Chapter 174: Chapter 174

Le Tong was unaware that the little guy had already gotten some ideas, she just honestly replied, "And also that day Baobao met that Brother Xu Tao and Brother Yifan."

When Le Tong mentioned Brother Yifan, both Ji Baby and Ji Rui, who was leaning against the doorway, had a glint in their eyes.

Ji Rui remained silent as usual, while Ji Baby’s eyes rolled twice and quickly changed to a look of anticipation as he gazed at Le Tong. "So lively, Sister, can Baobao also go and play?"

Le Tong didn’t expect Ji Baby to be so persistent. She only thought he wanted to play, not knowing the little guy was actually wary of Luo Yifan.

"Baobao, I’m sorry, wait until Sister has time to accompany you, okay?" Le Tong glanced at Ji Rui, tactfully declining Baobao’s request.

Ji Baby’s bright eyes instantly dimmed, "Sister doesn’t love Baobao anymore..."

Saying this, he dropped his eyes, pushed Le Tong aside, and turned gloomily back to Ji Rui, listlessly grabbing Ji Rui’s big hand. "Daddy, let’s go..."

Le Tong’s heart tightened, and she looked up to meet Ji Rui’s eyes, which were filled with accusation and suspicion. Unreasonably, she suddenly felt a pang of guilt.

It wasn’t until the father and son held hands and walked into the elevator, the door closed, that Le Tong realized she wasn’t wrong, so why feel guilty?!

Inside the elevator, the tall and short two males faced the closed elevator door. The tall man was expressionless, staring straight at the floor number buttons, while the short boy looked up a few times at the tall man and then wiggled his small hand that held the tall man’s big hand.

"Daddy, is Sister really going to marry Brother Yifan?"

The originally expressionless man was slightly startled, lowered his head, and said in a deep voice, "Nonsense! There’s no such thing."

The little boy blinked his eyes, "But that’s what it said in the newspapers."

Ji Rui breathed a slight sigh of relief, "The newspapers are full of lies, Baobao, don’t believe it."

If Luo Yifan were really going to marry Le Tong, there wouldn’t have been that clarification statement on Friday.

Baobao pouted, "It’s not nonsense, Sister even went on a date with Brother Yifan."

If it were only the newspaper reports, Ji Baby naturally wouldn’t believe it all, but he saw with his own eyes Le Tong and Luo Yifan having dinner together on Saturday, wanting to join in and make trouble was heartlessly rejected, saying they were just friends, like that’s going to fool a kid!

Ji Rui, who had just sighed with relief, suddenly had a knot stuck in his throat, neither going up nor down, making him very uncomfortable.

He remained silent for a while, only then did he reach out to lightly touch Ji Baby’s hand and say, "Baobao is overthinking, she wasn’t on a date, she was with Yuanyuan and the others, there were a bunch of them!"

These words from Ji Rui, rather than comforting Ji Baby, were more like comforting himself.

But Ji Baby did not intend to make it easy for him, shaking his little face, "It wasn’t a bunch of people, that Saturday, Sister was on a date with Brother Yifan, Baobao saw it with his own eyes!"

Ji Rui unconsciously frowned, "Saturday?"

"Yes, that day wasn’t Daddy taking Baobao to have dinner at Ordinary People? That’s where Baobao saw Sister and Brother Yifan dating." Ji Baby said seriously.

In Ji Rui’s heart, suddenly, it didn’t feel good at all! Some inexplicable emotions were bubbling up in his heart.

Besides these bad feelings, Ji Rui even felt a trace of inexplicable anger.

When Ji Baby brought this up, his mood only worsened, and he couldn’t help blaming Ji Rui.

"It’s all Daddy’s fault, if you agreed for Sister to be your girlfriend, she wouldn’t be dating Brother Yifan."

In Ji Baby’s mind, there was no concept of mutual consent; in any case, he thought that as long as Daddy was willing, Sister would surely be willing to be Daddy’s girlfriend, then Brother Yifan would have nothing to do with it.

Ji Rui was in a chaotic mood, listening to his son’s accusations, he remained silent, staring at the moving floor number display, not sure what he was thinking.

Seeing that Ji Rui was ignoring him, Ji Baby let go of Ji Rui’s hand, pouted his little mouth, and leaned against the wall, apparently intent on giving Ji Rui the cold shoulder.

The elevator door opened, Ji Rui bent down and picked up the still sulking Ji Baby.

"Baobao returning home or going back to kindergarten?"

Having heard these words from Ji Baby, Ji Rui understood what his son had been upset about these past few days.

"Baobao wants to go to Grandpa’s house!"

Ji Baby twisted his body hard, knowing full well that Daddy has been fighting with Grandpa, he still wanted to provoke his linchpin, probably thinking that since he wasn’t happy, he couldn’t let Daddy be happy!

Sure enough, mentioning Mr. Ji made Ji Rui’s face darken, "No way!"

Speaking, he had already walked to the car, bent down, and shoved Ji Baby into the back seat, buckling his seatbelt, and instructing the driver who had already started the car.

"Xiao Li, send the young master home, make sure you all look after him well."

It seems he needs to have a good talk with Aunt Guan and the others, not to let Baobao run around as he pleases. If Baobao hadn’t mentioned meeting Le Tong privately, he would still be unaware.

Thinking of this, the small flames of anger in Ji Rui’s heart were rekindled.

Ji Rui returned to the top floor filled with fire, walked straight to Le Tong’s side, didn’t even look at her, merely said coldly, "You, come in!" And then walked into the office by himself.

Le Tong indifferently shrugged her shoulders, like a warrior heading into battle, following Ji Rui inside with a resigned mindset.

From the moment she recklessly criticized him, she had already made up her mind. After berating him and leaving the office, she had mentally prepared herself for the possibility of packing up and leaving.

Since she had already thought it through, facing Ji Rui, she no longer had any apprehensions or worries.

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Le Tong stood in front of the desk, seeing Ji Rui sit down, without waiting for him to start, she asked first, "President, should I leave immediately, or leave after the handover?"

Since she was leaving anyway, taking the initiative in proposing it would at least allow her to keep a bit of dignity.

Otherwise, if Ji Rui dismissed her, given how sharp-tongued a person he is, who knows what venomous words he might utter.

Ji Rui was stunned for a moment. To be honest, even though she had presumptuously criticized him in such an insubordinate manner, he never thought of dismissing her!

Even though he had made a very clear decision to find a way to prevent Le Tong from continuing to influence his son.

But of all the ways, dismissal was not one of them.

Clearly, if he wanted to isolate her from Baobao, dismissing her was the most direct, quickest, cleanest, and most effective method, yet he never thought of doing it!

"Who let you go? You think you’re that lucky! You want to leave after messing up everything?"

[There should be another update later]