“Burp!”

Little Mo Li hiccuped as she cried. “It’s okay,” she said softly. She sounded like she was crying.

Zhuang Long’s tense body relaxed.

Not long after, the police in charge of this area came.

Little Mo Li’s father was brought to the police station, and Little Mo Li was brought to the hospital by a female police officer to be bandaged. Zhuang Long and Ji Yinbing continued to move and loaded everything into the car. Zhuang Long sat in the driver’s seat, and Ji Yinbing sat at the side.

She handed Zhuang Long a bottle of chilled mineral water.

“Thanks.”

Zhuang Long drank more than half the bottle of water.

Putting down the water bottle, he heard Ji Yinbing say, “What’s wrong?”

Zhuang Long remained silent.

He did not know what was wrong.

Ji Yinbing added, “In a situation like today, we only need to stop the atrocity of little Mo Li’s father. It’s wrong to instigate a child to commit a crime. We can call the police.”

Zhuang Long suddenly said, “Can calling the police solve everything?”

Upon hearing this, Ji Yinbing thought of her childhood situation. In India, calling the police was useless. However, there was always a reason for the existence of the police. She could not doubt the existence of the police just because she was not protected by the police.

Ji Yinbing said, “The police can’t solve everything, but it can solve many things.”

Zhuang Long laughed ambiguously. He thought of something and said, “I was wrong this time. I really shouldn’t have.”

He mocked himself. “Who asked me to be an orphan? When I was young, I lived in the orphanage for a period of time. Later on, a rich man brought his wife to the orphanage. His wife took a fancy to me, so he brought me home. When I was 11 years old, my mother passed away. My father didn’t have much feelings for me to begin with. After my mother passed away, he didn’t care much about me anymore. He gave me money, but he couldn’t give me love. Later on, he had a new loving wife himself, and our contact became less and less.”

“Even so, I’m still very grateful to him. Without him, I would probably have stayed in the orphanage and wouldn’t have had the good life I have now.”

Ji Yinbing had been listening seriously. After knowing him for so many years, this was the first time she heard Zhuang Long mention his past.

It turned out that his life was not smooth sailing.

“Our orphanage used to be in the local municipal newspaper. The reason was…” Zhuang Long smiled especially cruelly. He said,” The hospital director was a violent person. At that time, we would be beaten up for having leftovers or eating too much. We would be beaten up for saying the wrong thing. Once, a four-year-old girl secretly hid a small piece of bread because she was not full and was discovered by the hospital director. The hospital director gathered all of us and almost beat the little girl to death in front of us. ”

“We also tried to call the police, but every time the police came, they would stay in the small house with the hospital director for an hour. When they left, they would smile.”

After telling him about this experience that he rarely mentioned to anyone, Zhuang Long frowned. His memories seemed to have returned to when he was young and lived in the orphanage. His aura became cold.

After living in the orphanage for a few months, Zhuang Long could not remember many things, but he remembered the scene of the little girl being beaten.

He stood in the crowd, trembling in fear.

Ji Yinbing sighed and said, “It’s all in the past. You’re doing very well now. No matter how difficult it is, you’ve survived it.”

“Yeah!”

“Oh right.” Ji Yinbing asked Zhuang Long, “Where did you live before you went to the orphanage?”

“My own home, of course.”

“Then your parents…”

Zhuang Long said, “My parents often quarreled too. I don’t remember how they died. They were too young at that time. In short, it was quite annoying.” Zhuang Long did not want to talk about his childhood. Half of the reason was because he did not want to share his last bit of private information with Ji Yinbing. On the other hand, it was because he really could not remember clearly.

“We’re moving to a new house today. Let’s not talk about this. Let’s go to your new house to take a look.”

“Okay.”

When they arrived at Ji Yinbing’s new house, Zhuang Long helped her move her things into the house. The two of them sorted out the things together. It was already very late.

After sweating a lot, Zhuang Long took a shower in the guest room bathroom of his new house and found a set of Yan Nuo’s clothes to wear. Yan Nuo was taller than them, and his pants were a little long for Zhuang Long. Zhuang Long searched for a long time before he found a pair of pants that could be folded.

He folded his pants twice so that he would not step on his feet.

Ji Yinbing stared at his clothes for a long time before realizing how tall her man was. “It’s been hard on you today. How about I treat you to dinner?” Zhuang Long had been tired from following her for the entire day. Ji Yinbing knew how to be grateful.

Zhuang Long raised his eyebrows and asked her, “You’ll do it?”

Ji Yinbing smiled coldly and asked Zhuang Long, “I can do it. Do you dare to eat it?”

Zhuang Long’s expression twisted before he said, “Let’s go out and eat.”

“Yeah, okay.”

The two of them went out for dinner and returned home.

On the way home, Zhuang Long received a call from Zhuang Qilin.

“Dad, our school announced the time of Field Day this year. I’ve already sent the exact time to your phone. You must note the time and plan in advance. You can’t miss it.”

Zhuang Long’s heart softened when he heard his son’s voice.

“Okay.”

After hanging up the phone, Zhuang Long could not help but recall everything that happened when he was with Zhuang Qilin. After confirming that he had never hit or scolded Zhuang Qilin, he was relieved.

After returning home, Zhuang Long found the head butler who was in charge of his daily life and said to him, “On June 1st, I’m going to participate in the sports meet at Qilin’s school. Remember to remind me in advance.” Zhuang Qilin and the rest had three semesters a year and were about to end their second semester. Then, they would start a summer vacation that lasted nearly three months.

The head butler replied, “Okay.”

After returning to his room, Zhuang Long specially searched for the events that primary school students had to hold. It looked similar to when he was studying. In order to win face for his son on the day of the sports meet, Zhuang Long decided to increase his exercise time by an hour every day from tomorrow onwards.

He put down his phone and went to take a shower.

Putting on a thin sleeping robe, Zhuang Long closed the curtains and planned to sleep. He walked to the window and habitually glanced at the neighbor’s house. He saw that Uncle Jimmy’s house was very lively today. It was already past ten o’clock, but their lights were still on.

Uncle Jimmy and his wife had a very regular schedule. Usually, only the bedroom was still lit at this time.

Was there a guest?

Zhuang Long did not think too much about it and pulled the curtain to sleep.

The next morning, he woke up in high spirits. In the OK group, Qiao Jiusheng was showing the results of Fang Yusheng’s first meal. Zhuang Long stared at the food and could not help but write a comment—

Zhuang Long: [If you want to live a long life, please stay away from Fang Yusheng.]

Qiao Jiusheng: [I’ll eat it even if it’s poison.]

He was caught off guard and was fed dog food by this adulterous couple.