She ran away from him and was not to be offended by her sickly brother.

"What do you want for the New Year?"

"Gift?"

Meng Xia was startled. Before she could think about it, she heard another ringtone, and then she quickly got up and found her cell phone——

It was actually a New Year’s call from Cheng Zi!

Meng Xia chatted with her for a few minutes with a look of joy on her face. When she heard that guests were coming to her house, she hung up. When she turned around, she met Huo Xibai's resentful eyes again——

"Um, what's wrong?"

"……nothing."

Huo Xibai turned away unhappily, and Meng Xia then remembered what he had just said, "By the way, did you just say you wanted to give me a gift?"

"No, you heard wrong."

Huo Xibai glanced at her expressionlessly, turned around and was about to leave. Meng Xia blinked inexplicably, "Really? Did I hear wrongly?"

Hearing this, Huo Xibai stopped again and turned to look at her, "But you can tell me, if I'm in a good mood... maybe."

"Forehead……"

Meng Xia was stunned, is it so uncertain?

Even though she was thinking this in her heart, Meng Xia didn't dare to say it directly. Instead, she thought for a moment and frowned, "But there's nothing I want?"

"Why don't you want nothing?"

Meng Xia pursed her lips. The Huo family did lack everything, but what she wanted... was unrealistic.

After hesitating for a moment, she suddenly arched her eyebrows and said, "If I must say it, then I want you to be happy every day and never get sick."

Meng Xia was thinking that if Huo Xi was happy all day long, he would have nothing to trouble her about. But when these words fell into Huo Xibai's ears, it was like a huge stone suddenly thrown into the calm lake, causing a thousand waves in an instant——

"What did you say?"

The dark pupils trembled slightly. Even though he clearly heard every word, Huo Xibai still asked in disbelief.

Meng Xia thought he really hadn't heard, so she turned around and said to him with a smile, "I said I want you to be happy every day, and never..."

Before she could finish saying the word "sick", she was suddenly pulled into Huo Xibai's arms. Meng Xia was startled, "What, what's wrong?"

Huo Xibai didn't say anything because he couldn't explain his impulse at that moment, but he couldn't bear to let go, so he just held her like this.

He didn't speak, and Meng Xia didn't dare to move. She just let him hold her. It wasn't until a long time later that she heard Huo Xibai suddenly say in her ear, "Happy New Year."

Meng Xia finished smiling in an instant, "Yeah, you too."

-

After a winter vacation, Meng Xia and Huo Xibai finally got a lot better. Although sometimes he still looked uncertain and moody, Meng Xia felt that he was slowly getting the hang of it——

Huo Xibai wanted to be coaxed when he was angry, but ignoring him would only make him angrier.

Meng Xia had nothing to say about the child's character. After all, he was a young master from a wealthy family, so what else could he do? It can only be offered.

It's just that she didn't know that her obedience had inadvertently aggravated Huo Xibai's dependence, and even this dependence had gradually evolved into a kind of paranoid possessiveness.

Huo Xibai likes to stick to Meng Xia. He used to be stingy even in saying hello, but now he sticks to Meng Xia almost every day——

When Meng Xia was studying, he would accompany him, and when it was his turn to practice, he would also let Meng Xia listen.

Ever since he knew that Meng Xia could make desserts, he would approach Meng Xia from time to time and ask her to make them for him. He would also ask Meng Xia to feed him when something happened. I don't know if it was a bad habit left over from taking medicine when he was sick before.

The study and piano room have become their secret bases. They will lie together to bask in the sun, listen to music, and occasionally take a lunch break together.

Even in school, I got a lot closer——

Their classrooms were on two floors, with Huo Xibai on the first floor and Meng Xia on the second floor. Occasionally, when they bumped into each other during class, they would always smile.

Of course, this couldn't escape Lu Zeye's eyes, and he immediately laughed and joked, "Hey! What's going on? Spring has passed, why is someone's eyes going stringy?"

Huo Xibai ignored him, but rarely retorted. He just turned around and left, but suddenly he heard Lu Zeye's exaggerated voice, "Oh! There's a good show. It seems like someone is trying to steal someone from you."