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But she still opened it, took out a piece of dried purple sweet potato, chewed twice, and her eyes lit up. "Wow, this is delicious!"

Xu Han occasionally bragged to her about how good the vegetables she grew were. Tang Yueyue had thought she was exaggerating. After all, who had not eaten farm-grown vegetables? After eating enough of them, they all tasted about the same, and the vegetables in the city were fresher, more tender, and more varied.

But the moment she tasted it today, her opinion changed.

It really was delicious!

"When did you get so good at this?" Tang Yueyue crunched away while continuing to chatter. "Did you grow these vegetables yourself? Wow, they're so crisp and sweet."

"Yeah! Didn't I tell you I went back to grow vegetables?"

As Xu Han spoke, she pulled open her clothes to feed Koukou, but Koukou was drawn in by what Tang Yueyue was eating. Seeing how deliciously she was eating, he had no interest in drinking milk at all. He stared at the food in Tang Yueyue's hand, drool streaming from his mouth.

"Huh? Does Koukou want some?" Tang Yueyue asked curiously when she saw his reaction. "A baby this young can actually crave food? I always thought babies this little only drank milk."

"Lots of little kids are greedy. Whenever they see something, they want to taste it."

Xu Han took a strip of purple sweet potato from her hand and gave it to Koukou. His teeth had only just started coming in, so he could not bite yet and did not understand how to bite. He could only suck out some of the sweetness like he did with milk.

Koukou happily held one end of the purple sweet potato strip in his mouth and sucked on it. Xu Han smiled and tapped his nose. "Little glutton."

"Ah!" Koukou cried excitedly when he saw Xu Han teasing him.

Koukou was only six months old. The sounds he could make were still very simple; he could only instinctively make the noises he knew, and had not even learned to imitate others yet.

Xu Han simply continued teasing him, taking hold of his little hand. "Where did this handsome little guy come from? Are you smiling so happily because something good happened?"

Koukou did not understand what she was saying, but whenever Xu Han interacted with him, he would occasionally give her a huge smile, quite generously.

Just then, their doorbell rang.

"Hm? Did the landlord come over so quickly? I'll get it."

Tang Yueyue set down the snack jar and went to open the door. But outside was not the short, fat landlord of the building. It was an unfamiliar man with a little boy beside him. The man was exceptionally handsome and tall and slender, like some peerless hunk who had fallen from the heavens.

Tang Yueyue did not recognize Gu Yanqing.

"Huh? Sir, who are you looking for?"

"Does Qiao Wanqing live here?"

The man felt a little... intimidating. Tang Yueyue said, "Y-yes. You are...?"

"A friend of hers. Is she here?"

"She is." Seeing that he did not seem to have come with ill intent—and that he was an impossibly handsome man with a gorgeous face and great figure—Tang Yueyue nodded, completely unaware that she had just sold out her best friend.

Xu Han fastened the clothes she had opened to feed Koukou. When she looked up and saw the visitor, she froze for a moment before frowning. "Why are you here?"

No, how did he know she had come to this city? And how had he found this place so precisely?

"I heard you came here, so I came to see Koukou."

Gu Yanqing's gaze shifted to Koukou. Koukou had met Gu Yanqing before and seemed to remember him. The moment he saw him, he babbled twice and stretched out his chubby little arms, clearly asking to be held.

Xu Han: "..."

You useless little traitor!

Tang Yueyue sensed that something was off. Only then did she notice that Koukou's brows and eyes looked somewhat like the man before her, and she realized that this was probably President Gu Yanqing—the Gu Yanqing who had her best friend hopelessly smitten.

Uh...

So what kind of plot was this now?

Seeing that the atmosphere between them was not quite right, Tang Yueyue secretly stuck out her tongue, picked up the vegetable chips she had been eating, and watched from the sidelines.

When Gu Yanqing saw Koukou's reaction, a faint smile touched his eyes. He stepped forward two paces and said, "Can I hold him?"

Xu Han did not need to answer. The little traitor had already leaned more than half his body out toward him.

Sigh... sons grow up and leave their mothers behind. Xu Han lamented silently, letting Gu Yanqing take him.

Gu Yanqing did not know how to hold a sleeping child, but he was quite practiced at holding an energetic one like Koukou. Koukou stared up at him with curious little eyes, and Gu Yanqing even had a spare hand to pinch Koukou's pert little nose.

Koukou clearly liked interacting with Gu Yanqing too. When Gu Yanqing teased him, he smiled until his eyes curved into slits.

At that moment, the little boy who had come with Gu Yanqing tugged at his sleeve. Gu Yanqing lowered his head to look at him. "What is it, Yuanyuan?"

Xu Han, who had still been lamenting her son's lack of backbone, abruptly looked up.

Yuanyuan... Gu Mingyuan??

Only then did she turn her attention to the little boy who had come with Gu Yanqing. He looked four or five years old, with slightly yellow hair and delicate, defined features. She remembered the book mentioning that the male lead's grandmother was French, so he was mixed-race...

But his complexion did not look very good, and he seemed rather weak.

That perfectly matched the book's description of Gu Mingyuan as a child—frail and often sick.

At this point, Gu Mingyuan was still just a little bean sprout, with none of the male lead's domineering, cool, badass aura. He stared longingly at the vegetable chips in Tang Yueyue's hand, his face full of desire to eat them.

Noticing the child's gaze, Tang Yueyue handed him the jar. "Do you want some too, little one?"

Gu Mingyuan timidly glanced at Gu Yanqing. Only after receiving his nod of approval did he dare take it. He reached in, picked out a piece of broccoli, and put it in his mouth. Then his eyes sparkled as he said, "It's so good."

Gu Yanqing raised a hand and affectionately ruffled his hair.

Xu Han looked at the room full of people with a headache, her feelings complicated.

She had not expected to run head-on into the male lead like this.

And to make matters worse, her clueless, foolish son was in Gu Yanqing's arms, tilting his head to look at Gu Mingyuan. Gu Mingyuan, satisfied after eating, looked up at him and thought he wanted some too. He grabbed a piece of okra for him. The little fellow even giggled and hid against Gu Yanqing's shoulder, playing peekaboo with him.

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