Chapter 340: Hitting Where It Hurts

Shi Youxuan cursed Sheng Hanyu up and down in her heart.

She thought to herself that this man only knew how to cause trouble for her; she hadn't even figured out how to tell Ranran about this matter, and he had already pulled such a stunt.

It forced her to move her plans forward, and now she had to explain it to Shi Ran.

"Ranran, we aren't going back." Shi Youxuan simply came clean.

"Why aren't we going back? Daddy is in L Country, I am a citizen of L Country, I want to go back, I want to go back... Sob!"

The adults were afraid the child couldn't handle the things that had happened these past few days, so they had all kept them from Shi Ran.

As a result, the trouble had arrived now.

Shi Ran said while crying: "You are a bad mommy, not a good person, and Uncle is not a good uncle either, he is a big bad egg..."

"You don't want Daddy anymore, making me change what I call you to 'mommy' means you don't want Daddy anymore, sob—"

Shi Ran's crying made Shi Youxuan's brain ache.

But this was not the end.

Shi Youxuan had wanted to wait for her to cry for a while, and then it would pass.

She would wait until she stopped crying to try and tell her daughter that Zhu Yiwen was not a good person, and certainly not her daddy.

But the little girl actually said things that were increasingly excessive: "You are eloping with Sheng Hanyu, you two should be tied up and paraded through the streets for everyone to see..."

"Bullshit, shut your mouth and don't say another word."

Shi Youxuan was so angry she didn't know where to vent.

Shi Ran didn't shut up at all, speaking even more fiercely and excessively: "It's true, Hongji's mommy is a bad woman, all the children don't like Hongji, they say she will be a bad woman when she grows up too, I want Daddy, I don't want you, I don't want to become a bad woman like you..."

"Smack!"

Shi Youxuan couldn't take it anymore and slapped her daughter across the face.

The fair little face soon swelled up.

Yet the little girl stopped crying.

"You hit me?"

"You did something wrong and won't admit your mistake, and you still hit me?"

Actually, Shi Youxuan regretted it as soon as she hit her, but Shi Ran kept insisting that she had done something wrong, which made the fire in her heart burn even hotter.

"Shi Ran, let me tell you, Zhu Yiwen is not your daddy. The 'daddy' you keep calling poisoned you and almost killed you; you don't even know that yet, and you're still crying for him? You ungrateful thing, if you cry again I will..." Shi Youxuan was furious and prepared to hit her again.

Sheng Hanyu suddenly lunged out and snatched the child away.

"Get away, I don't want you to hold me, I hate you!"

The little one's face was covered in tears, and she was kicking and hitting.

"Pfft—"

A punch landed exactly on Sheng Hanyu's wound.

Although the child didn't have much strength, it was impossible to withstand such a perfectly aimed hit; cold sweat broke out on his face instantly.

Shi Ran took the opportunity to slip down and tried to run outside!

Shi Youxuan grabbed her by the collar and dragged her back, forcing her to apologize to Sheng Hanyu. Shi Ran was just like her mother in this regard—she would rather die than submit, and she firmly refused to apologize.

Not only did she not apologize, she shouted at the two of them: "I hate you, I hate you both, sob..." After shouting, she ran back to her room and "bang" slammed the door shut.

"I'll go take a look."

Sheng Hanyu wanted to go over and check on the situation, but was grabbed by Shi Youxuan: "Don't worry about her, the more you worry about her at a time like this, the more worked up she gets. Let her cry, she'll be fine once she's cried enough."

"I'm sorry." This apology was sincere.

Shi Youxuan said: "You don't need to apologize, is there a problem with your wound?"

"No problem." Sheng Hanyu said, patting it twice to show that there was indeed no problem at all, telling her not to worry.

"If there's no problem, then go rest. Buy the earliest flight, I want to go back immediately." Shi Youxuan sat in the spot where Shi Ran had just been sitting, staring blankly at the river in front of her.

"Okay."

Sheng Hanyu opened an app on his phone and bought the earliest flight back.

He had originally wanted to relive romantic and beautiful times with Shi Youxuan here, but it had been ruined by Shi Ran's sudden interference.

Arrived in high spirits, returned in low spirits.

Along the way, Shi Ran guarded against Sheng Hanyu as if he were a thief, holding onto her mother tightly and refusing to let go. Whenever the two of them said one extra word, she would immediately interrupt.

Jiangzhou Airport.

After getting off the plane and walking out of the airport, Shi Ran immediately said to Sheng Hanyu: "Goodbye Uncle, you go home, Mommy and I will go back by ourselves."

"How about I take you to the downstairs of your home? I won't go up." Sheng Hanyu negotiated with Shi Ran.

Shi Ran had always had a good relationship with him, but this time it had suddenly become different, which he found strange.

"No, we don't need you to take us..." The little one said, yawning, her eyelids too tired to stay open.

It was the middle of the night.

They had returned overnight, and Sheng Hanyu really couldn't rest easy letting the mother and daughter go by themselves at this hour.

But since Shi Ran didn't want him to follow, he had a driver take the mother and daughter home, while he took a taxi home himself.

On the way, Shi Ran fell asleep in Shi Youxuan's arms.

After arriving home, the driver wanted to help Shi Youxuan carry the child, but as soon as he moved, she woke up and started screaming: "Don't let you hold me, I want Mommy to hold me."

Although Shi Youxuan was also exhausted, she still carried the child upstairs herself.

After getting home and opening the door, she laid her on the bed, and only then did Shi Youxuan feel as if all the bones in her body were aching as if they had fallen apart.

"Thank you for taking us back." Shi Youxuan thanked the driver.

The driver said: "No need to be polite, Madam, this is what I should do."

After sending the driver away, Shi Youxuan took a quilt from the bedroom and, skipping even her wash, lay directly down on the sofa.

She had intended to sleep for a while, as she was extremely exhausted.

Yet, lying on the sofa, she could not fall asleep at all; she felt that Shi Ran was not quite right.

Everything had always been fine, so why had things suddenly changed?

She could sense Shi Ran's hostility toward Sheng Hanyu, a hostility that had never existed before and had appeared all of a sudden.

Was it just because Sheng Hanyu had hugged her?

On the surface, it appeared so, but Shi Youxuan just felt something was wrong; there must be other reasons behind it.

However, such a young child had no guile and had not been in contact with anyone else, so what could the reason be?

She could not figure it out no matter how hard she thought, and she pondered until dawn without finding an answer.

"Mommy, Mommy, don't leave me..." Shi Ran cried out in her room.

She hurried inside and pulled her daughter into her arms: "Ranran, don't be afraid, Mommy is here."

Shi Ran wrapped her two little arms around Shi Youxuan's neck, rubbing her tear-stained little face against her!

"Mommy, can we go back to L Country to find Daddy? I miss Daddy, I don't want to stay here." Shi Ran brought up the matter of returning to L Country again.

Shi Youxuan had considered it for half the night and had already decided not to avoid this question any longer.

"Ranran, in reality, Daddy is not your biological father."

"You're lying." Shi Ran did not believe her.

Shi Youxuan asked her: "Other people's children all look somewhat like their fathers, do you look like your daddy?"

She tilted her head and thought for a while, then affirmed: "I do!"

Look like him, my foot; there was simply no reasoning with a small child.

So, Shi Youxuan showed her photos of Zhu Yiwen's two boys; the older one looked as if he had been cast from the same mold as Zhu Yiwen, and although the younger one did not look quite as much like him, there was still a seventy or eighty percent resemblance.

"Look, these are Daddy's sons, you are not."

Shi Ran: "They are boys, so they look like Daddy; I am a girl, so I look like Mommy." She even believed that those two boys were also born to Mommy.

Was this brat really set on Zhu Yiwen?

Usually, she did not seem to have any deep feelings for Zhu Yiwen, yet this time she was acting completely out of character; what on earth was the reason?