Chapter 821
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Speaking of which,
she and Zhao Ruihai walked to the entrance and looked back at the three people in the private room, resembling “a family of three”:
“Yingjun, your dad and I are going to the restroom.
You guys go ahead and chat.”
With that said,
the door of the private room closed with a bang.
At this moment, Zhao Yingjun also furrowed her brows slightly, staring at the white hair Yan Qiaoqiao was pinching between her fingertips.
She dared not think too much,
nor did she dare to ponder deeply.
She didn’t even dare to entertain the thought.
She stood up from her chair as well, extended her hand, grasped Yan Qiaoqiao’s right hand, and pulled her away from Lin Xian’s side, speaking calmly as she educated her:
“Qiaoqiao, you can’t be so impolite in public.
Even if you intend to help someone, you must first get their consent and permission, quickly…
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apologize to Brother Lin Xian.”
Yan Qiaoqiao blinked her innocent eyes, looking at Lin Xian:
“Brother, apologize.”
“Ah, okay, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
Lin Xian let it go with a smile.
How could he possibly be angry at such an adorably dim-witted little girl?
By now, having seen so many of Yan Qiaoqiao’s bizarre actions, Lin Xian had long accepted this setting of a character who seemed a bit mentally challenged.
He could only hope that as Yan Qiaoqiao grew older, she would face less hardship and be bullied less.
Intelligence, after all, at this age, it’s unlikely there could be a second round of development.
Lin Xian couldn’t help but feel a bit of sympathy for Yan Qiaoqiao’s biological parents.
To give birth to such a girl with a dim wit…
They would surely,
for the rest of their lives,
have to worry quite a bit more, wouldn’t they?
Zhao Yingjun knocked on Yan Qiaoqiao’s head:
“It’s not about having a brother apologize!
It’s about you apologizing to brother!
Quick, say you’re sorry.”
“I’m sorry.”
Yan Qiaoqiao repeated obediently.
“Okay, sit here and eat some more staple food.
Since you’ve been playing with VV for so long, you must be hungry too, right?”
Zhao Yingjun, like playing with a doll, seated Yan Qiaoqiao on the chair next to her, and only then did she release her grasp on the little hand.
Yan Qiaoqiao tilted her head in confusion.
Looking at her empty fingertips, that white hair had already disappeared:
“White——” “White bun, right?”
Zhao Yingjun, quick as lightning, interrupted her and stuffed a bun into Yan Qiaoqiao’s mouth:
“Alright, eat slowly, don’t choke.”
Then she turned to Lin Xian with a helpless smile:
“Sorry, I really didn’t want to bring a child along, but my parents spoil the kids and I didn’t feel at ease leaving Qiaoqiao at home alone, so…”
Lin Xian didn’t mind, shaking his head:
“It’s okay, Qiaoqiao is quite cute.
She might become more sensible when she grows up.”
Zhao Yingjun lifted the stray hairs off her cheeks with her left hand, tucking them behind her ear.
Her right hand…
nonetheless, at an angle invisible to Lin Xian, reached into her pocket and slipped something small inside.
The Pomeranian VV, in the corner of the carpet, once again witnessed this entire deceptive scene!
Inside, it sighed.
Alas.
This family was truly a terrifying place.
If it had a next life as a dog, it wanted to be reborn into a family with simpler relationships and less scheming.
The Zhao Family was no place for a dog.
It looked like a happy family meal, but why did it always turn into a game of wits and secret machinations?
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Never mind.
It was tired.
The dog, weary from emotional exhaustion, slowly trudged to Lin Xian’s feet.
Lin Xian looked down.
Seeing the long-missed Dandelion and also the old comrade who once made the “VV’s promise.”
But now,
It lay draped over his shoes like a wilting bouquet, listless.
“What’s wrong, VV?”
Lin Xian asked with concern:
“You’re not depressed again, are you?”
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He bent down, slid his hands under the Pomeranian’s arms, and lifted it up to his eyes.
Eye to eye.
VV looked at Lin Xian with eyes filled with regret and desolation.
Silent and speechless.
Yet seemed to say…
Buddy, you’re screwed.
…
On the same floor, at the end of the corridor.
Zhao Ruihai and Yan Mei stood here, brows furrowed.
“Did you see that?” Zhao Ruihai asked.
“Of course I saw it…”
Yan Mei also had a tight frown:
“If I hadn’t noticed…
could I have followed you out?”
“If it weren’t for Lin Xian and Yan Qiaoqiao coincidentally sticking close together, I would never have noticed…
their chins, foreheads, and ears almost seem carved from the same mold!”
“What on earth is going on, Old Zhao?”
Zhao Ruihai was silent for a while.
He let out a long sigh:
“There’s no use asking me, I guess what we’re both thinking is the same.
Just now, I was wondering why Yingjun would argue so fiercely about the one-child issue at a dinner with ‘outsiders’ present?”
“Now I think about it, isn’t Lin Xian an only child?
Plus, he and Yan Qiaoqiao have such similar details…”
“Goodness, turns out in today’s private room, we were the true ‘outsiders’!”
Yan Mei also couldn’t wrap her head around it:
“But if you say Qiaoqiao is the child of Lin Xian and Yingjun, that doesn’t make sense either!
It’s not about looking alike.
Both of them are so young, and it’s only been two or three years since Lin Xian graduated from college, and likewise three or four years since Yingjun returned from studying abroad.”
“Even if the two secretly had a child together, where could such a big child have come from?”
“No, I have to get to the bottom of this.
I haven’t had the chance to get the paternity test done with Yingjun’s hair that I got earlier, I was thinking of doing it tomorrow while also getting Qiaoqiao’s health checkup…”
“Or when we go back later, I’ll try to get a strand of Lin Xian’s hair, and then get it tested tomorrow to see if the three of them are really a family!”
Zhao Ruihai shook his head.
As if giving up, he waved his hand:
“Let’s just drop it, drop it, drop it.
I think as parents, we shouldn’t interfere too much in this kind of thing.”
“No matter the reason, no matter if it makes sense or not, the fact is it has happened, Qiaoqiao is real, looking so much like Yingjun and Lin Xian…”
“Ah, there’s a saying that even an upright official finds it hard to settle a family dispute, I didn’t expect that we would end up having to deal with such a situation ourselves.
We can’t really have both a son-in-law and a daughter just appear out of nowhere without any mental preparation, can we?”
Yan Mei turned around.
Looking in the restroom mirror at the two of them.
Both older now.
Not so young anymore.
So…
She let out a sigh and slowly said:
“Actually, Lin Xian is not a bad kid, I trust that Yingjun has a good eye; it’s just that we haven’t had a very good relationship with Yingjun over the years.
If there are things she doesn’t want to tell us, it’s understandable.”
“Old Zhao, like you said, Yingjun’s matters, Qiaoqiao’s matters, even Lin Xian’s matters…
we really can’t interfere too much.
No matter what the situation or relationship between the three of them, if we parents get involved at this time, we might just end up ruining a good thing.”
“That’s right.”
Zhao Ruihai nodded:
“Let’s leave the children’s matters to the children themselves to sort out.”
“It’s just that, maybe we came to East Sea at a really bad time, quite untimely.”
He thought for a moment.
Turned around, looked toward the other end of the corridor where the private room was, and whispered:
“In a few days, let’s find an excuse to go back to Imperial Capital, and not stay in East Sea anymore.”
“Ah?”
Yan Mei lifted her head:
“What about Qiaoqiao?
What are we going to do about Qiaoqiao?”
“What else can we do?
The child should still be with her parents.”
Zhao Ruihai gave a bitter smile:
“We’ll find a way to leave Qiaoqiao with Yingjun.”
“I’ve watched Yingjun grow up since she was a child; I know her character well.
I can tell that she’s also troubled by Qiaoqiao’s parentage…
With her serious nature, she won’t rest until she gets to the bottom of it.”
“Moreover, I trust our teaching, Yingjun is definitely a responsible person; Lin Xian is the same, he would absolutely not be irresponsible.
So, if Qiaoqiao really is their daughter…”
Hmph.
He snorted lightly, unable to imagine what that would be like:
“I am actually quite looking forward to…
how they will explain it to us.”