28 Upfront or Scheming? (2/2)

”It's me, you and daddy.”

Seeing her rigid expression, Su Yichen thinks his mother is displeased with his drawing. Looking dejected, he stares at his feet.

”You don't like it, mommy?”

Realizing that she has a frown on her face, Su Lian shakes her head and smiles.

”Of course I love it, baby. Anything my Xiao Chen makes is the best.”

She kisses his forehead and holds his tiny hand as they walk towards her car. Feeling much better, Su Yichen starts talking more enthusiastically about his day.

Su Lian barely has the mind to listen. Her thoughts wander off to his drawing.

This wasn't the first time Yichen had drawn a picture of his family. He would draw the two of them and sometimes add her grandmother and Chris.

Now he suddenly added a father to the picture.

'Was sending him to school a mistake?'

His next sentence immediately answers her question:

”My teacher said that everyone has a daddy. Where is mine?”