Chapter 216: Dwarf Deer

"It's normal that he hasn't been sleeping well lately."

Ye Shu was genuinely exhausted during this period.

Zhu Xueheng watched the three children expertly go play the claw machine, and sat down across from Su Xi.

"What are you guys up to? Why didn't you call the brothers along?"

In the past, whenever Su Xi discovered a good project, everyone would divide it up together. Of course, when it came to pranking people, they'd all do it together too.

"No need for that. It's purely a problem with his lousy constitution."

"What kind of scum is it this time?"

"See for yourself!"

Su Xi couldn't be bothered to explain and handed Zhu Xueheng the information Ye Shu had looked up.

After reading it, Zhu Xueheng sent Ye Shu a message.

Zhu Xueheng: 666! You almost lost your life!

In the information, the brother and sister pair who had been pestering Ye Shu had already set up a trap.

As soon as Ye Shu left Ye Company, they would kidnap him to that place to vent their anger and torture Ye Shu to death.

Zhu Xueheng wasn't anxious when he saw Ye Shu didn't reply, and went over to play the claw machine with the three children.

Zhu Xueheng dropped in ten coins and very luckily grabbed ten clutches of air.

"This isn't scientific. How come you can all grab something?"

Su Yu, Liang Yan, and Tang Can exchanged glances and laughed "hehe."

Zhu Xueheng didn't understand what they were laughing about. But he wasn't willing to leave his daughter with the impression of someone who gives up halfway. So, he continued inserting coins.

It wasn't his money anyway!

Every time Zhu Xueheng failed to grab anything, Su Yu, Liang Yan, and Tang Can would laugh once!

At first they laughed shyly, then they grinned, and finally they laughed out loud.

Liang Yan in particular, completely disregarding the fact that he was her dad, laughed especially gleefully!

And Zhu Xueheng had already wasted dozens of coins!

"Is this machine just unable to grab anything?"

"No, these were all grabbed by us!"

Su Yu pointed at the plush toys set aside, very proud.

Liang Yan picked one up and nodded. "Daddy, is grabbing air fun?"

Zhu Xueheng: That's not it — I just can't grab anything!

Zhu Xueheng indeed couldn't grab anything and didn't want to try anymore. He squatted down and very earnestly asked the three of them, "How did you manage to grab them?"

Liang Yan excitedly walked over to the side of the claw machine, adjusted a button, then inserted a coin.

Zhu Xueheng watched with his own eyes as Liang Yan just randomly clutched with the claw once, and a plush toy dropped out of the machine.

"Here you go!"

Zhu Xueheng held the same plush toy, smiling happily.

"Thank you to our precious baby!"

"You're welcome!"

Liang Yan proudly explained the claw machine's grabbing process to Zhu Xueheng. Zhu Xueheng also listened very seriously.

Su Yu and Tang Can, bored, started playing another claw machine, leaving the father and daughter to it — one teaching, the other pretending to learn.

"Wow, amazing! Daddy, you learn so fast!"

"It's because our baby teaches so well!"

"Hahaha! Let's go again!"

"Oh, another one! Daddy is so amazing! Little sister Xiao Yu, look!"

"Yes, very amazing!"

Tang Can clapped!

She was a little moved inside and didn't say anything off-putting at this moment.

Zhu Xueheng played with Liang Yan until noon. Liang Yan still hadn't had enough and held her two little friends' hands to go eat.

"My daddy is so amazing! He understood after I taught him just once!"

Su Yu nodded mechanically. "Yes!"

【Do you even remember that you said this exact same thing half a minute ago? You've said something similar at least thirty times now — aren't you tired?】

Liang Yan looked expectantly at Tang Can. The expressionless Tang Can bared two rows of teeth, but her delicate features greatly diminished the ferocity of this expression, making her look very cute.

For the sake of their plastic friendship, Tang Can chose a slightly more refined way of insulting her. "Did you know? Before today, I never had the thought of comparing you to an animal! But today, you and your daddy really are like a pair of dwarf deer father and daughter!"

【Does Can Can want to insult her or not? Liang Yan probably won't understand.】

"Really? Do I really look like a dwarf deer?"

When Liang Yan thought of deer, she thought of clear, large eyes.

【She's insulting you, baby! She's calling you a silly roe deer!】

Zhu Xueheng and Su Xi, following behind, fell silent.

Zhu Xueheng had to admit that, in the eyes of the more rational Su Yu and Tang Can, he and his daughter might indeed seem a little bit silly.

Su Xi, on the other hand, was curious about where Su Yu had learned this knowledge. When they couldn't hear, what exactly had Wulongcha been secretly teaching Su Yu?

Wulongcha, unaware of the pot that had fallen from the sky, was still diligently investigating Ye Shu's matter.

Ye Shu's matter involved the Su Clan, so it had to investigate thoroughly. If necessary, it would have the Host drop a hint and let the Su Clan eliminate those obstacles!

"Oh, he replied to me!"

After ordering at the restaurant and waiting for the food, Zhu Xueheng saw the reply message and immediately made a video call.

"Not bad, still alive!"

Ye Shu sighed deeply. "Who wouldn't say so!"

At the time, when Ye Shu learned that those two bastards had already sent people waiting outside his door for him to come out, and had even arranged a photographer, he didn't dare go out.

He wasn't afraid of being beaten or taken away; he was afraid that if something happened to him, Xie Xin Yi would worry! A pregnant woman's emotional fluctuations shouldn't be too large. Losing the child would be a minor matter; the real fear was that she might injure her body and be left with a lifelong ailment.

Therefore, when he talked with Xie Xin Yi about company matters, he always reported only good news and withheld the bad. Worried that Xie Xin Yi would overthink things, he would voice-call her every night until she fell asleep.

He had never understood before—Xie Xin Yi's family needed someone to inherit the company, so why not have another child, just in case?

After Xie Xin Yi became pregnant, he spent his free time flipping through books about prenatal and postnatal care for expectant mothers and about raising infants.

He read more than a dozen of them and nearly gave himself depression!

It turned out that women could die giving birth!

It turned out that expectant mothers could have so many problems during pregnancy and after giving birth!

It turned out that a child couldn't survive just by casually raising it!

It turned out that children had so many illnesses from infancy to adulthood! One moment of inattention and they could die!

There were all sorts of other things too, battering his worldview. Now, whenever he saw a child, he would bizarrely feel a fatherly tenderness welling up. For a child to grow up this big was already no easy feat!

Because he was so anxious, Ye Shu even had nightmares every time he slept at the company. He dreamed that he was caught and killed, and Xie Xin Yi couldn't bear the outcome, dying along with her unborn child in a double tragedy!

Every time he woke up, his heart would race for a long while!

It wasn't until he received the news in the morning that those two pieces of trash had been arrested and the people outside had been cleared away, that he finally dared have someone drive him to Su Clan.

Not going straight back was also out of fear that Xie Xin Yi would worry.

With the news about Su Xi serving as a buffer, Xie Xin Yi would have an idea of what was going on and could very calmly accept the outcome that he would need to lie in a hospital bed for a while.

"What do you plan to do about the ones who came back from abroad?"

Because of Ye Shu's actions, everyone in the same batch returning to the country knew that it was that pair of siblings who had angered the Ye family and the Xie family, and all the policies originally favorable to them were gone. The ones they hated the most right now were that pair of siblings!

If they were sanctioned and the policies couldn't be restored, those people might pin the blame on Ye Shu. After a while, if someone stirred things up, those people might even lay hands on Ye Shu.

Good night, darlings~