Daddy, Come Home For Dinner!

Chapter 1033: Chapter 1033: Don’t Be Afraid

But once you put it all together, why does it feel kind of off?

"So, how is it?" Zhao Dingli asked again.

Faced with the look of expectation on Zhao Dingli’s face, Li Xiaoyun couldn’t get any words of objection out.

She finally understood what "beauty is a trap" really meant.

All those foolish rulers, just because a beauty said one sentence, would rush to say "yes, yes, yes" and agree to everything.

Li Xiaoyun thought, faced with this kind of beauty, what wouldn’t you agree to?

"Okay." Li Xiaoyun didn’t even think it through this time and just nodded in agreement.

So Zhao Dingli happily made a call and had dinner delivered.

After dinner, Zhao Dingli didn’t stay long.

Otherwise he’d look totally clingy.

Since it was delivery food, there was no need to make Li Xiaoyun wash the dishes.

That did make things simpler.

When Zhao Dingli left, he even gathered up all the takeout boxes and took them out with him.

Watching Zhao Dingli’s back as he stepped into the elevator, Li Xiaoyun sighed inwardly, what a good man.

He even takes the trash with him when he leaves.

Seeing Zhao Dingli in a suit and tie carrying a trash bag, even though it didn’t quite go together, it gave him a down-to-earth, everyday feel.

After going downstairs, Zhao Dingli got in his car and drove off.

He had just driven out through the gate of Li Xiaoyun’s complex.

Right then, another car came in through the side entrance and was stopped by the security guard.

Since it wasn’t an owner from the complex, the guard needed to ask which household he was looking for and register the visit.

Originally, Zhao Dingli didn’t pay it any mind.

He was about to leave when he heard a light, casual voice next to him: "I’m looking for Li Xiaoyun in Building 3."

"Oh, you’re here for Miss Li." The visitor even clearly reported the building number, and he was driving a pretty decent car. Not in the luxury range, but definitely not cheap, at least four hundred thousand.

His clothes were carefully chosen, and he was quite good-looking too.

Just at a glance, he didn’t look like a bad person, so the guard said, "Then I’ll just trouble you to sign in here."

Hearing the voice, which sounded very familiar, Zhao Dingli turned his head to look.

But from his angle, the other car’s window was closed.

He couldn’t see the person inside clearly.

By that time, the man had already signed his name and the guard let him through.

Still, Zhao Dingli felt the voice was familiar, and his instincts were telling him something wasn’t right.

Besides, even without that layer of suspicion, just from the sound, it was a young man.

A young man coming to see Li Xiaoyun late at night—how could he not be on alert?

He had to strangle a rival in love in the cradle!

So, Zhao Dingli swung the steering wheel, drove out through the gate, then made a U-turn into the other entrance.

Only now there were more residents coming back into the complex.

Cars were driving in one after another.

It wasn’t easy for him to turn back in.

He waited for several cars to pass before finally squeezing his way in.

At the gate, the security guard was surprised to see him and said, "Didn’t you just leave? How come you’re back again?"

"I realized I forgot something, have to go back and get it," Zhao Dingli explained casually.

The guard had only asked in passing and just waved him through.

After Zhao Dingli drove off, the guard joked with his coworker, "Miss Li’s been kind of popular lately."

In a bit, when Zhao Dingli goes in and then sees that guy who just arrived.

Will the two of them end up fighting?

And the man that Zhao Dingli had just run into at the gate was exactly Zheng Xuelin.

Zheng Xuelin drove to the building where Li Xiaoyun lived.

Since he couldn’t get in through the entrance door, and he couldn’t ask Li Xiaoyun to open it for him.

If she knew it was him, how could Li Xiaoyun possibly buzz him in?

But now, even heaven was helping him.

Someone from the building happened to be going out.

Zheng Xuelin took the chance and slipped in.

After seeing Zhao Dingli off, Li Xiaoyun went to remove her makeup first.

She had to take off her makeup, then wash her face thoroughly before taking a shower.

Otherwise, with the hot water steaming on her face during the shower, her pores would open up and all the leftover makeup and gunk would only sink deeper into her pores.

Li Xiaoyun had just finished washing her face and was about to take a shower when the doorbell rang.

Since Zhao Dingli had said he would come over for breakfast from now on.

Li Xiaoyun had simply given him the access card for the building downstairs so he could come straight in.

Hearing the doorbell now, Li Xiaoyun assumed that Zhao Dingli had come back.

As she walked toward the door, she glanced back at the living room.

There was nothing that Zhao Dingli had left behind.

Even though she thought it was Zhao Dingli at the door, when she reached the entrance Li Xiaoyun still followed the habit she’d long formed—she first looked through the peephole.

It was a habit she’d maintained for decades.

She’d been like that even when she lived with her parents.

Now that she was living on her own, a girl alone, she had to be even more careful.

So at this point it was almost just a natural reflex of her body.

Even if it were her parents coming, she would, out of sheer habit, first take a look through the peephole.

And with that one look, Li Xiaoyun got a fright.

Standing outside was actually Zheng Xuelin!

Nothing good ever happened when Zheng Xuelin showed up!

Of course Li Xiaoyun wasn’t going to open the door.

But the doorbell kept ringing, and she heard Zheng Xuelin’s voice from outside: "Li Xiaoyun, I know you’re home."

He’d already seen that her lights were on.

"Open the door!" Zheng Xuelin said from outside.

There was no way Li Xiaoyun would open it.

She rushed back to the living room and picked up the phone she’d left on the sofa earlier.

By now Zhao Dingli should already have left the complex and be on the road.

But this time, unlike before, the first person who sprang to mind for Li Xiaoyun wasn’t Ye Fei, it was Zhao Dingli.

It had nothing to do with who was physically closer.

She didn’t even have the time right now to think about who was nearer to her.

Back then.

Whenever anything happened, big or small, the first person Li Xiaoyun thought of was Ye Fei.

Even before her parents.

But now, the first person she thought of was actually Zhao Dingli.

At a time like this, Li Xiaoyun naturally wasn’t aware of this change in herself.

By now, Zhao Dingli was already close to the bottom of her building.

When he suddenly got her call.

He picked up immediately.

"Xiao Yun." Zhao Dingli said.

"Zheng Xuelin is outside my door," Li Xiaoyun said.

She walked to the entrance: "He’s been pressing the doorbell nonstop."

Through the phone, Zhao Dingli could hear Zheng Xuelin yelling: "Open the door! Bitch, open the door!"

"Don’t be scared," Zhao Dingli said in a low voice, "I’m right downstairs at your building, heading up now."

"You’re downstairs?" Li Xiaoyun instantly relaxed. Judging by the time, Zhao Dingli should have already gone far away, so how could he still be downstairs?

But now, Li Xiaoyun felt completely at ease.

Even with Zheng Xuelin still at her door, she wasn’t afraid.

She was suddenly overwhelmed by a feeling of solid, reliable safety.

"I’m in the elevator, don’t be afraid," Zhao Dingli said.

"I’m not afraid anymore." Li Xiaoyun’s voice even sounded lighter.

Zhao Dingli chuckled softly and hung up first.

There was no signal in the elevator anyway, keeping the line open wouldn’t help.

Once he stepped out of the elevator, he could hear Zheng Xuelin shouting.

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