"Ah? Am I really that terrible?"
"Yes, you are, because you lost the child!"
"The child... is lost?"
The girl sitting in front of the dressing table widened her eyes in shock: "Are you talking about Xiaobao?"
Ou Mucen nodded, "Yes, what kind of mother are you? Losing your own child. If it wasn’t for me, our son would have been kidnapped by traffickers."
As he spoke, the man who was clumsily combing the woman’s hair, felt some lingering resentment.
You would think that as a mother, that would be enough, but no, if it weren’t for Little Baozi being clever and running into me, wouldn’t things have been terrible? Wouldn’t my son be gone?
Ou Mucen, still angry about the incident, increased the force in his hands a bit, causing the woman under his hands to cry out, "Ouch... ouch, that hurts, be gentle!"
"No kidding, why don’t you try pulling your own hair?"
"I’m trying to tell you that if you lose our son again next time, it won’t just be your hair that’s going to hurt."
What kind of talk is that?
Next time, if anyone gets lost, it’ll be you!
The couple chatted back and forth, each sentence more disconnected than the last, and Ou Mucen eventually forgot his original purpose.
It wasn’t until he finished tying her hair that the girl seated there said, "Husband, since they’re all here, let’s not chase them away anymore. It’s the New Year; kicking them out would be laughable."
Ou Mucen went blank for a moment before he remembered his own affairs!
He did indeed want to drive them out. What did he mean? Was she treating his words like wind passing by her ears? And had she just called them over?
In an instant, the softness on Ou Mucen’s face vanished, and his features turned icy cold, "What did they do to you when they came today?"
Ye Ning hurriedly shook her head, "They didn’t do anything. What could they possibly do to me here? Don’t I have so many people looking after me? There’s Dad, Mom, Ying Hao, and others, right?"
She was afraid that hearing even the slightest upset would have him chasing people out again, so she quickly mentioned several names.
Indeed, after she said that, his icy expression softened ever so slightly...
"It’s not that I want to drive them out so badly, but their family has bad conduct. Fine, since you’ve put it that way, let them stay here for now. After all, I’ll be staying at home after my last class tomorrow."
"You have a holiday?"
Ou Mucen, seeing the smile in her eyes, couldn’t help but soften his own heart, "Do you want to go somewhere?"
Ye Ning shook her head and rested it on his shoulder, "I don’t want to go anywhere. I just want to be with you."
She became more dependent on him and more candid in expressing her emotions, without any pretense.
A flicker went through Ou Mucen’s heart, and finally, he held her in his arms, wrapping his hands around her. Gradually, his breath deepened, getting lost in her faint scent...
Wanting you by my side...
He felt the same way. To have you by my side for a lifetime would be enough!
That night, the family of three at Orchid Garden didn’t go to Bamboo Garden for dinner. Upon inquiry, they learned that the Third Young Master had taken the Third Young Mistress and the young master out for dinner.
When Bai Tingfang heard this, she glared at the "family members" who were happily gathered in the living room, and without eating, she hurried upstairs.
Ou Mufeng, you push away my son and grandson, but I’m not going to swallow this anger so easily!