My Best Friend is Actually a Cat-eared Maid at a Cafe! – Chapter 269

Chapter 269
Responding to her father’s call, Ye Ziming arrived at the door and was surprised to find Xiaomuqing looking for him.
A little surprised, and a little happy, seeing Xiaomuqing’s appearance, his already good mood instantly improved a few more points.
“Boss~”
Watching her uncle leave, and then seeing her good brother appear, Xiaomuqing looked up at him with joy and greeted him.
Although there was a little embarrassment just now, as long as she could see her good brother, it didn’t matter.
“Mm, come in and sit first.”
His eyebrows slightly raised, a smile on the corner of his mouth, he said and gently touched Xiaomuqing’s head.
Since it wasn’t the first time he brought Xiaomuqing home, Ye Ziming acted very casually and directly led her to the living room.
Coincidentally, the entire Ye family had just finished breakfast. Li Muning was sitting on the sofa in the living room, talking to her eldest son, Ye Zizhuo.
Then she turned around and saw her son holding his daughter-in-law’s hand, leading her towards her.
“Auntie.”
As their eyes met, Xiaomuqing greeted her first, out of politeness.
“Oh my, you came to find our Ziming so early.”
Looking at her well-behaved daughter-in-law, Li Muning’s smile couldn’t be hidden. She stepped forward and held her small hand.
Then there was a period of pleasantries, which made Xiaomuqing feel a little overwhelmed, even though this wasn’t the first time something like this had happened.
“Uh, I was just passing by.”
While talking to Auntie, Xiaomuqing happened to notice her good brother looking at her, which made her feel very embarrassed.
So she came up with this excuse, just passing by Ye’s house and happened to come to find Ye Ziming to play with.
Ye Ziming just raised his eyebrows at this, saying nothing, as if tacitly agreeing to it.
Mother Ye smiled and said, “Then ‘pass by’ here often when you have time.”
Xiaomuqing: emmm.
After the pleasantries ended, Li Muning continued to talk with Ye Zizhuo about blind dates and future daughters-in-law.
Meanwhile, Xiaomuqing was taken upstairs by Ye Ziming. He needed to change out of his loungewear before taking her out to play.
“Wow~ Very handsome.”
Looking at Ye Ziming, who had changed into going-out clothes, Xiaomuqing teased him with a smile.
“Mm, you’re also very cute.”
Seeing Xiaomuqing teasing him, Ye Ziming was used to it.
He raised his eyebrows, raised his hand to rub her head, and then looked at her hair, smiling as he spoke.
Surprisingly, Xiaomuqing didn’t reply like she usually did, “I’m not cute.”
This time, she just pouted her small mouth, and then the corners of her lips curved upwards slightly, showing both pride and a bit of haughtiness.
“It’s okay, I guess.”
Saying this, Xiaomuqing turned her head away, avoiding her good brother’s eyes so he wouldn’t see the expression on her face.
She had spent so much time dressing up, it couldn’t be bad, right? Hmph hmph hmph~
Seeing this scene, Ye Ziming’s expression finally changed significantly, because he was surprised by Xiaomuqing.
Then, while Xiaomuqing turned her head away, he quietly leaned close to her ear and said in a sly tone:
“If you wore a pair of white silk stockings then, you’d be even cuter.”
“You… you’re dreaming!”
Hearing this, Xiaomuqing’s eyes widened suddenly, and she turned her head to look at her good brother with some horror.
Good heavens, he’s getting greedy, isn’t he? She finally decided to wear a skirt for him to see.
And he actually wanted her to wear white stockings too.
Pah! Was she, Lin Mu, that kind of person? That’s impossible!
With this kind of interaction, the morning passed quickly. At noon, Ye Ziming personally took Xiaomuqing home again.
He had originally planned to take Xiaomuqing out to play and was going to proactively find her in the afternoon.
What happened this morning had indeed exceeded his expectations, so as they were about to part, he smiled and said, “I’ll pick you up at three p.m.”
“Mm-hmm.”
Nodding obediently, Xiaomuqing stood at her doorstep and waved goodbye to her good brother as he left.
Only after Ye Ziming completely disappeared from her sight did she withdraw her gaze and turn around, taking out her key to go inside.
Little did they know, as soon as she returned home, Lin Qiwen and Lin Zixuan were already squatting inside the house, eavesdropping on their conversation outside.
Lin Qiwen: “Damn it! Hogging my sister for the whole morning is one thing, but he won’t even let us have the afternoon and evening.”
Lin Zixuan: “Same here.”
“What are you guys doing?”
As soon as she opened the door, Xiaomuqing was surprised to find her two brothers standing at the door, looking like they were eavesdropping.
This was very strange. Was there anything worth eavesdropping on in her conversation with her good brother? They were just talking about where to go play in the afternoon.
“Ahahah, nothing.”
“Just passing by.”
The two brothers were very synchronized, brushing off the matter and changing the subject, starting to discuss what to eat for lunch today.
Watching their brilliant “duet,” Xiaomuqing stood at the door with her hands on her hips, exuding the same aura as Meng Yue when she lectured them.
It wasn’t just similar, it was identical.
After a while, feeling like she wouldn’t get any answers, Xiaomuqing turned and walked directly to the kitchen, planning to report to her mother.
Upon hearing that Xiaomuqing would be out in the afternoon and evening, Meng Yue thought about whether she should let Ye Ziming move in.
Her precious daughter returned home only two days a week, yet she was always thinking about people outside. This was quite troublesome.
…
After lunch, she watched TV with her mother, chatted, and did some of her own things. In the blink of an eye, it was two-thirty in the afternoon.
At this time, Xiaomuqing was sitting in her room, lost in thought while looking at the stockings her mother had bought for her.
“The dress you picked is nice, but your legs look bare, feeling like something is missing. It would look much better with stockings.”
These were her mother’s exact words. After speaking, her mother handed her several unworn, freshly washed pairs of stockings.
There were white, black, and nude-colored ones. This made Xiaomuqing’s eyelids twitch, and she couldn’t help but ask:
“Mom, did you prepare these in advance?”
“Of course. Your leg shape is so good (the only flaw is that they’re a bit short), so you’ll definitely look good in stockings, so I prepared a lot for you.”
Looking at her mother’s smiling face and the many stockings in her hand, Xiaomuqing felt shocked.
This was a bit too much. Looking at the wide variety of stockings, she fell into choice anxiety.
No, she didn’t want to choose at all!
After a while, seeing that Xiaomuqing hadn’t made a choice, Meng Yue decided to choose for her, picking out a pair of over-the-knee white stockings and putting them in her hand.
They were a cute design with cat patterns and cat paw prints on the soles.
Thus, Xiaomuqing hesitated for a long time, unable to decide whether or not to wear these cute white stockings.
She had just said in front of her good brother this morning: “If I had other clothes, I wouldn’t wear a skirt. Stockings, that’s impossible!”
Xiaomuqing: Whimper, whimper, I wish I hadn’t said that. (Covering her blushing little face with both hands)
Then, when Ye Ziming, dressed handsomely, arrived at the Lin family’s villa to pick up Xiaomuqing, he saw a scene that greatly surprised him.
“How…”
His eyes widened and his eyebrows raised. While surprised, Ye Ziming admitted he was stunned.
The person was cute, and the skirt and stockings were also cute. Together, they became super cute, doubling the cuteness.
“Let’s go. Didn’t you say you were going to take me out to play?”
In the end, she still put on the stockings, less than half a day after setting her own flag.
Nervous, shy, or perhaps ashamed, Xiaomuqing blushed and felt very complicated, not knowing how to describe it in words.
Seeing her good brother looking at her and about to say something, she quickly stepped forward to interrupt him and used her diversion tactic.
Right now, she was pretending to be oblivious, as if the morning’s events had never happened, or as if she wasn’t wearing stockings now.
“Mm, let’s go.”
Looking at Xiaomuqing’s cute reaction, Ye Ziming couldn’t help but chuckle, then followed her lead and didn’t mention it again.
What he needed to do now was to gently pinch Xiaomuqing’s cheek and then hold her small hand to take her out to play.
After the two left, the disguised brothers prepared to follow their sister out.
But before they could act, they were intercepted by Meng Yue.
“Where are you guys going?”
Meng Yue asked with a displeased expression.
“Just, going for a walk.”
“Just strolling around.”
The brothers were very synchronized, their excuses as vague as possible, spoken almost at the same time.
But Meng Yue didn’t believe their nonsense. She grabbed each of them by an ear and dragged the two restless brats back.
There was a wail in the Lin family villa. If one didn’t know better, they’d think it was a pig being slaughtered in the countryside…
In a bustling commercial street in City A, a young couple was wandering hand in hand.
Watching movies, shopping, eating, playing from afternoon to evening, whatever came to mind. It all depended on Xiaomuqing’s mood.
In the evening, Xiaomuqing was a little tired from playing, so she pulled her good brother to a milk tea shop, planning to buy a cup of milk tea.
There was a park nearby, and they could stroll there later or rest there.
“emmm, I feel like this stool is a bit high.”
While waiting for the milk tea to be made, Xiaomuqing struggled to sit on a high stool, then pulled her skirt down and brought her thighs together, speaking to herself.
Someone refused to admit that her legs were short and believed it was the stool’s fault.
Then, as she turned her head to complain to her good brother about why anyone would design such high stools, she froze.
Because when Ye Ziming sat on the stool, his feet could touch the ground, and he sat on it with ease.
“Ah, this.”
As the saying goes, there’s no comparison without harm. After looking at her good brother’s legs, Xiaomuqing looked at her own, and her smile froze.
Her legs could only swing in the air.
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“You’ll still grow taller.”
Seeing the change in Xiaomuqing’s expression, Ye Ziming quickly guessed why she was sad and quickly patted her head to comfort her.
Being touched by him like this, Xiaomuqing quickly raised her head again, looking up at his eyes pitifully.
“Really?”
“Mm, really.”
Actually, Ye Ziming wasn’t sure, but to comfort Xiaomuqing, he nodded and said softly.
“But my height hasn’t changed for two years, almost three years.”
“Ah, this.”
Looking at Xiaomuqing’s seem-to-be-crying eyes, Ye Ziming felt awkward and didn’t know how to continue the conversation.
This matter was indeed strange. Xiaomuqing’s biological parents were both over 1.7 meters tall, and Meng Yue even had an S-shaped figure.
Her three brothers also averaged about 1.8 meters.
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Of course, these were just thoughts. If he said them out loud, Ye Ziming thought Xiaomuqing would jump up and punch him in the knee.
A moment later, the milk tea they ordered was ready, which successfully brightened Xiaomuqing’s mood.
Like bright sunshine.
As for the height issue they had just discussed, it was already forgotten. Now, Xiaomuqing’s eyes were only on the sweet and delicious milk tea.
“You like milk tea that much?”
Drinking milk tea while shopping, Ye Ziming looked at the half-sugar milk tea in his hand and then at Xiaomuqing’s full-sugar cup, finding it hard to understand.
He still remembered the last time he ordered a seven-tenths sugar milk tea for Xiaomuqing.
The result was that she complained while drinking it, saying it had no taste, she wasn’t happy, and it lacked soul.
“Mm-hmm.”
Turning her head to look into her good brother’s eyes, Xiaomuqing nodded heavily, giving a very firm answer.
“…”
Seeing this, Ye Ziming said nothing more, just subtly frowned.
He wanted to say that drinking milk tea makes you fat, but thinking that she was obviously too thin, wouldn’t that just become an excuse for her to drink milk tea if he said it?
As he was thinking about this, Xiaomuqing suddenly stopped and looked at a fortune-telling stall beside her.
There were many stalls in the park, of all kinds. This fortune-telling stall was originally unremarkable.
But the fortune teller was very young, and his Taoist robe was very clean and tidy, giving a spotless impression.
Seeing such a ‘unique’ person, Xiaomuqing suddenly became curious and stopped to look at him a few more times.
At this moment, the young Taoist, who had been lowering his head slightly, suddenly looked up at Xiaomuqing and said with a meaningful smile:
“Benefactor, I guess you’ve encountered trouble.”
Seeing such a strange person and hearing such strange words, Xiaomuqing’s first thought was to get away from him.
But the Taoist seemed to see her thoughts. Before she could turn to leave, he casually took out a jade pendant and said unhurriedly:
“Is it because of a jade pendant like this?”
“!?”
Looking at the jade pendant in the Taoist’s hand, Xiaomuqing suddenly couldn’t move her legs, because the jade pendant he was holding looked very similar to the one she kept at home.
It could even be said to be identical.
At this moment, not only she, but also Ye Ziming beside her, were surprised. However, he controlled his expression well.
Looking calm on the outside, he cast a solemn glance at this unknown Taoist.
“What do you know?”
Turning around, standing in front of the stall, Xiaomuqing looked straight at the young Taoist, her eyes wide open.
At this moment, she was so nervous that she almost forgot to breathe.