Chapter 219: I Don't Want to Change Daddies

"Uncle Hai Fei came looking for me. He asked if I wanted a daddy who wouldn't give me a little brother or little sister in the future. Daddy, you need to step up! I don't want to change daddies. I still really like you!"

Liang Yan really liked her current daddy. Mommy was very happy when she stayed with this daddy. Last time they were watching TV, Xiao Yu even said that the woman with Uncle Hai Fei was a bad woman! So Uncle Hai Fei definitely wasn't a good person!

She didn't want a bad person to be her daddy!

Zhu Xueheng: Ah! Kill him! I want to kill him!

A volcano erupted in Zhu Xueheng's heart, but his face remained expressionless. "Don't worry, I absolutely won't let him steal my place. I'll be your daddy for my whole life—no one can change that!"

Whether by blood or by title, it can't be changed!

Liang Yan sighed. "If only that were true!"

Liang Yan had been feeling rather sentimental lately. She didn't really want to change daddies anymore. Having a stable daddy who stayed by her side was really nice!

Other kids' mommies weren't as good at making money as her mommy, and other kids' daddies didn't care about her as much as her daddy.

Some teachers praised her mommy at school every day, telling the girls in the class to learn from her mommy and become a strong career woman in the future!

She was truly the coolest kid at school!

Even Tang Can couldn't compare to her!

This feeling was many, many times better than the feeling of having lots of daddies before!

This daddy was good in every way—except he didn't know how to sweet-talk Mommy!

Every time she saw them together, they were always talking about work!

What was so great about talking about work? Her mommy didn't lack assistants! On TV, they always said daddies and mommies should be in love! But Daddy and Mommy didn't seem like they were in love at all.

Liang Yan was worried in her heart. "Uncle Hai Fei used to be so good at making Mommy laugh. The flowers he sent—not only did Mommy like them, I liked them too. Daddy, you, sigh!"

Zhu Xueheng: It wasn't just the flowers—Mommy liked everything I sent her! How am I inferior to that guy who only knows how to talk slick and doesn't have a shred of sincerity?

"Don't you like the gifts I give you, sweetheart?"

"I do, but Uncle Hai Fei is also really good at giving gifts. You didn't even know Uncle Hai Fei came looking for me. Daddy, how could you not know!"

Liang Yan felt this daddy was too useless! He really didn't know anything!

Zhu Xueheng: That's right, how could I not know?

In a moment he would go place an order at a Su Family branch company—not only would he dig up dirt and expose it, he'd also keep that kid under surveillance 24 hours a day. He refused to believe he wouldn't slip up!

Zhu Xueheng suddenly had a new idea. "Sweetheart, Daddy isn't smart, so how about you tell Daddy directly from now on? Daddy isn't smart, but grown-ups can also ask other people for help—like your Uncle Su!"

At the very least, don't hide it from him!

Many times, what seemed like a huge deal to Liang Yan was different in the eyes of grown-ups. Zhu Xueheng and Liang Lijiang could easily deal with those spies in the company!

Liang Yan's gaze darted between Zhu Xueheng and Su Xi. Liang Yan thought to herself: Uncle Su works at the company just like Mommy. Mommy is smarter than Daddy, so Uncle Su should be smarter than Daddy too!

"Mm-hmm!"

Zhu Xueheng pushed his luck. "Sweetheart, how about I hold a wedding with your mommy and tell everyone I'm your daddy? That way, other uncles won't come trying to steal me away!"

Zhu Xueheng had wanted to assert his sovereignty for a long time. But his daughter wouldn't agree, so he could only hold it in! Finally there was a chance, and he had to seize it!

Liang Yan hesitated!

She didn't speak!

Zhu Xueheng's heart hung in suspense as he desperately winked at Su Yu.

Xiao Yu, you took the money! Hurry and put in a good word for me! This is the critical moment—you can't let it slip!

Su Yu, with professional ethics, took Liang Yan's hand and led her inside. Tang Can followed, and they entered the room together.

"Huo Huo, why didn't you agree when your daddy said to hold a wedding?"

【You don't look like you dislike him either! Why hasn't your family held a wedding even now? I thought your mommy was too career-focused and didn't want to waste time on this.】

Tang Can's face was full of confusion. "Her parents still haven't held a wedding?"

Both Su Yu and Liang Yan nodded.

"Then why do you call him Daddy?"

Liang Yan was almost stunned into silence by this question! She thought for a moment. "He's my mommy's boyfriend—shouldn't I call him Daddy?"

Liang Yan had always called her mommy's boyfriend Daddy. To her, Daddy was just a form of address. Her daddy was a tiny bit different from other kids' daddies, but that wasn't the point! The point was being able to take care of her mommy and her!

"That's not right, then what about your—" biological daddy?

"Huo Huo said it wrong!"

Tang Can wasn't annoyed at being interrupted by Su Yu. "What did she say wrong?"

"This daddy of hers got a marriage certificate. He should be her mommy's husband, or called husband?"

Tang Can remembered that her mommy called Daddy "husband."

"Then why doesn't your daddy hold a wedding with your mommy? Is it because you don't agree?"

Liang Yan was somewhat uncertain. "Probably not?"

Tang Can tilted her head. "But he was just asking you!"

Liang Yan nodded. Zhu Xueheng was indeed asking her.

"Then why didn't you agree?"

"Daddy is marrying Mommy—shouldn't he be telling Mommy?"

This was what Liang Yan couldn't figure out. She always felt there was a trap, but she couldn't put it into words!

Tang Can nodded. Liang Yan was right this time!

"That's right—shouldn't your daddy propose to your mommy?"

Even Ren Duyi had held a proposal ceremony and a wedding for her aunt! Zhu Xueheng, who was even better in her eyes, surprisingly hadn't?

Su Yu pointed out the key. "But if you don't agree, your mommy won't be willing to hold a wedding with your daddy either!"

【This matter has fallen into a deadlock. You feel something's off and don't want to agree. Your mommy thinks you don't agree and doesn't mind. Your daddy cares frantically but can only agonize over it every day!】

"Mommy never asked me? Is it Mommy who doesn't agree?"

Liang Yan had never heard Liang Lijiang mention it before. Mama only told her that they had moved to a new home and that she had a new papa. Liang Yan began to suspect—could it be that Mama wasn't satisfied with this papa?

Watching herself about to become the culprit who ruined Zhu Xueheng's wedding, Su Yu hurriedly said, "Maybe your mama thought you didn't agree. Do you want to have a chat with your mama?"

【The Liang Family is so strange. They clearly like each other, but they just won't open their mouths to ask. No matter how good the relationship, it can't withstand this kind of mutual torture! If you have something to say, just say it directly!】

Liang Yan agreed very readily.

"Okay!"

"Then go tell your papa!"

Liang Yan tilted her head in confusion. "I thought we were asking Mama. Why do I need to tell Papa?"

Tang Can slapped her forehead. She suspected Liang Yan had intermittent amnesia.

"Ruanhuhu, what did you think before? Why did you become friends with her?"

Do you still remember the papa who asked you a question or not? Don't you need to give him a reply?

Tang Can put herself in Zhu Xueheng's shoes. If she asked someone a question, and that person looked like they were thinking about it, walked away for a good while, and in the end didn't say a single word—she would definitely want to hit someone!

Liang Yan glared angrily at Tang Can, then looked at Su Yu with eager eyes.

"Huo Huo, your papa doesn't know! Didn't you just promise him you wouldn't keep things from him?"

"Oh right, I forgot!"

Liang Yan rubbed her head awkwardly.

Tang Can almost wanted to roll her eyes.

"Let's go. Your family is so dilly-dallying. Not like my papa and mama—decisive and straightforward. When they get a last-minute notice that they have to leave, they don't make excuses. They just tell me directly!"

Tang Can felt that her own maturity was also related to her papa and mama rationally discussing everything with her.

But she actually also kind of wanted her papa and mama to be dilly-dallying. She really wanted her papa and mama to stay with her.

Liang Yan ran out and told Zhu Xueheng, who was so moved that tears filled his eyes!

"Thank you, sweetheart!"

Liang Yan watched Zhu Xueheng like this, feeling very worried. Papa was so weak—would he be driven away by Uncle Hai Fei? It looked like she would have to ask Mama clearly when she went home tonight!

After learning his precious daughter's thoughts, Zhu Xueheng immediately sent a message to Meng Xianle, telling him to dig up dirt on Hai Fei.

While Zhu Xueheng pored over materials and spent the whole afternoon compiling one hundred non-repeating pieces of dirt on Hai Fei, the three children played carefree all afternoon. It wasn't until they followed Su Yu home that Tang Can and Liang Yan saw Mingmeng sitting there and the babbling baby in her arms.

"Auntie, little sister Guo Guo, good evening!"

【Why is she here? It's over! It's over! I'm doomed! She's not going to make us babysit again, is she? Help! Grandma, save me!】

Su Yu's face was full of confusion—she hadn't heard that Auntie Mingmeng was coming! And where was Grandma? Su Yu remembered that Xu Mingyue really liked children. Now there was one ready-made—if Grandma wanted to play, she could go find little sister Guo Guo!

Tang Can and Liang Yan took a synchronized step back. "Auntie, little sister Guo Guo, we suddenly want to go home. See you next time!"

After saying that, Liang Yan tugged Zhu Xueheng and was about to run.

How could Mingmeng not understand these three children's little thoughts? They might as well have written the four big words "REFUSE TO BABYSIT" on their faces.

Last time she had dumped the baby on the three of them, Mingmeng also felt a bit guilty, so she hurriedly spoke up, "This time I won't have you watch the baby!"

Liang Yan screeched to a halt and turned back. "Really?"

She still wanted to play in little sister Xiao Yu's toy room! She had a toy room too, but playing alone felt completely different from playing with three people!

Tang Can was a bit hesitant. Adults never kept their word!

Mingmeng nodded in amusement. "Of course it's true!"

What they were chatting about was all about having children. Her precious daughter was still young, so she could serve as an example to give Xie Xin Yi some knowledge.

Liang Yan hurriedly turned back. "Thank you, Auntie! I really like you and little sister Guo Guo!"

She just didn't like spending a very, very long time with little sister Guo Guo, that was all!

Tang Can also nodded. "Me too!"

Mingmeng said she wouldn't have the three of them watch the baby, but the three of them clearly didn't quite believe it. After dinner, the three slipped off to the garden to ravage flowers and make flower crowns. Mingmeng was in the living room—there was absolutely no way she would come to the garden to find them and have them watch little sister Guo Guo!

Zhu Xueheng watched the three children by himself, cursing Su Yi in his heart for being unreliable. Not even watching his own kid—what a terrible father! He deserved to be despised by his daughter!

Cursing aside, his hands moved even faster. Weaving three flower crowns out of vines, and making sure the flowers stayed attached and didn't fall off—this was delicate work!

Study

Shi Xu looked at the address, puzzled. "Why would they hide here?"

"It's the Lin Family's own business. It's safe."

Shi Xu nodded. That made sense! Storing things was indeed safer in your own home.

"And how did you end up going there?"

Shi Xu searched the address. That place was already dilapidated. How would a busy-as-a-dog CEO like Su Xi have time to go there? Even if he were taking Su Yu to an amusement park, he wouldn't possibly go to that amusement park!

Su Xi was not flustered at all. He lied without blinking an eye, looking as serious as if he were delivering a legitimate piece of news. "My people found it by accident."

"Why tell me?"

It wasn't that Shi Xu had no principles. Rather, if a huge pile of gold were placed in front of him right now and he was told he could take it freely, and the owner wouldn't dare pursue the matter—he might lose himself. He would absolutely send people over to haul the gold back to his own home and enjoy it slowly, rather than telling others that there was a lot of gold of unknown origin in that place!

Since he had discovered it, wasn't that a gift from heaven?

As the saying goes: heaven offers it and you refuse, you'll suffer the consequences!

Su Xi had simply told him just like that—wasn't he afraid he would take those gold bricks and run?

He had been sorely short of money lately!

Recently, in order to be able to support a family and raise children in the future, free from the Shi Family's control and constraints, he had started a business in private. He genuinely felt that money was hard to earn—completely different from being a CEO backed by the Shi Family!

If he hadn't started from the bottom during his internship, understood the situation at the grassroots level, not put on boss airs during his entrepreneurship, occasionally gone over to inspect things, been clear about prices, and reconciled accounts once a month, he might have been completely scammed by his own employees!

Who could have imagined that even a newly established small company would have people taking kickbacks!

Those guys had huge appetites, swallowing ten thousand yuan a month—treating him entirely like a sucker!

He sued them one by one. Those people spat the money back out, but he had to continue hiring employees. The losses during that period couldn't be made up by money alone!

His entrepreneurial dream hit a landslide halfway! Clearly he's a good boss, so why can't he hire good people?

「Your father-in-law needs such a merit! 」

Shi Xu's gaze turned stern, "This is no joke!"

Shi Xu knew Su Xi hadn't called him just to eat and chat, but he hadn't expected him to go to such extremes! If that money isn't handled properly, his father-in-law won't come out well either.

If afterwards the Lin family were to backtrack, saying those things weren't just that little, what would his father-in-law say?

For the sake of Mingmeng's child in her womb, the father-in-law likely won't give him up. But if they don't give him up, how would they explain how they came to know this news?

Their situation was already not great. He didn't want to be the last straw that broke them. Even if the news Su Xi spoke of could turn things around for them, he still didn't want to convey it to his own father-in-law!

Su Xi certainly knew.

「Danger and opportunity coexist. Would your father-in-law and mother-in-law really be willing to be dragged down like this, letting the fruits of half a lifetime's effort go to waste? Without your father-in-law's support, will the Shi family still let you and Mingmeng continue on? 」

Shi Xu knew it was impossible!

If the Ming family falls, the Shi family will surely find a way to coerce him back, using him as a marriage alliance bargaining chip!

Shi Xu's head knocked back against the sofa's soft cushion, he gritted his teeth, "Ming! Wan! Qiu!"

After Ming Wanqiu's foolish courtship attempt was rejected, they did an earth-shatteringly stupid thing! They brought misery upon their whole family!

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