The wimpy, cowardly Alpha was full of regrets. He regretted getting involved with Feng Yuan. He regretted sleeping with Feng Yuan.
“If I hadn’t gotten involved with Feng Yuan, I wouldn’t be scared by him. If I weren’t scared by him, I wouldn’t have slept with him. If I hadn’t slept with him, I wouldn’t have ended up in this situation today… Sigh.”
“……”
At the hospital, Gong Ze went to see his cheap son first.
Gu Panpan had learned from the nurse that Gong Ze was coming to see him today, and had been looking forward to it all morning.
He obediently let the nursing assistant help him get dressed and wash up, making himself clean and tidy. He kept running to the elevator to check.
Afraid he would get lost, the nurse brought him back to his room and told him not to wander off. So he sat on the edge of his bed, his small hospital gown straightened neatly, his hands on his knees, his back ramrod straight, his eyes bright and fixed on the door.
But Gong Ze wasn’t the one coming in.
Young children have limited energy. Gu Panpan quickly grew tired, but he still refused to lie back down, insisting on sitting up.
The nurse asked him why.
Gu Panpan said, “When my uncle comes in and sees me sitting up instead of lying in bed, he’ll think I’m already better. Then I can leave the hospital with him.”
The nurse gently pinched his little cheek and teased him, “Does Panpan want to leave the hospital that badly? Won’t you miss us?”
Panpan shook his head. “Staying in the hospital costs a lot of money. Uncle has to work very hard. If Panpan leaves the hospital, we can save that money, and Uncle won’t have to work so hard anymore.”
Hearing this, the nurse almost burst into tears.
Oh dear, I’m getting old and my eyes are getting shallow. I can’t handle this, sob sob.
Panpan comforted the nurse. “Even though Panpan is leaving, Panpan will still remember everyone!”
His words made her want to grab him and give him a big kiss.
“Panpan is so good!”
Outside the door, hearing the child’s considerate and sensible words, the wimpy Alpha’s expression was calm, his gaze gentle.
The system directly started crying little pearls: [Wuwah, he’s so good! When we leave this world, let’s take the baby with us! Take him, take him!!]
It could help raise him!
Gong Ze pushed open the door, interrupting their conversation. The moment the child saw Gong Ze, his eyes lit up. Seeing this, the nurse smiled, greeted Gong Ze, and quickly left, leaving the time to the two of them.
Gong Ze walked over and sat on the stool, facing the child sitting on the edge of the bed.
“Did you have a fever today? Have you been eating well?”
He reached out and ruffled the child’s hair.
“I finish all my food every time, and I don’t have a fever anymore.”
Gu Panpan blinked, tilted his head, and buried his little face in the palm of his wimpy father’s hand — the hand that was patting his head. The soft, pinchable baby fat on the child soothed the useless adult’s broken heart.
“You’ve… worked hard.”
The child’s black-and-white eyes looked at Gong Ze.
His little hand with the IV catheter still taped to it reached out, his tiny fingers touching the man’s big hand. Like a dejected little ball of fluff, he snuggled up to him, guiltily seeking comfort.
In Gu Panpan’s world, Gong Ze had to work so hard every day to save money to treat his illness.
Although he didn’t know how adults worked, it must be even more tiring than Ultraman saving the Earth.
Gong Ze’s heart softened again and again. He mimicked the child and said quietly, “Not hard at all.”
His ‘job’ wasn’t that tiring. It was just that his boss was terrifying.
Now that he was better, the child’s cuteness had clearly multiplied several times over.
He was like a little fluffy chickadee.
It was enough to melt any adult human being.
The system let out a sharp, screeching sound in Gong Ze’s ear, laughing like Shi Ji Niangniang as it pounced on the child’s head. Taking advantage of the fact that no one else could see it, it crazily sniffed and absorbed the child’s scent.
[Human! Milky and sweet! And a baby at that! Human!!!]
[Ahhh, I’m crazily sniffing him!]
Gong Ze suppressed a smile. He moved to sit on the edge of the bed, picked up the shy child, held him in his arms, patted his back, and also took a sniff of the milky-scented baby.
The child, who thought of himself as already a little adult, blushed.
Shy and embarrassed, the child pressed himself against his still-unfamiliar new father, cautiously grabbing the man’s collar with his little hands, just like how he had seen other children held by their fathers.
In an instant, the child was conquered by his father’s scent. He relaxed in the safe, secure embrace, secretly happy, wiggling his little feet.
This was the first time Gu Panpan had ever felt the presence of a father.
Although he hadn’t yet changed his address to call Gong Ze “Dad,” Gong Ze was now the only person he could rely on, the only one who protected him. In the child’s heart, that was no different from a father.
The child was just shy.
The little one asked softly, “When can I leave the hospital? The nurse said I can leave soon. I can, I can work too, and clean the room.”
“I, I can also use the washing machine. I can wash clothes for uncle.”
He tried hard to sell his usefulness after leaving the hospital.
Gong Ze listened with a smile on his face. He said to the child, “It should be soon. I’ll go talk to the doctor in a little while. If all your test results are qualified, then you can leave.”
Hearing this, Gu Panpan immediately felt the weight of his mission.
His soft little face scrunched up seriously as he promised Gong Ze.
“I will definitely do well on the tests. I’ll try hard to pass everything!”
Gong Ze wanted to say that you couldn’t try hard at medical tests, but the child was just so cute. So he also nodded seriously. “I’m counting on you, Panpan.”
Feeling recognized and that he had contributed his own strength, the child’s tense face instantly blossomed into a bright smile.
Although the father and son were both the type who weren’t good at expressing their feelings — one a “gourd-lipped” mute, the other a shy child — their brief, casual conversation was very warm.
Seeing that Gu Panpan was getting too tired, Gong Ze wanted to tuck the reluctant child into bed.
But he didn’t understand a child’s heart.
An adult had finally come back. The child didn’t want to sleep. He was afraid that if he fell asleep, the adult would disappear again.
Sensing Gu Panpan’s reluctance and dependence, Gong Ze had no choice but to take the little bundle of a child clinging to his leg along to see the doctor. When the doctor saw this father-son pair — who were quite ‘famous’ in the pediatric ward — a smile appeared on his face.
He invited them to sit down.
At first, the doctor had thought Gong Ze was an irresponsible, bad father.
But later, when the rough and difficult past of this father-son pair came to light, the doctor grew fonder and fonder of Gong Ze.
And Gu Panpan was particularly well-behaved. After he woke up, he had cried twice, but after that, he was neither noisy nor disruptive, wearing a small expression that seemed afraid of causing trouble for the adults. The doctors and nurses couldn’t help but feel deep affection for him.
The doctor pulled up the report on his computer.
The big one and the little one quickly sat up straight.
“According to the new test results from today…”
…
On the other side, in the largest private room of the club, Jiang Lin’an, Ji Huai, and Gao Chun were chatting and drinking. Suddenly, the door opened. The three of them looked up and immediately broke into teasing smiles.
“Well, well, well, who do we have here? Isn’t this Young Master Feng, who was expelled from our F4 membership?”
Feng Yuan closed the door behind him and, in response to the sour comments, smiled arrogantly. Anyone could see that Feng Yuan was in an excellent mood, looking like a man who had just gotten lucky.
The three exchanged a glance. Something definitely happened.
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