Hypocrisy

Xi Cheng smiled as he looked toward Ding Rong, whose ears were slightly red. She glared at Huo Tian and said, "Children shouldn't tease adults like this in the future, understand?"

Huo Tian stuck her tongue out and ran happily back to her friends. The group of children who were handling the ingredients immediately started chattering and the courtyard immediately became lively again.

Ding Chen had just received a call from a company and specially found a quiet place and stayed there for more than ten minutes. He had just slipped back into the courtyard.

He sat down on the stool beside Xi Cheng and Ding Rong and helped to skewer the vegetables that Ding Rong had prepared onto a bamboo skewer.

He sharply noticed that there was something wrong with Xi Cheng and Ding Rong's expressions, so he asked, "What happened just now? Why did your expressions suddenly become so strange?"