The garden is quite far away, and it was already five in the morning when we got off the bus. Some old men had already gotten up for morning exercises.
Qu Lingyuan looked at her and Xie Zian's hands naturally intertwined, and sighed silently in her heart.
It seems like I have to go through another period of ambiguous relationship without any official status... I'm so tired.
She looked up at the sky, and her eyes habitually stopped at her own floor as they swept across the buildings. She suddenly stopped and frowned.
"Why is the light in my living room on? I turned off all the lights before I left. I remember it clearly..." After saying this, she hesitated for a moment, and suddenly her expression became stern. "No one is coming into my house, right?"
Xie Zian also looked up at the building, but he wasn't as excited as her. He said calmly, "This kind of burglary hasn't happened in many years. The door lock is very difficult to crack. Let's go. I'll go up with you and take a look."
Qu Lingyuan nodded and held his hand tighter.
If it was really a burglary, the person who could crack the door lock must be very powerful.
Going upstairs, to be on the safe side, she and Xie Zian each covered their faces with one hand to prevent the door from automatically unlocking after recognizing their faces.
After preparing herself mentally, Qu Lingyuan rang the doorbell.
Time passed by minute by minute, and just when I thought no one would answer in the house, the door was suddenly opened from the inside.
Qu Lingyuan was so scared that she took a step back. After seeing who was in the room, everyone present felt embarrassed.
"Dad...? Mom...?"
After all, they hadn't seen each other for many years, and she didn't know what expression, action, or tone to use to face them.
When the two parents stood at the door, their eyes first fell on Qu Lingyuan's face, then moved to Xie Zian's face, and finally looked at their hands clasped together.
"You guys..." Qu Shaonan said with mixed emotions, "In the middle of the night..."
His memory still lingered on his daughter's ten-year-old self. How could she, once an innocent, pure, and lovely little girl, disappear in the blink of an eye and now... she was old enough to go out with wild men at night?
"You... don't think too much, we just went out to play for a while..." Xie Zian saw that his eyes were not right and hurriedly explained.
"Alas," Qu Shaonan sighed, his face clearly showing the words 'I don't believe it'. He tried to comfort Qu Lingyuan, "Forget it, our daughter is grown up now. It's your mother's and my fault that she hasn't been home for more than ten years. It's normal for you to be lonely..."
Both he and Qu Lingyuan's mother Li Muqin looked heartbroken.
Xie Zian's face became more and more embarrassed, but he did not let go of the hands that were clasped together.
Qu Lingyuan was trying so hard to hold back her laughter that she couldn't bear it any longer, so she said, "Okay, Mom and Dad, please don't bully him. This is Brother Zi'an. Have you forgotten?"
Qu Shaonan and Li Muqin finally had the mood to take a closer look at him, and suddenly realized: "It turned out to be Zi'an from upstairs. He has grown so big in a blink of an eye that we couldn't recognize him."
The smiles on their faces seemed forced, and they were obviously still bothered by Xie Zian taking his daughter out in the middle of the night.
Qu Lingyuan helplessly continued to explain: "Because you were all away during the Mid-Autumn Festival, he was afraid that I would be bored at home alone, so he took me to see the Epiphyllum. Nothing really happened, don't worry."
After hearing what she said, the parents' expressions improved a little. Their attitude immediately changed from meeting enemies to visiting relatives, and they enthusiastically wanted to invite him into their home.
"I'm so sorry, it was a misunderstanding." Li Muqin pulled Qu Shaonan away from the door.
Xie Zian yawned and did not enter the house: "She saw the light in the living room and thought there was a thief in the house. I came to take her home. I didn't sleep all night, so I went back first."
Qu Shaonan and Li Muqin didn't really want to keep him. They would rather have a good talk with their daughter with this time. So they said goodbye to him immediately and let him go home.
The remaining three walked into the living room. Qu Lingyuan was so surprised and excited to see her parents that she couldn't sleep anymore. She pulled them aside and asked, "Why did you come back so suddenly?"
Li Muqin replied gently, "The experiment has come to an end, and we have a long vacation."
Qu Shaonan glanced at her lower abdomen, his eyes soft and gentle: "And then... your mother is pregnant."
“???” Qu Lingyuan was bewildered.
She is already in her 20s, does she still need a brother or sister? This child is big enough to be her son or daughter.
The news was so shocking that she blurted out, "You guys are in the experimental base, do you still have time to create..." people?
Before she said the last word, she realized the problem with this sentence and forced the word "people" back into her stomach.
Because they hadn't seen each other for such a long time, Qu Lingyuan hardly considered them as her parents, and her words were somewhat outspoken.
Qu Shaonan and Li Muqin were a little shy and explained to her one by one.
"The accommodation conditions at the experimental base are quite good."
"Since we were a couple, they arranged for us to stay in the same room."
“It was a double room, the bed was big and the room was clean.”
"And then your mother got pregnant..."
Qu Lingyuan: “…” I don’t understand, I don’t understand anything.
Speaking of getting up, she belatedly looked towards the bedroom.
The door to the second bedroom was still closed. Her parents probably thought it was her bedroom, so they didn't open the door and go in.
However, they didn't know that she had turned the room into a recording studio, and the original bed had been dismantled into wooden boards and thrown away.
"Since you are back with a baby in your belly, I may have to move out..." she said weakly.
She doesn't like to go to the company when she's working on recording, so she must have a recording studio at home. There are two bedrooms in this house, and if there are more people, the room won't be big enough, so moving out is the best option.
Qu Shaonan was a little anxious, his eyes wide open, and he said hurriedly: "I know we haven't been here for so many years, you may blame us, but...but you don't have to leave."
Li Muqin obviously misunderstood and said in the same hurried tone: "Yes, girl, or... if you don't want me to have this child, I can abort him!"
Qu Lingyuan shook her head helplessly. "Don't overthink it. I converted the second bedroom into a recording studio for my work. This house obviously doesn't have enough room. It'll be even more crowded if we have another child in the future, so I want to move out. I never blame you, really."
She still liked children very much, and her touch on Li Muqin's lower abdomen was very gentle.
I don’t know if that’s fat or baby on the mother’s belly, but she’s already showing a bit of pregnancy.
After hearing her explanation, her parents both breathed a sigh of relief, looked at each other and nodded.
"Then you can figure it out for yourself," Qu Shaonan calmed down. Perhaps he felt that this sentence was ambiguous, so he hurriedly added, "I'm not threatening you. I really want you to figure it out for yourself..."
"Pfft..." Qu Lingyuan was amused.
The atmosphere became much more relaxed. As soon as Qu Shaonan's mind cleared, he suddenly remembered the scene at the door just now, so he asked her seriously: "What is your relationship with Xie Zian now?"
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