Chapter 87 - The Lessening Distance (2/2)

”Xinyi!!!”

His thundering voice jolted them apart. They stood frozen for a moment and didn't know how to face each other, especially Zhiyuan since he initiated that moment.

He felt his voice choke, failing all the words. ”I-I…”

The realization made him dumbstruck and shocked at himself.

What was I going to do?

Xinyi hid her face and rushed towards the door to open it. Han Huizhong's towering figure loomed upon her.

”How long does it take to open a damn door, granddaughter-in-law,” he sneered.

”N-No...no...I-I was coming- I mean-”

”Why are you stuttering like a broken record?” As he said that, his gaze traveled across the room and squinted.

”Where is your lovely son?”

”He is sleeping with Zizi tonight…”

Han Huizhong slowly raised his brow as if thinking something hard. ”Why the sudden change of heart?”

Xinyi nervously smiled. ”I don't know. Maybe he felt like it…”

Han Huizhong glanced at Zhiyuan and narrowed his eyes. He seemed in a nervous daze. He looked back at Xinyi and noticed the same flustered expression on her face.

Han Huizhong seemed to realize something though he found that possibility too low and that made him go cold in fury.

”My tea! Get me my tea right now!”

Xinyi was taken aback. ”At this time?”

”Can I not have tea whenever I wish?”

”That is not what I mean…”

”Then get going!”

Though he could have easily told a maid to bring his tea, he specifically asked for Xinyi as he heard noises coming from Zizi's room of her playing with Siying.

Xinyi quickly rushed away.

Han Huizhong stepped into the room and stood in front of Zhiyuan. Zhiyuan didn't know what to say.

”Grandpa-”

”You don't dare try anything funny with her, got it?” He cut him off.

Zhiyuan widened his eyes. ”What?”

”Don't take me as a fool! I understand what was going on! Han Zhiyuan. Don't think that you got the license to touch her just because you are her husband!”

Zhiyuan turned equally cold at his harsh words. ”What do you mean? Do you think I will do something so disrespectful to her whenever I feel like it?”

”I don't care about your fucking principles!” He leaned his face and glowered at him threateningly. ”Don't ever think of laying your hands on her or I will personally cut them off!”

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Outside the Zhu villa.

Chyou sadly trotted with Xiaosi, holding his hand. She raised her head and pursed her lips in disappointment. ”Dada...Why am I not going back to Aunty Xinyi?”

Chyou had been asking this same question during their whole ride back home, but Xiaosi didn't answer her. He was strangely silent the whole way.

She tugged him again. ”Dada…”

Xiaosi still didn't respond.

She lowered her head and kept walking. As they stepped inside the villa, he suddenly said, ”Go to sleep Chyou.”

Her eyes teared up. She really wanted to spend time with Xinyi but he suddenly took her away from the Han villa. And now he was refusing to say anything.

She sniffled and rubbed her eyes. ”D-Dada is mean…I want to be with Aunty Xinyi...Take me back, no?”

Xiaosi pressed the space between his brows and shut his eyes. ”Chyou, get back to your room. We will talk about this later.”

”Dada…”

”Chyou please!”

He was rubbing his forehead in pain as he rapidly blinked his eyes.

Chyou jolted. She was taken aback by her father's outburst which never happened before. He had never once raised his voice against her. The warmth and gentleness in his voice, tonight, was replaced with coldness and harshness.

She burst into tears and ran away in her room. ”I will not talk to Dada anymore…”

But the one who was even more shocked than Chyou was none other than Caihong, who heard their conversation. After the incident at the hospital, An Guoting naturally wanted her to keep staying at the An residence.

But Xiaosi already gave an ultimatum that Caihong would return with him and this time, she didn't object or argue. After all that happened with Siying, she wasn't in the mood to stay there anymore.

Caihong looked at him with an incredulous expression. She thought for a moment and walked up to him. She observed him but noticed that he didn't seem as if realized her presence.

”This is the first time I saw you yell at her. What changed this?”