When Wen Li was talking on the phone to his family, Michelle Yim also heard it.

She waited for Wen Li to finish speaking, then nodded and said, "I haven't seen your parents for a long time. I have troubled your family so many times in the past, and I haven't thanked you properly yet. When we come back from our trip, please arrange a time for Yuanchen and I to visit your house."

Wen Li was very surprised.

Although Huo Yuanchen has already met her parents, the meaning of Michelle Yim and Huo Yuanchen visiting together is different. It almost means proposing marriage.

When she was dating Meng Jinnian, even though Meng Jinnian's mother looked down on her, when the two of them wanted to talk about marriage, it was only after Meng Jinnian's mother came to meet her parents first that the two families began to discuss the engagement.

She never thought that she could be with Huo Yuanchen for a long time, so she didn't dare to agree to Qi Meizhen's words easily.

When Huo Yuanchen came back in the evening, she told him about this and wanted to hear his thoughts.

He pinched her waist and said nonchalantly, "My mother stays at home doing nothing every day. She has been to all the families she is close to. You decide based on your family's situation. If it's not a bother, just treat it as entertaining an old friend and let my mother go over. I won't go with you."

Wen Li nodded.

The meaning is different if Michelle Yim goes alone or if she follows or goes remotely with her.

Huo Yuanchen said this because he had never thought about developing a long-term relationship with her, so naturally he didn't want to deal too much with her parents.

She suddenly remembered that during the Chinese New Year, he stayed at An Wen's house for several days and ate a lot of food cooked by An Wen's mother.

That time at her house, he was in a hurry to leave after eating only a few bites. He was not as polite to her mother as he was to An Wen's mother. The words "not to my taste" were almost written on his face.

Somehow, Wen Li asked gloomily, "Do you often go to An Wen's house?"

Huo Yuanchen rubbed his brows and said tiredly, "I was fine, why did you bring it up with An Wen again? Haven't I been with you these past few days? Didn't I even go to see her when she was in the hospital?"

Wen Li corrected him, "It's not you who accompanied me, it's me who came to talk to Aunt Qi these days. It's because of Aunt Qi that you have to meet me every day."

Huo Yuanchen said, "It's all the same."

Wen Li didn't think so. She asked him again, "Are the dishes cooked by An Wen's mother delicious? She should know your taste well, right?"

Huo Yuanchen didn't say anything.

She just kept talking to herself, "Oh, I almost forgot, Anwen's mother is also Anran's mother. You are such a nice person. You were afraid that Anran's mother would miss her daughter during the Chinese New Year, so you specially sent the little daughter back to her and spent the Chinese New Year with her. You are so thoughtful."

Huo Yuanchen looked at her coldly and went to take a shower.

At night, the two of them lay on the same bed, back to back, playing with their own phones, and not talking to each other.

Zhou Ying told Wen Li, "You guessed right. An Wen fainting in the lab did affect Huo Yuanchen. Even if he hadn't refused to answer An Wen's call, An Wen violated the rules by doing experiments late at night, and as An Wen's mentor, he would still be punished by the hospital."

Wen Li looked back at Huo Yuanchen. His phone screen was dark, and he seemed to be asleep.

Wen Li asked worriedly, "Is the punishment from the hospital serious?"

Zhou Ying said, "It's OK. I didn't get punished. But it's embarrassing to be criticized by the whole school. Especially since many students in the school know Professor Huo, it's inevitable that people will talk about it for a while. But it will be fine after this period."

Wen Li thought, no wonder Huo Yuanchen wanted to take a New Year's leave, it turned out he was trying to avoid the limelight.

After a while, Zhou Ying sent her another message, saying, "I have something else to tell you. I just found out that Professor Huo has an important job title to be selected recently. Because of An Wen's incident, it's probably going to fail."

She told Wen Li about this because she felt that Wen Li was not a well-behaved and obedient person. Huo Yuanchen had been having bad luck recently and was inevitably in a bad mood. She was afraid that if they quarreled, Wen Li would suffer.

He specifically reminded her, "Speaking of which, Professor Huo is also quite unlucky in this matter. You should be more accommodating to him and don't argue with him."

He also said, "It's not a bad thing for you that Professor Huo was implicated by An Wen. Maybe he will no longer care about An Wen and her sister in anger, and then he will find out your goodness. You should seize the opportunity. How long you can stay with Professor Huo depends on this time."

Wen Li replied, "Do you want to take a closer look at what you said? What do you mean by how long can Huo Yuanchen and I be together? That means that I can't be with him for long."

Zhou Ying said, "Wen Li, face the reality. You and Professor Huo will not be together forever. Just treat him as a freeloader and use him as long as you can. You won't be too sad when you break up in the future."

Wen Li, "...I thank you."

She stopped talking nonsense to Zhou Ying and turned to look at Huo Yuanchen's back. It was hard to describe the feeling.

She asked him why he was indifferent and didn't take care of An Wen even though An Wen was in the hospital. It turned out that he was upset and didn't care about the little girl.

With his attitude, An Wen didn't know how to make a scene in the hospital, and she also didn't know whether the people Huo Mingqi sent to take care of him could cope with it.

Wen Li moved closer to Huo Yuanchen and put her arms around his waist.

He was not asleep. He raised his hand and pressed it on hers, but he did not take her hand away. When she touched his abdominal muscles, he said lightly, "I don't want to do it today."

Wen Li was speechless. She didn't come here to do that with him.

She leaned against his back, resting her chin on his shoulder, and asked softly, "How many days will you take off this time?"

"I don't know." Huo Yuanchen said. He didn't turn around, but took the initiative to change his position to make Wen Li lean more comfortably, "What's wrong?"

Wen Li thought that he would probably take this annual leave until the storm was completely over before going back to school to work. The Huo family's business was doing well, so he didn't rely on the salary from the school. Without financial pressure, he could take as long as he wanted.

I said, "I only booked a B&B for two days. If you have more time, I'll book a few more days. I heard that there are several new attractions around that area, so you can go and take a look."

Huo Yuanchen said indifferently, "Just decide."

Wen Li said "hmm", hugged him and said nothing more.

She originally wanted to comfort him with a few words, but then she thought, he is Huo Yuanchen, why does he need her to comfort him? If she said a few words, he might even laugh at her poor speaking skills and say that everything she said is grammatically incorrect.

When he tutored her in writing English essays, he laughed at her terrible grammar and poor vocabulary, which was so devastating that she felt a headache whenever she saw an English book.

He probably didn't expect that at that time, but a few years later, she would be able to write her graduation thesis in English. It can be seen that people are forced by the environment.

Wen Li was lost in thought, and when he came back to his senses, he realized something was wrong.

She grabbed Huo Yuanchen's hand that was hooked on her panties and said, "Didn't you say you didn't want to do it today?"

He took her hand away and took off her panties with a familiar motion, and replied, "You hugged me too tightly, and I missed it a little."