201 Goodnight, I Love You (1/2)

Seeing that Ning Xi had come, Lu Tingxiao looked relieved. ”Are you done?”

”Well, I’ve almost memorized the whole thing.” Ning Xi nodded, carried Little Bun to the bed, and tucked him in.

Little Bun immediately stretched his hands to pick up the colorful fairy tale book which he had rejected, gesturing for her to read it.

”Continuing from where we stopped last night?” asked Ning Xi.

Little Bun’s little hands gripped the edge of the quilt and he nodded sweetly.

”Well then, today let’s read <A Polite Little White Rabbit>…” Ning Xi cleared her throat and began to recite the story, ”On the hot summer day, the bird cried in the tree: ‘Hot, hot!’ The beautiful little white rabbit wearing a beautiful floral dress hummed a song while skipping over a bridge. It was on its way to pick mushrooms…”

While Ning Xi read the story, Lu Tingxiao sat in a chair next to her, tilting his forehead and listening quietly to her soft, sweet voice.

He seemed to understand why his son insisted on listening to such childish stories every night before bed.

What mattered was not the story, but who was reading it.

After less than five minutes of listening, Little Bun became sleepy-eyed, and Ning Xi patted his back. Very soon, the little boy was sleeping soundly.

”Sorry to trouble you,” said Lu Tingxiao, thanking her.

”No trouble,” replied Ning Xi with an expression of mixed emotions. ”Lu Tingxiao, did you know? Actually, I used to really hate children!”

”Hate?”

Ning Xi nodded, but did not tell him the real reason. ”I just thought kids were very annoying. I wanted to hide every time I saw one… I never thought that I would come to like Little Bun as much as I do. It’s hard for me to express it, but I always feel some kind of special connection between us. It’s probably fate, like in the stories!”

Lu Tingxiao looked at her deeply. ”There are no impossibilities in this world, only what you have yet to experience.”

Ning Xi was slightly stunned and vaguely replied, ”Probably. It's late, I'm going to have a bath. Boss, you should also sleep early!”