Si Jiangchen drove steadily and soon arrived at the three - story Lin family mansion.
Steward Tang was already waiting for us at the door.
"Sir, you're back," he said, casually taking Si Tong's schoolbag. He motioned with his eyes towards the living room. "The eldest miss and the others are here. They said they haven't seen Tongtong for a long time."
I frowned and looked at Si Jiangchen.
I was in a very low mood and didn't want to engage in small talk with the eldest miss, Lin Shuya.
"Si Tong, go upstairs with Xiao He," Si Jiangchen, who naturally understood my feelings, pointed to the stairs beside the entrance hall. Si Tong's little face lit up. It was obvious that he didn't like his aunt Lin Shuya either and was eager to go upstairs with me to avoid the guests.
Si Tong directly pulled me into Si Jiangchen's bedroom. He sat beside me doing his homework. After crying for so long today and then scribbling for a while, his little head started to nod, and he was almost asleep.
"Si Tong, go wash up and go to bed," I said.
I was also very tired. The broken part of my arm now felt a burning pain, as if an elephant was stepping on it.
Si Tong rubbed his eyes and didn't seem to want to sleep.
"Sister Xiao He, I'll keep you company," he said, then moved closer to me with the drawing he had just made.
It was a colorful drawing full of childlike innocence. In the picture, there was a long - haired girl and a tall boy sitting on the grass. A chubby - faced child was holding a lollipop and reaching towards a little angel with wings in the sky.
"Look, this is Brother Dongdong," Si Tong pointed to the flying little angel in the picture. "When we were locked up by the bad Taoist priest, he really wanted to eat a lollipop. He had only seen others eat candy, but he had never eaten one himself! So when you gave him the lollipop, he thought you were the kindest person in the world. He would rather hurt himself than hurt you."
"Yeah," I replied.
Listening to Si Tong's words, I remembered the candies originally offered for Wang Yingxiu's child in that small rental apartment. I just casually took one and gave it to "Dongdong", but he had remembered it all the time...
I felt sad again.
"Sister Xiao He, he said that if he could be reborn, he wanted to be your child because you're the only one who has been kind to him in this world!"
Si Tong snuggled up to me, but his voice got softer and softer. Finally, he fell asleep in my arms.
Since my right hand was injured, I had to use my left hand to put him on the bed, take off his slippers and put them beside the bed. Then I quietly left the room.
My backpack and Si Tong's schoolbag were taken by Steward Tang and should be in the cloakroom at the entrance.
Bare - footed on the soft carpet, I tiptoed downstairs like a cat.
The Lin family's cloakroom was very large. It was a separate room with a glass mirror beside the entrance.
I could faintly hear Lin Shuya's voice in the living room, sobbing and whining in a rather affected way, like an ancient opera singer. Occasionally, there was Si Jiangchen's faint reply, as if he was promising her something.
I was already very clear about these complicated relationships. I knew that Si Jiangchen had always indulged Lin Shuya because she had saved his life twice.
Although the truth was not as Si Jiangchen thought, I felt that if I said something, I would seem like a petty woman trying to sow discord.
I gently opened the glass door of the cloakroom. Just as I reached for my satchel with talismans and magic tools, I suddenly heard a noise behind me. Instinctively, I swung my uninjured left elbow backward.
"Ouch..."
The elbow hit someone, and the person behind let out a groan. "Xiao He, why have you become so violent?!"
I turned around and saw Wei Yuan, whom I hadn't seen for a long time, standing in front of me, covering his stomach.
"What are you doing here?" I asked in surprise.
"This was my mother's maiden home. Why can't I come back?" Wei Yuan sized me up and his eyes fell on my right arm hanging in front of my chest. He sighed and said, "It seems you're not having a good time here with him!"
"None of your business," I said.
I was in a bad mood today and had no intention of catching up with Wei Yuan. I picked up my bag and was about to go back upstairs.
"Wait a minute," Wei Yuan stood at the door, blocking my way.
"I, I want to tell you that I don't race cars anymore," he said, suddenly looking a bit embarrassed. He lowered his head slightly and said to me, "I've opened my own company."
"Good. Congratulations," I replied perfunctorily, nodding my head.
"Tianyu Star Factory, a newly established company," Wei Yuan said.
His words made me pause for a moment. "Tianyu Star Factory" was a very familiar name. Wasn't it the shell company under the Ruiyin Company that Ji Chen had mentioned? It had commissioned Dong Jianhui's Hanyu Planning to work on that large - scale concert project!
"Did you ask Dong Jianhui to find me?" I finally realized. No wonder Dong Jianhui had been pestering me and waiting for me in front of my shop. It must have been Wei Yuan's idea. He didn't want to ask Si Jiangchen himself, so he went through several detours and asked Dong Jianhui to help him achieve this!
"Xiao He," Wei Yuan looked up at me seriously. "Actually, I want you to come and work in my company. You won't have much development just guarding that small shop... And how much does Si Jiangchen really care about you... He doesn't..."
"What about me?"
Before he could finish his sentence, there came Si Jiangchen's cold sneer from behind. "Bad - mouthing me in my own house, A Yuan. Do you not want to stay in the capital anymore?"
Wei Yuan turned around, his face full of anger. He pointed at my arm and said to Si Jiangchen, "Is this how you treat Xiao He? My woman would never get hurt like this!"
"Stop talking!" I could clearly feel Si Jiangchen's aura changing.
At that time in the restaurant, he had been holding Si Tong all the time, and I had struggled up suddenly. Even a god couldn't have reacted in time!
I quickly stood between the two tense men. "Si Jiangchen was protecting Si Tong. He didn't have time!"
"Humph, excuse!"
Wei Yuan still wanted to continue attacking Si Jiangchen verbally. At this moment, there came the clicking sound of high - heeled shoes on the marble floor in the living room. Then a timid voice sounded from behind us.
"Mr. Wei, your phone has been ringing. Do you want to answer it?"
When I turned around, I saw a tall and slender girl with slightly dark skin holding a phone in both hands. She was smiling awkwardly at us.
"Don't answer it!" Wei Yuan's temper flared up. He waved his hand impatiently. "You're my assistant. If I have to do everything myself, what do I need you for? Take care of those small things yourself in the future!"
"Okay!"
After being scolded by Wei Yuan, the girl bowed slightly to me and said, "Hello, Miss Du. Long time no see!"