Ji Zhinan carefully closed the door and silently looked at Li Yuan standing by the window.
No one spoke, and the atmosphere was awkwardly quiet.
Ji Zhinan frowned slightly; she saw loneliness and solitude in Li Yuan's back.
"………dad."
After much hesitation, Ji Zhinan called out to Li Yuan.
"..." Li Yuan's body visibly trembled, but he did not turn around, choosing to reply to Ji Zhinan with silence.
Li Yuan stared at the night view outside, his dark eyes somewhat dazed. After about five minutes, he finally spoke.
“Nan Nan…”
"..."
"Actually, you can live a good life without your father, right?"
My daughter has grown up; she has her own thoughts and feelings.
A girl only needs her parents' company for the first twenty years, then her boyfriend or husband for the next ten years, and her husband and children for the rest of her life.
He didn't appear when Nan Nan needed him to participate in her growth. Although he didn't miss out on her lifelong regret, he still lost the first twenty years of her life. By the time he appeared, Nan Nan had already found someone to rely on for the rest of her life and no longer needed him as her father.
Thinking of this, Li Yuan's dark eyes dimmed somewhat.
He lowered his head slightly, looking at his hands.
He never held his daughter in his arms to comfort her, he never fed her, he never took her to school, he never carried her on his back, he never... He owed his daughter so much.
"Dad has missed out on so much of you. Dad just wanted you to stay by his side for a couple more years. Dad just wanted to make up for it..."
His voice grew softer and softer, and his throat became terribly hoarse.
Ji Zhinan opened his mouth: "Dad..."
Li Yuan turned his head and looked at his precious daughter. Her eyes, which were almost identical to Xi Luo's, made him lose his composure for a moment.
He slightly curved his lips into a faint smile.
"You must be tired after a long day out. It's getting late, go wash up and rest, sweetie."
Seeing his daughter's concerned gaze, Li Yuan continued, "Dad's fine, go ahead."
"..." Ji Zhinan pursed his lips, seeing that Li Yuan had turned his back to him again, as if he didn't want to talk anymore.
After much internal struggle, she carefully left the study.
"Bang."
Hearing the door close, Li Yuan's dark eyes flickered slightly.
He left the study and went to the room at the end of the room.
Push it open, and you'll find portraits of Shiro inside.
He used to spend a lot of time in this room when he came to the capital, but since he recognized his daughter, he seems to have never come here.
Li Yuan stroked the oil painting of Xi Luo hanging on the wall, gazing at those lively eyes.
"Xiao Luo..."
His voice was faint and empty.
"We owe our daughter so much, we can never repay her..."
…………
When Ji Zhinan went downstairs for breakfast the next morning, only Eddie was in the restaurant; Li Yuan had not yet arrived.
Normally, by this time, Li Yuan would already be sitting at his desk reading emails and waiting for her to come downstairs for dinner.
Ji Zhinan looked at Eddie: "Brother, where's my dad?"
"Warrens has been planning to enter the Chinese market in recent years. There are still many situations in China that require Uncle's personal attention, so Uncle left early this morning and may not be back until very late."
It was precisely because the Warrens family wanted to target the Chinese market that Li Yuan stayed in China for so long this year, instead of flying back to Europe immediately as in previous years, which is why he didn't miss Ji Zhinan.
Li Yuan always had a job, but in order to spend time with his daughter, he devoted all the time he could to Ji Zhinan.
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