“No.” Rainy shook her head, her two small hands held onto Chu Jiang’s finger. Even so, it looked like she wasn’t able to grip properly onto it. She was a tiny human living in a giant’s world. However, many giants treated her really, really well.

“Granny is Xiao Jiejie’s Granny, and Grandpa is Rainy’s Grandpa. Mommy said that people cannot be greedy. Rainy already has Grandpa. She doesn’t need Granny.”

After hearing her words, Chu Jiang didn’t know what to say. If his wife had heard those words from his granddaughter, he didn’t know whether she would cry about it or not. Who could they blame for this?

Once the door opened, Song Wan came out from inside. Just as she was about to hold Rainy’s small hand, Chu Jiang let out a cough. “Ahem, Xiang Xiang, quickly head in with Granny.”

Chu Xiang ran over and possessively gripped Song Wan’s hand. Song Wan looked at Chu Xiang who clung onto her and then at her granddaughter who was in her husband’s arms. Finally, she let out a sigh and brought Chu Xiang back into the house first.

Not long after, somebody else had arrived home.

Once the door opened, Du Jingtang put on an exaggerated smile on his face and entered the house.

“Little cutie, look who’s here. Your handsome and beautiful uncle is here!”

As he spoke, he ran over and reached out both of his hands to scoop up Rainy. Wow, his little cutie sure was beautiful. How could this small face be so attractive? He loved it to death.

“Hello, Uncle.” Rainy used her small hands to grab Du Jingtang’s hair. Sure enough, she was rather close to Du Jingtang.

“Hello, my little cutie.” Du Jingtang carried Rainy, refusing to let go. No wonder he loved the little cutie so much. It was because the little cutie was part of their family. This was too touching-so touching that tears were about to stream down his face.

“Oh right, here’s Uncle’s gift for you.” As he spoke, he took an exquisite doll out from behind his back. The doll looked rather expensive, and of course, it was indeed expensive. He used up his entire monthly salary for it.

“Thank you, Uncle” Rainy happily hugged the doll in her arms. She quite liked it; however, she still loved the doll that Mommy gave her the most. For her, there was nothing that could replace that doll, just like how a father cannot replace a mother.

Upon seeing that he had coaxed the child in his arms, Du Jingtang was rather happy. However, as he lowered his head, he saw another child eagerly staring at him. At that moment, he was stunned. He didn’t know what to do.

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Damn it, how could he forget that there was another child in the house? Even though she was adopted and even though he didn’t really like her, this was still not right.

Rainy tightly hugged the doll in her arms; however, upon seeing Chu Xiang’s eyes that were glaring at her, she bit her small lips and placed the doll back into Du Jingtang’s hands.

“Uncle, Rainy already has a doll. Mommy bought it. This is Xiao Jiejie’s doll.”

Du Jingtang rubbed Rainy’s soft hair and then let out a smile. “That’s right. This is Xiao Jiejie’s doll.” Thereafter, he passed the doll to Chu Xiang. Chu Xiang hugged the doll, walked over to a sofa at the side, and sat down there obediently.

Du Jingtang pinched Rainy’s small face again. “Little cutie, you’re still the most polite. Uncle loves you the most.

“Right, Brother, why are you still outside?”

Du Jingtang shouted to the person outside.

Just then, a pair of dark blue eyes appeared by the entrance. Chu Lui stood outside, afraid to enter. It sounded quite laughable… so a day had finally come where he actually felt fear.

Furthermore, the person he was afraid of was not anyone else but his own daughter.

He tightly clenched the hands by his side, a layer of perspiration forming in the palm of his hands.

He walked in and was just about to smile when he remembered what other people had told him. They said that he looked scarier smiling than crying and that his smile could scare children. That’s why he forced that expression out of his face.

Rainy lowered her head and played with Du Jingtang’s fingers. The side of her face slightly resembled Chu Lui’s, especially that calm look on her face. It looked exactly like Chu Lui when he was deep in thought.

“Alright, let’s sit down and eat first.”

Chu Jiang stood up, reaching out his hands to carry over the child in Du Jingtang’s embrace.

Du Jingtang pouted. Could he let him hug her? He hadn’t seen his little cutie in a long time, please?

However, he couldn’t disregard Chu Jiang’s hands that were placed in front of him. He had no choice but to hand over the little figure that he only got to hug for a while.

Chu Jiang walked in front of Chu Lui. He carried the child in one hand and placed his other free hand on his son’s shoulder.

“Don’t lose hope. Rainy is the Chu family’s child. Her character and everything is just like you. As long as you treat her well, she will feel it. I also spent the past few months trying to get closer to her. Even your mother, she…”

After speaking till here, he didn’t continue his sentence. Song Wan getting closer to her granddaughter wasn’t going to be an easy feat. Rainy, this child, had a rather eccentric character. It wasn’t easy to change the things that she had decided on.

“Dad, I know.” Chu Lui let out a dismal smile. What could have tortured this spirited, unrelenting man until he became like this? Whether it was time or something else, it was already impossible to find out.

Chu Jiang carried his granddaughter and sat down. Du Jingtang helped Rainy grab some food from time to time. As long as it was fed to her, Rainy would always give people some face and eat the food scrumptiously. In short, she was not a picky eater. However, just like her mother, she didn’t really like to eat carrots. Chu Jiang knew about all this. That’s why every day, there were no carrots in their dishes.

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Chu Lui picked up his chopsticks and grabbed some vegetables to feed his daughter. However, Rainy simply turned her face away and ignored him, not appreciating his gesture at all.

“Daddy, I want to eat it.” Chu Xiang tugged at Chu Lui’s sleeve, staring at him with her large eyes. Chu Lui’s faintly darkened pupils made Chu Xiang loosen her hand, afraid to cling onto him.

As for those vegetables, Chu Lui didn’t give them to Chu Xiang.

“Ah Lui…” Song Wan frowned. “What are you doing? What’s wrong with feeding Chu Xiang some food?”

“I’m full. You guys eat.” Chu Lui placed down his chopsticks, turned around, and headed upstairs. It didn’t matter whether he was hungry, and it also didn’t matter if he wasn’t full. He had lost his appetite.

At night, Song Wan and the nanny helped the two kids to shower. Chu Xiang had lived in this house for a long time. She liked to hog everything and was very possessive about her belongings, whereas Rainy had always felt like she didn’t fit in. That’s why she didn’t speak much.

“All these are mine.” Chu Xiang pointed to her house of dolls and lifted her chin, announcing her reign over those things. “This is my house, and they are my Grandpa and my Granny.”

Rainy lowered her head, looking at her small shoes. She didn’t want those dolls anyway; those dolls looked so ugly.