After Breaking the Persona, I Reach the Peak of My Life

Chapter 1053 - 1050: Xia Jingshen

"I just remembered you’re not even an adult yet, and I noticed it the last time we drank together," Meng Chi paused, glancing sideways at Bi Xia. The boy’s cheeks were flushed from the alcohol, and his delicate face carried a blush, his starry eyes sparkled as he spoke, "You flush easily when you drink.""Eh?" Bi Xia was momentarily stunned, then started laughing, "Yeah, my mom also said I flush when I drink."

"Oh? Your mother flushes when she drinks too?" Xia Nian, who overheard Bi Xia and Meng Chi’s conversation, curiously chimed in and then pretended to mention casually, "Speaking of which, my father also flushes when he drinks."

Bi Xia: ...

With a slight smile, "My mother’s tendency to flush when drinking is hereditary. As for your father, he probably has never been pale."

He expected Xia Nian to refute him, but to his surprise, Xia Nian looked as if he was saying ’this is the correct way to deal with Bi Xia,’ smiling kindly at him, "Yes, yes, my father indeed has never been pale. His face is dark, and it only turns red when he drinks."

Bi Xia: ... He suddenly felt sorry for that grandfather he had never met. Was his godson aware of all the insults hurled at him?

Xia Nian rolled his eyes, thinking ’If not to get close to you, young master, would I even do such things?!’

"Achoo!!!" In the Shixia Trading Company’s office, the old man sneezed heavily again. He was stunned, blowing his beard out and glaring his eyes, "Which little rascal is bad-mouthing me!"

"Hmph, shouldn’t you be insulted?"

Suddenly a voice rang out in the office. Xia Jingshen was stunned, then picked up the phone that had been tossed on the sofa when he sneezed, frowning slightly, displeased, "What kind of lousy phone is this? How does it end up on speakerphone just from a sneeze?"

After saying that, he yelled aggressively at the phone, "Old Man Zheng! I haven’t even insulted you, and you delivered yourself to my door!"

Elder Zheng waved his hand at his daughter who was calling him to eat, picking up the phone with a cold sneer, "What, you still want to curse at me? I’m lucky if I don’t curse you! You deserve to be cursed!"

Recalling the two sneezes he just had, Xia Jingshen snorted coldly, "Why are you calling?"

"Oh, oh, oh," Elder Zheng remembered the main reason for finding Xia Jingshen, immediately asked with a smile, "So, have you met Little Nine yet?"

Hearing what Elder Zheng said, Xia Jingshen’s face turned darker. Not only was it because Bi Xia kept avoiding him, but more importantly... "You damned Old Man Zheng! Tell me! Why does our Little Jiu’er call you grandpa! What kind of grandpa are you to her?!"

Upon hearing Xia Jingshen’s exasperated voice, Elder Zheng laughed out loud, and extremely triumphantly, "Oh dear, Old Xia, it’s just one ’grandpa,’ so what? Are you embarrassed? Don’t be! I earned that ’grandpa’ through my own abilities, if you’re capable, have her call you grandpa too~~"

Xia Jingshen felt that if Elder Zheng were in front of him right now, he would surely take his cane and beat Elder Zheng senseless! It really infuriated him!

"She calls me grandpa as a matter of course!" Xia Jingshen said stubbornly.

The obstinate old man! Elder Zheng smiled nonchalantly, "Oh, what’s ’as a matter of course’? Speaking of it, our dear Little Nine is so pitiful. Abandoned by her father since childhood, her grandfather hiding out and never returning. At such a young age, she had to shoulder the burden of the household."

"Young Nine has said before, she’ll eventually reclaim all those Xia Family recipes. Oh, Little Nine works hard to revive Xia Family recipes for her grandfather, but her grandpa, tsk tsk tsk."

"Tsk what!" Xia Jingshen suddenly jumped up, "I’m onto you Old Man Zheng! Don’t provoke me using reverse psychology! If I hadn’t had special reasons, do you think I wouldn’t go see Little Nine and Xiaxia, Yuanyuan, and the rest! Stop provoking me! Or I’ll come back and beat you into the hospital!"

"Then come back."

Suddenly, Elder Zheng’s voice lowered, not as jovial or unserious as before, now carrying a touch of age and frailty, "If you delay your return, I might really end up in the hospital, and whether I can open my eyes to see you, old buddy, might be a problem."

The whole person paused, Xia Jingshen no longer maintained his hard stance. He slumped onto the sofa, "Elder Zheng, don’t say that. I will return, I will return..."

"Then hurry back..." Elder Zheng sighed, turning his head to look outside, "Ashi may be a mom of two kids, but she still misses her father, and Yuanyuan is still small, Little Nine isn’t too old either, even if she can support this household, they ultimately hope to have a pillar of support..."

"Brother Xia, you’ve been hiding for long enough, it’s time to come back..."

"But..."

"No buts," Elder Zheng stiffened, "Bi Xia has grown up, what needs to be faced must be faced. The mistakes we made shouldn’t be borne by the kids, especially when they’re bearing it so naively and ignorantly."