"Xu Ye!!!"

"What is it?"

Chen Qingqing said, thoroughly wounded, "Why haven't you saved your mother's number under a name?"

Xu Ye laughed from inside. "I know all their numbers by heart — I never saved either of theirs at all... hold on, that was my mother just now?"

"Yes!"

"What did she say?"

Chen Qingqing muttered, "Nothing."

She sat on the bed in a temper, her thoughts running in every direction, her mind in a tangle.

Xu Ye came out of the bathroom after his shower, saw Chen Qingqing sitting on the edge of the bed without a word, and sat down beside her. Drying his hair, he asked, knowing perfectly well, "What's the matter?"

Chen Qingqing turned away. "Nothing."

Xu Ye laughed. "Isn't this a good thing? You'll have to meet my mother sooner or later, and that 'Auntie' has to be said at some point, early or late. You've said it today, so next time it won't feel awkward."

Chen Qingqing heard him out and thought there was something in that.

But she asked quickly, "Have you told your mom and dad everything about me?"

"No. I just gave them the general picture."

"Your mother just asked what you were doing and I said you were in the shower. Do you think she's imagining all sorts right now?"

"Definitely."

Xu Ye burst out laughing. "My mother is a terrible gossip."

Chen Qingqing pouted at once, her whole face aggrieved. "What are we going to do? Your mother is definitely going to get the wrong idea about me."

"It's fine. I'll call her in a bit and explain."

Chen Qingqing pointed a finger at him, perfectly serious. "Make sure you explain it properly."

"Don't worry."

"As if I could."

Chen Qingqing sulking was a particularly adorable sight, and Xu Ye teased her on purpose. "I'll just tell my mother we only kissed and then sat on the bed a while, and apart from that we didn't do anything."

Chen Qingqing couldn't sit still for that. She got to her feet and said loudly, "You can't say that!"

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