Theo glanced at Zedd and mocked him with me. "If you don't have a wife, then get one. Don’t talk nonsense just because you're jealous."
Seeing that Theo had picked my side, Zedd’s expression sank but he said no more. He turned around grumpily to get his boarding ticket.
Theo took me straight to the boarding gate. We arrived late but were just in time to check-in.
After entering the first-class cabin, Theo asked the flight attendant for a blanket and lowered the seat. The seats in the first-class cabin were spacious.
Afraid that I would be bored, he turned on a show.
He then lay beside me and pulled me into his arms to watch the show with me. "It's going to be a ten-hour flight. What would you like to watch?"
I did not have the habit of catching up on dramas. I cast my mind back to the time Cecilia stayed up all night to catch up on cartoons in university and smiled. "I want to watch Ben 10"
Theo frowned. "Ben 10?"
Seeing the expression on his face, I realized what was going on and asked him incredulously with my eyes wide open. "Don't tell me you haven't watched it
before?"
He shook his head.
I twitched my mouth. "You don’t have a childhood."
Thinking about it, a child born into an elite family like him would have almost no chance of watching cartoons like that.
Theo helplessly smiled. "Let me make up for my lost childhood now, then."
I nodded. "I think it’s very necessary."
After finding the cartoon, we began watching the first episode. It was rare that he would watch something with me with such concentration. He was not the slightest bored at all.
When Zedd came over and saw what we were both watching, he was speechless. "How old are you?"
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