Because it was Shen Lingge who brought up wanting to watch a movie, Wen Xian handed over the task of buying tickets to him, she herself strolled off to the side to buy popcorn.
The cub always needs to learn to grow up on their own.
Shen Lingge furrowed his brows and stared at the screen for a long time, and when it was his turn, the ticket seller obviously froze for a moment, but immediately after she naturally smiled: “Sir, what do you need?”
He did not realize that when he mentioned Wen Xian, even his furrowed brows had relaxed: “Now, what kind of movies do little girls like to watch?”
The ticket seller thought the little girl he spoke of was a child a few years old, so she recommended him an anime movie that was currently popular.
When Wen Xian came back holding the popcorn, Shen Lingge had already bought the tickets and was waiting for her. She was holding the popcorn in one arm, with two cups of cola hanging below, and in her other hand was holding an ice cream.
Shen Lingge took the cola from her hand, his tone slightly deep: “Just finished eating and already eating ice cream, saying you’re not a few years old, you really are not a few years old.”
Wen Xian: “……”
She found that recently Gege was getting more and more out of hand, not understanding at all about respecting the elderly, loving the young, and being filial to parents!
Wen Xian, with an expression of ‘I won’t fuss with you’, took the tickets from his hand. She stared at the name on the ticket for a few seconds, not expecting that Shen Lingge would like healing-type anime.
Wen Xian pulled him to a seat off to the side and sat down, they still had to wait about ten minutes.
Thinking that Shen Lingge didn’t eat much at noon, Wen Xian handed the popcorn to him: “Gege, you eat this, you definitely haven’t eaten this before.”
Shen Lingge extremely perfunctorily grabbed a single popcorn kernel, held it between his fingers and looked at it for a long time before tentatively putting it in his mouth. The popcorn entering his mouth was crisp and sweet, different from what he had imagined.
So he naturally took over that whole bucket of popcorn.
Wen Xian hummed a laugh, licking her ice cream without speaking.
But Shen Lingge did not eat much, he left the rest all for Wen Xian.
When entering the theater, the entrance obviously became crowded, he shielded Wen Xian in front of him, letting her walk inside.
This was Shen Lingge’s first time coming to a public cinema. Usually, he watched movies in a luxurious home theater. As he protected Wen Xian while walking in, there was only one thought in his mind, he wanted to change Wen Xian to a new villa.
He wasn’t used to places with so many people.
Crowded, noisy, mixed smells.
It wasn’t until the two of them sat down inside the pitch-dark hall that Shen Lingge finally felt a little more comfortable. Wen Xian took out the cola and placed it on the armrest. She turned her head and asked: “Not used to it?”
Shen Lingge replied in a low voice.
Wen Xian sighed in worry, raising a child is really hard.
She whispered: “Then later when we go to the supermarket, you wait for me in the parking lot, I’ll come out after I finish buying.”
In the darkness, her breath became especially obvious, the warm breath carrying a faint fragrance scattered against the side of his neck, Shen Lingge felt his throat a bit dry. He picked up the iced cola and took a sip before feeling a little better.
He said in a low voice: “No, I have to watch over you.”
Wen Xian: “… I’m not going to get lost.”
Shen Lingge expressionlessly followed up her words: “I’m afraid you’ll buy spicy strips, potato chips, hot chicken noodles, carbonated drinks, and so on.”
Wen Xian muttered quietly: “You even know about hot chicken noodles.”
Shen Lingge: “Hng.”
After the movie started, the two of them consciously stopped talking, Wen Xian hugged the bucket and started scooping popcorn to eat, while Shen Lingge next to her for a moment couldn’t figure out how Wen Xian’s stomach was grown.
Having just eaten not long ago, now she was eating ice cream, and now eating popcorn and drinking cola, and later still wanted to go to the supermarket to buy snacks.
He was thinking about after the movie ended, he would go find Chi Yanyu and ask, what does Chi Jiaojiao usually like to eat.
This anime movie, Wen Xian had already watched before, and when familiar scenes appeared, she turned her head to glance at Shen Lingge, seeing him seriously staring at the screen, she finally felt at ease.
During the process, Shen Lingge’s expression had always been very calm, until when the movie’s main character discovered that the person he trusted had always been lying to him, only then did the light hidden in Shen Lingge’s eyes show a bit of change.
Of course, the final ending in the movie was a happy one; they forgave each other.
It was at this moment that Shen Lingge turned his head slightly to look at Wen Xian, her face had no particular emotion.
Until the movie dispersed and ended, Wen Xian returned to her usual appearance, she muttered telling him to wait for her at the parking lot, but Shen Lingge didn’t respond to her words, and instead suddenly asked: “Wen Xian, do you hate Qin Song?”
Wen Xian was stunned, she stopped her steps and met Shen Lingge’s eyes, he lowered his eyes looking at her.
She tilted her head and thought for a moment, speaking softly: “Can’t really say, actually I never really had any feelings towards him, just felt a little pity, after all, back then my father really liked him.”
“You know, Gege, before Song-gege went abroad he raised a little dog, that little dog was taken away from our family’s garden by him. That little dog, don’t know if it got lost, was trapped in our family’s rose garden, that day there was a banquet at home, only Song-gege discovered it.”
“I think maybe that’s why Dad chose him.”
Wen Tianlin originally thought Qin Song, after growing up, would also be like he imagined, excellent, responsible, accountable, more importantly, he had a heart of compassion.
Shen Lingge right after asked the next sentence: “What about Xu Chuwei?”
Shen Lingge saw Wen Xian’s face become slightly pale, she lowered her eyelashes, her voice became very light, but her tone was very stubborn: “She has always been lying to me, I won’t forgive her.”
“I… I used to trust her so much.”
Shen Lingge’s Adam’s apple slightly rolled, he somewhat difficultly asked: “If one day, you discover I lied to you, what would you do?”
Wen Xian’s eyes slightly opened wide, she couldn’t help but raise her voice: “So you really did go to the club… wuwuwu.”
Shen Lingge ignored the gazes sweeping over from others, expressionlessly covered Wen Xian’s mouth and dragged her towards the elevator entrance, only after turning the corner did he let her go.
At this time, there were only the two of them at the elevator entrance.
He furrowed his brows: “Wen Xian, what do you think about in your head every day?”
Wen Xian lightly coughed: “… I was just curious.”
Shen Lingge pressed the elevator button, coldly said: “If I hear those words from your mouth again, don’t even think about seeing Zanzan anymore, it shouldn’t even think about coming back to Licheng.”
Wen Xian glared at him, fiercely said: “You only know how to use Zanzan to threaten me!”
As the elevator door opened, Shen Lingge stepped in first, Wen Xian stood outside the elevator door angrily looking at him, with an appearance of not wanting to come in.
Inside the elevator, aside from Shen Lingge, there was no one else, he wasn’t in a rush either, just calmly looking at Wen Xian.
Until the elevator door was about to close in front of the two people, Shen Lingge finally slowly stretched his hand out of the elevator, and Wen Xian, even though she knew his hand wouldn’t get caught, still instinctively pounced to the side and heavily pressed the down button.
At the instant when the door was about to touch Shen Lingge’s hand, it once again slowly moved to both sides.
Wen Xian did not go to hold Shen Lingge’s hand, but instead reached out and hit him.
She hurriedly walked into the elevator: “Gege, do you know this is very dangerous?”
Shen Lingge lowered his head to look at her for a moment, lightly said: “If you don’t come in, how can I leave?”
Wen Xian: “……”
What’s with this sudden flirting?
The elevator went down level by level, Shen Lingge felt Wen Xian wouldn’t answer that question again, but just as the elevator was about to reach their floor, he heard her speak.
She softly said: “I would forgive you.”
Shen Lingge was stunned.
Wen Xian turned her head over with a smiling face: “After all, you’re my cub.”
Shen Lingge hid away all the chaotic thoughts, just as he wanted to say something, the elevator door opened, there were a bunch of people standing outside, he closed his lips, pulling Wen Xian and walking out.
Shen Lingge could sense that after Wen Xian entered the supermarket, her mood obviously became high-spirited.
He followed behind her, watching her excitedly run over to get a shopping cart.
Actually, being like this now was also very good, but Shen Lingge couldn’t guarantee that Wen Xian wouldn’t discover his identity, also didn’t know what kind of reaction she would have after finding out.
Thinking of this, Shen Lingge’s gaze suddenly paused.
He was afraid. Why would he be afraid?
By his logic, wasn’t this exactly what he wanted?
He confirmed that Wen Xian wouldn’t hurt him, also confirmed that Wen Xian protected his secret very well, and his life could return to how it used to be, all of this was natural and as it should be.
For a moment, Shen Lingge didn’t know what he wanted.
Wen Xian saw that Shen Lingge hadn’t followed for a long time, so she turned around to look for him.
With one glance back, she saw Shen Lingge standing not far away looking at her with a complicated expression, she asked suspiciously: “Gege, are you thinking about eating Zanzan again?”
Shen Lingge looked steadily at her for a moment, then unhurriedly walked to her side, naturally taking the shopping cart from her hand.
He said lightly: “That little thing doesn’t look tasty at all.”
Wen Xian reflexively retorted: “You’re talking nonsense! Our Zanzan is the universe’s number one cutest rabbit, the meat must also be the tastiest!”
Shen Lingge glanced at Wen Xian with a half-smile, half-not expression, responding softly: “You’re sure?”
Wen Xian: “… Fine then, it’s not tasty, don’t eat it.”
While talking, the two of them walked to the fruits and vegetables section. After these days, Wen Xian also roughly understood Shen Lingge’s eating preferences. He was a very, very picky cub.
Snacks, cilantro, tomatoes, cilantro, eggplant—he didn’t eat any of them.
When Wen Xian bought vegetables, she deliberately avoided these.
After buying them, she went straight to the snacks section, while throwing snacks into the cart she also had to endure Shen Lingge’s nagging.
She threw in a bag of potato chips, Shen Lingge said: “Wen Xian, you’ll get fat.”
She threw in a box of chocolate, Shen Lingge said: “Wen Xian, you’ll get pimples.”
She threw in a pack of instant noodles, Shen Lingge said: “When I’m not at home, you eat instant noodles, is that it?”
She threw in a pack of spicy strips, Shen Lingge directly reached out, took the spicy strips out, and put them back.
Wen Xian: “……”
Wen Xian unhappily pouted her lips: “Gege, I’m the one who’s your master, do you remember that?”
Shen Lingge grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards the cashier: “I’ll go pay, you go wait for me outside, don’t run too far. I don’t care if you’re my master or not, right now you have to listen to me.”
Wen Xian glared: “Why?”
Shen Lingge suddenly stopped walking forward, his pitch-black as ink pupils fell on her face, speaking one word at a time: “Because my surname now is Wen, I am your family.”
The originally struggling Wen Xian instantly softened, she pressed her lips together, softly said: “Alright then, I’ll listen to you.”
While Shen Lingge was paying, Wen Xian kept standing by his side looking at him with wide eyes. Until he came out carrying a paper shopping bag, she then ran over to his side with pitter-patter steps.
Shen Lingge lowered his head to glance at her, spoke in a low voice: “Let’s go home.”
Wen Xian couldn’t hold back from curving her lips: “En, let’s go home.”
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TN: It would be better if the story’s character is just this two plus Qiuqiu, Yu, and Zanzan. Those other fodders and pests can go.