Chapter 872: A Child Lacking Love

He regretted being dragged over by Sheng Zichen; in truth, he had great strength, and if he had not been willing, Sheng Zichen would not have been able to drag him over.

Deep down, the little fellow still longed to be loved and accepted, and longed for everyone to like him.

But the reality was not as he had imagined.

His grandparents did not like him.

The others in the house did not like him either, including the servants there.

Even the butler, who always kept a straight face, revealed a trace of disgust in his eyes when he looked at him!

Although that woman did not show it too obviously, she was surprised.

Sheng Aifei had lacked love since he was small; he was proud and sensitive, and at the slightest hesitation, he would immediately judge himself to be an unwelcome person.

He was jealous of Sheng Zichen; he was so happy, and everyone loved him.

But no one loved him.

He would never be friends with him again; perhaps he didn't want to be friends with him at all, and playing with him was just to make him go over and be humiliated.

Speak of the devil.

"Xiao Fei, Xiao Fei, where are you?"

Sheng Zichen's voice calling for him came from downstairs.

He did not make a sound; he did not want to answer.

Was it not enough to humiliate him over there? He still had to follow him here.

"Xiao Fei, I came over to eat with you. Come out quickly. After we eat, we can play hide-and-seek again. I'm hungry now and don't want to play anything else..."

He came over to eat with him?

Sheng Aifei's eyes welled up with tears.

"Coming, coming."

He ran down from upstairs with a thud-thud-thud, smelled the fragrance of the food while on the stairs, and saw a face smiling as brightly as a flower.

Sheng Zichen opened the food containers one by one: "The braised fish made by Fang Jie isn't as delicious as what my Xi Fu makes, but it's still very good. You try some."

"Mm."

Fang Jie put down the food and left; there were only the two little fellows in the Villa.

Sheng Zichen picked up a piece of meat from the fish belly with his chopsticks and said to Xiao Fei: "The meat on the fish belly is the most delicious. Every time we eat fish, everyone gives this piece to me because I am the youngest..."

Then he placed the fish meat into Sheng Aifei's bowl: "You eat it."

He was stunned.

"Why aren't you eating?"

Sheng Zichen said righteously: "Usually, Grandpa, Grandma, Mom, Dad, and my sister let me have it because I am small."

"Now I am giving the most delicious part to you because you are younger than me. I am the older brother, and you are the younger brother, so of course you should eat the best."

Tears streamed down Xiao Fei's face.

No one had ever saved the best food for him because he was small; it had never happened before!

"Oh my, why are you crying? Did a fish bone get stuck in your throat?" Sheng Zichen acted very much like an older brother, looking nervous: "Open your mouth wide, let me see where it's stuck?"

"Take a big mouthful of rice and swallow it down. If that doesn't work, we'll have to go to the hospital."

Sheng Aifei took the rice, forced himself to take a big mouthful, and swallowed it.

"It's gone."

He smiled brightly, pretending he had swallowed the "fish bone."

The smile came from the bottom of his heart; the tears on his face had not yet fully dried, and though he was smiling through tears, he was incomparably happy.

From then on, the two brothers were like a pair of true brothers.

The two little fellows were busy—I carefully pick the bones out of the fish for you, I pick a piece of braised pork for you, you feed me a spoonful of soup, and I feed you a mouthful of rice.

It was a scene of joy and harmony, incomparably harmonious.

"Mom, can I ask you for something?" Sheng Zichen was rarely serious, his little face taut as he spoke to his mother.

Shi Youxuan reminded him: "If it is something between you and your sister, you can ask me, but if it is about that child, you should go and talk to your father."

"I don't want to talk to him; he always keeps a straight face, even scarier than the door gods pasted on the gates during the New Year."

Shi Youxuan held back a laugh and said: "If you don't want to say it, then forget it, but you don't need to beg me; what I say doesn't count." The two were still in a cold war, and she didn't want to interfere too much in Xiao Fei's affairs.

"Sigh, alright then."

The little fellow sighed, and although he was unwilling, he still blocked his father at the door when he got off work.

"Dad, I have something to ask you."

"What is it? Come in and say it."

"No, I'll say it right here. Can you send Xiao Fei to kindergarten? We are all gone during the day, and he is very bored at home alone."

Sheng Hanyu's expression softened a little. He had always been strict with his son, feeling that while he was good in every way, he was just too easily soft-hearted.

Being soft-hearted, while kind enough, would make it difficult to achieve great things when he grew up.

But this time, he changed his view of his son.

"Did he tell you he wanted to go to kindergarten?"

"Mm."

"Xiao Fei wants to go to the same kindergarten as me. I asked the teacher, and the teacher said it was possible, but a guardian needs to handle the paperwork. The teacher said I am too young to be his guardian."

"Alright, I know."

"So, you agree, right?"

"Mm."

"Thank you, Dad. Dad is the best."

Sheng Zichen turned around to go find Xiao Fei and tell him this good news.

He left his father still standing at the doorway, thinking of a strategy!

Sending Xiao Fei to the kindergarten where his son was located was not a problem; the problem was what to do about picking him up and dropping him off in the future.

Ever since Sheng Aifei fought with other children at the kindergarten last time, he had treated that kind of place like a flood or a wild beast and did not like it at all.

He would rather stay home alone guarding the massive house than go to kindergarten to be with teachers and other children.

Now that he had taken the initiative to suggest going to kindergarten, he should have been happy, but he also had concerns, and they were unavoidable.

From the very beginning, when he did not send Sheng Aifei to the kindergarten where his son was, he had already thought of this problem.

The two children were family and lived in the same place; if they were picked up and dropped off separately, there would definitely be gossip, but picking them up and dropping them off together meant he could not bypass his wife.

He definitely would not have the time; should he ask his wife to bring him along while she was at it?

It was not very easy to say.

……

"Ding-dong—"

The WeChat notification sound rang.

Shi Youxuan grabbed her phone; it was a message from her husband, very simple, with only one sentence: "I am waiting for you in the courtyard."

She put down the phone, turned off the lights, and went to sleep.

Just keep waiting; who made the rule that just because you want to see me, I must see you?

Sheng Hanyu stood in the courtyard, and seeing the lights in the room turn off, he had a rather ominous premonition.

But at this moment, he still held onto a glimmer of hope, thinking that perhaps his wife did not want to disturb others and had come downstairs quietly.

Three minutes.

Five minutes.

Ten minutes later.

There was not a sound at the main entrance.

Now he believed that he had overthought it; no surprise had occurred, his wife simply did not want to pay him any mind!

But he was not angry; reflecting on this period of time, it was he who had gone too far.

By what right did he get to do whatever he wanted?

Sheng Hanyu dialed his wife's number—"Beep, beep, beep!"

He felt secretly pleased; his wife had still left him a way out and had not hung up without a word or turned off her phone directly.

In the room.

Shi Youxuan looked at the label on the phone: Husband.

She counted silently in her heart: one, two, three, four, five, six……

She answered one second before it automatically hung up due to a timeout: "Hello! Is something the matter?" Her tone was strictly business.

"Yes, there is something."

"Speak."

"I want to tell you in person; it is also out of respect for you."

This answer was not bad; Shi Youxuan was relatively satisfied.

"Fine."

The call ended, and two minutes later, the main door pushed open, and a familiar figure came out and arrived in front of her: "Speak."

"Xuanxuan, I miss you."

Shi Youxuan: ……