Chapter 351: Our Daughter
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Li Xiwu smiled and turned around with the grapefruit in her arms. She saw Pei Jingzhou looking at her. She raised her eyebrows. “What’s wrong?
Pei Jingzhou asked, “Do you like Youyou a lot?”
Li Xiwu nodded solemnly. “I do.”
Pei Jingzhou could already tell. He only asked again to confirm it. Therefore, he suggested, “Then let’s discuss with Youyou’s parents and pick her up once a week. What do you think?”
Li Xiwu smiled meaningfully. “I think so too.”
If Pei Jingzhou had gotten someone to continue following Li Xiwu today, he would definitely know what was going on now. However, he believed in Li Xiwu, so he withdrew the people following her. Therefore, he would never have thought that Youyou was his biological daughter.
Pei Jingzhou took out his phone and said, “Give me the contact details of
Youyou’s parents. I’ll communicate with them. Don’t worry, it’ll be done.”
Seeing that he was so enthusiastic, Li Xiwu suppressed the smile on her lips and gave him the number. “187* ** ”
Pei Jingzhou entered the number Li Xiwu had read out. When he entered the fifth digit, his fingertips paused and he looked up at Li Xiwu.
The number seemed familiar.
Li Xiwu pretended not to know anything. “What’s wrong?
Pei Jingzhou said, “Continue.”
Li Xiwu tried her best to suppress the smile on her lips so that it would not be too obvious. She continued to read the phone number out loud as if she was playing a prank. After reading the last three numbers, Pei Jingzhou realized that Li Xiwu was teasing him and stopped.
Li Xiwu deliberately asked, “Didn’t you remember?”
Pei Jingzhou rubbed his eyebrows and reminded her, “This is my number.”
Li Xiwu looked serious. “But this is the phone number.”
Pei Jingzhou laughed in a low voice. “Stop fooling around.”
“You asked me for the phone number and said that you wanted to contact them personally. Now that I’ve given you the phone number, you say that I’m fooling around.” Li Xiwu turned around and peeled the grapefruit with a knife. As she peeled it, she said, “I’m not fooling around. This is Youyou’s father’s phone number. Try calling it if you don’t believe me.”
As soon as she finished speaking, there was no other sound in the air other than the sound of Li Xiwu peeling grapefruit.
Li Xiwu stopped in her tracks, thinking that Pei Jingzhou had gone out. She turned around and saw that he was still standing behind her. But that expression…
Li Xiwu swallowed and asked softly, “Is there anything you want to ask me?”
Pei Jingzhou reached out and pulled her over, his hand on her waist. The smell of grapefruit skin evaporated into the air. It was rich and pleasant. It had the effect of refreshing the mind. Li Xiwu blinked and waited for Pei Jingzhou to continue. But he didn’t ask anything. He just looked at her.
Li Xiwu was helpless under his gaze. She raised her hands and placed them on his shoulders. “Don’t you have anything to ask?” She had already made it so obvious. Why was Pei Jingzhou so indifferent? He… didn’t believe her?
Thinking that she was joking, he didn’t take what she said seriously at all. Pei Jingzhou’s thin lips moved, and his voice was hoarse. “What happened?”
Li Xiwu instantly understood that he was suppressing his emotions. Her lips curled into a faint smile as she replied, “Probably because I was young and ignorant. I gave birth to a child behind your back.”
She could clearly sense that after she finished speaking, Pei Jingzhou’s grip on her waist slowly tightened. But such force did not hurt. His emotions were clearly fluctuating, but he was used to restraining them.
Seeing him like this, Li Xiwu’s heart softened. She stopped teasing him and told him directly, “I wasn’t joking just now. This phone number is Youyou’s father’s phone number. Youyou is your biological daughter and mine.” Pei Jingzhou did not speak. His lowered eyes trembled a few times.
Li Xiwu continued, “Do you remember when I asked you before if I was pregnant four years ago? Actually, I was already dreaming about being pregnant at that time. The dream was very real, but no one knew the fact that I had been pregnant. I kept thinking of ways to verify it, but the process was hidden from you. I’m sorry.
“When I went to see Gu Lan, it was because he knew about my pregnancy back then. It turned out that it was not an accident to see Youyou on the pleasure boat that day. It was arranged by Gu Lanshi. Youyou is our daughter. Gu
Lanshi has been taking care of Youyou for the past four years.”
Pei Jingzhou was very quiet as he listened to Li Xiwu finish her sentence.
Li Xiwu took a deep breath. “I don’t know if you’ll believe me, but Gu Lanshi has already returned Youyou to us.” Without needing Pei Jingzhou to ask, she finished speaking in one breath. She looked at Pei Jingzhou, who did not react for a long time, and waved her hand in front of his eyes. “…Do you not believe me?”
She had been beating around the bush for a long time. Now that she suddenly said it, Pei Jingzhou might not be mentally prepared at all. Of course, there was something else. The credibility of her words was not that high.
Pei Jingzhou frowned. “So this is what you’re hiding from me?
“It’s not really hidden.” Li Xiwu took a deep breath and calmed herself down. “I only confirmed today that Youyou is my daughter, so I told you when I came back today.”
Pei Jingzhou asked, “Your daughter?”
Li Xiwu pushed him away and turned around. “You don’t seem very willing to accept this truth and fact. In that case, Youyou is my child with someone else. That’s reasonable. After all, four years have passed. With just my mouth, you might be a huge injustice.”
Pei Jingzhou pulled her over. “I think? When did I think?”
Li Xiwu said, “Then you…”
Pei Jingzhou said, “Reasonable? How is that reasonable?”
Li Xiwu was speechless.
“Li Xiwu, let me tell you, even if Youyou was really born by you and someone else, she’s still our daughter. Don’t think of taking the child away with this reason and shaking me off. It’s impossible in this lifetime.”
Pei Jingzhou’s tone was very heavy. He was very calm after knowing the truth. However, he was suddenly angry because of Li Xiwu’s joke. He was really afraid that she would take the child away.
Li Xiwu had mixed feelings. “So what do you think now?” She knew Pei Jingzhou’s attitude, but she wanted to hear it from him.
Pei Jingzhou’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he slowly said, “I’m very happy.”
If Li Xiwu had not seen his already red eyes, she would have believed him.
However, after a moment, the tears in Pei Jingzhou’s eyes fell. That drop landed on Li Xiwu’s wrist and burned her heart.
She gently raised her hand and wiped away the tears under Pei Jingzhou’s eyes. She couldn’t help but choke. ‘You’re already crying, yet you still say you’re happy.”
Pei Jingzhou’s eyes were red. “This is called crying tears of joy.”
Li Xiwu couldn’t help but laugh. As she laughed, her throat tightened and her voice choked. She said to Pei Jingzhou, “It’s been so long. This is the first time
I’ve seen you cry.”
Li Xiwu did not know if she had seen Pei Jingzhou cry in the past.
But this was the first time..
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