Chapter 17 This is fair

After watching the movie, it was already past four in the afternoon.

Xu Ye rubbed his stomach. He had eaten a bucket of popcorn and Coke by himself, and now his stomach was still a little full.

"The group photo just now should be enough, right? If nothing happens, I'll go back first."

Chen Qingqing said: "Didn't you say you still want to eat?"

"I'm full and can't eat anymore."

Chen Qingqing tucked a strand of long hair in front of her forehead behind her ears. After coming out of the theater, the temperature outside made her feel a little hot. She took out a black hair tie from her pocket and bit it in her mouth, then tied her hair up skillfully.

Today she wore a cream-yellow sweatshirt, black pants underneath, and a pair of white Converse. With her high ponytail tied up, she looked slim and pretty.

Xu Ye watched the whole process of her tying her hair intently. Feeling a little guilty, he took the initiative to stir up the topic and asked: "Chen Qingqing, how old are you?"

"eighteen."

"Have you just finished the college entrance examination?"

"Um."

Xu Ye smiled and said, "Which city are you going to go to college in?"

Chen Qingqing looked at Xu Ye warily and did not answer. Xu Ye felt speechless. He shrugged and said, "If you don't want to say anything, forget it. I'll just ask."

"What about you? Which city are you going to?"

"Magic City."

Hearing this, Chen Qingqing was silent for a while.

He only considered two schools, one was the Magic Conservatory of Music and the other was the Changyang Conservatory of Music. She preferred the Magic Conservatory of Music in her heart. She had lived in the south since she was a child and was afraid that she would not be used to going to the north.

"Um...you brought me here. Can you ask your Aunt Wang to take me back?"

Chen Qingqing nodded lightly: "I'll go to the bathroom first."

"Um."

Xu Ye looked around with his hands in his pockets and saw several claw machines placed against the wall. He hesitated for a moment and stepped forward to exchange some game coins.

This kind of claw machine has skills. It happened that Xu Ye had caught dolls countless times in his previous life in order to make Gu Mengyao happy, so it didn't take him long to catch a Doraemon from the claw machine.

After Chen Qingqing came out of the bathroom, Xu Ye handed her the blue fat man in his hand.

Chen Qingqing looked at the doll in Xu Ye's hand and looked up at Xu Ye with confusion.

Xu Ye smiled and said, "Just think of it as my birthday gift to you."

Chen Qingqing has received many expensive birthday gifts, some from her parents and some from her parents' colleagues, but Chen Qingqing can accept them without any psychological burden.

But now, she was a little hesitant.

Seeing that she was indifferent, Xu Ye said helplessly: "Forget it, don't pull her down."

Xu Yegang wanted to retract his hand.

Chen Qingqing reached out and quickly snatched the doll away: "I treat you to a movie, and you give me the doll. This is fair."

"Um."

The two left the mall side by side. After Chen Qingqing sent a message to Wang Ruxue, the car stopped in front of them not long after.

"Aunt Wang, please send him back first."

Wang Ruxue turned around and asked, "Your name is Xu Ye, right? Where do you live?"

Xu Ye smiled and said, "Just send me to the pub. I have to go to work at night. It's troublesome."

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Half an hour later.

Xu Ye got off the car at the entrance of the tavern, but Wang Ruxue did not stop and drove back to Hongye Villa.

"Your mother called me just now. She will rush home in the evening."

Seeing that Chen Qingqing was silent, Wang Ruxue added: "Your father may come over tonight."

Hearing this, Chen Qingqing smiled happily.

She didn't expect that photo to be so effective in making her parents, who valued work more than family, drop everything and rush back from outside.

Chen Qingqing put Doraemon on her lap, then turned on her phone and found the group photo that had been sent to Moments.

She thought about it for a moment, then clicked on the photo settings and selected 'Set as wallpaper'.

Return to the mobile desktop.

The default phone wallpaper was changed to a photo of her and Xu Ye.

After dark, the sound of parking cars sounded in the yard. Chen Qingqing knew that it was her mother who was back. She was lying on the sofa motionless.

Jiang Meilin got out of the car, opened the passenger door, held an exquisite black forest cake in her hand, and walked into the living room.

"Qingqing, Qingqing?"

Seeing Chen Qingqing lying on the sofa playing with her mobile phone, Jiang Meilin gently placed the cake on the coffee table, then carefully sat down at Chen Qingqing's feet. She asked patiently: "Qingqing, mom is asking you, that Xu Ye Who is it?"

"Didn't I say he was my boyfriend?"

"Don't lie to mom. I know you said that to your dad because you blamed him for not having time to celebrate your birthday with you. You deliberately angered him, so..."

Chen Qingqing raised the Doraemon in her hand and said, "You are overthinking it. We have already confirmed our relationship. We watched a movie together in the afternoon and caught a doll together. Well, this is what he gave me."

Jiang Meilin raised her head and glanced at Wang Ruxue. Seeing Wang Ruxue nodding, Jiang Meilin looked a little ugly.

"Do you have to be so angry with me?"

Jiang Meilin stood up and said with some excitement: "Yes, your father and I have not fulfilled our responsibilities as parents, but we have not treated you badly in terms of material things. I don't work, how can you live in such a big city?" House? I don’t work, what do you eat and drink every day?”

Chen Qingqing also sat up from the sofa, her eyes red: "Yes, you are all for me, it's all my fault. If you hadn't given birth to me, there wouldn't be so many things."

Chen Qingqing ran upstairs after she finished speaking.

"Qingqing!"

Jiang Meilin watched her daughter wipe her tears and go upstairs, and she immediately regretted it.

Not long after, Chen Hansong also drove home. As soon as he came in, he couldn't wait to ask: "Where is Qingqing?"

"It's all your fault! You can even forget your daughter's birthday. Are you still a human being?"

"I just didn't remember it for a moment." Chen Hansong quickly retorted: "You are still embarrassed to say me, you clearly knew that today is Qingqing's birthday, and you left her alone at home."

"Yes, it's all my fault. You, as a father, have no responsibility at all."

"Jiang Meilin, I don't want to quarrel with you today. Where is Qingqing? I want to talk to her."

Jiang Meilin turned sideways and picked up the doll on the sofa, choking: "She probably doesn't want to see you or me now."

"Have you asked clearly? What is the relationship between Xu Ye and our Qingqing?"

Jiang Meilin picked up the phone that Chen Qingqing left downstairs, turned on the screen, held it in her hand and said, "She has set the photo as wallpaper."

"What should we do now?"

Jiang Meilin sniffed, stood up and said, "I'll go upstairs and ask Qingqing to come down for cake. Don't say anything later. As for him and Xu Ye, I will find time to talk to him directly. You know your daughter's personality. We can't get the answer from her."

Chen Hansong was silent.

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