After Returning to the Country, the Female CEO Actually Gave Me a Daughter - Chapter 6

An excited Xu Nan suddenly froze.

In all these years, Shen Qingyan had never mentioned this matter to her.

Everything had been based on her own assumptions and deductions...

But the result...

The truth was actually this?!

Xu Nan stared in stunned silence for a long while before dropping back into her seat. "Then what are you planning to do now? Let father and daughter acknowledge each other?"

"They've already acknowledged each other," Shen Qingyan said.

"What?"

Xu Nan shot to her feet again. "Shen Qingyan, have you lost your mind?"

"They've already acknowledged each other, and you still have the mood to sit here eating? Aren't you afraid he'll take Yaoyao away and disappear again?"

"He made it impossible for you to find him for five years. What makes you think he can't make you fail to find him for another five years?"

The more Xu Nan spoke, the more agitated she became.

Shen Qingyan's fists gradually clenched.

Take Yaoyao away...

Disappear for another five years...

She had never considered that possibility.

Now that Xu Nan had brought it up.

Her heart suddenly clenched tight.

Tang Yao was her life.

She was the reason Shen Qingyan had been able to keep living until now.

If Tang Yao were really taken away...

Then she truly did not know what courage she would have left to go on living.

The more she thought about it, the more panicked she became.

It was already very late.

Yet Tang Yao still had not returned...

She hurriedly took out her phone, preparing to call the number Tang Yao had used to call her earlier.

But before she could dial, that number called first.

"Hello, Mommy, where are you?"

"At Auntie's place!"

"Daddy, we're going to Qinghewan! Bye, Mommy, see you later!"

The call ended.

Shen Qingyan let out a long breath of relief.

She had truly been afraid things would turn out as Xu Nan had said...

But even so.

The worry in her heart still had not faded.

He had sent her back this time, but what about next time?

Shen Qingyan gripped her phone tightly. Her beautiful eyes shifted, gradually becoming resolute...

Tang Yao was all she had now.

If Tang Yao disappeared too...

Then she truly would have no way to keep living!

Not long after.

The phone rang again.

Tang Chen had already brought Tang Yao to the residential complex.

Afraid that Xu Nan's blunt temper would lead her to say something to Tang Chen, Shen Qingyan refused to let her come downstairs together. She slipped on her heels and hurried down.

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Shen Qingyan went downstairs.

After walking a short distance through the brightly lit residential complex, she saw Tang Yao riding on Tang Chen's shoulders as they approached.

"Mommy!"

The little girl waved enthusiastically at Shen Qingyan.

Tang Chen lifted her down from his shoulders and set her on the ground. She ran quickly toward Shen Qingyan.

Shen Qingyan crouched down and scooped up the little girl rushing toward her.

Only then.

Did her heart finally settle.

Tang Chen walked over right behind them.

Holding Tang Yao, Shen Qingyan took a deep breath and said to Tang Chen, "Thank you for picking Yaoyao up today."

"What's there to thank me for?"

Tang Chen shook his head with a smile. "Yaoyao is my daughter too."

As he spoke, he reached out and pinched the little girl's cheek.

The little girl gave Tang Chen a huge grin.

Tang Chen said, "I usually have plenty of time. If you're busy, why not let me pick Yaoyao up?"

Without a second thought, Shen Qingyan shook her head. "No need to trouble yourself. This won't happen again. We'll be going now. Goodbye!"

"Goodbye! Bye-bye, Yaoyao!"

"Bye-bye, Daddy! Yaoyao loves you! Don't forget our weekend promise!"

"Don't worry, I won't forget!"

The little girl blew Tang Chen several kisses. Tang Chen smiled and waved. Only after the two figures, one big and one small, disappeared from sight did he lower his hand, his brows lifting slightly.

He had sensed Shen Qingyan's rejection of him.

But that was normal...

After all, because of their daughter.

She had borne countless cold looks, mockery, and abuse on her slender shoulders alone for a full five years...

"Yaoyao, what did you mean earlier about a weekend promise?"

On the way back to Linhai Villa, Shen Qingyan asked Tang Yao from the back seat of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.

"We're going to see big sharks!"

Tang Yao said excitedly, "Daddy took Yaoyao to the amusement park today, and then Yaoyao said she wanted to see big sharks. Daddy promised to take Yaoyao to the Aquarium this weekend!"

Shen Qingyan opened her mouth, but the words at her lips simply would not come out.

Going to the Aquarium...

It was something she had promised Tang Yao countless times...

Yet for so long, because of the group's affairs, she had kept breaking that promise...

"Today at the amusement park, Daddy took me on the carousel! Mommy, it was my first time riding a carousel! And there was a roller coaster too, the kind only children can ride..."

Looking at the little girl's happy, blissful expression as she told her about everything she had done with Tang Chen.

The resolve Shen Qingyan had formed at Xu Nan's home began to waver again...

"Boss!"

"Come in."