Chapter 1353: Adoption

Qi Heng has many enemies in L Country; I fear that if this child's identity is made public, the outcome will be dire.

"Why do you want to entrust him to me?" Shi Ran asked, puzzled.

"Your family has good character; you will treat Qi Heng's child well."

The reason given by Black Widow sounded ridiculous and absurd on the surface, but upon closer thought, it seemed quite reasonable.

She said that if Shi Youxuan could adopt Sheng Litian, it showed that Shi Ran's upbringing could not be bad.

Since Qi Heng could always keep her in his thoughts, Shi Ran must surely be as kind as her mother; Black Widow felt at ease handing her son over to her, but not to anyone else.

Shi Ran did not agree.

She had been absent-minded and distracted for the past few days, and her husband noticed it.

"Ranran, what is wrong? Is something on your mind?"

Shi Ran suddenly asked her husband: "A Heng, what do you think about us adopting a child for fun?"

"Forget it, it's not a good idea; just pretend I didn't say anything."

Before her husband could even express an opinion, she had already negated herself.

"Adopt a child? Did my mother say something to you again?"

Yun Qitian was quite sensitive; he thought his mother had put pressure on his wife again.

Who knew his wife would deny it flatly, saying it had nothing to do with her mother-in-law, that she was just speaking casually, and asked her husband not to take it to heart.

The entire night.

Shi Ran was like a pancake on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

"Snap!"

The light turned on.

Her husband sat up and said: "Tell me the truth, is Mom forcing you? If you don't tell me, I'll go ask her myself!"

He was a man of his word and actually took out his phone to call his mother.

Shi Ran snatched the phone away and confessed to her husband exactly what Black Widow had said to her.

Yun Qitian fell silent.

Now he regretted it a little; it would have been better not to know.

What should they do?

Qi Heng actually had a child?

And it was a child born with Black Widow; this news was too explosive, and he was too shocked to react for a long time.

Once he did react, he fell into a dilemma.

They remained silent for a long time.

After a long while, Yun Qitian finally spoke: "Ranran, why don't we just adopt him? If we raise him by our side from a young age, his personality should be like ours."

"But, he is Qi Heng's son!"

"I don't mind, do you?"

Shi Ran:...

It seemed he had a point.

Early the next morning.

When Shi Ran woke up, she found that her husband had already bought breakfast back.

"Eat quickly, are we catching a flight after?"

"A flight?"

"Yes, we are going to the United States to bring that child back." Yun Qitian was decisive; he did what he said he would do.

"Are we really going?"

Shi Ran hesitated.

"Yes, eat quickly, let's set off once you're done."

Her husband carefully helped her cool the wontons in a large bowl so they would cool down faster!

After the two finished their meal, they set off.

The United States.

Following the address given by Black Widow, the two found the foster care agency.

When the agency staff saw people inquiring about the child, they didn't even check their identities and hurriedly said: "You've finally come; please pay last month's fees."

The fees were not cheap.

But that was not important; what was important was that despite paying so much money, the child had not received good care.

The child's little face was covered in red rashes, and he scratched them with his hands out of itchiness; the tender little face was covered in nothing but rashes and bloody scratches from his fingernails, yet no one cared.

Although there was hardly a patch of good skin left on his cheeks, his facial features were a spitting image of a miniature Qi Heng.

Even the paternity test could be skipped; he was definitely Qi Heng's child.

"How can you take care of a child like this? This is too much; I am going to report you!"

Shi Ran was not someone who easily lost her temper, but she was furious now.

If they hadn't come, the child would have been tortured to death by them.

The agency staff expressed indifference; if they wanted to report them, fine, go ahead.

The national conditions in the United States were different from Jiangzhou; in the United States, unpaid fees meant the relationship between employer and employee was automatically terminated.

The fact that they allowed the child to continue living at the agency instead of throwing him on the street or sending him to a Welfare Institute was already an exercise of humanitarian spirit; asking for anything else was going too far!

Shi Ran no longer hesitated and brought the child back with her husband.

They had the Authorization Letter from Black Widow and handled the adoption procedures legitimately, but they ran into trouble when it came to naming him.

What surname should the child have?

It seems like no surname is quite appropriate.

If the child takes Yun Qitian's surname, he is not very willing.

The surname Qi?

The couple both object.

How will they tell the child when he grows up?

In the end, the child took the surname Shi.

The couple bringing a child back was just quite sudden.

Shi Youxuan felt it was unnecessary, and she asked her daughter: "Is your mother-in-law putting pressure on you again? You don't need to pay her any mind, just do whatever makes you happy. I will go talk to your mother-in-law, this is too much..."

"Mom, don't go. This is a decision made by me and Qi Tian; it has nothing to do with my mother-in-law."

The couple did not say that the adopted child was Qi Heng's flesh and blood.

But very soon, this matter was still discovered; it simply couldn't be hidden!

The way the child looks cannot deceive anyone.

Shi Youxuan asked her daughter: "Tell me the truth, where did this child come from?"

"Qi Heng's son."

Shi Youxuan:...

"Are you stupid? Was your head caught in a door? You are raising his son? You are truly mindless..."

Shi Ran only used one sentence to make her mother quiet down: "You agreed to adopt Litian back then, why can't I adopt Shi Yuan?"

"That is different."

"How is it different? Litian's mother was your love rival, and his father was a villain who committed every evil; he almost killed my father back then. The hatred between you and Litian's biological parents was not any less, yet you were able to keep Litian, so I can too."

"You taught me back then that the power of love is the greatest, and that love can resolve all hatred. Why don't you say that anymore now?"

Shi Youxuan was left speechless by her daughter's retort.

That's right, what her daughter is doing now is exactly what she did back then.

Her daughter is grown and has her own ideas, so Shi Youxuan did not interfere too much. Her mother-in-law was not familiar with Qi Heng, and upon seeing the child, she did not discover any clues; naturally, no one would take the initiative to tell her.

Shi Yuan became the eldest son of Shi Ran and Yun Qitian!

A teacher from Zichen's school called, asking Shi Youxuan to come over.

The school.

The teacher's office.

Zichen's homeroom teacher was a female teacher over fifty years old, wearing a pair of black-rimmed nearsighted glasses on the bridge of her nose, her ear-length short hair combed meticulously and pinned behind her ears with thin black hairpins; she looked very serious and earnest.

"Sheng Zichen's mother, take a look at this. This is the love letter your son wrote to a female classmate!"

The teacher was very agitated, and the hand handing over the letter was trembling slightly.

Her son was involved in puppy love.

This was Shi Youxuan's first reaction.

But after opening the love letter and reading it, she didn't know what to say either.

The love letter.

Classmate Lu Feifei.

You look really good, better looking than broccoli.

We met in the season when peaches and plums are in full bloom; you are as beautiful as a bright pear blossom.

If you are willing, I would like to eat autumn fruits and winter frozen pears with you!