Chapter 1498: Little Crystal's Invitation

“Here, I didn’t add sugar for you, just a bit of honey, see if it suits your taste.” Lu Tingshen knew Little Crystal’s bad habits since he first met her.

All these years have passed, and she hasn’t changed.

“Hmm, it’s okay.” Little Crystal took a sip and said, “Next time, you could add a bit of passion fruit.”

“You’re really not shy at all.” Lu Tingshen said helplessly.

“Uncle, you guys are busy, I’ll go back to my room.” Huo Chengying carried the lemonade back to her room, not wanting to disturb their conversation.

After she went inside, Shen Weiyang jokingly said, “Have you brought an ancestor home?”

“What are you talking about! Little Crystal doesn’t have that kind of bad habit.” At most, she’s just picky with food.

“Then I’ll head back too, you stay with your sweet niece! But, with just the two of you here, and you’re single, better watch out for any issues!” Shen Weiyang said and left.

He knew that although Huo Chengying called Lu Tingshen uncle, there was no blood relationship between them.

He also knew that Huo Chengying was admitted to Curtis Music Academy at eleven, and after finishing her studies back home, she ended up going to school again.

Are kids these days all so capricious?

This family really is carefree.

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When Huo Chengying woke up the next day, Lu Tingshen had already gone to work.

But he sent her a WeChat message.

[Little Crystal, I’ve gone to work. There’s chicken porridge warming on the gas stove, and crab roe buns on the dining table. If it’s cold when you get up, just steam them again. I won’t be back for lunch, I’ll take you out for dinner tonight.]

Huo Chengying took the porridge down, and steamed the buns again.

She also replied to Lu Tingshen with a message.

[I got it, thanks.]

Their way of interacting had persisted for five days.

On the sixth evening, Huo Chengying earnestly said to Lu Tingshen, “Uncle, I’m going to school the day after tomorrow. Thank you for taking care of me these past few days. If you’re free tomorrow night, I’ll treat you to dinner!”

“Why say that, your grandfather has always taken good care of me. Besides, your brother is a good friend of mine, you’re being too distant.” Lu Tingshen poured her a glass of lemonade.

“You don’t need to specially treat me to dinner.”

“I’m a girl inviting you to dinner, how can you turn me down so directly? Uncle, you’re being very ungentlemanly.” Huo Chengying said unhappily.

“Alright then!” Lu Tingshen didn’t insist further, at worst, he would pay for it himself.

“That’s settled then.” Huo Chengying said.

Then, she sat on the sofa and started watching TV dramas.

Since childhood, Huo Chengying didn’t like cartoons, she preferred these melodramatic dramas.

Not those ‘I love you, you love him, he loves her,’ but the kind involving car accidents, terminal illnesses, or identity swaps.

The more melodramatic, the better.

Others would watch, getting enraged and feeling heartache, suffering intensely, but not her. She watched them as comedies.

That peculiar mindset puzzled even Lu Xingzhi, her mom.

Lu Tingshen didn’t understand it either.

How did this child end up being different?

At fixed times, Little Crystal would sit in front of the TV, watching fixed dramas.

Yes, the kind mothers of older generations liked.