Chapter 106 No one can be missing.

After giving the child a bath, Shen Zhiyi took a large towel and wrapped Duan Jiaze up. Ever since he was frightened, he had been a little dazed and not as lively as before. He became unusually clingy and stood in the bathtub reaching out for a hug.

Shen Zhiyi bent down and tried to pick him up. She failed the first time. When she was about to try the second time, there was a light knock on the bathroom door. Pei Yu walked over and looked down at the little fat boy. "Can't you walk by yourself?"

The child is already four years old and full of flesh. How can she hold him?

After being frightened, Duan Jiaze was carefully cared for. Knowing that he was a child who was loved by others, he was particularly delicate and pouted, "I just want to be hugged."

Pei Yu had a cold face. He couldn't stand this brat making trouble for others. He was about to scold him again, but Shen Zhiyi stood in front of him with disapproval, "Are you going to scare him again?"

"……I don't."

Pei Yu changed his words temporarily, bent down and picked up Duan Jiaze, "I mean, I'll hold him."

Leaning against his hard chest, Duan Jiaze moved uncomfortably and whispered, "I want Zhizhi to hug me~"

After being slapped twice on the buttocks, Pei Yu said indifferently, "Do you think you are light?"

Duan Jiaze felt guilty: "...I don't think I'm that heavy."

Throwing him onto the bed, the towel holding him hung loosely, revealing a large area of ​​white flesh, fat arms and legs. Pei Yu's eyebrows jumped, and he took the pajamas next to him and said, "Wear it yourself."

"Humph," Duan Jiaze was unhappy and sat still, "I'll wait for Zhizhi to put it on for me."

Pei Yu was about to leave, but when he heard this, he stopped and picked up the cartoon pajamas with the Minions printed on it with an expressionless face, "Duan Jiaze, don't show off to me."

Pei Yu patiently put pajamas on the child. Without Shen Zhiyi's instructions, he had already walked to the sofa in the living room. This treatment was thanks to the child.

"Zhizhi," Duan Jiaze asked in confusion while lying in bed after seeing Shen Zhiyi turn on the bedside lamp and look like she was going to sleep, "Why doesn't uncle come over?"

"He sleeps on the sofa," Shen Zhiyi lifted the quilt and suddenly an idea came to his mind - why not clean up the second bedroom?

The thought popped up and scared her, so she quickly dispelled it.

"Ah~" Duan Jiaze uttered a long and winding sentence, his tone soft and sticky, "But I want to sleep with my uncle."

His chubby little face was buried in the quilt, revealing only a pair of big, blinking eyes. He said with lingering fear, "I'm scared. I want my uncle to protect me."

When they went to see the doctor, the doctor said that the child might be frightened and have a nightmare. Shen Zhiyi had been very worried, and when he heard him say that, he did not hesitate, "Then let your uncle sleep with you."

Anyway, the sofa is big enough, so it’s okay for her to sleep on it.

Just as he was about to call Pei Yu over, Duan Jiaze added, "I also want to sleep with Zhizhi. I want you all to accompany me, just like mom and dad."

Shen Zhiyi: "…Is it necessary to do this?"

She touched Duan Jiaze's little face and said, "This is not good. You should sleep with your uncle. Your uncle will protect you."

Grabbing her hand, Duan Jiaze sniffed and said in a crying voice, "No, no, I want you to accompany me together. No one can be missing."

He was so good at acting cute and pitiful that Shen Zhiyi softened her heart unconsciously. However, it was difficult for her to accept this. Finally, she covered herself with the quilt in frustration and said, "Go and call your uncle over."

A fat boy popped out from under the quilt next to him, and Duan Jiaze ran happily to the living room.

"Uncle!" After hearing his words, Pei Yu sat on the sofa for a long time without coming back to his senses, "Are you sure she agrees?"

The child nodded heavily, "Yeah!"

Pei Yu was in a complicated mood. Why was she so soft-hearted towards Duan Jiaze?
Following the child back to the bedroom, Shen Zhiyi was still covered in the quilt, which showed that even if she agreed, it was very reluctantly.

"Uncle, you sleep here," Duan Jiaze slept in the middle and let Pei Yu sleep on the other side of him. In this way, he could have Zhizhi and his uncle at the same time, and he was very satisfied with it.

The bedside lamp was turned off, leaving only a faint light in the bedroom. After a moment of silence, Duan Jiaze turned over and hugged Pei Yu's hand, asking softly, "Uncle, why are you so mean to me?"

He felt that he was not that annoying, but Pei Yu's cold attitude confused him. The education he received since childhood told him that if he liked someone, he would not treat the other person in this way.

After a long silence, Pei Yu reached out and touched his smooth cheek. His voice was a little low and inexplicably gentle in the silent night, "I'm sorry."

He said, “That’s what my dad did to me.”

So, sorry, he doesn't quite know how to teach children.

It's rare for him to be so honest and frank in admitting his flaws and shortcomings. Fortunately, no one here would blame him.

Shen Zhiyi closed her eyes and listened to his voice softened by the night. A sour and swollen emotion surged from her chest to her eyes. She didn't know much about his past and was not sure what kind of life he lived as a child, but just this one sentence was enough to make her empathize.

Sometimes, when she saw that Duan Jiaze and Pei Yu had similar eyebrows and eyes, she would be distracted for a moment and couldn't help but imagine what Pei Yu looked like when he was a child. In the years when his parents were still in love, did he have the same happiness and love as ordinary people? When he lost his mother, did he feel lost and afraid? Now that he no longer longed for love from his parents, how did he view his past self?

Duan Jiaze is completely different from Pei Yu. He has the liveliness and innocence that a child of his age should have. Looking at him, Shen Zhiyi can't help but wonder if he would also become an adult who loves to smile if he grew up in a healthy and normal family environment?

"Uncle," Duan Jiaze moved and kissed Pei Yu loudly on the face, smearing his saliva all over his face, and expressed forgiveness generously and forgivingly, "I don't blame you, I don't think you are that bad."

Pei Yu's eyebrows jumped, and his tone became cold again. The sentence just now seemed like an illusion. He said calmly, "Thank you."

Then he lifted the quilt and sat up.

"Uncle," Duan Jiaze asked in confusion, "Are you going to the bathroom?"

Pei Yu had already stood up, "Go wash your face."

Soon, the sound of water splashing was heard in the bathroom.

Duan Jiaze: "...I want to take back what I just said."

My uncle is the biggest bad guy in the world!
The child was so cute that Shen Zhiyi was amused and laughed muffledly under the quilt for a few times. Duan Jiaze discovered her and angrily squeezed over to tickle her.

"Don't laugh at me!"

These adults are so annoying.

"Don't," Shen Zhiyi was ticklish and hid by the bed, "I was wrong, go find your uncle and settle the score."

"I can't beat him."

As soon as he finished speaking, Duan Jiaze was picked up by Pei Yu who had returned.

(End of this chapter)