Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

Seeing Li Yuan's expression change drastically, Wei Qiqi continued, "It seems that I just don't like others touching me."

"Why?"

Li Yuan continued to remain silent. He simply couldn't figure out the reason. He himself didn't know how to explain it to Qiniang.

"Shall I continue to guess?"

"Because I am your step-relative, your nominal stepmother, and your father's second wife."

Wei Qiqi didn't want to say such harsh words, but Li Yuan was too smart, almost a demon.

Many times, smart people tend to get stuck in a rut and cannot get out.

If Li Yuan had always treated her as his father's wife and asked her, a later comer, to remain faithful to a dead person whom she had never met, then even Li Yuan, who had kept her by his side for almost four years, would not have accepted it.

"You want me to be alone and stay faithful to your father. No one else can touch me, and I can't stand seeing others either."

The more Wei Qiqi spoke, the gloomier his expression became.

This was different from the joke she made that night. The seriousness in her tone caught the attention of the equally calm Li Yuan.

"I……"

Wei Qiqi raised her hand to interrupt Li Yuan. Her eyes were calm, yet she cruelly broke everything that was about to become a cancer between them.

"Li Yuan."

"You are my stepson. I denied it at first and didn't want to acknowledge you. Later, I took you in out of compassion, but I asked you to call me Qi Niang.

I am not raising you as your father's second wife, but as an ordinary person.

You and I are step-relatives in name only, but not in reality."

Wei Qiqi said so much, and every word of it was beyond Li Yuan's understanding.

The name Li Yuan was only used when he first fled, but now he said it casually.

What does it mean to have the name of a step-relative but not the reality of one?

Qi Niang, don’t you want him anymore?

Just because he wouldn't let anyone touch her?

His eyes were blank, and Wei Qiqi knew that he didn't understand why she said that.

"In the future, I may meet someone I love, and I will then form a family with him. You have to know that I never belong to anyone, as long as I want to."

Li Yuan suddenly took a step closer, and the distance between the two people became infinitely close. The sudden close distance made Wei Qiqi's breathing stagnate, and she couldn't help but lean back.

"Qiniang, do you have someone you like?"

"Who is he?"

"When did you two meet? How could I not know?"

A series of questions made Wei Qiqi frown.

"Qiniang."

"You don't want me anymore?"

Wei Qiqi's heart was hit hard, and the unpleasant feeling caused by the invasion of privacy slowly dissipated with this question.

As Li Yuan spoke, his tone became more aggrieved. After he asked the last question, he looked at her in embarrassment and sadness, like a dog that had fallen into water.

Her heart softened and she forgot the child's sensitivity.

"Since I am raising you, no matter what your status is, I will be responsible for raising you until you grow up."

"I won't leave you before you grow up." Wei Qiqi softened his tone.

"Xiaobao, but I am a person. I have my own ideas and things I want to do. I will not be trapped in any one identity."

"Even if my identity changes in the future, you will always be my family, my little treasure."

"do you understand?"

Li Yuan lowered his head, and the loose hair on his forehead fell down, forming a shadow on his eyes.

"I…I just don't want that dirty man to touch you."

He couldn't explain.

"Really?" Wei Qiqi asked back.

Li Yuan lowered his head. The heavy emotions in his heart weighed on him, making it hard for him to breathe. He didn't dare to say another word.

He was afraid of saying too much and making more mistakes.

But a myriad of inexplicable thoughts rushed into his mind, making him feel more and more sad, and even giving rise to a feeling of grief and indignation out of nowhere.

Why doesn't she want me?

Then I blamed myself for having this thought.

Various thoughts intertwined in his heart, and the conflicts of faults, guilt and grief made Li Yuan slowly develop a more intense emotion.

Qi Niang is his.

It can only be his.

At this time, Li Yuan did not know that the premise of all paranoid emotions in the world is possessiveness. If the possessiveness towards a person is too strong, no matter what kind of emotion it is, it is enough to influence and change a person.

Make that person unrecognizable.

Seeing the child with his head down, I thought I had spoken too seriously and was about to comfort him.

Suddenly, a crystal clear ball fell down and sank into the carpet, disappearing silently.

Wei Qiqi was startled, and all her unhappiness and earnest words disappeared in this falling tear.

Xiaobao cried.

Realizing this, Wei Qiqi, who had been at ease, suddenly became flustered. She was at a loss and wanted to wipe away her tears with her fingers, but then she realized that she had not washed her hands. She wanted to comfort him but was afraid of doing the opposite.

I simply didn't know what to do.

"Xiaobao, why are you still crying?"

Wei Qiqi spoke in a gentle voice.

"It's okay. There's nothing to cry about. I'm just telling you now. I'm not saying I'm going to abandon you now."

Wei Qiqi explained, but she didn't know that this explanation made Li Yuan's tears roll down like pearls.

If you don't abandon it now, you will abandon it later.

She cried so hard that her eyes were filled with tears.

No, that's not how you describe pear blossoms in the rain.

She took the time to correct her thoughts.

Li Yuan was a child with a strong personality. Except for crying once or twice during the period when his family was broken up, he never shed tears or said anything sad after that, no matter whether he was bullied by Guanzhou or studied martial arts hard in the City Lord's Mansion.

But now he was so sad because of a few words from her, which made Wei Qiqi feel a little uncomfortable.

She knew that the closer the person was to her, the more their words would touch her heart.

Xiaobao probably just regarded her as his only relative, and he was just a teenager.

At his age, even as an orphan, she did not have such worries and sadness. Apart from the difficulties in her life, everything else was fine.

"Don't cry. I was just talking to you. Why are you crying?"

She was not very good at comforting children, and seeing that there was no way out, she was at a loss. She simply comforted Li Yuan with the most direct hug, regardless of whether he was used to it or not.

She hugged him, patted his back and consoled him.

Her tone softened and went back to her normal speaking tone, but it was a little different, with a little more coaxing meaning.

"I won't abandon you. I'm just telling you this because I'm afraid you'll get stuck in a rut in the future."

Li Yuan was hugged suddenly, and the unique and unknown fragrance of Wei Qiqi penetrated into Li Yuan's nose, making his eyes tremble, and the tears hung on his eyelashes, half-lost.

Wei Qiqi's hug successfully comforted Li Yuan and stopped the pearls of joy he was dropping.

But after they separated, the thin-skinned boy's eyes flickered, his face turned red, and his whole body revealed the word awkward.

Seeing that the person was finally coaxed, Wei Qiqi breathed a sigh of relief. He had been busy all afternoon and it was almost dark and he had not eaten yet.

After the two calmed down, they had a meal together and then went to their separate rooms.

After closing the door, Wei Qiqi thought more and more that something was wrong.

Wasn't she preaching because she was unhappy with Li Yuanjieyue's situation? How did she end up being at a loss as to what to do to comfort others?