Chapter 1044: Our Child Is Cuter

The sourness in his tone was truly too obvious.

Upon hearing this, Cai Xiaotang was stunned for a moment, then could not help but burst into laughter.

"Didn't you say you weren't jealous? Why are you still dwelling on this? I didn't wear the ring because I was afraid of losing it, not because I was deliberately waiting for others to hit on me."

"If you lose it, we'll just have another one made."

Li Xiao was dismissive; though he said he wasn't jealous, his actions betrayed him completely.

In the past, he truly wouldn't have taken such a trivial matter to heart.

Whatever Cai Xiaotang liked to wear, whether it was revealing or not, or whether she wore a ring or not, it had all been a matter of indifference to him.

It wasn't that he didn't care about her, but rather that he respected her choices.

But now...

He didn't know why, but he seemed to be less and less able to be without her, and his possessiveness toward her grew stronger by the day.

It was as if he could suddenly understand the feeling of those who watched the person they loved every single moment, wanting to hide her away even if another man took one extra look at her.

As Li Xiao was thinking this, he heard Cai Xiaotang answer in all seriousness: "How could having another one made be the same! A ring has special significance; how can it be made casually, like wholesale goods? Then where would the significance of having it custom-made be?"

"Hmm..."

Li Xiao's mind was not on this at all right now; his gaze swept around, and he suddenly realized that quite a few people nearby seemed to be staring in their direction.

As one of the few pairs of Chinese people among a crowd of foreigners, and both being quite good-looking, they were truly a bit too eye-catching.

It wasn't just men; several women were also staring in Li Xiao's direction, whispering for a long time.

Finally—"Do you want to come to the beach again tomorrow?"

Li Xiao asked.

"Sure."

Cai Xiaotang took another sip of her fruit juice and nodded as if it were a matter of course.

Li Xiao paused slightly, his gaze sweeping over her again, and he finally couldn't help but ask: "Then... would you like me to accompany you to buy a new swimsuit?"

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"Why?"

Cai Xiaotang looked at him, puzzled, and looked down at herself.

"Is there something wrong with my swimsuit?"

Li Xiao did not answer.

Cai Xiaotang stared at him for a few seconds, then suddenly revealed an expression of sudden realization.

"Oh~ I get it, you don't think this style counts as revealing, do you? Tsk tsk tsk... and you said you weren't jealous..."

As she spoke, she deliberately sighed: "Sigh... it can't be helped, actually it's mainly because I have a good figure; it doesn't really have much to do with the swimsuit..."

Li Xiao: "..."

Fine, he admitted, what she said was indeed reasonable.

"Hahahaha, what is that expression? Are you speechless?"

Cai Xiaotang looked at Li Xiao's thwarted expression and finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Immediately after—"Big sister!"

A little boy's voice suddenly rang out.

Cai Xiaotang snapped back to reality and hurriedly turned her head, seeing a mixed-race little boy of about four or five years old, who looked very cute, standing behind her.

He was holding a piece of candy in his hand and reaching it out toward her.

Then, in somewhat broken Chinese, he said intermittently: "Big sister... you are so beautiful, can I... treat you... to some candy?"

"Wow, thank you!"

Cai Xiaotang took it with pleasant surprise.

The little boy immediately covered his face in shyness and laughed, then ran away without looking back.

Cai Xiaotang's gaze subconsciously followed his figure, watching him rush into the arms of a foreign woman not far away, beside whom stood a black-haired man who politely smiled toward them.

Cai Xiaotang returned the smile.

Immediately after, she heard—"Sigh... to have such good taste at such a young age, it seems this kid will definitely be extraordinary when he grows up."

Li Xiao imitated Cai Xiaotang's tone from just a moment ago and sighed.

Cai Xiaotang immediately looked at him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "No way? You're even jealous of such a young child?"

"Hmm, is there a problem with that?"

Li Xiao didn't hide it this time; instead, he admitted it frankly.

They had been here for less than two hours, and the person beside him had already charmed everyone, young and old alike!

Just as he was thinking this, Li Xiao heard the person beside him, unafraid of death, slowly say: "Then you'd better be careful, after all, you're so old; what if some suitable fresh meat comes to pursue me..."

Cai Xiaotang deliberately winked at him.

Li Xiao's eyebrows shot up, and looking at her smug expression, he secretly gritted his teeth.

It seemed he had truly been too "indulgent" with her during this time...

She actually dared to say such things?

It didn't matter.

He had plenty of time to let her know whether he was old or not.

After playing on the beach for half the day, until the afternoon sun became a bit harsh, Cai Xiaotang snuck back to the hotel, intending to take a shower and have a lovely nap.

But she didn't expect that as soon as she entered the door—she was pulled directly into the bathroom by Li Xiao!

"Hey! What are you doing!"

Although the two of them had long since had the most intimate of relationships, any location other than the bed would make her extremely shy.

Li Xiao did not reply, directly lifting her onto the sink to the side and sealing the words she had yet to finish with a kiss.

As their breaths mingled, everything about the other was so familiar, causing Cai Xiaotang to quickly go limp all over, almost without resistance, letting someone have his way with her until she was finally carried into the bathtub.

One hour later—amidst the rising steam, Cai Xiaotang had only a sliver of strength left, lying prone on the edge of the bathtub.

Li Xiao tapped her shoulder in a good mood, deliberately drawing out his voice to ask, "Do you still like fresh meat now?"

"Shut up, you Old Scoundrel!"

Cai Xiaotang replied through "gritted teeth."

Li Xiao, however, became even more pleased with himself.

"Since you know I'm an Old Scoundrel, don't make me jealous in the future, otherwise..."

"... I'm afraid you'll be too tired."

"Pah! Don't you dare use jealousy as an excuse for that-that!"

Cai Xiaotang once again refreshed her understanding of how thick-skinned someone was.

No sooner had she finished speaking than she heard him suddenly lean in, asking by her ear, "That-that? How come I didn't understand?"

"You!"

Cai Xiaotang had always been unable to outtalk him, and too lazy to waste the effort, she intended to continue closing her eyes to rest.

Her peripheral vision, however, suddenly caught sight of a candy on the floor by the edge of the bathtub.

It was the one that mixed-race child had given her earlier.

It must have accidentally fallen to the floor while the two of them were "entangled" just now.

Cai Xiaotang picked it up casually, tore open the wrapper, and popped it into her mouth.

She said deliberately, "As expected, children are the cutest; they just purely gave me a candy, unlike some adults..."

She deliberately emphasized the word "purely."

No sooner had she finished speaking—"You think that child is very cute?"

A familiar body temperature circled her in an embrace.

"Yeah."

Cai Xiaotang nodded as a matter of course, completely unaware of the "danger" hidden in someone's tone.

Immediately following, her lips were suddenly blocked, and the sweet fruit candy in her mouth was also swept away.

In the air, only Li Xiao's muffled and teasing voice remained.

"Then have you ever thought that perhaps our child would be even cuter than him?"