Beautiful and charming, all-rounder, only wants 1v1

It was almost six o'clock in the evening. In the midsummer, I smelled the delicious food and went downstairs automatically.

She stood on the stairs and saw a tall figure busy in the kitchen. There were several dishes on the table, which looked delicious.

Could it be that Uncle Zhou has come back and is cooking?

A man who can cook is awesome.

The kitchen was a bit smoky. Sheng Xiali thought she had to say hello anyway. She opened the door and was hit by the pungent smell of cooking fumes. She waved her hand in front of her face, a mask of pain on her face. "Uncle, do you need help?"

My uncle paused and turned around. It was Zhou Weiran.

"Uncle, uncle?" He took the cooking spoon and walked out of the kitchen in a few steps.

The door closed again. Sheng Xiali quickly opened the window and breathed in the fresh air. "Why is it you? I thought it was your dad cooking."

"His cooking is terrible, and he actually compares me to him." Zhou Weiran thought for a moment, "Do I look that old from behind?"

Sheng Xiali wanted to say something to him, but because of his hard work in cooking, she let it go, "The smoke was too thick, I couldn't see clearly."

She patted him with the back of her hand and said jokingly, "Hey, you're quite good at cooking. It smells so good."

"Try it?" Zhou Weiran turned around and took a bowl from the kitchen. Inside was a piece of brightly colored and tempting spareribs. "The first bite is for you."

In the middle of summer, he grabbed it right away, his eyes shining: "Delicious!"

The tender meat came off the bone easily, the braised sauce soaking in. She licked her lips, wanting to eat, "Ah Ba Ah Ba."

Zhou Weiran: "What is it?"

"What I mean is, I want to eat." Sheng Xia Li looked at him eagerly, completely different from his usual arrogant look. As long as he has food, he is her brother.

He smiled, "They should be back soon, it's okay for you to eat first."

"Forget it, I'll wait a little longer." She still had to maintain her ladylike image in front of her stepfather.

Zhou Weiran turned back to the kitchen and asked, "Do you want to eat the shrimp balls?"

"eat."

"scallop?"

"eat."

"Pork tenderloin."

"what--"

There was a noise at the door, and the feeding was stopped. Shengxiali ran over to greet them happily: "Uncle and Mommy, you are back~"

The fatigue on Ye Mingyan's face was swept away. "Oh, my little darling, you are so sensible. Come and help mommy put the bag on the sofa."

She then took Zhou Siming's coat and said, "Put them both over there."

Sheng Xiali did as she was told. When she turned around, Zhou Weiran came out with a few bowls. "You're back just in time. They're freshly made."

"Thank you for your hard work, Ranran." Ye Mingyan's expression was exactly the same as Sheng Xiali's just now, amazed. "Zhou Siming, your son is such a good cook, why not just open a private restaurant for him."

"Goodbye, Auntie. I just want to cook for my family." Zhou Weiran smiled and rolled up his sleeves. "I'll take the leftovers."

"I'll do it, I'll do it." Sheng Xiali snatched his rice spoon and smiled sweetly, "Chef, you take a break."

As long as she wanted, she could make everyone like her, but the prerequisite was that she was in the mood.

Zhou Weiran sat down, his eyes still fixed on her, a little shocked. Was she the same person in the morning and evening? Or was she only like this in front of adults?

The meal was extremely harmonious. Ye Mingyan said that he missed his daughter, but when Sheng Xiali came over yesterday, he didn't see her at all.

After dinner, she pestered her mother to watch a movie with her. It was in the living room, and there was a projector.

After a day's work, Ye Mingyan felt a little overwhelmed, and it was not appropriate to ask Zhou Weiran to accompany her daughter to the movies on her behalf, so she agreed.

After taking a bath, the mother and daughter sat on the big sofa. Shengxiali leaned her head on her mother's shoulder and stared at the screen.

The movie playing was a famous old film about giving up liberty or giving up life.

When she was very young, she and her parents did the same thing: after taking a bath, they would sit on the sofa and watch movies. She was protected by her parents, and even horror movies made her feel safe.

However, as she grew up, her mother became busier and her father had little interest in movies.

Gradually, the shadow on the sofa disappeared.

Perhaps Ye Mingyan also recalled that time and told her some things from the past.

Even before Sheng Xiali was born, she was often away from home, constantly busy with work and friends. Sheng Baozhou couldn't control her.

After she became pregnant, one day she made an appointment with friends to go out and wanted to go out, but found that the door was locked.

Sheng Baozhou didn't want her to go out. Naturally, there was a big fuss later, alarming both sets of parents, and the matter was over.

But she will never forget that day. Once the taciturn man developed a desire for control, he changed completely.

Shengxia had never heard of this before and hugged her mother silently.

It turns out that even then, there was a thorn in my mother's heart. Divorce is never a problem for one person. Perhaps, as my mother said, their personalities were incompatible from the beginning.

After watching the movie quietly for a while, Ye Mingyan's phone made some noises from time to time. In midsummer, she liked to watch movies immersively. She complained, "Who wants to talk to you about work at this time?"

"It's not about work." Ye Mingyan said with a smile, "It's about Mom's good friend. Remember Aunt Jin? You met her when you went out traveling before."

"That aunt with the round face and the constant smile?" Sheng Xiali quickly recalled, "I remember her."

"Her son has recently entered his rebellious phase and is against her every day. She says daughters are better, they are the sweetest and most caring ones."

"of course."

Shengxiali has always been a good baby in front of her parents. Even when she suddenly learned the news of her parents' divorce, she did not cry or make a fuss.

"Come to think of it, Aunt Jin and I arranged a marriage for you two before."

Sheng Xia Li was stunned: "Huh?"

"Her son, you haven't forgotten about him either, have you? Li Zhichu, you've been to their house."

"Is that so?" Sheng Xiali put two fingers on his temple and tried hard to recall, "Could it be that time in elementary school..."

"Correct."

That night, she went out with her mother, had dinner with her friends and their children, played idiom chain games in the same car, went to the bowling alley, and then the adults went to play mahjong. Mahjong inevitably smells of cigarettes and alcohol, which children can't stand.

She wanted to wait for her mother to come home together, but she had to watch TV in the evening, so she followed an older brother home and watched the live broadcast on his computer.

"So he is Li Zhichu." Sheng Xia Li struggled to piece together the picture.

Ye Mingyan was a little confused by her. "No, that's not it. The brother's family you're talking about is the one your dad's friend has, right? I forgot his name, maybe Cheng something."

Sheng Xia was confused: "Who is it again?"

The memory of mother and daughter is passed down from generation to generation.

Ye Mingyan remembered after a while: "It was when you were in junior high school. My company went on a trip and I took you with us. There were also the children of my mother's friends, a few boys, and one of them was Li Zhichu."

"Ok."

In the middle of summer, I only remember a few blurry faces flashing by. We were queuing up for rafting. Under the scorching sun, she kindly moved her umbrella over to share the umbrella, but was rejected.

At the end of the rafting, she lost her shoes and was carried back by one of them.

I only remember these two scenes. So which one is Li Zhichu?

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

Ye Mingyan complained to her: "You have a yellow croaker brain."

"Isn't it inherited from you?" Sheng Xia Li asked, "So why are you suddenly bringing up child marriage? I already have a boyfriend, you're not going to break us up, are you?"

"What are you thinking about? Am I that kind of person? Child marriage is of course just for fun." Ye Mingyan waved her hand, "I'm tired, I'm going to bed."

"The movie isn't over yet."

Just put the scene where the protagonist bribes the prison guard on the rooftop.

"Let's wait and see next time, or you can ask Ranran to come down and accompany you." Ye Mingyan yawned, and his butt had already left the sofa. It seemed that he could not stay there.

"Humph."

In the middle of summer, she pouted and hugged the pillow. She felt bored watching a movie without anyone to accompany her, so she turned off the movie and went back to her room.