How had she become the heartless woman who abandoned her husband and child?
On the way home.
Lu Qin turned on the M7's smart driving mode, relaxed his feet, and enjoyed the comfort and quiet inside the car.
Lu Xiyao gnawed on an apple a customer had given her, happily swaying her head from side to side.
"Papa, we sold out again today. Let's celebrate with an ice cream. What do you think about a chocolate Cone?"
Keeping his eyes on the road ahead, Lu Qin smiled.
"I think you can go home and sleep. You can eat it in your dreams."
"Fine, then if I can't eat ice cream in my dreams... tomorrow is Saturday, can I have two ice creams?"
The little girl blinked her big eyes. Her adorable, slightly dazed face carried a clear spark of cleverness in her gaze.
"You've got some nerve, wishing for two ice creams now?"
"Then can I have one?" Lu Xiyao's little face looked adorably pitiful.
"Fine."
"Papa, you're the best! Mwah!" Lu Xiyao happily buttered him up.
"Papa, I'll sing you a song."
"Okay."
Lu Xiyao skillfully operated the car's screen, then selected BabyBus's "Planting the Sun" from the children's section of Penguin Music.
"I have a beautiful wish~"
"When I grow up, I want to plant the sun~"
"Planting just one by one is enough~"
"They'll bear so, so many suns~"
They got home at :45.
Lu Qin helped the little girl take a bath, dried her hair, and carried her to bed. Less than two minutes later, the little girl automatically powered down.
Lu Qin tucked her in and quietly left the room.
Sitting on the sofa, Lu Qin poured himself a glass of lemon water and drank it slowly.
He had made this lemon water when