"Uncle Zhou, we still like you very much."
"We can play together too."
As they spoke, the two children broke free from Zhou Mingyan's embrace and stood beside He Lingchuan, clutching his hands: "But we really can't let you be our father."
"We all have our own fathers now."
Zhou Mingyan looked dejected. Shen Yanxi squatted down and patiently discussed with the two children, "Nanchen, Beichen, what you're doing will hurt Uncle Zhou's feelings."
"But we already have a father."
The two children insisted on not recognizing Zhou Mingyan. They clung to He Lingchuan's arm, hiding behind him, only their eyes peeking out at Zhou Mingyan.
Shen Yanxi, fearing that Zhou Mingyan would be upset, tried to smooth things over for the two children: "They just got discharged from the hospital, so they are definitely closer to their biological father. They'll be fine in a while."
Zhou Mingyan was skeptical, jealous, yet helpless.
...
A week after being discharged from the hospital, Zhou Mingyan planned to throw a party for his two children.
He Lingchuan had been taking care of the two children for the past week. When he saw the invitation Shen Yanxi handed him, he shook his head and refused: "They've just recovered from their illness. What if they catch a cold if they go now? I don't agree."
“Mingyan meant well, and besides, I will keep an eye on them.”
He Lingchuan casually tossed the invitation onto the table, ignoring Shen Yanxi's displeased expression: "I don't believe you."
When that time comes, she'll only be busy being affectionate with Zhou Mingyan, and won't care about Bei Chen and Nan Chen anymore.
"Then what do you need to do to get your consent?"
Shen Yanxi persisted, following He Lingchuan around and asking him questions.
She called out to her two children, "Nanchen and Beichen really want to go too; they haven't been out to play in a long time."
He Lingchuan hesitated for a moment, then looked at Shen Yanxi and said, "I want to go too."
He knew Shen Yanxi too well; for Zhou Mingyan's sake, this woman would definitely secretly take the child there.
“I don’t know if Mingyan will agree. I’ll ask him.”
"There's no room for discussion on this. If I'm not going, nobody else is going either."
He was thinking of the two children, but who knows what Zhou Mingyan was really up to?
An hour later, Shen Yanxi happily informed him that Zhou Mingyan had agreed to let him go with her.
He Lingchuan knew he would agree, and Zhou Mingyan would do anything to please the two children.
He handed the instructions he had just printed out to Shen Yanxi: "Have him follow the instructions on this. The most important one is that he cannot take the two children away without my consent."
Upon seeing the contents, Shen Yanxi's face immediately darkened: "What kind of person do you take Mingyan for?"
Shen Yanxi slammed the paper on the table: "Mingyan went to great lengths to host this party because he wanted to make the two children happy. He had no ill intentions."
"Whether it is or not, it's not up to you to decide. Based on my observations of him over this period of time, he has a very strong sense of purpose. I am the children's father, and I have a duty to protect them."
...
Zhou Mingyan's venue was very large, with a giant swimming pool in the center that could probably accommodate more than a dozen people.
Nan Chen and Bei Chen can't swim, so He Lingchuan specifically told them not to go near the pool, especially when they were with Zhou Mingyan.
"Mr. He, do you have some misunderstanding about me? Or do you think I would harm Nan Chen and Bei Chen?"
He Lingchuan was giving instructions to the two children when he happened to run into Zhou Mingyan, who was coming downstairs, and he heard everything clearly.
“I don’t think you’ll harm them, but you’ll definitely use them to frame me.”
He Lingchuan never understood why he wanted to sow discord between him and Shen Yanxi, since they were already together.
Could it be that he believes Shen Yanxi still has feelings for him?
He Lingchuan found it amusing to think about it. Shen Yanxi was incredibly obedient to him, giving him whatever he wanted. He really didn't know why she would harbor such hostility towards him.
After explaining the precautions, He Lingchuan patted the two children's heads and said, "In short, don't stray too far from your dad, okay?"
"Know."
Nan Chen and Bei Chen spoke in unison, obediently following behind He Lingchuan.
However, even with He Lingchuan's meticulous attention to detail, there are still times when he misses something.
When Nan Chen fell into the swimming pool, He Lingchuan was replying to Gu Chengze about work.
Hearing Bei Chen's call, he disregarded Gu Chengze's work, threw down his phone, and ran towards the swimming pool.
He arrived just in time; Nan Chen's shirt had just been soaked by the pool water.
He didn't care about anything else, and without even taking off his clothes, he jumped down without hesitation.
Fortunately, the pool water wasn't deep, and Nan Chen was small and thin, so He Lingchuan didn't have to exert much effort to pull the child out.
"Daddy, Daddy..."
Nan Chen clung tightly to He Lingchuan's neck, pressing his cheek against his shoulder. He was terrified and cried incessantly.
When Shen Yanxi arrived, she saw Nan Chen nestled obediently in He Lingchuan's arms, with Zhou Mingyan standing next to him, completely soaked.
After learning the whole story, Shen Yanxi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhou Mingyan squeezed Shen Yanxi's shoulder, trying to comfort her in this way: "Put it down, the child is fine."
Shen Yanxi looked at him, who was soaked to the bone, and said with heartache, "It's a good thing you're here. If anything had happened to Nan Chen, I would never have forgiven myself."
"It's alright, it's alright, I'm here."
Zhou Mingyan gently pulled the person into his arms to comfort him, his eyes tender.
"Shameless."
He Lingchuan sneezed suddenly, staring into Zhou Mingyan's eyes and pressing him, "Did you save Nan Chen and then you're taking credit for it?"
Nestled in Zhou Mingyan's arms, Shen Yanxi sat up and looked at He Lingchuan with disdain: "That's still better than you being indifferent."
“You need to be reasonable. If it weren’t for me, you really wouldn’t be able to see Nan Chen.”
He Lingchuan was telling the truth. The situation was urgent at the time, and if it had been a second later, Nan Chen might have sunk to the bottom.
Shen Yanxi didn't believe it, so He Lingchuan offered to check the surveillance footage.
"Let's see how Nan Chen fell into the water."
He had clearly warned Nan Chen beforehand not to go near the swimming pool, and that someone would definitely take him there.
In order to find out who the murderer was, He Lingchuan broke into the monitoring room.
When you turn to the surveillance footage of Nan Chen falling into the water, you can clearly see a black figure circling around Nan Chen, and the next second, Nan Chen falls into the water.
He Lingchuan looked at the figure and felt that it looked familiar.
He turned his head away to look at Zhou Mingyan, his brows furrowed, as if he had thought of something.
What are you looking at?
Zhou Mingyan looked at He Lingchuan with some excitement, and even spat out a few drops of saliva.
“These are your men.” He Lingchuan said with certainty, “You sent your men to push Nan Chen into the water.”
Zhou Mingyan's expression froze for a moment, but he quickly returned to normal: "Where's the evidence?"
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