Translated by Amaryllideae, Unedited
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“Are you sure?” Rowen was summoned to Leonid"s office, and after listening to what he said, he felt that his whole body did not feel good.
Leonid nodded. “The course director Teacher Xie said that he was present at the same time. He deliberately asked him if he was family of the child. Ren Zhouyuan agreed tacitly.”
Leonid has not been able to calm down until now, and the thing he had just heard was so shocking that his hand was still shaking.
“Also, the cotton ball they used to wipe the child"s blood that they kept revealed that the child has your DNA?!”
Leonid listened to what he said and glanced at him uncomfortably. Rowen rubbed his nose and continued: “I don"t understand this; so Ren Zhouyuan has been raising ‘your" child for so many years, and is even afraid that he will be recognized by you. What is he doing? He stole him (An An) and even you yourself didn"t know where your son was hid and secretly raised?!”
Leonid hearing his words frowned. He also couldn"t figure out this strange situation. Before he thought that the child who looked like him was the child of Ren Zhouyuan"s friend, but actually discovering that the child is actually his, even he himself does not know when and with who he had ever had such a child. He did not know even more,why the child has Ren Zhouyuan"s surname. What kind of confusing relationship was this?
Seeing that he didn"t answer, Rowen powerlessly ran a hand through his hair and made a bold conjecture. “Was it that time when you slept with him and left a seed in the person"s stomach and didn"t know, or is it that Ren Zhouyuan is actually a woman?”
Having heard that, Leonid"s frown was deeper. Ren Zhouyuan was certainly not a woman. He knew that more clearly than anyone else. Ren Zhouyuan was drunk that night, but he was still sober, so that little bit of alcohol could not make him drunk. But… that night he indeed hadn"t worn a condom, the memory was too beautiful, even if he wanted to forget it, he wouldn"t be able to forget. That night of five years ago, he still remembers it now as if it was just yesterday.
“Or,” Rowen was still chatting over there. “You got some rich daughter knocked up before him, and that woman just happened to know Ren Zhouyuan. The two then decided to give birth to the child of that slag man, and raise the child to later take revenge.”
Leonid didn"t even want to give him a look, only saying indifferently: “The girlfriend I had made before is now married with children. After him, I didn"t go to bed with anyone else.”
“Hey~ not bad, you actually understand about keeping one"s body pure.” Rowen teased him and then said: “But that child named Ren Juan is five years old this year, and the timing is right. Think about it again, are you mistaken? Is Ren Zhouyuan in fact really a woman?”
Leonid"s (the author accidently typed Ren Zhouyuan) brows locked into a deep frown, thinking over and over again, he selfishly hopes that this son is the child of him and Ren Zhouyuan, but reality tells him that Ren Zhouyuan is indeed a man. How can a man give birth to a child?
He has speculated that Ren Zhouyuan is also possibly a hermaphrodite, but recalling what happened that night, he felt that it was unlikely.
The two discussed it for a long time, and they couldn"t come up with a decent conclusion. But in any case, now that he is raising his child, this was a more important issue for Leonid. Before even if there was no such child, he had also intended to chase and get ahold of Ren Zhouyuan. Now suddenly such a child emerges, he cannot let this opportunity go!
But Leonid thought of what Ren Zhouyuan had just been like, and felt that it was not an easy task for the guy to accept him. Ren Zhouyuan is afraid of him, not only that, but he is afraid that he will find out about the existence of Ren Juan. These two people, it didn"t matter which one, he didn"t want to miss either of them, but if he pushed too hard, in the blink of an eye, that would disappear without a trace like he had done that year.
He told Rowen his worries. Rowen thought about it and proposed: “This way, I will first check the background of his friend. He can run away from people, but not run away from the temple; as long as he has contact with his friends one day, it is very difficult for him to disappear in the vast sea of people. But you also have to work hard. This way is good: I will go to the curriculum department to discuss this now, weren"t we going to go check the new base of operations, if we organize the company to go collectively, you can also bring Ren Zhouyuan, during then I will just not go, then you two will share a bedroom.”
He made a dubious look at Leonid, but Leonid ignored it and only grasped the key point in his words.
Rowen"s work efficiency was very quick. Not even a day and a formal notice was issued. When Ren Zhouyuan was notified, he was still in a state of disorder, and did not pay much attention to the contents of the notice until Rowen informed him that when the time came he would be going together with Leonid. He jumped from the previous scare to the next scare.
Rowen explained some matters to take note of to Ren Zhouyuan. Seeing him like that he didn"t know how much he had actually listened to. He said that it was a small employee benefit of the company, that he could take along his family. If there were any little children at home, to remember to take them to experience it once.
Ren Zhouyuan glanced at him with a strange look, and Rowen felt that it made his entire body feel uncomfortable, so he added two more sentences and then ran away.
Ever since Leonid asked Ren Zhouyuan about it, Ren Zhouyuan felt that the whole company knew that he had a child in his family, and that the child and Leonid looked extremely similar.
His whole heart is uneasy, and he had just settled in this city, yet the things he has been hiding have already been uncovered, and the people who he doesn"t want to know the most know.
Ren Zhouyuan did not know how much Leonid knew. He also did not threaten to s.n.a.t.c.h An An as he had imagined. This made Ren Zhouyuan feel a lot more peace of mind, but this did not mean that he could just pretend that this whole thing didn"t happen, and thoughtlessly live in this city with An An like they had done in the past.
Only this time, he did not know how much of a chance he had to escape from Leonid"s side.
Even if he wanted to run away, it was not like it could happen in a matter of hours. It had happened so fast that he did not have a plan to escape. The reason was unclear and even he if troubled Fan Wenfeng to help he still wouldn"t be able to find excuse. The most important thing was that the money Ren Zhouyuan had on hand was simply not enough to support them and move to another city.
Seeing at An An at home gleefully playing with those small models, Ren Zhouyuan"s head even began to ache.
Thinking about how he would have to accompany Leonid to the Headquarters this weekend, Ren Zhouyuan really raised the idea of running away overnight, but as this thought just came up, it was suppressed by him, in this kind of place, where he didn"t have much money, even if the other side had a little bit of doubt, if he ran away like that what if he had him ordered to be arrested and locked up far away somewhere?
An An this weekend was going to go to Vichy"s cla.s.s. Ren Zhouyuan thought about it and lied to him: "An an, Dad"s going to work elsewhere this week, An An"s cla.s.s won"t be open. You"re going to stay with Uncle Wenfeng for these two days. I asked Uncle Wen Feng to take you to the amus.e.m.e.nt park to play.”
When An An heard it, he pouted and hugged Ren Zhouyuan and said, “An An will also go to work with Dad!”
Ren Zhouyuan rubbed his head, his heart wanted An An to come along, but then them two (Ren Zhouyuan and An An) wouldn"t be able to meet again*. He kissed An An and said: “Dad"s work now is not like from before. Children can"t come along, An An be obedient, and go to the amus.e.m.e.nt park with Uncle Wenfeng for a day. Dad will be back the next day.”
[T/N: Ren Zhouyuan thinks Leonid will s.n.a.t.c.h An An if An An comes along D;]
An An twisted his body and felt that his father"s workplace was so annoying, but he also wanted to be obedient and he reluctantly agreed.
Ren Zhouyuan explained the situations to Fan Wenfeng, and Fan Wenfeng because he was still guilty about how he had allowed An An to get hurt before, he agreed without him saying anything more.
On the day of departure, Ren Zhouyuan sent An An to Fan Wenfeng early in the morning, and was held up by An An clinging to him for a while before he was sent into Fan Wenfeng"s arms.
An An was pressed against the window of the car, the rims of his eyes were filled with tears, like tears would fall from his eyes if he blinked, but he opened his two eyes wide in order to look at Ren Zhouyuan, with the pitiful of that small thing, Ren Zhouyuan almost couldn"t endure it and wanted to bring him along.
This is the first time An An has left Ren Zhouyuan from birth to the present. Even when he was in the archaeological team, the father and son have not tried separating for more than one day. Therefore, not only An An, but also Ren Zhou is also very reluctant.
After An An and them left, Ren Zhouyuan set off for the company with his luggage.
This time"s trip was taken under the name of the company. People above the rank of the course development department"s manager all went together. When Ren Zhou arrived at the company"s door, he found that several vehicles had been parked at the door. It seemed that altogether the people heading to the base was a lot.
Ren Zhouyuan found his own bus according to the instructions. After finding the location, he found that sitting next to him was Leonid.
He smiled at him awkwardly, pa.s.sed Leonid (to sit in the inner seat), sat down and turned his head to look out the window, with not even the slightest idea of going to exchange pleasantries with his boss.
Leonid was also not angry. It is only a matter of regret that Rowen has said that he has repeatedly mentioned to bring along his family, but he has not seen Ren Zhouyuan bring his son.
His son, he didn"t know, whether he was a little bit like Ren Zhouyuan?