Su Wan stared at Tang Xiner, not noticing Cao Ze’s gaze, and said, “You kid, I haven’t seen you all day these past few days. You’ve really grown up, and you don’t know when to go home, right?”

Tang Xiner lowered her head quickly and said hesitantly, “Mom…I’ll go back to my room first.”

Then, without waiting for the other two to speak, she wanted to go to the bedroom.

Su Wan glared at her from behind, “Stop right there! You kid, why are you becoming more and more rude? You don’t even say hello to your Uncle Cao when you see him?”

…

Tang Xiner was speechless. She didn’t know whether to leave or stay.

Cao Ze quickly tried to smooth things over, “Hey, sister-in-law, it’s okay.”

“Hmph, this girl is becoming more and more disrespectful. Old Cao, stay out of this matter. You don’t understand anything about educating children!” Su Wan snorted.

“…” Cao Ze was speechless.

My goodness, you are talking about me by name?

Have both of my children been ruined by my education?

That’s the original owner’s business, what does it have to do with me?

This sister-in-law is lacking a little bit of emotional intelligence.

“Come here!” Su Wan scolded.

“Mom…” Tang Xiner lowered her head and moved step by step to Su Wan’s side.

“What’s wrong with you? Did you feel wronged outside?” Su Wan said with a frown. She didn’t scold Tang Xiner immediately. She could see that her daughter seemed to be in a bad mood.

“No.” Tang Xiner lowered her head.

“No? Your face is full of grievance. Do you really think your mother is blind?” Su Wan said

“Really not.” Tang Xiner shrank her neck.

“Wow! You’re really getting cocky. You even dare to talk back to me.” Su Wan’s expression gradually became serious, and she was about to get serious.

Tang Xiner looked at it and immediately became timid, “Mom, I’m just a little tired.”

“Tired?” Su Wan snorted and laughed, “How tired can you be to forget your manners? Don’t you see your Uncle Cao sitting here?”

“Uncle Cao… Uncle Cao.” Tang Xiner stammered and called out. Her heart skipped a beat and she felt inexplicably thrilled.

Cao Ze was sitting behind Su Wan. Su Wan was scolding Tang Xiner and didn’t bother to look back.

So Cao Ze secretly gave Tang Xiner an apologetic expression from behind, and then responded, “Hey!”

Su Wan’s expression improved a little, and she turned to look at Cao Ze, “Old Cao, don’t take it to heart. I don’t know what kind of stimulation this child has received outside. I will ask her about it later.”

“It’s okay, sister-in-law, I know Xin’er is not the kind of child who doesn’t know etiquette. She may not dare to tell her family some things. How about I talk to Xin’er?” Cao Ze looked indifferent.

“That’s fine.” Su Wan nodded. “It’s time for dinner. I’ll go prepare dinner. Old Tang should be back soon. We can chat after dinner then.”

“Okay, sister-in-law.” Cao Ze nodded.

After saying that, Su Wan went to prepare dinner, leaving only Cao Ze and Tang Xiner in the living room.

Before leaving, Su Wan glared at Tang Xiner and said, “Talk to your uncle Cao and I will settle the score with you after the party.”

“…” Tang Xiner was speechless.

After Su Wan left, Tang Xiner glared at Cao Ze fiercely.

Cao Ze smiled helplessly and said, “It’s not me who asked to come here. My sister-in-law called me this afternoon and wanted to discuss the cosmetics company. I couldn’t turn it down.”

“Don’t call her sister-in-law!” Tang Xiner blushed and stomped her feet.

Cao Ze approached Tang Xiner and whispered, “Let’s talk about our own things. You call her mom and I call her sister-in-law. You call me Uncle Cao and I call you little wild cat…”

“You’re still screaming, you’re still screaming!” Tang Xiner was furious, her face flushed and she stepped forward and grabbed Cao Ze’s arm.

“Ouch, it hurts…be gentle.” Cao Ze grinned and whispered.

“I wish I could strangle you to death right now! You big bad guy!” Tang Xiner said angrily.

Cao Ze sighed and said, “Xin’er, don’t have to bear such a heavy psychological burden. I’ve said that I will help you bear all the suffering, even if it means my death.”

“You don’t say such things.” Tang Xiner’s tone softened.

“Xin’er, I am serious. As I said before, people have many sides. We are two different selves, the one under the mask and the one outside the mask.”

“We are the ones who have abandoned all our truest emotions behind the masks, but now we live under the public eye and are subject to many rules and regulations.”

“But you’ve already reached adulthood, and I’ve been single for so many years. Even morally, there’s nothing to condemn us for. Although I’m older than you, I look about the same age as you.”

As soon as Cao Ze opened his mouth, he started brainwashing Tang Xiner.

In fact, this was the purpose of his coming.

The girl said she wanted a cooling-off period, but how can that be a cooling-off period? There are some things that just can’t make her calm down.

The calmer you are, the more trouble you will have. You have to strike while the iron is hot.

Although Tang Xiner is the heroine, with this kind of character, she will eventually accept her fate and follow Cao Ze.

But once you enter the cooling-off period, things will be troublesome, pulling back and forth.

And Lao Cao is so busy that he doesn’t have that time.

And the system will be upgraded soon, at twelve o’clock tonight.

Cao Ze predicts that after the system upgrade is completed, the new plot will begin and the next son of luck will appear immediately.

What Cao Ze has to do now is to quickly break Tang Xiner’s heart and let her accept herself under the mask and her real identity during her confused stage.

One of Cao Ze’s words really touched Tang Xiner’s heart.

That is: what lies beneath the mask is our truest emotions.

There is no contradiction in this statement.

After putting on the mask, all the rules and regulations that bind you no longer exist, and what is revealed is the truest self.

When two people are dating, they don’t know each other’s appearance, name, or family background, they just have the purest love for each other.

Tang Xiner could deny everything, but she could never deny that she fell in love with the man in front of her.

Tang Xiner felt that she had figured things out.

After a moment of silence, Tang Xiner said to Cao Ze, “Then… should I still call you Uncle Cao on the surface?”

Cao Ze smirked, put his mouth close to Tang Xiner’s ear, and whispered, “It’s OK under the mask. You can call me anything you like.”

“…”

Tang Xiner blushed again and pretended to raise her hand to strangle Cao Ze, “I didn’t expect you to be like this, you’re so bad!”

“I wasn’t like this before.”

Cao Ze sighed slowly, “You, your mother, and your father all know my current situation. My two sons are useless, and I am still single.”

“Old Tang said that I never looked for another woman. Actually, I didn’t. It’s true that as long as I reached out, many people would flock to me. But I am a sentimental person. I don’t want such a relationship, so I put on a mask and participated in some activities. I didn’t want others to know my identity. I didn’t expect that by chance, I went to Yuping Mountain and saved you.”

What Cao Ze said was very true, but in fact it was all scheming.

In particular, he also mentioned his son, just to let Tang Xiner know that the cause of the incident was her dispute with Cao Kun in the mall, which led to Cao Kun’s dismissal, and then a series of events happened.

Then he talked about Yuping Mountain and briefly mentioned the life-saving grace.

After hearing this combination of speeches, Tang Xiner’s eyes instantly softened.

Tang Xiner’s eyes were full of memories, “If it weren’t for you at that time… I might have really died.”

Cao Ze reminded her, “You can’t call me “you” now, be careful not to be exposed.”

Tang Xiner rolled her eyes at Cao Ze coquettishly, “You just enjoy the feeling of me calling you uncle, right, you bad guy?”

Cao Ze smiled, neither admitting nor denying.

At this time, Su Wan brought over a plate of cut fruit.

Su Wan glanced at Tang Xiner, “You look better now. What did you talk about with your Uncle Cao?”

Cao Ze smiled and spoke for Tang Xiner, “We didn’t talk about anything. As someone who has been through this, I gave Xiner some advice.”

Tang Xiner also nodded in agreement

Seeing that Tang Xiner’s condition had improved, Su Wan was relieved and said with a smile: “Then have a good chat with your Uncle Cao, and remember to come to the kitchen to help later.”

“I understand, Mom.” Tang Xiner said.

Su Wan put down the fruit plate and left.

Cao Ze joked: “You help your mother cook every day, but your cooking skills haven’t improved.”

“Tsk, I just wash and cut vegetables. I never touch the pot. How can I improve?” Tang Xiner pouted.

The lip gloss I applied in the morning looked very smooth.

Cao Ze looked around, and when Tang Xiner wasn’t paying attention, he suddenly attacked and kissed her on the little mouth.

“You!” Tang Xiner didn’t dodge, her little face turned red, and she quickly looked towards the kitchen.

Su Wan was busy cooking and didn’t pay attention to this side.

Tang Xiner glared at Cao Ze with her beautiful eyes, “You want to kill us!”

Cao Ze did not answer Tang Xiner’s question, but just smiled and asked, “Is it exciting?”

Well…

When Cao Ze asked this question, Tang Xiner subconsciously felt her own heartbeat, and it was indeed much faster, beating rapidly.

It’s really exciting.

But…

Tang Xiner rolled her eyes at Cao Ze and said, “That can’t be the case. Now you are just my Uncle Cao.”

Girl, if you talk like this, I will be more excited.

Lao Cao likes this feeling.

…

Not long after, Tang Dexuan came back.

“Lao Cao, come on, let’s do a solo.” Tang Dexuan looked at the time on his watch and said in a low voice

“What are you saying? It’s time to eat.” Cao Ze shook his head.

“Dad, Uncle Cao, you guys chat, I’ll go to the kitchen to help.” Tang Xiner feel uncomfortable looking at her father and her man together, so she took the opportunity to get up and leave.

Tang Dexuan didn’t care, nodded, and glanced at Cao Ze, “Old Cao, are you afraid of losing?”

“Haha, will I lose if I compete solo with you?” Cao Ze sneered.

“Oh, then I really don’t believe it. Let’s do solo.” Tang Dexuan glared.

“If you lose, call daddy.”

“You can even call me grandpa!” Tang Dexuan got angry and rolled up his sleeves.

Cao Ze couldn’t help but smile bitterly, the seniority hierarchy was really messed up, it was difficult to call everyone by their own name.

…

In the kitchen.

Tang Xiner looked at Su Wan, who was silent and busy cooking, and knew that her mother was angry. After hesitating for a long time, she found an excuse and said, “Mom, a good sister of mine found a scumbag and was cheated badly. She broke up. I just came back from her and I’m in a bad mood.”

Su Wan glanced at Tang Xiner, “Even if you are in a bad mood, you can’t be cold to your Uncle Cao. Don’t you know how your Uncle Cao treats you? Without saying a word, he directly gave you a skin care company. Do you know how magical the prescription is? Your Uncle Cao also said that this company will be your dowry in the future.”

…

Tang Xiner’s little heart skipped a beat, and her introverted genes began to tremble again.

Tang Xiner stammered, “I already know. I just apologized to Uncle Cao.”

“That’s better.” Su Wan snorted.

Tang Xiner shrank her neck and stuck out her tender little tongue.

Dowry? The dowry should be given to him, this bad guy.

But even though Tang Xiner cursed in her heart, a smile gradually appeared on the corners of her mouth, which showed that her mood had become very good.

She also gradually felt the fun of it.

So exciting…