Chapter 206 Alone in an Empty Room

Dan Anwen had a bad feeling. She brushed the stray hairs from her cheek and asked softly, "What does that little kid want to do?"

Gu Ji stared at him quietly for a few seconds, her throat hoarse as if it had been cut by a knife, "I want a hug."

Dan Anwen did not refuse, but picked up Gu Ji from the bed and led her around the room.

After walking around for a while, Gu Ji finally spoke, "Uncle Dan, I feel so strange right now. I'm not sad that she passed away, I'm sad that I don't have a mother anymore."

A mother is like the spiritual anchor of a family. She no longer has feelings for her mother, but she still longs for the role of a mother and yearns for maternal love.

“How can a little child not have a mother? My mother is your mother.” Dan Anwen stopped and answered the question seriously.

A light gradually ignited in Gu Ji's eyes as he asked uncertainly, "Do I really have a mother?"

“Really.” Dan Anwen nodded solemnly.

Gu Ji remained silent for a moment, then murmured softly, "Yes, I have a mother, I have a mother."

Dan Anwen chuckled softly, "Would any of the children with mothers like to come downstairs for lunch and eat with their mothers?"

"Okay." Gu Ji nestled in the man's broad embrace.

Dan Anwen carried Gu Ji downstairs. Everyone except Dan Shu was sitting in the living room. When they saw the two of them come downstairs, their solemn expressions relaxed slightly.

"Mom, Zhao Zhao wants to eat," Dan Anwen said to her mother.

Upon hearing this, Dan's mother's expression relaxed slightly, and she smiled and said, "Alright, let's start eating now."

Because everyone was worried about Gu Ji's situation, they had no appetite and sat in the living room waiting for news from Dan Anwen downstairs.

"I want to sit next to Mom." Gu Ji glanced at Dan Anwen beside her, her soft eyes flickering slightly.

Dan Anwen's eyes narrowed slightly, and before she could say anything, her mother readily agreed, "Okay, Zhao Zhao, sit next to me."

And so, under the man's helpless gaze, Gu Ji successfully sat down next to Dan's mother.

The meal was a scene of maternal love and filial piety, with everyone else merely decorative, especially Dan Anwen and Dan's father.

He used to take care of himself at the dinner table, but now he feels lost and can only watch the mother and daughter take care of each other. He and his father feel like they have been abandoned.

After the meal, Gu Ji stayed close to Dan's mother, never leaving her side.

The mother's eyes flickered slightly, and she smiled, saying, "Zhao Zhao, do you want to sleep with Mommy tonight?"

"Okay!" Gu Ji agreed without the slightest hesitation, completely unaware of the resentful look in the man's eyes.

The father paused in reading the newspaper, looking at Dan Anwen with a gloomy expression, as if to say, "Control your wife, she's trying to steal my wife away."

Dan An pretended not to see what was happening. Compared to his father's and his own feelings, he cared more about the child's feelings.

"Then the little one shouldn't kick off the covers at night. Mom, please be careful at night, or she might catch a cold."

The villa always had the air conditioning on in the summer, and the man would cover the girl with a blanket before going to bed, but she would kick it off in the middle of the night, and he caught a cold several times because of this.

"I didn't." Gu Ji glared at Dan Anwen and denied it outright.

Dan Anwen's lips curled slightly as she calmly asked, "Oh? Then who was the person with a cold and runny nose last week?"

“Anyway, it wasn’t me.” Gu Ji took Dan’s mother’s arm and leaned against her.

Seeing this, Dan's mother patted Dan Anwen's hand and said, "Don't bully Zhao Zhao."

"Yes, don't bully me, I have my mother to back me up." Gu Ji looked like he had found a powerful backer.

Dan Anwen curled her lips slightly but remained silent.

His status in the family is getting lower and lower.

He thought that since the child only slept with his mother for one night, he would be able to resume his usual habit of holding her to sleep the next day. But this time, his plan backfired.

After Gu Ji slept with Dan's mother for several days, not only did Dan's father begin to hint at returning to normal, but even the usually composed Dan Anwen began to subtly suggest it.

"Little friend, when are you going to sleep in our room?" Dan Anwen fed Gu Ji a strawberry.

Gu Ji puffed out his cheeks, looking like a little guinea pig eating, so cute it melted your heart. "Let me sleep for a few more days. It feels so good to sleep with Mom."

She had only been held and slept in her mother's arms before she was five years old, and she cherished the feeling of sleeping in her mother's arms.

Dan Anwen was speechless for a moment, and could only start to play the emotional card, "Isn't it nice to sleep with your husband? I'm very hurt by what you're saying."

"No, it's nice to sleep with you too." Gu Ji fed Dan An a strawberry.

Seeing this, Dan An thought there was hope, "Then come back to sleep tonight, I miss you."

He's really not used to the kids not being around him these past few days.

He never thought there was anything wrong with sleeping alone before, but since they got married, they have never slept in separate beds, and he has been feeling very uncomfortable these past few days.

“But…” Gu Ji hesitated a little; she still wanted to sleep with her mother.

"You're willing to leave your husband alone in an empty house?" Dan Anwen lowered her eyes, pretending to look aggrieved.

Gu Ji agreed because he felt sorry for him.

"Then I'll tell Mom now." To avoid any unforeseen complications, Dan Anwen planned to go upstairs to talk to his mother. Before he could even get up, he heard a series of rhythmic footsteps at the door.

Dan Anwen and Gu Ji looked in the direction of the sound and saw a familiar figure.

"You're here." After her initial surprise, Dan Anwen got up and walked towards Xiao Han.

Xiao Han smiled and nodded to Gu Ji before speaking, "It seems I've passed your test."

After returning home, he did not receive any news from Dan Anwen, and he realized that something was wrong.

It seems this is a test from the third brother for him.

"It's too early to say now. You should think about how to deal with my dad. He's in his study upstairs." Dan Anwen raised an eyebrow.

"Have you forgotten my profession? I don't fight unprepared battles." Xiao Han had been waiting for this moment.

Dan Anwen patted him on the shoulder and smiled, "Then I wish you good luck and happiness for Dan Shu."

"I will."

Seeing Xiao Han's figure disappear at the top of the stairs, Gu Ji got up and walked to Dan Anwen's side, "Uncle Dan, who do you think will win?"

“At present, Xiao Han has a better chance of winning, but this is not a battlefield where feelings don’t matter.” Dan Anwen put his arm around Gu Ji’s waist and led her upstairs to find Dan’s mother.

Dan's father couldn't help but take the initiative to talk to Xiao Han, putting the initiative in Xiao Han's hands, but Dan Shu was his weakness.

If Dan's father still disagrees and insists that Xiao Han make a choice, then no one can predict the outcome.

No one knows the specifics of Xiao Han's conversation with Dan Shu's father, but when Xiao Han left the study, he had an undisguised smile on his face, and Dan Shu was released immediately.

Dan Shu and Xiao Han sat in the backyard talking about love, while the living room was also full of people, but everyone was staring at Dan Shu's father.