Chapter 175 "Our Yu'er is back."
Li Zhi squeezed Lou Yanjing's hand tightly.
She only felt that the sound of her heartbeat superimposed on the creaking sound of her high heels made it even more difficult for her to breathe.
Until the staff pushed the door open.
The corridor with transparent walls casts the sunset light into the empty and clear terminal.
Li Zhi's breathing couldn't help but pause for a moment.
She raised her eyes and looked towards the airport entrance, and saw two figures standing side by side in front of her, also looking expectantly in the direction she came from.
The woman's eyebrows and eyes are dignified, bright and beautiful.
The man was cool and calm, wearing a suit and tie.
Yu Lanci and Qi Heqing had waited for Li Zhi for too long. Watching the group of people walking across the corridor bridge, the mottled light and shadows seemed as if twenty-four years had passed.
They looked at Li Zhi.
Thinking back to her porcelain-white, sweet face when she was a baby, it gradually overlapped with her bright, longing eyes now.
Especially the red mole slightly to the right of the tip of the nose.
It matches exactly.
This made Yu Lanci tremble her eyelashes and raise her hand to cover her lips. She couldn't help but redden her eyes, and tears welled up in an instant.
"Yu'er..."
"Yu'er..."
Yu Lanci, who has always been very concerned about her image, had her delicate eye makeup wet with tears the moment she saw her daughter.
She clutched Qi Heqing's sleeves even tighter, and turned to look at him with tears of joy: "It really is our Yu'er!"
"Yes." Qi Heqing chuckled softly.
He gently rubbed Yu Lanci's back with his palm and coaxed her in a gentle voice: "Our Yu'er is back."
But Yu Lanci no longer cares about her husband.
She quickly retracted her gaze, let go of his sleeve, and turned to look at Li Zhi again with tears in her eyes.
She really wanted to rush up and hug her, but she was afraid of scaring her daughter when they met for the first time, so she restrained herself helplessly, with a tentative look in her eyes.
"Yu'er..."
Yu Lanci opened her lips slightly, breathing shortly, and said in a sobbing voice: "I am a mother..."
Li Zhi blinked her eyelashes slightly.
She looked at the woman who had always appeared in Lou Yanjing and Qi Jiashu's mouths a few days ago and who was finally standing in front of her. A strange wave was stirred in her already uneasy heart.
Yu Lanci's tears are sparkling.
She looked at Li Zhi eagerly and with bright eyes.
Even though her eyelashes were wet with tears, they could not hide the expression and look in her eyes.
Porcelain-white face, bright eyes.
The traces of time seemed to be few on her face, but they were concretely consistent with other people's previous descriptions of her.
She does seem to look very much like Yu Lanci.
Whether it's the eyebrows or the expression.
It seems that there is at least 50% of her shadow in them.
The small curled nose that neither Qi Yubai nor Qi Jiashu had was also seen in Yu Lanci's facial features.
Li Zhi's heart couldn't help but tremble.
During those few seconds of looking into Yu Lanci's eyes, it was as if there was a magical bond of kinship that suddenly brought her heart, which had been far away, closer to her.
Li Zhi looked at Yu Lanci carefully.
His lips parted slightly, as if testing: "...Mom?"
Hearing the word "Mom" after twenty-four years, Yu Lanci's tears almost burst out instantly.
Qi Heqing rubbed the back of Yu Lanci's head, as if to comfort her.
Then he also stretched out his legs and took a step forward.
He was tall and slender in a suit and tie, and his expression, gestures and movements exuded the aura of a cool and noble superior.
But he bowed slightly, frowned, and looked at Li Zhi as gently as possible, and his low-pitched voice trembled a little: "Yu'er, I am your father."
Li Zhi turned her head and looked at the man again.
When their eyes met, Li Zhi only felt that Qi Heqing and Qi Yubai's fair jade faces looked extremely similar.
It was just that Qi Heqing's aura seemed stronger than his, and the lines at the corners of his eyes and eyebrows were colder and clearer. Perhaps it was because of his status as an elder, the years had made him stable and mature, but also polished away some of his sharpness, revealing some warmth and kindness.
These can be removed.
What Li Zhi noticed first was actually the small red mole a little to the right of Qi Heqing's nose tip.
A small mole, as red as a red bean, forms a great contrast with his overall temperament, thus adding a charm of attracting peach blossoms to his cold and reserved bone structure.
But...
The little mole was in exactly the same place as hers.
Li Zhi's heartstrings trembled violently.
For the first time, she clearly felt what genes, blood, and ties were.
It was like an epiphany—
Suddenly, she understood completely why everyone had been puzzled and said that she looked nothing like Qiao Moya and Jiang Hualin.
Because she was not like them.
Her real biological parents now stood before her.
She inherited the small red mole on the tip of her father's nose, and has 70% of his bone structure and 50% of her mother's eyebrows and eyes.
She wasn't supposed to look like anyone else.
Li Zhi's eyes also began to heat up.
She looked at Qi Heqing, her long eyelashes fluttered twice, and when she slightly opened her lips, she suddenly sucked in a choking breath, but quickly calmed down: "Dad."
Qi Heqing felt a little sore in his throat for a moment.
Yu Lanci, whose tears had already burst, could no longer hold back her tears. She suddenly stepped forward and hugged Li Zhi in her arms.
"Yu'er, I miss you so much..."
Yu Lanci's tears fell, she closed her eyes, and her eyelashes, which had already been wet, drooped in clusters on her eyelids.
The voice was choked with sobs.
And the occasional sobbing: "Mom thought she would never see you again."
Long-lasting longing is like traveling through a time tunnel.
The release of emotions and the sense of being in one's arms greatly compensate for the longing that was once unattainable.
Li Zhi was held tightly in Yu Lanci's arms.
She felt her body heat, even touched her warm tears as they fell, wetting her neck.
She even felt that she had been thinking too much along the way.
Before she started worrying about whether her parents liked her, it seemed that something called blood relationship had already influenced her emotions, and emotions always come before reason.
She will be moved and eager.
I look forward to the love of my parents.
I also want to try to get close.
Li Zhi's eyes were red.
Two lines of tears fell from her clear and bright eyes like lychees. The tip of her nose turned red. Feeling Yu Lanci holding her tighter and tighter, she also tried to raise her hands slightly.
Cautiously and tentatively, he gently hugged Yu Lanci back, his vision blurred by tears.
See the scene of relatives recognizing each other.
The old housekeeper had already been secretly wiping away tears.
Qi Jiashu even tilted his chin up, his neck tensed, and all the muscles in his body seemed to be helping him hold back the tears in his eyes.
Even Qi Heqing and Qi Yubai, who were usually cool and steady, couldn't help but have red eyes, and tears could be vaguely seen flickering in their dark and deep pupils.
"I'm glad you're back."
Qi Heqing's voice was slightly hoarse. He gently rubbed his daughter's head beside his wife and said, "It's good to be home."
The entire private airline terminal seemed to be filled with the strong family love at this moment.
Lou Yanjing and Sang Ying stepped aside temporarily.
Let the Qi family digest the feeling of bringing their daughter home and finally being brought home.