Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

"I don't want it!"

When Lin Xi, who had always disliked Shen Jingyuan, heard that Commander Lin, who had always doted on her, had also rebelled and joined the team to attack her, she immediately became furious.

Like a cat whose tail was stepped on, she suddenly slammed the chopsticks in her hand onto the edge of the bowl, her eyebrows raised, and was about to throw a string of harsh words at Shen Jingyuan.

But before she could finish her words, Commander Lin, who was sitting beside her and wiping his mouth slowly, suddenly spoke softly, easily cutting off her raging anger.

"Your grandpa called me a couple of days ago and said your grandma missed you so much that he asked me to send you back to the old house in Jinling to stay for a few days."

His tone was nonchalant, as if he was casually saying "the soup is a bit bland", but when these words fell into Lin Xi's ears, it was like a bolt from the blue.

The arrogant look on her face that had just been burning and almost burned Shen Jingyuan's face suddenly disappeared completely, and was replaced by a suffocating flush. Her whole body wilted in an instant like a balloon that was suddenly punctured.

"I'm not going to Jinling!"

The sarcastic remark that had been brewing for a long time and was enough to pierce Shen Jingyuan through the mouth suddenly turned 180 degrees on the tip of the tongue and turned into a resistance with a strong sense of grievance and unwillingness.

Lin Xi stammered several times, as if there were thousands of words stuck in her chest, but in the end it just turned into a short and muffled growl, with a hint of giving up.

Lin Xi's grandparents both lived in an old house in Jinling. The old couple were living fossils of the old times, so old-fashioned and conservative that they looked like they had walked out of a yellowed thread-bound book. Although they loved their only granddaughter, Lin Xi, they looked down on her impetuous behavior and the fact that she didn't look like a lady from a noble family at all.

Every time she went back, the two old people's rapid-fire nagging would criticize Lin Xi from head to toe, inside and out, and her ears were almost callused from listening to it.

If it was just lip service, Lin Xi would have tolerated it out of understanding the old people, but they still stubbornly adhered to those outdated rules, firmly believing that the daughters of wealthy families should be like the ladies in old paintings, never leaving the main door or the back door.

As soon as Lin Xi stepped into the threshold of the old house, she felt like she was locked in an invisible cage. Not to mention going out to have fun, even taking a few more steps in the yard would attract the old couple's disapproving gazes.

The most memorable thing for Lin Xi, the one that makes her feel uncomfortable whenever she thinks about it, is the time when she was a child.

The old lady watched Lin Xi fluttering her feet in the yard day after day, chasing butterflies and playing with cats, which was really outrageous. For some reason, she pulled out a few feet of white cloth and wanted to bind her feet.

Lin Xi thought her grandma wanted to play with her, so she happily went to greet her. However, in the blink of an eye, her arms were grabbed, her shoes were pulled off, and her feet were about to be wrapped in white cloth.

Fortunately, Lin Min appeared in time and snatched the frightened and crying Lin Xi from the old lady's hands, and took people back to Shanghai that day.

From then on, every time Lin Xi thought of the old house in Jinling and her grandparents, she felt a little scared.

If it weren't for her brother, Lin Xi would probably be just a delicate young lady who walked with three-inch golden lotus feet and staggered with every step. How could she go out and wander around Shanghai like she does now?

Thinking of this, even though Lin Xi knew that Commander Lin's words were most likely bluffing and just to scare her, she still cowardly admitted defeat.

She reluctantly picked up the chopsticks that she had just placed on the bowl, and with some reluctance, she buried herself in the bowl in front of her, leaving only the top of her dark head exposed.

Lin Xi's voice came out muffled from the bottom of the bowl, with a hint of grievance that was barely noticeable, and she stubbornly repeated, "I'm not going to Jinling."

Seeing that she had finally given up and looked defeated, Commander Lin, who was sitting at the top, glanced at Mrs. Lin beside him without any expression.

Their eyes met quickly in the air, and a tacit smile flashed across their eyes, almost overflowing.

Mrs. Lin quickly picked up the teacup beside her to hide the curve of her mouth, while Commander Lin suppressed the laughter that was surging in his throat and cleared his throat in a pretentiously majestic manner.

"Well, not going to Jinling... is fine." He spoke slowly, deliberately lengthening the tone to whet Lin Xi's appetite, and then continued, "I told your grandfather that Jingyuan is going on a long trip next month, and he needs your help to pack his luggage. When your grandfather heard about it, he praised you on the other end of the phone for being 'sensible' and 'knowing how to take care of others', so..."

He only said half of his words, but several people at the table, including Shen Jingyuan, who had been eating quietly as if he was not involved, instantly understood the hidden meaning - Lin Xi was able to "escape" this trip to Nanjing thanks to Shen Jingyuan's shield.

Lin Xi suddenly raised her head from the bowl, and the remaining frustration on her face was instantly replaced by an indescribable complex expression mixed with shame, anger and being exploited. Her eyes subconsciously darted towards Shen Jingyuan.

This jerk! Who wants to use him as a shield? Who the hell does he think he is?

Lin Xi felt a surge of anger rushing to her head. Her lips moved and the harsh words "Who wants to help you pack your luggage" were almost about to come out of her mouth.

However, just as she was about to say this, her peripheral vision caught the gaze of Commander Lin above her.

Thinking of the old-fashioned Old Master Lin, Lin Xi's heart skipped a beat. The raging anger seemed to be poured over his head by a basin of ice water, and it died down instantly.

She swallowed back the words that were about to come to her tongue. It felt like there was a ball of cotton stuck in her throat, and her face turned a little red.

There was a strange silence at the table.

At this moment, Mrs. Lin put down the spoon in her hand at the right time and broke the silence with a smile.

"Look, Grandpa is praising our Xixi for being sensible and taking care of others." Her smiling eyes fell on Lin Xi, with a bit of doting and helplessness, "In that case, shouldn't you apologize to Ayuan for hurting him like that last time?"

Who should apologize to him? He was clearly the one looking for trouble.

Lin Xi really wanted to blurt out this sentence, but when the words came to her lips, the resistance to the old house in her heart temporarily overwhelmed her dislike for Shen Jingyuan. She could only shut her mouth in disappointment and looked at Shen Jingyuan angrily, trying to make this guy be more "sensible" and actively reject Mrs. Lin's request.

Ever since Shen Jingyuan received the call from Mrs. Lin asking him to go home for dinner, he knew the purpose of this dinner.

He didn't care about Lin Xi's hypocritical apology, and in Lin Xi's view, the bite mark was a fatal one, which was not worth mentioning compared with the wounds he had left in the military camp and on the battlefield in the past.

The reason he came as invited was simply because he hadn't had a good meal with Commander Lin and his wife for a long time. Besides, the life-threatening mission next month was hanging over his head, so he just regarded it as a farewell dinner for himself.

Therefore, when Mrs. Lin asked Lin Xi to apologize in a gentle tone, the word "no need" was already on the tip of Shen Jingyuan's tongue, ready to come out.

However, the moment he raised his eyes, he met Lin Xi's dangerous gaze.

There was fire in her beautiful eyes, without a trace of apology. What's worse, she took advantage of the moment when Commander Lin and his wife were looking away, and quickly and silently threw a fierce warning at him with her lips, which only he could see clearly.

"You dare to ask me to apologize?"

Shen Jingyuan frowned, then suddenly relaxed his brows, swallowing the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

He said nothing, but slowly put down the bowl and chopsticks in his hands, took a napkin and wiped his mouth, then leaned back slightly on the chair, folded his hands casually in front of him, looked at Lin Xi, raised his eyebrows imperceptibly, and spoke silently.

"I am waiting."

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