Chapter 164: Chapter 164

Ji Rui suddenly felt a pang of jealousy in his heart. So, in the little guy’s mind, nothing he did could compare to the mother he hadn’t even met?

"Daddy, mommy not only can tell stories to the baby, but also take care of daddy, and warm the bed for daddy!"

Ji Rui’s heart trembled at his beloved son’s keen insights, and also at the hint within his words.

Could it be that this little thing has figured out his lonely nights of sleeplessness?

This little guy—is he really only five years old?

"Go to sleep, baby. From now on, you can ask Sister Xin to tell you stories every day; daddy can take care of himself."

Ji Rui patted Ji Baby on his little bottom, picked him up and forcibly tucked him into the bed. Even though he didn’t directly reject Ji Baby’s proposal, the meaning was clear.

Rarely did Ji Baby hear such a response without throwing a tantrum, he just hugged Ji Rui’s neck tightly and wouldn’t let go, "Daddy..."

He cooed sweetly, wrapping his legs around Ji Rui’s back, his small body clinging to Ji Rui like an octopus.

"Daddy... get a mommy for the baby..."

Ji Baby seemed to be in a great mood today, facing Ji Rui’s refusal neither frustrated nor angry, simply using his unbeatable clinging skill to wear down Ji Rui.

Ji Rui had no choice but to give in, "Okay, let’s find Sister Jiarong!"

His son disliked Deng Jiarong very much, so he deliberately used her as a shield.

Sure enough, as soon as Ji Baby heard this name, his mouth instantly pouted high, "No, baby doesn’t want her to be mommy!"

Ridiculous! Spend more than half an hour with her, and my beautiful little nose would be ruined by sneezes!

Moreover, getting her back to be mommy to stay around all day?

Ji Rui expected this reaction from Ji Baby, reaching to pry Ji Baby away from his torso, "Then there’s nothing that can be done."

Ji Baby clung even tighter to him, refusing to let go, "Daddy, how about another sister?"

Ji Baby’s cunning little tail finally slipped out for a moment.

Ji Rui chalked up this little guy’s constant mention of "sister" these days as referring to some teacher at kindergarten he fancied, therefore didn’t investigate further.

"Nobody else, only Sister Jiarong!"

As clever as Ji Baby might be, he was still a little fox with undeveloped intelligence, falling short by no less than a tenth of his daddy’s old fox’s wit?

Baobao was unhappy now, his face turned cloudy from sunny instantly, naturally releasing Ji Rui, "Humph! Baobao doesn’t want her! Daddy is a meanie! Humph!"

Ji Baby accused indignantly before tugging the quilt over himself, turning his back to Ji Rui.

Ji Rui looked helplessly at the back of his baby son’s head, shook his head, lay down, and gently put his hand on his son.

For as long as he could remember, he had never intended to form a family, nor had he ever had such desires.

The reasons perhaps stemmed from the profound impact his parents’ situation had on him, leading him early on to not believe in love, even less in marriage.

Also possibly because, to date, no woman had ever stirred him to feel like marrying her, to him, women were exceedingly troublesome, even annoying creatures.

Ji Rui’s hand continuously patted Baobao’s back, now he pampered Ji Baby exceedingly, most of Ji Baby’s requests would be fulfilled as much as possible, yet this particular request, he couldn’t fulfill for his son.

On Friday morning, Ji Rui sent Baobao to kindergarten. Watching Ji Baby’s little figure disappear around the school corner with his backpack on, Ji Rui then withdrew his gaze and instructed the driver to drive.

The car made a turn, smoothly drove onto the road, Ji Rui shook open the newspaper and started reading.

Ever since his son moved in to live with him, his habit of reading the newspaper every morning shifted to after dropping Baobao off on the way to Ji Family.

As habitual, he shook open the front page and paused upon seeing the big red headline, only thinking he’d read it wrong.

Taking a focused and serious second look, indeed, he hadn’t read wrong.

This newspaper was the same one that used an entire front page on Monday to report the marriage announcement and romantic history of the second young master of the Luo Family and his girlfriend. Four days later, on the same page, the main characters were still the Luo Family’s second young master and his girlfriend, but the content was entirely different from that day.

This was a page of apology and clarification statements, the statement said that the second young master of the Luo Family indeed liked Le Tong, but was still in the pursuit stage, not yet at the marriage proposal stage, and those romantic stories were baseless, purely fabricated by the writer’s imagination.

The statement concluded with a special note of a quote from the Luo Family’s second young master, "Of course, if she agrees, I will marry her by the end of the year!"

This statement was more akin to a confession than a clarification.

Logically speaking, with the Luo Family’s power and influence, without authorization, the newspaper would presumably dare not report in this manner.

But having reported and then changing the narrative, only one possibility remained: that is, Luo Yifan genuinely liked Le Tong, and originally that marriage announcement was presumably authorized by Luo Yifan for the newspaper daring to publish.

Yet after publication, this clarification statement appeared, could it be that the Luo Clan’s elders disagreed with the marriage, hence exerting pressure on the newspaper?

In any case, whatever the reason, Le Tong’s dream of marrying into a wealthy family seemed shattered.

Upon arriving at this conclusion, Ji Rui found the gloom clouded over his mind for days seemed to be whisked away considerably, and the sun he’d not seen for days peeped through the clouds’ gaps.

"President, good morning!"

Le Tong keenly noticed that President Ji’s expression seemed to have improved today.

Indeed her intuition wasn’t wrong; President Ji actually nodded and greeted her simply.

Le Tong felt fortunate that President Ji’s face, somber for nearly a week, finally brightened, her tough days were finally over.

"President, all the documents you handed me yesterday, I’ve sorted them all!"

Le Tong hugged a large stack of files to Ji Rui’s desk, assuming that President Ji’s happy face towards her was due to her heavy efforts these days in helping Ji Rui handle much of the backlog.

"Alright, leave them here."

Ji Rui glanced up at her, trying to discern some clue from her expression.

Being refused marriage likely doesn’t feel good, especially considering her and Luo Yifan, having high-profile declarations of love just days ago, now becoming an abandoned woman rejected by a wealthy family!

He carefully scrutinized her face, from her brow to her expression, yet couldn’t observe anything particular.

Could it be she already found a new target, hence not feeling sorrowful at all? Caring none?

"President, there are two data points in this report that appear to be unreasonable. I marked them on the side for you to review."

Le Tong, wholly oblivious to Ji Rui’s probing and examining, merely bowed her head and pushed the document toward Ji Rui, pointing to the places she mentioned.

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