Click——

The door opens.

Xiang Wan stood at the door. He looked at Hu Tao calmly and said, "It's not that I don't like you, but that you don't like me."

"Did you hear...?"

Xiang Wan reached out and picked up an almond and put it into his mouth, making a crunching sound.

"Didn't I ask you to eat dried fruits first and then pickled plums?"

"snort!"

Hutao ignored Xiang Wan, grabbed the sour plum and was about to put it into his mouth, but Xiang Wan grabbed her wrist.

"Let go!"

"I want to eat sour plums!"

Xiang Wan took the sour plum from Hu Tao's hand with his other hand and put it into his mouth.

"Be good~obedient."

"snort!"

Hutao pursed her lips and said dissatisfiedly: "It took you so long to come back, where have you been?"

"I'm going to find Xiangling."

"You...why are you looking for her?"

As soon as the words came out, Hutao realized that she was a little nervous and quickly covered her mouth.

Xiang Wan stared at Hu Tao with a smile, making her lower her head uncomfortably.

"I don't want to know what you were doing."

"I just want to tell you that you are engaged and cannot fool around outside."

"So my dear wife, let's sit down and have a good talk."

Hutao hugged his hands and let out a soft hum: "Who is your wife? We are not married yet!"

Xiang Wan nodded in agreement.

"Then I'll call you Hutao?"

"Or is it Mr. Hall Master?"

"Or dear?"

Xiang Wan's glib look made Hu Tao frown slightly. Although she was used to being leisurely and carefree, he didn't want his fiancé to be a frivolous person.

"Just call me by my name."

"walnut."

Walnut, don't look too far and ignore it.

"walnut?"

Hutao still ignored it.

"walnut?"

An evil spirit emerged on Hu Tao's little face. She glared at Xiang Wan and shouted, "Oh! Are you annoyed?"

"You can take care of me."

"What do you want to talk about?"

"In a relationship with you."

Hu Tao took a deep breath, and Xiang Wan noticed that the temperature in the room seemed to be rising rapidly. She quickly stopped the smile on her face and said solemnly: "Let's talk about the future."

"Woo——"

A somewhat sad cry came from the kitchen. Xiang Wan pointed to the kettle and said, "The water is boiling."

"I'm going to cook first."

Xiang Wan picked up an almond and put it in his mouth again, then took away the plate of sour plums in Hu Tao's hand.

"Give it back to me!"

Golden light flashed, and the sour plum entered the king's treasure house.

"There's still a little time left for dinner, please eat some dried fruit to cushion your stomach."

"When you eat the dried fruit, I will give you the sour plum."

"That's what you said!"

Hutao grabbed a handful of dried fruits and put it into his mouth. Xiang Wan shook his head helplessly, thinking that he was still a child who didn't understand the world.

"No one is trying to rob you, so why are you so anxious?"

Xiang Wan took out the plate of pickled plums and put it on the table. He put on his apron and started handling the big fish.

“Boiled fish with shrimp dumplings?”

"You went to Xiangling just to ask me what I like to eat?"

"Otherwise, what do you think I'm going to do?"

Hu Tao was a little surprised. Seeing Xiang Wan's skillful handling of fish, a flash of surprise flashed in her eyes.

After confirming that Hu Tao was interested in him, Xiang Wan asked casually: "What do you think of our engagement?"

"How else can I look at it? Apart from the hall of death, the only thing left for me by my grandfather is the engagement contract."

"Of course I have to abide by it~"

Xiang Wan threw the fish's internal organs into the prepared plate. He quickly swiped the knife on the fish to separate the bones and meat. Xiang Wan sliced ​​the fish into fillets of the same length and uniform thickness.

"Even if you don't like me?"

Xiang Wan's question made Hu Tao lower his head. Hu Tao had been thinking about this issue since his grandfather passed away.

At that time, she made up her mind to complete the engagement. Regardless of whether the other party liked her or not and agreed to the marriage, she would marry Xiang Wan and complete the engagement.

This matter is very unfair to Xiang Wan, because it was all her wishful thinking from beginning to end, and she didn't consider Xiang Wan's feelings at all.

When Xiang Wan asked her what she said today, she suddenly realized that the engagement was actually unfair to her.

She didn't like Xiang Wan, but because it was the engagement left by her grandfather, she didn't want to disappoint her grandfather.

Xiang Wan put the processed fish meat into clean water and washed it thoroughly.

"If you don't like it, you don't like it."

"Don't force yourself to do those things in the future."

Hu Tao sat on the chair, leaning slightly on the table, supporting her cheek with her small hands, looking at Xiang Wan who was looking attentively, her expression was a little dazed.

"We still have a lot of time, so you don't have to rush."

Xiang Wan took out a large bowl, poured the cleaned fish fillets into it, then poured in salt, cooking wine, sweet potato starch and a small bowl of egg whites to marinate.

"Before you fall in love with me, there is no need to fulfill your fiancée obligations to me."

"Did you understand?"

Hu Tao nodded, looking at Xiang Wan with something strange in her eyes. She felt that there was something wrong with Xiang Wan. She had already taken the initiative, and now he was rejecting her righteously.

"Wanwan, are you scared to death?"

"How about I find another spider to scare you back?"

"..."

"No need!"

At the mention of spiders, Xiang Wan's eyelids twitched unconsciously. Hu Tao took in all of this and she had already begun to wonder under what circumstances it would be very reasonable for spiders to appear in her home.

"Hehe~"

Hu Tao suddenly smiled stupidly, and Xiang Wan, who was making soup beside him, sighed helplessly. All his thoughts were written on his face. I am afraid only a fool would be frightened by her.

"walnut……"

Hearing Xiang Wan's call, Hu Tao raised his eyebrows slightly, smacked his lips in dissatisfaction and said, "Don't talk to me now!"

Hu Tao's beautiful plum-blossom eyes were moving and shining, and she had obviously made up her mind.

Xiang Wan bumped the chair lightly with her leg and said calmly: "Please move your little butt."

"Whatever you want, I'll get it for you."

Hu Tao looked at Xiang Wan and blinked her big eyes sincerely, looking cute and cute.

Xiang Wan seemed not to notice. He pressed his chest against Hu Tao's head and reached out to bring over the bean sprouts that he had washed before.

Hutao puffed out her mouth and looked at Xiang Wan dissatisfied, and Xiang Wan was also looking at her calmly.
To be continued...