Rebirth: Pampered by My Children and Husband

Chapter 254: Chapter 254: The Fiery Red Race Car

The remote control car in his hand was somewhat old, its plastic shell yellowed, and the car bore some bumps and scratches all around.

Xie Changyan recognized at a glance that this was the gift he had given his son, his expression tinged with nostalgia.

In his memory, the car had been brand new when he gifted it, yet in the blink of an eye, it had become worn out.

“I didn’t expect that after all this time, you would still keep it,” Xie Changyan said.

Ji Zeqiu’s face looked somewhat unpleasant, “This is from my father, of course I would keep it.”

He struggled to sit up from the bed, trying to snatch the car back from Xie Changyan’s hands.

Before he could get off the bed, he heard Xie Changyan’s next words, “Did you take the key out of the car?”

“What?” Ji Zeqiu was startled.

However, in the next moment, he saw the remote control car being dismantled in Xie Changyan’s hands.

It took Ji Zeqiu quite a while to react, his eyes icy, his voice hoarse from illness and suppressing rage, “You bastard, you actually dismantled my stuff!”

He picked up a pillow from the bed and threw it at Xie Changyan, “Get out!”

Xie Changyan hadn’t even married his mother yet, yet he had dismantled the gift from his father.

He must tell his mother to kick this bastard, Xie Changyan, out!

Just as he was about to pick up another pillow to smash at Xie Changyan, he saw Xie Changyan holding a slightly rusty key he had taken out from a nook in the car.

“I didn’t expect that after 20 years, this key would still be here,” Xie Changyan’s eyes and smile tinged with a hint of helplessness.

“What is this?” Ji Zeqiu opened his mouth slightly, stunned for a good while.

Xie Changyan tossed the key to him and while restoring the remote control car said, “It’s a key for a racing car.”

“During a business trip abroad, I bought a racing car, but you were still too young then, definitely not able to drive. I put the key in the remote control car, thinking that as you played more with the remote control car, you might develop an interest in racing cars, and when you grew up, you would find this key.”

Xie Changyan spoke with a hint of nostalgia in his expression.

He had not expected that after his son grew up and became a star, he would not only lack interest in racing cars but also fail to discover the key.

Even this racing car might have already disappeared.

Ji Zeqiu looked down, his expression stiff, as he stared at the key in his hand, and suddenly, a memory from his childhood flashed through his mind.

His father, who hadn’t been home for a long time, was bringing gifts for his mother and brother.

At that time, as a servant was leading him out from the backyard, he saw his father and swiftly broke free from the servant’s hand, rushing to his father’s legs, raising his arms wanting to be picked up.

His father chuckled lightly, his strong hands easily lifting him into his arms.

Clinging to his father’s neck, he loudly kissed his father’s cheek, smearing it with saliva, “Daddy, gift, gift…”

His father helplessly wiped the saliva from his face and took out a remote control car from the bag to give to him.

“This racing car is for you to play with now. One day when you’re older, we’ll race cars together, okay?”

“Okay~” he replied sweetly.

“There’s another gift daddy’s given you inside the remote control car, remember to find it when Zeqiu’s grown up.”

However, his attention was quickly captured by the remote control car, and he soon forgot his father’s words.

Now, twenty years later, as Ji Zeqiu saw this key, his thoughts tangled like a knotted ball of yarn.

How did Xie Changyan know about this?

How did Xie Changyan know there was a key in there?

Could it be…

Ji Zeqiu’s hand involuntarily clenched, the irregular key pressing painfully into his palm.

Ji Zeqiu looked deeply at Xie Changyan, his eyes filled with complicated emotions.

He opened his mouth as if to say something but then held back.

In the instant while his thoughts were in turmoil, Xie Changyan had already restored the remote-controlled car in his hand to its original state, identical to how it had been before.

“That car has been sitting at the 4S shop in Northern City for so many years, it must be scrapped by now. If you still want it, I’ll pick out a new one and send it to you next time,” Xie Changyan said, then reached out again to rub his head.

“Your temperature is still so high, you should rest well, I’m going down now,” Xie Changyan said as he put the pillow that was thrown on the floor back in its place, then left downstairs.

Ji Zeqiu watched his retreating figure, then looked at the key in his hand, gripped it tightly, and remained silent.

…

Ji Zeqiu lay in bed for two days and, after finally getting an antipyretic injection, his body gradually started to feel better.

The first thing he did after getting out of bed was to head to the 4S shop in Northern City.

“Mr. Ji, it’s been too many years, that car might already be untraceable,” the clerk said, his expression somewhat troubled.

“It’s okay, just try your best to find it, and if really it’s not there, then forget about it,” Ji Zeqiu pursed his lips.

“Alright, Mr. Ji, please sit here for a while, we’ll send someone to look for it right away,” the clerk said as he poured a cup of tea for him and then left with a few others.

Time gradually passed, Ji Zeqiu sat in the store for seven hours, from morning until the afternoon.

He looked at the rusted key in his hand again, unclear why he had come here.

Maybe he was deceiving himself?

Perhaps there wasn’t any race car at all, and this key was just for another drawer or door…

And yet, he had come running over here just based on Xie Changyan’s word.

Agitation surged in his eyes, he closed them, and soon his eyes returned to calm.

Ji Zeqiu suddenly stood up and walked towards the door of the store.

However, just as he had walked a few meters from the store entrance, he heard the clerk’s calling from behind him, “Mr. Ji, why are you leaving?”

“Maybe I remembered wrong, let’s just forget…”

“We’ve found it.”

Ji Zeqiu’s body stiffened, disbelievingly looking towards the clerk.

Moments later.

Led by the clerk, he approached a red race car.

Because it hadn’t been used or maintained for a long time, its surface had become rusty and spotted; it looked much more antiquated compared to the current race cars.

However, its dazzlingly fiery red body couldn’t be obscured by any amount of spots.

For a moment, a scene flashed through his mind of his father driving a fiery red race car.

“Mr. Ji, is this the car?” the clerk asked.

The clerk’s voice abruptly pulled Ji Zeqiu back from his thoughts.

He came to his senses, took out the key he had been clutching for a long time, and inserted it into the car’s door lock.

His hand trembled involuntarily.

With a “click,”

the car door opened smoothly.

Was this really the race car his father had given him?!

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