novelraw Chapter 523 - 522: Everything is Fate (Third Update)
Chapter 523 - 522: Everything is Fate (Third Update)
Le Tong looked at Baobao, then at Nuonuo. The weather here is no better than in R City, especially at night when it becomes terribly cold."Never mind, let’s just stay here."
"Alright, how about I let them deliver it directly?"
In crowded places, Le Tong was still a bit reluctant to let Baobao stay, so she didn’t oppose Yang Sheng’s suggestion.
Yang Sheng asked what Le Tong wanted to eat, and Le Tong let him and Baobao decide while she held Nuonuo and went out onto the terrace to enjoy the view.
Nuonuo stayed quietly in her arms, her large, dark eyes rolling around, looking at Le Tong from time to time, and then at the tall buildings outside the terrace and the sky dyed red by the sunset.
Le Tong’s gaze, however, remained fixed on Nuonuo’s face. As she looked, she couldn’t help but speculate—how could a mother be so heartless to leave such a cute little child by the seaside woodland?
That mother really was ruthless, leaving her daughter in such a remote place.
That seaside wasn’t frequented by many people. If it weren’t for Baobao insisting on walking from the beach that day, they likely wouldn’t have gone there. And if Baobao didn’t have good habits, just randomly peeing on the sand, he wouldn’t have found this little girl.
It seems that all of this was truly destiny.
"What are you thinking about, so lost in thought?"
Ji Rui’s low voice drifted over, and soon, she, along with Nuonuo, were enclosed in his embrace. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novelhall.com
Le Tong slightly tilted her face, rubbing it against his a few times, seeking a bit of comfort. Just thinking about this little girl’s mother’s ruthlessness made an uncontrollable chill rise from her heart.
"Nothing..."
Le Tong said it was nothing, but her face clearly bore a forlorn expression.
"Come on, who upset you?" Ji Rui softly kissed the tip of her brow.
Le Tong looked down at Nuonuo for a moment, sighed slightly.
"I just feel that Nuonuo’s mother was really heartless, to leave such a beautiful daughter in that remote little woodland. If we hadn’t passed by there, then Nuonuo would have..."
Having spent a few days together, Le Tong had already formed an emotional bond with Nuonuo, and when she got to this point, she felt herself choking up, unable to continue.
Ji Rui held her tighter, gently patting her shoulder.
"Silly, didn’t we just happen to pass by?"
A man’s mind, after all, is different from a woman’s.
A man’s nerves are also, after all, more robust than a woman’s. And this robustness, at this moment, was very useful for Le Tong.
With Ji Rui’s extremely affirmative tone, the hidden sadness in Le Tong’s heart was ruthlessly extinguished like a stone sinking to the bottom of a lake.
Ji Rui wasn’t afraid that Le Tong would be sad for Nuonuo; he was only afraid that Nuonuo would stir up some of her past bad memories.
Those old events from the past, even though she said she had let go, in his view, any scar, however well healed, might still ache a bit on windy or rainy days.
And he couldn’t bear for her to feel pain.
Even a tiny bit, he couldn’t bear it.
"Don’t worry, Nuonuo will do very well, and our family of four will also do very well!"
Ji Rui had previously been worried that Yang Sheng’s words might cause her to overthink again.
And sure enough, it did bring back her bad memories.
"Mm." Le Tong lowered her gaze, teasing Nuonuo, while wholeheartedly leaning against Ji Rui.
The most vulnerable part of a person is the back. Therefore, if someone can securely entrust their entire back to another person, it shows that she has placed absolute trust and dependence on this person.
This kind of unabashed trust and reliance on a person, in Le Tong’s memory, only her father, whose real face she could no longer remember, had ever given her such a feeling.
"The food has been delivered, let’s go in and eat." Ji Rui didn’t know that Le Tong’s thoughts had drifted back to a more distant past. He just held her tightly, forcibly dragging her out of the whirlpool of memories and back to reality.
"Mommy, come eat, there’s so much delicious food..." Baobao was already holding chopsticks, ready to dig in.
Le Tong responded with a smile, placing Nuonuo in the stroller Ji Rui had pushed over. Seeing the little one stick out her pink little tongue to lick her lips, she knew she was hungry.
"You guys eat first, I’ll make some formula for Nuonuo."
Yang Sheng watched Le Tong’s retreating figure flash into the bedroom, and said to Ji Rui, "Tongtong seems quite experienced and patient with little kids."
Ji Rui picked up a bowl, "She has a little niece, remember?"
Only then did Yang Sheng recall that Le Tong used to be especially good to that little girl living across from her.
"Wenwen has gone to kindergarten!" said Baobao, who would occasionally see the little girl in D Province via video, chimed in gossipingly.
"Baobao is about to start elementary school, right?" Yang Sheng pinched Baobao’s cheek, teasing him.
"The principal said Baobao could go to the fourth grade, but..." Baobao tilted his head, perhaps pondering or holding back a secret.
"But what?" Ji Rui hadn’t yet had a chance to ask his son’s opinion.
"Can Baobao take Nuonuo to school?" Baobao had probably been holding onto this question in his heart for several days.
"Of course not!" Ji Rui very decisively interrupted his wild idea.
He had no objection to Baobao doting on Nuonuo, but if it interfered with his regular studies and life, he wouldn’t agree.
"Oh..." Baobao seemed very disappointed.
"Silly boy, how young is Nuonuo, she wouldn’t want to go to school with you. How about you, as the older brother, learn some interesting things at school and come back to teach Nuonuo, wouldn’t that be better?"
Le Tong, who had come out with the formula prepared, said to her son as she picked up Nuonuo to feed her.
After dinner, Baobao played with Nuonuo on the big bed in the bedroom, while the three adults chatted in the living room.
Ji Rui’s phone rang, he picked it up to look at it, and slipped into the bedroom to answer it.
Le Tong mentioned to Yang Sheng about Y Country, saying Ji Rui seemed to have already decided to give up the business there.
"Sigh, do you know how much of an impact cutting that line has on the Ji Family?" Yang Sheng let out a long sigh at Le Tong.
Le Tong looked astonished, "Ji Rui said it’s not a big impact! And I checked, the trade volume with Y Country isn’t very large, it should only account for a small portion of the Ji Family’s trade volume."
Yang Sheng glared at her.
"Fool! The line to Y Country is something Rui and I spent not a small amount of time, effort, and resources carefully establishing. Of course, you didn’t know, so I don’t blame you. The ten-year development plan is something only Rui and I know. Let me tell you, Y Country is just a stepping stone, what we truly have our sights on is the entire European market. Several years ago, we already determined that the domestic market demand was starting to shrink. The future development direction of the Ji Family will be fully outward expansion."