Chapter 337: Father and Su Peng
“I really never touched An Han in a bad way. I behave myself.”
“I usually sleep in the school dorm. I only sleep in this room once in a while.”
“I don’t even know how An Han’s bedroom is arranged. She’s never let me go inside.”
“We only stay together sometimes to take care of each other! Uncle, I’m someone who keeps my promises. How could I forget the promise I made to you? Before we get married, I will absolutely not touch her!”
Leaning against the door of the small bedroom, An Han could faintly hear Su Peng loudly defending himself.
“Behave myself.”
“Keep my promises.”
“Won’t touch her.”
An Han almost laughed out loud. She didn’t understand how Su Peng could say such things with a straight face.
Suddenly, the sound inside the room stopped. A moment later, An Han felt the door in front of her suddenly open, and she stumbled forward into the room.
Her father had already expected it and reached out to catch her before she fell.
“I knew you were eavesdropping.”
“Ehehe… I was just checking on you two.”
Expressionless, he walked toward the kitchen. “The groceries I told you to buy, have they arrived yet?”
“Still need ten minutes.”
Following behind him, An Han looked at Su Peng questioningly behind her father’s back. Su Peng gave her a reassuring look.
From what she overheard, it seemed her father half-believed and half-doubted Su Peng’s excuses.
She relaxed a little. Just then, the groceries they ordered arrived.
An Han’s father had lived abroad for many years. Living alone had forced him to learn decent cooking. Not as good as her mother’s, but much better than An Han’s.
“Dad, do you need help?”
“No.”
She carried the groceries into the kitchen and watched his expression.
Even though he looked scary with his serious face, the way he carefully washed the pot and the cutting board felt unexpectedly cute.
“Go watch TV or play on your computer.”
He opened the delivery bags and checked the ingredients, thinking about what to cook for lunch.
“Okay!”
“In the afternoon, take me to look around your school. Last time I left too quickly and didn’t get to walk around.”
Last time you left early to go on a date with Mom…
An Han complained in her heart, but she still agreed. She went back to the living room and dropped onto the sofa with a soft thump.
Even though her father had always treated her well, she felt guilty and stressed whenever she faced him now.
She looked at Su Peng, who was sitting on a small stool, tense and restless. “Why aren’t you sitting on the sofa?”
“…Scared.”
“……”
Hearing the sound of stir-frying from the kitchen, Su Peng finally hurried over and sat beside her on the sofa.
“Not scared anymore?”
“He’s cooking. He’s too busy to care about me.” He leaned back on the sofa and sighed. “Why does your dad always dislike me?”
The first time he visited An Han’s house, he could already feel her father’s hostility. Later, things improved a bit, and her father even agreed to their relationship.
He thought that after all this time, his future father-in-law would finally like him a little. But this meeting wasn’t much better.
“Maybe because my grandpa also never liked him?”
An Han made a random guess, curled up with her legs on the sofa, and played with her phone. “You don’t have anything embarrassing in the room, right?”
“No, nothing like that.”
“That’s good… if my dad found something weird…”
An Han worried Su Peng might secretly keep condoms or other adult items in the room, preparing for any chance to “go further”…
If her father found them, Su Peng might really get beaten to death.
Luckily, this guy was still fairly honest.
After playing on her phone for half an hour, her father shouted from the kitchen, “Food’s ready! Come and help bring the dishes out.”
“Coming!”
“I’ll do it, I’ll do it! You just wait here.”
Su Peng quickly jumped up from the sofa and rushed into the kitchen to help.
A moment later, three dishes and one soup were placed on the table.
Her father sat directly on the sofa, taking Su Peng’s seat, so Su Peng could only pull over a small stool and sit across from the two of them.
“Try it.”
The three dishes were simple stir-fried dishes, plus a bowl of tomato and egg soup.
“Uncle, your cooking is really good, tastes great!”
Her father glanced at Su Peng but didn’t reply. He stood up and headed toward the balcony.
“You two eat first. I’m going to clean up your place.”
“Dad, the place is pretty clean already…”
“There’s stuff everywhere. It makes me annoyed just looking at it.”
An Han rolled her eyes a little. She at least cleaned once a week. The apartment was actually not bad, just a bit messy because things weren’t placed neatly.
Of course… compared to her mom’s habit of cleaning every two days, her own frequency was indeed low.
Once her father left, Su Peng slowed down his eating and complained to An Han, “This tomato soup is way too sour…”
An Han took a spoonful of soup and narrowed her eyes happily.
“It’s good. I like sour food. The seaweed soup and tomato soups outside have no sour taste at all.”
Just then, she heard the sound of her father opening her bedroom door.
She froze with her spoon halfway to her mouth…
Then she suddenly realized she had forgotten something…
There were some clothes she had casually thrown on the bedside table—messy, yes—but her underwear was put away in drawers. Nothing embarrassing… right?
“What’s wrong?” Su Peng asked, confused.
“Nothing.”
An Han shook her head. She really couldn’t remember what she had forgotten.
At most, she would get scolded for throwing clothes around…
Wait!
She suddenly remembered, jumped up in a panic, and ran toward the bedroom.
As she poked her head in, she saw her father opening her wardrobe and putting the folded clothes inside.
Seeing her, her father scolded her exactly as she expected.
“You’re a girl, why are you so messy? Clothes everywhere.”
“Uh… it’s my own room, so it should be fine…” Feeling guilty, An Han kept glancing nervously at the wardrobe. “In the morning I have to pick nice clothes to wear, right?”
“The wardrobe is messy too…”
“Dad! I can clean the wardrobe myself!” She jumped forward in a hurry.
“All your clothes were bought by me and your mom. What’s there to be shy about?”
Then her father curiously picked up a piece of fabric.
An Han froze half a meter away, her legs heavy and stiff, her face slowly turning bright red with heat rising up her cheeks.
“Why do you keep a cleaning cloth in your wardrobe?”
Her father shook the fabric lightly and then suddenly realized something. He stared in shock.
It wasn’t a cleaning cloth. It was… a sweater.
A very revealing, very suggestive backless sweater.
So… my daughter is living outside alone… and she wears this kind of thing?
Her father looked at An Han with a blank, stunned expression.
An Han nervously tucked her hair behind her ear and lowered her head.
“Um… I was just curious… I bought it for fun…”
Her father’s breathing grew heavier.
That brat Su Peng!