Become a stepmother and save the male protagonist of the painful literary school

Tong Ruixiao came out.

Compared to the boy's outward expression, he was expressionless and calm. "You said you were full, but you were the one who went to the kitchen to look for food in the early morning. How can I trust you?"

Tong Huaimu didn't expect that his father would find out about his cheating. His pupils shrank and his cheeks became hot after being exposed in public.

I wanted to make up for it, but I found that I had no excuses. My face turned red, "I! I..."

"Come here, we haven't had dinner together for a long time." Tong Ruixiao softened his tone.

One move was to intimidate, the other was to appease. Now the boy was completely speechless and could only obediently go to the dinner table.

He was extremely reluctant in his heart, and he couldn't show his disgust towards Jian Yan on his face. He also didn't want to eat the food she cooked, as he felt he was being disrespected, so he just lowered his head and poked at the rice in his bowl.

Jian Yan didn't try to persuade him what to eat. He just briefly introduced tonight's dishes and features to Tong Ruixiao, and then started eating.

Since she was a child, she was required at home to be a qualified socialite. She never spoke while eating or sleeping, and rarely spoke at the dinner table.

The Tong family didn't have such rigid rules, but because Tong Huaimu avoided her, the atmosphere was weird. This was almost as lifeless as before.

Tong Ruixiao broke the weird atmosphere and asked her, "I heard from the servants at home that you are very busy recently?"

Jian Yan raised her eyes and saw that there was no displeasure or other emotions on his face. She understood that he was just saying it casually, and her vigilance dropped a bit.

He nodded and smiled faintly, "It's a bit busy indeed with the opening of a new store."

"It's a pity that Xiao Mu doesn't like sweet things, otherwise she could try my new product."

Because the dessert was not served last time, she couldn't guess Tong Ruixiao's attitude towards dessert. She was afraid of being exposed, so she couldn't ask directly, and could only use Tong Huaimu's preferences to hint at it.

Tong Huaimu lowered his head. When he heard that he was called again, he felt impatient and disgusted, and squeezed the chopsticks tightly.

"He never eats sweets." Tong Ruixiao just agreed lightly without expressing his intention.

Jian Yan thought that he probably didn't like sweet things either.

The father and son have very similar tastes, they don't like spicy or sweet food.

It was not until Tong Huaimu said, "Dad, I'm full, I'm going back to my room" and quickly went upstairs that she asked someone to bring out the dessert.

Both of today's cakes are very pretty, lily pumpkin and blue and white iceberg cake.

The former is made of lily petals, pumpkin core, and topped with honey, which retains the fragrance of lily and has the sweetness of honey.

The latter uses rice cake as raw material, blueberries are made into the color of blue and white porcelain, and a hollow core is carved out. It is soft and glutinous without being loose, and the taste is not greasy.

After the servant placed several desserts on the tray on the table, she was about to reach out to take them when a hand reached out in front of her and took away a plate of Tsinghua iceberg cake.

She looked up in surprise, her eyes met the man's, and she was flustered for a moment.

Don’t they all hate sweet things?

The man saw her shocked expression and smiled gently, "My taste is completely different from Xiao Mu's. I prefer sweet and spicy food."

Her expression paused for a moment before she responded, "Really..."

Tong Ruixiao likes spicy food?

But the servants told her that the master couldn't eat spicy food. Why?

As if sensing the confusion in her eyes, he took out a tissue to wipe the pastry crumbs from the corner of his mouth and explained slowly.

"Although I like food with a stronger flavor, my body can't really handle it, so there's nothing I can do."

"So that's how it is." She thought thoughtfully.

Then he asked, "Why does Xiao Mu hate sweets so much?"

"When he was younger, he didn't have so many dietary restrictions, but he stopped eating sweets after his mother passed away. I asked him why, and he just said he didn't like them anymore."

"It's normal for children to have fickle tastes. There's nothing to worry about. Besides, not eating sweets isn't a big deal."

After hearing these words, Jian Yan fell into deep thought.

He has not eaten sweets since his mother passed away...

If it was just a normal change in preference, it would be nothing, but there happened to be such a precise time point, which means it was a psychological factor.

There must be a reason why something you used to like can turn into something you hate.

Tong Huaimu has many secrets.

In the live broadcast room, everyone else was a reader who had read both novels, so they naturally knew the reason. But they couldn't tell anyone, and the words they typed out about the plot would be deleted by the system to ensure that the anchor could complete his task without being disturbed.

Taotie: Yanyan baby, think about it, he is the male protagonist of the novel, the trajectory of his life is certainly not as simple as that of an ordinary high school student, he will have more or less bumpy experiences.

Yue Lao: He needs redemption, and his fate must be bumpy.

They can only give hints to this extent, and if they go any further the comments will be deleted.

Jian Yan kept their messages in mind and assumed everything about Tong Huaimu to be more serious.

She further probed, "Doesn't Xiao Mu's mother like sweet things too?"

Tong Ruixiao's hand holding the fork paused, and he raised his eyelids to look at her. There was a sense of real oppression in his eyes under the lenses, "Why are you asking this?"

"I just want to know if it's because after his mother passed away, he forced himself to change from liking sweet to not liking it in order to remember her preferences."

"I have no other intentions, I just want to make Xiao Mu happier. I feel that I am too far away from him and I know too little about him. I don't know how to get close to him."

Her tone was so sincere that it was impossible not to believe her words.

In fact, I didn't lie.

He lowered his eyes, with a hint of loneliness between his brows, "I can feel his rejection of me."

"I don't know what my ex-wife likes."

When Tong Ruixiao talked about his first wife who passed away, his face showed no other expression except a gentle smile. His tone was flat, as if he was talking about an irrelevant person.

Jian Yan looked at him. It was not until this moment that she clearly realized the inherent coldness of this man who always smiled.

I couldn't help but feel cold.

The more gentle and approachable a person appears on the outside, the colder and more indifferent he or she may be on the inside.

The smiling tiger is true.

It was the last time to speak, but Jian Yan asked "inappropriately", "Are you and Xiao Mu's mother also in an arranged marriage? Like me?"

Not only did he ask, but he was also very straightforward, without any embellishment in his words.

Tong Ruixiao was obviously startled, then denied it: "No."

no? !

A trace of shock flashed across Jian Yan's eyes.

Even if it wasn't a marriage of arranged marriage, he would be so cold to his wife. He is really a very cold person.

He saw what she meant, and there was no need to explain. But for some reason, he patiently said a few more words to the marriage partner, "My marriage with her is not an arranged marriage. It is a marriage of pregnancy at the request of our elders."

"We got married with a baby..."

Jian Yan chewed these four words in his mouth. His impression of him did not change at all, but became worse.

A man who doesn't love a girl but has a child with her. It can't be said that he is worse than pigs and dogs, but he can only be called a beast.