Chapter 455: Barely a Good Father

Book:The Selfish CEO Published:2024-6-2

“Not only does Little Douzi have a daddy and a mommy, he also has Auntie Xi.” Little Douzi proudly tilted her little face up.
“Mommy?” Su Xi grabbed him by those two words, lowered her eyes, and looked at Lan Yu Feng.
What’s going on?
Before Lan Yu Feng could say anything, Little Douzi had already broken away from her arms and ran towards the hall, “Mommy, Mommy, Auntie Xi is going to kindergarten with us!”
“Well, Mommy heard you.” Ziggy took the little bean in her arms.
Su Xi was completely shocked, and when she came back to her senses, she immediately walked towards the hall. Seeing Zi Ge in the hall, her eyes widened in surprise, her beautiful eyes staring at Zi Ge for a long time. Zi Ge was a little uncomfortable by her look, but still nodded with a light smile and greeted, “Miss Su.”
“You … called me Miss Su?” Su Xi took a step back and looked at Lan Yu Feng with downcast eyes, a look of surprise and strangeness on her face, “Brother, why is she here? She’s not …”
“Su Xi!” Lan Yu Feng interrupted Su Xi in a faint voice and looked down at the child. Only after touching Little Douzi’s curious sight did Su Xi take a deep breath and calm down.
It’s all messed up! Why is she here?
Zige couldn’t see what the hell she meant by this reaction. What was wrong with Zhuo Yunruo, Lan Yufeng’s ex-wife, now? Did she really just leave the country?
But, all of this, has nothing to do with her, she won’t ask, nor does she want to care. She just squatted down and softly spoke to the child, “Little Douzi, since Auntie Xi is going to accompany you and Daddy, the three of you will go together, okay?”
Lan Yu Feng’s handsome brows, slightly knitted.
“What about Mommy?” The little guy frowned back, that expression almost identical to his daddy’s.
Looking at the child’s lost expression, Zige’s heart was also very unfavorable. Taking a deep breath before saying, “Mommy … has a lot of things to do in the hospital today, so I won’t go with you.”
“But Mommy promised me a vacation …” Little Bean’s voice was getting thinner and thinner, like she was about to cry.
“I’m sorry …,” Ziggy’s heart clenched into a ball as she gently apologized to the child.
In fact, why would she not want to go? It’s just that their world, it doesn’t belong to her, and she should learn to pull away, and so should her children …
Maybe one day, Little Bean really was going to become a family with Su Xi, and now should be the best chance to cultivate a relationship.
“We’re going to be late if we don’t go.” Zige took the child by the hand, intending to drop him off at the door. The child’s tiny hands gripped hers tightly, reliant and dependent.
Ziggy’s heart was not in it, and she immediately had to soften and change her mind.
As he passed by Lan Yu Feng’s side, his arm was suddenly tugged by him. Without a single superfluous word, he only said, “You’re coming along!”
It was in a completely commanding tone, without the slightest room for negotiation.
The heat of that palm, transferred to the skin, Zi Ge was stunned for a moment and immediately drew back her hand. If he didn’t mention such a request, maybe she would really change her mind, but it was him opening his mouth that made Zi Ge more aware of what she should do at this moment.
Just like last night, she should have cleared the air with him and not fallen into it foolishly.
“It’s the same if Miss Su goes, I won’t go.” Zi Ge glanced at Su Xi who was still a little taken back and smiled slightly, “I’m sure Miss Su will take good care of Little Douzi.”
Only then did Su Xi return to her senses, looked at Little Douzi, and immediately nodded, “Of course.”
“You have to go, you’re the child’s mother.” Lan Yu Feng stubbornly stared at Zi Ge, his eyes were deep, and the message conveyed from the bottom of his eyes deterred his heart.
Zige didn’t say anything, but it was the child who carefully tugged at the corner of her coat, looking somewhat timidly at daddy’s serious face.
“Brother Yu Feng, since Yunruo doesn’t want to go, let’s not force her.” Su Xi interjected, looked down at the child, and continued, “Don’t slate your face like that, it’ll scare Little Douzi.”
Mentioning the child, Lan Yu Feng’s face eased a bit as he looked at Zi Ge, ”Who was it that lectured me and said I was irresponsible? Do you think any child would bring an aunt to a parent-child activity? Since you’re now the child’s mother, I hope that while you’re lecturing me, you also get your duties straight.”
That last sentence, apart from the two of them involved and Yan Nan, the onlookers just took it as a quarrel between husband and wife.
Zige pursed her lips at his admonishment and pondered for a long time before nodding, “Okay, I’ll go.”
It’s just for the kids.
Since she’s still here, it’s only fair to at least make the little bean feel like it’s a complete home.
Hearing Zi Ge say this, Little Douzi instantly beamed with joy. Opening his arms, he hugged Zi Ge’s legs and smiled cheekily at daddy, “Daddy is the best!”
Looking at the child’s smile, Lan Yu Feng’s sexy thin lips couldn’t help but raise as well.
“Since the negotiations are done, is it time to go?” Yan Nan asked them from the sidelines, holding the car keys.
Lan Yu Feng nodded his head before looking at Su Xi, “Su Xi, next time.”
Su Xi froze for a split second, a touch of gloom assaulting the bottom of her eyes, but it quickly dissipated. She ruffled the hair on her shoulders and smiled sardonically, “That’s good, next time.”
It was their parent-child event today, and it would be weird if she followed through.
The car, all the way to the school.
All three sat in the backseat, with Zige sitting right in the middle of the child and Lan Yu Feng.
Along the way, the atmosphere in the car was especially awkward. After last night’s incident Zi Ge didn’t want to talk to Lan Yu Feng at all, however, Lan Yu Feng didn’t have the intention to break the atmosphere either.
He offended her as his ex-wife and was so rude that he didn’t even apologize?
The more Zige thought about it, the angrier she got, and if it weren’t for Little Bean being around, she might have actually stalked him and theorized about last night’s events all over again.
At the entrance of the kindergarten, it was bustling with parents arriving one after another holding their children. Zi Ge holding the little bean is the first to come out, behind is Yan Nan pushing the blue Yu Feng. The little bean is particularly excited, the little mouth did not stop laughing and joking, the sun quenched into his innocent eyes, bright and clear.
“Mommy, look, that uncle is so strange! Why is he sitting when everyone is walking?” A little child, surprised, asked.
Zige’s footsteps, paused. With a sideways glance, she saw that the little kid was pointing at Lan Yu Feng with a strange look on his face.
“Shhh! Children don’t ask questions about adult matters.” The child’s mommy grabbed the child’s hand back into her palm with some embarrassment.
But the child clearly wasn’t going to give up, “Is that uncle disabled? The teacher said that wheelchairs are only for disabled people.”
“You child! You’ve been told not to ask questions!” The mother looked at them apologetically and quickly carried the child away.
The child was carried away, but, beside him, there were still those frequent sideways glances, like pity, but also like regret. Lan Yu Feng never said anything, not even a change in expression, as if the child’s words just now did not have any effect on him.
However, Zige knew that at this moment, he must not feel good in his heart.
“Mommy, Daddy must be very upset, isn’t he?” Little Bean asked in a thin voice, her thin eyebrows tugging, “I hate that rude little kid!”
Zige smiled and pinched his cute little nose, “It’s okay, in a while Mommy will comfort Daddy and make him happy. You can’t just hate people!”
“Hmph! I don’t hate Daddy when he’s not sad anymore.” Little Bean hated anyone who bullied Mommy and Daddy.
Zi Ge glanced in Lan Yu Feng’s direction and wanted to open her mouth to say something, but in the end, she didn’t say a word.
Parent-child activities start soon.
The sun is shining and the lawn is full of spring.
At first it was all about some sports with children. Naturally, Zi Ge accompanied the participants in these programs, and Lan Yu Feng just sat on the sidelines and watched.
Watching her and the child together letting out a loud laugh, completely disregarding the image; watching the child’s hands dancing and penciling in an idiom, her serious guesses; watching the defeat in the sandbag battle, a large and small frustrated to the point of no return, his eyes gradually deepened, and there were a few rare hints of warmth in the icy eyes, like sunlight rubbed into the bottom of the eyes.
“Lan Yu Feng, for this next event, you must participate as well.” Finally resting, she ran towards him, sweating profusely. That tone was clearly not going to give him any chance to back down.
“What activity?” Lan Yu Feng narrowed his eyes at her.
After the exercise, she was flushed. The white skin looks extraordinarily pink. And those lips … were even more red, delicate like an angry peach blossom …
A few years later, her flavor, actually still as fresh as ever. Last night, he didn’t even know why he lost control, maybe … it was just too much repression in his heart that needed to be vented …
“What’s wrong?” Zi Ge got a little uncomfortable up by his stare, and looked herself up and down, but didn’t find anything strange.
“Nothing. What activity did you just say?” Lan Yu Feng faintly skimmed his eyes.
“Peek-a-boo. We hide and the child looks for it blindfolded.” Zige looked at Lan Yu Feng, “Can you participate?”
For the last item, she was hoping that their father and son could promote a little bonding.
He nodded, and then, instructing the man behind him, “Yannan, go to the trunk and bring the cane.”
Little Bean was blindfolded with a black strip of cloth like all the other children, he giggled and was excited, “Hide quickly oh, I’m going to catch!”
Zi Ge hid behind a large box, while Lan Yu Feng stood under a large tree, the two of them just a step away from each other. When the game started and the child ran up in the field, Zi Ge subconsciously looked towards him, only to see that his eyes stayed fixed on the child, tightly, as if he was worried that the child would fall. Under his eyes, there was a rare tenderness, like every father who loves his child.
“What are you looking at?” Suddenly, he swept his eyes sideways at her. Took her eyes and caught them.
Zi Ge did not hide it, skimming a corner of his lips, “Although you people are very rude, very bullying, very unreasonable …”
Lan Yu Feng’s face went black. Zige glanced at him and grunted, “Still very petty. But … you can barely be considered a good father.”
After her words were finished, Lan Yu Feng cast her a sidelong glance and gave an unimpressed ‘snort’, “Next time, you only need to speak the latter sentence.”
Zi Ge smiled and nuzzled, and only then did the two of them have to return their attention to the child, but they didn’t know that the child had already catapulted over and hugged Lan Yu Feng’s leg from behind, “Daddy! I caught daddy!”
Caught off guard by the hug, and with his right leg, Lan Yu Feng didn’t have time to stand still and saw that he was going to fall down.
“Watch out!” Zi Ge immediately drilled out and reached out to help him. But his and the child’s strength was too heavy, and not only did Zi Ge fail to hold on, she was also dragged down with him.
In one fell swoop, the two large and one small rolled and fell onto the grass. Lan Yu Feng was crushed at the bottom, the child was lying on his lap, and Zi Ge fell on his chest in a sorry state.
“Is everything alright?” The first one to ask was Lan Yu Feng. He half propped himself up and looked at the child, and then, his eyes tuned to Zi Ge in his chest.