"She did something wrong, and I, as the older brother, can't even say a word!" Fu Hongjiang said with a pained expression, looking at Fu Xiong and Liu Yuelian and asking, "Dad, Mom, I know you were unhappy with the decision that Ayun and I made back then, but the two children are getting along so well now, and they even have a child together. Why do you still want to break them up? Aren't you treating their marriage like a game?"
Fu Xiong and Liu Yuelian wanted to say a few more words, but when the children were mentioned, the two elderly people suddenly fell silent. At an age when they should be carefree and know nothing, they were crying and screaming in fear of being abandoned by their two fathers. This was a tragedy.
“Yesterday it was Miss Xie, today it’s Miss Li, Aunt, which family’s daughter will you introduce to me tomorrow?” Fu Hengzhi stared at Fu Shuiling and said indifferently, “Thanks to you, people who know about my marital situation saw you frantically looking for blind dates for me and thought that there was something wrong with the Fu family’s cash flow, so you were in a hurry to find a partner to marry and stabilize the business.”
At this point, Fu Hengzhi snorted coldly: "Fu's stock has been declining slightly these past few days."
"..." Fu Shuiling twisted the hem of her clothes, and upon hearing that it had already affected the group's interests, she hurriedly explained, "I didn't know this would affect the company!"
“But you know I have a partner.” Fu Hengzhi pressed on, saying, “After you found out I had a child, didn’t you also mention blind dates in front of the child?”
"I didn't expect him to understand all this at such a young age." Fu Shuiling panicked under Fu Hengzhi's relentless questioning and hurriedly tried to defend herself, "Besides, don't I just want my child to have a normal family with maternal love?"
"A normal family?" Duan Yun smiled upon hearing this, a mocking smirk playing on his lips. "Little sister, what do you mean by a normal family? Same-sex marriage is legal in the country, and you call it abnormal? I remember you studied abroad when you were young, right? You picked up a bunch of Western habits, but they didn't teach you how to keep up with the times?"
"You!" This was the first time Duan Yun had directly confronted her. Fu Shuiling felt she had lost face and coldly retorted, "Sister-in-law, you are also a woman. You should understand the importance of maternal love in the family."
"I don't understand. I only know that my son is happy and my grandson can grow up healthy and happy. That's enough."
After Duan Yun retorted, seeing that Fu Shuiling was about to speak again, he simply turned his face away, looking like he wasn't going to listen.
"Alright, that's enough!" Fu Xiong's old habits from his military days still bothered him; seeing a family fighting amongst themselves was irritating. He frowned and said, "Since they think they're doing well, then none of you should get involved!"
After saying this, Fu Xiong looked awkward and added uncomfortably, "They all chose their own paths, so if something goes wrong, they'll have to swallow their pride and bear it!"
"Dad!" Fu Shuiling looked at Fu Xiong in disbelief. It seemed that he was planning to get away with this. She couldn't believe that her usually stubborn father would give in.
"You should say less," Fu Xiong said, too lazy to continue talking to her. "Xiao Heng isn't divorced yet, and you're meddling in this. What will people think of the Fu family!"
"..." Fu Shuiling looked unconvinced.
The sky was dotted with stars, the dazzling starry sky illuminating a blue sea on the horizon. The light of the stars and the moon intertwined, illuminating a corner of the courtyard. Surrounded by bushes, the chirping of insects filled the air, and the voices of two people talking were hidden among the melodious chirping.
"Stop whining, isn't it painful to cry until your throat is hoarse?" Zhou Zhou said this, but her hands didn't stop soothing the child's back as she carried Fu Xiaofan along the cobblestone path through the bushes.
"It's so hard, so painful, but I... I can't help it." Fu Xiaofan's voice trembled with sobs; this was the consequence of crying too much.
"Really." Zhou Zhou said helplessly, "Why are you crying? It's not like I can't handle things."
"Who knows how long it will take you to solve this, or what you'll have to sacrifice?" Fu Xiaofan pouted. "If your father is reckless, you should take the risks. I don't trust you."
"Hey, you little rascal." Zhou Zhou jokingly patted Fu Xiaofan's bottom lightly in his palm, and Fu Xiaofan kicked his clothes, getting them dirty.
"Don't you dare spank me!" Fu Xiaofan said fiercely, but after being fierce, he suddenly wilted when he looked into the other person's smiling eyes under the moonlight, burying his head on the other person's shoulder. Zhou Zhou thought he was going to cry again, but after a moment of silence, Fu Xiaofan asked in a muffled voice.
Aren't you afraid?
"Huh?" Zhou Zhou didn't understand. "What are you afraid of?"
"The unknown is something else entirely. You are now experiencing a completely new storyline, one that even I cannot predict."
"Isn't that normal?" Zhou Zhou blinked and smiled. "Everyone's life is unpredictable."
“But the characters in the book are different.” Fu Xiaofan didn’t look up. “In the story, everyone has their own final fate, and the underlying principle remains the same... I can see it all.”
"And what about you?"
"I don't know..." Because of the unknown, he, as a system, was afraid.
"I don't know either."
Suddenly, a soft, warm hand enveloped the back of my head.
"But now you are my son, don't worry, your dad is here."
[Author's Note: Fu Xiaofan: He is so gentle, I love him so much.]
Fu Hengzhi: ? ? ?
Chapter 100 You'll Always Be on My Side, Right?
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Zhou Zhou carried the child and strolled around the courtyard for a while. Seeing that Fu Xiaofan's red and swollen eyes had subsided after crying, she took him back into the house.
"Xiao Zhou, how is the child?"
No sooner had he stepped inside than Duan Yun came up to him, looking at him and Fu Xiaofan in his arms with concern.
“You’ve stopped crying.” Zhou Zhou bounced Fu Xiaofan, who was clinging to his neck, and said softly, “Daddy won’t carry you anymore, get down and walk by yourself.”
"Okay~" Fu Xiaofan said in a childish voice, his voice still a little hoarse. After steadying himself on the ground, he took small steps and ran towards the living room. Perhaps because he had been carried for too long, he swayed as he walked, and Duan Yun hurriedly put his hand behind him to protect him.
"Don't run, slow down." Fu Hengzhi walked towards Zhou Zhou with the new tie that was smeared with his son's snot and tears. Fu Xiaofan ran straight over, and Fu Hengzhi bent down and picked him up again.
"Daddy~" Fu Xiaofan called out loudly.
Liu Yuelian was sitting on the sofa when she heard the child enter the room. She couldn't help but peek over. Fu Shuiling had just been scolded by her mother and was extremely depressed.
Noticing Liu Yuelian's subtle gesture as she looked at the child, she immediately turned to Fu Hengzhi and said, "Xiao Heng, bring the child over here."
Fu Hengzhi didn't respond to her immediately, but instead asked Fu Xiaofan in his arms softly, "How about we go and let Great-Grandma take a look?"
Fu Xiaofan buried half his face in his neck, his eyes secretly glancing at Liu Yuelian sitting on the sofa. When she saw her great-grandson looking over, she smiled kindly.
"Alright then~" Fu Xiaofan was put down, and she took small steps to Liu Yuelian, politely calling out, "Great-Grandma~"
"Oh, good boy." Seeing her great-grandson up close, Liu Yuelian grew to like him more and more, and her voice softened as she looked at him.
"Great-Grandma, will Daddy abandon me and Daddy?"
Fu Xiaofan came with a question in mind, and as soon as he asked it, Liu Yuelian's loving expression froze, and she gave Fu Shuiling a reproachful look.
Fu Shuiling's face was extremely ugly. She thought to herself, "The child has stopped crying, so how can he still remember this matter so clearly?" Thinking this, she looked at Zhou Zhou, who was standing outside the living room. The latter had been looking gentle, but when he saw her looking over, his face instantly turned cold, and he even raised the corners of his mouth in a mocking manner.
It must have been him who instigated it in the courtyard just now, Fu Shuiling thought, grinding her back teeth. This man has quite a few little schemes.
"No." Liu Yuelian reached out and affectionately patted Fu Xiaofan's head.
"Really..." Fu Xiaofan's voice was very soft as she murmured and repeated, "Really not? Great-Grandma, you and I will pinky swear."
"Okay, okay." Liu Yuelian was amused by his cute appearance. Her eyes narrowed as she smiled, making the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes even deeper. She stretched out her old fingers and hooked them together with Fu Xiaofan's little hand. "Great-Grandma promises you, your father will not abandon you and your other father."
"Xiao Fan, I'm your great-aunt." Fu Shuiling had been scolded several times tonight about the child, and even if she wasn't fully awake, she knew she should build a good relationship with Fu Xiaofan. She didn't have much on her, so she took out her purse from her coat pocket and pulled out a green card. "This is a gift from your great-aunt."
Fu Xiaofan's eyes lit up when she saw the green card. Ignoring whether her dad or not, she took it with her little hand and said in her sweet, childish voice, "Thank you, little auntie~"
Zhou Zhou: "..." You're making it easy for others to think you've never seen money before.
"Xiao Zhou, why don't you and Xiao Heng stay at home tonight?" Duan Yun tried to suggest to Zhou Zhou, but before Zhou Zhou could speak, Fu Hengzhi refused first.
"Mom, Zhou Zhou has work tonight, so his computer and everything else are at home." President Fu was just making things up. The old house was big, but it certainly wasn't as comfortable as his and his wife's love nest. If things got heated at night and something happened, his wife was too shy in bed to think about all the elders in the house.
Then you can't fully enjoy yourself.
President Fu was making his own plans; he not only intended not to stay here, but also to leave his son here.
“By the way, Mom, you and Dad are usually quite idle at home. Could you leave Xiaofan with us?” Fu Hengzhi frowned, looking troubled. “I have to go to the company during the day, and Zhou Zhou also has a job. We have limited energy to take care of the child. The nanny who raised Xiaofan has also resigned and gone back to the countryside.”
"I thought it was something serious." Duan Yun had been longing for a grandson for over a year and couldn't wait to help the young couple take care of the child. "Don't worry, Xiao Fan can stay here. You can come and visit the child often."
"?" Zhou Zhou stared blankly as Fu Hengzhi entrusted his son to someone else with just a few words. He secretly reached out and pinched Fu Hengzhi's lower back. Fu Hengzhi winced in pain but dared not resist.
"Let's ask Xiaofan. The child is young, what if he cries during the night?" Zhou Zhou smiled helplessly at Duan Yun, then called out to Fu Xiaofan, who was making funny faces to amuse Liu Yuelian, "Xiaofan, Daddy and Daddy are going home. Why don't you come with us?"
“Going home…” Fu Xiaofan swung his arms. Liu Yuelian had just given him the gold bracelet on her wrist in a moment of joy. He estimated that the bracelet weighed more than 30 grams. If he exchanged it for the same amount, he would have a pair of international brand T-shirts. Fu Xiaofan smiled contentedly and said to Zhou Zhou, “Dad, I don’t want to go home. I want to stay with Great-Grandma. Great-Grandma said she’ll tell me stories.”
"..." Bullshit, you want to hear a story? Do you want gold to tell you a story? Zhou Zhou rolled his eyes at this extravagant little money-grubber in his heart, and finally obediently followed Fu Heng into the car to go home.
There was no music playing in the car. Without Fu Xiaofan, Zhou Zhou sat quietly in the passenger seat, looking at the road ahead without saying a word.
"..." Fu Hengzhi glanced at his wife out of the corner of his eye while driving. Seeing that she didn't say anything, he began to reflect on whether he had angered his parents by leaving their son with them.
When they stopped at a red light at a fork in the road, Fu Hengzhi rubbed the steering wheel with his thumb, feeling uncertain. He muttered to himself, "Baby, if you're worried about our son, we can turn back and pick him up."
"Huh?" Zhou Zhou was brought back to her senses when the other person spoke. She frowned slightly and turned to look at him. "Why take him here? If he wants to stay with his parents, let him stay."
"You're not angry about that?" President Fu breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought it was his unauthorized decision that had upset the other party.
"What are you angry about? You didn't see the gleeful look on your son's face." Zhou Zhou's lips twitched as he recalled Fu Xiaofan's greedy appearance. "Who knows, after he comes back, he'll probably cry and send him back to his parents again."
"That's good." Fu Hengzhi felt relieved when he heard that the other party was not angry about it, and he immediately began to talk about what happened at the old house.
“Your aunt said those things today and Dad and Grandpa scolded her. Don’t be upset about it, baby.”
"Don't be angry." Zhou Zhou couldn't help but curl his lips into a mocking smile as he recalled Fu Shuiling's gaze and aggressive tone. "What's there to be angry about? We don't see each other every day."
“My aunt wasn’t like this before.” Fu Hengzhi wasn’t sure where the other party’s malice towards Zhou Zhou came from. “Fortunately, your grandparents have accepted you.”
The car slowly drove into the garage. Upon hearing this, Zhou Zhou smiled enigmatically and, without warning, reached out and grasped the other person's right hand as they shifted gears.
A warm sensation suddenly covered the back of his hand, and Fu Hengzhi was slightly taken aback, looking around.
There were no lights in the garage, but the moonlight streaming through the sunroof shone directly onto the driver's seat in the front, and Zhou Zhou looked at him with sparkling eyes.
"Fu Hengzhi, you will always be on my side, right?"
Zhou Zhou tilted her head and asked, word by word, and Fu Hengzhi was equally determined.
"forever."
[Author's Note: Tonight]
Fu Xiaofan: So happy, yay!
Fu Hengzhi: I am happy too.
I'm used to weaving subtle hints into the plot. ^w^
Chapter 101 Everyone Gets a Share, Half for Each Person
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When Zhou Zhou woke up in the morning, even her fingers were sore, not to mention the rest of her body. The warmth of the bed next to her had long since dissipated, and she knew it was getting late just by looking at the bright sun outside.
"Hmm." Getting up stirred up some discomfort in a certain area, which also brought back memories of the intense and passionate events of last night. Aunt Feng wasn't there, Fu Xiaofan wasn't there, and the huge villa courtyard was empty except for the two of them. Last night was indeed a bit too wild.
Getting out of bed, Zhou Zhou noticed the floor had been cleaned, whereas just a few hours ago it was a mess. Looking at the marks on his body, Zhou Zhou blushed. It was all Fu Hengzhi's fault; he'd been too smooth with his sweet talk last night, making Zhou Zhou give himself to him without thinking. The passionate encounter started in the car and spread all the way to the bedroom, until Zhou Zhou passed out. He didn't even know when it ended.
Zhou Zhou felt a little sore, but it was within a tolerable range. After washing up, she went downstairs with her phone in her hand and saw a simple Western-style breakfast covered with an insulated cover on the dining table. There was also a small sticky note next to it, which recorded the time period during which the breakfast could be eaten. Fu Hengzhi had specifically emphasized that it should not be eaten after the last time.
"I exercised too much last night, and I'm starving now. You're saying I can eat or not?" Zhou Zhou pouted, sat down steadily in her seat, and lifted the transparent thermal cover.
The food was probably made by Fu Hengzhi himself. The fried egg in the middle of the sandwich was a little burnt, but it was still a decent breakfast.