Chapter 35: I Could Afford You Too


    Sheng Xiao nced at Mu Qiqi from the corner of his eye but said nothing else, while she quickly


    gobbled her ice and said, "I''m going back to my room."


    "That child, is she already full?" Su Zipei waspletely oblivious of the unusual atmosphere between


    them and only watched as Mu Qiqi hurried upstairs.


    After all, she did not want to let Su Zipei see her blush and invoke suspicions.


    "Young Master Sheng, please don''t mind her. She was hurt in school today," Su Zipei exined.


    "Upset?" Sheng Xiao''s eyes promptly darkened.


    Su Zipei lowered her bow and chopsticks at the question, and told Sheng Xiao about how Papa Mu had


    humiliated Mu Qiqi in school. "My animal of a brother-inw even used her of killing her


    grandmother...just like that."


    "Still, even if it''s just the teacher today, who could be sure that he wouldn''t tell the whole world just to


    protect Mu Tangxue?"


    "In the end, Qiqi wouldn''t be able to bear such a blow. What would others think, then?"


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    "Is she going to have tobeled a murderer at her young age?"


    Meanwhile, Mu Qiqi had hidden herself at the stairs to the second floor and was listening on to their


    conversation.


    She felt devastated when she recalled how ridiculous her father had been at school and each of his


    loud usations.


    However, Sheng Xiao said nothing about any of that, and merely sent Mu Qiqi a message when Su


    Zipei cleared the table after dinner.


    [Same ce, same time. Wear moreyers.]


    Mu Qiqi wiped her tears away after reading it and quickly went back to her room, changing into some


    very warm clothes.


    After all, what if Xiaoxiao took her to the beach again?


    ***


    It waste into the night after Su Zipei had returned to her room that Mu Qiqi sneaked out of the house


    light-footedly before dashing as if she was in a hundred-meter sprint to where Sheng Xiao was.


    He had swapped his sports car for an inconspicuous ck sedan, and he brought her to the revolving


    restaurant in front of the amusement park which they had visited before.


    Jianchuan was in full Christmas spirit at the moment, with a towering Christmas tree now ced in


    front of the amusement park.


    Mu Qiqi loved it when she saw it.


    "Xiaoxiao, I want to take a walk."


    Sheng Xiao turned to look at her, but only nodded after he found that she was wearing a cotton-padded


    jacket. "I''ll park somewhere quiet. You can only look."


    "Okay." In fact, Mu Qiqi was already content with that.


    As Sheng Xiao drove nearer to the shing Christmas tree, Mu Qiqi quickly whipped her phone out


    from her back and took a picture.


    "Xiaoxiao, look...


    "


    Sheng Xiao was never one for festivities, since the only difference between Christmas and Qingming1


    for him was the gifts that other people brought to Huang Yao.


    Even so, he said nothing when he saw how much Mu Qiqi was enjoying the festive cheer. Instead, he


    led her away, heading straight to one of the barges in the amusement park.


    They were alone on that boat floating over the river.


    Although Mu Qiqi pretended as if she was enjoying the night view around them, her attention was


    actuallypletely devoted to Sheng Xiao.


    He was sitting sprawled over the boat, and it was not until some timeter that he asked, "Had a good


    look?"


    Mu Qiqi quickly averted her eyes.


    "Make as much noise as possible if the Mu family ever threaten you again with your grandmother''s


    death. The entire team ofwyers representing the Sheng family would not mind working with the


    police to investigate the actual cause of her death."


    "But only the two of us were in the room at the time."


    "So what? It''s either you or her. Even if you don''t have any evidence against her, it''s the same for her!"


    Sheng Xiao said coldly. "Your sister is pretending to be a white lotus1 and that wouldn''t work on other


    people, although it certainly works with your family."


    "If you''re upset when something simr happens, fight back. Why are you holding it in?"


    Mu Qiqi said nothing, but she nodded as hard as she could.


    "Remember that your own happiness is most important. And there are also those you don''t even have


    to spare a thought for!"


    Over the breezyke, Mu Qiqi was sitting opposite Sheng Xiao, listening to his lesson intently.


    Because she knew that there were few in this world who truly wished for her happiness, and Sheng


    Xiao was one of them.


    Then, he took her by her shoulder so that she could lean on his. It looked as if she was keeping her


    from falling into the river, but she was extraordinarily happy with any chance to get nearer to him.


    And was he doing that because he liked her too?


    Naturally she would never be brave enough to ask that, although she was pleasantly surprised enough


    with this...


    Indeed, she was bing braver the more he spoiled her.


    "Have you changed your car again?"


    "My car is in for repairs..." Sheng Xiao replied nonchntly, but his handsome looks remained the envy


    of both gods and men.


    "Xiaoxiao, my hands are cold."


    Sheng Xiao said nothing, although he drew out a pair of red Christmas mittens from his pocket and


    tossed it at her. "Got it from Huang Yao''s live event."


    Mu Qiqi felt sweetness in her heart.


    Be that as it may, she felt that she was receiving more and more gifts from Sheng Xiao while she


    seemed to have given nothing back.


    She wouldn''t be able to afford anything expensive either...


    "Xiaoxiao, I didn''t prepare anything for you..."


    Sheng Xiao snorted. "I could even afford you. What do you think I don''t have?"


    But that''s different...'' Mu Qiqi thought, and decided that she would give him something eptable.


    ***


    Although it felt like they had spent a long time on the barge, it was actually quite brief Sheng Xiao could


    not afford to have Mu Qiqi stay out sote.


    It was already good enough for them to havee out to y, and so they returned to the car right


    after they left the barge and returned to the little mansion.


    Right now, Mu Qiqi had no eyes for anything else other than that man she secretly admired an


    admiration that increased bit by bit every single day.


    Soon, they reached the little mansion and Mu Qiqi reluctantly got off the car, gently sneaking inside and


    into her room.


    Sheng Xiao stayed downstairs and only drove away when the lights in her room went out.


    However...


    When he reached home and was about get down from his car, some stationery and a certain notebook


    scattered on the passenger seat caught his attention.


    It must have dropped out when Mu Qiqi had taken out her phone just now.


    Sheng Xiao picked everything up and ced them on the desk in his room. He left to wash up, before


    returning, wrapped in a bath towel and picking up the brown notebook.


    The little one actually kept a diary...


    Holding it up, Sheng Xiaoy down on his bed and switched his bedmp on.


    At first, he thought that he didn''t have to read it since Mu Qiqi''s every little thought was basically written


    on her face. Yet for some reason, Sheng Xiao thought that there had to be some content that would


    interest him!