Chapter 309: For My Daughter, I Am Willing

Suddenly, he saw the window of the upstairs bedroom open, and a chubby little arm reached out, waving a top belonging to Shi Ran, only to retract it immediately after waving it twice.

But this action gave Sheng Hanyu great encouragement.

He was certain they were watching, secretly watching the fireworks from a place where he could not see them.

"Whoosh!"

"Pop—"

The romantic fireworks sparked bursts of cheers throughout the residential complex!

People came out onto their balconies one after another, opened their windows, and while enjoying the fireworks, they began to comment on the handsome man.

The originally quiet complex became very lively because Sheng Hanyu was setting off fireworks downstairs.

Children like excitement even more; Shi Ran began to stare at Shi Youxuan with her bright, sparkling eyes, pouting her little mouth in grievance, and grabbed her mother's hand with both little hands, shaking it incessantly...

"I'm going to sleep."

She faced the wall and lay on the bed without even changing into her pajamas.

"Can I go out?" Shi Ran asked tentatively.

"I don't care what you do."

"Okay, Mommy."

So the little girl went out, not forgetting to close the door for her from the outside.

As soon as the door closed, Shi Youxuan immediately climbed off the bed and hid in the spot where Shi Ran had just been hiding to peek.

The little girl was already screaming on the balcony, incredibly excited; Shi Youxuan hoped her daughter would be happy, she just didn't want to make it too obvious.

The next morning.

Sheng Hanyu came to ring the doorbell.

Shi Youxuan glared at him and said crossly, "Why are you here again? Sheng Hanyu, can you let us mother and daughter have some peace? Can you stop causing trouble for me? Yesterday, because of you, the whole complex was in an uproar until the second half of the night. Shi Ran is still sleeping now and won't play with you..."

Sheng Hanyu waited with a smile for her to finish her grumbling, then reminded her: "Today is the day to take Ranran to the hospital. Have you forgotten?"

Uh...

She had indeed forgotten.

However, Shi Youxuan would not admit it.

"I didn't forget. We'll go when she wakes up; I don't need you to remind me."

"Breakfast."

Sheng Hanyu showed the food container in his hand, then squeezed inside.

Once inside, he walked to the kitchen with practiced ease, and upon seeing the box of shrimp meat in the trash can, his heart went cold.

She followed him into the kitchen, pointed at the trash can, and said to him, "Can you stop wasting time on me? These are the shrimp and crab you peeled; it must have been a lot of effort, right? But I don't value it at all. You're just wasting your time by doing this."

"Why bother? You have money, power, and status; what kind of woman can't you get? Why waste your time on me?"

"Xuanxuan..."

He had only just begun when he was ruthlessly interrupted by Shi Youxuan: "Mr. Sheng, please don't call me so affectionately; it's inappropriate."

"Fine, then Chairman Shi, I have something I want to tell you. Can we talk calmly, please?"

"No."

Every time Sheng Hanyu wanted to explain the past, Shi Youxuan would interrupt him without mercy; she didn't want to listen, not even to a single word.

"Is Ranran awake yet? We have an appointment at the hospital for nine in the morning." Sheng Hanyu stiffly changed the subject.

"You can come in and wait."

Only then did Shi Youxuan let him in and turn to call her daughter to get up.

The little one had been too excited yesterday and went to bed a bit late, which directly resulted in her waking up late this morning.

Shi Youxuan dressed the child, and after washing up, the child was still yawning and dazed while having her hair braided.

But as soon as she came out and saw Sheng Hanyu, she was immediately energized.

She immediately surrounded Sheng Hanyu, chattering endlessly, calling him 'Uncle' this and 'Uncle' that.

"You little ungrateful thing, you don't even recognize your own mother when you see an outsider." Shi Youxuan was jealous.

"No, Mommy is always my dearest and best mommy; the person Ranran likes most is still Mommy." The little girl had a sweet mouth, and the anger in Shi Youxuan's heart immediately dissipated by half.

"That's more like it."

Shi Youxuan went into the kitchen to bring out breakfast.

In order to draw a clear line with Sheng Hanyu, Shi Youxuan had gotten up early today to cook in the kitchen.

She was trying to prevent Sheng Hanyu from capturing her daughter's heart by capturing her daughter's stomach, and she was prepared to cut him off at the source!

The idea was beautiful, but there was still a gap between the idea and reality.

The gap was that even though the breakfast she had worked so hard to make was set on the dining table, Shi Ran acted as if she hadn't seen it and instead went to open the food container Sheng Hanyu had brought: "It smells so good!"

Sheng Hanyu learned his lesson this time and, without waiting for Shi Youxuan to lose her temper, took the initiative to suggest that Shi Ran eat the breakfast her mother had cooked, but the child gave her no face at all and looked at it with disdain: "I don't want it."

"I'm going to spank you."

Shi Youxuan raised her hand, pretending to spank her.

The little one covered her head with both hands: "Go ahead and spank me, then I won't have to eat the terrible food you made. Why don't you taste it yourself and see if you can swallow it?"

"Why wouldn't I be able to?"

Shi Youxuan tasted it, and then decided to hire a nanny from a housekeeping agency after returning from the hospital.

In the end, the mother and daughter still ate the breakfast Sheng Hanyu had brought.

After breakfast, they went to the hospital for a blood wash; the doctor felt the child was too young and was afraid that using medication for dilution would have an impact on Shi Ran's body.

The doctor suggested, "As parents, it would be best if you could draw some blood to store in the blood bank; when the child undergoes blood washing, you can transfuse it to reduce the side effects of the medication on her body."

"Alright, I will go immediately."

Shi Youxuan stood up but was held back by Sheng Hanyu by the arm.

He would not let her go, insisting on going himself.

His reason was that she was too thin and already anemic, so she could not afford to donate blood.

The doctor also said, "Anemia won't do; you had better let your husband go."

"He is not my husband," Shi Youxuan said, then added, "and he is not the child's father either. His blood cannot be used; use mine instead, I am fine."

"I am the child's father."

"You are not."

Shi Youxuan glared at him.

What she feared most was coming to pass.

Just yesterday he had sworn that he would absolutely not fight her for the child, yet today his true colors were already showing.

Sheng Hanyu stated firmly, "I am the child's father; we can do a paternity test."

"You are not allowed to; I do not agree," Shi Youxuan refused.

The doctor performing the blood washing was a bit bewildered.

Having been a doctor for so long, he had only ever seen cases where the man refused to acknowledge the child as his own, while the woman insisted it was his.

This was the first time he had encountered a situation like this.

"If we don't do the test, that's fine too. I will go get my blood type tested; as long as the blood type is a match, just let me donate blood for Ranran. That should be fine this time, right?"

Taking advantage of the moment Shi Youxuan hesitated, Sheng Hanyu had already left.

Fortunately, Shi Ran was currently groggy and had not paid attention to what they had just said, otherwise Shi Youxuan truly would not have known how to explain it to the child.

Before long, Sheng Hanyu returned.

His face was pale, and he was swaying as he walked!

"How much blood did you donate?" the doctor asked.

"Eight hundred CCs." He leaned against the wall, his feet feeling as if he were stepping on cotton, his head spinning, and stars dancing before his eyes.

The doctor exclaimed, "Eight hundred CCs? Are you trying to kill yourself?"

A person's blood donation amount is generally two hundred CCs, with four hundred being the limit; yet he had drawn eight hundred all at once, no wonder his face was so pale.

"I'm fine, I'll be okay after a rest." Sheng Hanyu closed his eyes, his ears ringing, his vision filled with little stars, and cold sweat breaking out in layers on his forehead.

If not for his tenacious willpower supporting him, he would not have been able to make it back just now.

The doctor said to Shi Youxuan, "I have brown sugar in my drawer; go make him a cup of brown sugar water to drink, and when you go back, buy him some blood-nourishing supplements or boil some old hen soup. It's simply outrageous, who draws that much blood at once..."