Xiao Xiao had a rather cool temperament. He was gentle with others, but not exactly enthusiastic.
He also found it a little hard to handle people who were overly enthusiastic.
It made him feel uncomfortable.
Thinking of the enthusiasm his aunt might show him later, a wry smile crept onto his face.
"Xiao Xiao!"
Yu Yanyan and Xiao Xiao had just reached the stairwell when the middle-aged woman opened the door and called out to them with a smile.
Well, it would have been more accurate to remove the "them."
His aunt's gaze fell on Xiao Xiao, and the light in her eyes was so bright it was almost blinding. Xiao Xiao's steps faltered slightly.
"Auntie, did you hear us coming?"
Yu Yanyan asked with a smile.
What perfect timing.
At her words, the middle-aged woman drew her blazing gaze away from Xiao Xiao.
She turned her eyes, and Yu Yanyan's figure appeared in them.
"I saw you on the balcony."
The middle-aged woman spoke gently. "I thought you would be here soon, so I kept going out to the balcony to look."
"Then just now, I saw you get out of the car."
If she hadn't been needed in the kitchen, she would have gone downstairs to meet them.
She had also considered asking her husband to go down instead.
But she remembered that Xiao Xiao didn't know her husband and worried that meeting a stranger might make him uncomfortable. In the end, she decided to greet them at the door herself.
"Come on in."
The middle-aged woman stepped aside. "Now that Xiao Xiao's here, we can get dinner ready."
Xiao Xiao and Yu Yanyan changed into slippers and followed the middle-aged woman inside.
Aside from the middle-aged woman's husband and child, the Gu Family's two