"Susu, if Little Milk Bun doesn't see you in person, he's not going to go back into his own room. At this rate, I'm going to have huge panda eyes when I go to work tomorrow," Tang Xi said as she gave out a long sigh.
Su Xiqin frowned and said, "Can you give Jintian the phone?"
"Jintian, Susu wants to report to you where she is," Tang Xi said on the phone soon after.
After a few moments, Su Xiqin was able to hear her son's cute voice. "Susu," he said.
"Yeah. Mommy's coming home now. I'm going to be home very soon, so you should go to bed. Don't you still need to go to school tomorrow?"
Su Xiqin spoke in a gentle and sweet voice. So sweet as if she had rich chocolate on the tip of her tongue, and the fragrance was circulating in the car.
"Then come back now. I'll go to bed," Jintian said in his childish voice.
"I'm on my way. Hurry and go to bed."
When Su Xiqin hung up, she had a smile on her face. The dim street lights shined through the stained glass and onto her pretty face, emphasizing the beauty of her smile. Bai Yansen saw how beautiful she was, as if she were a fairy playing amongst the blooming March flowers.
Su Xiqin stopped smiling. Inside the car, the scent of tobacco circulated. Although the windows were half down, the small space inside the car still contained a ton of smoke, making it hard for Su Xiqin to breathe.
"..."
*Cough, cough*
She turned over to look at Bai Yansen, only to see that he had a lit cigarette in his hand. While she was silent, the windows on both sides had lowered, allowing the hot air from the outside to gush into the car. The strong tobacco smoke slowly drifted outside as the air circulated through the lowered windows. Then, Bai Yansen threw the cigarette butt out of the window, and it bounced on the asphalt road a few times.
Both of them didn't talk. Very soon, the air inside the car smelled fresh again, and Su Xiqin was finally able to breathe. Since the atmosphere in the air was rather tense, she lowered her voice and asked, "Can we go now?"
Bai Yansen looked at her with a sharp and deep glare, but a bit of emotion could be seen in his deep eyes.
Su Xiqin didn't know how to describe that feeling she got from him, but it felt like she was in the midst of a thunderstorm and yet in the cradle of a soft spring day.
She could sense Bai Yansen's change in emotions. He probably didn't appear tonight by accident, yet he said it was a coincidence. Let's assume it was a coincidence, but there was something he was seeking within that coincidence. She had not seen him after the day he angrily left her apartment. She couldn't exactly tell what he was thinking of through his eyes, but she knew that he didn't care about what she had said that night.
The look of his eyes was very special tonight, so special that she wasn't used to it.
"Do you always keep that little one alone at home?" Bai Yansen suddenly asked slowly.
"I don't think I have the obligation to respond to this question."
Bai Yansen's face turned gloomy immediately, and he said in a thought-provoking tone, "Is that how you treat your savior?"
Savior?
When Su Xiqin heard that word, she immediately thought how she didn't want to be in that sort of relationship with Bai Yansen.
However, she couldn't deny this relationship in front of him.
"Huh?"
Although he made this noise in a rhetorical tone, that sound was much stronger than any other word he could have uttered.
Su Xiqin frowned and immediately explained, "Rich people like you wouldn't understand how hard it is to earn a living. Also, I have a friend looking after him, so how would he be all alone?"
Bai Yansen didn't look as stern anymore, but Su Xiqin didn't want to waste time talking to him about this. "I'm sorry, but can you drive me further; it's hard to call a taxi from here."
Her words were still polite, but Bai Yansen wasn't as angry as he was before as he started the car.
The car started slowly, and it wasn't fast. Dead silence reappeared in the car.
Su Xiqin didn't know how to deal with this type of silence, but Bai Yansen suddenly asked when she didn't know what to do.
"I helped you out tonight. Shouldn't you repay me somehow?"
Su Yansen was surprised, but she quickly regained her composure and asked, "What kind of repayment do you want?"
If the other person was trying to make her life difficult, she needed to know how to throw the question back, so she wouldn't immediately play the wrong move.
This was a skill she learned through her years of work experience.
Bai Yansen frowned softly as he looked at her intently, as if he was searching for something. Those eyes showed clear fondness.
He intended to show her his mind through his eyes.
When Su Xiqin saw his eyes, she looked down and didn't respond.
"Why aren't you saying anything?" Bai Yansen smiled when he saw her response, but Su Xiqin didn't see that smile.
Su Xiqin had turned towards the window. There was an unravelling feeling in her chest.
She didn't know what to do now that he was chasing her. She only needed the divorce agreement now, so she was technically single, but she knew that she shouldn't get involved with this man -- Bai Yansen.
She decided to turn her head over and look carefully at his face.
"What do you want me to say?"
Bai Yansen looked over at Su Xiqin's face, which had turned as bright red as a ripe and fresh peach. Should he pick it?
His eyes grew deeper but yet brighter.
Su Xiqin realized that she had lost the ability to speak for a moment after seeing how he was looking at her. She felt lost and anxious as they gazed upon each other.
Her ability to remain calm was weaker than him, so she shyly turned away in the end.
The light had turned from red to green at this moment.
However, the Bentley stayed behind the white stop line on the streets with no sign that it would move anytime soon. Su Xiqin noticed this and looked over, meeting his eyes again.
"The light turned green," she awkwardly reminded him.
Bai Yansen still didn't start the car but rather continued to look at her with his deep gaze.
Su Xiqin's heart beat extremely fast under his gaze. She was so nervous that she fiddled with her hair as she put them behind her ears.
Since they were blocking the streets, the Lincoln behind them impatiently honked. The streets were quiet, so the honk seemed extra loud and ear-piercing.
Insults also resonated along with the honks.
In front of such a situation, Su Xiqin anxiously said, "The people behind us are in a rush."
"You didn't answer my question," Bai Yansen responded as he locked his eyes onto hers. His response wasn't fitting for her question.
Su Xiqin couldn't withstand such piercing eyes, so she looked down and said, "What do you want?"
Instead of responding, he asked her a question back, "Don't you know what I want?"
When Su Xiqin heard those words, her heart skipped a beat, with thousands of different thoughts and emotions rushing at her. Although he asked in such a confident way, she couldn't get herself to respond to it even if she knew the answer.
However, she didn't think it was a good idea to reject him directly.
After some deep thoughts, she decided to play dumb and looked up with a bright smile on her face,
She said, "I know that your company needs some new designs soon, so I can design a few sets of jewelry for your company for free."
By diverting the conversion to their work, she changed her position into something she can handle a lot easier. To Bai Yansen however, he viewed this as playing him as a fool, so his face sank deeper.
Along with Bai Yansen's growing frustration, the honks and noises from behind also grew louder.
With all this pressure, Su Xiqin couldn't handle it anymore, so she pulled Bai Yansen's sleeve and shouted, "Hurry up and drive!"
Bai Yansen looked at the soft snow-white hand that was pulling on his sleeve and paused for a few seconds.