C11 Chapter 11

Saang Shijuan’s hand froze in the middle of loosening his tie, and he suddenly turned to look at Saang Yuxin.

Saang Yuxin’s face was blank, but his dark eyes looked helpless, small, and pitiful.

A trace of anger rose to Shijuan’s brow, and he said in a low voice, “I’ll say this one more time. That woman is not your mother!”

“Wasn’t she your fiancée before? If she’s not my mom, then who is?”

Faced with Saang Yuxin’s question, Shijuan’s dark eyes turned cold. Finally, he snapped and shouted, “You don’t have a mother!”

The yell made Saang Yuxin flinch, but the anger in his eyes was clear.

How could anyone not have a mother?

It was obvious his mother was someone else. So why did his dad refuse to tell him anything about her?

Truthfully, he’d never been close to his father’s former fiancée. They hadn’t spent much time together to begin with, and after she lost her mind, his father had her committed to a psychiatric hospital. He never saw her again.

According to Steward Xie, not long before she broke down, his father discovered that she had been putting sleeping pills in his water because she found his crying and fussing unbearable and wanted him asleep all the time.

Not long after his father found out, she went insane for reasons no one knew, and his father quickly broke off the engagement.

His grandfather, though, was so furious when he heard about the broken engagement that he fell seriously ill and had to stay in the hospital for a long time before he gradually recovered.

“I don’t care. I want a mom! Get me my mom!” Saang Yuxin was rarely this stubborn, but Yanyou had gotten under his skin at preschool today.

“Saang Yuxin!” Shijuan gritted out. “It’s not like I haven’t been trying to find you a mother. But every woman I bring home, you don’t like this one, you don’t approve of that one. What exactly do you want?”

Saang Yuxin fell silent. His father wasn’t wrong, and for a moment he couldn’t think of a single comeback.

“If you’re so capable, then go find yourself a mother you actually like!” Shijuan roared.

Saang Yuxin’s eyes lit up, as if a thought had suddenly hit him. A flicker of excitement quietly sparked in his gaze. “You mean that?”

Saang Shijuan didn’t take him seriously at all.

Yeah, right. The kid was barely knee-high. As if he could really find himself a mom.

He let out a scoff, his tone tinged with disdain. “If you can actually bring someone to me, I’ll go get a marriage license with her on the spot and make her your legal mother!”

“You said it!” Saang Yuxin curled his lips into a smile, and most of the anger he’d been holding onto faded away.

The next day, at Sunshine Kindergarten.

Xia Yanyou placed his limited-edition Buzz Lightyear in front of Saang Yuxin. “Here. Do you like this? You can have it.”

Saang Yuxin thought it was a little childish. Even though he felt a bit resistant inside, he still took it since Xia Yanyou wasn’t too annoying to look at. He gave a few half-hearted grumbles, acting like he didn’t really want it, but accepted it anyway.

Xia Yanyou didn’t notice Saang Yuxin’s dislike at all. Instead, he eagerly started explaining how the toy worked. “There’s a switch on the left side. Press it, and the helmet opens. This part on the left arm is a blaster—it makes sounds and lights up. And this button on the chest opens the wings...”

Xia Yanyou explained everything carefully and seriously, but Saang Yuxin’s mind wasn’t really on the toy.

After a pause, Saang Yuxin suddenly cut him off. “Yesterday, you said you didn’t have a dad?”

Xia Yanyou froze for a second. “Did I say that?”

“Yeah. You said you were jealous that I had such a handsome dad.”

Xia Yanyou blinked, looking completely puzzled. “That part’s true, but how did you figure out from that one sentence that I don’t have a dad?”

Saang Yuxin let out a cold huff. “Because only someone without a dad would be jealous that I’ve got one who goes around with a sour look on his face all day.”