{“Run away from home” 2}

Bian Yixing’s sudden arrival had disrupted all his plans for the past month. But at the same time, her presence also reminded him to pay attention to potential oversights in company operations, even if he didn’t want to admit it—it was a beneficial reminder.

From a profit and loss perspective, being Bian Yixing’s dad had its pros and cons.

And from an emotional perspective, he truly wasn’t ready to be a father. At least in his previous ideas about the future, he had never considered having a relationship with any woman, let alone raising a child.

This was also why he hadn’t directly told Yu Suye about it.

He thought that if she found out, she would also be caught off guard.

“Wanting to be” was a lie; “not wanting” sounded too cold. He didn’t want the little one to feel any more wronged.

“This question is meaningless.”

“It has meaning!” The little one sobbed, “It helps me see who you really are!”

“Bian Yixing, I hope you reflect on your behavior. Don’t you think you’ve gone too far?” As he spoke, Bian Yuan felt a slight pain in his chest. He forced himself to set rules for little Bian Yixing, sternly saying, “And from now on, if you can’t behave at the table, then you won’t be joining us.”

Such words were devastating for a child, and Bian Yixing took a long time to recover.

She burst into tears.

Bian Yuan didn’t know what to do. In his nearly empty life, aside from making money, he had never dealt with a child like Bian Yixing.

He could only instruct the maids to handle it, but Bian Yixing didn’t respond as he had expected. Instead, she cried and ran back to her room, locking herself in.

Meanwhile, Yu Suye, who had met and recognized Bian Yixing, felt a surge of joy in her heart.

Although Bian Yuan seemed cold and distant, the little one’s closeness was enough to dispel any hesitation.

With such a soft and adorable little girl, perhaps this ruthless capitalist still had a shred of humanity left.

As Yu Suye gazed at the cup of lemon water, she didn’t expect that the pomegranate she had tucked away would be carefully packed by this family in kraft paper and handed back to her when she got off the car.

There were even a few dried lemon slices inside the kraft paper.

The transparent packaging was simple yet elegant, which made Yu Suye even more cheerful. She had always led a carefree life, so who would have thought she’d run into that stingy Lin Wushen?

But now, things were looking up.

The little girl’s arrival gave her the solution she had been desperately seeking since college.

To celebrate, Yu Suye even tried out a cake shop on campus.

When she thought of buying treats for her dormmates, for the first time, another voice didn’t remind her that Lin Wushen might be hungry today.

She confidently and generously bought two kilograms of tiger-skin cake trimmings, practically sweeping the campus shop clean, and it only cost her twenty yuan on her student card.

Yu Suye rarely indulged in the last moments of campus life like this.

Even though they were just cake trimmings, her dormmates didn’t turn them down. What was meant to be breakfast for the whole dorm tomorrow became almost entirely consumed in the laughter of that night.

Especially the dorm leader, Song Yuren, whose appetite left everyone in awe.

She polished off most of the tiger-skin cake with Yu Suye’s lemon tea.

And of course, Yu Suye didn’t forget to bring the dorm scale right next to the dorm leader’s chair, which sparked another round of “revenge” from the leader.

Yu Suye was chased around the dorm by the leader, and the other two dormmates didn’t just sit idle—they joined in to block her path.

But the leader only put on a show. She would never actually hit Yu Suye. After all, under every post on the campus forum asking whether Yu Suye had caught Lin Wushen, there was a comment from the leader in disguise.

“I won’t stoop to your level!”

But the group didn’t let it up, insisting that the leader, who had claimed to be dieting for three months, get on the scale. It turned out that not only had she not lost any weight, but she had gained two more pounds.

In response, the leader told everyone, “I just haven’t been digesting well lately. Give it a few days, and I’ll be back down.”

Everyone knowingly shook their heads and then asked Yu Suye what had her in such a good mood today.

Yu Suye simply said, “I found a decent tutoring gig.”

And on this joyful night, the weather outside the dorm’s balcony took a turn for the worse as winter rain began to fall.

With every winter rain comes a chill.

The whole dorm scrambled to climb into bed, including Yu Suye.

She poured out the cold tea and was handed a warm bottle of water by her dormmate, Qi Mei.

She had gone to the balcony just to dump the water, but as she looked out through the iron railing, she saw a familiar face from earlier today.

Only now, the little face no longer beamed with innocent smiles, but was full of visible sorrow.

Her pink scarf was stained with dirt. Cold and dirty, the little girl’s hands were crossed, her fingers swollen from the cold, and she mustered the courage to say, “Su Su, can I stay with you for the night?”