"No cookies before dinner" Mo Ran had said out loud less than 15 minutes ago. In any other household, you'd be sure he was just addressing his daughter, currently eyeing a package of them instead of drawing as she previously was. But she's not the only one he's addressing, no,

for there's also someone else also staring intently at the newly discovered package of chocolate chip cookies instead of coloring, too. Chu Wanning had found it by accident when he knocked over a tupperware he thought was empty, and was now holding it like he struck gold.

For fifteen minutes, he and his daughter had managed to pretend they had listened to what had been said. They acted the part of well-behaving spouse and child very well for a quarter of an hour. But then, Mo Ran had stepped out to answer a phone call from Xue Meng.

As he stepped out of the kitchen, father and child exchanged a single glance, communicating in a well-known code that only the two of them understood: "No telling baba." While his daughter sneaks to watch for whether or not Mo Ran is coming back, Chu Wanning sneakily opens the

tupperware again, silently sneaking two cookies out of the package like his life depends on it. He successfully extracts two delicious looking cookies from it, then psssts his daughter to come back to the table and get it. They put their modus operandum in action: shoving the

whole thing into their mouths and not mentioning it again. Then, they go back to their drawing and coloring, acting like nothing is amiss. They didn't "do anything", after all.

That sweet little secret is theirs and theirs alone, after all.