When his son for the fourth time tonight grabbed his own fingers and brought them to his mouth, An Wuyang knew that this little rascal had developed a habit of sucking his fingers.
“Dundun, this isn’t good, it’s very dirty,” the young man spoke gently, carefully removing his chubby hand from Dun dun’s mouth, rescuing his fingers from that tiny mouth.
“Ugh…” Dundun, who had been showing signs of being willful lately, seemed to want to throw a tantrum after his dad’s fingers disappeared.
“Don’t cry, don’t cry.” An Wuyang found a sterilized pacifier and put it into Dundun’s mouth, successfully soothing the little troublemaker who wanted to cry.
“You spoil him too much,” Huo Yunchuan, dressed in loose pajamas, sat on the floor with one leg crossed and the other bent, his arm resting on his knee as he quietly watched the little angel with their son.
“And you dare say I…” An Wuyang couldn’t help rolling his eyes. If anyone spoiled their child, who could compare to him, who fulfilled every need of their son?
For instance, Dundun was growing stronger, with his grip getting stronger day by day. Whenever someone held him, he liked to tug at their hair.
An Wuyang often saw the little troublemaker use his nursing strength to grab his big dad’s hair and pull hard.
However, the one who pampered their son didn’t even furrow his brow. He always indulged Dundun in playing with his hair like this.
Another thing was that Dundun had recently started teething, with two tiny milk teeth popping up from his chubby gums. It was said that babies got itchy when teething, so Dundun would bite his dad’s fingers, shoulders, or anything he could reach.
Of course, his biting didn’t hurt, but it sure produced a lot of saliva…
As a father, An Wuyang sometimes felt disgusted when Dundun smeared saliva on his face, but he noticed that Huo Yunchuan didn’t mind at all. At most, he would stop any actions that might hurt Dundun’s gums and calmly wipe away the saliva with a disinfectant wipe.
Anyway, he really spoiled their son.
An Wuyang picked up Dundun, who was fully absorbed in sucking on the pacifier, intending to play with his son for a while. However, his arms soon grew sore from holding him.
“Your son is… chubby,” the little angel remarked, then leaned back onto Mr. Huo, who insisted on working out daily.
The two of them, father and son, were immediately securely held by two strong arms, ensuring there was no danger of their heads hitting the ground.
It felt completely safe.
“Cheeky.” Huo Yunchuan kissed the cheek of his ‘big son’, who never seemed to gain weight, and noticed the genuine son in the little angel’s arms watching him.
An Wuyang helped his son, “Dundun also wants you to kiss him.”
Huo Yunchuan glanced lightly at his son. “No, my kisses are only for you.”
“When you say sweet things like that, you’re so handsome,” An Wuyang lifted his chin and kissed Mr. Huo’s sexy lips. “Yunchuan, let’s go back to our room and whisper.”
Huo Yunchuan licked his lips dryly. “What whisper?”
The little angel lightly patted Dundun’s back with one hand, tilted his head towards his husband’s neck, and said with seriousness, “Can’t say right now, Dundun is listening.”
The man held both of his treasures close, his breathing becoming heavier. “Then hurry and put Dundun to sleep.”
An Wuyang glanced at his son’s big watery eyes and pondered, “He might not want to sleep yet.”
Dundun’s little mouth with the pacifier moved, his eyes alternating between his little dad and big dad, proving with all his might that he didn’t want to sleep: “…”
He just wanted to quietly nestle in his little dad’s arms and suck on the pacifier.
“Give him to me.” Huo Yunchuan motioned for An Wuyang to get up and took over their ‘not sleepy’ son from him, skillfully starting to coax him. He also reminded the little angel, “You didn’t do your homework today.”
As soon as they got home, he was busy playing, and now, despite the backpack coming home, things were still the same.
“Sigh…” An Wuyang scratched his head, looking overwhelmed as he walked out of the nursery to do his homework.
It wasn’t just his university courses; there were also courses he had previously started.
Reading, writing, memorizing—however, because he was a poor student, his learning efficiency was very low, requiring utmost concentration just to make any progress.
Next door, Huo Yunchuan spent a little effort calming their son down.
He came out and greeted Aunt Zhang, who was sitting in the living room knitting socks and watching TV, “Aunt Zhang, Dundun’s asleep.”
“Oh, okay, I’ll go check on him.” Aunt Zhang took off her glasses, put down the half-knitted sock, turned off the TV, “Is Wuyang doing his homework? Mr. Huo, why don’t you go in and help him.”
Everyone in the family knew that the child wasn’t good at studying.
“Mm.” Huo Yunchuan was drinking water. Before going in, he cut up a plate of fruit in the kitchen and brought it in for his wife to eat.
It was a plate of kiwi fruit that An Wuyang liked, with golden yellow flesh cut into pieces that looked rich in sugar, surely very sweet.
At this moment, An Wuyang was diligently writing at his desk.
With earphones in, listening to English, mouthing along, and doing homework for other subjects.
Huo Yunchuan carried the fruit plate without saying a word. From his perspective, the desk lamp illuminated the focused and serious profile of the young man, with his thin bangs covering the sides of his forehead, and… under the light, nearly transparent long eyelashes blinking occasionally, then refocusing on the content…
“Ah, my favorite fruit!” An Wuyang noticed the fruit plate and immediately threw down his pen happily, took off his earphones, and took the fruit plate from Huo Yunchuan’s hands, picking up a piece of fruit skewered with a toothpick and eating it.
“…” Watching him eat, Huo Yunchuan calmly pulled up a chair beside him, picked up the pen that had been tossed aside, and helped with the homework.
An Wuyang stuffed a piece of fruit into his mouth, finding Huo Yunchuan helping with homework, his smile immediately sweet and sticky as he approached, saying, “Dundun’s dad, you’re so good. Here, have a bite of this delicious fruit.”
Looking at the fruit brought to his lips by the little angel, Huo Yunchuan, who didn’t eat sweets, calmly opened his mouth and accepted, “You eat it yourself, I cut it for you.”
After finishing eating, the youth who was truly moved internally, with watery eyes, ate while looking at his husband’s handsome face, “Ahem.” Nonchalantly as if to start a conversation, “Didn’t I say I wanted to tell you something in private just now?”
Huo Yunchuan glanced at the little angel, indicating ‘go ahead’.
With a mischievous smile, the little angel leaned over and kissed his cheek, sweetly whispering, “I, really, like, you.”
Ten minutes later, the madly in love with his wife who was trying hard to suppress his emotions, released the youth full of gossip like a dominating CEO, “Behave yourself, wait for me.” Then continued to help him with his homework.
An Wuyang: “…”
In his dizzy head, he thought: Amazing! Do people nowadays start kissing for at least ten minutes?!
At the same time, he felt his tongue going numb, and his lips were burning… Could they be swollen? Scary.
Thinking this, An Wuyang slowly ate a piece of fruit in slow motion, trying to calm himself down.
“Come on.” The young man who remembered eating but not fighting, after calming down, started nagging again, “Pay attention to the questions and don’t make mistakes. And hey, make sure your handwriting matches mine, you know? Otherwise, it wouldn’t be good if they recognize it.”
Huo Yunchuan: “…”
Obedient little angel: “So sweet, where did you buy this fruit, Dundun’s Daddy? Can we buy from this place next time?”
“Sure.” Huo Yunchuan could only go along with him.
The little angel supervised Huo Yunchuan writing his homework, and after finishing, went to bed happily.
In the middle of the night, exhausted as a dog, An Wuyang’s face was as wrinkled as a bun, as he reasoned with the man beside him, “Honestly, did we just do it?”
“…” Huo Yunchuan, lively just a second ago, immediately closed his eyes to feign sleepiness, fooling the little puppy, “I have to go to your school for a speech tomorrow. Go to sleep.”
“What?”
Going to… University for a speech?
The next morning, the young man who was already blushing and uneasy about speaking at his own school, continued to feel awkward.
“Don’t say you know me.” An Wuyang brewed for a while and blurted out.
Huo Yunchuan glanced sideways at the young man looking out the window, holding his forehead with a hat, leaving himself with a red ear at the root.
Yes, he was the one who spent time with such a cute person every day.
“Oh, got it.”
He actually… agreed?
An Wuyang turned his head with a puzzled look, hesitated, hummed, “You’re going to our school… just for the speech, right?” Not because…
Huo Yunchuan: “Then what?”
An Wuyang got his answer, shrugged with a baby-don’t-care look, “It’s nothing.” Actually, according to his introverted personality that disliked being in the limelight, deep down he naturally hoped to keep things as low-key as possible.
Huo Yunchuan smiled, caught a glimpse of the band-aid on An Wuyang’s neck, and found something to say, “Where did you buy the band-aid? The pattern is so cute.”
“Bought it at the pharmacy.”
“Do you think there will be a red light ahead?”
An Wuyang ignored him, looked out the window, and responded with an indifferent and cold tone, “Not guessing.”
Huo Yunchuan realized belatedly that he had annoyed the kid. Not in a rush, he controlled the steering wheel and opened a small box to take out a candy jar, shaking it in front of the kid, “Want some?”
That kind of fruit candy, An Wuyang particularly liked to eat when he was pregnant, but later when his belly grew, the doctor said he couldn’t consume too much sugar and asked him to cut back.
“Is this new?” An Wuyang was a bit happy to see it was an unopened jar of candy.
Pleasant surprise.
However, although he accepted the jar of candy, he still didn’t want to pay attention to the pig next door.
At the school, just as Huo Yunchuan parked the car, An Wuyang opened the door, took his things, and tiptoed away.
Huo Yunchuan watched him leave without saying anything.
At University, the principal arranged for two outstanding young teachers to greet him. They noticed Huo Yunchuan immediately and greeted him warmly…
Meanwhile, An Wuyang arrived at the classroom and found a pile of small gifts and cards on the seat he usually sat in, along with a cute bouquet of flowers.
Later on, he also noticed that all his classmates were looking at him like they were watching a monkey.
A bit serious, maybe a bit friendlier than watching monkeys…
*Cough.* Early arrival Xuanyang leaned on his desk and pointed to the pile of stuff on An Wuyang’s desk. “I saw it when I arrived…”
Good-looking people are always popular, but none of them have a chance. Xuanyang thought happily to himself, knowing that An Wuyang is taken.
“Don’t think too much. They’re not interested in chasing after me,” An Wuyang said as he sat down and opened his backpack to sweep all the small gifts inside. He looked towards the next desk and asked, “Has Wen Ling not arrived yet?”
They’re usually early and the front seats aren’t exactly a hot commodity, so they get to sit together for the same classes every time.
Xuanyang, looking mysterious, gossiped quietly, “He, uh, went out last night. Who knows if he’ll show up for class today.”
Just as he said that, a tall figure appeared at the door. If it’s not Wen Ling, then who else could it be?
The person gossiping immediately shut up, greeted him with a smile, and waved towards the door, “Hey, Ling ge, over here.”
Wen Ling walked towards them, paused beside An Wuyang with a puzzled expression, and asked for confirmation, “I heard a rumor just now that the CEO of Huo Corporation is coming to our school for a speech. Do you… have any connection with him?”
An Wuyang thought very seriously for a moment, then shook his head, “I don’t know him.”
Author’s note:
CEO Huo: What’s it like to have a mischievous wife
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