Wen Wanyi looked at the bag on the table and asked.
It held the cookies Gu Qing had brought home from school.
"A classmate made these cookies and asked me to bring some home for you to try."
Gu Qing spoke while shoveling rice into his mouth.
A classmate?
Wen Wanyi raised an eyebrow, then gave him a knowing grin. "What kind of classmate makes cookies for you to bring home to us?"
"Come on, tell us the truth!"
"Did you get yourself a girlfriend at school?"
"..."
Gu Qing never talked to his family about his love life.
In his three years at university, his family had never known he had a girlfriend named Bai Ningyu, much less that they had already broken up.
So.
When Wen Wanyi saw him bring home a bag of handmade cookies.
Her first suspicion was that he had a girlfriend.
Gu Qing denied it. "Seriously, no. Just an ordinary classmate made them. We just happen to be pretty close."
Seeing that her son refused to talk, Wen Wanyi stopped pressing him.
Instead, she turned her attention to the cookies.
"All right, if you say you don't, you don't. I believe you. Now let me try your ordinary classmate's baking."
As she spoke, Wen Wanyi opened the bag, picked up a cookie at random, and put it in her mouth, savoring it.
Gu Mingbo reached for one too. "Let me see how they taste."
Just then.
Gu Yao came out of her room to get some water.
The moment she came out, she saw her parents eating cookies and hurried over to protest.
"Father! Mother!"
"You're so mean!"
"Eating treats behind your daughter's back!"
As she spoke, Gu Yao plopped down beside her mother, Wen Wanyi, carefully selected a strawberry cookie, and picked it