When Yu Yuehan came, Nian Xiaomu was still frozen on the bed, her hands clutching her phone tightly.
Like a drowning person clinging to the last straw to save his life.
When she heard the knock on the door, she sprang to her feet and got up from the bed in shock.
He ran to the door and pulled it open in a single bound.
Yu Yuehan’s dignified figure, standing against the light, was outside the door.
He should have been worried about her and rushed all the way over, his cold face covered in a thin layer of sweat.
It was also on the tip of his nose.
One hand was propped against the wall, the hand still holding the knock on the door.
Forgot to even ring the doorbell if there was one.
Seeing the trembling Nian Xiaomu, he oohed and aahed and reached out to take her into his arms.
He touched her head with his big hands, and felt her up and down, making sure she was fine, before the panic in his eyes narrowed.
He exhaled softly and silently.
From the moment he heard her sobbing words, “Mo Qian is my father”, he had raced all the way here, fearing that something had happened to her.
Yu Yuehan hugged the person in his arms tightly, not rushing to ask anything.
He stood in the doorway, rubbing her head gently as if he was coaxing a child.
“Don’t be afraid, I’m here.”
His low voice, with its characteristic magnetism.
It soothes the tense and frightened mood in an instant.
When he noticed that Nian Xiaomu’s emotions had calmed down, he led her into the room.
The living room, where the windows had not been opened for a long time, was a bit stuffy.
Yu Yuehan pushed open the floor-to-ceiling window and let the sunlight pour in from outside, illuminating a room of grey.
Then he paced to the sofa and squatted down, his gaze level with Nian Xiaomu.
“Feeling better? Can you talk properly now?”
“Mmm.” Nian Xiaomu nodded good-naturedly.
He was about to say something when Yu Yuehan suddenly opened his lips, “Let me say this first, no matter what happens in the future, don’t scare me like you did just now.”
Nian Xiaomu: “……”
Yu Yuehan met her dull eyes, took her hand and pressed it towards his chest.
The heartbeat under his palm pulsed strongly.
Yu Yuehan: “Can you feel it? Thought something had happened to you, my heart was about to pop out of my throat in fear.”
His half-serious, half-joking tone was a little funny.
Nian Xiaomu was instantly amused by him.
“Coward.”
“Well, I am a coward, when something happens to you, I am afraid of everything, so for the sake of me, a coward, you must not be okay, do you hear me?” Yu Yue Han saw her finally smile and opened his lips dominantly.
Nian Xiaomu didn’t say anything, but she jumped into his arms.
She wrapped her arms tightly around his neck and did not let go.
The person also went from panic, a little to regaining calm.
Organising her words, she told him what had just happened to her.
“I accidentally broke the crumbling toner, then in my head, I suddenly heard some voices and saw some people ……”
“It was Mo Qian?” Yu Yuehan’s thin lips slightly opened.
“Mm.” Nian Xiaomu nodded with certainty.
“Do you still remember the Xing family’s old mansion? That place where I lived for many years, I saw it just now, and I remember clearly that the people who sent me there were my mum and dad, and they told me that they would come to see me as soon as they could, and then they came too!”
Nian Xiaomu became a little emotional.
Grabbing Yu Yuehan’s arm with all her might.
“I’m not an orphan abandoned by my parents, nor am I a sweeper, I’m just being fostered in the Xing family, my mum and dad will come to see me every now and then, and will bring me lots of things, toys, good food, and my favourite drawing paper!”
