Chapter 164 Unhappiness
Rui Rui was so sleepy, but she still refused to go to sleep obediently and insisted on waiting for Gu Suixing.
All things considered, the little guy has spent less than half a month with Gu Suixing in total, so why is he so attached to Gu Suixing?
Looking at her son's sleepy face, Lu Fengqing decided not to wait any longer, picked him up and went downstairs, then pushed open the door to the guest room.
Gu Suixing had just closed his laptop when he saw Lu Fengqing come in carrying their son with a cold expression. "What's wrong?"
Lu Fengqing shoved her son into Gu Suixing's arms, her tone sour: "He's sleepy but won't go to sleep, he just wants to find you."
Gu Suixing looked down at Rui Rui.
Rui Rui looked up at him, her eyelids slowly closing, and she fell asleep within seconds.
Gu Suixing glanced at Lu Fengqing, who was still standing by the bed, "Aren't you going back to sleep?"
Lu Fengqing glared at him.
She couldn't bear to be angry with Rui Rui, so she was angry with this scoundrel.
It's only been a few days, and this father and son are already abandoning their loving relationship. How can she not be angry?
Gu Suixing stopped teasing her and said, "Come on up."
That's more like it. Lu Fengqing climbed up.
Neither of them felt sleepy.
For a moment, no one spoke.
Looking at Rui Rui's sleeping face, Lu Fengqing suddenly said, "I have thought about really not wanting him anymore."
Her child was sent away when he was just a month old, and it took her three whole years to accept this fact.
Just as she was preparing to start over, her older brother suddenly told her that the Tang family wanted to form a marriage alliance with the Lu family. Old Master Tang had taken a liking to her, and her maternal grandfather also thought the marriage was a good match.
She knew Tang Xingzhou, the young master of the Tang family. She had heard a lot about him in the group of sisters. She looked down on that kind of playboy.
Before she could refuse, her older brother said, "Grandpa said that if you agree, he'll let me take Rui Rui back to City A."
The child she had tried everything to get back had suddenly presented her with an opportunity, like a pie falling from the sky.
She didn't agree immediately, her mind racing with inner turmoil.
One voice told her that she had finally come to terms with things, and that her child was doing well in the Dou family. Returning to City A would inevitably disrupt her previous peaceful life, and it might not be any better than before. Another voice told her that it was the child she had carried for ten months, her own flesh and blood, and she longed to see him.
After much agonizing and deliberation, her desire to see her child outweighed everything else, and she agreed.
Anyway, her favorite one is impossible now, so what does it matter who she gets engaged to? As long as she can bring the child back, she's willing.
At the end of October, she and Tang Xingzhou held an engagement ceremony. After that, she returned to the Lu residence every few days and began to decorate Rui Rui's children's room and toy room.
At the end of December, her older brother brought Rui Rui back to City A, where she met the grown-up Rui Rui for the first time at the Lu residence.
The little one called her "Auntie" in a clear voice, and she realized that even if the child came back, she could not be his mother, but only his aunt.
She hesitated for a moment, wondering whether she should tell her fiancé that she had given birth, since it was not right to hide it from him.
Unable to make up her mind, she asked her aunt, "Should I tell Xingzhou about the child?"
"Whatever you want," said Auntie. "But I must remind you, Niannian, this is an arranged marriage. You are the eldest daughter of the Lu family, and you are already engaged. Xingzhou is very likely to accept you, but no matter what, he will not accept this child, and he will not even allow you to get close to the child or see him again. Think it over carefully."
"Don't take any chances. If you tell him before the engagement that the engagement is impossible, Rui Rui won't come back. Your grandfather wants you to get married and have children like a normal woman. Even if you don't care about Rui Rui and manage to avoid the Tang family, there will be other people. As long as you still care about your grandfather, you will compromise sooner or later."
Yes, even if she manages to escape this time, as long as she still cares about the public, she will eventually give in.
She can accept that her fiancé doesn't accept that she has had a child, but she cannot accept that her fiancé won't let her see her child again.
People are selfish, and in the end she chose to continue hiding it.
My older brother found a kindergarten for Rui Rui in City A, and Rui Rui will be going to start school there in the spring.
She asked her grandfather, "My older brother is at work and doesn't have time, and I happen to be free. When Rui Rui starts kindergarten, can I bring her to stay at my place?"
Grandpa shook his head. "Niannian, you don't have time, you're busy too."
She quickly said, "I'm not busy..."
Grandpa shook his head again, "Feelings take time to develop. You still have to date Xingzhou, you don't have time to take care of the child."
Seeing her grandfather's resolute expression, she knew that this matter would not go as she wished.
She returned to the children's room, dejected, and felt a pang of sadness as she looked at the child playing alone inside.
Perhaps because she had just arrived in City A and was unfamiliar with the area, Rui Rui was in low spirits and looked listless and unhappy.
She asked him, "Is Rui Rui unhappy?"
Rui Rui shook her head. "No."
"Then why isn't Rui Rui smiling?"
Rui Rui said, "Grandma."
She immediately realized that the little guy missed his great-aunt, the eldest sister-in-law of the Dou family who raised Rui Rui.
The little guy stammered as he said that his great-aunt would sing to him, take him to the fields to catch tadpoles, watch TV with him, and tell him bedtime stories.
She understood. All he was trying to say was that he had someone to keep him company at the Dou family home, but not here, so he missed his great-aunt.
She felt a lump in her throat for a moment, and blurted out, "Rui Rui, tonight..."
Auntie will tell you a bedtime story tonight.
Before she could finish speaking, she received a call from her fiancé, who told her that there would be a family gathering that evening and that she should come early.
She had no reason not to attend her future husband's family gathering.
She can no longer tell Rui Rui stories at night.
There will be many more things like this in the future, just like Grandpa said, she "doesn't have time".
She suddenly regretted bringing Rui Rui back.
If he were still in the Dou family, he wouldn't have a father or mother, but at least he wouldn't be lonely.
Back in City A, he still didn't have a father or mother, but there was no one to sing to him, take him to catch tadpoles, watch TV with him, or tell him stories.
After Rui Rui started kindergarten, she secretly went to the kindergarten many times. Every time, she saw other children playing in groups, while he stood quietly to the side. Other children were picked up by their parents every time, but his parents would always make time to come. He, however, was always picked up by his nanny.
She knew very well that even if she rushed out of the car to find him, she wouldn't be able to stay with him for more than a few minutes before he was taken away again, and he would still be all alone when he got back.
Regret welled up in my heart again.
She couldn't help but dial her older brother's number, "Brother, could you please send him back to the Dou family?"
The older brother's voice on the other end of the line sounded helpless: "The two elderly people are not in good health, and besides, Rui Rui has already started school."
“Then I…I…” she choked out, “I don’t recognize him anymore. You can be his father, be a good father to him, and spend more time with him, okay?”
If she felt that being his mother would make him lonely and unhappy, she was willing to be his aunt for life.
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