novelraw Chapter 60: 060
Chapter 60: 060
Chapter 60
Shao ChengZe lightly laughed at her words. With such a long distance between them, it seemed like all they could do was have a "cold salad" relationship.
Cheng Jinlan's ears grew hot from his laugh. She spoke sternly, "What are you laughing at? I'm still waiting for your explanation."
Shao ChengZe stopped laughing and became serious. He slowly recounted to her his grandparents' past from beginning to end.
After listening, Cheng Jinlan was silent for a long time. She knew she had a young uncle who had died prematurely. Whenever her father mentioned this uncle, his words were full of respect and regret, but he avoided talking about how his uncle had died.
"Miao Miao?" Shao ChengZe called her when she didn't respond.
Cheng Jinlan rested her head against the car window and softly murmured in response.
"Why aren't you talking?"
"I just... feel like I was a bit willful."
Her uncle was an elder her father liked and respected. He probably didn't want to have any connection with the Shao family, but she had forced him to face the Shao family because of her own willfulness.
Shao ChengZe understood her unspoken feelings. He sincerely said, "I'm sorry."
This was a debt owed by the Shao family that could not be forgiven with just an apology, but right now, all he could do was apologize.
Cheng Jinlan replied, "Why are you apologizing? This has nothing to do with you. You weren't even born at that time."
His grandfather was his grandfather, and he was him. She could still distinguish that.
She pretended to be lighthearted. "You just have to work harder now. It looks like getting my dad's approval will be even harder than I thought."
Shao ChengZe said, "I'm not afraid of difficulties, as long as you don't waver. Miao Miao, promise me, don't retreat because of this, and don't blame yourself for this either. This isn't your fault."
"Okay, I know. Go back to your meeting. It's so late already. Don't keep people waiting. I'm home now too."
"Alright." Shao ChengZe was worried. "Don't think about anything. Just sleep well."
"Mm."
After hanging up the phone, Cheng Jinlan sat in the car for a while before getting out. She passed through the moon gate and went to her parents' place. Cheng LiQi was already asleep. Cheng Jinlan tucked the hair stuck messily on her daughter's face behind her ears, then leaned down to kiss her forehead before gently leaving the room.
Fei Zuhui came over holding a glass of honey water and handed it to her. "Drank a lot? Why is your face so red?"
Cheng Jinlan took the honey water with one hand and touched her face with the other. "Didn't drink much, just two glasses. Maybe I'm just flushing easily today." She took a sip of the honey water and looked towards the study. "Did my dad come back?"
"He's back, in the study."
Cheng Jinlan hesitated for a moment, still unsure of what to say.
Cheng Shanhe called to her from the study, "Er'niang, if you have something to say, come in and talk."
"Go on in," Fei Zuhui nodded towards the study. "He likes it when you look for him to talk. If your eldest brother said he wanted to talk, your dad's eyebrows would be knitted real tight."
Cheng Jinlan hugged Fei Zuhui briefly before turning and entering the study.
Seeing her come in, Cheng Shanhe took off his glasses and pointed to the sofa chair next to the desk. "Sit. What's the matter?"
Cheng Jinlan sat down, rubbing her thumb over the glass surface, looking at Cheng Shanhe. "Dad, I know about the situation between our family and the Shao family now."
Cheng Shanhe got up, pulled over a chair, and sat down across from Cheng Jinlan. "Did Shao ChengZe tell you?"
"I ran into Wu Jingyao today. She said some nonsense, so I asked Shao ChengZe about it."
Cheng Shanhe said, "You don't need to pay any mind to what Wu Jingyao said. She shouldn't be relying on her relationship with Shao ChengZe to act superior in front of you. As far as I know, Shao Yun is going through divorce proceedings with her."
Cheng Jinlan leaned in and softly asked in his ear, "So do you want to kiss now?"
Shao Chengze's breathing suddenly became hurried. He hugged her waist tightly, lifted her onto the desk, and changed the height of the two people to the most suitable height for kissing. He gently lifted her chin, and her lips were delivered to his mouth. The first kiss fell lightly and gently, seeming to touch but not to touch, gently teasing. Cheng Jinlan's nerves were hooked by this light tingling numbness, involuntarily wanting more. Shao Chengze's eyes grew darker and darker, and the light rain suddenly turned into torrential rain, sweeping everything away and devouring everything.
In a daze, Cheng Jinlan thought of something. She reached out her hand on the desk to grope around, but no matter how she groped, she couldn't find it. Shao Chengze felt her distraction and punished her by lightly biting her lips. His palm suddenly tightened over the soft curves, and Cheng Jinlan couldn't hold back the soft moan and whimper from her throat. She kicked his leg with the foot dangling in mid-air. This was an office, not home.
Shao Chengze's lips didn't leave hers. "What are you looking for?"
"Remote control, glass." Cheng Jinlan barely breathed out a few words. Although nothing could be seen from the outside at this height, it was still better to be safe than sorry.
Shao Chengze understood her words. He reached out and took the remote control behind her and pressed a button. The transparent bright glass changed color and blocked the scenery and sunlight outside.
All of Cheng Jinlan's strength had been drained by him, she could only lean into his arms. His force was so great it was as if he wanted to embed her into his body. She pushed his shoulders with her hands but couldn't exert any strength at all. Shao Chengze's kisses slowly moved from the corner of her lips to the root of her ear, his hoarse voice whispered, "Don't worry, I won't do anything. I have to leave in an hour. If we really do it, I'm afraid I won't be able to stop."
Cheng Jinlan wanted to kick him again, but her feet were clamped by him, she couldn't move even if she wanted to, she could only continue to sink following his breathing.
After the storm subsided, he sat in her office chair and she sat on his lap. He didn't do anything, but her hair was messy, her shirt was wrinkled, and the buttons were messy. If she didn't have spare clothes here, Cheng Jinlan would have wanted to open the door and kick him straight out.
Shao Chengze carefully helped her button up her shirt one by one, his actions were perfect gentlemen, completely different from just now.
"I'm sorry, I was too impatient." You could never find any fault in his apologetic attitude. Cheng Jinlan slapped his hand away, "Don't button them up," she let him see for himself, "Do you think it can still be worn?"
Shao Chengze's expression was unusually embarrassed for once, "Do you have a spare? Or should I have someone bring one over now?"
Cheng Jinlan glared at him, but she also knew she couldn't put all the responsibility on him, after all, she was the one who tempted him first. She leaned over to reach the phone on the desk and called Tang Yicheng on the intercom, asking him to bring two meals from the restaurant.
She hung up the phone and turned to ask him, "Do you want to go inside and rest for a while, take a little nap?"
This office of hers was a suite with a rest area inside that had everything. He had changed plans temporarily and flew back like this, he must not have slept well.
Shao Chengze replied, "I won't sleep anymore. There's so little time left, it would be too much of a waste to use it for sleeping."
Cheng Jinlan looked at his slightly sunken eye sockets. She cupped his face with both hands and said to him earnestly, "Next time don't rush back like this. What I said on the phone was what I really felt. You don't have to come back and confirm it again. Aren't you tired?"
Shao Chengze also answered her sincerely, "I was just afraid that if I missed it once, you would run away again."
Cheng Jinlan got off his lap and gathered the collar of her shirt in her hands. Her tone was joking, "I will run, don't you know how to chase?"
The white toes falling on the black floor created too strong a visual impact.
The irritation in Shao Chengze that had finally subsided began to flip uncontrollably again. He reached out to catch her. Cheng Jinlan sensed his intention and had already turned and ran towards the rest area. First fast steps, then directly running. She then slammed the door shut, locking the vicious wolfhound outside, and locking the door.
Shao Chengze leaned against the door and said to the person inside, "You're right, I was too stupid before," he deliberately lowered his voice, but it could still penetrate the door and reach the inside, "They say a dog's nose is the most sensitive. I won't forget your scent in this lifetime, so no matter where you run to the ends of the earth, I can still catch up to you."
The only reply he got was an angry "get lost".
Cheng LiQi didn't know at all that her dad had come back. Before boarding the plane that night, when grandma went to the bathroom, she even video called her dad. Shao Chengze had just gotten off the plane and happened to pick up his daughter's video call. Cheng LiQi chatted with her dad for a long time, and finally held the phone sideways and asked her mother, "Mom, do you want to talk to Dad?"
Cheng Jinlan's eyes were fixed on the tablet, she didn't even lift her head once. "No more to say, just you talk to Dad."
Cheng LiQi looked at her dad in the video and sighed lightly, "Dad, it seems you haven't done well enough. You don't have a very important position in Mom's heart. It seems Mom doesn't even miss you, so Dad, you have to work harder."
Shao Chengze chuckled softly at his daughter, "Then Dad will try harder. But Dad misses Mom very much, and Little LiQi too."
Honey flowed from Cheng LiQi's curved eyes. "I miss Dad too."
Because she missed her dad so much, Cheng LiQi sent her dad beautiful photos of her mom every day, of course also photos of herself. She was now a little photographer who especially liked to take pictures of her mom and grandma. After sending them to Dad, she certainly couldn't forget Grandpa. She also sent all the beautiful photos she took of Grandma, and of herself, to Grandpa. She didn't even need to ask, Grandpa must miss her and Grandma very very much.
Today they were invited by the neighbors on the nearby island to attend a party. There were many people at the party, and even more came to talk to Mom and Grandma. Mom and Grandma were so beautiful. Cheng Liqi blinked and picked up her phone hanging around her neck.
Five minutes later, Shao ChengZe and Cheng Shanhe received the photos sent by Cheng Liqi.
The two men narrowed their eyes at the same time.