Pretending to be cute

An hour later, the door of the cafe was pushed open again.

The woman in a hurry thanked the waiter for her greeting, looked around anxiously, completely lost her usual calmness and self-control, and was only slightly relieved when she finally found the little girl looking at her in the corner, and strode over.

What was reflected in Xiao Ling's eyes was such a scene.

During the hour of waiting, she was extremely tormented.Even though she knew that Li Mi was dumbfounded, even though she knew that Li Mi cared about her very much, even though she knew it, she still couldn't help thinking, how could such a clumsy lie like Ling Sheng deceive that vigorous and resolute President Li.

This is not in line with reality.

But in fact, her sister Li really believed it, and rushed over without even making a phone call to confirm.

Xiao Ling didn't know whether to be happy or sad, so he could only sit on the chair and stare blankly at Li Mi approaching step by step, crushing the remaining hesitation in his heart.

"Does it hurt?" Li Mi walked in front of Xiao Ling, first looked her up and down, but didn't see any obvious trauma, and frowned, "Ling Sheng said there is a broken skin, show me."

"No." Xiao Ling shook his head.

"Ok?"

Xiao Ling said honestly: "Sister Ling lied to you, I was not injured or fell."

Li Mi: "..."

Li Mi glanced at the seat where Xiao Ling was alone, and tightly held the bandages, gauze and cotton swabs in his pocket: "Where is Ling Sheng?"

Xiao Ling pointed to Ling Sheng's original seat, where there was a cup of tea and a tiramisu: "Sister Ling knew you would be angry, so she ran away after calling. Before she left, she asked me to tell you, white chrysanthemum tea To clear away the heat and cool off the heat, and dessert to dissolve the anger, it is time to make amends."

Li Mi: "..."

Even Li Mi, who has always been good-tempered, was helpless with Ling Sheng's routine.She sat in Ling Sheng's original seat, and originally didn't want to eat this apology, but the little girl in front of her opened a pair of wet deer eyes, and looked at her timidly, as if she wanted to apologize but didn't dare. Soft.

Li Mi sighed, took a sip of white chrysanthemum tea, felt the taste was weird, put down the cup again: "It's not good."

This is what it means not to be angry.

Xiao Ling was silent, and handed over his own lemon tea: "This."

Li Min hummed, took the straw and took it naturally, bit the crushed straw back to its original shape, and drank more than half of it.

"I still like to bite the straw, what if I can't drink the rest?" Li Mi put down the little lemon tea left.

Xiao Ling tilted his head, resisted looking at the straw that was bitten by two people, picked up a piece of paper and went to wipe the sweat off Li Mi's forehead: "With you here, I will bite it back for me."

Li Mi leaned forward to make it easier for her to move, but said, "Little liar."

Xiao Ling felt wronged: "How did you cheat?"

"I'm here, but you're not here. It's not a liar." Li Mi snorted, with signs of my displeasure all over his face, "Graduate in three years plus one year, graduate plus two years in graduate school, after graduate school is Don’t you still have to work abroad and won’t come back?”

At the end, Li Mi's tone suddenly became heavier: "Xiao Ling, don't you know that I've been very angry?"

Since living in Li's house, Li Mi has almost never called her by her first and last name like this, this is the second time.

And the first time was when she insisted on going abroad to study.

Xiao Ling smiled helplessly, wiped Li Mi's eyebrows and eyes carefully, and stroked the trembling eyelashes with fingertips through a layer of paper: "I know."

Li Mi felt itchy, but did not struggle.

"You don't know." Li Mi said angrily, "If you knew, you would discuss with me every time before making these important decisions, instead of telling me after the dust settles."

Xiao Ling was dumbfounded.

Li Mi got angry for a while, and then said in a soft voice: "If you knew, you wouldn't have left three years ago without looking back. If you knew, a few nights ago I said I had a job, and you would stop me. But You don't know, you don't know anything, I let you go, you go, I said I want to work, you really think I'm going to work."

"Why are you so obedient..."

The low sigh sounded like a breeze, gently stirring up Xiao Ling's not-so-calm lake of heart, causing ripples in circles.Xiao Ling let go of his hand, lowered his eyes and remained silent.

You're so obedient, so you don't know anything?However, the truth is that she knew everything, but she did it regardless.

Xiao Ling thought, what that person said in the past was right, she was ruthless to others, and she was also ruthless to herself.

Even before Ling Sheng called to trick Li Mi into coming over, she knew that she could stop her with a text message, but she didn't do anything, just waited to see if Li Mi would come over.

Because she wants to verify how much weight she has in Li Mi's heart, even if the weight is not out of love.

Now, she got her wish.

Xiao Ling breathed a sigh of relief, pretending to be distressed: "Don't be angry, okay? As long as you don't get angry, I can do anything."

Li Mi sullenly said nothing.

Seeing this, Xiao Ling stood up, sat next to Li Mi, grabbed the corner of the woman's clothes, and whispered coquettishly: "Sister Li, I was wrong..."

Li Mi snorted again, unmoved: "Ling Sheng showed off to me before, you called her always the older sister and the younger sister."

"Huh?" Xiao Ling didn't understand.

"I'm your older sister. It should be the smoothest for you to call me, not her." Li Mi turned her head aside.

Xiao Ling understood.

"Sister Li, Sister Li, sister, sister, sister..." The girl's soft voice seemed to be mixed with sugar, so sweet that it was cloying, and the little bit of resentment in Li Mi's heart disappeared instantly.

"...I don't take the trick of deceiving people."

"But I only coax sister Li, do you want to eat?"

"..."

"Sister Ling is an outsider, outsiders should be polite, and insiders don't need to pay attention to those false etiquette. Didn't you teach me these?" Xiao Ling rubbed her hair against Li Mi's chin like a kitten.

The chestnut curly hair was soft, and his chin was itchy. Finally, Li Mi couldn't hold back anymore, pulled Xiao Ling away and sat upright, and smiled: "My wife doesn't use it like that, how can I teach you these things?" ?”

Xiao Ling pretended not to understand: "What does the wife mean? Doesn't it refer to the family?"

Li Mi was stunned for a moment, although the wife means wife, but it seems to belong to the family?Just as she was about to answer, she found that Xiao Ling's brows and eyes were crooked with a smile, and his eyes were full of bright light.

Xiao Ling used to look like this every time he teased him.

"Little fox." Li Mi glanced at her, his brows and eyes were soft and unreasonable, "If you are studying for graduate school just to find a suitable job, then you don't need to study. I have already arranged for you to come to Lingsheng directly after you graduate. The engineering department..."

Seeing that Xiao Ling's smile became lighter, Li Mi couldn't say what he said after that, so he could only add dryly: "How are you?"

Xiao Ling shook his head: "Not good."

She had considered this issue before agreeing to her tutor's postgraduate guarantee.With Li Mi here and Li Mi's friends here, it is not difficult for her to find a good job after returning to China.

But she doesn't want to be a canary.

She still remembers that a few years ago, after a blind date banquet set up for Li Mi by others, she asked the half-drunk Li Mi if he liked that rich brother.

Li Mi said, neither hated nor liked.

Xiao Ling thought of those uncles and uncles' unspoken intentions of matching up, and felt uncomfortable, and asked Li Mi again, would he marry this brother.

Li Mi said, maybe.

She was still underage at that time, and when she heard that Li Mi was going to leave her and marry someone else, she asked Li Mi very sadly why she wanted to marry since she didn't like her.

Xiao Ling will always remember Li Mi's words at that time.

—I don't like it, but I don't hate it at the same time.It's better to find a partner who is pleasing to the eye than to make a living, and each will go his own way, and he can also serve as a shield, so there's nothing wrong with it.

Later, when Xiao Ling grew up, she understood that the so-called pleasing to the eye means being rich, powerful, and well-matched.

So, if she has everything and stands at the same height as Li Mi, can she be regarded as pleasing to the eye?Is it possible to have a little chance to compete?

"Not good. I want to go to graduate school, and I promised my tutor. After the internship here, I will go to study with the group." Even though he knew that Li Mi would be unhappy again, Xiao Ling repeated.

Li Mi was silent for a long time after hearing this, and finally said lightly: "Okay, I understand."

Xiao Ling didn't know what she was thinking, she was a little anxious, just about to speak, Li Mi cut off a small piece of tiramisu with a knife, picked it up with a fork and fed it to Xiao Ling's mouth, "Ah."

Xiao Ling opened her mouth obediently: "Ah."

The fork is not sharp, but it is not harmless either. If the tip is not careful, it will poke someone. But when Li Mi pushed it, Xiao Ling found the middle between the poked and the inedible, and caught it firmly. food.

Like a hamster again, eat it with a bulging cheek.At the end, she stuck out her little pink tongue and licked the debris on her lips.

Li Mi fed another piece: "Ah."

Xiao Ling: "Ah."

After repeating this cycle several times, a whole piece of tiramisu went into Xiao Ling's stomach.

After feeding her little hamster, Li Mi explained why she accepted Xiao Ling's decision: "I've thought about it, you are an adult and should have your own ideas. Although I disagree with it in my heart, I should try to understand you."

Xiao Ling raised his eyebrows, and smiled helplessly: "Sister Li... the tone is the book "How to Raise a Nine-Year-Old Child" at home, right?"

Li Mi turned pale with shock: "How do you know about that book?"

Xiao Ling: "...you have been placing it in the upper right corner of the desk in a big way, and you have specially wrapped a handwritten construction information book cover. I don't think it's hard to know."

Li Mi shook his head like a rattle, and muttered in a low voice: "No, you read wrongly, my study room is full of architectural books, there is no such thing."

Oops, that copy of "How to Talk to a 19-Year-Old" needs to be put away somewhere so it can't be found again.