A CERTAIN SOMEONE ( THE ON1Y ONE )

Chapter 032 - Absence

He Jin Said In Exasperation, “Did You Two Plan This?”

Putting a subtle change like this aside, the days in White Horse Alley House 7 were still relatively harmonious, but that harmony only lasted for several days.

The problems Sheng Mingyang ran into were yet to be solved, and a new issue popped up in his business. Friday morning, Sheng Wang went downstairs, and stumbled into a quarrel between him and Jiang Ou.

The contents of that quarrel were quite simple, actually. The general gist was that Jiang Ou felt that she could lend a hand, but Sheng Mingyang would rather she stay at home and take care of the kids.
Jiang Ou had a gentle temperament, Sheng Mingyang wasn’t hot tempered either. It was precisely because of this that when they argued, when neither of them were willing to back down there was a flavour of helplessness and pent-up feelings.

“What do you think I barely sleep for?” Sheng Mingyang propped himself against the ceramic counter in the kitchen, saying as he pinched the middle of his brows.
“But——”
Sheng Ou was just about to rebut when he added another line. “You told me about what happened with Xiao-Tian before, I’m sure you wouldn’t want to be like that again.”
Jiang Ou’s mouth was open, but it was as if her tongue was pinched. She recalled something, and all fight went out of her, her eyes were downcast as she quieted.
Sheng Mingyang had his hand on her shoulder as he said: “So, just listen to me this time, yeah?”
Quite a while later, Jiang Ou nodded.
……

Who knew who spotted Sheng Wang who was standing by the stairs first, the two of them quickly changed their expressions back to normal. Sheng Mingyang pulled open the glass door and left the kitchen, Jiang Ou shot a hurried smile at him, and started scooping out the porridge into a bowl.

“What happened?” Sheng Wang didn’t actually catch the argument clearly. He looked at Jiang Ou’s figure, and quickly glanced at the stairs.
Fortunately, Jiang Tian left two practice papers behind and went back in to take it, he did not catch any of that. Otherwise, who knew what kind of response he would have.

Sheng Wang sometimes felt that Jiang Tian and his mom’s dynamics were a little strange.
If he said that they were on bad terms, many details would reveal how protective Jiang Tian was over her. No matter what, as long as Jiang Ou opened her mouth, he couldn’t bring himself to reject her.
But if he said that they were on good terms…...he couldn’t help but feel that something was missing.

Sheng Mingyang’s phone started buzzing in vibration. He answered in a rush, and also turned around to tell Sheng Wang: “No big deal, it’s just that I still have to go on a business trip for a few more days, I’ll be heading to the airport later.”
Sheng Wang had long been used to the way he had to fly everywhere all the time, he wasn’t surprised at all. “How are you getting there?”

“Hello?” Sheng Mingyang greeted the person at the other end of the phone, and squeezed out the time to reply to his son. “Xiao-Chen will be sending you and Xiao-Tian to school, I’ll be getting there with another car instead.”
“You can just get Uncle Xiao-Chen to send you, we have the school bus.” Sheng Wang said.

“What bus?” Sheng Mingyang could only ‘care for the head but not the ass’, he was trying to juggle both sides at once, and didn’t manage to catch his son clearly.
“......”
Sheng Wang waved his hand. “Just make your phone call, I’m gonna eat.”

Sheng Mingyang crooked two fingers to motion kneeling down to apologise, and pulled open the glass door to the patio outside.
By the time he looked back to the house after the extremely urgent call of his, Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian already finished their breakfast and left, with Xiao-Chen still waiting outside the courtyard for him.