Chapter 44

The half year buffer seems to have discouraged the mother from being direct, and she is looking forward to a long period of time for Chul-chul to learn to accept Zhou Yinchu’s presence.

But the child who pretended to be sleepy didn’t fall asleep immediately after his mother closed the door.

Instead, he quietly turned on the lamp in front of the bed, leaned against the cartoon cushion, and quietly sent a message to Uncle Zhou.

Li Che: [Uncle, tomorrow afternoon after school, can you come pick me up?

Yin: [Yes.

Li Che: [Don’t tell my mom that I want to meet you alone.]]

Yin: [Okay.]

Everyone assumed that they had to be intentionally protective of Li Che, and that the capacity of a child’s mind is always limited some of the time.

The loss of his father had indeed made Li Che more sensitive, and for a time he resisted the subject of his father.

However, it is also overlooked that children are one of the fastest groups to accept new things. As early as the moment he went to the counseling, Li Che had already instantly understood the relationship between Uncle Zhou and his mother.

His mother had always blamed herself for the death of his father, and it was clear that she had nothing to do with it.

She also blamed her mother for neglecting her, for not being able to provide him with a good environment and the best education.

However, his mother was the one who gave the most to the family, and there was no one in the world who was more perfect than his mother.

He’d been asked a lot of questions that day, and people were always trying to differentiate between different illnesses and potential future risks through all this psychological jargon – and he’d always wondered how he could do it better.

In fact, he’d been trying to figure out how to get the doctor to think he wasn’t sick faster and get out that door faster.

But the doctor’s uncle said that was a serious psychological defense.

Until then, he hadn’t felt like doing it, and pretending to be happy didn’t have much of an impact, and the only reason he’d pushed himself to do it was because he wanted his mom to worry less about him.

Mom was too tired, she had the store she ran, and her father’s twisted lawsuit …… and his own troubling studies.

But he can’t seem to share anything at this stage.

He could sense that Uncle Zhou’s presence could more or less support a part of his mother, so that no longer pessimistically fall into a repetitive and hopeless life.

Therefore, after seeing his mother hug another man without resistance, Li Che’s first thought was not that he was about to be abandoned, but that perhaps his mother might have new friends in the future.

There would be people who would rejoice in her joy, and there would be people who would feel pain when she was in pain.

In fact, when their car broke down that day, the first thing he did was to secretly contact Uncle Zhou when his mother wasn’t looking.

It could be seen that his mother’s mouth was unwilling to bother others, and as soon as Uncle Zhou appeared, his mother instantly stopped worrying about the bumps in the road in front of her, and the unseen joy that flowed out from the bottom of her eyes was something that he had never seen before at any time in his life.

His father, he thought, would not be to blame for all this.

People always supported each other through this life.

Just because he alone needed and depended on his mother, he couldn’t never allow her to start a new life of her own.

Li Che also vaguely felt that today’s dinner seemed to be a bit different from the previous ones, like a formal meal, and although the adults didn’t explicitly say so, he knew in his heart of hearts that perhaps, in the future, Uncle Zhou would become a part of their family.

However, before he officially became a member of his family, he was determined to say something to Uncle Zhou.

The next day, it was pouring rain.

The good weather for the “garden party” was short-lived; this time of year in Jiangnan was the rainy season, and rain that constantly disturbed people on their way was the norm.

Fifty meters away from the school entrance, mixed into the traffic in the Maybach was not spared, the wipers in front of the car constantly swaying back and forth to ensure that the front vision is not affected.

Sharp-eyed Li Che instantly and clearly saw the one driven by Uncle Zhou from among the many vehicles, and quickly pulled open the rear door with his hands and feet.

It was still his familiar child seat.

“Can we take a turn at the newly built Cheng Xin Bridge?” Li Che had long ago found an open field for their man-to-man conversation, so settling into his seat, he mustered up enough courage to propose to Uncle Zhou, “I’ve heard so many of my classmates say they’ve been there ……”

Zhou Yinchu quickly turned his car around at the previous intersection.

Accepted the boy’s offer.

Zhou Yinchu thought at this point that it was nothing more than a child wanting to have fun for a moment or two, and for the sake of Wen Ning, he wasn’t above refusing his request.

They spared the river and finally stopped at an artificially constructed carport.

“Want to see this view,” Zhou Yinchu didn’t mean to accuse, except that looking at the rush of pedestrians passing by, it seemed that no one would choose to enjoy the view outside the car window on this day, “Perhaps we’ll find a sunny day and come back.”

The boy on the safety seat shook his head, “Uncle Zhou, I didn’t come to see the scenery, I came over because I have something to say to you.”

“You say.”

Zhou Yinchu didn’t think the little kid had anything to say before this.

“I know it all.”

As a result, Li Che coldly opened his mouth and directly broke his perception of children, well, a man who sinks in the mall should always be comfortable about facing children.

Since Li Che was already familiar with it, he didn’t have the need to go around in circles with him, telling stories and coaxing children, and asked bluntly:

“When did you know, did your mom tell you?”

“No, my mother didn’t tell me explicitly,” Li Che shook his head and told Zhou Yinchu an exact answer earlier than he had envisioned, “On the day you guys took me to do a psychological inquiry, I knew when I walked out of Dr. He’s office.”

Zhou Yinchu didn’t move, “So, what you mean now is ……”

“Uncle, if you want my blessing, you must fulfill one of my conditions.”

That little face seems to be negotiating with him sincerely, Zhou Yinchu suddenly rises with some interest, knowing that he has no good feelings towards most children, thinking that they are just noisy playthings, always shedding tears for what they can’t get.

But by the looks of it, Wenning’s children weren’t so stupid.

There were times when he fantasized whether their child would be smarter and more daring than the Li Che at the moment if they had never been separated.

“What conditions?”

“Uncle Zhou, I’m not joking,” the little guy was instantly very serious and stern-faced, “If you really intend to be with my mom, you can’t break her heart.”

He proudly spoke about his mother, “She’s an exceptionally nice person, kind and generous to everyone, and willing to feed the injured kittens by the gutter a meal of medicine.”

“Li Che.”

It wasn’t that Zhou Yinchu didn’t buy into the idea of putting himself in the shoes of a child’s education, but he preferred to be truthful than fictionalizing a fairy tale-colored lie: “We’re already together.”

“So there’s really not much point in this sermon of yours anymore.”

“And, I’m curious if your perspective is too biased,” with regards to the child, Zhou Yinchu did not hold back but derived another angle to the question, he curiously viewed Li Che’s opinion, “If it was your mom who broke my heart, would you come out and fight for me?”

Li Che’s eyes were innocent and clear, as if he trusted wordlessly that his mother would never do such a thing, and in fact, his mother had treated him that way more than once.

“It’s not the same.” The boy was certain.

He brought it up in one sentence, “Uncle Zhou, you have favorable conditions, abundant capital, and it’s really no big deal for you to get your heart broken.”

“But my mom is different.”

The logic of a small child was surprisingly clear.

“Hoping that it’s just your mom that’s important, knowing that you’re your mom’s own son,” Zhou Yinchu adjusts the arc of the car seat so that the distance between him and Li Che is slightly closer, after which, he inadvertently stares back to mention this child, “But you should also help Uncle Zhou when necessary, do you understand? ”

“I ……”

“You’re the one who has to say ‘fair’.”

Zhou Yinchu demanded righteously, “You can’t condone your mom inflicting harm on me while pretending to turn a blind eye, right?”

Li Che bit out, “My mom is not that kind of person.”

He was puzzled as to why Uncle Zhou would ask him such a question, and even more incredulous that anyone in the world would question his mom, “The more time anyone spends with her, the easier it is to find the glimmers of light in her-”

“It’s not that I acted as my mom’s lobbyist ……,” Li Che’s classmates blushed, fearing that Uncle Zhou would misunderstand his intentions.

“I know,” Zhou Yinchu had no reason to embarrass the child, “Your mom’s kind of person can’t say such things.”

“So now that we’ve listened to your guidance on Uncle Zhou, shall we go and have an okay dinner, or go home immediately?”

“The decision is yours.”

He did not seem to be dominating, but he had already made a new arrangement, “Or perhaps, we can go and check out the restaurant’s surroundings first.”

Along the coastline, Zhou Yinchu brought Li Che to a “Pirates of the Caribbean” themed restaurant, a place he would never have ventured into in the past, but in the end, he paid attention to it because he had learned that Wen Ning also had a child.

Obviously, just because a child acts so mature on the outside doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have the world that boys aspire to.

Although, Li Che’s first reaction was whether the cost of this restaurant would be very high.

While confused, he looked up and coincided with Uncle Zhou Yinchu saying carelessly, “The meal vouchers that my friend gave me earlier, I never had the chance to spend them.”

“Uncle Zhou, then your friend must be a very good person.”

Zhou Yinchu didn’t forget to add a reminder, “First of all, I am a very good person.”

It was too late for Li Che to be skeptical of Uncle Zhou Yinchu’s level of narcissism, as he immersed himself in every dream of being a pirate- the

Expecting to fight for justice just the same.

“Are you coming over?” The man didn’t seem to be initiating the invitation, but he turned his cell phone over to the boy who was having so much fun.

Where Li Che could keep in mind his idea of knocking up Uncle Zhou at all times, he turned to his mother on the other end of the phone, “Mom, hurry up and come over as well.”

Hearing Che Che’s willing and still not like dominated voice: “What did you do to him?”

Wen Ning was puzzled, she wasn’t saying this to doubt his motives, but was only purely curious as to why Zhou Yinchu had such a powerful attraction towards Li Che-

Making the disciplined, well-behaved child all of a sudden be able to not come home even after school.

“It’s nothing, just taking him to places that kids love to go.” Drunkenness.

Wen Ning had actually long understood that this was Zhou Yinchu’s means of finding her to have dinner together, only, she hadn’t expected Li Che to cooperate obediently like that.

“Wait, mom will go over in a while and will definitely be there by six o’clock-”

“There’s no rush.” The man on the other end of the phone was forgiving and kind.

As if he would take care of everything for her.

Yes, there wouldn’t be anyone under the sky as attentive as Zhou Yinchu, and no one knew better than him how important Li Che was to him.

Zhou Yinchu certainly understood the importance of striking the snake and seizing Wen Ning’s lifeblood.

Seeing Li Che indulging in these elaborate playgrounds, Zhou Yinchu subconsciously stood outside the railing to ensure his safety.

He never admitted to the possibility of “loving the house”, and in his conversation with Qiu, this was never his child.

But when he saw Li Che almost fall from the slide, he quickly rushed to the front of the line, holding the child who was about to fall, and said coldly to the safety officer on the side, “I hope you didn’t come here to play with your cell phones.”

The setting of that home was special, with a vast view of the mountains and the sea.

On one side there was a transparent, elevated fireplace light that danced with false flames on the modern, high-transparency glass, while on the other side there was an endless view of the coastline, with the water constantly lapping against the rocks.

Li Che gave a full account of the thrilling scene that had just taken place, “Mom, I just almost fell over, but luckily Uncle Zhou held me up.”

On the Pirates of the Caribbean-themed climbing wall, the boy had a scare, holding steady for Zhou Yinchu.

“Then did you thank Uncle Zhou?” Wen Ning didn’t know why, in the past when she heard Che Che say this she was always unusually nervous, but now that Che Che was by Zhou Yinchu’s side, she instead relaxed her heart, and then whirled around and instructed Li Che, who was eating spaghetti macaroni, to say, “And shouldn’t one also pay more attention to one’s own safety while playing?”

“It is the nature of children to love to play.” Zhou Yinchu is noncommittal, and always spits out the truth inadvertently around Wen Ning, “Besides, why thank me, I’m certainly more nervous than anyone else.”

— There was no way he could lose her again.

He knew the importance Li Che placed on her, and if he wanted to maintain the relationship, he could never cause Li Che to be hurt.

In the afterglow of the evening sun, who wouldn’t look at these three good-looking people and see the epitome of a cozy little family and recognize them as a family of three.