Carefully closing the door, Ji Zhinan silently looked at Li Yuan standing in front of the windowsill.

No one spoke, and the atmosphere was quiet and awkward.

Ji Zhinan frowned slightly. She saw desolation and solitude in Li Yuan's back.

"………dad."

After hesitating for a long time, Ji Zhinan finally called Li Yuan.

"..." Li Yuan's body was obviously shocked, but he did not turn back. He chose to respond to Ji Zhinan with silence.

Li Yuan stared at the night view outside, his dark eyes a little dazed. After about five minutes, he spoke.

“Nannan…”

“…”

"Actually, you can live well without your dad, right?"

My daughter has grown up and has her own thoughts and feelings.

A girl only needs her parents' company for the first twenty years. After that, her boyfriend or husband will accompany her for the next ten years, and her husband and children will accompany her for the rest of her life.

He did not show up to participate in Nan Nan's growth when she needed him. Although he did not miss out on regrets for his whole life, he still lost the first twenty years of her life. When he showed up, Nan Nan had already found her lifelong support and no longer needed him as a father.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan's dark eyes dimmed a little.

He lowered his head slightly and looked at his hands.

He had never held his daughter in his arms to comfort her, he had never fed his daughter, he had never taken his daughter to school, he had never carried his daughter on his back, he had never... He owed his daughter too much.

"Dad missed you too much. Dad just wants you to stay with him for two more years. Dad just wants to make up for it..."

His voice became lower and lower, and his throat became very hoarse.

Ji Zhinan opened his mouth: "Dad..."

Li Yuan turned his head and looked at his precious daughter. The eyes that were almost identical to Xi Luo's made him lose his mind for a moment.

He curled his lips slightly and smiled faintly.

"You must be tired after a day outside. It's getting late. Go wash up and rest, dear."

Touching his daughter's concerned gaze, Li Yuan continued, "Dad is fine, go quickly."

"..." Ji Zhinan pursed his lips and saw Li Yuan turned his back to him again, as if he didn't want to say anything more.

After struggling for a long time, she cautiously left the study.

"Bang."

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Li Yuan's black pupils flashed slightly.

He left the study and went to the room at the end.

When you push it open, you'll see portraits of Shiloh inside.

Whenever he came to the capital before, he would stay in this room for a long time. Since he recognized his daughter, he seemed to have never come here once.

Li Yuan stroked the oil painting of Xi Luo hanging on the wall and looked at the pair of lively eyes.

"Xiao Luo..."

His voice was very light and empty.

"We owe our daughter too much, and it's impossible to repay her even if we want to..."

…………

When Ji Zhinan went downstairs to eat early the next morning, Eddie was the only one in the restaurant, and Li Yuan had not arrived yet.

Normally at this time, Li Yuan would have been sitting at his seat reading emails and waiting for her to come downstairs for dinner.

Ji Zhinan looked at Eddie: "Brother, where is my dad?"

"Warrens has been planning to enter the Chinese market in recent years. There are still many situations in China that require uncle's personal participation, so uncle left early this morning and may not be back until very late."

It was precisely because the Warrens family was going to attack the Chinese market that Li Yuan stayed in China for so long this year, instead of flying back to Europe immediately like in previous years, that he did not miss Ji Zhinan.

Although he always had work, Li Yuan gave all his available time to Ji Zhinan in order to accompany his daughter.