The little boy crossed his arms and said to Su Yiqing in a cute but fierce way, "Big brother, you're wrong. It's not you who's going to hold me accountable, it's me who's going to hold you accountable!"
Su Yiqing suppressed a laugh, "What does Little Ruanruan want to question me about?"
"My older brother clearly said yesterday that he would take me to watch my second brother's game today, but he didn't keep his word."
"Big brother is talking about tomorrow, but today is today, tomorrow hasn't come yet!" Su Yiqing continued to argue.
"Yesterday's tomorrow is today!" Su Ruanruan said matter-of-factly, "Big brother just doesn't keep his word!"
Looking at her fierce yet adorable little face, Su Yiqing's heart softened. "Okay, big brother didn't keep his word. Big brother was wrong."
"Big brother should be punished for his mistake!" The little dumpling stared intently at Su Yiqing with his big, watery eyes.
"Okay, big brother accepts the punishment. How does little softie want to punish big brother?"
"Lock me in a dark room and don't let me eat!" Before Su Ruanruan could speak, Su Xiaowu shouted excitedly, with a sense of exhilaration that he had finally gotten his revenge.
Su Yiqing glanced at them.
Su Xiaowu immediately gave an awkward, timid laugh: "I was just joking, just kidding, just kidding, Tyrant, don't take it to heart!"
"Big brother, you only need to answer one question," the little dumpling said after thinking for a moment.
"Okay, Little Softie, ask away."
"Why doesn't Second Brother want to go home?" the little dumpling asked, tilting its head cutely.
Su Yiqing's smile was somewhat forced, and she did not immediately answer Su Ruanruan's question.
The other three children were also staring intently at him, all wanting to know the answer.
The room was quiet for a while before Su Yiqing said in a gentle voice, "Big brother can't tell you why second brother doesn't go home, because it's your second brother's choice, and only your second brother can tell you the reason."
The little boy blinked his bright, sparkling eyes, thought for a moment, and then said, "Big brother, I understand."
Su Yiqing gently stroked the top of her soft hair. "Did your second brother have an accident during the competition today? Did it scare you?"
The little dumpling blinked its big eyes, buried its head in Su Yiqing's arms, nodded, and said in a muffled, childish voice, "I was scared."
She was genuinely terrified.
She was so scared.
If what she does upon returning is merely a process, not the end result, of changing her brothers' fate, then she has absolutely no idea how she can change their destiny.
After all, she could only know and resolve the events that occurred in the life she had traveled back to, but she could not foresee or prevent unknown dangers.
Su Yiqing sensed the little boy's fear and felt a pang of heartache. She realized once again that she couldn't let the little boy watch Su Ziyuan race cars, something that could be dangerous at any moment.
Moreover, he felt that he couldn't forcibly stop it; he should contact Su Ziyuan to unify their stance.
After returning home, Su Ziyuan sat on the balcony, recalling the scene on the field, which was exactly the same as the accident in his dream that paralyzed him from the neck down.
When Su Yiqing arrived at his house, she saw him sitting on the balcony, with cigarette butts all over the floor.
Su Yiqing frowned, his deep, magnetic voice cold, "A single accident during a race has left you so dejected. What happened to your grand pronouncements about leading Chinese racing to the world stage?"
Su Ziyuan raised his dim eyes and glanced at him, then took another deep drag on his cigarette. "You had that dream too, didn't you?"
Su Yiqing was stunned for a moment.
Su Ziyuan's lips curled up slightly as he continued, "Today's accident was exactly the same as in my dream. If the drone hadn't suddenly gone out of control, my fate would have been the same as in my dream—paralyzed from the neck down!"
Su Yiqing's gaze was deep, and the scene of his car accident flashed through his mind like a movie.
Indeed, if it weren't for Xiao Ruanruan, he might have suffered an incurable old injury from that car accident, just like in the dream, making him unable to manage the company effectively. This allowed the Qin family to take advantage of the situation, causing the Su family to collapse and leading to the tragic ends of all his brothers.
The two remained silent for a long time without speaking.
Finally, Su Yiqing didn't know what else to say to Su Ziyuan, so she patted him on the shoulder and said, "I'm leaving now. Think things through yourself."
Little Ruanruan sat by her little vegetable garden, holding a watering can, watering a small bok choy.
Su Xixi looked at the little bok choy that had been drenched by her watering can until the mud at the roots was gone, and her lips twitched. "Little dumpling, you really know how to water vegetables—some are drowning in water, and some are dying of drought!"
Little Ruanruan then came to her senses and quickly gripped the water bottle firmly with both of her little hands.
Susie sat down next to her. "Are you still thinking about your second brother not coming home?"
She was actually wondering if she had been able to successfully change the fate of her brothers, but she couldn't tell Su Xixi about it, so she could only nod.
Although Susie was wearing a pink princess dress, she was holding the little dumpling's shoulder with one hand and had one little foot on the step, showing no ladylike demeanor whatsoever.
"Little dumpling, let me tell you, don't think about these things. You won't understand them anyway. Adults' thoughts are too complicated for us to comprehend."
If you really want your second brother to come back and stay, you might as well go and beg him. He loves you anyway, and maybe he'll soften and come back.
"Hmm, that makes sense."
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw a car parked in front of the villa.
Su Yifan hurriedly walked in carrying a file folder. His gaze fell on the little dumpling Su Qianqian in the distance before he went straight into the main building of the villa.
Su Xixi looked at the little dumpling with some trepidation, "Little dumpling, Third Brother's expression is a bit off. Could it be that you're really not a child of our Su family?"
After she said that, the little dumpling herself became a little uneasy, and even wondered if the information she had looked up before she transmigrated was wrong, and that she was not a child of the Su family.
After all, before she traveled through time, she didn't have the opportunity to test her DNA to determine her identity.
Their identity was determined solely based on various pieces of evidence.
Su Yifan went straight to the second floor, to Su Yiqing's former study, only to find it completely empty.
Just as he was wondering, Su Yiqing came down from the third floor and saw him. "The results are out?"
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