Chapter 115   – A Family of Three (2)

Zhou Qinhe took a step forward, rubbed her son on his little head tenderly, and said, “Yuanbao, I was just kidding. Don’t misunderstand. But Uncle Zhou has something else to discuss with your mommy. Can we take you home first?”

Yan Shuyu, “……”

Now she was really feeling the creeps. She knew that nothing good ever came out of the boss waiting for her underneath her apartment. She protested weakly, “Boss Zhou, it’s so late at night, shouldn’t we….”

As her voice was too weak and too pitiful, the sound of her struggle was directly covered up by her own son. The little kid had a look of confusion on him. Blinking his large eyes, he asked Zhou Qinhe, “Uncle Zhou and mommy?”

Zhou Qinhe completely omitted the subject’s opinion and gave the little boy a very determined “Mm”.

Then, it’s the matters between the adults. Even though little kiddo Zhang Yuanbao was still a little confused, he nodded agreeably, “Alright then.”

“Good boy,” said Zhou Qinhe as he rubbed the little kid on his head again, looking even more tender and stuck up then when he was with his own son. But precisely because he was so tender, he looked exactly like the wolf who kidnapped Little Red Riding Hood in the fable from Yan Shuyu’s perspective. Each move of him seemed so well-thought out. Just like right now.

After Zhou Qinhe was done rubbing the little kiddo on his head and received a “10” rating in the little boy’s heart, he immediately brought up his request of, “Can I hold your hand, Yuanbao?”Little kiddo Zhang Yuanbao, whose head was just rubbed by the uncle that he was fond of, was in a very excited state. So, naturally, he didn’t even think before he put his hand into his and said happily, “OKAY!”

And, just like that, the wolf grandma had received the initiative. With one hand holding the little boy, he turned and in a role reversal way, he said to Yan Shuyu, “Let’s go, Yanyan.”

Zhang Yuanbao, who might have a little bit of black belly tendency in front of others, had turned 100% into a FWS. He, too, turned around and said to her, “Let’s go, mom.”

Yan Shuyu, “……”

But she didn’t dare to move. So far, the boss only knew which building she lived in, and he was already able to clock her so precisely under her apartment. She could only imagine what her life would be like if he found out exactly which unit she lived in.

As she was thinking about it, Yan Shuyu still walked up and held her son’s other hand. She was attempting to have a tug-of-war — she needed to get his son back and at the same time, to diminish the boss’s intention to go up to her place.

She said to him nicely, “We wouldn’t want to make Boss Zhou run up and down like that. Why don’t you wait for me downstairs? I’ll just drop Yuanbao off and come back down.”

Yan Shuyu had a pretty good idea that she would not be able to weasel out of this one.

Having heard that, Zhou Qinhe merely lifted his wrist and asked in a very considerate way, “It’s almost 9 PM. Isn’t it time for Yuanbao to get ready for bed?”

Yan Shuyu blurted out, “How did you know that, Boss Zhou?”

“Xiao Yi is on the same schedule. Experts in child-rearing said that it’s important to ensure kids have sufficient sleep and stick to a schedule.” Having said that, Zhou Qinhe paused for a second and put on just the right amount of curiosity in his voice as he asked, “Doesn’t Yuanbao go to bed and get up early?”

Truth be told, Yan Shuyu didn’t believe in this caring father’s front that the boss was putting up. In the novel, when the male lead had already earned all the power and was standing at the apex of life, he still couldn’t get over the little bit of superficial tenderness that his father had shown the villain stepson. Yan Shuyu gathered that the male lead was quite pitiful himself, in that he lacked fatherly love ever since he was just a child.