Pampered by Short-Lived Bigshot by Beautiful Crescent

Chapter 561: 359 fell and got caught? Old bull prefers young grass?

The restaurant’s light was dim, paired with the tender, enthralling music; the flickering candle flames on the table made everything seem dreamlike and illusory, heartlessly moving.

Shen Shuci kept her head down eating until her phone vibrated, then she wiped the corner of her mouth, "Mr. Huo, I’m going to step out to take a call."

The man nodded without a word.

"Hello—Wanwan."

"Did you meet up with your friend?"

"Mm."

"That’s good, just be careful on your own." Tang Wan was just worried and asked a few more questions. After Shen Shuci ended the call, she didn’t return to her seat, but went straight to the cashier to settle the bill instead.

"Table No. 12, right?" The cashier operated the computer, "This bill has already been paid."

"Paid already?" Shen Shuci frowned.

"Our restaurant requires a corresponding deposit when making a reservation, and the meal cost is deducted from it, so there is no need to pay again."

Shen Shuci’s lips were pressed tightly together, calculating at the bottom of her heart how much she owed him, and how to pay it back.

When the two left the restaurant, the neon lights were just coming on, bright as day. Shen Shuci turned her head, tilting it slightly to see the face of the person beside her clearly. The mottled neon lights fell on his face, revealing a bone-deep chill and desolation that seemed like it couldn’t be melted, even in the scorching summer sun.

So cold it was almost devoid of temperature.

"Mr. Huo, did you drive?"

"No."

"How are we going to get back?" Shen Shuci had come over in a car with Jiang Yanting and Shen Zhixian, so naturally, she hadn’t driven.

"Should I call them to come over?"

"From Hexi?"

"Yes."

Shen Shuci had an intense headache. Driving over here without traffic jams would take an hour, and now it was rush hour, "Let’s just take a taxi ourselves, or take the bus and subway."

At this time, taking a taxi could be a death trap in traffic. After discussing it, they decided to head to the subway station, take it for over a dozen stops, and then hail a cab. This would be most convenient.

Members of the Huo family who followed the two were initially amused.

"Wow, our guy moves fast. After dinner, continuing the date? Shopping, watching a movie, or going for a walk?"

It wasn’t until the two entered the subway entrance that they were dumbfounded. Soon a message popped up on their phones:

[Head back first.]

a car but choosing the subway? With so many people, jostling around? What’s

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too crowded at this time, so buying a ticket and boarding the train went smoothly,

grasping the handrail with one hand, shielding her with his presence.

two stops later, a large crowd surged into the train—men, women, elderly, and children. Shen Shuci, out of the corner of her eye, saw a woman carrying a large bag and

much," the woman said

Shen Shuci reached for the handrail, but at that moment,

she reached out to grasp something to steady herself, scrambling, she grabbed the corner

she gasped slightly and abruptly looked up at him, the two of them very close

so close she could distinctly feel every

quickened, panic flickered

and their breathing seemed to suddenly pause for a moment, as if

and caught off guard, Shen Shuci bumped firmly into him

the subway, the noise of the surrounding crowd, but all she could hear was her own thumping heartbeat and the dry, clean scent from

steadily now?" A voice from above, husky

took a breath and nodded mutely, "Yes,

flurry nearly grabbing his hand again. Once she steadied herself on

demeanor; even when he had been holding her waist,

the angle at which the two stood, seemed to envelop her entirely in

shadow over her, impenetrable and suffocating to

to the sister," said the woman who was now seated, putting her child on her lap and prompting him to thank Shen

the little

gaze suddenly met that of the man beside her. Children are sensitive; his smile ceased abruptly, he

This uncle is scary.

of strangers," the woman

is he?" Shen

woman smiled back, having witnessed their interaction;

Shuci cleared

two were that kind of couple." The man was clearly protecting her, and outsiders tend to see things more clearly, "By your accent, you’re

"Yes."

...

with the mother and son, but it wasn’t until their stop that the little boy waved his hand and said goodbye to Shen Shuci,

a glimpse of the man by her side.

his lip and gestured a farewell to

Sister? Uncle?

put them in different

boy shrank back, nervously holding his mother’s hand, and didn’t dare to look

taxi. A driver accepted the job quickly, but

waiting for the car, needing to find some conversation

softly, "That little boy

who hadn’t spoken in a while managed

"Do you like kids?"

it felt odd, and the subsequent

"Well... they’re okay."