Chapter 4 Father "Do you want a father?"
"Chengyu, please bear with it." The girl with a pretty face as bright as the autumn moon had a look of heartache on her face. With her jade-white fingers, she held a cotton swab and carefully applied medicine on the boy's face.
Han Chengyu smiled and comforted her: "Ranran, don't worry, it just looks scary, but it doesn't hurt that much."
Su Ranran's eyes were filled with tears, and her voice was choked with sobs: "It's so swollen, how can it not hurt?"
"Ran Ran, don't cry!" Han Chengyu was a little at a loss, "I really don't feel any pain. How could my mother really hit me so hard? But if you cry again, I will feel sad."
Su Ranran burst into laughter, "You just say nice things to coax me."
"I'm not kidding you. I'm serious." The boy was extremely serious.
Su Ranran put down the cotton swab and stopped laughing, "I know, I feel the same way about you. I feel bad when you're hurt."
"So," Su Ranran put her hand on the boy's bony hand, "next time you encounter this kind of situation, you must remember to hide, don't stand there stupidly and get beaten, promise me, okay?"
Han Chengyu hesitated, but when he met Su Ranran's earnest eyes, he couldn't help but nodded: "Okay, I promise you, Ranran."
Su Ranran breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help complaining, "Didn't you tell Auntie that we are just ordinary friends? The college entrance examination is coming soon, and Auntie must be worried that you will be distracted. If you explain it to her, Auntie won't hit you."
He couldn't bear to tell Su Ranran that his mother looked down on her background, and that was the reason for their argument.
Han Chengyu smiled helplessly: "I explained it, but my mother just wouldn't listen. But don't worry, my mother loves me the most, she won't really be angry with me. When we both get into college, she won't object to our relationship."
But I feel a little worried.
His mother never worried about his grades. Prejudice was the biggest source of her opposition to them.
How can one change one's prejudices?
"Eh? Chengyu Chengyu, look, is that your aunt?"
Han Chengyu instinctively looked in the direction of Su Ranran's finger and was stunned.
The woman walking towards the school gate was none other than his mother, and there was a young man following her.
After recognizing who the young man was, Han Chengyu couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly.
"Chengyu, am I seeing things right?"
"Yes, it's my mother." Han Chengyu nodded.
"Why did you come to school, Auntie? And who is the boy next to you?" Su Ranran asked curiously.
Han Chengyu's eyes were complicated, "He's my brother."
Su Ranran tilted her head to look at Han Chengyu, very surprised: "You have a younger brother? Why haven't I heard you mention it before? Do you have a bad relationship?"
Han Chengyu hesitated for a moment and said, "It's not that we have a bad relationship. My mother doesn't like him and doesn't like me to have much contact with him. In my mother's words, I treat him as a 'stranger living under the same roof'."
"Why?" Su Ranran blinked and began to think divergently: "Isn't he your mother's biological child, but adopted? I heard that some couples who have been infertile for many years adopt children to attract children. Oh, no, no, he is younger than you, so he came after you were born."
"Did he have a difficult birth and was injured? Or did someone in your family die on the day he was born, and your mother thinks he is unlucky?"
Han Chengyu was helpless and amused: "Neither, Ranran, the college entrance examination is coming soon, you should read less of those meaningless novels."
Su Ranran curled her lips and said, "I know, Aunt Han. Really, my mom isn't as nagging as you. Besides, I only read one novel this week, how can I read too much."
Han Chengyu laughed angrily and reached out to poke Su Ranran's bulging cheeks: "Mrs. Han, huh? Didn't you ask me to watch you and not read novels? Didn't you say you wanted to apply to University A? Huh?"
Su Ranran rolled her eyes, laughed, and pulled Han Chengyu's sleeve to change the subject and put the blame on him: "You haven't told me why Auntie doesn't like your brother? Don't change the subject."
Han Chengyu hesitated for a moment, not quite sure what to say.
"Hurry up and tell me, what's the reason? I'm so curious." Su Ranran shook Han Chengyu's arm and urged him.
"Because he was the child that my mom and dad had accidentally after a one-night stand after their divorce."
"Isn't that an illegitimate child?" Su Ranran blurted out.
Han Chengyu didn't say anything. It was just his guess, but it should be close to the truth.
In fact, he concealed something.
If nothing unexpected happened to Ling Yi, it should have happened to his mother during the period when she was married to his father.
But it’s not easy to say this to others.
"Does Auntie really not like your brother? It doesn't look like that." Su Ranran looked at the mother and son walking side by side in the square with suspicion.
Zhao Chengyu also looked over, and a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.
From their perspective, there is still a little distance between Ling Siyan and Ling Yi. They are not that close.
If it happened to a normal mother and son, it would be a very normal thing. But if it happened to Ling Siyan and Ling Yi, Han Chengyu, who knew Ling Siyan's attitude towards Ling Yi, would look at her with a bit of surprise.
Zhao Chengyu had no feelings or hostility towards his younger brother.
Like strangers living under the same roof.
I guessed casually: "Maybe he got into a fight again, and his teacher asked my mom to take him back to reflect on his actions!"
Ling Yi's reputation as the school bully in junior high school and Han Chengyu's reputation as the academic bully in high school are equally well-known.
Even Han Chengyu, who had never paid much attention to his younger brother, had heard of it.
When he first heard about it, he talked to Ling Yi and asked him not to cause trouble for his mother.
Ling Yi ignored him and just looked at him with gloomy eyes, which made him feel uncomfortable.
After that, Han Chengyu followed his mother and carried out the policy of ignoring it to the end.
In the square.
On the way out of the office, Ling Siyan began to try to talk to Ling Yi, but Ling Yi ignored her.
Ling Siyan didn't force it. The estrangement of more than ten years was not so easy to eliminate, so she decided to take it slowly.
The high school entrance exam is only three months away, but in the past three years, Ling Yi has had no interest in studying and cannot keep up with the teacher even when sitting in the classroom.
Ling Siyan was going to take the child home and hire a tutor for additional lessons.
After graduating from junior high school at Huaying Middle School, you can go directly to the high school department, so you don’t have to worry about not being able to go to school because of poor performance in the high school entrance examination.
However, in a family like theirs, grades are not that important, and it would be a lie to say they are not important.
What's more, although she was reborn, Ling Siyan vowed never to repeat the mistakes of her previous life.
But in this novel plot world, although it has been confirmed that it will not induce forced plots, there is no guarantee that the male and female protagonists will have the halo of the protagonist.
She hopes that Ling Yi will have the confidence and ability to survive on his own even if he has no one to protect him.
It's not like in the previous life, where one was in danger of losing his life at any moment and had to fight hard to survive...
After bringing Ling Yi back home, Ling Siyan said to Aunt Li who came over to greet her, "Aunt Li, make two dishes that Ayi likes for lunch. After dinner, please help Aunt Li clean up a room for me on the second floor."
The house they live in now is a three-story detached villa. Aunt Li lives on the first floor, she lives on the second floor, Han Chengyu lives on the third floor, and Ling Yi also lived on the first floor before.
The upper class has many requirements, which naturally includes the layout of the rooms in a house.
The first floor is usually where servants live.
Before, Ling Siyan disliked Ling Yi and didn't let Ling Yi go upstairs.
The situation is different now, so naturally, he doesn’t want Ling Yi to live on the first floor anymore.
Aunt Li was stunned for a moment, then quickly responded with a smile, "Okay."
Ling Yi lowered his eyes to look at the pattern on the floor, and uttered three words sullenly: "No need."
Aunt Li looked at Ling Siyan in embarrassment.
Ling Siyan was not displeased. A hint of smile flashed across her eyes, but her face was still cold. She asked calmly, "What about lunch? Are you still going to eat?"
She could see that Ling Yi was still resistant to her. He would never say two words when he could say one, as if saying too much would mean he consented to her approaching him.
She was curious about how he would answer.
Is it "eat" or "don't eat", or some other answer like "I don't have any favorite dish".
Ling Yi was silent for a while, then uttered one word: "Eat."
Relying on the fact that Ling Yi couldn't see, Ling Siyan didn't hide her smile this time.
The bright smile that bloomed freely and dazzlingly stunned Aunt Li.
Ling Siyan quickly stopped laughing and sent Aunt Li to cook. Then she said to Ling Yi, "Put your schoolbag in your room first, and then come to my room on the second floor."
Ling Yi turned around and left without saying a word.
Ling Siyan hadn't waited in the room for long when she heard a knock on the door.
Ling Siyan sat on the sofa in the small living room, looking at the young man who lowered his head and was unwilling to look her in the face.
After thinking for a while, I got straight to the point: "Do you want a father?"
Ling Yi suddenly looked up at Ling Siyan.
Ling Siyan looked at Ling Yi with amusement: "Why? You don't think I can give birth to you alone? I don't have that ability."
Ling Yi didn't say anything, nor did he look away, but Ling Siyan could still tell from his trembling lips that his emotions were not as calm as he appeared.
"Your father," Ling Siyan considered her words, then gritted her teeth and told her son, "is just a bastard."
Ling Yi's bright eyes dimmed in an instant.
Ling Siyan saw this and felt relieved. Although she had made a decision and would not change it, she still hoped that Ling Yi could accept that person.
"But he," Ling Siyan told his children, "loves us."
Ling Siyan recalled the man's miserable appearance. The wounds on his waist and abdomen were still bleeding, but he seemed to feel no pain. His hard eyebrows softened as he looked at the handcuffed boy. He said in a hoarse voice, "I avenged your mother."
He said, "I'm sorry I came too late and couldn't save your mother, and I can't save you either."
Finally, he said, "Don't be afraid, Yier, I will be with you."
"Although he hasn't shown up in the past decade or so, he sent people to protect us in secret." Although they failed to protect us in the end.
Ling Siyan finally asked Ling Yi: "Do you want a father?"
After a long silence, Ling Yi opened his lips slightly, his voice barely audible: "Yes."
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