Chapter 440: Chapter 440 - 434: I Think I’ve Seen This Child Somewhere Before

An old man and a little girl just looked at each other like this for quite a while. Mr. Jing was still not fully back to his senses, just staring at the little girl’s round, pink face.

His thoughts had already drifted back to two years ago, downstairs at Kaixing Mansion, when the little pink bundle before him reminded him not to sit on the flowerbed, saying the weather was too cold, and the tiles by the flowerbed would freeze one’s butt. She said her mother was very, very good, said she didn’t have a father, and then got led away by that middle-aged woman, her bouncy little back viewed filled with childish joy and sweetness.

Could it really be this child?

Mr. Jing suddenly flung off the thin blanket on him and sat up, still staring at Mianmian’s face.

Seeing Mr. Jing’s astonished and even shocked expression, Mrs. Jing coldly glanced at him, gripping Mianmian’s little hand more tightly to prevent the child from being frightened by the old man who looked like his eyes were about to pop out.

"This... this..." Mr. Jing wanted to stand up, but was indeed too abruptly awakened, feeling a bit weak, and was held up by Mr. Li as he stood from the lounge chair, pointing towards Mianmian: "This child... I have seen this child before... How could she..."

"You’ve seen her?" Mrs. Jing finally spoke, but it was an unhappy cold glare, like warning him to mind his words.

Shi Su, hearing this, couldn’t help but turn her eyes to look at Jing Jihan.

She didn’t even know when Mianmian had met Mr. Jing, when was it?

Jing Jihan looked at the old man for a moment and asked, "Seen her?"

"Yes, I’ve seen her, I must have seen her! Laoli, do you remember I told you last time, initially downstairs at Kaixing Mansion, I saw a little girl. At that time, I didn’t realize how much this child resembled Jihan when he was a kid, but just a few days ago, when I saw Jihan’s photos as a child in the album, I even said... it’s this child! It’s her!" Mr. Jing spoke with some excitement, quickly wanting to walk over.

But Mrs. Jing pulled Mianmian behind her legs, obviously not planning to let the old man come over and touch her: "What are you doing? Don’t scare my great-granddaughter in your haste!"

"Great-granddaughter... she’s my great-granddaughter? Is she really my great-granddaughter?" Mr. Jing was like a repeater, stopping in his tracks, looking at the little girl standing behind Mrs. Jing who was secretly showing her face to look at him.

Originally, hearing about Jing Jihan and Shi Su these past two days, he was already so angry he was nearly about to burst with rage, just waiting for him to come back and give him an explanation.

Could there really appear a great-granddaughter out of nowhere?

Is it the daughter Shi Su announced back then?

But all the questions, at the moment of seeing Mianmian, seemed unnecessary to ask anymore.

Just a few days ago, he had looked at the albums, deeply impressed with Jihan’s appearance as a child, and now the old man could definitively confirm with just one glance.

But how did she grow up so fast?

How could Shi Su’s daughter also be Jihan’s daughter?

Mr. Jing forced down all his doubts, just looking at Mianmian with immense excitement: "I really have a great-grandchild...?!"

"You’re talking nonsense! This is my great-granddaughter, what does it have to do with you? Didn’t you chase Shi Su away? Didn’t you refuse to acknowledge her daughter? The child has been raised by Shi Su, struggling all these years, and now you think you can just acknowledge her as you wish? You forcibly separated a young couple, and pushed away a little treasure who was almost about to be recognized back home, how do you have the nerve to call her your great-grandchild? Even if you want to acknowledge her, our Mianmian might not want to acknowledge you!"

Mrs. Jing’s eloquent words made Shi Su’s eyelid twitch slightly.

The old man’s expression froze momentarily, swiftly looking towards Shi Su’s direction: "Shi Su, this child... she is yours..."

"Mr. Jing, it’s been a long time." Despite just being rattled by Mrs. Jing, Shi Su knew the necessary etiquette and nodded politely to Mr. Jing, thus also tacitly acknowledging Mianmian’s relationship with her.

Understanding Shi Su’s gaze, Mr. Jing’s eyes couldn’t help switching between her and Jing Jihan, then seeing Mrs. Jing’s face again.

What happened?!

— The old man only felt dark clouds overhead.

"I don’t believe it, come over, let me have a better look." Mr. Jing suddenly said to Mianmian, looking down.

Mianmian standing behind Mrs. Jing, obediently ready to go over, but Mrs. Jing quickly pressed her down, continued to protect Mianmian behind her: "Don’t think you can see the child up close! Believe it or not! If it weren’t for her being Jihan’s daughter, inevitably having to return to this family, she should recognize what’s needed, do you really think I’d want this child back to face you, an unworthy old man?"

Impatient and angry, Mr. Jing exclaimed: "I just want to see clearly! Let me look at this child..."

"Can’t see clearly yet? Don’t you remember what your own grandson looked like as a child? The child’s parents are right here, no need to think of what she was like as a child, just look at the face now to see, it’s evident she truly combines the parents’ merits, you can’t recognize your own great-granddaughter, yet have the nerve to say you’ve seen her before?"

Mianmian seemed at last to remember, poking her head out from behind Mrs. Jing’s legs to look at Mr. Jing whose face was almost red out of urgency, asking in a small uncertain voice: "Grandpa, I think I remember you. Were you the grandpa walking with a cane outside, who couldn’t walk and wanted to sit by the flowerbed?"

Suddenly hearing the child speak to him, Mr. Jing’s eyes turned red with excitement, quickly nodding: "Yes, yes, it’s me. What is your name? Are you... Mianmian?"

Mianmian nodded. She initially didn’t know how to show an expression like Mrs. Jing, as if there were some really bad people here, so she didn’t dare to speak. But seeing the old man standing there anxiously, she inexplicably felt a little sorry, and so no longer hid behind Mrs. Jing. She sidled to her side, tilting her head to look at the old man: "My name is Shi Mianmian."

"Shi..." Mr. Jing paused, his gaze suddenly resting in Shi Su’s direction.

Thinking of the words he said to Shi Su back then, although they had no offensive intent, he had indeed seen that Shi Su did not want to wrong the child, and thus she made the decision she did without a word of complaint.

If this child really is part of the Jing family...

No, she is part of the Jing family!

This resemblance, how could she not be?

Though not knowing the inside details, when Jing Jihan publicly announced the relationship between Shi Su and her daughter to him, Mr. Jing knew the matter was not simple. Even now, unaware of the entire story, seeing the child walk through the door himself, he recognized that she indeed was his great-granddaughter.

Standing beside him, Mr. Li, too, felt his eyes turning a bit red, recalling that two years ago the old man had mentioned in the car that this child seemed familiar.

Wasn’t she indeed familiar?

She is his great-granddaughter, by blood, with a biological link and resemblance to Mr. Jing when he was a child, all evidence of kinship!

Now, such a lively little pink bundle really stood in front of them!