“He does, he doesn’t verbalize it but I can see it in his heart.”

“Why are you telling me all this?”

“It’ll be Lin Lin’s 4th birthday soon. If you don’t mind, I would like you to attend his birthday party. I know we’re divorced but I won’t stop you from seeing our son.”

Mubai told her the same thing when they divorced. From this and other observations, she knew Mubai would be a great father. It was the main reason she could bring herself to leave her son in his care in the first place.

In the past years, Xinghe had had acute episodes where she yearned to see her son but she stopped herself every time. She couldn’t bear to let her son know his mother was such a useless person.

But now, things had changed.

“Okay,” Xinghe accepted. For some reason, Mubai felt relieved when he heard her answer.

He thought she would reject him again. He had no idea why he would be looking forward to hearing her say yes.

The rest of the journey was spent in silence.

straight to the entrance, without turning around to meet his eyes once. Mubai saw her disappear into the hospital and

her uncle’s sick bay, Xinghe’s thoughts were completely on her

the world but when it came her own son, she was still very

able to

Xia Zhi greeted her

increasingly dependent on his sister over the past few days. He

that she was back, he felt

nice.” Xia Zhi commented after he took the bags that she held

a nod,

“Sis, have you eaten?”

“I have.”

Xinghe had prepared quite a feast for him, there was even a

munched on the food with a satisfied glow in his eyes. He asked, “Sis, when did you find time to prepare such a delicious meal? By the way, how goes the house hunting? Did you manage to find us a

“I did.”

you prepared this meal at our new place. Where is it, how big is it and how much is

lightly. She didn’t know how to explain

took another generous bite of the steak. There was utter bliss on his face when he

Xia Zhi had to watch his meal size due to their budget constraint. Under such conditions, he still managed to grow to

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