sultry

When Ye Rongzhen woke up, the pillow beside him was already completely cold.

He sat up expressionlessly and got dressed.

When he got out of bed, his legs were still shaking a little, and his body was covered with blue marks.He just moved into the bathroom step by step, turned the sound of the water to the maximum, and stared at his face in the mirror through the hazy water vapor.

Whose face is that?

Pale face, brown hair, lips kissed by a man, hickey marks all over the white body, like a girl who came out of the field...

Dirty, mean.

When he came out, his hair was still dripping with water, and his whole body seemed to have lost a layer of skin.

It was December, and winter had just entered.

It was raining a few days ago, and it has started to rain and sleet these days.The cold current hits most of China from the north.

His hair was still wet, he shivered slightly, put on his coat and went out.

Ye Rongzhen wanted to go back to see Chen Wan. Since Cao Ying was not there, it was meaningless for him to stay here.

At this time, he heard someone knocking on the door, and then he saw Natalie and welcomed him in.

This is a ten-year-old boy.

The boy was small, carrying a schoolbag, with childish faces, and his smile was like a sly fox.

"you are?"

"My father is Zhou Qi."

"Who is Zhou Qi?"

The boy curled his lips and changed the phrase, "Cao Ying is my brother, my aunt's son."

Ye Rongzhen didn't know that he and Zhou Qi had met for a short time, after all, he was still in a coma when Zhou Qi came.

"So what are you doing here?"

The boy had a cold face, "My father and mother went abroad and put me at my brother's house. My brother didn't want to take care of me, so he let me come to you."

Ye Rongzhen called Cao Ying.

"Cao Ying, what do you mean?"

Cao Ying's casual voice came from the other end of the phone, "Yezi, it's better to let you watch the baby than not being able to get out of bed every day?"

"Cao Ying, you fucking..."

Before he finished speaking, he hung up there.

Only the beeping busy tone remained.

Ye Rongzhen glanced at the child with big eyes flickering behind him. In such a cold day, his heart softened and he sighed.

"I don't live here, because I also have a mother to take care of. If you don't dislike it, come back to my house with me."

"Hehe." The kid gave him an emoji. "Forget it, I've been sent here anyway, so I'll go with you."

Ye Rongzhen laughed, he was a child after all.

He turned around and explained a few words to Natalie, then took the child home.

Ye Rongzhen thought that taking the child back might make her happier for a while, because he still remembered that Ms. Chen liked children very much.

As expected, Chen Wan took out almost everything in the house that children would like.

He held the Rubik's Cube that Ye Rongzhen played with when he was a child, and couldn't put it down.

Ye Rongzhen looked at Chen Wan cautiously, seeing that she no longer closed the door as she did a few days ago, and was no longer refusing all concerns, she felt relieved and smiled.

Chen Wan looked at the child in front of her, as if she saw Ye Rongzhen when she was a child, holding a Rubik's cube in her hand, with a white porcelain face, raised her head and smiled at her.

She sighed softly in her heart.

The mothers around are trying their best to make their children live a smooth and healthy life.

But she was the only one who kept her children in fear all day long.

These days, she has gradually become less serious, and she dared to go out for a stroll on weekdays, but since Ye Rongzhen left that day, she has fallen into self-blame, and now that she sees someone back, she is afraid of forcing the child away again.

"The child?" she asked softly.

Ye Rongzhen wrote lightly, "A friend's child."

"Stay here for a few days."