After Going Viral on a Dating Show, I'm Pampered by All-Chapter 347: He Bears Ah Li’s Shadow

"Don’t yell. Like you said, she’s someone else’s mom. I’m not your dad. I don’t pamper you," Young Master Bai replied irritably and turned to look at Bai Ziyao behind him.

Bai Ziyao immediately came forward to pick up the child, "Brother Wen, let me hold her, let me."

"I’ll never acknowledge you as a brother again, and I’m going to smash everything in your room," Bai Youwei, feeling embarrassed in front of the kid she disliked the most, couldn’t save face after being snubbed by her brother.

"Suit yourself," Bai Yiwen remarked indifferently. He wasn’t planning to go back and live there anyway.

Every time he went back to that house, he didn’t feel any familiarity, only annoyance, especially because of Bai Youwei’s noisy tantrums.

"Looks like Young Master Bai really has no patience for his little sister," Sang Shen couldn’t help but click his tongue.

"I don’t have a sister like that. She just said she doesn’t acknowledge me," Bai Yiwen replied with a quirk of his lips.

Bai Youwei glared, her eyes bulging with anger. How could he say that? Those were just words said out of anger, but Little Princess’s temperament didn’t allow her to say anything conciliatory.

Fine, don’t acknowledge me then!

The group quickly arrived at a restaurant that Bai Yiwen’s assistant had reserved in advance. A waiter was already waiting at the entrance, "Hello, are you Mr. Bai? Your private room is ready this way, please follow me."

"Okay."

Everyone followed the waiter to the private room.

"Miss Sang, little friends, you order first," Bai Yiwen said, passing the menu to Miss Sang and the person his sister was supposed to apologize to.

Si Tiantian didn’t even look at the menu and tugged at Sang Qiao’s sleeve, whispering, "I want to eat shrimp."

"Got it," Sang Qiao nodded lightly and without hesitation, ticked off the shrimp on the menu.

After ticking off several other dishes, Sang Qiao handed the menu back to Bai Yiwen.

The man took it and, without looking, handed it to the waiter, "Just bring up a dozen of the more popular dishes from your restaurant."

"Okay," the waiter understood immediately, bowed slightly, and retreated.

"What about me?" Bai Youwei’s face turned extremely sour. How could her brother not care for her at all? She was also a little kid! It would have been fine if there were no menus, but he didn’t even ask what she wanted to eat.

"Just eat whatever," Bai Yiwen replied without any intention to coax anyone. In his view, someone who did wrong without repenting should be grateful just to have food, not entitled to complain.

"I hate you! Ahhhh!" Bai Youwei completely lost it, letting out a scream. As she spoke, she reached for the bowls and chopsticks on the table to throw them on the floor.

Bai Ziyao timely reached out to steady her, "Youwei, don’t, don’t. Your brother is just joking with you."

"Let go, if she dares to throw them, let’s see," Bai Yiwen looked up and glared coldly.

Bai Youwei, frightened, didn’t dare move, realizing that her brother was not like her grandmother; he wouldn’t indulge her.

"Bai Youwei, if you’re not going to eat, then apologize and leave. Don’t disturb others here," Bai Yiwen said coldly, his indifference etched on his face.

"Why should I go? We paid for the dishes," Bai Youwei grudgingly put down the dishes in her hand, wiped her eyes, and sat back down.

Her gaze menacingly fixed on Si Tiantian, who was sitting across from her.

"The way you roll your eyes is really ugly," Si Tiantian blinked, completely unbothered by the other’s anger.

"You!" Bai Youwei, always conscious of her image, immediately reined herself in.

The waiter soon brought out the dishes one by one, "Hello, your food is all served."

"Okay," Bai Yiwen nodded his head.

The entire dining table was filled with the uninterested exchange of glances between the two children, with Si Tiantian basically too lazy to pay attention to the other’s childish looks.

Sang Qiao’s gaze, however, rested on the young master of the Bai Family, who evoked an inexplicable sense of familiarity within her—it was one of the reasons she accepted his invitation to an apology dinner.

After observing for a long time without discovering anything, she could only ask softly, "Have we met before?"

"Miss Sang, have you ever lost your memory?" Bai Yiweng turned his head, meeting her clear eyes.

"No, never, but I feel... you seem very familiar, in a way I can’t describe," Sang Qiao’s fingertips slightly withdrew as she thought of Ah Li.

But she was certain the man before her wasn’t Ah Li, neither in appearance nor personality.

Besides... Ah Li was long gone.

"Then it must be that we haven’t met, or even if we have, I probably wouldn’t remember. There was a big fire once, and I forgot a lot of things."

Bai Yiweng was always polite, his sharp and handsome features gentle with a hint of a smile in his eyes.

"Ah, you’re really lucky," Sang Qiao said, a touch of envy in her tone.

Her Ah Li wasn’t nearly as lucky...

"I think so too," Bai Yiweng always wore a polite smile on his face.

Cooperation with the Si Family took up a large part of Bai Family’s business; he had to make sure to offer a proper apology.

"Let’s all eat, don’t be shy."

"Okay."

Tiantian skillfully loaded her bowl with several large shrimp and began peeling them. Her hands were small, making the task especially difficult; it took her ages to peel just one, and even then, it wasn’t intact.

Although she loved shrimp, she peeled them for her mother first.

Sang Shen adeptly placed the shrimp he had peeled into Tiantian’s bowl, "Tiantian, you eat too."

"Thank you, Uncle!" Tiantian beamed with happiness, unreservedly digging in.

Because Uncle didn’t like shrimp! She didn’t need to refuse.

Sang Qiao stared absentmindedly at the peeled shrimp in her bowl. Just as she was about to snap out of it, a pair of large hands placed another handful of peeled shrimp into her bowl.

She instinctively turned towards the owner of the hands, and Bai Yiweng was equally stunned.

The man’s brows furrowed, evidently puzzled himself as to why he had peeled them for Miss Sang.

"Brother, why did you peel them for her!" Bai Youwei complained with grievance.

At home, he was too lazy to peel shellfish, and even she, his own sister, had never been treated to such a gesture; yet now, he had extended it towards her most disliked person’s mother!

"Right, why for me?" Sang Qiao looked at the intact shrimp, then turned to stare at him, as that unsettling familiarity washed over her again.

Only Ah Li would peel them for her so adeptly, always by the handful.

"It’s an apology dinner; I wore gloves," Bai Yiweng said offhandedly, himself not understanding why his body had instinctively acted in that moment.

"Do you often peel shrimp for others?" Sang Qiao gripped her chopsticks more tightly.

Bai Yiweng felt a slight pain in his head as he firmly replied, "No, never, it was probably fear that you would think I wasn’t sincere enough; just a bodily instinct."

"...Okay," Sang Qiao averted her gaze, her appetite waning as she remembered Ah Li’s DNA results.

But compared to the unrecognizable body from before, the man before her now stirred up a far too potent sense of déjà vu.

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