Jerry Xiao looked at her askance, “You just looked like their real mom.”
His offhanded remark sent a shock through Zoey’s heart. Sideways, panicked, he looked at him, but he had a bashful look on his face, seemingly completely unaware of what kind of effect his words had just had.
“What?” Seeming to notice she was out of sorts, he looked at her with a sideways glance.
“Ah … no.” Zoey smiles sheepishly, avoiding his gaze as she hangs her head to fix her hair, “It’s a woman’s nature to like kids. Besides, they’re so adorable that you, a person who hates kids, love them, so there’s even less reason for me not to like them.”
Jerry Xiao nodded, agreeing with her.
“Come on, babies, kite! One for each!” Zoey held a dragonfly kite and a butterfly kite in her hands and raised them.
The little ones squealed with excitement and ran over. Not bothering to pat the grass roots on their bodies.
“I want this!” Nini stood on her tiptoes and quickly took the dragonfly.
“The butterflies are yours!” KK reminded her.
“Nini doesn’t want a butterfly!” Nini hugged the dragonfly and wouldn’t give it.
“But butterflies are for girls.” KK flattened her little mouth. Wouldn’t it be girly to play with a butterfly yourself?
“But, people just love dragonflies.” Nini wouldn’t budge either.
“I just don’t want butterflies!” KK didn’t comply either.
“You’re too bad! You’re the older brother, how can you bully your younger sister?!” Nini’s little mouth pouted.
KK grunted, “Did you forget ‘Kong Rong letting the pear’ that you learned yesterday?”
Jerry Xiao was simply dumbfounded. He really picked the two best looking ones, but he didn’t realize that the two kids would get into trouble over this too. Sure enough, children are trouble makers!
“Okay, okay, siblings can’t fight. Uncle will just go buy you guys another dragonfly.” He came out to be the peacemaker.
The two kids clapped their hands in delight, but Zoey pulled him back, shook his head, and gently gestured, “Don’t spoil the kids.”
In contrast to him, Zoey looked like she had seen it all before. Obviously, she had seen this kind of scene many times. No matter how good the relationship between the two children was, there were always times when they had to fight.
She squatted down and took both kites into her hands. With her eyes leveled with the two children, she still spoke gently, advising them, “These two kites are both gifts from Uncle, if you don’t like the butterfly’s kite, it’s tantamount to disliking the gift from Uncle, so Uncle will be sad.”
“Really?” The two little ones raised their little faces to look at Jerry Xiao, as if seeking an answer.
Zoey gave him a quick wink. He nodded his head immediately and facetiously, “Of course.”
Of course he was sad! He picked two different kites with the best of intentions, but he didn’t want to create such an effect.
“Don’t you guys like Uncle very much, how can you bear to let Uncle be sad? So, this butterfly kite, do you guys still want it?”
“I want it!”
“I want it!”
Both children spoke in unison, dutifully raising their small hands.
Jerry Xiao was once again dumbfounded. I didn’t realize that she had a knack for coaxing children! As expected, she was a woman who had brought up children abroad. She has a way of coaxing children.
The hands of both little ones reached toward the butterfly.
“Hmm? Who the hell wants it?” Zoey looked at them.
KK thought that Nini would also grab the butterfly kite with her, so she said without thinking, “I want it. KK doesn’t want to make Uncle sad!”
But Nini simply but a cheeky smile, revealing two small tiger teeth, cunningly hugged away the dragonfly kite, “Then Nini had to learn from Kong Rong, let you have the butterfly kite.”
KK frowned a little. Himself, he had simply been tricked by that little fox!
…
The kite is well and truly done, and KK, obviously still upset about just being screwed over, proposes to race the kite to the top with Nini.
“So let’s group up. Men’s group, women’s group!” Jerry Xiao joined in and stood in line with KK.
Nini looked at Zoeywith pity for her father , “Zoey , can I choose to become a boy?”
Woohoo …
She’s not going with Zoey. Stupid Zoey can’t fly a kite!
Jerry Xiao cracks a rare smile and absolutely, positively gloats!
Zoey’s lips twitched. I can’t believe I’m being disliked by a little girl!
“No, and, don’t even think about it!” Zoey crushes her daughter’s opinion mercilessly, grabs the kite and throws down the gauntlet, “Nini, don’t worry, this time Zoey will fly the kite and, for sure, make it fly higher than the men’s group!”
“Really?” Nini was so skeptical.
“Of course it’s fake!” KK demolished without mercy.
“Haha …” Jerry Xiao mocked more cruelly.
Zoey wanted to strangle herself. How can everyone look down on you?
In fact, the results, as expected, were as tragic as everyone expected …
Over there, KK and Jerry Xiao are having fun. “OH! Butterflies fly!” With his two arms on the little one, he ran on the grass. Every now and then, KK’s giggles came out, it was hilarious.
And on the other side …
“Zoey , it fell off again!” Nini’s little head dropped to the floor in frustration.
“Nini, we can’t be discouraged. You wait and watch Zoey fly the kite.” She, confident. But, the raised dragonfly landed again in less than a minute. The long wings, still sweeping across Nini’s cheek.
She even slumped her shoulders, “Zoey , why don’t … we just surrender?”
Her little princess, how can she be so uninspired? Zoey gathered her strength, “Nini, you have to trust Zoey one more time. There must be something wrong with the wind direction just now, Zoey promises that this time, she will definitely put it high!”
Nini looked embarrassed, but nodded, “Okay, then trust Zoey just one more time …”
Although, have believed it no less than 15 times …
Sure enough …
The dragonfly kite, once again, lived up to its name and fell slowly.
Now, not only Nini, but also Zoey herself will give up completely. It seems that she really doesn’t have even the slightest talent for kite flying.
As the kite fell, a long arm caught the dragonfly. Zoey looked over her shoulder and saw him slowly approaching in the sunlight. …
In the afternoon, the clear sunlight made her squint, but it gilded him with a mist of light and gold.
“Hold the line.” He took the spool of line and shoved it into her hand.
His entire body had come closer, right behind her. The two were close, even though their skin didn’t touch, so close that she could easily smell his scent, so close that she could almost feel the rise and fall of his chest …
The wind, fluttering by. On her, the minty scent of his blouse tangled tightly with his.
Her silky hair flew across his brow.
Springtime, wrapped around them. His voice, just scattered in his ears, “Come on, tug on the rope. Yes … harder … good, that’s it …”
As if infected by the beautiful spring colors and afternoon sunshine, his voice, so gentle, so nice. Zoey almost to be intoxicated in his arms …
Until …
“Wow! Still Uncle is great! The dragonfly flew up, the dragonfly flew up!” Nini applauded and shouted loudly. The small body, so excited that it jumped up high, the look was simply incomparable adoration.
Zoey wanted to cry without tears. It seems that he, himself, really doesn’t have any capital to make the little girl worship him.
Grudgingly, he stepped to the side and watched the image of him racking the little one in circles, and couldn’t help but be mesmerized.
KK came up to her carrying a butterfly kite, “Zoey …”
“I concede.” Thinking his son was coming to show off, Zoey surrendered without thinking.
What a lack of talent. KK swept her eyes in disgust before narrowing her eyes, “You and Uncle, in love oh?”
Zoey froze.
“Who said that? Where are we in love?” She denied it to death. However, between her and Jerry Xiao, was it love or not? It was said to be in love, but the two had never said the word ‘love’. No! It should be, only she said it. He, so far, has never responded …
But if it’s not love, then this afternoon they were in the study …
Thinking of that scene, Zoey’s face instantly turned red. While sheepishly straightening her hair, KK raised her little face like a little old man, “What uncle said, holding hands is falling in love! Nini and I both saw you holding hands with Uncle!” Zoey has nothing to say in return.
In fact … if she could, she’d rather they were really in love …
Soon …
KK also played with them in a ball. The two kids were flying kites, and when they did, they didn’t even care about the kites, instead they were messing around with him on the grass. He too, like a big kid, rolled on the grass with the kids, sticking all over the blades of grass. The three of them were laughing and screaming.
Zoey sits to the side, quietly watching the scene, smiling knowingly. This beautiful picture, deeply engraved into their hearts. This life, will never forget …
Around them, there were also quite a few people attracted by this beautiful scene.
“Miss, you are truly blessed, not only do you have such a beautiful pair of dragon and phoenix babies, but you also have such a good husband who is willing to accompany you.”
Husband?
Zoey’s heart skipped a beat because of these two surprising words. Before she could say anything, she saw Jerry Xiao had already come over from that side.
Draped in the golden evening sun, Zoey couldn’t help but squint as she watched the upright form approach from afar.
“Talking about what?” He asked. There was something indescribably captivating about that clear voice, as if it, too, had dissolved into the radiance of the evening sun.
Zoey shook her head, but the woman who had just spoken laughed, “It says you’re a good couple. It’s enviable!”
Couple?
Jerry Xiao subconsciously chewed these two words, actually did not immediately refute. On the contrary, she, with a slightly red face, waved her hand in some panic, “No, you misunderstood, we are not a couple …”
“Not a couple?” The other party had a face of disbelief. After looking at them twice, he also looked at the two children playing happily not far away, “I looked at those two children as if they were printed from the same mold as the two of you. To say that you are not husband and wife, I really don’t believe it.”
At the mention of the two children, Zoey’s heart was even more nervous and weak. Zoey was worried that if the other party reminded him of the similarities, he would really find out something.
But …
What was feared doesn’t seem to have happened.
Jerry Xiao just smiled, not really caring and said to the other side, “They are my godson and goddaughter.”
“Oh …,” the other laughed, “it’s kinda like that.”
Zoey subconsciously peeped at Jerry Xiao’s expression, but his expression did not change much, apparently, just the words of the passer-by, he did not put on the heart. Zoey’s heart is surging with an **unspeakable complex feelings.