Accidentally Acquired a CEO -
The winter wind, laced with a biting chill, swept through Skyline City, making people wish to huddle indoors all day. If one could hold a cup of milk tea, it would feel like a heavenly VIP routine.
However, for children, a cold snap is nothing; even if the sky rained knives, it wouldnt stop them from rushing to the amusement park with unbridled enthusiasm.
Watching the streams of parents and children holding hands, a little boy, standing in line, squeezed his mothers hand tighter and looked up at her. "Mom, can I have an ice cream?"
The little one hoped for an exception today, thinking that it was a rare outing and without an ice cream, it wouldnt feel like he had been out to play. As he spoke, he gently swayed his mothers hand with his small ones, batting his dark, moist, big eyes, using his cute and handsome looks to charm his own mother.
"Alright! Mr. Chen, put away your cute face. Mom will get you an ice cream now, but you have to be good! Dont talk to strangers, dont eat anything from them, and dont..."
"Mom, I know. Im not a three-year-old anymore; Im five. Besides, I know my way around here very well."
Swaying his mothers hand, upon hearing Tiffany Tangs willingness to buy him an ice cream, Chen quickly put away his pleading expression, showing a little mans smile. He withdrew his small hand and stood upright in front of Tiffany, his serious and earnest expression making one wonder where he got it from.
Tiffany reached out and pinched Chens smooth, chubby cheek, her eyes filled with tender laughter, the radiance of motherly love enveloping the little one.
"Mom knows. Im going now, dont move around!"
Tiffany withdrew her hand and walked towards the cold drink shop. Chen stood quietly in line, waiting for Tiffany to return.
Since Chens birth, they had depended on each other, and due to their poor living conditions, Chen had been very sensible from a young age. At three, he learned to dress and eat by himself and could even help his grandmother tidy up and lend a hand. Seeing such a precocious and sensible Chen, Tiffany was both happy and heartbroken.
Happy for her childs sensibility, yet pained that he was so sensible at such a young age. A child so young should be like the others, twisting their parents hands to act coquettish and make demands, but her Chen had become a little adult, able to take care of himself and even her.
After getting in line to get the ice cream, Tiffany decided to indulge Chen today and accompany him well for a whole day. But when she returned with the ice cream, the little one who had been waiting in line was gone.
Tiffany panicked, her usual composure shattered in an instant.
"Excuse me, have any of you seen a little boy in overalls, a striped shirt, and a cowboy hat standing in front of you?"
The strange looks and frequent headshakes from passersby made Tiffany tremble.
But all along the way, only two people behind her said, "We saw him. He seemed to have seen something and went back!"
Anxious and fearful, Tiffany tried to calm herself down and went to the visitors lost and found center.
It had been so many years, but the fear in her heart had not diminished at all. When Ranran was taken away, she was still lying in the hospital bed. When she ran out to chase, all she saw was a bald man.
Could the same thing happen again?
But she had already lost Ranran; if she lost Chen too, she didnt know how she would go on living.
Staggering out of the visitors center, holding her phone and showing pictures to passersby, she was like mad, asking everyone she saw.
Tiffany searched from the amusement park to the streets. By the time the sun set and the bright moon appeared, the streetlights on both sides of the road were lit, and Tiffanys feet were blistered, her voice hoarse, her red and swollen eyes like a homeless rabbit, looking very shabby.
"Mom?" Amidst the shabbiness, a familiar voice came from behind.
Thinking she was hallucinating, it wasnt until she heard Chens second call that Tiffany turned around abruptly.
Seeing the little one behind her, Tiffany shouted in surprise and joy, "Chen," forgetting the pain in her feet, she ran to Chen, bent down and hugged his body, tears streaming down her eyes.
"Chen! You scared mom to death. Where have you been?" Her choked voice was full of fear, worry, and anxiety, hugging the little body tightly, her trembling hands only steadying down when she held the little one in her arms.
The mother and son, who had a close call, hugged each other, with the mother crying, and the little one who should have been scared out of his wits, was instead comforting his mother. The man ignored by the mother and son saw this scene and darkened his face.
Always the focus, brighter than the sun, surrounded by people wherever he went, for the first time, he was ignored, and the person who ignored him was his own son, and the other was the dead woman who made his glorious life dark.
"Cough!" Seeing that the two people hugging in front of him were about to get up and go home, the ignored man raised his hand to his lips and coughed.
The mans voice broke the warm atmosphere of the mother and sons reunion. Chen broke free from Tiffanys embrace, looked back, and smiled cutely.
Then he introduced, "Mom, let me introduce you, this is Dad!"
Thinking that the coughing sound beside her was from passersby, she didnt pay attention to it at all, and was ready to take Chen back and talk about it later, but she was scared out of her wits by Chens words.
They all say childrens words are fearless, but when Tiffany saw Grant Qin, she was completely stunned on the spot.
So familiar and cold, with such a strong aura, exuding that kind of indelible indifference.
Tiffanys heart suddenly felt lost, but also suddenly excited.
At this moment, she didnt know whether to be happy to see this man again or to consider herself unlucky.
Six years ago, it was he who gave her hope in life, and it was also he who buried her in hell. Whether it was love or hate, Tiffany doesnt want to have anything to do with him now.
Now, if it werent for the search for Ranrans whereabouts, which was a matter of life and death for her, she would never dare to bring Chen back.
Now it seems that this disaster is hard to escape.