"Mom, is uncle our father?" Shen Jinxi blinked her big watery eyes and looked at Shen Qingli with curiosity.
Hearing her daughter suddenly ask this, Shen Qingli's heart suddenly tightened, and an indescribable feeling of tension instantly surged into her heart.
She quickly squatted down, looked at Shen Jinxi at eye level, and asked softly, "Xiaobao, why do you think so?"
Shen Jinxi bit her lip, seeming to be thinking about how to answer this question.
After a while, she whispered, "Mom, there's actually no special reason. I just feel that uncle is very good to us and he feels very much like my dad."
After saying this, the little guy carefully observed his mother's expression, fearing that he might say something wrong and make her unhappy.
Hearing this, Shen Qingli couldn't help feeling sad.
She also wanted to give them a complete home, but she and Zhou Yanchen...
She gently touched Shen Jinxi's head and comforted him, "Baby, even if you are not my father, I still love you and your brother and will always be with you."
However, Shen Jinxi seemed to have guessed what her mother was thinking, and quickly added:
"Mom, don't be angry, I was just asking casually. I know that no matter what, you love me and my brother the most!"
Hearing her daughter's caring words, Shen Qingli's eyes suddenly became red.
Yes, why doesn't she want to give her children a complete family?
But the reality is so cruel. The complicated past between her and Zhou Yanchen has always been like an unbridgeable chasm between them.
After taking a deep breath and trying to calm down, Shen Qingli looked at the two children again and asked softly:
"Dabao, Xiaobao, if mom says this uncle might be your father, do you want to live with him?"
Shen Jinnan stared at his mother Shen Qingli, and said word by word, "Mom, even if you are my sister and my biological father, I will not live with you."
When Shen Qingli heard this, she subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch her son's head, trying to calm her inner turmoil, but her hand dropped down weakly halfway through.
Shen Jinnan continued, "I will go find you to settle the score. For so many years, you have worked so hard, but you have never shown up once. You don't deserve it."
"Sister, let's go play in the bedroom."
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and ran quickly towards his bedroom. His small back was full of stubbornness at this moment.
"Dabao, Xiaobao..." Shen Qingli called softly, with a slight tremor in her voice, but the only response she got was the sound of the bedroom door closing gently.
Shen Qingli looked in the direction they were leaving, feeling mixed emotions.
She was a little confused. Why did the children suddenly ask this question?
Over the years, she has raised two children alone. Although it was hard, she has never mentioned her role as a mother in front of her children.
She tried hard to create a warm home for her children, but something was missing.
Shen Jinxi sat on the carpet in the bedroom, her face wrinkled, "Brother, is uncle really our father?"
Shen Jinnan came and sat down in front of her, "Well, it's very likely."
"But let's not mention it in front of Mom, she will be sad."
"Also, don't call 놛 anymore. 놛 doesn't want us, and we don't want 놛 either."
Shen Jinxi actually hopes to have a parent like her, but her brother is right, if she doesn't want them, then she will be fine.
At night, after Shen Qingli coaxed them to sleep, he returned to his bedroom.
She sat by the window, the moonlight was like water, pouring over her body, outlining her slightly tired figure.
She knew that children longed for love all the time. Every time they saw other children playing and laughing with their parents, she saw the envy and loss in the children's eyes and felt pain in her heart.
But she couldn't confess to Zhou Yanchen that the child was his.
That man, once the light of her life, plunged her into endless darkness at the most critical moment.
The present Zhou Yanchen made her even more confused.
…
At this moment, Zhou Yanchen and Bai Heng were sitting in a private room of a high-end club.
The lights in the box were dim and the music was flowing softly, but it could not dispel the gloom in Zhou Yanchen's heart.
Bai Heng looked at the man next to him. Today, he took the initiative to ask him out for a drink. Bai Heng felt something was wrong.
In other words, Zhou Yanchen seemed to have never been normal in the past five years.
"Yan Chen, what happened? Are you in a bad mood?" Bai Heng asked cautiously.
Zhou Yanchen suddenly put down the wine glass in his hand and turned his head to look at Bai Heng. At that moment, his eyes were filled with confusion and helplessness. Then he asked, "Bai Heng, how can I win back a woman's heart after breaking it?"
Hearing this, Bai Heng's eyes lit up. This was the first time that he took the initiative to discuss this issue with her.
"Yan Chen, whose heart did you break?" she asked curiously.
Shen Qingli's face appeared in Zhou Yanchen's mind, that was the face that haunted his dreams for countless nights.
놛's eyes dimmed for a moment, as if he was lost in endless memories.
"Forget it. You won't get the answer even if I ask you." 놛 said with a wry smile, and then reached out for the wine glass on the table.
Seeing this, Bai Heng reached out and pressed the wine glass, "Why can't you ask? I haven't even said a word yet."
놛 looked at Zhou Yanchen seriously, cleared his throat and said, "It depends on how the injury occurred. If it was to the heart, it would definitely be difficult."
“I don’t know if you’ve ever heard the saying, a rope that has been cut will always have a knot no matter how you tie it. It’s easy to reconcile, but it’s hard to go back to the way it was before.”
Bai Heng's words were like a bolt of lightning, striking Zhou Yanchen's heart.
She leaned weakly on the sofa, muttering to herself, "It's easy to make peace, but it's too hard to go back to the way it was before."
Thinking back to the time I spent with Shen Qingli, those days were full of arguments and misunderstandings.
At that time, I was too stubborn and conceited, and I didn't know how to love or cherish.
When she finally understood, Shen Qingli had disappeared from her world.
놛 and Shen Qingli have very few good memories. It can be said that they have almost no happy times with each other. How can they go back to the way they were before?
But I really can't let you just give up like this.
There is also a child. If you knew she was pregnant, you would never divorce her.
Thinking of the things I did in the past, I really wanted to kill myself.
I repaid the wrong favor and hurt her heart.
Bai Heng looked at Zhou Yanchen's distraught look and was very curious. Who was the woman in his heart?
But seeing Zhou Yanchen immersed in pain, he couldn't bear to ask any more questions.
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