Chapter 1849: Waking You Up

“I don’t like eating sweets.”

Xu Tingting slyly reached out her paw, “That’s such a pity, should I help you eat them?”

Xu Shu gave a light “Hmm.”

He indeed wasn’t fond of sweets. Occasionally, when work was too tiring, he’d have a mint. Xu Tingting discovered this and assumed he liked candies, always stuffing them into his drawer. To figure out which candies were sweeter and tastier, she bought many to try herself, and if they were good, she would buy more and put them in his drawer too.

Xu Shu hardly touched those candies, but it was Xu Tingting who ate too many sweets and ended up with a few cavities. She went to the dentist a few times, each time coming out teary-eyed, but she never complained to him.

Since then, Xu Shu stopped eating candies, and even if he needed some, he would eat the low-sugar ones he bought for her.

Xu Shu took out the dishes and casually placed several desserts in front of her.

“Brother, are you staying over at home tonight?” Xu Tingting dug out half a bunny ear, ate a bit, and looked at him expectantly.

“No, it’s too late. I would disturb Mom and Dad’s rest.”

“But if you take me back, Mom and Dad would know anyway. I make a bigger fuss than your footsteps,” she pouted, pulling his wristwatch and glancing at it, then pointing it out to him, “It’s already 11 o’clock. The place you stay is in the opposite direction from home. If you take me back and then return, it’ll be past midnight. And if Mom finds out I didn’t keep you, she’d scold me to death.”

Xu Shu gave her an amused glance, “Did you upset your second brother again?”

“No way!”

Her voice was loud, making her seem guilty, and her eyes shifted, “Really, I haven’t even seen him much lately. I couldn’t cause trouble even if I wanted to.”

“Hmm?”

“It’s just… whenever he sees me, he’s got a sour face. I’m all nervous; I’m scared if I breathe a bit more next to him, he’d drag me off to kneel in the ancestral hall.”

Uncle Qing had always been like that since she was little, often giving her a hard time. Everyone else in the family spoiled her, but he didn’t buy it. Dragging her to the ancestor’s shrine, she’d stop being cheeky.

It was probably because of what happened with Song Jin; she hadn’t received any punishment from Xu Qingbo yet. She was unsettled, her nerves causing her more trouble.

Xu Shu stirred his rice and said indifferently, “Alright, I’ll stay over at home tonight.”

Xu Tingting immediately beamed with joy, “Great, then I’ll have Mom make your favorite seafood porridge tomorrow morning!”

As she said this, she took out her phone, and Xu Shu pressed it down, “It’s already late, Mom’s long asleep, don’t bother.”

Her smile faded, “Okay, we’ll talk about it in the morning. How about I make it for you tomorrow?”

“You?” Xu Shu raised an eyebrow, “Should I call to wake you up?”

For someone who set ten alarms every morning and snoozed through nine, getting up early seemed unlikely.

She giggled and waved her hand, “Nah, I’ll figure it out myself.”

Xu Shu shook his head with a smile, not expecting much.

He chatted with her while eating. Maybe he was too tired and felt hungry, as he soon finished his meal.

“I’m going to change clothes. Don’t move the dishes; I’ll clean them up later.”

Xu Tingting responded with “Mhm, yeah.”

He changed quickly, but when he came out, he saw Xu Tingting putting the leftovers into a container. He hastened his pace, took the items from her hands, “Didn’t I tell you not to move them?”

“I’m just idle anyway.”

Xu Shu used chopsticks to pick out a few pieces of rabbit meat left in the sauce, placed them on the rice, and then took the lunch box for washing.