"No, Daddy can't hug you."
Mu Mu tilted her head, sucking on her finger, looking at him with a puzzled expression, and mumbled, "Why?"
Bai Le removed his finger, preventing him from developing such a bad habit. "Be good, Daddy isn't feeling well today."
"Come down, Mu Mu." Xi Yan on the sofa downstairs, spoke calmly, looking up at Mu Mu.
Now that Mu Mu has grown up a bit, he also likes to stick close to Xi Yan. However, he is afraid of Xiyan when he makes a mistake because Xi Yan's cold face is terrifying. Bai Le knows this all too well and feels very sorry for him.
Mu Mu obediently went downstairs, Xi Yan picked him up and put him on his lap. Then, looking at Bai Le, who was walking downstairs in a somewhat awkward manner, Xi Yan couldn't help but frown slightly.
Are you still feeling unwell?
Bai Le blushed and glared at him irritably, then sat down to the side without saying a word.
Last night, he kept telling himself that he would be better soon, but after countless repetitions, he finally gave up.
Xi Yan frowned even more deeply, and then stood up to pull him away.
Bai Le quickly asked, "What are you doing?"
Xi Yan said in a deep voice, "Let me take a look."
Bai Le was stunned. After a long pause, he realized that this was supposed to be a teasing remark, but seeing Bai Le's serious expression, as if he was genuinely worried about him, he immediately lost his temper.
Besides, he did get some pleasure later on, so he said somewhat awkwardly, "It was alright, I guess."
Xi Yan was slightly taken aback, and a smile appeared on his face.
Mu Mu glanced at her father, then turned to look at her father, who was blushing, and sucked on her finger with a puzzled expression.
On Wednesday, Bai Le and Xi Yan took Mu Mu out of the mall and then went to the underground parking lot to get their car.
Mu Mu was holding a huge toy airplane in her arms, one hand held by Xi Yan, her eyes fixed on the airplane in her arms, looking like she couldn't wait to take it apart and play with it.
Now Xi Yan her best not to let Bai Le hold him, because Mu Mu was born prematurely and the two of them have always spoiled him in this regard, which has caused Mu Mu to learn to walk relatively late.
After pressing the car key, the headlights flashed. Bai Le was about to pick up Mu Mu and get into the car when he suddenly saw a dark figure rushing towards him. He instinctively grabbed Mu Mu and dodged, but unexpectedly, the figure rushed towards Xi Yan.
"Watch out!" Bai Le shouted in alarm.
After Xi Yan clearly saw the person's face, he showed no surprise and said coldly, "Let me go."
After a few months apart, Tan Lianxin seemed like a completely different person. Her once well-maintained face had aged considerably, and she looked haggard. She grabbed Xi Yan's arm and pleaded, "Xi Yan, I beg you, please let your brother go. He was just instigated to do something foolish. He's so young, he can't go to jail!"
Bai Le frowned slightly. In the original story, Tan Lianxin should have already been Xi Yan at this point. Why is she still here? So, Tan Lianxin's ending is different too? What exactly caused this?
Xi Yan lowered his eyes slightly, looking at her grasping his hand, and said calmly, "I'll only say it once."
Tan Lianxin stared blankly at the person in front of her. He was clearly her son, yet she seemed to know nothing about him, or rather, she never wanted to understand him.
The moment she saw him, she was reminded of the man she had driven away, his biological father. She had finally found a stable home, but it was broken apart because of him. So she hated him and vented all her resentment and anger on him. She herself didn't know when that quiet, obedient child had started to become gloomy and withdrawn.
Ignoring the faint guilt in her heart, Tan Lianxin turned her attention to pleading with Xi Yan.
"Please, Li Jing has confessed. He said it was Xi Defeng from your Xi Family who ordered him to do it. He really didn't do it on purpose; he was threatened. You have to believe your brother."
As she spoke, she was about to kneel down, crying her heart out. Bai Le noticed that her eyes were red and swollen, indicating that Li Jing's arrest had caused her a lot of worry.
"You..." Tan Lianxin stopped halfway through her sentence, and said in a hoarse voice, "His father is now an alcoholic and doesn't care about anything. Even though his son is about to go to jail, he doesn't care."
Xi Yan didn't answer her directly, but turned to look at Bai Le and said to him, "Go wait for me in the car."
Mu Mu looked curiously at Tan Lianxin, who was kneeling on the ground crying, and then tugged at Bai Le's sleeve, as if asking her who she was.
Tan Lianxin also noticed Mu Mu standing to the side and immediately realized who it was, so she hurriedly went forward.
"You're Xi Yan's child, right? What's your name? I'm your grandma."
In her Tan Lianxin tried to appeal to his emotions, thinking that at least she was still his grandmother, Xi Yan wouldn't embarrass someone he cared about.
Mu Mu was startled by her. He turned around and buried his head in Bai Le, shaking his head like a rattle drum, and said in a childish voice, "I have a grandma." The grandma he was referring to was Wu Xueying.
Bai Le also felt that it was not good to stay here any longer. What Xi Yan was about to say was definitely not suitable for Mu Mu to hear, which was why he asked him to wait for him in the car.
After Bai Le led Mu Mu into the car, Xi Yan finally turned his gaze to Tan Lianxin. His eyes were calm and he said coldly, "Don't appear in front of my family. They have nothing to do with you."
Tan Lianxin stammered, "But I am..." She didn't say the word, perhaps because she was also ashamed.
Xi Yan fiddled with the car keys in her hand, her tone indifferent, showing no emotional fluctuation at all because of her appearance.
"Go away, don't make me regret my decision."
What decision? Tan Lianxin wondered, but she knew now was not the time to ask, so she softened her tone and pleaded. She knew that Xi Yan was more responsive to gentle persuasion than force, and she had raised him for so long after all.