Shi Kaixin had just come out of her playmate's house, with a small dog plush toy in her left hand and a string of colorful candied hawthorns in her right hand. She was wearing a white princess dress and looked as pretty as a doll.
She fell face-first into the mud, landing right in front of a tall, handsome man.
Shi Kaixin raised her face and saw the handsome uncle squatting in front of her. He looked a little unhappy, but still helped her up.
Shi Kaixin asked in her childish voice, "Uncle, do you know me?"
Sikong Jingyu didn't speak, but his eyes were filled with complex emotions.
Over the years, although Sikong Jingyu never asked Shi Wan or anyone else, he knew that this girl was Shi Wan and his child.
Sikong Jingyu never imagined that she would one day meet her child face-to-face.
The child must be almost 6 years old by now.
Time flies...
Sikong Jingyu stared at the girl, shook his head with a bitter smile.
“But I know you,” Shi Kaixin said.
Shi Kaixin pointed to Sikong Jingyu's eyes, blinked her bright eyes, and said, "Your eyes are just as beautiful as mine."
Her eyes really do look just like Sikong Jingyu's.
"I also know that Uncle is actually my dad," Shi Kaixin continued in her childish voice.
Sikong Jingyu's eyes welled up with tears, and his voice was hoarse, "How...how did you know?"
Shi Kaixin could tell from Sikong Jingyu's eyes that he seemed very sad.
Shi Kaixin tilted her head, thought for a moment, and then said, "I've seen you in the photo album, and I've also seen you several times in Niwan Village."
From the time Shi Kaixin could remember, it seemed that he would always stand far away, stand for a while, then leave. After a period of time, he would come again, watch her and her mother from afar, stand for a while, and then leave again.
At first, Shi Kaixin didn't think anything was wrong, until she saw that this uncle was also in her family's photo album, and she looked a bit like him.
Every time he looked at his mother, his eyes were strange, and as he looked at her, he would start to cry.
She grew up without a father, and Shi Kaixin knew that her parents must have been unable to live together for some reason. Some of her classmates' parents were like that, I think it was called... divorce!
Shi Kaixin didn't know what divorce meant, but she knew what leaving meant. Both divorce and leaving contain the character "离" (li), which roughly means separating and no longer being able to be together.
Sikong Jingyu's voice gradually choked up: "Don't tell Mom."
His eyes were filled with sadness, which made Shi Kaixin feel very sad.
"good."
Shi Kaixin said obediently, touching Sikong Jingyu's eyes with her chubby little hands, "I won't tell Mommy, so don't cry."
Sikong Jingyu tried his best to control his emotions, and patted Shi Kaixin's head, "Good boy!"
"Can I call you Dad?" Shi Kaixin asked, tilting her head back with innocent eyes.
Sikong Jingyu shook his head. "Not now."
"When will that be?" Shi Kaixin asked innocently.
“When your mother is willing to accept me,” Sikong Jingyu said.
But that seems... unlikely.
"What if your mother never accepts you?"
Sikong Jingyu's expression stiffened slightly, his eyes reddened, and he finally spoke after a long while, "Then, you will call me uncle for the rest of your life."
After returning home, Sikong Jingyu consulted a lawyer and made a will: "If I die one day, the Sikong Group will be inherited by Shi Kaixin. Sixty percent of my real estate and money will be left to Shi Wan, and forty percent to Shi Kaixin. Sun Yang will fully assist Shi Kaixin."
Every year after that, Sikong Jingyu would still come to see Shi Wan, quietly, from afar, watching. Without disturbing her.
Sikong Jingyu thought he had hidden it well, but in fact, Shi Wan had already discovered it long ago.
In the adult world, unspoken understanding is also a form of politeness.
Another year has passed. Shi Wan held Shi Kaixin's little hand and glanced at Sikong Jingyu in the distance.
I wish him well, and I wish myself well too.
May those who have drifted apart never meet again.
May those who meet again never drift apart.
—End of Late Night Chapter
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