The little girl was soft and mushy, looking so pitiable.
Lin Qian bent down and affectionately touched her head, "Candy is so cute, everyone who sees her would love her. Which cake would you like to eat? Pick one yourself."
Perhaps it was because she resembled her mother?
"Mommy, I want that one." The little girl's big eyes sparkled as she pointed to a dessert box.
"Okay."
Lin Qian took the dessert box passed over by the waiter and handed it to the little girl.
"Mommy, feed me." The little girl looked at Lin Qian with a beaming smile.
Lin Qian's heart melted into a mess, she paid the money and simply took the little girl's hand, sitting down on a nearby chair, opened the box, and began feeding the little one.
"Candy, tell Auntie where your home is? Why are you here all by yourself? Did you sneak out?"
"Mommy, my home is so big. Daddy is so busy talking about business, he doesn't pay attention to Candy, so Candy came out to look for Mommy. Now that I've found Mommy, I want to take Mommy back home."
The little girl swallowed the sweet in her mouth, her dark pupils shimmering with a bright halo.
It seemed that the child's parents were preoccupied with business, hardly paying much attention to their daughter.
Lin Qian pondered thoughtfully, feeling even more tender towards the cute and soft little girl before her.
The air was filled with the fragrance of food. Just as Lin Qian was about to ask another question, she noticed the little girl's plump face suddenly wrinkled.
"Mommy, I... I feel unwell."
What to do?
It looked like she ate something she shouldn't have.
"Candy? What's wrong?"
Lin Qian got a fright, quickly embracing her and asking.
"I... I..."
The little girl's small hands clung tightly to her clothing, her face turning from white to purple, breathing rapidly and making a strange noise in her throat, symptoms resembling asthma.
"Candy, do you have asthma?"
Her son also had asthma.
The symptoms she was exhibiting were very similar to those of her son.
Candy nodded with difficulty.
Lin Qian hurriedly grabbed her purse, took out the inhaler she always carried, and prepared to spray it for Candy.
Just then, there was a commotion at the entrance, followed by a man's voice.
"Candy."
The man's magnetic voice carried a trace of chill, and the surrounding air seemed to cool a few degrees.
Lin Qian looked up and saw a tall figure striding towards them from afar.
Black hair, deep eyes, and handsome features that seemed like the perfect painting from heaven.
His noble aura was pressing, emanating an innate deterring power, like the arrival of a king.
Such a handsome man!
Is this...
"Dad... Daddy!"
The Candy in her arms stirred, her watery big eyes looking towards the newcomer, her fair little hand tightly grasping Lin Qian, shrinking back into her embrace.
It was Candy's father!
Lin Qian pursed her lips, not bothering to explain, she looked down at Candy, "Candy, open your mouth."
Candy diverted her gaze from the man and obediently opened her mouth.
Just as Lin Qian was about to extend the inhaler into the little girl's mouth. Unexpectedly her arms were suddenly empty; Candy had already been scooped into the man's arms.
His dark eyes flashed with a cold light, sending chills down one's spine.
Lin Qian was stunned, not having recovered yet, when several men in black restrained her.
"Hey, what are you doing? Let go of me."
What kind of situation had she stumbled upon!
Her gaze touched the tall figure of the man. She saw him holding Candy in one arm while taking an inhaler from his assistant with the other and spraying it a few times into Candy's mouth.
Candy took deep breaths, and her rapid breathing slowly stabilized.
Thank goodness, the child was okay.
Lin Qian let out a sigh of relief, but before her heart could return to its place, she heard the man's cold voice.
"Take her to the police station."
Lin Qian: "..."
No way!
What did she do?
To actually be sent to the police station.
"Wait a minute, can you be reasonable? Why do you want to take me to the police station?"
"Trying to harm my daughter, you tell me if you shouldn't be sent to the police station?"
Yin Moran held Candy tight, radiating an intense aura of danger, his dark eyes shimmering with a cold light as he looked at the woman before him.
Harm his daughter?
Lin Qian almost laughed in anger, "Sir, it's true that I'm responsible for Candy eating the wrong thing, but isn't the greatest responsibility on you, her father? She's so young, and you didn't keep an eye on her, letting her run around alone. If something had happened to her, you'd be to blame too."
"You... twisting facts to win an argument! Take her away!"
How dare she question him!
What a sharp-tongued mouth.
"Hey, hey, let go, don't be unreasonable!"
Lin Qian wanted to cry but had no tears, as she was escorted out by two black-clothed bodyguards, twisting her arms.
"Daddy, don't be mad at Mommy, I wanted to eat the cake, and Mommy bought it for me, she didn't know I was allergic to mangoes."
The little face of Candy in his arms was pale as she urgently defended Lin Qian.
Mommy?
The little girl actually called this woman Mommy?
Yin Moran's dark eyes flickered, his gaze towards Lin Qian filled with more severity and probing.
"Daddy, please let them release Mommy. I want to take Mommy home, cough cough."
Candy was so anxious she started to cough violently, and Yin Moran's handsome brows furrowed as he gently patted her back and carried her outside.
"Daddy..."
"I know, I will release her, but she's not your mommy."
Yin Moran held the little girl as he got into the luxury car parked by the roadside.
"Mommy, come home with me!"
The voice of the little girl faintly came through, and Lin Qian felt a tightness in her chest as she watched the car speed away, her feet unwittingly following for a few steps.
Little Candy!
Lin Qian rubbed her sore arm and exhaled.
Shaking her head, she felt a sense of loss and eventually returned to her apartment, absent-minded.
She couldn't pretend the little girl who called her Mommy was her daughter just because of that.
"Mommy, are you back? Where's my dessert?"
Lin Zirui walked out from the room upon hearing the door open, reaching out his hand to Lin Qian.
"Ah, Mommy forgot to pick it up." Lin Qian slapped her forehead in annoyance.
Lin Zirui rolled his eyes dramatically, "Mommy, it's a good thing my IQ didn't inherit from you."
Lin Qian: "..."
Scolded by her own son.
But she really couldn't be blamed this time.
"Right, my baby is the most intelligent kid in the universe, unmatched by anyone."
Her own son was a child genius, especially when it came to computers; that intelligence must have come from his father.
So, who exactly was it that had been with her that year?
No matter who it was, they couldn't take her son away from her.
Lin Qian kissed her son's fragrant little cheek tenderly, examining his fair face with great detail. Was it her imagination, or did she feel her son looked a bit...
No, no, how could she associate her son with that domineering man who nearly sent her to the police station?
"Mommy, I know your son is handsome, have you seen enough?"
Lin Zirui wriggled free from Lin Qian's hands, taking a step back.
"Ah? Haha, not enough, not enough, my son is so handsome, I could never get enough of him in a lifetime."
"Mommy, you're such a fangirl."
"Son, a child should never mind a doting mother."
"..."