“We’re not calling?” Yan put away her phone. “Then what about Little Bean? Young Master Ye…”
“It’ll be fine.” Han Muzi smiled faintly. “If he took him away, then let him be. He just found out the truth, so he needs some time to digest all of it. And… Little Bean isn’t that stupid either. After all, he is his biological father, so he won’t hurt him.”
Yan did not have anything else to add after hearing her words about it, so she nodded. “Alright, as long as you have a plan.” “Go to sleep. Don’t keep running out.” “Fine. Goodnight.”
Yan walked back to her room while holding her phone, but after a few steps, Han Muzi’s voice spilled into the hallway. “You’d better not secretly text my brother and tell him everything. I know you are thinking for me, but… you don’t have to tell him everything about me.”
Yan felt her back becoming stiffer as she nodded. “I know!”
…
Ye Moxuan drove the car away with Little Bean at the front passenger seat. He opened his mouth. “Mister, where are you bringing me to?”
His hands trembled as he held the steering wheel. Then, he glanced at the child beside him and did not notice that he addressed him in a gentle voice, “Didn’t I just say it? Don’t call me ‘Mister’. You need to call me Daddy.”
Little Bean blinked at him with innocent eyes.
“Hey, why don’t you call me Daddy now?” Ye Moxuan felt that his breathing accelerated after he said those words. He held his breath while waiting, but he didn’t receive the squishy sound of ‘Daddy’ as he expected. There was only silence instead. He could not help but look sideways at Little Bean. “Why aren’t you calling me Daddy?”
Little Bean pressed his lips and said, “I won’t call you that.”
Ye Moxuan’s breathing almost stopped. “Why not?”
“Mommy didn’t say that you’re my daddy, so I can’t simply call you that.”
So that is why. Ye Moxuan smiled faintly. “But your mommy also didn’t say that I’m not your daddy. Besides, look at how identical we look. If I’m not your daddy, who else is?”
After he was done, the little brat came up to him and stared at him to have a better look. Then, he sat back and crossed his tiny arms. “No. Even though you look exactly like me, I still can’t call you Daddy.”
“And why… is that?”
“Hmm, even if you really are my daddy, I still don’t want you as my daddy.”
His words stabbed Ye Moxuan’s heart like an arrow. The stoplight in front of them coincidentally turned red, so he stopped the car and looked toward Little Bean. “Can you tell me why?”
It made him feel weird to see a face that was so identical to his. He felt a special feeling inside him even looking at it now. In this world, only Song An was the closest to him. They might not have been biologically related, but there was still… that tiny bit of it in them. And now, this little brat was related to him by blood. This newfound knowledge made him feel excited and wonderful.
“Hmm, it has always been Mommy who takes care of me since I was born. Now I’m already five years old, and you suddenly show up. Why should I see you as my daddy? I won’t!” As soon as he finished, he turned his head away in a fit of anger.
The child’s words left Ye Moxuan speechless. In these five years, it had always been Han Muzi who took care of Little Bean while his father was far away, never once seeing his child or trying to fulfill his responsibility as a parent. A woman bringing up a child on her own. If he had not experienced it before, he would not have known how difficult it was. But he did. When he was a little boy, this was the kind of life his mother went through with him, so he was well aware of the difficulties of raising a child alone.
“Hey, kid,” Ye Moxuan suddenly called him.
“What is it?” Little Bean turned over to look at him.
“Are you speaking for your mommy?” Seeing him this way, Ye Moxuan curled the corners of his lips.
Little Bean grunted afterward. “My mommy doesn’t need me to speak for her. She is a good mommy.”
“I know that your mommy is good,” Ye Moxuan said helplessly. “But Daddy isn’t a bad person too. It was my fault for not taking care of you in the previous five years, and now… Daddy regrets it. I want to take care of you from now on to make up for my mistakes. Would you like that?”
Honk! Just as he was done with his words, someone had honked at him from behind. The traffic lights had changed from red to green, but he had been distracted by chatting with Little Bean.
Ye Moxuan drove his car away and said, “Alright. I will talk to you about this later when we go home. I don’t want you to call me ‘Mister’ again. You need to call me Daddy.”
Little Bean sat there as he blinked his eyes. Even though he was cute and innocent, he was capable of being crafty. Hmph, you never fulfilled your responsibility as a father and now you want to acknowledge me as your son. For a father who didn’t do much, you really are dreaming. Hmm, seeing that he brought me out, it’s obvious that he is angry with Mommy! Mommy is the best person in the world! How can he be angry with Mommy? B*stard! Little Bean mentally scoffed at him while thinking of an idea. You b*stard, Daddy. You’ve put Mommy in such difficult situations, so I need to help Mommy to make you pay. You need to pay a hundred times more than what Mommy endured!
It was already late at night, but he still made the long journey to bring Little Bean to Seabay Villa.
The security guards by the main gate found it odd when Ye Moxuan returned in his own car. Why would he be back at Seabay Villa at this time? Is he bringing Young Lady Ye back?
When the car went past them, they were all stunned while standing stationary. A few seconds later, they finally regained their senses.
“What the hell? Did my eyes deceive me? Is there someone sitting in the passenger seat? It wasn’t a mistake right?”
“I think I saw a ghost… I swear there was a kid in Young Master Ye’s passenger seat!”
“Pfft! Don’t say something this horrid. Young Master Ye is the dragon among people with a strong aura. How could he run into a ghost? But wait… Whose kid is that?”
“That ain’t right! That kid looks exactly the same as Young Master Ye!”
“Oh my God! Is he Young Master Ye’s son?” The guards looked at each other and went speechless. After a while, they screamed at the same time, “When did Young Master Ye have a son?”
At the same time, Ye Moxuan had parked the car and opened the door for Little Bean. When the child came down the car, he carefully placed his hand above his head to prevent it from bumping into the roof of the car.
