Jiang Yichen just ca off the negotiation table. The place he is at is a 40-minute drive from the kindergarten. If he were to pick them up and then go ho to cook, it would indeed be a bit late.
He was not assured of her taking a cab with two kids, but he didn’t say it out loud, "Okay, I’ll wait for you at ho."
[I’ll wait for you at ho.]
These four words left Lin Chu a bit at a loss, as if they were a family.
She responded softly, "Mm."
After the call ended, Lin Chu’s movents beca faster. She was no longer the pampered daughter from five years ago, who didn’t need to do anything herself and only occasionally cooked for fun.
As a ’widowed’ single mom, she had to know how to do many things.
In the past, she never rembered roads. Even in the city she had lived for twenty years, she’d often get lost, but now she could go to and from unfamiliar places alone.
Previously, even getting an injection was painful for her, but now, even if a needle as thick as a finger were to pierce her heart, she wouldn’t bat an eye.
An angry Jiang Jiang was coaxed with a box of ice cream. Qi Ming couldn’t eat those because of recent stomach issues, but Jiang Jiang always teased him.
She deliberately scooped a big spoonful and waved it in front of Qi Ming, "It’s so sweet. Do you want a bite?"
Lin Chu pulled her son, who was licking his lips, aside and said to Jiang Jiang, "Your brother is allergic to strawberries, he shouldn’t eat that."
Jiang Jiang shook her head and fed the ice cream into her own mouth, her round eyes squinting into a line as she smiled, "Then I’ll eat it all by myself."
Qi Ming, "..."
Such playful bickering was sothing Lin Chu had gotten used to.
After paying the bill, Lin Chu carried groceries for four people in her arms, while Qi Ming, forgetting past grudges, held Jiang Jiang’s hand and walked out.
While standing by the roadside waiting for a ride, Lin Chu kept looking back occasionally, and Qi Ming followed his mother’s gaze but only saw passersby, not anyone familiar.
He asked, puzzled, "Mom, what are you looking at?"
Lin Chu always felt like soone was watching her, having had this strange feeling in the supermarket too, but each ti she turned back, it was strangers she saw, everyone minding their own business, no one looking at her.
A darn illusion.
She naturally withdrew her gaze, freed a hand to straighten her son’s head, then took a step sideways to block Jiang Jiang’s curious gaze.
"Nothing, just hold onto Jiang Jiang."
It was the evening rush hour, and this being near the kindergarten ant waves of parents were arriving to pick up their children, making it difficult to hail a cab.
Lin Chu stood at the intersection for a long ti, and added to the dallying in the supermarket, her feet were going numb from standing, as she had co directly from the office, still in heels.
Just as she was fretting, a familiar car stopped in front of her.
"Daddy!"
Jiang Jiang rushed over first, and Jiang Yichen picked her up and tossed her into the back seat, soon followed by Qi Ming.
Lin Chu was a bit puzzled.
Even though they had agreed he’d go to the house first, how co he still ca here...
She watched Jiang Yichen, who had smoothly settled the two kids and was walking over, and forced out a dry smile, "Next, won’t be , right?"
A man of Jiang Yichen’s age rarely jokes around anymore.
But... seeing Lin Chu in a daze, he suddenly wanted to tease her, deliberately walking very slowly, getting very close on purpose.
Lin Chu’s breath seed to stop, instinctively leaning back. Already tired on her feet, this motion made her lose balance, with her body starting to topple backward.
Jiang Yichen naturally reached out to support her slender waist, steadied her, took the paper bag from her arms, put it in the trunk, and then opened the car’s passenger door.
His eyes filled with a smile as he looked at her, "Your turn."
Lin Chu, "..."
Her ears inadvertently turned red, and before getting into the car, she indignantly stepped on Jiang Yichen’s foot.
Jiang Yichen lowered his head and chuckled, his eyes full of affection.
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In the car.
Lun Jun looked in the rearview mirror. The man sitting in the back seed like a beast hidden in the night, all dangerous claws concealed, his danger unseen by others.
If they hadn’t investigated properly, he would almost believe that those two children were Miss Lin’s.
She had cut her hair short, and from a distance, she and the little girl looked like they were carved from the sa mold.
The relationship with Mr. Jiang seed very close.
The four of them standing together, to those unaware, appeared to be a happy family.
Ti had passed, and ultimately, so things had already changed.
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