Chapter 108

“I’ve had dinner already, over at my son’s mother’s place.” (1)

These were all activities that Jiang MingYuan had done with XingXing. Naturally, the little kiddo still remembered them. Before Cheng Huan finished talking, he had already turned and looked at Jiang MingYuan intensely.

Jiang MingYuan, too, was looking at him. The father and son duo looked at each other for a while before XingXing turned around and said to Cheng Huan, “Mommy is talking about Uncle Jiang.”

“You are right, baby,” said Cheng Huan as she stroked his little face. “Actually, Uncle Jiang is XingXing’s daddy.”

XingXing couldn’t grasp that right away. How did Uncle Jiang turn into his daddy? He looked from Jiang MingYuan to Cheng Huan and then back to Jiang MingYuan, trying to read something from their looks.

Both of them have very serious looks and didn’t look like they were kidding. XingXing pouted and twisted his little butt. He held onto Cheng Huan’s hands as he faced Jiang MingYuan.

Jiang MingYuan was looking at him the entire time and had unconcealable anticipation in his eyes. XingXing’s mouth opened up a little. He straightened his little legs and plopped them onto Jiang MingYuan before he asked softly, “You are really my daddy?”

“Yes,” said Jiang MingYuan as he grabbed onto his little legs and adjusted them. His look was tender.

“Then why…” XingXing pouted with his cheeks puffed up. “Weren’t you around before?”

“I’m sorry.” It was difficult for a child to understand what had transpired between the two adults nor did Jiang MingYuan plan to let him know about it. He apologized with alacrity. His look was sincere but he was nervous down inside. “Daddy was late coming here but he promises he will not leave.”

XingXing had been envious that other had daddies before. Now that he heard that he has a daddy too, he was pretty happy. It was just such a surprise for him when uncle had turned into daddy that he couldn’t accept it right away. He looked over at Jiang MingYuan over and over again before he said shyly, “Okay, I have forgiven you.”

“Oh, my good son!” Jiang MingYuan felt relieved right away. Smiling, he reached over, picked up XingXing and put him on his lap. Smelling the kids’ lotion coming from his son, he had never felt more satisfied.

Jiang MingYuan spent the entire afternoon bonding with XingXing and neither one of them left the house. They just played with XingXing’s toys in the living room.

XingXing now has a lot of toys. Other than all sorts of more childish cars or superheroes, he also have more educational ones such as Rubik’s cubes, baguenaudier, blocks, and klotski. Jiang MingYuan was very familiar with all of these and all sorts of showing off in front of his son. After one afternoon, XingXing was thoroughly conquered and couldn’t look up to him more.

The two played from the afternoon till sunset and Jiang MingYuan finally got up when it started getting dark outside and said to go out for dinner.

“No, that’s alright. I have already made dinner.” Cheng Huan walked out of the kitchen and glanced first over at XingXing, who was lying on the ground, before she looked over at Jiang MingYuan. “Let’s just eat at home tonight.”

This was the first time Cheng Huan had Jiang MingYuan eat over at her place and Jiang MingYuan was pleasantly surprised. He wasn’t much of a stuck-up person so he rolled up his sleeves wanting to go help out after hearing her said that.

Cheng Huan was already mostly done with her cooking and had placed them all on the kitchen counter. The exhaust was running this entire time and the braised pork that was still being cooked inside of the pot was giving up delicious aroma. Jiang MingYuan stood to one side and had no idea what he could do.

The kitchen wasn’t that big and it was difficult to even turn around when there’s an extra person inside of it. Cheng Huan looked up, rolled her eyes, pointed over to her side, and said to him, “Why don’t you bring these out?”

“Okay.” At lease he was able to help some. That made Jiang MingYuan felt better. He brought out the dishes one by one and voluntarily brought out the utensils as well. By the time he had finished all those, the braised pork that was still in the pot was ready.