let the big matter become small, and the small matter disappear.

Xiao Meng said she was only letting it go for Pu Yang’s sake, not pursuing it any further. Yin Shixiu was rather surprised by how much face this Pu Yang apparently carried. He’d basically had contact with all the Pu Family members; the only one he hadn’t met was this Pu Yang.

He had met Pu Wei ten years ago, when Pu Yang was only in her teens.

All he knew was that Pu Wei had a younger sister, but as for this sister, he’d never had any dealings with her.

It was just vaguely...

The old saying "people of one kind enter the same household" made Yin Shixiu feel a bit wary of Pu Yang.