Chapter 105 Can’t I follow both of them?
It was past nine o'clock when the dinner ended. It was drizzling outside. Shen Zhiyi was walking in front, holding Duan Jiaze's hand. The latter kept looking back and casting glances at Meng Qiming.

Meng Qiming looked at him helplessly, indicating that things were not going well.

"Alas," Duan Jiaze sighed maturely, "It's really useless."

He wanted to try harder, so he held Shen Zhiyi's hand and said, "Zhizhi, let's take that uncle's car."

Shen Zhiyi looked embarrassed.

Meng Qiming then replied, "My car is already here, Zhiyi, let me give you a ride."

Sure enough, a car was driving not far away, but it was not clear under the cover of rain and night. Meng Qiming walked a few steps towards it and recognized that it was not his car.

But the car was already coming this way.

Duan Jiaze was completely unaware of this. Fearing that Shen Zhiyi would disagree, he continued to act coquettishly with her. The child's voice was shrill, but he could move freely in the night.

The car had already stopped.

The car door opened, and a large black umbrella was opened in the rain. Pei Yu walked slowly towards them holding the umbrella, his steps neither fast nor slow, with his unique lazy posture. When he came closer, he raised the umbrella slightly, revealing his eyebrows and eyes soaked by rain vapor, his clear black eyes, and his light red lips.

He stopped under the eaves, leaned forward slightly and looked at Duan Jiaze, his tone cold, "What did you just say?"

The sound is so loud that you can hear it even in the car.

Duan Jiaze instinctively hid behind Shen Zhiyi, only sticking his head out, "Are you going to hit me?"

Pei Yu said calmly, "If you say one more word, maybe it will happen."

Duan Jiaze trembled immediately.

He had seen Pei Yu beating someone in the boxing ring. He didn't know that it wasn't actually a fight, and he didn't care. He only remembered the ferocious look on Pei Yu's face when he swung his fist. Duan Jiaze was so scared that he had nightmares for several days. From then on, he was both afraid of him and admired him.

"Don't scare him," Shen Zhiyi held Duan Jiaze's hand, and saw that he was really scared, "Will you take him away?"

Actually, it wasn't, but seeing Duan Jiaze's annoying look, Pei Yu agreed with a blank expression, "Yeah."

"I won't go back with you!"

Duan Jiaze immediately said, "I hate you, I don't want you!"

His sudden excitement scared Shen Zhiyi. He had been very well behaved these past few days, which made people forget that he was only four years old and also had temper tantrums.

Shen Zhiyi tried to comfort him, "Why do you hate your uncle?"

Before, she kept calling me uncle.

Looking into Shen Zhiyi's eyes, Duan Jiaze seemed to have found someone who could support him, and his eyes gradually turned red.

This feeling is so rare. You have to know that in Duan Jiaze's short life experience, even his mother was afraid of Pei Yu. Not only was she unable to support him, she also always blamed him for not being liked by Pei Yu enough.

He wiped away his tears vigorously, "My uncle doesn't like me, so I don't like him either."

He is his only uncle, but he is always mean to him. Other uncles are not like that. His mother said Pei Yu is like that to everyone, but her mother was lying. His uncle is very gentle to Zhizhi. He must hate himself so he never speaks softly to him.

The more he thought about it, the sadder he became. Duan Jiaze liked this uncle so much, but he suddenly realized that Pei Yu didn't like him at all. He was devastated and sobbed, "Can I not go with my uncle?"

Shen Zhiyi couldn't give him a satisfactory answer. After all, he was someone else's child. "I——"

Duan Jiaze noticed the hesitation in just a moment, and he broke down emotionally. He ran out crying, "I don't want to go with him!"

It was not too late, and there was a constant flow of cars on the road. Duan Jiaze ran straight to the roadside, scaring the adults. Shen Zhiyi chased him without thinking, but suddenly an umbrella was stuffed into his hand. In a few blinks of an eye, Pei Yu caught up with him.

Duan Jiaze regretted running out and stood in the middle of the road in a daze. Traffic was constantly passing by him. For some reason, a black car did not slow down and gradually became a black dot that was getting closer and closer in the eyes of the children.

He was so frightened that he couldn't move until Pei Yu picked him up.

Shen Zhiyi caught up with him, "Jia Ze?"

The child stared blankly in Pei Yu's arms, not moving at all, as if frightened out of his wits.

Shen Zhiyi was extremely worried and held his hand, "It's okay, it's okay."

The child still didn't speak or blink.

Pei Yu frowned, pinched the child's chubby cheeks to make him look up, and called his name in a slightly heavier tone, "Duan Jiaze, close your eyes."

She always complained that he was too fierce, but now she listened to him the most. Duan Jiaze closed his eyes and burst into tears the next second.

The crying was miserable and Shen Zhiyi felt very uncomfortable listening to it. He was still scared when he thought of the scene just now and tears slowly welled up in his eyes.

Pei Yu held Duan Jiaze's hand. He held the child in one hand and touched her eyes with the other, sighing softly, "Is crying contagious?"

She raised her head to look at him, then blinked a tear when she lowered her head again. Shen Zhiyi said nothing, just cried silently. In Pei Yu's eyes, her crying was louder and longer than Duan Jiaze's, turning into a big net that tightly wrapped him.

Pei Yu wiped the tears from her cheeks with his fingertips and weighed the child in his arms, "Quick, comfort Zhizhi."

Duan Jiaze reached out to hug her, "Zhizhi——"

Under the eaves in the distance, Meng Qiming watched this scene, then turned and left.

After the adult and the child calmed down, Pei Yu took people to the hospital for a check-up. It was found that the child was just frightened and there was no other problem.

"You go with Zhizhi."

Pei Yu said that he had not planned to take Duan Jiaze away so soon, he just wanted to scare him. Children are not very courageous and will show their true colors once they are scared.

Duan Jiaze was frightened, but became closer to his uncle and held his legs tightly.

Pei Yu lowered his head and moved his legs. The child's chubby body also swayed. He raised his eyebrows, "Why, you want to go back with me again?"

"Then say goodbye to Zhizhi."

Duan Jiaze hesitated for a long time, then carefully freed one hand and held Shen Zhiyi's skirt tightly. He looked up and asked innocently, "Can't I follow both of us?"

He now forgives his uncle for being so mean to him and feels very safe with Pei Yu, but he also likes Zhizhi very much and does not want to be separated from her.

Pei Yu: "...Ask Zhizhi."

He has no say in this matter.

"Zhizhi," Duan Jiaze turned around and hugged Shen Zhiyi, begging pitifully, "I want to be with my uncle, and I also want to be with Zhizhi."

He was about to cry, "I was so scared, I was almost killed--"

The child was so pitiful and almost had an accident. It was also her fault for not taking good care of the child's mood. Thinking of this, there was no way she could refuse him. Shen Zhiyi had to agree and took the uncle and nephew home.

(End of this chapter)