"Ling'er, go back to the room with your mother first. Daddy will come over in a bit." Ye Qiu swept Ah Yin up by the waist and called out to Ye Ling'er.
"Ling'er knows. Daddy has to come back quickly, okay?" Ye Ling'er smiled with endearing innocence, rising onto her tiptoes as she waved at Ye Qiu. "If you don't come back, Ling'er won't go to sleep."
At the end, the little girl Ye Ling'er even added a threatening remark.
Ye Qiu could not help smiling.
"Don't worry. Daddy will definitely come back to coax you to sleep."
As his words fell, Ye Qiu, under Liu Erlong's gaze, held Ah Yin and headed toward Ah Yin's room.
"..."
Liu Erlong looked deeply at Ye Qiu.
"Mother, catch!"
Ye Ling'er quickly withdrew her gaze. In her eyes, for a very long time from now on, Daddy would be by her side.
The cuju ball rolled to Liu Erlong's feet, but Liu Erlong did not react at all. She had no heart to keep playing here. Lifting her eyes to look at her obedient daughter, she forced a faint smile and said, "Ling'er, let's go back to the room first, all right?"
Even now, Liu Erlong still had not figured out how she should comfort Ye Ling'er when the girl woke up and could not see Ye Qiu.
"Huh?"
Hearing Liu Erlong call her, Ye Ling'er looked utterly surprised and asked in confusion, "Mother isn't calling me Ye'er anymore?"
"There isn't much difference between the two names. Both are my good daughter." A slight smile appeared on Liu Erlong's face. She stepped forward, crouched down, and rubbed Ye Ling'er's hair.
Liu Erlong was right. Whether she called Ye Ling'er Ye'er or Ling'er, the fact that Ye Ling'er was her daughter would never