In the evening, Wu Mangmang still stayed at the hillside villa.

Though love is sweet and passionate, family affection is equally irreplaceable, especially when Boss Wu and Ms. Liu both wore kind smiles on their faces.

“What are you doing?” When Lu Sui called, Wu Mangmang was keeping Wu Dandan company playing with building blocks.

“Keeping Wu Dandan company,” Wu Mangmang said.

“Oh.” After Lu Sui responded on the other end of the phone, there was a long silence.

It took Wu Mangmang a moment to pick up on the subtext of “you’d rather keep Wu Dandan company than keep me company,” and she couldn’t help laughing into the phone. Holding the phone, she walked to the window and said softly, “I miss you.”

“If you miss me, come out,” Lu Sui finally spoke.

The clock on the wall pointed exactly to eight o’clock. Wu Mangmang glanced at it and said, “Ms. Liu and the others went out. It’s just me and Dandan at home. I need to keep him company.”

“Just half an hour,” Lu Sui said.

“Would half an hour be enough?” Wu Mangmang asked coquettishly.

Half an hour was definitely not enough.

Lu Sui had driven over himself. The black car was parked in the grove around the bend, and it took Wu Mangmang a while to spot it.

Although lovers in passionate romance can chat about even weather conditions for half an hour, they were actually more infatuated with silent communication.

From the moment Wu Mangmang got in the car until now, Lu Sui had barely said a word to her.

On a dark and windy night, in the deep forest with no one around, not doing something naughty would surely suffocate a person.

Wu Mangmang felt that Lu Sui appeared cold and indifferent on the surface, as if nothing could interest him, but in reality he was a complete “groove enthusiast.”

Starting from the collarbone hollow, all the way to the cleavage, then to the butterfly valley on her back, the spine groove, and down to the navel—all the concave places were spots he was particularly infatuated with.

Wu Mangmang looked at her watch and said breathlessly, “It’s been half an hour. I need to go back. I promised Dandan I’d help him fall asleep.”

“How old is he? Still needs someone to help him sleep?” Lu Sui sat up from behind Wu Mangmang, gently biting her shoulder. “Boys can’t be raised like this.”

Wu Mangmang shrugged her shoulders, shaking off Lu Sui’s mouth, and grabbed her clothes to put on. “Boss Wu and Ms. Liu have been terribly busy lately. They don’t have much time to spend with him now.”

Wu Dandan’s room was full of Lego blocks—how could Wu Mangmang stand seeing that? “He’s still young and really needs company.”

Lu Sui held Wu Mangmang’s waist, not letting her go. “Come back to Lu residence with me.”

“No way,” Wu Mangmang refused decisively.

“Then I’ll go back to your house with you,” Lu Sui said again.

Wu Mangmang had a “did I hear that right?” shocked expression.

“Is it really necessary?” Wu Mangmang couldn’t help asking. In her mind, Lu Sui had always been someone with amazingly high self-control.

Lu Sui kept a straight face and said nothing.

In the end, Wu Mangmang still returned to the Wu house hand in hand with Lu Sui.

Wu Dandan, this little thing, was quite the clever spirit and had long learned the skill of reading people. When he saw Lu Sui, he obediently called out “Brother-in-law.”

“Brother-in-law, play blocks with me,” Wu Dandan requested, then said pitifully to Wu Mangmang, “Sister, can I borrow brother-in-law for a bit?”

Wu Mangmang had grown up playing with Barbie dolls, and her specialty as an adult was porcelain restoration. When Wu Dandan asked her to build with blocks, what she assembled each time was either a long-necked beauty vase or a round-bellied celestial sphere bottle. Wu Dandan found this speechless.

Now that Wu Dandan had caught Lu Sui, he certainly wouldn’t let him go.

“You can only play until nine-thirty, okay?” Wu Mangmang said to Wu Dandan.

While Lu Sui was helping Wu Dandan build a robot dog, Wu Mangmang looked at materials nearby, occasionally exchanging glances, secretly holding hands, or stealing kisses when Wu Dandan was concentrating and looking down. Time slipped away quietly and beautifully.

In the morning, when Boss Wu and Ms. Liu were sitting in the dining room and saw Lu Sui coming downstairs, Ms. Liu even knocked over her milk glass.

Lu Sui’s expression was calm, but Wu Mangmang could still detect his discomfort from his subtle expressions.

After breakfast, when Wu Mangmang walked Lu Sui out, she couldn’t help teasing, “Today, do you feel like you’re my family’s live-in son-in-law?”

Lu Sui said sarcastically, “Are you sure it’s son-in-law?”

Wu Mangmang stepped back half a body length. Actually, Wu Mangmang had expected Lu Sui to say something like this—she just hadn’t expected him to show his true colors so quickly.

But this was a sensitive topic, and she didn’t want to argue with Lu Sui, so she could only play dumb.

They had agreed not to pressure her about marriage—it had only been a few days!

Wu Mangmang snorted inwardly, but her face was as gentle as water. She softly pecked Lu Sui’s cheek. “I’ll return to Lu residence this afternoon.”

When Wu Mangmang returned to Lu residence in the afternoon, she had a little follower with her. Wu Dandan had insisted on coming, and with Ms. Liu and the others busy, Wu Mangmang agreed without hesitation.

“Are you going out?” Wu Mangmang followed Lu Sui to the bedroom, watching him change his shirt, naturally walking over to help him button his cuffs.

Lu Sui hummed, “Little aunt called at noon to invite us for dinner.”

Little aunt was naturally Lu Jianan. When Wu Mangmang heard Lu Sui’s words, she fell silent. She definitely didn’t want to see Lu Jianan, or rather, she wasn’t psychologically prepared at all right now.

However, Wu Mangmang also knew that if she stayed silent about this matter, it would be very inappropriate. So after helping Lu Sui button his cuffs, she lifted her eyelids and asked, “Do you need me to go?”

“No need,” Lu Sui ruffled Wu Mangmang’s hair. “I’ll come back early tonight. Don’t be picky about food at dinner, and don’t set a bad example for Dandan.”

“I won’t. He’s pickier than me, but I’ll listen to you,” Wu Mangmang took Lu Sui’s arm, looking at him ingratiatingly, her meaning obvious.

Lu Sui sighed softly, “But Lu Lin will definitely tell aunt, so you should be mentally prepared.”

“Mm-hmm,” Wu Mangmang nodded vigorously.

When Lu Sui arrived at the private room, Lu Jianan and her husband, along with Lu Lin, were already seated.

Lu Jianan glanced behind Lu Sui and said nothing.

“Did Lu Lin tell you everything, Aunt?” Lu Sui sat down and said.

“Even if she didn’t tell me, I could have guessed,” Lu Jianan said. “It seems all my effort in training Wu Mangmang wasn’t wasted.”

Lu Jianan had watched Lu Sui grow up and understood his character to some extent. If he wasn’t very certain of his feelings, Wu Mangmang wouldn’t have been qualified to attend the Christmas gala at Lu Garden or the New Year’s Eve family dinner.

She wasn’t surprised at all by Lu Sui and Wu Mangmang’s reconciliation this time—rather, she had been quite surprised when Lu Sui and Wu Mangmang broke up last time.

“Why didn’t Mangmang come?” Lu Lin seemed to fear the world wasn’t chaotic enough, deliberately bringing up sensitive topics.

Lu Jianan also looked at Lu Sui upon hearing this.

“She’s still a young girl. Give her some time,” Lu Sui said.

“She’s twenty-six now, right? She shouldn’t be considered a young girl anymore,” Lu Jianan said. Actually, she didn’t dislike Wu Mangmang—she just hated that she never seemed to grow up.

“In my heart, she’s just a young girl,” Lu Sui said.

Lu Jianan raised her chin to look at Lu Sui. It seemed her nephew was determined to protect Wu Mangmang to the end.

Lu Jianan wasn’t one to meddle in others’ affairs. Since Lu Sui treasured her like a precious gem, she wouldn’t touch his beloved. “Since you’ve reconciled, shouldn’t you get married?”

All three people at the table straightened their backs, waiting for Lu Sui’s answer. The Lu family hadn’t had any happy occasions in many years.

“No rush. We haven’t made plans yet,” Lu Sui said.

“Haven’t made plans?” This time it was Lu Lin who was surprised. “Don’t you plan to marry Mangmang?”

Lu Sui was too lazy to deal with Lu Lin’s “sowing discord” and said, “This is my private matter.”

When Lu Sui arrived home, Wu Mangmang was in the side hall helping Wu Dandan with his summer homework. Lu Sui leaned against the doorway watching for quite a while before Wu Mangmang noticed him.

“You’re back quite early,” Wu Mangmang walked over, stood on her tiptoes to kiss Lu Sui’s cheek, and pulled him toward Wu Dandan, who was doing homework.

“Thank goodness you’re back. Please come rescue me. First-grade problems are surprisingly difficult now,” Wu Mangmang complained.

While Lu Sui was explaining problems to Wu Dandan, Wu Mangmang watched from the side with her chin propped on her hand. She could see that Lu Sui was very patient and careful, and he was very considerate of the child’s self-esteem. Wu Mangmang couldn’t help thinking that Lu Sui would definitely be a very, very good father in the future.

With this thought, Wu Mangmang felt that if she let him be a father to another woman’s child, she really would be reluctant—very reluctant.

The next day, Wu Dandan clamored to see the latest “Star Wars” movie. Wu Mangmang was also a fanatic of this film series and quickly booked tickets online.

Wu Mangmang naturally didn’t dare ignore Lu Sui, but she wasn’t sure whether the sophisticated Mr. Lu would go to a movie theater to watch films.

Actually, watching movies was almost a required course for all dating couples, and clearly Mr. Lu had missed many elective courses.

Early in the morning, Lu Sui had arranged to play golf with someone. Wu Mangmang called Lu Sui during lunch time, “I miss you.”

“I miss you” had now become Wu Mangmang’s three-word magic formula, which she had actually learned from Lu Sui.

With these three words leading the way, Mr. Lu would basically treat all of Wu Mangmang’s questions with an extremely gentle and tolerant attitude.

“I’ll definitely be back before nine,” Lu Sui said on the other end of the phone.

Wu Mangmang despised Lu Sui’s “nine o’clock” from the bottom of her heart and continued in a sweet voice, “I’m taking Dandan to see a movie tonight. Do you want to come?”

“What time?” Lu Sui asked.

“Seven o’clock. I plan to have dinner downstairs at the movie theater,” Wu Mangmang said.

“Send me the address. I’ll come find you guys when it’s time,” Lu Sui said.

Lu Sui found Wu Mangmang and Wu Dandan at Pizza Hut. The siblings had ordered all fried snacks plus high-calorie pizza—all the super carcinogenic substances just announced by the World Health Organization.

Wu Mangmang saw Lu Sui frown and her heart tightened, but they had almost finished eating. Even if Lu Sui had objections now, it was too late.

“I’ll go exchange the tickets. You take Dandan to buy popcorn and cola,” Wu Mangmang said to Lu Sui. Division of labor and cooperation to save time—the movie would start in ten minutes.

When Wu Mangmang returned after exchanging tickets, she found Lu Sui and Wu Dandan empty-handed.

“What happened?” Wu Mangmang asked.

Wu Dandan immediately said unhappily, “Brother-in-law won’t buy it for me.”

“Children are at the age when they’re growing. They should drink less carbonated beverages. Women lose calcium easily, so you should also drink less. Popcorn has no benefit for the body and eating it causes internal heat,” Lu Sui said.

Wu Dandan stood behind Lu Sui, rolled his eyes at his sister Wu Mangmang, and made a super helpless expression.

Wu Dandan usually had a set routine of crying, making a fuss, and threatening to hang himself when dealing with his mother, but he couldn’t pull any of these tricks on Lu Sui.

Because of this incident, Wu Dandan stayed at Lu residence for less than three days before secretly expressing to Wu Mangmang his strong desire to go home, behind Lu Sui’s back.

“Why? Didn’t he just buy you a car model yesterday?” A super expensive car model.

Wu Dandan said gloomily, “Can’t eat this, can’t watch that, even bedtime is regulated. Everything is controlled.”

Wu Dandan took Wu Mangmang’s hand and sighed like an adult, “Sister, how do you endure it?”

Wu Mangmang blinked.

Right, how did she endure it?