Her Future Husband

Bai Yeqing took a glance at him, but he did not notice anything. He only nodded his head and walked outside with heavy steps. When he walked past Xia Xingchen, he also did not stop walking.

She was slightly stumped as she kept thinking about what her son had just said to her.

When she came back to her senses, she could only see his departing figure. She initially wanted to ask if it was really as her son had said it to be, but Xia Dabai clasped his hands together to beg her not to expose him. Her heart softened and could only let the matter go even though she wanted to know the truth.

She followed him and she raised her head many times to look at his wide shoulders. She felt unknowingly conflicted in her heart.

She walked behind him while going into a daze. Leng Fei opened the door for him and he entered the car. It was not until Leng Fei called her name that she immediately came out of her trance.

'Cries.'

She actually followed him here!

"Sorry," said Xia Xingchen in a low voice. She felt that she was being very embarrassing and did not even dare to look at Bai Yeqing. She turned around and prepared to walk towards the chauffeur who was waiting for her inside the Manor.

However, she could hear Leng Fei saying, "I've been too busy recently and did not have a chance to congratulate Miss Xia."

Xia Xingchen did not understand and looked up at her. "What's there to congratulate me about?"

"It is obviously about your work. Congratulations, Miss Xia for passing the test and entering the Ministry of Finance."

"Thank you," thanked Xia Xingchen politely. "You are so busy so I didn't think that you would worry about my work. It was nice of you."

"If you are talking about nice, his excellency was nicer than me."

"Him?"

Xia Xingchen unknowingly took a glance at the car again.

What has that has to do with him?

It was as if he had seen through her, Leng Fei said, "His excellency specially called the Ministry of Finance to let them…"

"Secretary Leng, do you have an ample amount of spare time?"

A cold voice could be heard and it cut Leng Fei's words off.

The car window slowly wounded down and revealed the man's handsome face. He gave Leng Fei a glare. "I didn't know you could talk so much."

"…" Leng Fei immediately got his point and did not dare to talk further. He only nodded his head at Xia Xingchen and turned around to leave.

Xia Xingchen furrowed her thin eyebrows and looked at Bai Yeqing. She then reached her hand out to stop Leng Fei. "Secretary Leng, please finish your sentence before leaving."

"I have already said more than I should say. Miss Xia, if you want to ask anything, please ask his excellency directly."

Leng Fei did not dare to stay any longer and Xia Xingchen naturally could not stop him from leaving. Leng Fet started the car and left in a huff.

She stood there and stared at the slowly disappearing car for a long while. A realization struck upon her and she suddenly turned around to return back to the Manor.

She called her son. "Dabai."

"Eh? Big baby, why did you come back again?"

Xia Xingchen took out her phone from her bag and asked, "Do you have your dad's private number?"

"Of course, I have. Don't you know what kind of relationship my father and I have?" This little rascal was very proud of it as not many people knew of his father's private number.

In the next second, he looked at her. "Big baby, don't tell me that you don't have Little Bai's private number?"

"Hmm, nope."

"Little Bai did not give it to you?"

"No."

"Tch, tch. Dad really cannot make the cut. He wants to woo girls and yet, he didn't even give his number to the girl. How is he going to woo her?" He wore a disdainful expression.

Xia Xingchen made a crying face. "Stop talking nonsense. Quickly give me his number. I've got something to ask him."

Xia Dabai took over her phone and punched a few numbers into her phone with his fair and tender small fingers. Xia Xingchen then looked and saw the name of the saved number. She hit his small brain. "Stop playing around."

This little rascal actually dared to save the number as 'Future Husband.' He actually thought of that!

She wanted to change it, but in the end, regardless of how she tried, the name just would not change.

"What's wrong?"

Was it out of battery?

"Don't change it. That is the best name ever." Xia Dabai smiled cutely and smartly. "But, judging from your intelligence, you can't change it even if you want to."

Xia Dabai understood everything. "Did you install an application on my phone?"

"You are not so stupid after all. Then again, if you are really stupid, you can't give birth to such a smart genius like me." Xia Dabai felt very happy with himself. He did not change the name for her and directly ran up the stairs.

In response to her son's intelligence, Xia Xingchen really did not know whether she should be happy or sad about it.

What was the problem now? Even a kid was bullying her?

Did this pair of father and son planned something beforehand?

…

Xia Xingchen tried to call his private number. Looking at the screen which showed these two words—Future Husband, she still felt very distressed by it. She was afraid that someone would see it if she made a call, hence she would always hold the phone close to her ear. If he were to know about this, she really did not know how he would think of her.

Xia Xingchen remembered the sentence he told her last night. 'Even if you want to go on a blind date, you still must look carefully. How could Yu Zenan possibly want to marry you?' Her eyelashes drooped downward and her gaze darkened. She did not even need to think about it and she knew that those two words would have sounded ridiculous to him.

However, Bai Yeqing did not answer a call.

Xia Xingchen called two times. He did not answer in the morning and she called again during her lunch break, but it was the same outcome.

He was very busy.

She was not so ignorant to keep calling, however, she looked at her phone every now and then to wait for his call.

Just when break time was almost over beyond 1 in the afternoon, Xia Xingchen's phone suddenly rang.

She took out her phone almost immediately, however, the caller shown on her phone was not Bai Yeqing, but Li Lingyi.

She was very surprised.

Normally, if there were not any serious issues, she would not call her.

She thought for a while and decided to answer the call. She placed the phone to her ear.

"Xingchen, something happened to your Dad!" Li Lingyi's tone over the phone was very anxious. It almost seemed as if she was crying over the phone.

Xia Xingchen slightly furrowed her eyebrows as her heart felt as if someone squeezed it. However, she still calmly asked, "What happened?"

"Your Dad… he ran a fever for the past two days and the medical staff took him away today. They said that… he had the Wis coronavirus."

Li Lingyi choked on her tears and Xia Xingchen's heart fell. Her hand instinctively held her phone tighter.

The Wis coronavirus was a virus spreading all around the world and had a high death rate and infection rate. However, the world has not invented an effective vaccine and medication to control it.

Hence, if anyone were to get infected, it was almost as if they were given death punishment. It would not be overboard to claim that those infected would have one foot into the coffin.

As the country had come up with great measures to control the virus, there was no community spread yet. However, she never thought that her family would get infected by the virus.

"I am coming back right now." Xia Xingchen was also very anxious.

"What's the use of coming home? Your Dad is not even at home. You quickly go and check if you know any higher-ups in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs such that they could allow us to visit your Dad! He is being quarantined and we don't even know what is happening to him…" Talking until here, Li Lingyi started crying again.