"Has anything interesting happened?"
Adam organized his thoughts before speaking, then said at a relatively slow pace, "Recently... some people have been approaching me."
He paused after saying this and glanced at Lin Qi. Lin Qi did not interrupt him or say anything, merely gesturing for him to continue.
That gave him a little more courage.
Adam had been afraid of Lin Qi since childhood because he was an illegitimate child. Momo had told him that.
Although Lin Qi did not deny that he was his son, compared with Fei Jiali, the younger sister who had possessed the Solar System from birth, and the Haines brothers, Hynes and Haines, who stood almost farther ahead of the starting line than anyone else, he, Lin Qi's eldest son, was simply too inconspicuous.
He had even endured bullying at school for a time when he was young, simply because he was the child of two women and had no "father."
In a society that was still dominated by the paternal line, having no father was like losing a layer of protection. Those classmates who looked barely old enough to know better would throw away his pencil case, stuff filthy things into his schoolbag, push him down, and leave footprints on his body, even his face.
Several times, they had thrown mud onto his head, leaving him looking especially miserable. And all of it was because he had no father.
It was only when Lin Qi publicly stated that Adam was his child—his first child—that everything changed at once.
The teachers and principal who had previously ignored everything and pretended not to see anything began to go out of their way to protect his interests at school.
The classmates who had once done excessive things to him also recognized their mistakes. After apologizing, they