Zhuge Xunming returned to the villa and lay down on the sofa.
Helen was frustrated: "Why are you lying down again?"
Zhuge Xunming turned over, facing away from her, "Call when it’s ti to eat."
Helen stomped her foot: "Humph! Lazybones!"
Once Helen’s footsteps faded away, Zhuge Xunming slowly opened his eyes, staring at the back of the sofa, his eyes deep like a whirlpool.
His parents used to be part of the DINK group.
Their love was above all else, not wanting any burdens to interfere with their love and hindering their freedom.
But as they aged, the youthful obsession changed along with them.
Suddenly, both wanted a child, but due to their age, it was difficult to conceive.
Later... they resorted to so thods and managed to have a child.
But this child wasn’t born after ten months, and even brought so trouble. The couple, who initially wanted a child in a spur of the mont, regretted it once they truly had one.
Whenever the child cried, the two beca anxious.
Eventually, they threw the child out the door.
The night was very dark and very cold.
If it weren’t for the grandmother’s unease, fearing sothing might go wrong and thus visiting the couple’s place, he might have frozen to death outside.
It was a night transitioning between autumn and winter, the cold night of the first snow that year.
Later, he was taken to live at his grandmother’s ho.
His parents thought he didn’t rember.
But he was a child who rembered things early, and who bore grudges.
Things from as young as two were deeply etched in his mind.
"Dinner’s ready!" Tom ca to call him.
Only then did Zhuge Xunming get up from the sofa, looking utterly down.
Tom was sowhat worried: "Are you... okay?"
Zhuge Xunming shook his head, indicating he was fine.
But Tom felt he didn’t look alright.
Li Dahe ca closer, seeing Zhuge Xunming’s dejected expression, puzzled: "Did you have a nightmare?"
Zhuge Xunming lowered his eyes: "Yeah, it was a really scary dream."
He wished all of it was just a dream and not his mory.
The phone vibrated, Zhuge Xunming’s face instantly turning grim.
Li Dahe was startled: "He looks really angry!"
Tom reassured: "He might be haunted by the nightmare, give him so ti to rest."
Helen ca out with a strawberry cake, "Have sothing sweet, it’ll lift your mood!"
Zhuge Xunming tossed the phone onto the sofa without looking at it.
And then the phone vibrated several more tis.
Li Dahe glanced at the phone, then at Zhuge Xunming walking towards the table, wanting to pick up the phone to hand it to him, but Tom stopped him.
Tom lowered his voice: "Don’t."
Li Dahe saw the phone still vibrating, "Maybe soone urgently needs to reach him."
Tom shook his head: "He’s not troubled by nightmares, he just doesn’t want to deal with who’s trying to contact him."
Li Dahe hesitated.
Tom pulled his hand towards the table, "Co on, let’s eat cake."
Slling the aroma of the strawberry cake, Li Dahe swallowed, "Okay!"
Seven kiddos gathered around the table.
On the table were small strawberry cakes, a milk mushroom soup, roasted chicken wings, roasted chicken pieces, roast lamb chops...
Basically, most were semi-prepared foods that could be directly baked in the oven before eating, bought from the supermarket before returning to the villa.
Strawberry small cakes and milk mushroom soup were made by Hua Jinyan, while the rest was baked by Tom and Li Dahe together.
Tom: "Hua, this mushroom soup is really good!"
Li Dahe: "I want more! It’s deliciously sweet and fragrant, just wonderful!"
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