Chapter 59 (2/2)

“After you grow up, when your daddy returns, he’ll let you adopt one.” Cheng Zhiyan embraced Xiaotu and placed her little head on top of his shoulder. His warm face was pressed against her face, which felt cold from all the tears, and he continued to say, “Whatever you want to do at that time, your father will accompany you.”

“Will I be allowed to adopt a cat?”

“Yes.”

“Will I be allowed to adopt a pet turtle?”

“Yes.”

“Will I be allowed to adopt anything?”

“Yes…” Cheng Zhiyan smiled at Xiaotu tenderly. When he saw that she had gradually stopped crying, he pinched her chubby little cheeks and asked her, “So, when that time comes, what name will you give to the puppy that you plan on adopting?”

“Um…let me think about it carefully…” Xiaotu was just a child, so she didn’t know that people didn’t come back from the dead, and she didn’t know whether or not her father had truly said those things to Cheng Zhiyan. Yet, she did know that Brother Orange Juice was the most gentle person in the world and that he never lied to her.

Standing outside the bedroom door, Xiaotu’s mother and Cheng Zhiyan’s mother overheard this conversation between their two children, and they couldn’t help but weep some more.

Xiaotu’s mother tightly clenched the tissue in her hand, and since it was already completely drenched in her tears, it couldn’t wipe away any more tears when she dabbed it on her face. “Thank God Yan Yan is here. I really have no idea how to face Xiaotu…”

“Ah…children, they’ll probably forget all about it after a while…” Cheng Zhiyan’s mother sighed, then patted Xiaotu’s mother on the shoulder, and turned around to head downstairs, saying, “Yet you, on the other hand, should take some time off…”