Chapter 300: Chapter 300

"I want to help pick a pillow for Baobao!" Le Tong said, standing on tiptoe to reach for the light blue pillow on the shelf.

Ji Rui extended his hand, easily took the pillow down, and stuffed it into her arms, "You want this one?"

Le Tong nodded, "Yuan’er prepared a pillow for Baobao that’s too soft, he needs a slightly firmer one, I heard adding cassia seeds is good."

Le Tong looked at the pillow’s instructions in her hands, then fiddled with it up and down.

"Hmm, this should be quite suitable."

Le Tong placed the pillow into the shopping cart. Seeing this, Ji Rui raised his hand and threw an identical pillow into the cart.

"One is enough! Why take two?"

Le Tong thought Ji Rui, with his rich man’s ways, insisted on buying pillows in pairs, so she picked up the pillow he threw in and reached up to put it back on the shelf.

"One for your home, and I’ll take one back to my place, just right." Ji Rui snatched the pillow back and put it back in the shopping cart. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novel·fire.net

Ji Rui admitted to himself that he wasn’t as meticulous as Le Tong. When he first brought Baobao over from the mansion, he had Xiao Li pick up all the bedding and other items for Baobao in one go from the furniture store. He had no idea what brand was used, the quality, or performance, and never really cared.

Now, hearing what Le Tong said, he couldn’t help but feel ashamed.

As a father, even after being with his son for more than five years, his concern and care for him were not even a tenth of Le Tong’s, perhaps not even a hundredth.

Upon hearing what he said, Le Tong said no more and proceeded to push the cart forward.

Along the way, Le Tong picked out some clothes and small toys for Baobao.

In the past, Ji Rui wouldn’t have thought much of these clothes and toys, but Le Tong said that whether it’s clothes or toys, as long as they are suitable, they are the best, not necessarily branded or high-tech products.

Ji Rui walked around the parenting section with her, feeling more and more guilty.

He used to think he had enough means to give Baobao the best. But now he realized what he gave Baobao might be the most expensive, but not necessarily the best!

The most expensive can be bought with money.

But the best can only be given with the heart.

What he gave Baobao was purchasable with money.

But what Le Tong gave Baobao was only attainable with heart.

He never quite understood why Baobao would cling to Le Tong like treasure after meeting her. Now he realized that apart from the kinship’s magnetic attraction, it was inseparable from Le Tong’s rare and heartfelt care for Baobao.

"Le Tong, how do you know so much about children?"

Ji Rui followed behind Le Tong all the way, helping her carry items and pushing the cart.

With her back to him, Le Tong visibly stiffened for a moment, put the drawing board she had just picked up back on the shelf, and continued forward.

Just as Ji Rui thought she wasn’t going to answer his question, Le Tong, standing before a pile of watercolors, softly said, "I like watching parenting shows and also read some parenting books in my spare time."

Ji Rui initially thought he heard wrong, but recalling her words tinged with a trace of sadness, he could vaguely imagine how she spent these years enduring the agony of missing Baobao.

"Actually, I always thought Baobao was abroad, so I never expected to see him again..."

Le Tong still had her back to him, but he could imagine her expression at the moment, definitely very sad.

When he first learned she was Baobao’s biological mother, he suspected she approached Baobao with other intentions. Back then, he saw her as a woman who would do anything for money.

But after knowing the real reason she had Baobao, his heart ached for her, that eighteen-year-old girl.

He is a man, unfamiliar with the hardships of pregnancy, but he remembers vividly how his mother loved and cared for him when he was a child.

If it weren’t to protect him, his mother wouldn’t have been forced to the point by the old man and that woman.

And Le Tong, after her child was sent away, kept watching parenting shows. What were her thoughts back then?

Specifically, he couldn’t imagine, but he knew it must be extremely painful!

Ji Rui silently reached out and placed a hand on her shoulder.

Feeling the body beneath his hand clearly tremble, words of comfort slipped out without going through his brain.

"Don’t worry, Baobao will never leave you again."

Le Tong abruptly turned her head, and as he expected, those beautiful big eyes were covered with a light mist, corners of the eyes flushed with red.

Ji Rui earnestly nodded at her, vaguely feeling that this promise was more important to Le Tong than her life.

Le Tong’s clear voice turned choked and hoarse. After speaking, she quickly turned her back to Ji Rui again.

Ji Rui watched her thin back, his heart inexplicably twisted again into a knot.

"Actually, I should thank you!"

Le Tong looked back again, her slightly reddened eyes filled with astonishment.

"Thank you for giving me such a smart, lovely, and empathetic son!"

Not long ago, Ji Rui had nothing but disdain for Baobao’s unknown mother, but now, he only had respect and compassion for Le Tong, and all other negative emotions had long vanished after knowing the truth.

Le Tong looked at him in disbelief, after a moment, not knowing what she thought of, her face suddenly flushed red again, she murmured, "Actually, I should also thank you, for giving me such a smart, lovely, and empathetic son!"

Originally, she thought it was just a transaction. She got half a million, and he got a son.

Once the contract was signed, she wouldn’t have anything to do with the son except for the blood relationship, with no more ties.

But he promised and assured her that he would not let Baobao leave her again.

This meant that the decision she made out of helplessness back then not only saved her mother’s life but also gave her a lovely and considerate son.

Ji Rui’s words moved her, and suddenly, she thought of her bulging belly at that time.

Then she associated that her belly was because of this man in front of her, and her face uncontrollably reddened.

Although back then, she didn’t know him, and he didn’t know her either.

Yet, two people who originally didn’t know each other were unexpectedly brought together by a sperm and an egg.

She used to not believe in something as abstract as fate.

But now, she believed.

She, Baobao, and Ji Rui, perhaps were truly destined to be entangled together in the vast sea of people, to meet, to know each other, and then recognize each other!

[Fourth update. Zhu Zi’s murmurs: Added another update, still owe two more!]