Hmm? Wen Qiansu was slightly puzzled by Mr. Huo’s choice of words.
Mr. Huo’s first reaction wasn’t curiosity about her having stayed in the countryside before?
Instead, he asked, “Does the baby still remember the countryside?”
As if he already knew she had stayed there.
Oh, right. Mr. Huo is, after all, the head of the Huo family.
A big shot like him would definitely have conducted background checks on anyone entering his residence, especially someone about to become engaged to him.
She understood the process.
Her father, Wen Biesheng, and Lu Xiaoting had both done similar things in business.
Besides, her stay in the countryside wasn’t exactly a secret.
Mr. Huo could easily have found out.
Wen Qiansu dismissed her doubts and nodded, “Yes, I remember.”
Huo Zhanxing gazed at her with flickering eyes, “How much do you remember?”
Wen Qiansu tilted her head thoughtfully, “I remember it was very beautiful there.”
“There were a bunch of kids.”
“Daming, Xiaobai, Ergouzi…”
Huo Zhanxing listened as she listed a string of names, even remembering the big yellow dog, but not his name.
Indeed, the baby never paid him any attention.
In the previous life, it was like that.
In this life, too.
“Actually, I think I remember another kid,” the girl suddenly said.
No, not a kid—a big kid.
He was fierce, with dark, intimidating eyes.
She heard he was a young master from some noble family sent there.
Wen Qiansu had been curious back then.
She thought he was like her—unwanted by his family, sent there to recuperate, but really just abandoned.
Huo Zhanxing’s eyes trembled slightly at her words, his heart shaking.
The baby… remembers him?
Yes, back then he was terrifying. He had just been reborn, overwhelmed by shock, filled with wild joy and tension.
In his previous life, he had also been thrown into the countryside by his family.
He had liked the girl at first sight, tried to make her laugh, but she ignored him. She was bullied by the older kids.
He fiercely dealt with those older kids and continued to linger around her, but she still paid him no mind.
Young Master Huo had never been so thoroughly ignored before.
Later, when his family sent someone to bring him back,
he took the opportunity to kidnap the girl…
Kept her by his side, doting on her for ten whole years.
She hated him.
Even until her death…
Just thinking about the girl hating him made Huo Zhanxing’s heart ache so much he could hardly breathe.
It was he who had caused her death.
After being reborn in this life,
Huo Zhanxing didn’t dare appear before the girl again.
He secretly dealt with those older kids.
Secretly watched her from the shadows.
Yet she… actually noticed him?
Wen Qiansu, “I remember, I even gave him candy once.”
Huo Zhanxing’s clenched palm trembled slightly as he abruptly looked up, “What? You gave him… candy?”
Mm-hmm.
Wen Qiansu remembered that after awakening her lucky touch, she often won big prizes, especially candy packs.
She shared the candy with the kids.
But she didn’t dare give any to that scary big kid.
So she asked Ergouzi to pass it to him.
Ergouzi was too greedy and kept it all for himself.
If Mr. Huo knew the candy meant for him had been stolen by Ergouzi, Ergouzi’s butt would have been thoroughly spanked.
Wen Qiansu’s soft, gentle gaze rested on Mr. Huo before her.
For some reason, his expression suddenly seemed a bit off?
She blinked her eyes and cautiously asked, “What were you like as a child, sir?”
Huo Zhanxing was still immersed in the surprise that the girl had actually given him candy.
His heart ached with bitterness.
His throat felt dry.
“As a child, sir was very pitiful. Neither his father nor his mother loved him. He was thrown into a remote corner to fend for himself.”
The butler on the side: ?
Wasn’t it because you were a little troublemaker since childhood, a madman everyone feared, who nearly turned the house upside down, that your father sent you to the countryside to reflect on your actions?
How could the master twist the truth and make himself sound so pitiful?
“Sir couldn’t even get a piece of candy when he was little.”
Huo Zhanxing didn’t know the girl had given him candy.
He never received it.
Who stole his candy!
Don’t let him catch them!
Mr. Huo felt extremely wronged.
Wen Qiansu suddenly felt that Mr. Huo was so pitiful!
How could his childhood be even worse than hers? He couldn’t even get a piece of candy?
Huo Zhanxing gazed at the girl before him with an intense, dark, and turbulent look in his eyes:
“When Sir was little, there was a doll he liked very, very much… She was especially beautiful, especially soft, but she never let Sir hold her.”
Huh?
A question mark slowly appeared above Wen Qiansu’s head.
A doll—can’t you just hold it if you want to? How could it not let you? Dolls don’t hit people.
Oh, the doll didn’t belong to Sir?
Wen Qiansu felt a bit heartbroken.
“If Sir likes dolls, I’ll buy you one next time, and I’ll buy you candy too, lots of it!” The girl clenched her fist.
Huo Zhanxing’s eyes flickered slightly.
“Thank you, baby, but…” The man leaned gently toward her.
“Baby is even better to hold than a doll.”
Wen Qiansu froze for a moment.
What is Mr. Huo saying? Is… is he flirting with her??
How does Mr. Huo know she’s good to hold?
He hasn’t held her before… Well, she was just afraid of being bitten by the dog and hugged Mr. Huo, and Sir’s hand is still around her waist right now!
And last night, she cried so miserably, holding onto Mr. Huo, and even smeared tears all over his face!
Wen Qiansu’s face flushed bright red.
Huo Zhanxing wrapped his large hand around the girl’s slender, soft waist, leaned down, and gently pressed his forehead against hers.
His magnetic, low voice was husky with desire: “Sir has a better treasure now, and he doesn’t know how happy he is.”
Wen Qiansu’s face burned intensely—why is he still saying things like that!
He’s so close.
His scorching breath lightly brushed her lips, as if he might kiss her any second!
Huo Zhanxing’s Adam’s apple bobbed, and he murmured in a hoarse voice, “I just wonder if baby likes Sir even a little bit?”
…Not really.
Wen Qiansu felt that would be too hurtful.
Her face flushed, she didn’t dare look into Mr. Huo’s eyes. Her gaze drifted, and she whispered softly, “I… I’ll try, okay?”
She and Sir are about to be engaged.
Once engaged, after a probationary period, they’ll get married.
She should try to like Mr. Huo—that would only be fair, especially since Mr. Huo is so good and seems to genuinely… like her?
Huo Zhanxing: “Baby, you’re so good.”
Mr. Huo, moved, hugged the girl tightly, holding her openly for a long, long time.
So fragrant.
He really wants to devour his well-behaved baby.