Rebirth from the Ashes

Chapter 330: Facing Reality

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When Toffeecito saw Shen Xi, it ignored Li Yuan and ran to Shen Xi with its short legs.

Shen Xi laughed when she saw the adorable scene. Her eyes were filled with happiness as she shouted, “Toffeecito!”

After one week of not seeing the little one, it grew a lot and became fatter. When it ran, it was like a cute fluffy ball.

Li Yuan looked at the little one that sped ahead of him. The kitten was already at the base of the wall in a flash, meowing and begging for a hug while looking up at Shen Xi.

Shen Xi shrugged and looked at the little ball of fluff. She pointed to the man at the back and smiled. “Get him to help you. I can’t carry you.”

Toffeecito was circling in excitement. It looked at Shen Xi for a while, then at Li Yuan in his wheelchair.

Both of them just looked at the kitten and did not try to carry it. The little one was anxious and decided to rely on its own strength to climb up the wall.

However, Toffeecito was too small and could not even climb its cat climber properly, so he could not climb such a high wall. Its little paws climbed less than two feet before it fell.

Shen Xi mocked the kitten and beckoned it to try again. “Come on, climb!”

Toffeecito was persistent. After shaking off some dried grass on its head, it began to climb again. This time, it was more vigorous.

Li Yuan was a little distressed and looked at the girl. “Don’t tease Toffeecito… He misses you.”

‘I miss you too…’

“Toffeecito didn’t miss me. Look at him, he’s so fat, so he clearly ate and slept well!” Shen Xi laughed and muttered.

Shen Xi then got her small basket and set it down for Toffeecito. She watched as the little kitten crawled in with its four short legs and sat obediently inside, much like a cute kindergarten kid on a school bus.

“Toffeecito was already anxious when your parents came back at noon!” Li Yuan smiled and added, “When he heard your father’s voice, he made a fuss for a long time. It looks like I should have Toffeecito with me more often in the future. Otherwise, he won’t be close to me.”

This little one was very smart and understood everything. When Toffeecito heard Kun Lun said that he was going to Song Wenye’s house, the kitten quickly hugged Li Yuan as it was afraid to be sent away again.

“My father raised Toffeecito, so of course it’s close to my father, even more so than to me!” Shen Xi pinched the little one’s fluffy ears. “Look at you… If you eat any more, you’ll turn into a ball!”

Toffeecito meowed pitifully and rubbed its fluffy little head on her palm. He then turned to look at Li Yuan.

Li Yuan coughed slightly and explained somewhat sheepishly, “That’s because he keeps making a fuss to eat.”

He thought that Toffeecito looked fine. It was so round and cute!

“Brother, you can’t feed him so much in the future. Otherwise, he’s going to be obese and diabetic at a young age!” Shen Xi tapped the little one’s head. “Got it?”

When Toffeecito heard that he could not eat, he looked back at Li Yuan with its small aggrieved eyes and probably thought that it was too late for him to jump back down.

Li Yuan saw its pitiful face and wanted to plead its case, but seeing the girl’s threatening eyes, he just laughed and said, “Your mom’s right. You’re gonna have health problems if you eat so much.”

This was the first time Shen Xi heard him calling her “Toffeecito’s Mom”. The tip of the heart suddenly trembled and her heart was pounding. She instantly felt some heat on her cheeks and her eyes drifted around.

At that moment, she felt as if he knew that she had changed his caller ID to “Toffeecito’s Dad”?

Li Yuan was calm. The smile in his eyes deepened as he looked at the girl and asked, “Are things still going well at your company?”

He thought, ‘Her friend who called me Toffeecito’s Dad must have called her Toffeecito’s Mom too.’ Her desire to cover up was so cute that his heart melted.

Shen Xi tried to calm herself down, but her heart was still pounding. She dared not look at the man, so she glanced around. “It’s good.”

Li Yuan asked her about her work and changed the subject. The girl was in high spirits and told him about the interesting things that happened in her hometown during the New Year.

When the two of them were together, whether it’s chatting or just quietly doing their own thing, time always flew by.

Before Shen Xi finished telling Li Yuan about her stories, the sky had already turned dark. She looked up and saw Old Shen’s car parked in front of the house.

Shen Zhangqing just entered the door and saw the little one in his daughter’s arms. He was so excited that he could cry. “Toffeecito! Come to Grandpa!”

Toffeecito was initially lying quietly in Shen Xi’s arms with closed eyes as the two of them talked. Just when it was about to fall asleep, it heard Old Shen’s voice and was immediately pumped up in excitement. It meowed excitedly and stretched its little paws, wanting to jump down.

Shen Xi looked at Li Yuan longingly and said a little reluctantly, “Brother, I’ll have to go. Toffeecito wants to jump down.”

Li Yuan answered and saw the girl waving at him. Soon, she disappeared and his heart instantly felt empty again.

Across the street.

A voice resounded.

It was a man’s righteous voice. “Why are you stopping me? I wanna go and thank our neighbor for taking care of Toffeecito!”

The girl said, “I’ve already thanked him, so you don’t need to go over. Don’t you miss Toffeecito? Here you go.”

Li Yuan listened to the conversation between the father and daughter with a complicated look in his eyes. He looked at his own legs and smiled self-deprecatingly. The light in his eyes also dimmed with the silence.

At the end of the day, he still had to face reality.

Even if the girl could accept him looking like this, could her parents accept him?

No parent in this world could accept their daughter marrying a disabled man.

Kun Lun stood nearby and frowned as he looked at the man sitting quietly by the wall who was shrouded in a layer of darkness.

‘Is Boss worried about Ms. Shen’s parents?’

Shen Zhangqing bought dinner from a restaurant.

While they were eating, Shen Zhangqing pretended to ask casually, “Xixi, what does our neighbor do?”

Shen Xi gnawed on a chicken drumstick. “He’s a boss.”

Shen Zhangqing asked again, “How old is he? What kind of company does he own?”

His daughter’s attitude toward that neighbor was getting stranger, so he wanted to know who the neighbor was and what he looked like.

Before Shen Zhangqing went back to his hometown for the New Year, he had secretly climbed up the ladder several times, but he did not get to see the neighbor.

This neighbor was very mysterious. He had moved here for over half a year, but besides Shen Xi, no one had seen what he looked like.

Shen Xi suddenly became alert. “He does everything. It’s quite random. Dad, are you doing a background check on him?”

Shen Zhangqing did not want his daughter to get suspicious, so he laughed it off. “I’m just asking casually. I noticed he’s quite busy every day and I never saw him.”

He was just afraid that his adolescent daughter would be cheated by an old man. By then, it would be too late for regrets.