Early the next morning, Su Chen arrived at the supermarket in the Metro shopping mall.
The beef sold there was the tastiest.
The tofu was also the freshest and most tender.
After buying groceries and insulated lunch boxes, Su Chen put everything in the trunk.
Just as he was about to head to the driver's seat, he ran into the cyberpunk-style girl he'd seen yesterday outside his eldest daughter's dorm.
The girl was distinctive, so even though Su Chen had only seen her once, he remembered her.
"Hi," Su Chen greeted her first.
After all, she was his daughter's good friend.
Judging by how protective she'd been of his daughter yesterday, the two of them seemed very close.
He couldn't be by his daughter's side twenty-four hours a day, so getting along with her good friends was a very good idea.
Su Yinuo hadn't expected to run into Su Chen here!
She'd actually spotted him in the parking lot a while ago.
She could have avoided meeting him.
But, as if possessed, she couldn't control her long legs.
Before she knew it, she was standing in front of Su Chen's car.
"Hi." Her stiff lips moved. One hand was coolly tucked into her pocket, while she raised the other to greet him.
She'd meant to smile when she greeted Su Chen.
But she hadn't expected to be this nervous.
She was even more nervous than she'd been when she saw him yesterday.
She didn't dare meet his eyes at all.
Seeing the girl avoid his gaze, Su Chen figured she was still embarrassed about yesterday's misunderstanding.
He smiled and broke the awkward silence. "Are you here to buy something?"
"Mm."
"You... came to buy something too?" Su Yinuo asked haltingly.
"Yeah. I need to bring lunch to my daughters today, so I came to buy groceries early. I'll cook in a bit and take the food over to them." He'd also bought five insulated lunch boxes.
While buying them, he remembered that he'd forgotten to ask Zihan and her sisters what colors they liked the night before.
And he'd left early—at six thirty.
Zihan was still asleep, and he didn't want to wake her.
So he thought about his daughters' names and majors, then bought each one the color he thought would suit her.
He bought a pink one for his eldest daughter.
The last time they'd gone to the supermarket for daily necessities, his eldest daughter had picked pink things, like pink slippers and a pink bath sponge.
He bought a yellow one for his second daughter.
Since she and his eldest daughter were identical twins, they looked exactly alike. Their personalities were probably similar too.
And since she studied accounting, she was probably a gentle girl who liked bright colors.
He bought a light blue one for his third daughter.
His third daughter studied art, and light blue stood for the vast, imaginative blue sky.
He thought she'd like it.
He bought a bright red one for his fourth daughter.
His fourth daughter studied medicine. One day she'd wear a white coat and save lives, so she would probably like a bright, auspicious color.
He bought a white one for his fifth daughter.
His fifth daughter studied Chinese language and culture and would become a teacher. Lots of female teachers at school liked wearing white dresses. They looked so pure.
Su Yinuo's gaze went straight to the trunk of the car where Su Chen had been standing.
The groceries he was going to cook for them at noon were in there~~
She wanted to go home with Dad right away and watch him cook!
Then she could sneak little bites in the kitchen like a greedy kitten.
Just imagining it made her itch with anticipation.
She could hardly wait to tell the Su Chen standing before her that she was his second daughter, Su Yinuo!
But she had to hold back. Hold back.
She needed to change her look first.
Otherwise, Dad would definitely have the worst possible impression of her.
After all, she'd done nothing but threaten him when she first met him.
And with the way she was dressed now, she looked every bit like a bad girl with a cyberpunk style.
She didn't think she was bad.
But parents saw things differently.
In their eyes, girls dressed like her were bad girls, the kind they wouldn't let their daughters hang out with.
After going back and forth over it, she finally decided to buy a set of ladylike clothes at the mall.
Then, over lunch, she'd call Su Chen Dad.
She couldn't wait to change her look.
Just as she was about to part ways with Su Chen and go buy clothes, a voice suddenly rang out.
"Su Yinuo!"
She frowned.
Sure enough, a tall man dressed in the same cyberpunk style was walking toward her, accompanied by five boys in tracksuits.
It was Xiao Haoran, the captain of the basketball team in her year at school, and his five teammates.
Xiao Haoran was pursuing her, and she'd rejected him very clearly.
But the guy seemed not to know what rejection meant. He kept putting on his domineering CEO act in front of her. It was especially annoying.
"Su Yinuo, who is he?" Xiao Haoran had spotted her chatting with an older man a while ago.
He was furious, but he held himself back instead of acting rashly. He'd deliberately called his buddies over to back him up.
Because that older guy looked tall and strong, and, damn it, had a mature charm!
He also had an imposing air. At a glance, he was clearly no ordinary man.
Naturally, Xiao Haoran wasn't going to do anything rash.
Otherwise, instead of winning points with his goddess, Su Yinuo, he might end up beaten black and blue. That would be a terrible trade.
He was a clever guy.
With six of them there, he immediately felt full of confidence!
He wasn't afraid of this handsome older guy at all!
Because they weren't just on the basketball team—they were also in the Taekwondo club!
Su Yinuo said unhappily, "What does it have to do with you who he is?"
"Of course it has something to do with me. I like you, and I don't want to see you get tricked by some older guy."
"You like me. What does that have to do with me? What makes you think an older guy would trick me? By the way, you once asked what kind of man I liked. I can tell you right now!"
"I like handsome older guys!" As she spoke, Su Yinuo hugged Su Chen's arm.
She pressed her head affectionately against his arm.
She looked for all the world like they were "in a relationship."
Su Chen immediately looked down at the girl clinging to his arm.
Su Yinuo?
Wasn't that his second daughter's name?
But his eldest daughter, Su Zihan, had told him that his second daughter and his eldest daughter were identical twins.
They looked exactly alike.
Yet the girl before him was worlds apart from his eldest daughter—in her face, her temperament, and even her style of dress!
Could her name not be Su Yinuo?
Maybe it just sounded the same?
Was it Su Yinuo, with a different character?
Since Su Yinuo and Su Yinuo were pronounced the same, could that be how two girls with completely different personalities had become such close friends?
That explanation did seem to make sense.
Still, he couldn't shake the feeling that something was off.
He'd ask his eldest daughter when he got home.
"Ding... Congratulations, host. You are faced with a choice." "Choice one: Play along with Su Yinuo. Reward: one million yuan in cash." "Choice two: Refuse to play along with Su Yinuo. Reward: +5 Charm." "Choice three: Play along with Su Yinuo and kiss the top of her head. Reward: one Martial Arts Introduction Exchange Card."
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