Title: The Jilted Male Lead Hires a Mother for the Cute Shapeshifters
Translator: Fringe Manatee
Chapter 38 - My Daddy and Mommy Had Been Married For Twenty Years! (2)
Lin Xu laughed with them. She gave the two, who continued to remain silent, a deep, meaningful look and came to her own conclusion.
The two persons being discussed said nothing with regards to the unruly child’s laughable comment.
She gathered they were never wedded and never even been in a relationship. At most, they’ve had a fling three years ago.
The woman had the child out of wedlock afterward, and now she wanted to become the real Mrs. Chen through the child.
Coming to that conclusion, the way that Lin Xu was looking at Ye Qing was filled with contempt.
She looked down on women like that. She definitely did not feel the necessity to walk away from a man that she was interested in for a woman like that.
There was a hint of a smile in Chen Qinyan’s eyes. He said slowly, “My child is still young. Don’t take everything she says too seriously.”
Hearing everybody’s laughter as well as her father’s words, little kiddo Chen Mian had finally had it figured out.
She puffed up her cheeks and looked down in a mood.
Aiya, she had forgotten the situation that they were in. Of course everyone thought she was kidding when she said 20 years.
Even Ye Qing found that funny as well; she reached out her hand and rubbed the child on her head.
Anything could happen in a kid’s words; sometimes it was so difficult to know what they were thinking.
Chen Qinyan, “It’s getting late and my daughter needs to go to kindergarten tomorrow morning. We should head out.”
Having said that, he put down his wine glass, scooped up his daughter, casted Ye Qing a glance, and walked away.
Ye Qing, being left behind, casually nodded at everyone and slowly followed behind them.
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For the three of them, Lin Xu at the banquet was but a small event that took place.
Ye Qing and Chen Qinyan didn’t care about her at all. As for little kiddo Chen Mian, foul moods never lasted very long for her. Now that the bad aunty was out of sight, she made a date to play badminton with Ye Qing on Saturday then happily went off to play by herself.
The next afternoon, Chen Qinyan went to the office and Chen Mian went to her kindergarten.
Ye Qing laid down comfortably in the garden behind the mansion as she sipped her tea and sunbathed. Looking at the red maple leaves on the hill across from her, life could not get better than this.
At this time, her cellphone rang.
Ye Qing sat up slowly and sluggishly looked at the caller ID on her phone screen, a smile flickered in her eyes.
It looked like there was news from the village. She knew Big Aunty and Second Aunty wouldn’t let her down.
It has been a few days since Ye Qing had returned from her village. The day she departed, she didn’t say anything directly to her aunties, but just sent them a text, stating that she had coughed out a little blood and would need to go for a checkup in the hospital. She had also subtly implied that it's best not to have anyone stay in her room.
Big Aunty and Second Aunt were very concerned about her well being and had sent many texts to her as well as calling her multiple times.
But Ye Qing did not answer or return their messages.
She didn’t feel like it.
But the day that she left, she found a butcher’s family. This family was quite close to the original owner’s real parents back in the days and she asked them for a favor – to let her know if they noticed any movements with Big Aunty or Second Aunty.
And this was a call from this family.
“Ah Qing, your Big Aunt has been looking for you frantically these last few days! She came to your house daily to check and see if you have returned. Just right now, when she couldn’t find you, she pried open your front door again!” Her voice sounded very urgent and there was a lot of background noise. Ye Qing gathered she was standing and watching the event unfold from just around the corner. If she listened carefully, she could even hear Big Aunty shouting something loudly in the back.