Zhao Chuning took a taxi back to Yunting Community. When he got home, Xiao Yimi and Zhang Rong were sitting at the table without moving their chopsticks. Zhang Rong looked anxious and kept looking at her watch. Hearing the noise at the door, she stood up and went out to greet them, "What's wrong with you? I can't get through on the phone, and I don't know if you want to come back for dinner. Mimi is getting hungry waiting for me."
"My phone may be out of battery." Zhao Chuning replied weakly, changing into indoor slippers, "You guys eat first, don't worry about me."
Zhang Rong helped her carry the bag and immediately saw the brocade box she had placed at the entrance. She opened it and was surprised to see the watch. She recognized this brand of watch, and any of them cost more than 100,000 yuan.
"Chu Chu, where are you from?" Zhang Rong asked.
Zhao Chuning didn't know how to explain, so he just said, "It belongs to my friend. I forgot to take it back, so it's here with me. I'll return it tomorrow."
Zhao Chuning covered the watch.
Zhang Rong didn't suspect anything. She just glanced at her and saw that she didn't look very well. "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
"Where is Xiaomi?" Zhao Chuning shook his head and asked.
When little Yimi heard this, he quickly climbed down from the chair, hung his head, and walked over slowly, "Mommy."
Zhao Chuning looked at the child and still felt a lingering fear when she thought of the scene of her and Tang Yi together just now.
"Do you know you're wrong?" She said with a tense face.
Zhang Rong was confused. Xiao Yimi nodded. The next second, he looked up and smiled at her: "But, Mommy, from now on, that uncle is not a stranger!"
She smiled innocently, but Zhao Chuning felt dizzy. "Why aren't they strangers?"
"Today handsome uncle and I officially became friends! I like him, and he even said he likes me to call him 'Daddy'!"
As soon as these words came out, little Yimi was still immersed in the temporary happiness of having "Daddy" to support her. However, the word "Daddy" made Zhao Chuning feel like he was struck by lightning.
She gasped, her face turned pale, "Zhao Yimi, you-you stand in the corner!"
"Mommy." Little Yimi looked at her in surprise, not knowing why she was suddenly so angry.
"Go now!" Zhao Chuning had never been so strict before.
Little Yimi was frightened and hid behind Zhang Rong. Zhang Rong, of course, sided with her granddaughter, "Chu Chu, what's wrong with you today?"
Zhao Chuning pulled Xiao Yimi to stand in the corner. The child was so aggrieved that he kept crying. Zhao Chuning felt distressed, but he had to endure it, "Mimi, listen carefully - from now on, you are not allowed to meet that person again, you are not allowed to talk to him, and you are not allowed to bring him home."
Little Yimi was also a stubborn child. She stood in the corner with her head down, just silently shedding tears and refusing to nod.
Zhao Chuning felt as if her heart was pierced by needles. "Why do you call him 'Daddy'? Tell Mommy. What did he do to you? Why did you like him so much the first time you met him?"
Before Xiao Yimi could speak, her tears started to flow more and more. Zhao Chuning realized that he shouldn't lose his temper with an innocent child, so he calmed down and spoke again: "Mimi, talk to Mommy. Only after you make it clear, Mommy will know whether you and Uncle can be friends."
Little Yimi shrank his red nose pitifully, "Today a classmate bullied me. He... He laughed at me for not having a dad..."
When saying this, little Yimi sensitively glanced at the expressions of the two adults.
Zhao Chuning and Zhang Rong looked at each other, feeling extremely painful in their hearts.
Little Yimi didn't want them to be sad, but she still told the truth, "Shuai Uncle temporarily became my dad and helped me scare away the bad guys who bullied me. So, I like him."
After hearing what the child said, Zhao Chuning squatted on the ground in a daze, not saying a word for a long time.
She looked at the child deeply, and suddenly reached out and hugged the child tightly in her arms, so tightly that little Yimi could hardly breathe.
"Mommy..." Little Yimi called out suspiciously.
"Mimi, Mommy really loves you so much, and I can't live without you." Zhao Chuning said, her voice choking. "Mommy doesn't dare to take any risks with you, not even a little bit."
Little Yimi didn't understand at all, but Zhang Rong was terrified listening to it.
Zhao Chuning let go of the child slightly, and stared at her with tears in her eyes. "One day in the future, if that uncle wants to snatch you from Mommy, Mommy will not be able to win. If that day really comes and you are no longer by Mommy's side, what will Mommy do alone?"
Although Xiao Yimi didn't understand why her uncle wanted to snatch her from her mommy, she also cried bitterly when she saw her mommy's sad face. As if she would lose her mommy at this moment, she hugged Zhao Chuning's neck tightly with both hands, "I don't want it! I only want my mommy, I don't want my uncle! I don't want my uncle anymore! I don't want to leave my mommy alone!"
The child's screams did not ease the pain in Zhao Chuning's heart at all.
She held the child and comforted him for a long time.
After dinner, it was already late. Xiao Yimi was doing homework in the room, still in a low mood, while Zhao Chuning was tidying up in the kitchen.
Zhang Rong asked: "Could the person Xiaomi met today really be the child's father?"
Zhao Chuning looked gloomy and said "hmm" weakly. Zhang Rong was anxious, "How could it be such a coincidence? Do you think he already knows something and is here to test me on purpose?"
"I've sounded him out, and he doesn't seem to know." Zhao Chuning paused while washing the dishes, "But, such a coincidence must never happen again."
Zhang Rong looked at her inquiringly for several times, and finally asked tentatively: "Is the child's father married now?"
"without."
"Then you've never thought about..."
"Mom, he has a fiancée. Besides... he doesn't love me either." Zhao Chuning interrupted her mother Zhang Rong. She remembered Tang Yi's resistance when she asked him if he loved her in the car today. The endless bitterness in her heart continued to grow, but she just continued to wash the dishes and said calmly, "I heard that he has started to prepare for the wedding recently."
When Zhang Rong heard the news that he was going to get married, she seemed angry. She snorted coldly and left the kitchen.
Zhao Chuning looked at the splashing water and his expression darkened.
the other side.
Tang Yi stood on the upper floor of the hotel and looked down at the dim lights below. The whole city was brightly lit, but he felt that his heart was drifting and helpless, with nowhere to rest.
He took a sip of wine, trying to erase the figure that upset him, but his brain seemed to be deliberately against him. Every expression and every detail of the woman kept replaying and magnifying in his mind.
She is really weird tonight!
He thought of the child he had met today, and was shocked by his own thoughts, which he found extremely absurd. However, once the thought flashed through his mind, he could not control it.
He took out his cell phone and dialed a number.