It being a boy was fine. Before Sensen finished distributing the hearts to the children, Bai Shuijin entrusted the two paper hearts in his hand to the teacher.
“These are from Sensen for Tiantian. He’s too shy to give them himself. Could you please help deliver them?”
Teacher: “You don’t need to be so polite.”
Taking the hearts, the teacher successfully delivered them in two seconds.
SF Express, accompanying you all the way.
**SF Express is a fast delivery company.
Tiantian had built his blocks very high. Seeing the teacher hand him two hearts and say they were from Sensen, his round little face showed hesitation, as if he hadn’t forgotten yesterday’s incident when Sensen destroyed the little tomatoes.
But the hearts were folded so beautifully that the cub couldn’t resist the temptation. He reached out his short little hand to take them, stood up from his small stool, and went to thank Sensen.
Tiantian was a bit taller than Sensen and had a quiet, well-behaved personality. While other children played games together, he could sit quietly by himself building blocks without being disturbed.
Seeing that the other children only had one heart each while he had two, he walked up to Sensen and asked, “Sensen, am I the only one with two?”
Sensen’s little face flushed, “I folded extra, so I gave you two.”
Bai Shuijin: “…”
You Wangs are all stubborn from childhood, right?
Tiantian held the hearts in his hand. “Thank you, Sensen. I really like them.”
He leaned over, grabbed Sensen, and kissed him on his chubby cheek.
Sensen: !
Sensen covered his face, his feet in goose-yellow indoor shoes instantly stepping back several paces. “It’s just two hearts.”
His speech was slurred. “Actually, I could fold a hundred of these hearts!”
Tiantian was delighted. “Really? That’s amazing!”
He clapped his hands.
Sensen was praised beyond recognition, and added, “No, I can fold two hundred!”
Bai Shuijin: “…”
Sensen’s future is clear at a glance.
After sending off the love express, Bai Shuijin glanced at Sensen a few more times and prepared to leave. But when he turned around, he saw a suspicious black figure lurking around the corner of the corridor.
“What are you doing here?”
Bai Shuijin walked up to him. Wang Muguang took off his sunglasses in shock, “Even disguised like this, you can still recognize me?”
“As expected, no matter how tightly I cover myself up, my handsomeness can’t be hidden.”
“Not really. It’s just that only you dress like this…”
Bai Shuijin’s words trailed off, leaving something unsaid.
Wang Muguang was puzzled. “Dressed like what?”
Bai Shuijin: “Like something unclean.”
**Something unclean usually refers to supernatural things like ghosts.
“…”
Wang Muguang, who was acting sneaky, put his arm around Bai Shuijin’s neck and made him crouch down too.
This made Bai Shuijin, who was only 176 cm tall, even worse off.
“Didn’t the Little Sensen hit other children in kindergarten, I want to see why he really hits them.”
Yesterday, Sensen didn’t say even after asking. Wang Muguang felt that Sensen’s habit of hitting people wouldn’t change quickly, so he decided to come and investigate himself.
Bai Shuijin: “If we keep this up, we’ll be caught by security as suspicious characters in less than two minutes.”
Wang Muguang straightened up with him.
Bai Shuijin: “If you want to understand why Sensen hit other children in kindergarten, you should first hear what the teachers say, then observe. Sensen just finished giving out hearts and is getting along well with the children now.”
Wang Muguang thought it made sense.
While the Sunflower Class was having outdoor activities, Wang Muguang and Bai Shuijin found one of Sensen’s teachers.
The three sat in the office. When discussing Sensen’s hitting issue, the teacher also found it troublesome. Sensen had just transferred not long ago but had already fought with other children several times.
“It usually happens during lunch. Sensen eats a lot. Every time his stomach is already bulging, he still asks for more. Other children eat one bowl, but he eats three. We don’t dare give him more after that.”
After eating his fill, Sensen’s stomach bulged like a ball and felt hard to the touch. Eating more would definitely make him vomit or cause indigestion.
It would be bad if he gets sick from eating.
“After we refuse, Sensen goes to other children to ask for food. If they don’t give it, he says: ‘If you don’t give it, I’ll hit you.'”
The children here come from wealthy or influential families and all have strong personalities. So when they hear someone threatening to hit them, they stand up from their chairs ready to fight.
But Sensen is unusually disruptive and always manages to make the children cry.
He could be called the God of War of the Sunflower Class.
Among all the children in the Sunflower Class, only Tiantian shares his food with him.
“Don’t bully others. You can have mine.”
That’s why Sensen’s favorite in the Sunflower Class is Tiantian.
Wang Muguang was surprised. He didn’t expect Sensen to be so aggressive about food.
Teacher: “I’ve also communicated with his family. Sensen’s guardians said he acts like this at home too…he likes to hit people and doesn’t eat properly.”
Bai Shuijin recalled that after eating yesterday, aside from stubbornly holding onto the turkey leg, Sensen didn’t cause any fuss or trouble.
Thinking from a child’s perspective about why he hits people.
Bai Shuijin frowned and thought hard but couldn’t come up with an answer.
Because he wasn’t a child anymore, he couldn’t understand Sensen’s current way of thinking.
At lunchtime, Bai Shuijin and Wang Muguang stood outside watching the Sunflower Class have lunch.
The aroma of the kindergarten meal made them swallow hard.
Wang Muguang asked soulfully, “Are there any restaurants nearby?”
Bai Shuijin thought back. “I remember there’s a KFC on the street corner.”
“Is there no McDonald’s?”
Bai Shuijin: ?
Wang Muguang: “I need to maintain my figure, so I have to eat whole wheat.”
“…”
You can fool others, but don’t fool yourself.
Sure enough, as the teacher said, Sensen asked for two more servings with his tray, eating three bowls in total.
The kindergarten provided healthy meals with a perfect balance of meat and vegetables. From Sensen’s expression, it was clear the little guy didn’t really like carrots and broccoli. But somehow, he convinced himself to finish everything without leaving behind what he didn’t like. With a scrunched-up face, he ate all the carrots and broccoli.
He also didn’t seem to like sweet and sour flavors.
After eating three bowls, he didn’t ask the teacher for more but started looking around, as if knowing the teacher wouldn’t give him more and prepared to start his daily bandit behavior.
Tiantian noticed him and shared some of his milk with him. “You can’t bully others.”
Sensen blushed and nodded at him, but his eyes still lingered on the other children’s trays.
Fortunately, after multiple occurrences, the teacher had already taken preventive measures against Sensen’s behavior. First, she lured Sensen with toys, then took him alone to the quiet room to read picture books.
Today, there was no repeat of yesterday’s wailing and howling in the botanical room.
Bai Shuijin and Wang Muguang had a feast at McDonald’s and rested for a while before picking Sensen up from school to go home.
The lunchbox filled with food from home in the morning was still in Sensen’s backpack, and the food inside had not been touched.
Seeing that Bai Shuijin and Wang Muguang had come to pick him up again today, Sensen’s short legs jumped in joy.
“Sister-in-law!”
Sensen spread his arms and ran toward him. Bai Shuijin was pleasantly surprised. He didn’t expect that after just one day together, the little guy would be so attached to him.
He quickly stepped forward and picked up Sensen, as if holding the childhood version of himself who also wished his parents would pick him up from school.
He skillfully used the words Wang Huanxiu had said when picking him up from school before.
“How was your day today? Did you get along well with the children at kindergarten?”
Sensen nodded. “Yes.”
Wang Muguang watched their intimate interaction and asked, “When did you two become so close?”
Bai Shuijin held Sensen and got into the car. They had the bond of thirteen hearts between them.
Tomorrow and the day after are Saturday and Sunday, so Sensen didn’t have to go to school.
After having dinner at home, Wang Zhenzhu, inspired by a design idea, felt that drawing on the floor would be smoother. She lay on the floor sketching, while Sensen crouched beside her with his bottom in the air, doing his homework.
Meanwhile, Bai Shuijin sat on the sofa sending messages to Wang Huanxiu.
The other party said he was going on a two-day business trip. Bai Shuijin didn’t know if “two days” was just a vague number or if he would indeed be back in two days.
[Laogong-ge, when are you coming back?]
This was the message he had sent at 3 PM, but he still hadn’t received a reply.
It was like a stone thrown into the sea.
Why wasn’t he replying to his messages?
Bai Shuijin pouted and scrutinized the other person’s profile picture, which was a selfie of himself.
He had specifically taken it for Wang Huanxiu to use as a profile picture. In the dance studio, after dancing, he thought he looked pretty good with some color in his face. He gave a big smile to the mirror and sent it to Wang Huanxiu, asking him to change it.
Chen Yuan said her boyfriend’s profile picture was of her. Both Bai Shuijin and Wang Huanxiu were in their first relationship, and they didn’t miss out on doing things couples do.
On the other side, Wang Huanxiu sat in his office in the skyscraper, his expression profound and inscrutable.
Ever since the first elevator malfunction, Wang Huanxiu had known it was the work of someone in the Wang family. The old man publicly did not acknowledge his status as heir, and Wang Wang allied with his uncle’s family to pull him down from his position. They had been cautious before, but after Wang Pingtian was imprisoned, things became more radical.
During this time, he had used various means to obtain witnesses and evidence for these accidents. Now, he could easily send Wang Wang and his uncle’s group to jail.
But after the rear of his car was smashed to pieces the day before yesterday, Wang Huanxiu changed his decision.
Someone repeatedly wanted his life. Just sending them to jail to eat prison food would undoubtedly be like letting them enjoy a pie falling from the sky.
If they didn’t shed a layer of skin, he wouldn’t be satisfied.
If the driver hadn’t turned the steering wheel in time, he would be dead.
Wang Huanxiu’s fingers tapped the desk one after another. It was raining outside. He didn’t turn on the light and was sitting in the dark, and the raindrops hitting the glass were reflected in his shadow.
If it were before, he could have disregarded everything. But what about Bai Shuijin?
Wang Huanxiu frowned. To ensure everything went smoothly, he couldn’t tell anyone about his next plans besides the subordinates needed to handle matters.
Including Bai Shuijin.
.
That night, Bai Shuijin didn’t receive any messages from Wang Huanxiu. He must be too busy with work.
Bai Shuijin lay on the bed, thinking that Wang Huanxiu would be back in a few days. It was just a few days…he wouldn’t get lovesick.
But, instinctive dependence made Bai Shuijin unable to stop thinking about him.
Then, his phone vibrated with a WeChat message.
Bai Shuijin nimbly tapped to check, but it was from Wang Muguang.
Wang Muguang: [There’s no toilet paper in the bathroom. Can you bring me some?]
Wang Muguang: [Good people live in peace. (palms together)]
Bai Shuijin: “…”
Probably too embarrassed to ask anyone else, he sent it to him.
Bai Shuijin sighed and prepared to get up, but he caught the attention of Sensen on the floor.
“Sister-in-law, where are you going?”
Bai Shuijin: “To take…”
Bai Shuijin paused. What was Wang Muguang’s relation to Sensen? He pondered deeply but couldn’t figure it out, so he simply used “uncle”.
“To take something to Uncle Muguang.”
Sensen stood up. “I’ll take it.”
Since Sensen wanted to help run the errand, Bai Shuijin didn’t refuse. He handed the tissue box to him and said, “He’s in the bathroom over there. Thank you for helping deliver it.”
Sensen held the tissue box. “You’re welcome.”
Uncle is in the bathroom.
After learning the location, Sensen did not go there immediately. Instead, he went to his schoolbag and took out something before heading to the bathroom.
At home, he always secretly ate snacks in the bathroom.
Uncle was probably secretly eating in there too.
Sensen empathized.
There was a knock on the bathroom door. Wang Muguang knew someone had come to bring him toilet paper. He reached out and opened the door by a small gap.
“Here.”
Sensen shoved something into his hand.
“I’m helping sister-in-law bring you something.”
Wang Muguang looked at the rice spoon in his hand.
“…”
‘What the hell?’
Wang Muguang asked if he had anything else. Only then did Sensen hand over the tissue box.
After being saved, Wang Muguang washed his hands and came out, planning to play “high-altitude object throwing” with Sensen…glorified as “flying an airplane”…to thank the little guy.
Before he could catch Sensen, his phone rang.
Looking at the caller ID, it was Sensen’s mother.
Wang Muguang answered the call. “Big Sister, it’s so late. Is something wrong?”
The signal on the other end was much better. A sudden blizzard had interfered with the survey location, and her survey team had now moved to a shelter in the town.
There was a signal there, but the power was out for half the day, and no one knew when the blizzard would pass.
This time, it was Sensen’s father speaking. He took his wife’s phone. “Muguang, hello, this is your brother-in-law. Sorry for troubling you with taking care of Sensen these past two days. Sensen must have caused you a lot of trouble. Tomorrow morning, the nanny and butler will come to pick Sensen up and bring him home.”
‘Pick Sensen up?’
Why is he going back after just two days? Three days and two nights is shorter than a typical vacation.
Wang Muguang couldn’t figure it out. “Aren’t you coming back in a month?”
“It is in a month, but Sensen is very naughty. We feel it’s too much trouble for you, so it’s better to have the nanny bring him back.”
Today, at the shelter, the couple received calls from the nanny and butler.
They said to pick Sensen up because children feel uneasy in unfamiliar places. Plus, Sensen’s naughtiness would trouble others…
Wang Muguang wasn’t close with them to begin with. Wang Hua had thought of this kind-hearted cousin only because she genuinely wanted to find a family member to accompany Sensen. It was indeed somewhat unkind.
They usually didn’t have contact often, but when they needed something, they asked for help.
The second uncle’s family wasn’t very good at handling interpersonal relationships. After what the nanny and butler said, they indeed felt their family was being shameless by asking others to care for their child.
While there was a signal and no power outage, Wang Hua dialed Wang Muguang’s number.
Wang Muguang told Bai Shuijin that Sensen would be going home tomorrow.
At bedtime, both Bai Shuijin and Sensen were in low spirits and reluctant to part.
Sensen lay on the big bed, his body looking very small. He also knew he was going home tomorrow. Even when he scraped his knee, he only shed a few tears, but now he was crying so hard he hiccupped.
“I don’t want to go back…Sensen doesn’t want to go home.”
Sensen hiccupped while wiping his tears. He thought that since Sister-in-law and Uncle picked him up from kindergarten, he would live here from now on.
He didn’t expect to go back tomorrow.
This dark night broke his heart.
The little guy cried pitifully, making Bai Shuijin’s heart ache. He sat up and held him.
“Actually, I don’t want to part with you either, Sensen. I will definitely visit you often.”
Sensen grabbed his pajamas without speaking.
“And we can still contact each other by phone. We can see each other through video calls too.”
Sensen’s ears twitched. “Really?”
“Of course, it’s true. Do you have a phone?”
In a family like Sensen’s, communication devices like phones should have been prepared for the child early on.
Sensen shook his head. “No, but I have a smartwatch.”
Smartwatches can also video call and make calls.
But Sensen was somewhat distrustful of Bai Shuijin. Before, he never succeeded when he used his phone watch to call his mom and dad.
Even if the call connected, there was only a busy tone on the other end. The signal would disconnect within seconds, making communication impossible.
Although he didn’t believe Bai Shuijin would answer his call, Sensen still took the watch out of his backpack. After Bai Shuijin input his contact information, Sensen cherished it dearly, wearing it on his small wrist and refusing to take it off.
They agreed to call each other every day, and only then did the little guy close his eyes to sleep.
The next morning at seven, Sensen’s nanny and butler arrived at the gate to pick him up. Just like the first time they met two days ago, the butler was still holding the hand of a little boy.
The butler and the nanny were married, and the little boy was their grandson.
Bai Shuijin brought a sleepy-eyed Sensen out. As soon as she saw Sensen, the nanny took him and carried him into the car.
The butler exchanged pleasantries with Bai Shuijin.
“Mr. Bai, sorry for troubling you with taking care of Sensen these past two days. Sensen must have caused you a lot of trouble.”
“Not at all. Sensen was very well-behaved.”
Butler: “Then, did he say anything… not good?”
“Not good?”
‘What kind of not good?’
Seeing Bai Shuijin’s blank expression and that he didn’t seem to have any complaints about them, the butler quietly felt relieved. It seemed that little brat Sensen hadn’t said anything he shouldn’t have. He smoothed things over: “Sensen has a habit of lying and threatening people. He doesn’t eat properly and is picky about food.”
This was the second time Bai Shuijin had heard them say Sensen was a liar. During these two days together, he hadn’t noticed this bad habit. His brows furrowed. His time with the little guy was short; perhaps Sensen’s life hadn’t been fully revealed.
But hearing them talk about Sensen like this still made Bai Shuijin uncomfortable. “Habits are formed in life. You can help Sensen break this bad habit.”
Then he added, “Don’t say these things in front of the child.”
Last time at the kindergarten gate, the nanny had directly said in Sensen’s presence that Sensen loved to lie and hit people.
The butler’s expression stiffened. After agreeing with Bai Shuijin, he turned and got into the car.
After driving out of the villa area, he glanced at Sensen in the child seat through the rearview mirror.
“Sensen, were you treated well at Uncle’s house?”
Sensen ignored him.
The butler’s grandson saw this and pointed at Sensen, making a face. “Sensen has no manners. He’s a mute.”
Sensen was unhappy. “You’re the mute!”
Having picked up Sensen, both the butler and the nanny breathed a sigh of relief, afraid that Sensen might have said something he shouldn’t have at someone else’s house.
Sensen’s parents were very busy and rarely came home throughout the year, but they didn’t treat him badly in terms of material things. Fresh and precious ingredients were delivered daily.
But it was always enough for only one person, not enough to share.
This “share” naturally referred to the butler and nanny’s own grandson. Additionally, their daughter-in-law was now pregnant with a second child, so the two often took things home to nourish her.
The precious ingredients prepared for Sensen daily ended up in their grandson’s stomach. Usually, whatever food or toys were at home were shared between the two children.
Initially, when they learned Sensen would be taken to someone else’s house for some time, the nanny and butler were anxious, afraid Sensen would talk about them taking his things outside.
Previously, when their grandson Doudou used Sensen’s toys and items, they used the excuse that Sensen didn’t use them or didn’t like them anymore. The couple, thinking the nanny and butler also had a grandson, said to let Doudou use them.
Others didn’t know about this pretext of theirs.
So, not long after Sensen was taken away, they started frantically calling Wang Hua and her husband, using various reasons to bring Sensen back.
The couple trusted them greatly. Additionally, the kindergarten teacher had told them about Sensen’s poor behavior at kindergarten and his tendency to hit people, so they always thought it was Sensen’s personality issue.
After arriving home, Sensen ran off to his room and sat on the carpet looking at his phone watch.
Sister-in-law said he could video call him every day after dinner.
It was still far from dinner time; even lunch hadn’t been eaten yet.
Sensen curled up by the bed. He missed sister-in-law. He didn’t want to come home at all.
At noon, fresh ingredients were delivered. These ingredients were ordered by Sensen’s grandmother. To ensure freshness, they were delivered promptly, three times a day: morning, noon, and evening.
The nanny opened the food box. Today’s lunch was abalone.
Looking at her grandson playing with Lego blocks, the nanny smiled and asked, “Doudou, do you like eating abalone?”
“Like it!”
The nanny smiled and went into the kitchen, planning to save some for her son to pick up in the evening to bring back for her daughter-in-law to nourish herself.
During lunch, Sensen looked at the table full of dishes and the abalone in Doudou’s bowl, and wrinkled his nose. “I want to eat that.”
The nanny’s expression changed. “This thing doesn’t taste good, Sensen. You eat this instead.”
She picked a piece of sweet and sour cabbage for Sensen.
Sensen didn’t like sweet and sour flavors, but the table had sweet and sour pork ribs, sweet and sour cabbage, corn sweet soup… all sorts of sweet and sour dishes.
These were all Doudou’s favorites.
“No, I won’t eat these! I want to eat this!” Sensen lunged at Doudou to snatch his abalone.
The little guy moved extremely fast. The nanny couldn’t stop him in time, and he knocked Doudou off the chair, hitting his head. Doudou immediately burst into loud wails.
The butler rushed over and pulled Sensen away with great force. “What are you doing!”
Sensen’s shoulder hurt from being pulled, and he fell to the ground with a thud.
He said he didn’t want to come home.
He hated it here.
The little guy’s mouth turned downward, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably. He didn’t want to cry, but it hurt too much from being pulled and large tears rolled down his face.
So when Bai Shuijin answered the phone, he heard Sensen’s heart-wrenching cries.
“Waaaaah, I don’t want to be here! I want to go home!”
