The Secret to Picking Up Girls

Zhang Yuze was stunned. Asking him to paint was a joke. Forget landscapes; he doubted he could even manage a simple pencil sketch. Now, asking him to paint? Wasn't that just asking for him to embarrass himself?

Fortunately, Zhang Yuze's quick wit kicked in. He feigned composure and said, "I can't paint?"

Liu Zhong frowned, looking at Zhang Yuze with some displeasure. "What? Doesn't Uncle Liu have that honor?"

Zhang Yuze smiled faintly, appearing very calm. "Of course not. It's just that I have no picture in my heart, so how can I paint?"

Zhang Yuze's words made Liu Zhong suddenly understand. He patted Zhang Yuze's shoulder and said, "I was being presumptuous. How can one paint without a picture in their heart?"

"Mengting, are you really set on this boy?" Xia Xiang asked Liu Mengting seriously.

"Mom, what are you talking about? I'm still young!" Liu Mengting felt embarrassed upon hearing her mother's words.

"Sigh, it's not that I'm saying anything bad, but I've heard that boys these days are very fickle, often two-timing, or even multi-timing. So, I'm worried about you!" Although Xia Xiang had a good impression of Zhang Yuze, her love for her precious daughter made her unable to resist giving Liu Mengting a lecture.

Xia Xiang probably didn't realize that her words had hit upon Liu Mengting's secret worry. Although Guo Xiaolu was a girl that Liu Mengting could barely accept, who would really want to share a man with another woman? Love should be unique. However, this was a kind of helpless compromise under special circumstances. Also, although Liu Mengting had no evidence, based on a woman's special intuition, she was sure that Zhang Yuze must have other women, but because there was no evidence, Liu Mengting kept it all in her heart.

"What's wrong? Could it be that Mom guessed right?" Seeing the strange look on her daughter's face, Xia Xiang's years of experience told her that there must be something going on.

"Ah! No, Mom, you're overthinking it," Liu Mengting said, startled, and snapped back to reality.

"Sigh! Now that you're grown up, Mom won't interfere too much in your personal feelings, but I'll be relieved if you can handle it yourself," Xia Xiang said to Liu Mengting earnestly.

Seeing the love for her in her mother's eyes, Liu Mengting could no longer hold back her grievances and threw herself into her mother's arms, bursting into tears.

"Mom!" Liu Mengting sobbed with her head on Xia Xiang's shoulder, her shoulders trembling.