Tiny Genius Alert! Mom & Dad Better Make Peace

Chapter 948 - 179: Deep, Bone-Eroding Love

The chubby little face twitched, and Rong Rui frowned his tiny brows at Tang Yige, saying coolly, "Do you have anything else you want to say? If not, please let go of me. I’ve got other things to do." He was starving right now; top priority was to hunt for food!

"Yes, I have a lot I want to say."

Tang Yige clasped Rong Rui’s small hand tighter, completely failing to get just how powerful the little guy’s current desire for food was.

Rong Rui went all black-line again and fixed Tang Yige with a pair of dead-fish eyes. That impatient little expression was clearly saying, if you’ve got something to say then hurry up and spit it out, once you’re done he still has to go find something to eat, he’s starving to death-death-death~~~

"Little Rui, I know it’s hard for you to accept right away that I’m your mother. I won’t force you, I’ll wait for you to slowly accept me."

"..."

"Before, I thought you were... so I left you alone for so long. From now on, I’ll stay by your side, I won’t let you be that lonely again."

"..."

"Little Rui, you’re the most, most important person to me in this world. No one can compare to you. I love you, far more than anything else in this world, including myself. You’re my precious little darling; in my heart, you’ll always come first."

"..."

Hearing this.

Rong Rui’s impatient expression slowly began to retract, though his brows were still knitted as he looked at Tang Yige.

Seeing him finally react a bit, Tang Yige’s eyes grew slightly red as she gripped his two small hands tighter. "Little Rui, can you give me a chance? Let me stay with you as you grow up."

Rong Rui stared at Yige, a lot of tangled feelings surfacing in those big black eyes. "But I’ve always thought of you as my girlfriend."

Tang Yige, "..." kind of wanted to spit blood.

The four characters "kids say anything" slid up to her throat, but Yige forcibly swallowed them back down.

If she said that out loud, the little guy would feel even more cheated, think she’d been messing with him from the start and never took his "feelings" seriously at all.

"...Little Rui, I’m more than twenty years older than you." Tang Yige said, "I know that when you first said you wanted me to be your girlfriend, it was because you saw I was already this old and still didn’t have a boyfriend, so pitiful. So you reluctantly said you’d make me your girlfriend, take care of me in the future, and support me in my old age. I understand that."

Rong Rui, "..." That’s not it, he really does want to marry her! She’s the prettiest woman he’s ever seen.

"Sigh. Little Rui is just too kind, afraid I’ll be all alone with no one to keep me company in the future. I know all of that in my heart." Tang Yige even made it sound quite reasonable.

Rong Rui, "..." He really didn’t think that much!

"Little Rui, thank you." Tang Yige solemnly clasped Rong Rui’s small hand, looking at him with the sincere expression of someone thanking a "superior leader," and said.

Rong Rui, "..."

"Little Rui, now that you know I’m your mother, are you still willing to take care of me and stay with me?" Tang Yige looked at Rong Rui with anticipation.

The corner of Rong Rui’s mouth twitched a few times; he was a bit stunned.

"Hmm? Are you willing?" Tang Yige asked softly.

The corner of Rong Rui’s mouth twitched again; after being taken for a spin by Tang Yige, his thoughts were a bit of a jumble.

Forget it!

Rong Rui shook his little head and looked at Tang Yige. "What you said just now, about me being first, were you serious?"

"Of course. In my heart, you have to come first!" Tang Yige said, cutting the nail and slicing the iron.

"...What about my dad then?" Rong Rui narrowed his eyes, a shrewd glint at the corners.

Uh...

"Your dad’s definitely not as important as you. You’re the most important." Tang Yige said.

"I’m the most important?"

Rong Rui murmured it again under his breath.

Tang Yige stared at him, her gaze clear and sincere.

Rong Rui stared straight at Tang Yige for a while.

Then he smacked his little lips and said, "Everything you said just now was right!"

Tang Yige, "..."

"I really did see that you’re already this old and still haven’t found a boyfren, so I decided to sacrifice myself to be your boyfren. It’s good that you can understand that." Rong Rui spoke in the tone of a "leader giving a speech," sitting up straight and proper.

Tang Yige pressed her lips together; her cheeks trembled slightly as she nodded. "Yes, I understand."

"All right then." Rong Rui let out two relieved breaths and looked at Tang Yige. "Now I’m your son. Even if my dad abandons you in the future, you’ll still have me. I can take care of you like a boyfren too!"

As Rong Rui spoke, he originally wanted to raise his hand to pat Yige on the shoulder and tell her not to worry.

But when he moved, he realized his hand was still being tightly held by Yige.

So he had to give up and just say it dryly.

"..." Why is it him abandoning her, and not her abandoning him?

Rong Rui looked at Yige’s face.

He was still a bit conflicted and frustrated inside.

His girlfriend had turned into his real mom... It felt like that sentence had become some kind of curse, circling endlessly in little Rong Rui’s head.

Tang Yige swallowed gloomily and gazed earnestly at Rong Rui. "So, you’re acknowledging me as your mom now?"

When Rong Rui heard that, he snorted. "What else can I do if I don’t? If I don’t, does that mean you’re not my mom?" Can she turn back into his girlfriend then? So depressing!

"So that means you are!"

Tang Yige looked at Rong Rui in wild delight, her eyes shining so bright they were almost blinding, all eight of her teeth showing in her grin.

Rong Rui looked coolly at Tang Yige, though he was actually pretty excited inside. "You’re this happy just because I acknowledged you?"

"Mm mm mm."

Tang Yige answered three "mm"s in a row, which said enough about how happy she was.

Seeing that, the corners of Rong Rui’s tightly pressed lips betrayed him and curled a little as he let out a low hum. "Look how happy you are."

"Baby, my good son..."

Tang Yige threw her arms around Rong Rui and kept kissing his cheeks, his forehead, and his little head—basically everything she could kiss except his little mouth.

"Ugh, you’re so gross, there’s slobber everywhere..."

Rong Rui pushed her away in disgust.

"How come you never minded before?"

Tang Yige did as she pleased, still cupping his small face and pecking Little Rui’s chubby cheeks like a woodpecker.

Rong Rui rolled his eyes at Tang Yige.

In his heart he thought: how can before compare to now? Before she was his girlfriend, and now she’s his mom!

Rong Rui closed his eyes and exhaled!

He suddenly felt like there hadn’t been a single thing going smoothly for him lately!

How did a perfectly good girlfriend turn into his mom... This sentence kept looping on infinite repeat...

...

Because she’d received Rong Rui’s "forgiveness," Tang Yige was in an excellent mood.

During lunch, she kept busy waiting on Young Master Rong Rui.

Yige’s thoughtful service attitude also left Young Master Rong Rui quite satisfied; he even felt a tiny bit like having a mom was actually pretty great.

Si Nan’s gaze was full of tenderness as he watched Yige and Rong Rui, occasionally using the communal chopsticks to pick food for Rong Rui.

"Aunt Zhang, why are you crying?"

Lu Siyu saw Zhang Lan secretly wiping away tears and was startled. "Huh?" she said.

As soon as Lu Siyu spoke, everyone at the table turned to look at Zhang Lan, their eyes filled with concern and tension.

Zhang Lan put down her bowl and chopsticks, pulled out a tissue to wipe her eyes, and said hoarsely, "The wind just got in my eyes, it’s nothing."

"Is there any wind?" Lu Siyu pursed her lips, puzzled.

Zhang Lan didn’t say anything.

Tang Yige and Si Nan exchanged a glance; they both more or less understood why Zhang Lan had suddenly become like this.

Little Rui was brought up entirely by Zhang Lan. Although she wasn’t related to Rong Rui by blood, her feelings for him were no less than Tang Yige’s.

During this period.

She’d been wholeheartedly trying to matchmake Si Nan and Yige, with a very simple, single purpose.

She just wanted Rong Rui to have a complete home.

And now.

Her goal had finally been achieved.

She was happy!

Truly happy!

Zhang Lan sniffed, wiped her eyes again with the tissue in her hand, and, a bit abashed, glanced around the table at the others. "Stop looking at me and eat, hurry. It won’t taste good once it gets cold."

Lu Siyu bit her chopsticks and looked over at Tang Yige and Si Nan.

Actually, from the very first day, she’d already thought it was strange.

Zhang Lan was just a housekeeper, yet she could sit at the same table and eat with the family.

Not only that, her daughter also lived under the same roof as the owners.

The way everyone got along wasn’t like master and servant at all, but more like a family.

And the way Tang Yige and Si Nan were showing concern for Zhang Lan right now just confirmed that, didn’t it?

Lu Siyu couldn’t quite understand this kind of setup.

But she didn’t feel there was anything wrong with it.

In her family, the line between owners and servants was very clear. Her grandmother didn’t even allow her to have too much interaction with the servants at home.

"Aunt Zhang, are you feeling better?" Rong Rui looked at Zhang Lan and asked in a soft, milky voice.

Hearing Rong Rui’s words, Lu Siyu pulled her thoughts back and tilted her head to look at Zhang Lan.