After being abandoned by my parents, I became a top boss

As if he could see what she was thinking, Li Chen explained, "This is my private property. I live here alone. Except for the cleaning lady who occasionally comes to clean, there will be no one else."

Hearing this, the girl let out a long breath and her tense body gradually relaxed.

Li Chen looked at her and smiled, "Nervous?"

The girl shook her head, not entirely because she was nervous, but more because she was at a loss.

She didn't know how to face Li Chen's family. If it was a stranger, it would be fine and she would just ignore it. But if the target was Li Chen's family, it would be different.

Li Chen treated her very well, so she should also show minimum respect and courtesy to Li Chen's family.

It would definitely not work to ignore it, but if she did, she didn't know what to do.

Just like when she was facing Lin Qiutang and the others, she clearly wanted to say goodbye properly, but she didn't know how to express this emotion in person.

I could only muster up the courage to wave goodbye to them when the car drove away.

She didn't know whether this approach would seem sincere to them, but this was the greatest courage she could muster.

While thinking, Li Chen had already poured the water and walked over, "Don't do anything you don't like for anyone, even in front of my parents, you don't need to please anyone, understand?"

The girl was slightly stunned, "Do you know what I'm thinking?"

Li Chen raised a nice arc at the corner of his lips, "Your thoughts are written on your face, how can I not know?"

He said, handing her the glass of water in his hand.

The girl took it, felt the temperature of the water from the cup, and a warm feeling rose in her heart.

It seemed that since she met him, she had never eaten a bite of raw or cold food or drank a glass of cold water.

He even told himself that he didn't need to please anyone or do things he didn't like.

She looked at Li Chen who was sitting on the sofa, a smile appeared on her face from the bottom of her heart, and she once again said silently in her heart: Thank you.

Li Chen took her to see the bedroom, the second bedroom where she lived. The decoration style was very similar to that of the entire house, both of which were simple in style, with gray and white as the main colors.

Li Chen leaned against the door, his posture lazy, "There has never been a girl living in our house before, and there is no room suitable for girls to live in. You just make do with it for now, and I will find a decoration team to redesign it after a while."

The girl turned around and looked at him. Did he mean that she would... live here forever?

Maybe because they have been together for a long time, Li Chen knows what the girl is thinking just by looking at her or making her gesture.

He stood up straight, his eyes deep, and said word by word: "Girl, no matter where you live in the future, this will always be your home."

Home... She also has a home. Li Chen's home is her home, and it will be her home forever.

That night, the girl lay on the soft big bed and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

Everything that was happening before her eyes seemed too unreal. She was afraid that once she closed her eyes, all these beautiful things would no longer exist when she woke up.

She lay with her eyes open until the second half of the night, then she became so sleepy that she closed her eyes uncontrollably.

Without being disturbed by nightmares, she slept soundly until dawn when the sunlight streamed into the house, and then she slowly opened her eyes.

Everything in front of me is still there, and yesterday’s experience was not a dream, it was real.

Li Chen said that this is her eternal home.

Family?

Thinking about that time in the hospital, Li Chen said that he would find a home for her. Was the home he was talking about this one?

If it is this family, it seems not bad, because in this family, there is Li Chen, and she will become his family.

Family… A smile gradually appeared on the girl’s face. During this period of time together, she slowly let down her guard and trusted him more and more.

She will slowly change herself because of his care and his smile as warm as the spring breeze. It is because of him that she feels that life is not that hard and that not all people in the world are bad.

She is slowly accepting new things and the kindness that the world brings her, and she is getting better.

All this is because of that young man.

After getting up, washing and having breakfast, Li Chen took her out.

The capital city is very big and much more prosperous than Sichuan City, and the pace of life here is also much faster than that in Sichuan City.

But the girl doesn't like it here, she still thinks Sichuan City is better.

Everyone there seemed to be very free. Unlike in the capital, people seemed to walk a few beats faster, as if there were invisible shackles on them that bound them.

Therefore, compared to the prosperity of the capital, she prefers the freedom of Sichuan.

After staying in Beijing for a week, Li Chen took her out almost every day.

They walked through the streets and alleys of the capital, seeing the sea of ​​cars and people. They would queue for a long time just for a very famous snack.

They would get up very early and climb to the top of the mountain just to watch the sunrise.

They would also go to the most famous scenic spots in the capital. Every time at this time, Li Chen would patiently explain the history of the scenic spots to her, and she would listen very carefully every time.

They went to take photo booths and went shopping. That was the happiest time she had had in more than ten years.

Their relationship seems to be closer than before.

But all this beauty was completely destroyed because of an uninvited guest.

At noon that day, Li Chen was cooking in the kitchen with an apron on, and the girl was sitting on the carpet in front of the sofa, playing with the gadgets they brought back from the mall.

"Ding dong..."

Hearing the doorbell, the girl got up and opened the door.

When she saw the middle-aged man standing at the door, she was stunned for a moment, and she felt a fear of strangers. She instinctively wanted to step back, but a strong voice in her heart prevented her from retreating.

She mustered up her courage and stopped retreating.

"Who are you looking for?" There was a hint of timidity in her voice, but there was no fear in her eyes when she looked at the middle-aged man.

The man looked at the girl coldly with a gloomy face, "I'm looking for the owner of this house."

His voice was a little dull and his tone was not very good. Coupled with his gloomy face, the girl's first reaction was that his enemy had come.

Li Chen has enemies?

She was just wondering when Li Chen's voice rang out behind her, "Dad, why are you here?"

dad?

The girl was stunned for a moment. She turned around and looked at Li Chen behind her in surprise, then looked at the middle-aged man at the door. She still couldn't believe that this dark-faced man was actually Li Chen's father!

It doesn't look like... anything at all.

They don't look alike, and neither do their personalities.

Li Chen is a gentle boy, and the man in front of him is a dark-faced uncle.

If these two men were walking side by side on the street, she would never associate them with father and son.

The middle-aged man didn't show any politeness. He walked right past the girl and strode into the house without even changing his shoes.

"If I hadn't come, how long would you have kept it a secret from us? You didn't even tell your family when you returned to the capital. If your uncle Ji hadn't happened to see you at the mall, I wouldn't have known you were back."

As he spoke, he plopped down on the sofa, looking at the knickknacks on the table and carpet, and became even angrier.

He tilted his head to glance at the girl standing next to Li Chen and said unhappily, "What your uncle Ji said was indeed true. You did bring a little girl back. Judging from her age, she should be only seven or eight years old! Where did you kidnap her from?"

"It's eleven." Li Chen explained.

The middle-aged man was suspicious for a moment and murmured in a low voice, "Eleven..."

He looked the girl up and down again. Judging from her figure, she didn't look like she was eleven years old at all.

But no matter how old he is, it is always against the rules for a grown man to have such a young girl around him!

They are not related at all, and if outsiders saw this, they would probably make up a story that the Li family has a bad tradition.

With a gloomy face, he said in a deep voice: "Where did this little girl come from?"

Li Chen did not rush to explain, but looked at the girl beside him and said in the most gentle voice: "Girl, go to the room for a while, I want to talk to this uncle about something, and I will call you out after the discussion, okay?

The girl glanced at the dark-faced uncle on the sofa, then looked at Li Chen, nodded, and turned to walk towards the bedroom.

Li Chen didn't sit down on the sofa until he heard the bedroom door close. The middle-aged man gave him a look and snorted in annoyance.

Li Chen didn't care and said calmly: "She was a little girl I rescued from a fraud den during the arrest operation last month. She didn't know who her parents were, nor did she know her own name. I felt sorry for her, so I brought her back."

Hearing this, the middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then he said, "Poor? You brought her back because she was pitiful? There are many poor people in this world. Let me ask you, after you brought her back, have you thought about how to place her?"

"Don't worry about this, I have my own plans."

"You have your own plans?" The middle-aged man sneered, "The Li family won't take over anyway, so you'd better not have any ideas about the Li family."

"It's enough for me to enter this tiger's den of the Li family. Why add another person? Don't worry, even if the Li family begs me to keep the girl, I will never do so."

Hearing this, the man got angry, "What do you mean? What is a tiger's den?"

Li Chen raised his eyes to look at him, without any of the tenderness he had when looking at the girl. His voice was chillingly cold, "You have seen with your own eyes what kind of life I have led in the Li family for so many years. So, if the Li family is not a tiger's den, then what is it?"

His eyes were sharp, as if containing a thorn, bringing the man's memory back to eleven years ago.

That year, Li Chen was seven years old. In addition to Li Chen, they also had another son, who was Li Chen's older brother, Li Qian. They were one year apart in age, and their relationship was not very good, but it was not bad either.

But one afternoon, because the two brothers were fighting over a toy, Li Qian had a car accident and fell in a pool of blood.

From then on, this originally happy family was missing a piece, the sky fell, and everyone began to blame Li Chen, blaming him for snatching toys from his brother.

His wife was irritated and treated Li Chen with either verbal abuse or physical abuse. When they found that the situation was getting out of control and wanted to stop it, they realized it was too late.

Because stopping her would only make her lose control even more. She would lose control of her emotions and her mental state would become worse.

Over time, they gradually got used to their wives getting angry at Li Chen, and even turned a blind eye to it.

But if you think about it carefully, Li Qian’s death in a car accident was not entirely Li Chen’s fault.

He was just a seven-year-old boy at the time. How could he be responsible for a human life?

What’s more, this life is that of his own brother?

His eyes gradually darkened, and he no longer had the arrogance he had just had. To be honest, as adults, they also had an unshirkable responsibility for Li Qian's death.

As parents, it is their problem that they did not fulfill their responsibilities to discipline their children.

Thinking of this, the middle-aged man stood up and walked forward dejectedly, but he stopped after taking two steps. He sighed and said, "No matter how you want to settle this little girl, you should go home when you return to the capital."

After a pause, he added, "Your grandfather is old and cares about you. Even if you don't give us face, you should give your grandfather face, right?"