Chapter 430: Chapter 296: Side Story – Choose a City to Grow Old In, With One Companion Until Our Hair Turns White (4)
Gu Yanchen’s footsteps halted, but the phone in his hand kept ringing.
Looking down at the woman who was half a head shorter than himself, claiming to be his mom, she looked surprisingly young.
He had never been embraced like this before; his heart’s softest spot had been struck, making him reluctant to leave this small yet warm embrace.
Old Master Gu stood there stunned, unable to believe and not wanting to acknowledge that the person he had devilishly trained for many years was about to be snatched away just when he began to be useful…
“Old Master Gu, naturally, I would not let you have raised for nothing,” Shen Hanxiu said, while giving Yang Zichen a signal, and Yang Zichen handed over a check.
Shen Hanxiu took it and placed it before Old Master Gu: “This sum of money, consider it for your retirent.”
Mrs. Gu’s eyes lit up at the sight of money, and she imdiately reached out to take it, but Old Master Gu pressed her hand down, making a last effort to struggle: “President Shen, there must be so misunderstanding here. Yan Chen is an orphan, how could he possibly be your child?”
Shen Hanxiu’s smile turned sowhat icy: “Orphan? So… are you cursing to death?”
“President Shen, I didn’t an that…”
Shen Hanxiu turned around, looking like he no longer wanted to say more: “Enough, I am taking the person with now. I believe Old Master Gu is well aware of the past. If you find my actions today unsatisfactory, I’d be glad to entertain you so other day.”
Saying this, he hugged Xiaoxiao and walked towards Su Nian, saying to the boy who resembled him a bit: “Is there anything you need to pack? It’s rare to move directly; we can buy new things over there.”
This was the first ti Shen Hanxiu t his son, and he acted very calmly, very familiarly, unlike Su Nian with red-rimd teary eyes.
Jin Qiu stepped forward and said breezily, “Let’s go, Boss Shen, your mom has been talking about you all along!”
Su Nian looked at Yan Chen, who made no move, and asked anxiously, “Son, are you unwilling to go with us?”
Very few won had shed tears for him, other than that little girl. This woman was the second one.
Although his childhood was devoid of light, he could still distinguish right from wrong, good from bad.
He looked at Su Nian silently wiping away her tears, then he finally spoke, “…I’ll pack my things.”
Su Nian imdiately broke into a smile, “Good, mom will help you.”
Shen Hanxiu grabbed him at once: “Help what? Wipe away your tears! Whoever makes you cry, I’ll beat them up! Even my own son is not an exception!”
Su Nian glared at him, wiping away her tears while following her son’s steps upstairs.
Yan Chen went to his room and first took out a stack of photos from the drawer and stuffed them into the suitcase, then casually covered them with a few clothes, without taking anything else.
Old Master Gu sat in the living room, unable to catch his breath for a long ti.
Mrs. Gu held the check in her hand, excitedly saying, “A million!”
Old Master Gu glared at her, “A million? Keeping Gu Yanchen could have brought us tens of millions of ‘millions’!”
Only then did Mrs. Gu realize, “Right, we can’t let them take that bastard away…”
“You want to die?! Do you not know who Shen Han is? If you insult his son, he could cut out your tongue and take your life!”
Mrs. Gu was scared, swallowing hard, “Then… what do we do? Shall we just let them leave like this?”
Old Master Gu took a breath, “What else can we do? If we go against Shen Han, our company might go bankrupt!”
…
“Old Master Gu, Shen will take his leave first,” Shen Hanxiu said with a light smile, as a large group of people followed him out.
Mrs. Gu did not forget to put on a show, her reluctance apparent as she ran to the door, “Yan Chen, you have to rember to co back and visit, we all miss you.”
Yan Chen did not speak or look back, as if heedless, following Su Nian into the car.
The family sat in the sa car with Su Bao in the front passenger seat, and Su Nian holding Xiaoxiao and sitting with Yan Chen in the back.
“Mom, who is this handso brother?” Xiaoxiao sat in Su Nian’s arms, looking at Shen Yanchen with a curious face and asked.
“This is your big brother.” She then looked towards Shen Yanchen: “Son, that one in front is your younger brother, Shen Yiran, and this little sister here is Xiaoxiao. You also have an older sister, An’an, Shen Yian. You might have heard of her.”
Shen Yanchen turned his head to glance at Xiaoxiao, who also looked up at him, her face still devoid of much expression.
“Mom, I want to hug brother.”
Su Nian smiled and then looked at Shen Yanchen, saying, “Go ahead, will brother hug you or will you hug brother?”
Xiaoxiao climbed onto Shen Yanchen’s lap, wrapping her small hands around his waist: “I’ll hug brother!”
Shen Yanchen frowned, looking down at the tiny cute creature on him with an annoyed facade, yet extended a hand around Xiaoxiao’s back as if afraid she might fall.
Su Nian felt that this child was just like his dad, cold on the outside but warm on the inside; his father was also remarkably cold at this age.
During the ride, Su Nian asked about the kids’ well-being over the years, to which he only gave curt, frosty replies: “Mhm, quite good.”
He seed unwilling to elaborate.
Su Nian had a belly full of words he wanted to say to this child, but he didn’t know how to start. He always felt that whatever he said would be useless, as the harm was already done. The only thing he could do to make ands was to doubly compensate in the days to co.
Halfway through the drive, Xiaoxiao fell asleep in Shen Yanchen’s arms. Su Nian reached out to take her: “Let hold her. She’s quite heavy when asleep.”
He glanced at the slender arms and replied indifferently: “It’s okay.”
Su Nian smiled and didn’t insist further; perhaps he was slowly getting used to this family.
At a rather harmonious mont, Shen Hanxiu suddenly blurted out: “From now on, your surna is Shen, nad Shen Yanchen. Your dad is Shen Hanxiu, and your mom is Su Nian.”
Su Nian imdiately glared at him: “Let’s talk about these things later! Your son has just returned, and you don’t even care!”
“I’m saying, Su Nian, you’re my wife, why do you always side with others?!”
“How is the son ‘others’?”
“In your world, everyone apart from is ‘others’!”
“Being unreasonable.”
Shen Yanchen turned his head to look out the window, the reflected expression on his face in the car window slowly softened.
The noisy quarreling had the taste of ho, yet the soft little thing in his arms reminded him of that little girl.
In this lifeti, he didn’t know if he could ever see her again. It had been two years; perhaps she no longer rembered him? After all, she was not even five years old at that ti.
How wonderful it would be if he were the one who had spent these years by her side?
The brows that had just relaxed furrowed once again.
After a few hours’ drive, they arrived at Mai City at eleven o’clock at night.
Having not celebrated such a lively New Year before, Shen Yanchen was also ward by the atmosphere.
Xiaoxiao seed to especially like him; after dinner, she clung to him, asking him to take her out to set off fireworks.
Watching this cheerful child, he couldn’t say no because that little girl also loved to smile.
She was the first ray of sunshine in his dark world.
Watching the fireworks bloom one after another in the night sky, listening to the lively chatter by his ear.
Shen Yanchen gazed into the night, as if trying to see through the darkness to that little face.
Miaomiao, will you wait for to marry you?
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