Xi Yan: "I'm here too."
Bai Le stared at Xi Yan's answer, paused for a moment, then realized what she meant. "You like horseback riding?"
Xi Yan corrected, "It's not that I like it, it's that others like it."
Bai Le recalled Xi Yan told me about this, saying that a major United Kingdom client had come to discuss cooperation with their company. Bai Le usually let these things go in one ear and out the other, so he didn't pay much attention to them. He never expected to run into Xi Yan.
Bai Le put down his phone. Knowing that Xi Yan was here actually made him feel at ease. His intuition told him that Xi Yan would definitely come and take him with him.
Wu Hua went to the side to tidy up the bait. Just as Bai Le was about to stand up, a woman suddenly approached him. He looked over and saw that it was the woman next to Xiaozhouzi.
She then blurted out, with a hint of sourness, "How did you meet such a great man?"
Bai Le: "?"
The woman walked in and glanced at Bai Le's lower abdomen before noticing it. After her initial surprise, she sighed and earnestly advised, "Don't think that having a child will tie someone to your side. People like us need to be prepared for the worst."
Bai Le: "??"
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Chapter 52
"What are you two talking about?" Wu Hua walked over with the bait, frowning slightly, not understanding why she would come over and talk to Bai Le.
The woman quickly said, "We didn't talk about anything." Her tone was eager to distance herself from Bai Le, but it gave off a rather suspicious vibe.
Wu Hua sensed something was wrong, but seeing that she wouldn't say anything, he didn't ask her any further. Instead, he told her to leave, and after she left, he asked Bai Le.
"What did she say to you? She was acting suspiciously."
Bai Le, holding a fishing rod, frowned slightly upon hearing this, and asked suspiciously, "She asked me where I knew Xi Yan."
"Does she know Xi Yan?" Wu Hua's voice rose involuntarily.
Bai Le pursed her lips. "I don't know. She also told me to have a backup plan, and not to think that having Mu Mu would keep Xi Yan by my side."
After listening, Wu Hua remained silent for a moment, then said tremblingly, "I have a terrible idea, but I don't know if I should say it."
Bai Le: "Speak."
"That sounds like a provocation."
Bai Le: "?"
Wu Hua continued, "Judging from her tone, it seems like she knows Xi Yan, and think about that sentence more carefully, isn't something a little off?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Le's lips twitched.
Wu Hua frowned, thinking about it more and more and it made more sense, but the only objection was that Fourth Master didn't seem like the type to get involved in romantic entanglements.
As the two were talking, a deep, magnetic, and indifferent voice suddenly came from behind them.
Who knows me?
Wu Hua's face stiffened, and he slowly turned his head. Bai Le also looked over and saw Xi Yan dressed in a sharp suit, one hand in his pocket and the other fiddling with something.
Neither Bai Le nor Wu Hua dared to speak. Wu Hua touched his nose and awkwardly looked away.
"Um... I have something to do, I'll go first. You guys can continue chatting."
After saying that, he quickly made his escape, leaving Bai Le and Xi Yan staring at each other in bewilderment.
Xi Yan walked over unhurriedly and then slowly extended her hand towards him.
"What?"
Bai Le temporarily forgot her nervousness and peered into his palm.
"It's a little trinket someone gave me; I brought it here for you to play with."
In his palm lay a piece of pottery, shaped like a chubby little goldfish, though its appearance was rather pitiful.
Bai Le took it and glanced at it, then insincerely praised, "It's quite pretty, but why are you giving it to me? I'm not a child anymore."
He didn't know how to get Xi Yan to stop treating him like a child.
Xi Yan didn't answer the question, but instead brought up what had just happened, asking in a nonchalant tone, "What were you talking about just now?"
Bai Le seemed a little guilty, his eyes darting around. "We just chatted haphazardly."
Xi Yan narrowed his eyes, his expression ambiguous. "Is that so?"
After he finished speaking, he turned to look at the people next to him, his gaze sweeping over them one by one, and everyone lowered their heads.
Xiaozhouzi lowered his head as low as he could, wishing he could bury it in the ground. The woman next to him was a little confused about the situation. Who was this man who had suddenly appeared, and why was everyone so afraid all of a sudden?
"Father!"
As soon as Mu Mu saw Xi Yan, she immediately dropped her little fishing rod, ran towards him with her short legs, and then hugged his legs tightly.
"Father! What brings you here?"
A hint of a smile appeared in Xi Yan's eyes, "Is Mu Mu happy?"
Mu Mu nodded emphatically and said in her childish voice, "Happy!"
The woman standing nearby was even more puzzled by this scene. When she saw the fair-skinned little boy grab Bai Le's hand again and ask, "Is Daddy happy too?"
Woman. "..."
Bai Le changed the subject, asking, "Are you coming fishing too?"
Xi Yan didn't answer directly. Instead, he sat down next to Bai Le and then replied in a nonchalant tone, "Watching you fish."
Bai Le paused for a moment, then coughed a few times, feeling a little embarrassed. With so many people around, how could Xi Yan possibly say such things?
He was actually still thinking about what Wu Hua had said earlier. Of course, he didn't believe that Xi Yan would go out and do something like attracting attention; he was just puzzled and didn't know what the misunderstanding was.
Xi Yan's gaze fell on the unusually quiet people beside him, and he frowned slightly, seemingly puzzled as to why they were acting this way.
He recalled what Bai Le had said about him: he always had a cold and serious expression, which was why his friends were afraid of him. Thinking of this, his brows furrowed even more. After hesitating for a while, he finally spoke to Xiaozhouzi, whom he was more familiar with, from the crowd.