Chapter 430

Hearing someone walking behind her, Shu Xia took two bottles of yogurt out of the shopping bag and turned around to hand one over.

"Want some?"

Qiao Muting took a glance.

Peach-flavored sugar-free yogurt.

He took both bottles, twisted off the cap, and handed one back to Shu Xia.

Shu Xia took it naturally and took a sip, "It's so good."

The aroma of the peach, paired with the rich fragrance of the yogurt—every sip felt so blissful.

Seeing her say it was good, Qiao Muting also took a sip.

In his view, the taste was acceptable.

He set the yogurt aside and, together with Shu Xia, put the items from the shopping bag into the refrigerator.

Looking at the filled refrigerator, Shu Xia felt a sense of security.

"It's full!"

Qiao Muting went to wash his hands, then went to sit on the sofa.

Seeing this, Shu Xia also went to wash her hands, looking at Qiao Muting sitting on the sofa; did he have something to say to her?

She washed some fruit and then sat down opposite Qiao Muting.

"Eat some fruit first," Shu Xia said.

The fruit she had picked out while passing by a wet market on the way back was very fresh.

Qiao Muting picked up an apple, but didn't eat it.

Shu Xia's gaze was uncontrollably drawn to the hand he was holding the apple with.

His fingers were slender and straight, his nails rounded and clean, and the watch on his wrist perfectly set off the allure of those hands.

A scene appeared in her mind uncontrollably.

Those hands igniting her inch by inch on her body...

Not daring to look any longer, she quickly withdrew her gaze and stared at the apple in her hand.

"When you saw me at the restaurant, you didn't want to come forward and claim me as your husband?" Qiao Muting asked.

Shu Xia was incredibly surprised to hear this, "Claim?"

Had she misheard?

"Given the situation at the time, it seemed we weren't the key; the key was Nannan and President Huo."

Besides, when out in public, she was already used to pretending not to know him.

After all, even Jiang Nannan thought it was impossible for the two of them.

Qiao Muting raised his cold eyebrows, clearly not very satisfied with Shu Xia's answer, "You are very good friends with Huo Jingyan's wife?"

"Yes, my best friend."

A flicker passed through Qiao Muting's eyes, and he took a bite of the apple; the crisp apple was very sweet.

"In the future, you don't need to pretend not to know me when we're out."

Shu Xia smiled: "You can also not pretend not to know me when we're out."

They were both the same, weren't they?

Some things were just a tacit understanding.

Pretending to be strangers in public was truly a uniform tacit understanding for them.

Neither should pick faults with the other.

Qiao Muting: "..."

Shu Xia checked the time, "I didn't eat much at the restaurant, I'm a bit hungry. I'm going to make some simple dessert, do you want some?"

"Make me a portion."

"Okay."

While Shu Xia was focused on making food in the kitchen, Qiao Muting was initially reading on the sofa.

But later, after hearing the faint sounds from the kitchen, he got up and walked over.

Standing in front of the kitchen door, watching the focused Shu Xia, he suddenly thought of the photo Gu Jianzhang had shown him not long ago.

When Shu Xia was restoring an Ancient Painting, she was just as focused as she was now.

Perhaps she didn't realize it herself, but when she was focused on doing something, she was a completely different person from her usual self.