Pampered by My Ex's Cousin

Chapter 583 - 575 His Warmth (Part 8)

Ji Anning nodded without speaking and turned to stride away.

She understood Fenfen would probably keep fussing for quite a while, and with her current emotional state, she feared she wouldn’t be able to control herself, that she might take her emotions out on the child.

She couldn’t cause psychological harm to her child.

She was still so young, what would she understand?

Upon exiting the elevator, Ji Anning, with her head down, hurried out of the building carrying the thermos, walking towards the parking lot as she felt for her car keys in her pockets.

But she found both pockets empty; her car keys were missing.

She quickly turned back to search for them, but they were nowhere to be found, not even in the elevator.

The pockets of the jacket she had put on in a hurry when she left were shallow—it was possible that they had fallen out while she was bending over to pick up Fenfen back in Ji Chicheng’s office.

But she didn’t want to go back upstairs. He had never even told her the name of his company; she would never come here again.

Ji Anning walked out of the building’s main entrance into the chilly breeze that seemed to penetrate her very being. With her hands shoved into the shallow pockets, she wrapped her coat tightly around herself and stepped onto the street.

Passing a trash can, she stuffed the thermos she was carrying into it without another glance.

Her cellphone and wallet were both in her car, so she had no choice but to walk step by step.

...

Due to the drowsy effects of the cold medicine, Ji Chicheng didn’t know how long he had slept. In his sleep, he seemed to hear Fenfen’s voice.

Groggy, he opened his eyes and glanced at his wristwatch to see that quite some time had passed—and he frowned in self-reproach.

"Books, house, car..."

Suddenly, the familiar sound of a child’s voice came from outside the door. He looked up in surprise, listening intently while confusedly getting up to walk towards the door.

When he reached the door, he reached out to open his office door.

Immediately, he saw Fenfen, who was standing on a chair reading a picture book, with Korea sitting on the desk teaching her.

"Fenfen? Who brought you here?" Ji Chicheng asked in astonishment as he walked toward Fenfen, his gaze sweeping around the office before returning to her.

Fenfen, immersed in the picture book, didn’t respond, but Korea laughed and answered for her, "Miss Anning said she was fussing at home wanting to find Daddy, so she brought her over."

Ji Chicheng then turned his attention to Korea, "Miss Korea, shouldn’t you be heading back?"

His overtime work was done, and after eating the cold medicine Mei Se had given him, he fell asleep. He thought Korea had left with Mei Se.

Korea replied with a smile, "I just finished revising the proposal plan and was about to leave when Miss Niannian brought Fenfen over. Seeing that you were asleep, I stayed to look after her."

Hearing this, Ji Chicheng’s face fell, and his gaze shifted back to Fenfen. "Fenfen, did Mommy go home?"

"Home." Fenfen nodded while her attention remained on the picture book.

A glimmer of annoyance flickered in Ji Chicheng’s eyes, and then he lifted Fenfen in one arm and took her small hand with the other, smiling slightly at her, "Daddy will take you home."

Now, the little girl didn’t fuss about going back, nodding her head in agreement with an ’mm’ before pointing to the book on the table that she had just been looking at and saying, "Home."

She wanted to take the book home too.

Ji Chicheng nodded, "Okay."

Then Korea also stood up, "I’ll be going too."

Ji Chicheng gave her a nod, then turned and went into his office to grab his coat before departing with Fenfen in his arms.

Korea followed behind him. Since several elevators were on the first floor, when he reached the elevator, he took Fenfen’s small hand and pressed the button to call it.