Chapter 172: Seen

Listening to Bai Fanhao's aggrieved tone, Mu Qingxi felt a headache coming on. She was utterly speechless!
Such a big man actually acting like a spoiled child right in front of her—wasn't this simply too outrageous?
She didn't notice the slight upward curve at the corner of Bai Fanhao's lips after he finished speaking.
Mu Qingxi looked at Bai Fanhao and said, "Fanhao."
"Hao," Bai Fanhao corrected the moment he heard the name.
Thinking Bai Fanhao meant "hao" (okay/good) in agreement, Mu Qingxi ignored his interruption and continued, "Fanhao, I—"
"Hao," Bai Fanhao spoke up once again.
Finally losing her temper, she said with annoyance, "Bai Fanhao, what on earth are you trying to do? Can't you just let me finish my sentence?"
Bai Fanhao furrowed his brows tightly and looked at Mu Qingxi with a wronged expression: "I can."
Mu Qingxi nodded, and just as she was about to speak again, Bai Fanhao interrupted once more: "Xiaoxi, Hao. Call me Hao. I want you to call me Hao."
So it was "Hao" as in his name, not "hao" as in okay! It seemed her hearing was deteriorating. Glancing at Bai Fanhao, who was still maintaining his aggrieved look, she instantly swallowed back the words she wanted to say.
Changing her phrasing, she said, "Hao, what I meant by saying sorry just now was that I was only joking when I said those things about you, which is why I said sorry."

"I trust you. I trust you more than I trust myself. Maybe in the past, I might have questioned whether you still loved me, but today, when I saw you at school, I knew your heart."
Hearing Mu Qingxi's words, Bai Fanhao smiled, and the fear and panic from a moment ago vanished completely.
"Let's go. We're going to get something to eat, and after dinner, we'll go pay our respects to my future father-in-law and mother-in-law."
Bai Fanhao grabbed Mu Qingxi's hand and pulled her along as they walked out.
"Fanhao, I'm certain that the difficulties the two of us are going to face are huge, believe me!" Mu Qingxi thought of her own father and mother.
Her mother would always nag her about getting injured, saying that if it weren't for that Bai Fanhao, she certainly wouldn't have provoked Wang Feiyan.
In their eyes, because Bai Fanhao liked her, it had drawn Wang Feiyan's hatred and caused her to be hurt.

Bai Fanhao also thought of his own mother and father, whose gazes whenever Mu Qingxi was mentioned were filled with extreme dissatisfaction.
They would say that if it weren't for that Mu Qingxi, he surely wouldn't have gotten injured, and on top of that, he had gone running to block a knife for her—how utterly foolish.
Every time Bai Fanhao heard them use the word "foolish," he would retort: "Dad, you're the foolish one, stop lecturing me. What's wrong with blocking a knife for the person you love? It's an instinct, an instinct to not want her to suffer any harm. Could you do that? Hmph!"
Bai Liye, who had been lecturing his son, was caught off guard by the counterattack and could only look at his son without a word to say.
On the contrary, his mother was full of praise: "Fanhao, well done! If you love her, you have to protect her. How could you let her suffer harm? The only question is, does she love you back?"

Bai Fanhao felt that his mother's words had hit the nail right on the head. Alas!
Mu Qingxi looked at the smiling Bai Fanhao and asked, "Fanhao, what are you thinking about?"
"Hao."
Fine, Mu Qingxi felt depressed. Was he really going to be this obsessive over a name? "Hao, what are you thinking about?"
Bai Fanhao lowered his head slightly and said to Mu Qingxi, "I was just wondering what kind of expression your mom and dad will have when they see us holding hands like this!"
Mu Qingxi laughed, glanced down at their tightly intertwined hands, and said, "What could they possibly think? They'd probably just say, 'Xiaoxi, come over here!'"
It was meant as a joke. Bai Fanhao and Mu Qingxi exchanged a smile, and then Mu Qingxi burst into laughter: "Hahaha."
Bai Fanhao's smile turned somewhat conflicted. He glanced at the people suddenly appearing before them, then looked at the laughing Mu Qingxi, and had no choice to say: "Well, Xiaoxi, they really do see us."
"Hahaha, stop messing around," Mu Qingxi said with a laugh, before finally processing what he meant. "Ah, what the heck!"