Fu Xiangjun was picked up by the driver arranged by Xiao Ze.
Li Wan received many calls in the afternoon. Some of them were from the media and TV stations, all of which extended olive branches to her. There was also a company that wanted to sign her to an acting contract. She even received a call inviting her to audition for a role in a movie with a considerable investment, and the lead actor was a first-line star. The director said that he accidentally saw her photo and thought she was very suitable for the role of a supporting actress in the movie. The total number of scenes was less than five minutes, and asked her if she was interested in giving it a try.
These people all contacted her through Qi Wen.
After all, Li Wan can be said to be a complete newcomer in this industry.
Qi Wen also gave Li Wan a lot of advice and helped her analyze the pros and cons.
The two chatted for the entire afternoon, but had not yet reached a conclusion.
Xiao Xiao brought Lu Ziwang back.
"Mom, why did you come back so early today?" Xiao Xiao asked in surprise.
Lu Ziwang hadn't seen Li Wan for a long time, and seemed to be homesick. Standing next to Xiao Xiao, he couldn't help but look at Li Wan with longing eyes.
Li Wan walked over and ruffled his hair gently as she did before, and said with a smile, "Zi Wang, long time no see."
Lu Ziwang's lips curled into a reserved arc, and his pair of dark eyes looked at her with a shining light.
Li Wan asked: "How are you doing in school recently?"
Lu Ziwang nodded obediently.
Xiao Xiao said: "Now everyone knows how powerful Uncle Lu Ziwang is, no one dares to bully Lu Ziwang anymore."
"It's time to eat." Aunt Xu brought the food to the table, carried Xiao Yan to a chair, and came out to invite them to eat.
"Go wash your hands quickly, and then come over to eat." Li Wan said.
Xiao Xiao took Lu Ziwang to put the schoolbag in the living room and then went to wash their hands.
"Brother! Sit down!" When Xiao Yan saw Lu Ziwang, he waved his hands and asked Lu Ziwang to sit next to him.
"Come over and sit here," Li Wan said.
Lu Ziwang walked over shyly and sat down between Li Wan and Xiao Yan.
"Lu Ziwang, this is my father."
At the dinner table, Xiao Xiao introduced Xiao Ze to Lu Ziwang.
Lu Ziwang was a little nervous.
Xiao Ze nodded to him gently.
Li Wan picked up a chicken drumstick for Lu Ziwang: "Ziwang, have a chicken drumstick. Pick up whatever you want to eat. Don't be polite at my aunt's house."
Lu Ziwang looked at her with his dark eyes, nodded obediently, and then buried his head in eating the chicken leg in the bowl.
"Where's mine?" Xiao Xiao said pretending to be dissatisfied.
Lu Ziwang immediately raised his head and looked at her uneasily.
Xiao Ze picked up another chicken leg and put it in her bowl: "Eat it."
Xiao Xiao smiled and said, "Thank you, Dad."
After the two finished their meal, Xiao Xiao asked Li Wan for permission to watch TV for half an hour. Lu Ziwang stood beside her, but he didn't seem to have much desire to watch TV, so Li Wan approved.
Xiao Xiao happily took Lu Ziwang to the living room to watch TV.
Aunt Xu came over to clear the table.
Xiao Ze asked Li Wan in an inquiring tone: "Do you want to go for a walk downstairs?"
Li Wan nodded and said, "Okay."
So the two of them went upstairs to change their clothes first, and then walked out while Xiao Yan wasn't paying attention.
"Mom, where are you going?" Xiao Xiao noticed.
Li Wan said: "Let's go take a walk downstairs."
Xiao Xiao immediately stood up and said, "I want to go too!"
Lu Ziwang next to him sat up straight subconsciously, his eyes full of anticipation.
Xiao Ze glanced at Xiao Xiao indifferently, and the suggestive message in his eyes was obvious.
Xiao Xiao received the message from Xiao Ze's eyes, sat back on the sofa, and said, "Uh... Then I won't go. You guys go, I'll watch TV at home."
"Let's go." Xiao Ze took Li Wan's hand and walked out.
"You can only watch for half an hour and then you have to do your homework." Li Wan reminded.
Xiao Xiao replied: "I know!"
Lu Ziwang watched Li Wan leave, her thick eyelashes pressed down, covering the disappointment in her eyes.
He didn't want to watch TV at all, he wanted to go for a walk with her so he could hold her hand.
"Hey, Li Wan, where are you going?" In the elevator, Li Wan and Xiao Ze met their neighbors from the same building.
She looked at them with some surprise. After all, the chance of running into Li Wan and Xiao Ze going out together in the past was almost negligible. To be precise, it was also difficult to see Xiao Ze at normal times. However, recently Xiao Ze seemed to go home every day, so she could meet him occasionally.
Xiao Ze nodded slightly.
Li Wan smiled and said, "Let's go take a walk downstairs, how about you?"
The female neighbor also smiled and said, "I'm going to the supermarket." After a pause, she added, "Your husband hasn't been so busy recently."
Xiao Ze was clearly right next to Li Wan.
However, the female neighbor was too embarrassed to talk to Xiao Ze directly, so she asked Li Wan.
However, it was Xiao Ze who answered her: "I want to spend more time with my family recently." As he said this, he took the initiative to hold Li Wan's hand.
The female neighbor saw it, looked away in surprise and embarrassment, and said, "That's good, it's good, there's no end to the money you can make."
We went up to the first floor after some polite conversation.
The female neighbor went to the community supermarket to buy things, while Li Wan and Xiao walked hand in hand in the other direction.
There is a reason why the Xiaxi Road community is expensive. There is a large area covered by green plants and the community is very quiet with no car sounds. It was also dinner time and everyone was at home. Some people came down for a walk after dinner, but not many.
Under normal circumstances, neighbors would inevitably chat with each other, but today Li Wan had Xiao Ze by his side.
Most people were not familiar with Xiao Ze, and he had a naturally cold aura, so the neighbors just nodded to Li Wan as a greeting and then went their separate ways.
Xiao Ze's hands were dry and warm, and he had been holding hers since they got to the elevator without letting go.
Neighbors occasionally cast surprised glances at him, but Li Wan didn't feel uncomfortable at all, and Xiao Ze was even more calm.
The night is dark and peaceful.
The street lights in the community emit a warm orange-yellow light. The temperature has dropped today, and Xiao Ze is still wearing a shirt and suit pants, with a khaki long windbreaker on the outside. He is a clothes hanger. When he wears a suit, he looks like a business elite, but when he wears a windbreaker, he has a bit more literary and artistic atmosphere. With his cool eyebrows and classical temperament, he is pleasing to the eye, and when he is dyed with the warm yellow light above his head, there is a kind of peaceful tranquility of quiet years.
Xiao Ze held Li Wan's hand and they didn't know when their fingers were interlocked. His cold eyes relaxed and tendered. He whispered, "I really hope we can stay like this until we grow old."
He had seldom thought about the future before.
Just let nature take its course and live one day at a time.
But recently, he often fantasized about the future, and all the future he fantasized about was Li Wan. As long as this person was still by his side, he seemed to have nothing else to ask for.
Xiao Ze waited for a long time, but there was no response from Li Wan. The light in his eyes gradually dimmed. He moved his hands and unconsciously held Li Wan's hands tighter.
......
When I returned home from my walk, Xiao Xiao and Lu Ziwang had already turned off the TV and were doing their homework in the living room.
Xiao Yan didn't make any noise. He lay on the coffee table, took a notebook and a box of colored pencils, and started drawing on it.
Xiao Ze received a call. He said something to Li Wan and went upstairs while answering the phone.
Li Wan had a rare moment of free time, so he went to the kitchen to squeeze orange juice for them, prepared some snacks, put them on a plate and took them to the living room. Then he sat in the living room to help them with their homework while sorting out the work information he had obtained from Qi Wen.
Lu Ziwang finished his homework quickly.
Li Wan suggested that he wanted to take a look.
Lu Ziwang handed the homework book to Li Wan nervously.
Li Wan discovered that Lu Ziwang had beautiful handwriting and neat layout, and that his homework was the teacher's favorite to correct.
Li Wan praised him: "Your handwriting is really beautiful."
When Lu Ziwang received her praise, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly in happiness. He couldn't help but secretly move closer and stand close to her cautiously.
Li Wan saw him approaching, and while flipping through his homework, she reached out and touched his face: "Zi Wang, you are great."
Lu Ziwang was stunned, feeling the warmth of Li Wan's palm, his heart pounding. Suddenly a layer of moist mist appeared in his eyes, but before it could take shape, he blinked it away.
He rested his head on Li Wan's shoulder and snuggled up to her.
Li Wan noticed his dependence, and thinking of what he had been through, her heart softened, and she put her hand on the back of his head and stroked it gently a few times.
When Xiao Xiao looked up, she saw Lu Ziwang leaning against her mother, and her mother was touching his head very gently. She suddenly felt a little jealous: "Lu Ziwang, do you like my mother very much?"
Lu Ziwang looked like he had been caught doing something bad. He immediately sat up straight, panic written all over his face. He grabbed the corners of his clothes with both hands, sitting there at a loss, his fair little face gradually turning red.
Li Wan rubbed his head and said softly, "Don't be shy. Auntie likes you very much, too."
Lu Ziwang turned his head and looked at her in a daze. His dark eyes seemed to be filled with light, dark and bright. He looked into Li Wan's gentle eyes, as if he was encouraged. He mustered up great courage and said to Li Wan with a red face, "I like you. I, like, Auntie."
I like her so much.
It started with her gently holding his hand, ruffling his hair tenderly, squatting in front of him to treat his wounds, and asking him with eyes full of heartache if it hurt. When he was at a loss, she said that it didn't matter if he didn't forgive her.
He had a dream. In the dream, she became his mother and accompanied him every day. He was so happy in the dream.
But after waking up, he found that it was just a dream, and he couldn't help crying under the quilt.
If only she were his mother, he could hold her hand all the time.
Li Wan could feel that Lu Ziwang might have transferred his feelings for his mother to her.
Mrs. Xiao told her that Lu Ziwang had severe post-traumatic stress disorder. The car accident three years ago was too tragic. In order to protect him from harm, his self-protection mechanism deleted all memories related to his parents from his mind. In order not to stimulate him, all the photos and objects about his parents in the house were sorted into a locked house.
Mrs. Xiao said that from that day on, Lu Ziwang no longer laughed or cried.
She held Lu Ziwang's thin little hand, gently squeezed it tighter, and said softly: "Auntie likes you too." She whispered: "Can Auntie hug you?"
Lu Ziwang opened his eyes wide, and then was gently embraced by Li Wan.
Lu Ziwang's eyes were wide open, his eyes full of disbelief. He was stiff in Li Wan's arms, and moist mist quickly rose in his eyes. But this time, before he could blink away, the mist condensed into tears, rolling out of his eye sockets. He wanted to hold back, but he couldn't. The tears kept rolling down from his eye sockets like beads with broken string.
He began to whimper softly.
But even when she was crying, she was suppressing it. She tried her best to hold it back, but the tears still came out of her throat.
Xiao Xiao didn't expect Lu Ziwang to cry. He never cried when he was bullied, but now he was crying. Was it because of what she said just now? She was a little panicked: "Lu Ziwang, what's wrong with you?"
Xiao Yan was also a little confused and helpless as he looked at Lu Ziwang who was held in Li Wan's arms. He couldn't help but run over to look at him: "Guo Guo? Are you crying?"
Li Wan held the trembling Lu Ziwang in her arms, and stroked the back of his head gently: "It's okay, it's okay, just cry if you want to..."
Lu Ziwang buried his face in Li Wan's chest, and his sobs gradually became less suppressed.
Xiao Ze finally finished the call and went downstairs. Seeing this scene, he asked, "What happened?"
Li Wan glanced at him and said, "It's okay, go and do your work first."
Seeing Lu Ziwang crying so sadly, Xiao Xiao felt very sad. She walked over, squatted beside Li Wan, and said to Lu Ziwang, "Lu Ziwang, I'm sorry."
Xiao Yan imitated him and said, "Guo Guo, I'm sorry." As he spoke, he imitated Li Wan and gently touched Lu Ziwang's back with his chubby hands, saying in a baby voice, "Guo Guo, I'm sorry."
Xiao Ze used his eyes to ask Li Wan what happened here.
Li Wan shook her head slightly, motioning him to leave first.
Xiao Ze had no choice but to walk away again.
Lu Ziwang raised his head after a long while. His fair little face was red and full of tears. His thick eyelashes were wet with tears. His pair of dark eyes became darker, brighter and clearer after being washed by tears.
Li Wan said: "Xiao Xiao, bring some tissues."
Xiao Xiao immediately took out two tissues and gave them to Li Wan.
Li Wan took a tissue to wipe Lu Ziwang's tears and found that the long and thin wound on his eyelid was so shallow that it was basically invisible.
Lu Ziwang sobbed occasionally, looking at Li Wan without blinking, his eyes full of dependence and trust.
Li Wan pushed his wet hair back and said to him, "Zi Wang, this is your home from now on. You can come anytime you want."
Xiao Xiao nodded vigorously and said, "Yes! Our whole family welcomes you."
During this period of time, she and Lu Ziwang also established a deep friendship. Thinking that Lu Ziwang cried because of her words, she felt extremely guilty and wanted to make it up to him eagerly.
A smile slowly spread across Lu Ziwang's rosy little face.
It was not the reserved smile that only pursed the corners of the mouth, but the corners of the mouth were pulled to the sides, revealing a little bit of white teeth.
It's a real laugh.
For the first time, Li Wan found herself so moved by a smile. She rubbed Lu Ziwang's wet hair and said, "Come on, I'll take you to wash your face first."
Lu Ziwang stood up obediently, then took the initiative to hold Li Wan's hand.
Li Wanhui held him, then took him upstairs to wash his face.
.....
She took a new towel, wrung it dry, and bent down slightly to help Lu Ziwang wash his face. She also wiped his wet and soft hair, then took out a hair dryer to dry his hair.
Blowing and blowing.
Lu Ziwang suddenly hugged her.
He was half a year younger than Xiao Xiao, but much shorter than her. He was so thin and small that even his school uniform looked empty. He should have been a little boy, but he looked like a ten-year-old child. Even his arms were thin and skinny. He gently and carefully put his arms around her waist, but his fingers tightly grasped her clothes.
Li Wan didn't turn off the hair dryer and continued to blow his hair.
With the noise of the hair dryer overhead.
Lu Ziwang called out softly, "Mom..."
......
Li Wan helped Lu Ziwang wash his face and dry his hair, then took him downstairs. Seeing that he had calmed down, she let him go to the toy room to play with toys with Xiao Xiao and Xiao Yan, who had finished their homework.
Li Wan played with them for a while and then walked out.
Xiao Ze was waiting for her: "What happened just now?"
Li Wan said: "You should know about the Xiao family, right?"
Xiao Ze knew what she was referring to and nodded.
Li Wan briefly described what had happened and then let out a soft sigh.
Xiao Ze touched her face with a gentle look in his eyes: "You have done very well."
Li Wan said: "I just feel a little sad."
Xiao Ze pulled her over and hugged her: "So we should cherish the present."
Li Wan hummed softly.
......
The one who came to pick up Lu Ziwang was Zhao Minhao.
Although they hadn't even exchanged a few words, Zhao Minhao said to Li Wan in a very familiar manner: "Sister, I saw your video. You are really amazing."
Li Wan said thank you politely.
Zhao Minhao suddenly said slyly: "I heard that you blocked Brother Yin?" His tone sounded a bit gloating.
Li Wan just smiled and didn't answer.
"Sister, Brother Yin really likes you, he..." Before he could finish his words, Zhao Minhao saw Xiao Ze coming out. When he met the other's eyes that were as murderous as an ice cone, his throat was immediately strangled and his voice stopped abruptly. He coughed dryly: "Wangzi, come here quickly, it's time to go home!"
Lu Ziwang carried his schoolbag and changed his shoes and walked in front of Zhao Minhao, then turned around and looked at Li Wan.
Li Wan bent down slightly and patted his head gently: "Remember what I told you."
Lu Ziwang's black eyes moved slightly, and he took a step forward, hugged Li Wan's neck, and hugged her face to face.
Zhao Minhao was dumbfounded.
......
"What kind of magic does Li Wan have? Wangzi actually took the initiative to hug her! He treated her like this and waved goodbye. I was so dumbfounded! I was good enough to Wangzi! He was always the first one I thought of when there was something fun or delicious, and he never said goodbye to me!"
Zhao Minhao, who sent Lu Ziwang back to Xiao Yin's house, said with surprise and reluctance.
Don't say goodbye.
When Lu Ziwang first came to Xiao Yin, he didn't say a word, couldn't laugh or cry, and often woke up screaming in the middle of the night. It took Xiao Yin a year before he finally heard the word "uncle" from his mouth, and then he was able to speak a few words.
But normally he would avoid talking if possible. Zhao Minhao thought about it and realized that he could count on his ten fingers the number of words Lu Ziwang had said to him in the past three years.
He had never seen Lu Ziwang take the initiative to hug Xiao Yin, let alone him.
So when he saw Lu Ziwang taking the initiative to hug Li Wan, he was so shocked that he looked at Li Wan as if he was a monster.
"How long have they known each other?" The more Zhao Minhao thought about it, the more unbelievable it became: "What on earth did Li Wan do?"
Xiao Yin, holding the phone in his hand, pulled away from his sight, turned his head and glanced at Lu Ziwang, who was curled up in his own lazy sofa reading a book.
He could feel that Lu Ziwang was indeed very different today. The look in his eyes and the expression on his face were different. For a moment, it was as if... he looked like what he should have looked like.
He also wanted to know what kind of magic Li Wan possessed.
He suddenly said to Zhao Minhao: "You go first."
Zhao Minhao opened his eyes wide: "You want to chase me away? You specifically asked me to go pick up Wang Zai, and you let me go after picking him up?"
Xiao Yin said: "What else?"
Zhao Minhao: "......"
As soon as Zhao Minhao left.
Xiao Yin walked over to find Lu Ziwang.
He squatted down in front of Lu Ziwang.
Lu Ziwang held the book in his hands, his dark eyes looking at him quietly.
Xiao Yin asked: "Did you have fun at her house today?"
Lu Ziwang nodded without hesitation, and a small smile appeared uncontrollably at the corner of his mouth.
Xiao Yin had mixed feelings: "You like her so much? Are you so happy when you mention her?"
Lu Ziwang was a little shy, but still nodded.
Xiao Yin squeezed in next to him and half-lay down, rubbing his head randomly with his palms.
Lu Ziwang couldn't help but think silently.
Her uncle's hands were nothing like hers.
He preferred her to touch his head, which was soft, warm and comfortable.
Xiao Yin asked, "What have you been doing at her house?"
Lu Ziwang said, "Homework."
Xiao Yin asked: "Besides doing homework, what else did you do?"
Lu Ziwang pursed his lips and said, "Cry."
Xiao Yin was stunned for a moment, then sat up suddenly, turned his head and stared at him: "Who is crying? Is she crying? Or are you crying?"
Lu Ziwang lowered his eyes: "Me."
Xiao Yin looked at him in disbelief: "You cried?"
Lu Ziwang nodded again.
Xiao Yin was a little overwhelmed.
Ever since that incident, Lu Ziwang hardly laughs or cries anymore.
Even if I was awakened by a nightmare in the middle of the night and screamed, I would just huddle in a corner and shiver, without a single tear in my eyes.
Xiao Yin asked: "Why are you crying?"
Lu Ziwang put his eyes on the page: "I like it."
Xiao Ze, who thought he could automatically translate most of Lu Ziwang's incoherent sentences, was also confused this time.
What do you like?
Like to cry?
Lu Ziwang raised his head again, looking at Xiao Yin with a pair of dark eyes: "Uncle, I am happy."
Xiao Yin's heart suddenly felt sour.
This was the first time he heard Lu Ziwang tell him that he was happy.
Not only will he cry, he will also be happy.
Xiao Yin's eyes were sore and he wanted to cry.
He forced himself to suppress his bitter and joyful emotions and asked, "Because of Li Wan?"
Lu Ziwang nodded without hesitation, and then said slowly: "She is fine."
Xiao Yin curled his lips and said, "She's so nice, how about I bring her back to be your aunt?"
Lu Ziwang looked at him blankly. After a while, he frowned and then shook his head firmly.
Xiao Yin looked at him in surprise.
He couldn't finish the sentence, and could only speak in a halting and extremely serious manner: "Xiao Xiao, Yan Yan, no, mother anymore."
......
The next day was Saturday.
Except for Xiao Ze who flew away on a business trip out of the province early in the morning, Li Wan and Xiao Xiao were both at home.
Not long after Li Wan finished breakfast, she received a call from Mrs. Xiao.
"I'm sorry to bother you." Mrs. Xiao said politely on the other end of the phone in a gentle tone.
Li Wan said, "No. What do you want to talk to me about?"
Mrs. Xiao said gently, "It's like this. Today is Saturday, the children are on holiday, and Zi Wang is here with me. I want to invite your family to have lunch at home. I wonder if it's convenient for you today?"
Mrs. Xiao called to invite him specifically, and Li Wan couldn't refuse, plus he really had nothing to do today.
Li Wan agreed.
After saying something to Aunt Xu, he took Xiao Xiao and Xiao Yan out.
Xiao Yan, who hadn't been out with Li Wan for a long time, was very excited and kept chirping like a bird all the way.
The Xiao family lives in the suburbs far away from the city center, owning a garden, with special parking staff and people to guide the way.
Xiao Xiao couldn't help but exclaimed: "Wow, Lu Ziwang's house is like a park."
Compared with upstarts like Xiao Ze, the Xiao family can be said to be an old-established aristocracy.
Because of the relationship with some distant relatives, Xiao Ze was able to get in touch with the Xiao family after his company grew bigger. Xiao Yin's father admired him very much and gave Xiao Ze a lot of help.
Xiao Ze has always respected him.
From a distance, they saw Lu Ziwang standing at the gate waiting for them, with Mrs. Xiao beside him.
As soon as Xiao Yan saw Lu Ziwang, he ran over with his short legs. Xiao Xiao was worried that he would fall, so she hurriedly ran after him.
Li Wan followed slowly behind.
When Xiao Yan saw Lu Ziwang, he shouted "Guoguo" and pounced on him.
Mrs. Xiao's heart tightened when she saw this and was about to step forward to stop him. Then she was surprised to see Lu Ziwang open his arms first and catch Xiao Yan who jumped into his arms.
Mrs. Xiao looked at this scene in shock.
Ever since that incident, Lu Ziwang has shut himself off from others. He doesn't pay much attention to anyone, whether adults or children. Sometimes he even reacts excessively, so when she saw Xiao Yan flying towards Lu Ziwang just now, she was so nervous, fearing that Lu Ziwang would accidentally hurt Xiao Yan.
But who wants...
"Guoguo!" Xiao Yan hugged Lu Ziwang with his chubby arms and rubbed his chubby cheek against Lu Ziwang's fair little face.
"Why."
Mrs. Xiao was shocked to hear Lu Ziwang respond and then hold Xiao Yan's hand.
When Li Wan came to her, she came back to her senses and said hurriedly: "I told Zi Wang that you were coming, and he couldn't wait to wait for you here..." As she spoke, she looked at Lu Zi Wang holding Xiao Yan's hand, feeling a little excited: "I can't remember the last time he was so close to someone..."
Li Wan pursed her lips and smiled, "Xiao Yan likes Zi Wang very much. Every time Zi Wang comes to play at home, he always pesters Zi Wang."
Lu Ziwang held Xiao Yan's hand, but his big dark eyes stared at Li Wan.
Li Wan rubbed his head.
The corners of Lu Ziwang's mouth immediately raised a small arc.
Although Mrs. Xiao had heard that Lu Ziwang was particularly close to Li Wan, she was still surprised when she saw it with her own eyes.
Normally, she wanted to see Lu Ziwang smile, but she didn’t know how difficult it was.
Then what surprised her even more was that Lu Ziwang actually spoke: "Auntie, come in." As he said this, he took Li Wan's hand and led her inside.
Mrs. Xiao was stunned for several seconds before she reacted and followed him excitedly.
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