you are a bit arrogant

"I have to go home tomorrow."

In the dark night, Zhou Shengyuan put his arms around Qin Xiao and said so.

"Go back to your parents' place?" Qin Xiaomeng buzzed on Zhou Shengyuan's chest.

Hearing the child's muffled voice, Zhou Shengyuan pulled Qin Xiao away with a grin, and lifted him up, letting him rest on his shoulder and neck.

Qin Xiao likes to bury himself in his arms, maybe this is a sign of insecurity, but in order not to suffocate him to death, Zhou Shengyuan can only reluctantly set aside a little distance to let the child breathe.

Zhou Shengyuan thought, he didn't have time to understand Qin Xiao's past, but he would make up for the lack of security little by little.

"Well, go back and have a meal."

"Oh." Qin Xiao paused, rolled his eyes, and after thinking for a while he hesitated to say, "Then, I need you to ask my deskmate for me, okay?"

"..." Zhou Shengyuan held back his smile and bit the tip of Qin Xiao's ear, "You little bastard, you are so arrogant."

The numbness in the ears made Qin Xiao hide back with a smile, and he laughed for a long time before stopping.

"Just kidding... don't tell her yet, after all, I still have to go to class, and it will be awkward to meet at that time..."

Zhou Shengyuan also had the same thought in his heart, but he didn't say it out. Instead, he caught a loophole in Qin's joke and pinched his fingers on his waist like a threat:

"Child, didn't you tell me that you didn't go to school?"

"..." Qin Xiao smiled slyly, and leaned into Zhou Shengyuan's ear: "Ah, so you believe everything I say, Uncle Zhou~"

In the next second, Zhou Shengyuan blocked Qin Xiao's mouth with practical actions.

·

When Zhou Shengyuan's car drove into the courtyard, Xu Wenyao happened to be lying on the swing on the balcony and talking on the phone with Zhang Yang. When she heard the sound of the car, she immediately stuck her head out, and then screamed:

"Ah, my uncle is back, I will tell you this question next time!"

She hung up the phone neatly, jumped up from the swing and went straight downstairs, not forgetting to shout into the kitchen: "Grandma, grandpa! Uncle is back!"

"Little girl." Zhou Shengyuan smiled and stretched out his index finger to tap Xu Wenyao's forehead, then he took out a beautifully wrapped gift box from behind as if by magic, "Here, a New Year's Day gift for you."

"What is this?" Xu Wenyao looked at the boxy gift box and immediately became vigilant, "It can't really be a mock paper?"

"Guess." Zhou Shengyuan winked at her, then directly threw the gift box into her arms, and strode into the house by himself.

Xu Wenyao caught it with both hands in panic, the heavy weight made her panic even more, it couldn't be true...

Before following Zhou Shengyuan into the door, she opened the gift box directly at the door, and it was indeed a book. Xu Wenyao took a closer look and found that it was not a mock volume or a reference book, but several novels.

She picked up the top one—"A Thousand Splendid Suns", and the bottom one was "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and there were several more books below, which made the gift box heavy to hold.

Xu Wenyao was holding these books in surprise—they were all books that her senior high school teacher thought were useless books, but her uncle bought the original editions and gave them to her!

Xu Wenyao was holding it happily, and after flipping it twice, she found a small long and rectangular gift box hidden on the edge of the gift box. She put the big gift box on the shoe cabinet, and then opened the small gift box. And a fountain pen with a fine luster!

This is her favorite brand!It's not expensive, but almost every pen of this brand she owns was given to her by Zhou Shengyuan!

Xu Wenyao excitedly picked up the book and pen and rushed upstairs to her room. Before stepping up the stairs, she didn't forget to shout to Zhou Shengyuan who was sitting in the living room: "Thank you, uncle!"

"This girl," He Cuilin came out with a plate of fruit, and cast a reproachful glance at Zhou Shengyuan, "Did you give her another good thing?"

Zhou Shengyuan got up, took the fruit and put it down, and said with a smile: "Isn't Yaoyao always so lively?"

"You two are always in the same mind." He Cuilin sat upright on the sofa, stared fixedly at Zhou Shengyuan for a while, and then asked tentatively, "Yuanyuan, what good things happened to you recently?"

Zhou Shengyuan was taken aback for a moment, then laughed: "Mom, how did you see that?"

"How else can you tell, you are her son!" Zhou Guoqi sat on a low stool, kowtowed sunflower seeds, staring at the TV, but continued talking this way.

It was rare for He Cuilin not to annoy him this time, she still looked at her son with a smile on her face, and said, "Something good happened, tell mom about it?"

"It's nothing..." Zhou Shengyuan said with a smile, but his heart made a detour without any trace. He looked at He Cuilin's concerned face, and remembered that Qin Xiao was still in a daze before going out in the morning, but forced to open his eyes to him With the appearance of a good morning kiss, a feeling of astringency welled up in her throat.

His mother could not accept homosexuality.This is what Zhou Shengyuan realized in nearly 33 years of life, and then realized it overnight.

"It's just that I met someone I like very much." He slowed down, raised a smile, and said softly.

He Cuilin raised her eyebrows and her eyes lit up when she heard this, and Zhou Guoqi, who was watching TV next to her and didn't care about her wife and son, put down the melon seeds in an instant, and moved a small bench to sit closer some.

He Cuilin grasped the words, and asked with some excitement and surprise: "Is there someone you like? Which girl is it, and how is the situation?"

"Mom, don't worry." Zhou Shengyuan said with a smile.

"People are nice."

— he is very nice.

"Still chasing."

——I have already caught up.

"I quite like it."

—He is a boy, and I like him very much.

He Cuilin was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear when she heard Zhou Shengyuan's words.

"Still chasing? It's okay, it's okay, as far as my son is concerned, catching up is definitely within reach," she smiled and looked sideways at Zhou Guoqi, and then looked at Zhou Shengyuan with a smile, "Okay, you have someone you like , then I’ll talk to Aunt Wang so that she doesn’t have to introduce you any more. The one you like must be a good girl!”

Seeing the smiles on his parents' faces, Zhou Shengyuan felt a little sour in his heart and couldn't speak. He could only smile and nod in response, saying that he must work hard.