Xiao Xi returned to his room to sleep. Jin Ye had just finished bathing and was about to enter his room when his door was knocked.
Jin Ye frowned. Did the butler have something to find him this late?
Standing outside the door was a woman dressed sexily and with exquisite makeup: Shao Lin.
Jin Ye was displeased. He glanced at her coldly and noticed her swollen cheeks beneath the heavy foundation.
Over the years, she had used her status as his rumored girlfriend to act outrageously and spend lavishly. She had done many things he found objectionable, but out of consideration for her being Xiao Xi's biological mother, he had not intervened much.
However, in his heart, he grew increasingly annoyed with this pretentious woman.
Shao Lin's voice was娇滴滴 (sweet and delicate). She raised her beautiful eyes and softly called out, "Jin Ge."
Jin Ye's brows furrowed slightly. He asked indifferently, "What is it?"
Shao Lin stepped forward and raised her fair, smooth arm, intending to rest it on Jin Ye's. Jin Ye subtly dodged, and a hint of disappointment appeared in her beautiful eyes.
"Mother called today and still wants me to persuade you to provide Xiao Xi with a complete family. I know it wasn't what you wanted back then, and I'm not worthy of you, but Xiao Xi..." Shao Lin said, and crystal tears slowly rolled down her cheeks. "Mother said Xiao Xi secretly told her that he wishes he had a mother."
Jin Ye watched her performance coldly. Xiao Xi had just told him he didn't want a mother. How could he secretly tell his mother such a thing?
Seeing that Jin Ye was ignoring her, Shao Lin sobbed with increasing grief. "I know my status, but so many years have passed, and Xiao Xi is growing up. Jin Ge, are you just going to watch your child live in an incomplete family?"
Jin Ye interrupted her, "He doesn't need it."
Shao Lin raised her tear-filled eyes and moved closer again. "Those are just words of him being strong on the outside. Do you know how painful it is for me every day to hear him call me Auntie?"
Jin Ye's cold gaze locked onto Shao Lin. "So, you've been poisoning Xiao Xi's mind?"
His ice-cold, heartless words instantly froze Shao Lin's tears into ice shards.
She looked at Jin Ye, hurt. "I... I didn't."
Jin Ye snorted coldly and warned, "You better not have. You took the money and should have kept your mouth shut. Don't forget how you got everything you have now."
Shao Lin was momentarily speechless, her tearful eyes looking at him. "But... he is my child."
Seeing Jin Ye's cold expression, completely unmoved, Shao Lin dared not pester him further, lest she anger him.
"It's nothing, Jin Ge, I'll listen to you. This is a limited edition game console I bought for Xiao Xi abroad. Please help me give it to him. As his mother, I don't have the right or status to accompany him as he grows up. It's my dereliction of duty..."
Shao Lin handed over the exquisitely wrapped gift box she was holding, her slender, fair arm held out to Jin Ye. Her tear-filled eyes gazed at him with anticipation.
Jin Ye glanced at the gift casually, and a trace of emotion stirred within him.
After all, she was Xiao Xi's mother. Even if he was disgusted, he couldn't deprive his child of the right to receive maternal love.
He took the gift and said distantly and indifferently, "Alright, it's getting late. Good night."
"Jin Ge..."
Shao Lin wanted to say more, but she saw Jin Ye's face darken with impatience. She could only nod in disappointment.
The door closed, and Shao Lin stood outside alone.
She clenched her fist tightly and thought hatefully that after so many years, Jin Ye still refused to accept her, even if she was the child's "mother."
Initially, she wasn't in a hurry, but today she encountered Shao Xu, who had returned, bringing that child with her.
If Jin Ye found out...
No, absolutely not!
Gradually, a hint of malice flickered in her eyes.
That child should never have lived in this world...