Be Careful, Scum Dad! Mommy Is Back!

Chapter 42: Chapter 42: Eating a Strawberry Together

Yan Dong still wanted to say something to make her stay, but Lu Xining walked away directly.

Ji Muye slightly opened a crack and watched her leave without turning back, his expression growing even darker.

Yan Dong returned to the hospital room and saw Ji Muye resting on the couch. He let out a sigh of relief, glad that the boss hadn’t heard those words.

When Lu Xining reached the hospital’s lobby, the driver was already waiting by the roadside.

She got into the car and reflected on the day’s events.

The last client she had Monkey handle was Song Henian’s father, who pleaded to the ZN laboratory for his recently recovered son.

Since she was in Jingzhou, she decided to visit the hospital.

Song Henian’s health had not been good since college, constantly working and studying, sending most of the money earned, except for tuition, back to his parents, leading to chronic malnutrition, weak and pale.

Despite this, he was still the cool, handsome idol of A University.

His face was indeed strikingly handsome.

It had not been easy for Father Song to find his biological son, and then this incident happened, making his hair half gray with exhaustion.

Since she had agreed to help, she was determined to save him.

Lu Xining first went home to play with her daughter for a long time, then went to pick up Ji Chao and Ji Ze.

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Unexpectedly, she saw Ji Muye just as she got out of the car.

This time, Liu Xixi was not by his side, he stood alone next to the car, watching the children continuously come out of school.

Ji Chao and Ji Ze wore the vibrant and lively clothes Lu Xining had custom-made for them, running happily towards Lu Nuonuo.

“Sister!”

Holding three candied hawthorns in her hand, Lu Nuonuo, hearing the voice, looked up and waved the candied hawthorns towards Ji Chao and Ji Ze.

“Here, for brother to eat.”

Ji Chao and Ji Ze each received a stick of fruit candied hawthorns.

The little ones still had one left, which she specifically saved for when both brothers finished school so they could eat together.

While the three kids were happily eating, they heard Ji Muye’s cold and accusatory words, “Are you really going to let the children eat this junk food?”

Lu Xining was peeling off the candied wrap for Little Dumpling.

Hearing the man’s words, her face suddenly turned cold, and she looked up at Ji Muye, her eyes as silent and still as dead water.

Ji Chao and Ji Ze, holding their fruit candied hawthorns, paused, not knowing whether to bite or not, looking hesitantly at their mother.

Lu Xining lowered her gaze, tenderness flowing in her eyes.

She gently ruffled their hair and said, “It’s okay, just eat a little, we’ll brush our teeth when we get back.”

Lu Nuonuo didn’t care about Ji Muye’s words at all.

She focused intently, carefully biting into the strawberry candied hawthorn she held, her eyes brightening.

“Brother, it’s so sweet!”

She extended the tip of the candied strawberry to Ji Chao, gesturing for him to take a bite and see, her expression lively and animated.

After Ji Chao took a small bite, she handed it to Ji Ze to taste.

Not waiting for her to speak, he took a bite.

Ji Ze’s eyes twinkled, expressing, “This one is really sweet!”

The strawberry was quickly shared among the three children.

Ji Chao and Ji Ze also shared their fruit candied hawthorns with Lu Nuonuo, Little Dumpling tasting a bite happily.

When Lu Nuonuo extended the second strawberry toward Lu Xining, Ji Muye was about to speak.

He watched the woman’s delicate red lips gently touch the sugar syrup on the outside of the strawberry. Her white teeth gently bit into it, and a particular scene suddenly popped into his mind, his Adam’s apple bobbing.

Ji Muye felt his throat was dry and thirsty.

He turned his face away.

Not looking at Lu Xining and her daughter’s interaction.

His gaze landed on Ji Chao and Ji Ze, never allowing them to eat such junk food in the Ji family house as it could easily cause cavities in children.

Lu Xining tasted a small bite, then let Lu Nuonuo eat it herself.

These fruit candied hawthorns were made by the family chef with the finest ingredients for the fruits and syrup.

To suit the children’s palates, each stick had only three fruits, thinly coated with syrup, producing a clear crunch when bitten into and not too sweet or cloying.

These were not the junk food Ji Muye referred to.

Lu Xining greeted her two sons to get into the car, unaware that Lu Nuonuo went over to tug on Ji Muye’s pant leg.

The man had just squatted down when his thin lips touched a layer of sweet stickiness; his dark eyes flickered uncontrollably towards Lu Xining.

On his lips…

was the candied haw that she had just bitten.

Although Little Dumpling wasn’t very fond of Ji Muye at the moment, his mother had said that good things must be shared.

Both mom and brother had tried the candied haw.

So, somewhat reluctantly, she decided to let this uncle have a taste as well.

Lu Nuonuo: “Bite.”

She opened her mouth wide to demonstrate.

The sweet syrup mixed with the scent of strawberries entered his nostrils, and Ji Muye bit into the candied haw.

He didn’t need any extra movements.

Lu Nuonuo simply pulled the stick of the candied haw to the side.

She turned her head to sneak a peek at Lu Xining.

Seeing that her mother hadn’t noticed, she then puffed her cheeks and said fiercely to Ji Muye, “You, don’t you dare bully mommy.”

Ji Muye: “…”

Holding the candied haw with one strawberry left, she bounced back to Lu Xining, stretching her hand out waiting for her to lift her up into the car.

Seeing Ji Muye biting the strawberry, Lu Xining was slightly taken aback.

She looked down and saw that the string of candied haw in her daughter’s hand had only one left.

No need to think about it, the strawberry in Ji Muye’s mouth was the one she had just bitten.

Ji Muye didn’t like sweets.

Especially things as sweet and sticky as candied haw.

But right at this moment!

He felt that trying sweets occasionally wasn’t a bad idea; the bitterness that welled up to his tongue in the hospital was completely washed away by the collision with the candied haw, even leaving a slight, almost indiscernible sweetness.

But then he thought about Father Song still lying in the neighboring hospital room, about that past.

Ji Muye’s face turned cold again.

All three children were in the car.

Lu Xining finally had a moment to turn back and speak with Ji Muye.

To avoid the children overhearing, she walked to a tree not too far away to wait for him.

Lu Xining said seriously, “The children will be staying with me for a while.”

Ji Muye rejected the idea immediately.

He gazed deeply at her for a long time before he continued to add, “I’ve enrolled them in calligraphy and chess lessons; a teacher will come to the house to teach them after school and there will be other classes scheduled on weekends.”

Lu Xining reminded him, “They are only six years old.”

When Ji Muye was six, he had already gained some recognition in calligraphy.

He didn’t say this directly to Lu Xining.

Seeing him silent, she didn’t beat around the bush with Ji Muye and directly stated her demands.

“You can take them back if you want, but you must first clean out the pests in your house.”

Ji Muye immediately grasped her meaning, “Liu Xixi, she…”

“Xiao Chao and Xiao Ze are my children. As their mother, am I wrong to never want to see them poisoned and unconscious again?”

Her eyes slightly moistened, and a sour feeling swelled in her heart.

Just thinking about those days they spent lying in the ZN laboratory made her body uncontrollably tremble with retroactive terror.

Lu Xining turned her back, her head tilted so the tears wouldn’t fall.

Only when her emotions were in check did she turn back to continue looking at him, her gaze filled with resolve, every word she spoke hitting his soul.

“Ji Muye, let me tell you.”

“I will not let my children live with a murderer.”

“Never, ever!”