At Seabay Villa…
“It will be Aunt Yan’s and your uncle’s wedding in two days. Did you get everything ready? Have you taken a leave from your school teacher?”
“Mommy, I have taken care of it. You don’t have to worry when I’m handling things. I’m Little Bean after all.”
“Alright then. You used to wish that Yan would become your Aunt. Now that your wish has come true, are you happy?”
Little Bean snorted. “Ever since Aunt Yan was together with uncle, she didn’t pay attention to me anymore.”
Little Bean’s tone clearly implied that he was not that happy. Han Muzi stretched out her hand and patted his head, looking amused. “Aunt Yan is busy preparing for her wedding. When she is pregnant and gives birth to a baby, she will have absolutely no time for you. Hence, you shouldn’t feel frustrated now, because you will have plenty of chances to feel frustrated in the future.”
Little Bean replied, “Mommy, how could you attack your precious son like that?”
“Oh, if you tell your daddy, he might attack you even harder.”
Little Bean was speechless.
Forget it, they’re still my biological parents after all. I won’t make a fuss about it.
“Mommy, will you bring me to the wedding?”
“Of course. This is your uncle’s wedding, so of course you should go along.”
“Oh.”
The door opened, and Ye Moxuan walked into the room without an expression on his face. When he noticed Little Bean was in the room, his handsome face revealed a slight frown.
“Why are you here?”
Little Bean noticed the disdainful look on his dad’s face when he saw him, and he was unhappy all of a sudden. He just decided to forgive his mom for attacking him earlier, but now his dad had this disdain look on his face? What was going on? It was certainly because he was being blamed for occupying too much of his mother’s time again!
Little Bean snorted. “Mommy called me over!”
“Yes, I called him over to ask about his preparation to attend the wedding in two days.”
“Is it done?” Ye Moxuan glanced at Little Bean and said, “If it is, you can go back to your room to study now.”
Little Bean ignored him as he turned around and hugged Han Muzi’s arm. “Mommy, I want to sleep with you tonight.”
Han Muzi was slightly surprised when she heard the words. “Huh? Why?”
“I am a little scared to sleep alone. Mommy, can you take me to my room please?”
After he finished speaking, Little Bean shook Han Muzi’s arm as he tried to persuade his mom cheekily. Han Muzi thought it was odd, so she asked, “What’s the matter with you? You were fine with sleeping before, weren’t you? You never said you were afraid.”
Han Muzi did not realize the tension between the father and son. She only thought that Little Bean’s behavior was unusual. After all, he had never mentioned he was afraid before. Unless, could it be that something had happened to him recently?
When she was about to ask further, Ye Moxuan slammed a cold statement mercilessly.
“As a man, you dared to say you’re afraid? Don’t mention you’re my son when you go out.”
Little Bean appeared to be angered when he heard the sentence. He replied angrily, “Daddy, are you trying to get people to think that you had an affair outside? If I am not your son, then are you telling people that I am someone else’s son?”
Ye Moxuan’s eyes dimmed as he narrowed his gaze and stared at him.
“And don’t mention you’re Mommy’s son too.”
“Mommy didn’t say she doesn’t want me, right? Mommy?”
Han Muzi thought, These two childish brats. It turned out that the fact about being afraid to sleep alone was fake. Are they going to fight again?
She sighed helplessly as she looked at Little Bean who was sleeping beside her.
Little Bean was somehow awake, and he looked at her with his black and shiny eyes. Little Bean’s eyes were really beautiful; it resembled the stars in the sky after a rain, which were extraordinarily bright.
She didn’t know what he was thinking about, but he suddenly smiled at Han Muzi.
When he smiled, he looked somewhat silly with that expression of his.
Han Muzi was worried when she looked at Little Bean. She hoped that her dear baby girl would not look silly like him. She was really worried.
On the eve of the wedding, Yan moved out from the villa as one of their local practices was that the couple should not see each other the day before the wedding. So, Luo Huimei came to bring Yan back home.
Because her daughter was getting married soon, Luo Huimei ditched her husband that night and headed over to Yan’s room to squeeze with her.
On the small bed, the mother and daughter squeezed together. Yan was overly anxious that she couldn’t sleep at all, so she kept on talking to Luo Huimei.
Luo Huimei was less of a sensitive person. Although her daughter was getting married the next day, after replying to Yan’s chatter for a while, she began to feel drowsy and dozed off, for she was unbearably exhausted. Yan continued talking next to her, but as she noticed that there was no response, she even started shaking her mother.
“Mom. Mom?”
“Mmm? What did you say earlier?”
Yan became excited again when she heard her reply, so she resumed her blabbering, and when she finished speaking, Luo Huimei did not respond. Yan noticed that Luo Huimei was asleep. She wasn’t planning to disturb her initially, but after trying, she still couldn’t sleep, so she couldn’t resist from waking Luo Huimei up by poking her arm.
“Mom.”
At first, Luo Huimei had no response. As she continued to poke Luo Huimei, she finally woke up and stared at her daughter with a pair of sleepy eyes.
“What?”
“Mom, don’t sleep. Talk to me.”
Looking at Yan’s pitiful expression, Luo Huimei felt that since she was her daughter, and the wedding was on the next day, she decided to talk to her for a little while; she was going to send this little piglet of hers that she had raised off to someone else after all.
“Yan, tomorrow is the wedding, and if you don’t get enough sleep tonight, how would you look great tomorrow? I really want to keep talking with you, but we have to wake up early tomorrow, so let’s catch some sleep, okay?”
Yan shook her head vigorously as she heard the words. “But I can’t sleep.”
“You are overthinking. When I got married last time, I wasn’t even as nervous as you. There’s no such thing as you can’t sleep. Once you think about the consequences of not getting a good sleep tonight and not looking great the next day, will you still find it hard to fall asleep when you imagine a room full of guests who will be looking at your awful look?”
Those words sounded scary, as Yan paused for a moment before saying, “Mom, I don’t think I can sleep now that you’ve scared me.”
“Girl, are you not going to let me sleep at all?”
“I am nervous. I can’t sleep. Mom, why do I feel like things are so surreal? I’m going to get married soon, but I remembered that I just returned home not long ago, didn’t it?” Yan said as she rubbed her eyes, and looked at Luo Huimei in a dazed way.
Luo Huimei looked at her and suddenly thought of the little Yan in her memory. Back then when she was small, she would sleep beside her, rubbing her eyes and looking at her the same way. “Mom, is the sun up?” Yan used to ask her.
It was the same sight as she used to see back in those days. In the way that she remembered herself doing, Luo Huimei stretched out her hand and stroked her daughter’s head. “Silly girl, don’t think too much.”
