Spoiled by the CEO after amnesia!-Chapter 1098 - 1076: Love and Business

Hmph, after asking so much, it turns out he’s just eyeing her family’s cake shop and craving some sweets!

Xiaoxiao generously patted her chest: "You have good taste! You don’t know, my mom’s desserts are amazing. Wait a moment." Saying this, she ran toward the shop.

I know.

Of course he knows.

She once promised that she would prepare a birthday cake for him every year. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

He gazed deeply, watching the back of Little Baozi running away.

............

Meanwhile, inside the Hi-cake shop.

After attending to a customer, Liang Anya stepped out from behind the counter and saw Jiang Pinhao patiently playing with Xiaobao. Smiling, she approached them, "Pinhao, go back and spend time with Huihui and Xiaokai. I’ve taken up too much of your day."

Jiang Pinhao smiled, "Why be so polite? It was Huihui who asked me to bring Xiaobao out for a walk."

She sighed, "These past two years, you and your wife have been so good to me. The way you treat Xiaobao isn’t any less than your own Xiaokai, it really makes me feel a bit guilty."

From confirming the pregnancy, to giving birth to Xiaobao, to the postpartum period, it was pretty much the Jiang couple who took care of everything. She felt truly grateful to have friends like them.

"Your father is getting older, your brother and sister-in-law are busy with their business and don’t often return to H City. You’re managing two kids and a shop all by yourself, it’s too much. When we’re not busy with work, we have plenty of free time; helping you is natural for us."

Hard work?

Maybe this kind of hard work is exactly what she wants.

The harder she works, the faster she can forget about certain deeply etched memories.

Liang Anya glanced at Xiaobao’s innocent face in the stroller.

"So, do you regret having Xiaobao back then?" Jiang Pinhao asked.

Regret? She was dazed.

Xiaobao’s arrival was indeed unexpected.

She had never thought that man would get her pregnant again.

The seed was planted on their last night together.

She fled in such haste that she didn’t have time to take a morning-after pill afterward.

When she confirmed the pregnancy, she was shocked, yet found it a bit laughable. She promised herself she couldn’t have a child, remember?

She incredulously asked the doctor why his other women couldn’t get pregnant but only she always hit the jackpot time after time.

The doctor’s answer was that some people have genes that are naturally conducive to pregnancy, or that their genes just happen to be very compatible.

In layman’s terms,——their bodies are biologically attuned.

The reason she kept Xiaobao wasn’t much different from why she decided to raise Xiaoxiao alone; she didn’t spend long considering it.

Perhaps, under the care of her father and friends, she would run a little shop that included her interests, care for her children, and continue to live on the other side of the world from him.

"No regrets." She answered firmly.

Jiang Pinhao’s piercing eyes looked at her gently, since there are no regrets, it means there are still feelings for that man.

"Since you have no regrets, why don’t you try to find him? Anya, stop deceiving your heart."

Her thoughts were suddenly disrupted, subconsciously wanting to avoid the topic, she changed the subject: "Hey, where is Xiaoxiao? Where has that little one run off to?"

Jiang Pinhao also snapped back to reality, looking around: "I just saw her run to the back kitchen holding a strawberry cake. I thought that little glutton was hungry and went to a corner to eat it. How did she suddenly disappear?"

"That little one, she probably snuck out again. She’s even wilder than boys sometimes—no, I’ll go outside and look for her." Liang Anya felt a bit worried, said goodbye, and walked out of Hi-Cake.

She originally went to find Xiaoxiao just to dodge Jiang Pinhao’s question, but after searching along the street for a long time without seeing Xiaoxiao, she started feeling a little anxious.

That Little Baozi, although she occasionally sneaks out to play, she usually just stays near the shop entrance and never goes far.

She was sweating on her back and ran to the cotton candy shop across the street: "Boss, have you seen my Xiaoxiao?"

"That little one just came by to buy cotton candy! What, she hasn’t gone back yet?"

"No." Liang Anya was panicking.

A small shop assistant poked his head in: "Are you talking about Xiaoxiao? I just saw her talking to a man, and they seemed to go toward the park with a strawberry cake..."

Liang Anya was startled. Xiaoxiao had gone to give the cake to a stranger?

The shop owner slapped the small assistant on the head: "Why didn’t you say so earlier? What if he’s some pervert trying to abduct a little girl?"

The small assistant scratched the back of his head in embarrassment: "Xiaoxiao is usually so smart, why would she talk to strangers? I thought she knew him since they were chatting quite warmly..."

Liang Anya couldn’t afford to think any longer, she dashed toward the park, her heart pounding wildly.

... Xiaoxiao, nothing must happen to you!

The small park in the heart of the city was peaceful in the afternoon, dense leaves swayed as the sunlight filtered through, scattering a patchwork of gold on the ground.

On such a tranquil afternoon.

Breathless, she ran in, only to hear Xiaoxiao’s sweet, soft little voice coming from ahead, apparently in conversation with someone.

Xiaoxiao!

Who dared to take her daughter? If he dared to harm Xiaoxiao, she would definitely beat him up!

She ran toward the source of the sound, but another voice made her slow her pace, then stop in her tracks.

Her heart was still pounding loudly, but no longer out of worry for Xiaoxiao, instead, it was another kind of racing heartbeat.

At this moment, the world seemed to stop spinning, everything around her ceased to exist.

This feeling was something she hadn’t experienced since she left A Country.

After a long while, she took a few steps forward and looked over.

Xiaoxiao was intently listening, gathered around a familiar figure.

The man seemed to be telling Xiaoxiao a story, probably telling a story to a little girl for the first time, his words were a bit awkward and unpracticed, yet his tone was so tender and heartfelt:

"...Once upon a time, there was a little princess named Miyasha..."

She had never seen Xiaoxiao so attentively listening to a story.

Finally, the story ended, and Xiaoxiao raised a plastic fork to feed the figure some cake.

"The story of princess Miyasha is so beautiful! I reward you with strawberry cake! My mom made it personally!" Xiaoxiao said proudly.

The man sat on a stone bench in the park, resting his long arms on the bench’s edge, whipped cream smeared at the corner of his mouth, tasting the strawberry cake fed by Little Baozi.

Bite after bite.

As if making up for the birthday cakes he missed over the past two years.

After two years, the man, once high and mighty and supreme, still had the same commanding presence but had become more grounded.

He had also lost a lot of weight.

The breeze brushed through his hair, revealing a scar on his forehead.

It was a burn scar.

It’s the evidence of him once rushing into a fire for her and their daughter, regardless of his own safety.

It would never fade this lifetime.

Her throat moved.

Noticing a movement, Xiaoxiao turned her head around, and happily called out, "Mommy!"

She held her breath and met his gaze directly.

It felt like a dream.

A sensation engulfed her heart, almost making her believe she could go on gazing into his eyes like this forever.

Si Yuheng stood up, walked over slowly, raised his hand, brushed a lock of her hair gently behind her ear, and said with deep affection penetrating to the bone, "For the days ahead, please guide me."

Her tears burst forth, and she threw herself into his arms.

In the afternoon park, life was tranquil.

Life continued on, whereas their new life together was just beginning.

The emotions and affections of that year were destined to entangle for a lifetime.

***

Someone once said: In a girl’s life, it’s best to fall in love twice, once passionately, once for a lifetime.

Luckily, both times it’s you.