Wen Nian paused slightly; she really did have one.
I couldn't resist taking a picture to record it because I thought it was so cute.
But because he felt she was a burden, he abandoned her.
The weight of a biological child can sometimes be so heavy that an adult cannot bear it; and sometimes so light that a single photograph can cover it all.
How ironic.
Wen Nian finally gave up and simply sent the photo to Lin Cheng.
Perhaps Huo's methods were too ruthless for her to resist, or perhaps when she looked at that photo again, a trace of guilt stirred up in her heart was packaged as maternal love in a self-indulgent way.
In the dead of night, everyone at the Huo residence slept soundly, and all was quiet.
Huo Qin sat silently in the study, his fingertips twirling the printed photo, his long eyes slightly lowered, his gaze tracing the outline of the baby's face again and again.
He just stared at it, as if trying to witness her birth through this thin photograph and make up for the three years he had missed.
The study light didn't go out until 3 a.m.
Huo Qin took a shower in another room, and only after the chill had dissipated did he quietly lie back down on the bed.
His fingers groped under the silk quilt until he gently cupped that delicate hand in his palm before closing his eyes.
That night, Hochin had a rare dream.
But in his dream, he became an acrobat breaking a boulder on his chest.
—Hochin was woken up by the pressure in the early morning.
A cool breeze, carrying the scent of milk, brushed against my eyelids.
He frowned slightly and slowly opened his eyes.
Then I came face to face with a pair of teary, dark almond-shaped eyes, the rounded curve of which gradually overlapped with the baby in the photo.
Chaochao nestled against Huo Qin's chest, her messy hair resembling that of a mad concubine in a cold palace, but all her appearances couldn't outweigh the baby's tearful, childlike voice—
"Daddy, are you having another baby behind my back?!"
Completely unaware that he had a second child, CEO Huo was left speechless: "...?"
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