"Ah, Ai Zi, how can we not invite our guests to come in when they arrive? Look at you, in this chilly weather, letting our guest sit downstairs chatting with you. You've got no manners!"
Mother Zuo fussed, leaving Zuo Aiai looking incredulous.
"Mom, you misunderstood!"
Zuo Aiai tried to clear things up.
Mother Zuo, who was waving a tai chi sword prop, gave Zuo Aiai a smack on the hand. "What misunderstanding? He's our guest. So, young man, what's your name?"
Shen Qi was also a bit confused, but he was respectful to the elderly, so he greeted them with a smile, "Hello, Auntie and Uncle, I'm...a friend of Miss Zuo, Shen Qi."
Shen Qi pondered and supposed he could be counted as Zuo Aiai's friend, right?
However, his slight pause made Father and Mother Zuo misunderstand even more.
They seemed certain that this young man was Ai Zi's boyfriend, who was too shy to tell the truth!
"Shen Qi, let's go upstairs, it's too cold out here," Mother Zuo kindly suggested.
Shen Qi: ...