The man's clear and pleasant breath hit her face with the fragrance of pine, and Su Ci's cheeks immediately turned red.
She glanced at him and chuckled: "Good performance, keep up the good work."
Xia Yuanyu and her daughter are now sitting at the dining table honestly, with no trace of their previous arrogance.
Looking at the curled corners of her lips, Huo Yuting couldn't help but smile.
A glint flashed in his eyes, and he lowered his voice and said, "Then should you give me more money?"
Su Ci was stunned, not expecting that he would make such a request, and then found it funny.
"Mr. Huo, you are planning to drain me dry. If this continues, I guess I won't be able to support you soon."
Huo Yuting: "Would you like to add it?"
Su Ci laughed angrily at his attitude of only recognizing money and not people, "Jiajiajia! I'll give you more after dinner!"
Seeing two people talking quietly together, everyone at the dinner table had different expressions.
The old man looked pleased, and finally a smile appeared on his face.
This is like a home.
Before Shen Zhiyan came back, the house was cold and there was no warmth at all.
Shen Zhiqing ate her meal silently, raising her eyes to glare at Su Ci from time to time.
After more than two years of pocket money gone, she won't be able to buy anything anymore.
The old man also specifically ordered that all her cards be stopped, and her parents were not even allowed to lend her money.
All this is because of Su Ci!
Su Ci noticed Shen Zhiqing's extremely resentful gaze and glanced at her.
She blinked her curled eyelashes, and a hint of cunning flashed through her dark and bright eyes.
"Honey, I want to eat shrimps, can you peel them for me?"
The girl's voice was sweet and soft, with a hint of indescribable charm, like a feather tickling the tip of Huo Yuting's heart.
When he suddenly heard the word "husband", his back stiffened slightly.
Under everyone's ambiguous or teasing gazes, he slowly stood up, brought the plate of shrimps in front of him, and began to peel them.
The man's hands have clear joints, are slender and fair, and even when doing things like peeling shrimps, they exude a sense of dignity and elegance, which is pleasing to the eye.
Su Ci held her chin up and looked at him, her eyes filled with smiles.
The way he peeled the shrimp was exactly the same as when she first came to Shen's house.
At that time, he was like this too.
He placed a whole plate of shrimps directly in front of him and peeled them off one by one.
"Give."
Su Ci was thinking wildly when a hand with well-proportioned joints suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.
It was Huo Yuting who handed the peeled shrimp to her lips.
Su Ci glanced at him and bit the shrimp with his hand.
As a result, I accidentally bit his hard finger.
Facing those dark eyes, her heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat, she quickly opened her lips and looked away pretending to be nonchalant.
Huo Yuting calmly took back his fingers.
There was a trace of crystal moist light on the fingertips, and the girl's rosy, full and moist lips appeared in front of Huo Yuting's eyes.
His deep eyes sank, and he continued to peel the second shrimp pretending to be nonchalant.
Su Ci's cheeks were slightly red, and her heart was beating fast.
After lunch, Mr. Shen stood up from his chair with a cane and said to Su Ci: "Ci Ci, come with me to the study. I have something to tell you."
Su Ci glanced at Huo Yuting, and then followed the old man upstairs.
As soon as he entered the study, Su Ci heard Mr. Shen say: "Ayan...has something happened in the past two years?"
"Grandpa, what's the matter? Didn't he come back safely?" Su Ci deliberately pretended not to understand.
Mr. Shen walked to his desk and sat down on crutches, sighing in a low voice: "He is my grandson, and I know him better than anyone else. Let's face it, my old bones have gone through a lot of storms.
He will not be defeated easily."
Su Ci hesitated for a moment, and then told her about her encounter with Shen Zhiyan in the bar.
At the end, she also expressed her guess, "Since Ayan is still alive, then Professor Gu must also be alive."
"You mean, Ayan's memory has been erased? How is this possible?" Mr. Shen looked in disbelief.
How can human memory be tampered with?
This is simply ridiculous!
"Grandpa, aren't you curious? After Ayan was rescued seventeen years ago, he couldn't tell the looks and physical characteristics of those people."
After being reminded like this by Su Ci, Mr. Shen's mind suddenly felt like something exploded.
Ayan is always smart. No matter how difficult things are, he can learn them almost instantly.
His memory is even more excellent.
But when the police asked about the person in the laboratory, he hesitated and couldn't tell.
At first, everyone thought he was frightened and simply did not continue asking.
He thinks so too.
"How... is this possible?" Mr. Shen murmured.
Su Ci said to the old man with firm eyes: "Grandpa, you should know that I have always had a photographic memory, but I can't remember the appearance of those people either."
Mr. Shen's face was cold and solemn, with a bit more majesty.
"Who else knows about this?"
"It's just Ayan and I. We had guessed before that we were probably hypnotized. Now that I think about it, the only thing that can tamper with memory is hypnosis."
Su Ci was very sure that the current level of medicine was not enough to develop such an advanced medicine.
Then all that's left is hypnosis.
"This... hypnosis can change people's memories? How is this possible?" Mr. Shen still looked incredulous.
Su Ci said: "Grandpa, you have seen it with your own eyes. He is your grandson."
Although Mr. Shen found it incredible, he had to admit that what Su Ci said was true.
He sighed and asked, "Then what are your plans now?"
Su Ci chuckled lightly, "He deliberately came to the Shen family as Shen Zhiyan, just to gain my trust and join that organization. In this case, how about we cooperate well?"
She knew very well that Shen Zhiyan was not without brains and could not guess that there was a problem with his identity, he was just too stubborn.
So stubborn that... I only want to believe in what I firmly believe in.
Since he wants to play, she should play with him.
After all, the former Shen Zhiyan always acted like a superior, proud and indifferent, as if he had everything under control.
As a businessman, he is always able to maximize his advantage and let others be led by him.
Su Ci really wants to see who wins and who loses in the end this time.
After hearing this, Mr. Shen couldn't help but laugh, "You just want to tease him, right?"
Su Ci smiled slyly, "Who made him keep us in fear for two years? He should bear this."
"Okay, I'll call A Lin and Xiao Yu over tonight and tell them about this. Whatever you want to do, just go ahead and do it, and we will cooperate with you."
As an old man, he won’t interfere with the couple’s love affair!
Su Ci came out of the study and went directly back to the bedroom.
As soon as she pushed the door open, her warm and wide palms clasped her slender waist and pulled her in.
Immediately afterwards, the door was closed.
Her back was pressed against the door, and a familiar crisp breath came to her face.