Before Huo Zheng could react to her sudden change of mood, she was already walking towards the restaurant.

Huo Zheng caught up with her and said, "Can you finish eating after ordering so much? You're not afraid of getting fat and dying!"

Xu Shishi suddenly stopped and said a few words to him, "A dog's mouth cannot spit out ivory." She was determined to give him a good meal, preferably to make him poor.

Huo Zheng frowned as he watched her angrily eating the meal on her plate, but he thought to himself that she was quite cute as a foodie.

"Eat slowly, I'm full, no one will compete with you."

Xu Shishi raised her eyes and glared at him. Just as she was about to continue, she found that her cell phone rang.

She scanned the number that bounced on the screen. It was her mother's call. She immediately got up and walked to the corner of the restaurant with her phone in hand.

Huo Zheng was surprised who was calling because he couldn't speak in front of him.

He looked at her from a distance, seeing her extremely forbearing expression when she answered the phone, and was quite curious about her for a moment.

When she finished answering the phone and returned to the dining table, she had lost her appetite and kept stirring the fried rice with a spoon.

"Can't eat anymore? It doesn't matter. You can pack it up and take it back. You can continue when you feel hungry." Huo Zheng said generously, "If you want to eat anything else, just pack it up. It's just a meal. I can still afford it."

"It's amazing to know that you are a wealthy young master." Xu Shishi said feebly, "There's no need to pack. I really should go back."

"Whose call just now?" Huo Zheng couldn't help but ask.

Xu Shishi looked at him and said, "My mother called."

Huo Zheng looked at the time and said, "Oh, Auntie is worried about you, so I'll take you back."

However, Xu Shishi made no move to get up. She mustered up a lot of courage and said to him seriously: "My mother wants me to go on a blind date with a man I have never met before. I don't want to go. You can help..."

"Of course the people on the blind date have never met before. Otherwise, how would we call it a blind date?" Huo Zheng interrupted her and said funny.

Somehow, seeing her serious expression, he couldn't help but feel a little scared, fearing that she would embarrass both of them by saying something like what she liked about him.

"But I know that even if I go on a blind date, I won't like that person. For my dad's business, they want me to marry that person." Xu Shishi still said seriously, "Now I really need someone to pretend to be my boyfriend.

You are the one I think is the most suitable candidate. Don’t worry, I’m just pretending, not taking you seriously.”

Huo Zheng couldn't agree. Her request was too sudden and asked: "What's going on with your family? What's the difference between forcing you to marry someone you don't like and selling your daughter?"

Xu Shishi smiled lightly and said: "Yes, they never cared about my feelings, and they never really cared about me. Our parents divorced when I was very young. I followed my mother, and my father reorganized the family and had another son.

.So she didn’t care much about me. My mother’s spirit collapsed after the divorce and she needed my father’s support. She always complained that I wasn’t a boy, otherwise my father wouldn’t have been seduced by that foxy girl.”

To show her sincerity, Shishi told him about her experiences from childhood to adulthood. Huo Zheng couldn't help feeling a little distressed for her.

Shishi continued, "Although my father has been supporting us, every time the alimony to my mother is not timely, it always drags on for a while. My mother will ask me to go to my father's new home to ask for it..."

At this point, she paused, smiled to herself and said, "You know, every time I go to my father's new home, my father always likes to invite me to have dinner with him. My stepmother will look down on me and ignore me.

She would laugh at me whether I used chopsticks, a spoon, or a knife and fork. She would say that I ate like a pig, that I was uneducated, that I was born from my mother but not taught by my mother.”

"Every time at this time, my father sits aside and won't help me. He will also chime in and ask me, how did your mother teach you at home? She has no education at all. Do you know how I feel every time?"

Huo Zheng immediately responded to her and said: "Of course you are very angry. You must have just thrown the dishes and chopsticks and left."

"No, I'm not as promising as you think. For the alimony, no matter how angry or resentful I am, I can only endure it and pretend to have no self-respect and continue to eat from their family until my father gives me one month's alimony.

After they were handed over to me, I left their house like a beggar." Shishi said with her eyes red again.

Huo Zheng handed her a tissue, thinking that her parents were indeed still alive, but she had been trapped between them since she was a child.

Shishi thought to herself and continued: "So from then on, I vowed that when I grow up, I will never be as useless as my mother. I must study hard, have a good job, and support myself in the future.

Mom, we will never have to ask my father for money again."

"Then you've done it now. You can make your own decisions, regardless of the blind date arranged by your parents." Huo Zheng encouraged her.

Shishi said helplessly: "Yes, I don't want to ask my father for a penny now. But my mother thinks that my idea is stupid. She said that I should have a share of my father's family property because I am his biological child.

Daughter, I should go and fight with that bitch my mother talks about and that half-brother. So my mother still forces me to go to my father’s house once a month. What can I win back?

What."

Huo Zheng also sighed and said: "This, this aunt is too hard to think about."

"She not only couldn't think about it, she also thought wrongly. She thought that I would get a share of the family property if I often appeared in front of my father. In fact, my father's small company has been in recession for a few years. Not only did it mean that there was no family property, but it might also be a drag on us.

Mother and daughter helped him pay off his debts. So recently my father met someone who could save his company, and he wanted to marry that person and help his company come back to life."

"This is too much." Huo Zheng felt sorry for her.

"The most ridiculous thing is that my father didn't tell me directly, but bypassed me and persuaded my mother first, so that my mother insisted on letting me go on a blind date with the man. I have pushed it two or three times, but they still refused.

Rao." As she spoke, Shishi glanced at Huo Zheng again and said decisively, "If you are not willing to pretend to be my boyfriend, I think I can only leave Lancheng and never see my parents. Anyway, I won't use my own

Marital happiness comes at a risk…”

"You don't have to have such a quarrel with your parents. Your mother was already divorced. If you ran away from home and disappeared, she would be so sad." Huo Zheng gritted his teeth and agreed generously, "Okay, I'll just pretend.

Pretend to be your boyfriend. But you must make it clear to Sister Susu that we are just pretending to be a couple, don't let her misunderstand me."

When Shishi heard his promise, she immediately nodded, "Don't worry, you just have to pretend in front of my parents. I won't let my colleagues in the studio misunderstand us. You are not the prince charming in my mind, my prince."
Chapter completed!