Mr. Mu Proposed Again Today-Chapter 56 - Childhood Playmate_1
Chapter 56: Chapter 56 Childhood Playmate_1
Chapter 56 -56 Childhood Playmate_1
Su Wanxia paused for a moment, “No, I’ve been too busy lately, he’s busy, and so am I.”
The more Su Wanxia said this, the more certain Meng Can was that the two of them must be having a disagreement, but since she didn’t want to talk about it, he didn’t feel it was right to expose it, “Hehe, that’s good then.”
“Yeah, I’m off to edit photos.” With that, she picked up the design renderings from in front of Meng Can and headed back to her own office.
Meng Can stared in the direction she left for a long while before shaking his head bitterly. He had no place in her love life.
After Su Wanxia finished retouching the image, she rendered and printed it, nodding with satisfaction only then. She compiled and printed all the materials needed and checked the time. It was past five, Mu Yingchen was likely still at work, and it wasn’t a time he’d be in a meeting, so she decided to show them to him.
Just as she was about to step out with all the materials, her phone rang. She took it out and looked, her eyebrows raising in surprise, “Mom, what do you need your daughter for now?”
Her mother laughed on the phone, “Xiaxia, come home early today. We have guests.”
“Guests? Do I need to entertain guests too?”
“Don’t give me lip. If I’m telling you to come back, then come back.”
“Hehe, alright, I’m on my way.”
“Mhm.”
After hanging up, Su Wanxia reluctantly placed the materials back on her desk, packed up her things, and walked out.
Driving home, she opened the door and was actually a bit surprised to see the so-called guests. Wasn’t this Uncle Fang from the birthday banquet last time where Dad mentioned his good friend?
“Xiaxia is back. Come, let me introduce you again,” Su Wanxia’s mother pulled her along happily.
“This is Auntie Fang. She was overseas during your last birthday, so she didn’t meet you. Now you can get acquainted.”
“Hehe, hello Auntie Fang,” Su Wanxia greeted politely.
“Good, good. Feiyu, Wanxia has grown more and more beautiful,” Auntie Fang said to Su Wanxia’s mother with a smiling face.
“Hehe, Shuyuan is also becoming more and more handsome.”
“If Wanxia could become my daughter-in-law, that would truly be the fortune of our previous life,” Auntie Fang looked at Su Wanxia affectionately.
“Uh, hehe,” Su Wanxia laughed awkwardly.
“Look at you. Our Xiaxia here is quite stubborn, and sometimes she gets me pretty worked up too.”
“Girls will be girls. They’re supposed to have a little temper,” Fang Shuyuan’s mother replied.
Su Wanxia watched helplessly as her mother and Auntie Fang chatted on and on without end. She went over to the coffee table to greet Uncle Fang and Fang Shuyuan, then sat down next to her father.
They were playing Chinese chess, and although she wasn’t interested in these things, occasionally watching them was quite entertaining.
From the moment Su Wanxia entered the door, Fang Shuyuan couldn’t help but glance over at her from time to time. She seemed to have a fatal attraction that made him inadvertently fix his gaze on her, staring blankly.
He was four years older than her. When he went abroad with his parents at the age of six, she was just a tiny thing, but often snuck out following behind him.
Back then, his impression of her was that she was mischievous and playful. However, he hadn’t expected that now she would be so different from when she was a child—graceful, charming, beautiful, and elegant, but that stubborn streak inside her was just like when she was little.
“Wanxia, could I take a look at your work?” Fang Shuyuan asked Su Wanxia in a gentle, polite voice.
Su Wanxia had been engrossed in the chess game and suddenly heard Fang Shuyuan come out with this request.
She looked up, laughed, “Sure, it’s in the study upstairs.”
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“Xiaxia, Shuyuan—since you’re both in the same field, you could exchange ideas and learn from each other,” her father also looked up and said with a chuckle.
“Hmm, let’s head upstairs then,”
Su Wanxia had no choice but to lead Fang Shuyuan to her own private little book room. The room wasn’t big, with paintings of world-famous buildings on the walls, and shelves full of books.
“These are some of the works I designed while I was abroad. Please feel free to critique,” Su Wanxia said half-jokingly as she pulled out a large portfolio and handed it to Fang Shuyuan from the shelf.
“I wouldn’t presume to give critique,” Fang Shuyuan, being the cultured type, joked along with Su Wanxia, his expression rather comical.
After this exchange, the two grew gradually more familiar with each other, the initial awkwardness faded away, and they found they had much in common. The conversation was certainly lively.
“Actually, seeing you again after coming back to the country really surprised me,” Fang Shuyuan said while browsing through the portfolio and speaking with Su Wanxia.
Su Wanxia looked at him in astonishment. “Why, have we met before?”
Fang Shuyuan shook his head helplessly: “Sigh, it seems you’ve really forgotten everything.”
“Ah? Really?”
“But, you were just a little thing back then. It’s normal that you’d forget,” Fang Shuyuan said reminiscently.
Su Wanxia raised an eyebrow, “Me, just a little thing, and you talk as if you were much older.”
“I think I was 6 when I left for abroad, and you were barely over 2, always following me around asking for sweets,” Fang Shuyuan said, looking at Su Wanxia with a hint of amusement.
Su Wanxia’s face was a picture of mortification, “That can’t be true, can it?”
“It’s true. If you don’t believe me, you can ask your mother,” Fang Shuyuan chuckled softly, heads down.
“Then, what was I really like as a child? Tell me,” Su Wanxia had truly no memory of her childhood.
“As a child, you always bullied other kids, causing their parents to come to your house all the time,”
“And you were especially lazy, a complete little sloth,”
At the corner of Su Wanxia’s mouth, a twitch formed. She was still rather lazy now, just that he did not know that.
“Some kids were older than you, and when you couldn’t beat them, you’d come and find me to be your backup,”
“And there’s more—-”
As Su Wanxia listened to Fang Shuyuan’s continual ‘and then’ and ‘and then,’ she felt covered in black lines. Was he really talking about her? Was it really her? Was she really such a rascal as a child?
No, she definitely had to ask her mother about this someday.
“Wanxia, that day at your birthday party, was that guy your boyfriend?” Fang Shuyuan asked casually.
Su Wanxia paused, not sure how to define her relationship with Mu Yingchen. To be honest, she didn’t know either.
She smiled faintly, “Not right now, I guess.”
She hadn’t seen him or made contact with him for half a month, and she had clearly refused the idea of meeting his mother. He was probably angry about that, wasn’t he? Deciding to ignore her? Then what kind of girlfriend was she?
“Oh, haha,” Fang Shuyuan laughed somewhat awkwardly, not saying anything further. He caught the key word in Su Wanxia’s statement, ‘not right now.’ If he remembered correctly, that man at the party had clearly called her his girlfriend, and now Wanxia was saying they were not, indicating that something must have happened between them.
“Xiaxia, Shuyuan, it’s time to eat,” Su Wanxia’s mother’s voice came from downstairs.
Su Wanxia smiled nonchalantly, “Let’s go, it’s time for dinner.”
“Hmm,”
Around the dinner table, everyone was lively and cheerful, chatting about old times, the atmosphere warm and convivial.
