Song Yansheng looked at her, feeling like a cat was scratching his heart, itchy, painful, desperately wanting to hold the little girl in his arms and kiss her deeply, but he didn’t dare, afraid of scaring her!
He could feel Shi Nuan slowly accepting him. Although it was a bit slow, acceptance was always a good thing.
His fingertips brushed her cheek again, moving her scattered hair aside. He said, "You continue to sleep for a while, I’ll go check on Mingmei!"
Shi Nuan softly responded with an "um," not saying much, watching as the man gently got out of bed, tidied his clothes a bit, and then left the room without lingering.
As the door closed, Shi Nuan buried her face in the pillow again, not knowing why, her face was burning.
It wasn’t until a few minutes later that she caught her breath, lightly patting her face to clear her mind a bit.
Only then did she get up, reaching for her phone on the bedside table. There was one unread message, familiar numbers—it was Ji Xia.
The message contained only four words: All is well!
Silently, Shi Nuan deleted the message, pulled the covers over herself again, and stared blankly at the spot where Song Yansheng had slept.
That noon when she met Ji Xia, Shi Nuan asked Ji Xia to help her with something—to find a way to leak the news to Li Guirong and her daughter that Shi Yuanbo was giving her shares.
The sooner the better.
Ji Xia furrowed her brows upon hearing this and said, "You should know that by doing this, you’re putting your father in a tough spot!"
Shi Nuan just gave a faint smile at that time: "If he truly considered me his daughter, he wouldn’t have let Li Guirong and her daughter oppress me for all these years. His cowardice doesn’t mean he can’t protect me; he compromises because Li Guirong gave him a son, simply because I’m not a son!"
From the moment her mother passed away ten years ago and her father married Li Guirong, Shi Nuan felt like she had lost her father.
But she still held a sliver of hope that Shi Yuanbo would treat her well, love her, and cherish her as he did before!
But the outcome was completely different. Shi Nuan couldn’t count the number of times she was heartbroken and disappointed.
If her father could be relied upon, why would she bear hatred at such a young age, why couldn’t she even ask Shen Zui to stay, why did she promise her life to Song Yichuan just three months after the car accident?
Her mother died with regrets, yet they could reunite as a family and enjoy happiness together. Why?
There was a deep breath in Shi Nuan’s heart, bottled up for many years, turning into an illness she couldn’t bear!
Shi Yuanbo gave her shares, and Li Guirong and her daughter would eventually find out, but it was supposed to be after a month when her thesis defense ended and she asked to start her internship at the Shi Family!
That was too long to wait; she couldn’t wait.
Li Guirong and her daughter had just been released not long ago, their emotions unsettled. Dropping this bomb would surely add fuel to the fire!
These shares were retrieved for her by Song Yansheng, and her father naturally couldn’t go back on his word. Li Guirong and her daughter causing a scene was inevitable.
Her father would indeed feel troubled, but it would also open his eyes to the greed and selfishness of this mother and daughter, to see clearly what a rare happiness he had lost!
Shi Nuan had no regrets about doing this!
Shi Nuan hadn’t gone downstairs because she hadn’t yet adjusted her emotions to face Song Yansheng.
She stood by the window, watching the sunset, countless thoughts crossing her mind, but in the end, she found peace.