Half-baked

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Huai Nian was so frightened that she woke up instantly. The phone in her hand was like a bomb. She hung up the call in a panic. In a panic, she looked for Duan Huai'an, but he was not in the room.
She threw off the quilt and got out of bed.
I happened to meet Duan Huaian who had just finished washing up and came out of the bathroom.

Duan Huai'an: "Why are you running?"

Nostalgia's mind was in a mess, and after a few seconds of pause, he said, "It's over."

"What's over?" Duan Huai'an picked up the phone on the bed and checked the time. "It's not even half past six. You didn't get up late, so you won't be late for your 8 a.m. class."
"Your phone just received a call. I thought it was from my phone, but it showed an unknown number, so I picked up the call."
"Ah."

Duan Huaian noticed the look of nostalgia, embarrassment mixed with a little panic.
Duan Huai'an frowned: "What happened?"

She had an inexplicable feeling of guilt for stealing other people's things, but rather than feeling guilty, she felt more regret and annoyance for doing such petty theft. She lowered her head, the sleepiness from being woken up by the shock still wrapped around her body, and her body language showed a sense of weakness. "It turns out that the unknown number was your mother's cell phone number."

The two of them had the same phone, and neither of them had a phone case. They had never had a misunderstanding of taking the wrong phone. Because the lock screen wallpapers of the two phones were completely different. When a call came in, the phone was completely gray. Not to mention that she was not awake, even if she was awake, she would probably answer the wrong call.

From her words, Duan Huaian roughly knew what had happened.

"Did you speak?"
"Ah."
"Where's my mother?"
"She spoke, too."
"She recognized you?"
"……should not."

Hearing this, Duan Huaian became indifferent. He walked to the cloakroom and got some clothes to change.
Huai Nian noticed later that he had just finished a shower and was wrapped in a bath towel. It was hard to tell whether he was wearing underwear under the towel, but according to his usual living habits, he was not. Therefore, Huai Nian stood outside the cloakroom with her back to him.

Duan Huai has a slender neck. While he was putting on his sweatshirt with his head raised, he glanced at Nostalgia.
He asked, "What are you so scared of?"
Miss: "Aren't you afraid?"
He asked back, "What is there to be afraid of?"

"..."
Huai Nian didn't know how he could be so calm. It reminded her of when Cheng Songyue on the other end of the phone just now was very calm when she noticed that a strange woman had picked up her son's phone.
And also, also said——
"Don't you want to know what your mother said?"

"What did you say?" Duan Huaian's tone was quite perfunctory. He was not interested in what Cheng Songyue said at all. It seemed that he asked only to satisfy his nostalgia.
"She said," Huai Nian was a little desperate, repeating Cheng Songyue's words with no hope in life, "- I am Duan Huai'an's mother, not the mistress who interferes with your relationship."

"..."
It sounds like something Cheng Songyue would say.

Duan Huaian put on his clothes and walked out of the cloakroom. When he passed by Huai Nian, he patted the back of her head.
"She's right."
"..." Huai Nian had calmed down and asked him hesitantly, "How are you going to explain to your mother?"

The two looked at each other.
Duan Huai'an threw the question back to her, "How do you want me to explain it to her?"

In the past, Huai Nian would choose not to answer. After all, the more you say, the more mistakes you make, so it’s better not to say anything.
But thinking about the conversation last night, after a night, Huai Nian still couldn't believe that he had liked me in high school, and the word he used was not like, but,
——Secret love.

Secret admirers are humble.
He didn't care about this humility.
It seemed like he wanted to let her know that she was the one who had the upper hand in this relationship.

Just like now, he asked for her opinion, she took the lead in everything and he listened to her.

Her eyes lingered on his face. His eyebrows raised slightly, but he still looked cold, distant and arrogant.
He felt like he would immediately turn hostile if her answer did not satisfy him.

"When you came to my house that day, didn't you tell my mom that you had a girlfriend?" Huai Nian spoke in a gentle tone, analyzing the current situation in a very methodical manner. "After your mom hangs up the phone, she will definitely gossip with her about the girl on the other end of the phone. My mom will definitely tell your mom about what happened at that time."

"And you can't tell your mom that it was a female classmate who answered your call by mistake at 6:30 in the morning."

Duan Huaian stared at her patiently, waiting for her next words.

"You have to admit that you are in love. But..." Huai Nian sighed and looked at Duan Huai'an hopefully, "Can you please not tell her that your girlfriend is me?"

The bread maker had just finished baking bread, and Duan Huai'an got up to take the baked bread and put it on the dining table.
His dark eyes swept across her face, with a smile in his eyes, as if he was very satisfied with the nostalgic answer.
"Baby, I'll listen to you."

……

At the same time, in another corner of the city.

Cheng Songyue sat on the sofa in the living room.

She took a ten-hour flight yesterday and was so sleepy after landing that she didn't even take her favorite bath when she got home. She took a shower and fell asleep right away. Therefore, she woke up at six o'clock this morning. After waking up, she had nothing to do. She remembered that her baby son missed her mother so much that he came to the airport to pick her up. He had to go to class early today, so she knocked on the door considerately to wake him up.

Unexpectedly, what she saw in response was an open door and an empty bed.
She was so angry that she made a phone call, but what greeted her was not her son's cold and irritating voice, but the gentle and tender voice of her daughter-in-law.

Although her future daughter-in-law, like her son, has a bad habit of hanging up on her.

Every time Duan Huai'an hung up on Cheng Songyue, she would open Duan Yixing's WeChat and scold him. As the saying goes, a father must pay for his son's debts.

But today is different.
Today, she opened Duan Yixing's WeChat and said without taking a breath: "Did you know that our son is in love? Oh my God, is the iron tree blooming? He is actually in love. There is actually a girl who is interested in his money and is willing to date him. Thank God, our ancestors are so happy."

Due to the time difference between the two, Duan Yixing did not reply to her message.

Cheng Songyue couldn't stand the loneliness, and even more so the fact that no one responded to her gossip.
At this moment, she caught a glimpse of Huai Yanjun who brought her breakfast. Cheng Songyue shared enthusiastically: "Did you know that my son is in love?"

Huai Yanjun thought that she had learned about Duan Huai'an's love affair two and a half months ago, and she thought Cheng Songyue had known about it a long time ago. However, looking at her shocked expression, it seemed that she only found out about it today.
When working for an employer, it is most important to read their expressions. Huai Yanjun smiled, as if she had just learned about this, and said, "Really? That girl must be very good."

"I don't know." Cheng Songyue sighed from the bottom of her heart, "I think that girl is unlucky to be favored by a guy like Duan Huaian who has no interest in romance."
"..."
"My son is nothing like my husband. My husband is such a romantic."
"..."
"My son is not gentle at all, and he has no patience."
"..."
"He has only two advantages. One is that he is handsome, because he inherited his mother's beauty, and the other is that he is rich, because his father is rich."
"..."

Cheng Songyue picked up a piece of cucumber with a fork and said thoughtfully, "But I always feel that the girl's voice is very familiar. I feel like I've heard it somewhere before."

Huai Yanjun couldn't answer because she had never met Duan Huaian's girlfriend.

Cheng Songyue said to herself: "It could also be the public voice?"
-
Of course Cheng Songyue couldn't stand being kept in the dark.
She gave Duan Huaian two choices.
1. I came to school to find you and you explained to me what happened this morning.
2. Go home and explain to me what happened this morning.

When Cheng Songyue called Duan Huai'an, Duan Huai'an was on his way back to school. He was driving, sitting in the passenger seat, and the phone was playing loudly through the car stereo.
After listening to Cheng Songyue's two choices, Huai Nian had only one thought in her mind: They are indeed mother and son, the choices are the same, pretending to be generous and open-minded on the surface, but actually leaving no way out for the person making the choice.

Today is Friday.
Duan Huaian and Huai Nian have no classes in the afternoon.

Of course, Duan Huaian could not accept Cheng Songyue coming to the school to find him. He knew Cheng Songyue too well. When she went out, she always wore a high-profile and luxurious style, wishing that all the teachers and students in the school would focus on her.

"I'm going home." He said and was about to hang up the phone.
"Hey——" Cheng Songyue yelled, "You can take Huai Nian home with you. I haven't seen her for a long time and I miss her so much. I brought her a gift this time. I'm sure she will like it."

Hearing this, Duan Huai'an paused for a moment, his eyes were playful, and he glanced at her with nostalgia.
When her name was called out of the blue, she felt like a student who was absent-minded in class and was suddenly called upon by the teacher to answer a question. Huai Nian nervously glanced at Duan Huai'an. In order to express herself more clearly, she shook her head, her whole body full of resistance.

"How can I take care of her?" Duan Huai'an said, "She and I are not in the same class."

"You call her."
"I don't have her phone number."
"I'll give you her phone number."

Duan Huai'an looked at the road ahead and said coldly, "I'm not familiar with it."

Cheng Songyue: "How can you not be familiar with each other? You two have lived under the same roof for two years and have been classmates for two years, how can you not be familiar with each other? Please, Duan Huaian, you inherited my good looks, why didn't you inherit my social skills? You have to know that your mother..."

The words stopped abruptly.
Duan Huaian was too lazy to listen to Cheng Songyue's bragging.
Then, his cell phone kept ringing with messages.
You can tell it was sent by Cheng Songyue without even looking.

Duan Huai'an's index finger tapped the steering wheel very regularly. After a long silence, he concealed the thoughtful look in his eyes and asked Huai Nian, "Have you not been home for a long time?"
"I haven't been back since school started," Huai Nian said. "This semester has been very busy."
"I see you don't have classes this afternoon."

Huai Nian understood the hidden meaning in his words. He wanted her to go back with him.

Duan Huai'an then said, "Go back and have dinner. After dinner, I will take you back to the dormitory."

Knowing that she had an exam next week and that she regarded the exam as more important than anything else, Duan Huaian had no intention of taking her back to his place.

Huai Nian felt a little moved again. After all, she hadn't seen Huai Yanjun for a long time.
In front of them was the teaching building where Huai Nian was going to attend class. Before getting off the bus, Huai Nian replied to Duan Huai'an: "Then come pick me up later. I also want to go home to see my mother."

Both of them had full classes in the morning, and after lunch, they took a nap.
When she woke up from her nap, she saw a message from Duan Huai'an on her phone. When she was about to click on it, the phone dinged and a new message popped up at the front of the message list.

It was a message from her mother.
I miss being the first one to click on Huai Yanjun’s message.
Huai Yanjun: [Nian Nian, I'm downstairs in your dormitory. ]
Huai Yanjun: [Are you in the dormitory? ]

Huai Nian woke up completely and called Huai Yanjun while getting out of bed.
There were no classes in the afternoon, and the other three people in the dormitory went out to play. When I went out, I remembered to bring the dormitory key with me.
Living on the lower floors also has its advantages. When Huai Nian ran to the dormitory gate, before the call was connected, she saw a luxury car parked outside the dormitory and two women wearing sunglasses standing outside the car.

One of them, no matter how she dresses, Huai Nian will never mistake her, it is her mother Huai Yanjun.
The other one, dressed fashionably and beautifully, could be no other than Cheng Songyue.

Cheng Songyue was the first to notice Huai Nian. She waved to her enthusiastically: "Huai Nian!"

Huai Nian hung up the phone and trotted towards them.
"Mom, Aunt Cheng." She called them one by one.
Cheng Songyue pulled the sunglasses down two centimeters from the bridge of his nose: "How is it, are you surprised? Your mother and I appeared downstairs of your dormitory."

"..." Huai Nian was confused, but still said seriously, "It's a surprise."

Huai Nian walked to Huai Yanjun, took Huai Yanjun's hand, and whispered, "Mom, why did you come here so suddenly?"
Huai Yanjun was not used to wearing sunglasses, so she lifted them up and placed them on her forehead. She said, "Your Aunt Cheng said she came to catch you cheating."

Miss: “?”

Cheng Songyue half covered her face. Even though there were no one around, she lowered her voice to prevent the news from leaking out: "My son is Duan Huai'an. You recognize him, right? You two were high school classmates for two years. He has been in a relationship recently. I came to your school now to spy on the military situation and see who the woman who was obsessed with my son is."

(End of this chapter)