Good husband and father
A pot-bellied man came over and said, "What a coincidence, Mr. Shao! I was just looking at you over there for a long time, but I didn't dare to recognize you. I haven't seen you for several years, and you're still so energetic!"
Zhenzhen looked at the unfamiliar face in front of her and nervously reached out to Shao Zizhuo: "Dad."
Shao Zizhuo picked her up and politely replied to the man: "Mr. Feng, long time no see. I have been abroad for a while and just returned."
Mr. Feng looked at the child in his arms and said in surprise, "Mr. Shao is a father now?"
Shao Zizhuo held the child and chuckled, "Yes." He lowered his head and said to Shao Kezhen, "This is Uncle Feng."
Zhenzhen tilted her head and smiled at Mr. Feng, then obediently called him, "Hello, Uncle Feng."
Mr. Feng looked at the pretty baby in front of him and smiled: "Hello, hello." The child is very cute, but why does this child look like the same person?
"Baby, do you like this kind of chocolate or this one?" Guan Shanyue walked over from the gap between the shelves and rushed in front of them unconsciously.
Woohoo, how could Mommy say that? If Daddy finds out, he will definitely not let her eat it. Zhenzhen popped her head out from Shao Zizhuo's arms and anxiously tried to stop Guan Shanyue: "Mommy, I don't like chocolate!"
Mr. Feng suddenly looked at the person in front of him? Guan Shanyue? The mother of Shao Zizhuo's child? This???
He was a bit confused when he received this information, but he quickly came to his senses and forced a smile: "Boss Guan and Boss Shao are getting married without even telling us, and you still want to come and share in their happiness."
Why are partners everywhere? Guan Shanyue looked at the familiar person in front of him and suddenly didn't know what expression to use to face him.
The words "There's no point in making excuses" slowly popped up in her mind, and she had no other unnecessary thoughts.
She looked at Shao Zizhuo for help. Shao Zizhuo received her gaze, chuckled quickly, and took over the conversation to explain: "We haven't had the wedding yet. If we do, we will definitely not forget to invite Mr. Feng."
Mr. Feng smiled with satisfaction, his slit-like eyes narrowed so tightly that his pupils were almost invisible. "Then I'll wait for good news."
After a few more casual words, Mr. Feng left pushing the fully loaded shopping cart.
He turned around and saw a family of three pushing a cart away. He quickly took out his phone: "Guan Shanyue and Shao Zizhuo are together and have a child. They came out tonight and I have something to tell you."
While the adults were talking, Shao Kezhen quickly found a corner to hide the chocolate that Guan Shanyue had just quietly thrown into the car, and pressed it down with vegetables. When everything was ready, she looked up and suddenly found that her parents didn't say a word. The two of them were separated by an entire shopping cart, like strangers who didn't know each other.
She scratched her head a little bewildered, trying to recall what the strange uncle had just said. Did he say anything to make her parents unhappy?
Was it because of the wedding? Zhuangzhuang realized he hadn't attended his parents' wedding when he saw that he wasn't in the photos. He was mad at his parents for that.
Could it be that the uncle was also angry because Mom and Dad didn’t invite him to the wedding, and then his question made Mom and Dad angry again?
But she hadn't even attended Mom and Dad's wedding. Mom had only been in her life for a short time, and she wasn't angry at all. Why was Uncle angry? And Mom was back now. Dad had said they were going to have a wedding sometime soon. Wasn't Uncle angry too soon? Dad had agreed to invite him, after all.
Oh, but my dad didn’t agree to it.
Zhenzhen is a good child who asks questions whenever she has doubts: "Dad, if you and Mom have a wedding, will you invite me?"
The child's innocent words made the two adults stunned.
Guan Shanyue opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say, so he swallowed his words back.
Seeing that they were both silent, Zhenzhen suddenly remembered what happened before her father took her to meet her mother. She grabbed the edge of the shopping cart with both hands, climbed out of the car, and reached out to hug Guan Shanyue: "Mom, have you not forgiven Dad yet?"
A soft little ball crashed into Guan Shanyue's arms. She reached out to hug Zhenzhen, but she didn't know where to begin. She had already learned to express herself to Shao Zizhuo, but how to translate those complex thoughts into language that a child could understand? She still had a lot of work to do.
Guan Shanyue suddenly felt pressured. She brushed aside the loose hair that covered Shao Kezhen's eyebrows and eyes. Just as she was about to speak, Shao Zizhuo beside her explained, "Mom is willing to get along with us, right?"
Zhenzhen nodded vigorously.
Shao Zizhuo continued to coax them: "Will you still play with friends you are unwilling to forgive?"
Zhenzhen shook her head vigorously.
Shao Zizhuo touched Zhenzhen's head, his hand accidentally brushing against Guan Shanyue's. She froze and silently retracted her hand. Shao Zizhuo's hand paused, then quietly changed direction: "Baby, Mom's attitude is very clear, but Mom is a big child, not a little kid like you, so give Mom some time, okay?"
Zhenzhen seemed to understand but not quite, and nodded in confusion.
Guan Shanyue's heart was gradually loosening, and the wall called "trust" was being built, as if to completely suppress the previous conflicts.
This kind of tremor continued until she was sitting on the fourteenth floor of Lanyuan. Shao Kezhen was playing with building blocks in the living room. The colorful blocks were scattered on the carpet. She looked up and could see the back of Shao Zizhuo wearing an apron and cooking in the kitchen. The sound of the blender rang out, briefly becoming the only world sound in her cochlea.
Guan Shanyue was a little dazed.
After she lost her family, she was unwilling to stay for a long time. It turned out that in another world, she had to move out of the rented house every two years. Later, when she came here, she bought one house after another, but did not live in any of them for a long time.
She longed for a "home," but the trauma she'd experienced was like an irreparable wind tunnel, embedded in her life. Because she'd lost it before, she feared ever having it again.
But at this moment, she was a little unsure, did she have a home?
She looked around hesitantly, but Zhenzhen was nowhere to be seen. She looked towards the kitchen anxiously, and her heart sank again.
When she wasn't paying attention, Zhenzhen ran into the kitchen at some point. The kid, as tall as her thigh, grabbed the corner of Shao Zizhuo's clothes, stood on tiptoe, and opened his mouth to ask for food. Shao Zizhuo picked up the crimson meat with chopsticks, blew on it, squatted down and put it into Zhenzhen's mouth.
Perhaps, this is her home?
May I?
Guan Shanyue ate the meal absent-mindedly, and while Shao Zizhuo was washing the dishes, he said goodbye to Zhenzhen.
Zhenzhen, wearing a knee-length nightgown and holding the little rabbit, stood at the door, reluctant to leave: "Mom, can't I sleep with you today?"
Guan Shanyue pinched her cheek: "Not today, can you wait for a while?" She needed time to sort herself out.
Zhenzhen hugged her obediently, then reluctantly let go, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes. "Will Mommy come pick me up tomorrow?"
Guan Shanyue stretched out her little finger and said, "Pink pinky promise, mom will come to pick you up tomorrow." Zhenzhen reached out and burst into laughter.
The door was opened gently, and the sound of the combination lock was heard. Shao Zizhuo paused while washing dishes, and then he sighed for a long time.
Guan Shanyue was just about to go upstairs when an unfamiliar phone call came in. She picked up the phone, confused, "Hello, what can I do for you?"
The other party chuckled: "Hello, Miss Guan, I am Yuan Wangshu."
It was an unexpected call. Guan Shanyue walked out of the elevator, stood at the door, and took it seriously.
The man on the other end paused and then said, "I heard from the clerk that you were looking for me that day, but I happened to be away. I wonder if Miss Guan is free today? Would you be so kind as to let me buy her a drink?"
That day? Shao Zizhuo suddenly appeared, and she was upset and desperate to seek medical help. Guan Shanyue also smiled: "My pleasure."
Guan Shanyue imagined a meeting with Yuan Wangshu. Yuan Wangshu was on the stage, and she was just an audience member. The moment the lights came on, from Yuan Wangshu's perspective, she was just an audience member with a blurred face.
But she didn't expect that the first serious meeting would be completely different from what she had imagined.
Yuan Wangshu, wearing a loose shirt, tilted his head and smiled in the brightly lit bar, "We are not alike at all. Zhao Yi and the others were really blind back then."
The cocktail in Guan Shanyue's hand swayed with her smile: "A little bit, after all, beauties are all alike."
Yuan Wangshu smiled coolly, completely different from her frail appearance on stage. "Yes, yes, yes!" She asked Guan Shanyue curiously, "Why did you look for me that day?"
They were barely in the same circle, so they should have run into each other on many occasions. But whether intentionally or not, there was no interaction between them, as if it was fate's will.
Guan Shanyue smiled apologetically: "I saw your opening performance the other day, and then I saw someone who looked a lot like Shao Zizhuo, so I wanted to ask you something."
Yuan Wangshu's eyes widened: "He returned to China?"
Guan Shanyue was stunned: "Don't you know?"
Yuan Wangshu said sincerely, "I don't know. I have a good relationship with him, but we don't contact him often." She observed Guan Shanyue's expression and told him everything about her and Shao Zizhuo. "That's the truth. The so-called white moonlight, the golden boy and jade girl, are all fake."
Yuan Wangshu stretched out her hand, the diamond ring on her ring finger reflecting six colors of light. She looked at Guan Shanyue, the light in her eyes even brighter than the diamond: "I'm getting married!"
Guan Shanyue was completely stunned. Yuan Wangshu was engaged?
Yuan Wangshu twirled the ring on his finger. "He's a drug enforcement officer. My parents thought he was too dangerous and didn't want me to marry him, so they deliberately suppressed the news, so not many people knew about it."
Guan Shanyue looked confused, she had not received any news at all.
Seeing her like this, Yuan Wangshu blinked and suddenly smiled, but the smile faded slightly. His eyes were firm and persistent. "His father was also a policeman. Because the information was accidentally leaked, he was discovered by drug dealers while undercover and died. He has wanted to be a policeman since he was a child. It was his dream."
Yuan Wangshu seemed to have found an outlet to vent his unspoken thoughts and worries. With unwavering support and responsibility, he expressed them to Guan Shanyue: "I'm worried about him, but I know he has his own path to take, just like I have my own dreams."
She smiled a little sadly, "He didn't want to marry me, or rather, he didn't want to marry anyone else. I forced him to marry me, which made him very annoyed. He finally agreed, but it was just an engagement. We had to wait until he had completed his mission and retired from the front line before getting married."
She downed the prepared liquor in one gulp: "Okay, let's not talk about me anymore. What about you guys? How are you and Shao Zizhuo doing now?"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
