Chapter 890
Chapter 890: Chapter 33 The End of the World Chapter 890: Chapter 33 The End of the World “Huh?”
Lin Xian, holding the Pomeranian VV, looked towards a very serious Yan Qiaoqiao.
This…
Is this some kind of punishment game?
“Ah, don’t mind Qiaoqiao,”
Zhao Yingjun waved her hand and smiled:
“Just now, she saw someone confessing in public and there were people egging them on, so she learned a few of the chants.”
After that, she looked around Lin Xian and noticed he had no companions:
“Are you by yourself?
What made you think of coming here to shop?”
“Yes.”
Lin Xian nodded:
“I went to the company to handle some things this afternoon, worked overtime for a meeting, and then I thought about buying some things for the house.”
Whoosh.
Yan Qiaoqiao’s judgmental index finger pointed at Lin Xian again:
“Why are you also alone?
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Why don’t you date anyone?”
Zhao Yingjun was speechless.
She pulled Yan Qiaoqiao behind her, then took out a lollipop from her handbag, ripped off the wrapping paper, and forced it into Yan Qiaoqiao’s mouth, plugging the kid’s increasingly chatty lips.
Then, turning to face Lin Xian, she sighed helplessly:
“It seems I overestimated myself today, taking both Qiaoqiao and VV out all alone; a single person really can’t keep an eye on these two treasures.”
“If you don’t have any specific plans…
how about we shop together?
You could help me with VV, and I’ll hold Qiaoqiao, which would be a bit easier for me.”
“Otherwise, the two of them will run off in different directions, really driving me crazy.”
Lin Xian had only recently parted ways with Yan Qiaoqiao and VV.
Seeing them here naturally made him happy, so he gladly accepted:
“Sure, I don’t have any plans, just browsing around.”
Because the three of them had come here without having dinner,
They were originally planning to eat some snacks, but now that there were more of them, they decided to find a specialty tea restaurant nearby to sort out their meal.
Yan Qiaoqiao had indeed become much more sensible and well-behaved than before.
She no longer ate without manners, pointed people with her chopsticks, or gobbled up her food.
Instead, she was quietly and gracefully eating with her head down.
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“I think Yan Qiaoqiao’s actually quite sharp.”
Lin Xian watched Yan Qiaoqiao skillfully using chopsticks and said with a smile:
“From my recent interactions with her, I’ve found her to be quite intelligent; she just lacks a bit of knowledge and common sense, nothing else.”
Zhao Yingjun smiled.
She used a napkin to wipe Yan Qiaoqiao’s mouth corner:
“Qiaoqiao is indeed very endearing, and she has grown up a lot recently, already a big kid now.”
“Sometimes I can really feel what it’s like to be a parent, seeing a child becoming more sensible, more mature, and slowly drifting away from oneself…
Thinking about it, my heart can’t help but feel a bit of melancholy.”
Lin Xian took a sip of lemonade from the table.
He put down the glass.
Looking at the ice cubes rising inside:
“There’s no helping it, children have to grow up, then leave their parents.
Just like the two of us, we left home to make our way in the East Sea, meeting our own parents just a few times a year.”
Zhao Yingjun propped up her cheek with her hand, looking at Yan Qiaoqiao, who was focused on eating.
Her voice was soft:
“But at least our childhoods were spent under the care of our parents; Qiaoqiao is different, she doesn’t even remember who her parents are.”
Lin Xian turned his head,
Also staring at Yan Qiaoqiao.
This was knowledge he hadn’t known before.
He only knew that Yan Qiaoqiao was the granddaughter of a close relative of Zhao Yingjun, and he really had never heard about Yan Qiaoqiao’s parents, nor asked her.
From what Zhao Yingjun said…
Could it be that Yan Qiaoqiao’s parents had an accident when she was young, which left Yan Qiaoqiao orphaned and raised by her grandparents?
“Qiaoqiao seems strong and never brings up these things, but actually…
she always envies other kids who have moms and dads, and she thinks about her own parents,”
Zhao Yingjun continued,
Shifting her gaze from Yan Qiaoqiao and looking into Lin Xian’s eyes:
“[Have you ever thought…
about having a daughter in the future?]”
“I have.”
Lin Xian chuckled.
How could he not have thought about it?
When he had taken the fake Yu Xi for a paternity test, he was already prepared to be an overjoyed father, only to find out it was a “grand filial daughter.”
Later, after the fake Yu Xi was killed and the real Yu Xi recorded an arrest report stating her name as Lin Yuxi, Lin Xian had roughly guessed she might possibly be his and Huang Que’s daughter from some other timeline, and he once again prepared to be a father, only to discover yet another “grand filial daughter!”
Moreover, this current “grand filial daughter” was probably still around in this timeline, eyeing his neck…
intending to behead him on the seventh day of the seventh month.
But even so,
Even after being duped by two grand filial daughters, if someone asked Lin Xian whether he wanted a son or a daughter in the future, Lin Xian was steadfast in wanting a little padded jacket:
“I quite like the idea of having a daughter.”
Lin Xian stated truthfully:
“It seems a lot of men like having a little padded jacket of their own, to dote on her, hold her, protect her.”
At that moment,
He thought of Chu Anqing and Chu Shanhe,
The man who so adored his daughter that he proudly welcomed being called a ‘daughter slave’, who had disappeared from public view as of late.
He, who always enjoyed hosting various dinner parties, hadn’t held one since; the activities of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce had become less frequent, far from as lively as it used to be.
“Have you heard about Chu Anqing’s situation?”