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.]

car but choosing the subway? With so many

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during peak hours. You might wait for two or three trains without being able to squeeze in. Fortunately, it wasn’t too crowded at this time, so buying a ticket and boarding the train went smoothly, and she even found a seat,

with one hand, shielding her

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 holding the hand of a child around two or three years old. She quickly got

the woman

handrail, but at that moment, the subway suddenly moved, her balance shifted, and before she

reached out to grasp something to steady herself, scrambling, she grabbed the corner of his clothes, while the man stretched out a long arm

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

was heavy, so close she could distinctly feel every bit of his hot

quickened, panic flickered

breathing seemed to suddenly pause for a moment, as if the surrounding

from behind and caught off guard, Shen Shuci bumped firmly into him

of the subway, the noise of the surrounding crowd, but all she could hear was her own

A

a breath and nodded mutely, "Yes,

grasp the handrail overhead, in her flurry nearly grabbing his hand again.

demeanor; even when he had been holding her waist, one would not

the angle at which the

a shadow over her, impenetrable and suffocating to

seated, putting her child on her lap and prompting him to thank Shen

the little boy grinned at Shen

his smile ceased abruptly, he shrank his neck, and

This uncle is scary.

a little shy and afraid of

he?" Shen

and a half." The woman smiled back, having witnessed their interaction; everything didn’t escape her eyes. She then asked,

isn’t," Shen Shuci cleared her

that kind of couple." The man was clearly protecting her, and outsiders

"Yes."

...

mother and son, but it wasn’t until their stop that

of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the

lip and gestured a farewell to

Sister? Uncle?

decidedly put them in different

man raised an eyebrow slightly. Did he look that old? The boy shrank back, nervously holding his mother’s

a taxi. A driver accepted the job

the roadside waiting for the car, needing to find

softly, "That little boy just now was

in a while managed to say

"Do you like kids?"

Shuci, it felt odd, and the subsequent conversation

"Well... they’re okay."