After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

After all, there were limited rooms on the houseboat. After sending the dog away, Murong hesitated and gave a lot of earnest instructions before getting off the houseboat.

Wen Xiaobai howled excitedly for a long while, but soon he got tired and dozed off on Yuan Ge's knees. When Yuan Ge was drowsy, she felt her sleeves being tugged gently. She thought it was Wen Xiaobai at first, so she ignored it. Not long after, she felt it tugged again. She tilted her head and saw the little guy squatting beside her, looking up at her timidly, not saying a word. She didn't know when this happened, and she didn't even notice it at all.

Yuan Ge quickly pulled him up and asked, "When did Zhuozhuo come? Have you had breakfast?"

The little guy shook his head, "She...she said she would bring me breakfast, so I sneaked out to find my aunt. Aunt...there are a lot of things in my mind, suddenly a lot of new things. Aunt, are they...all true?" He frowned and tilted his head. At an age when he should be ignorant of the world, his face was full of helplessness and confusion.

The memories of childhood should have gradually become blurred in the years to come, but this child went through something like that, and I'm afraid it will follow him throughout his life.

Yuan Ge held Wen Xiaobai in his arms in front of him. The little guy hung his head and didn't take it. Yuan Ge handed it to him again, "Help auntie hold him for a while. Wen Xiaobai is getting heavier. Auntie has been holding him for so long, I can't hold him anymore."

The little fellow then took it timidly, holding it in his arms stiffly, not as familiar and natural as before... On the contrary, the little white dog was full of enthusiasm as if he had seen his closest relative again, "Awoo! Awoo!"

The closest relatives ignored it, so it tried harder to please and act cute, rolling around and acting like a spoiled child, "Awoo..."

The closest relative couldn't help but smiled suddenly. Although the smile just appeared and disappeared quickly, it was still a smile after all.

Yuan Ge felt that the dog arrived at the right time.

Yuan Ge pulled Wen Yizhuo into his arms, then asked him gently, "Who is she? Does Zhuozhuo know now?"

"...Yeah." He responded softly, lowered his head, and stroked the little white dog in his arms bit by bit, pouting slightly. After a while, he continued, "She apologized to me and said that she shouldn't have taken me away from my father... This way I wouldn't be bullied."

"Then what do you say?"

In the early morning, the fog on the lake surface had not yet dispersed, and the sunlight shone in from outside the fog, which was particularly faint. The wind was slightly cool, but also refreshing. The little guy's palms were cold, and he shook his head gently, "Zhuozhuo didn't know what to say. They bullied me, saying that I was a child of an unknown father and a dirty child. I cried and said that I had a father, but they didn't believe it... They wanted to play the game of emperor and slave with me. They were the emperor and Zhuozhuo was the slave. They said that slaves had to kneel... They kicked me, beat me, and scolded me... They also scolded her."

"I, I liked her very much before..." The little guy almost buried his head in the dog's hair, and his voice was muffled. The little child acted like an adult, frowning and choosing his words carefully, "But she, but she said that she shouldn't have taken me away from Daddy. Does that mean that she should have left alone, left me and Daddy, just like Zhuozhuo when he didn't remember anything and just thought he was a motherless child... Aunt, isn't Zhuozhuo obedient? Why doesn't she want me?"

The little guy is actually worried about this?

Yuan Ge's heart was so soft that he raised his hand and touched the little guy's head, just like comforting Wen Xiaobai, and chuckled, "Then why don't you ask her?"

The little guy murmured dejectedly, "Zhuozhuo doesn't dare... She has never come back in these years. I guess she doesn't like me."

"How do you know she has never come back? Just like the last time she made a lotus cake for you, you had clearly seen her before, but you didn't know it was her, right? As soon as you returned to Shengjing, your mother also came to Shengjing, which shows that she knew your movements very well. Although aunt has never seen her in person, she can guess that she must have been near you all the time. Maybe she has come back to see you many times without you knowing."

The little guy looked up, his eyes trembling slightly, "Really?"

"Whether it's true or not, you can just go and ask and find out." Yuan Ge glanced behind him with a smile, pressed the little guy's shoulder and turned half a circle, nodded at Xu Yi, whose hands were shaking as she held the tray, "Well, go and ask, ask if mother is always by Zhuozhuo's side? Ask if mother thinks Zhuozhuo is a burden?... Go ahead."

Xu Yi went upstairs with breakfast in her hand and found the room empty. She subconsciously thought that the child had hidden under the bed again. After searching for a while without success, she went to the deck.

From afar, she saw the little girl holding a puppy, looking up and talking in a baby voice. She thought that the same mistakes she had thought would not happen again. A huge rock fell from her heart, shaking her whole body with pain, "Zhuozhuo..."

The little fellow was pushed out by his aunt. He walked closer reluctantly and opened his mouth, but he couldn't say that name. He just looked up at Xu Yi for a long while and said, "You, you..."

She kept saying "you" for a long while, her two little hands almost twisted into a knot behind her back, then she tilted her head slightly and asked, "Aunt said that you have always been with Zhuozhuo, is that true?" Such a young child tilted his head away from Xu Yi, pushing the blame to Yuan Ge while speaking, and raised his head slightly to maintain an expression that was slightly embarrassed, yet trying hard to maintain a self-righteous indifferent expression, looking a little clumsy and immature.

All the thoughts are on the face.

"Yes." Xu Yi did not hide it and said frankly, "I have always been by your side. Zhuozhuo, although I have never recognized you, I have always been by your side... Zhuozhuo, mother, mother just... mother doesn't want you, it's just..."

"Just what?"

"Just, just..." Xu Yi slowly lowered her head, "just" she didn't say anything in the end. How could she explain those old things that even Wen Peiji didn't know, those unspeakable emotions and past, to a three or four-year-old child?

So she fell silent.

The little fellow stopped asking questions and sighed like an adult. "Daddy said that adults always have many difficulties and don't mean what they say. Auntie also always said that Zhuozhuo is still young and doesn't understand adult matters... I, I believe that you have been by my side all these years, but I also blame you for never recognizing me, making me think that I am a child without a mother. I... I haven't forgiven you yet."

Compared to the fact that his biological mother, whom he had always thought had passed away, was right in front of him, all those past experiences of being bullied naturally seemed extremely insignificant. The storms that had almost drowned the little child were now just a few ripples.

After saying that, Wen Yizhuo stood on tiptoe, took the tray, turned around and ran towards Yuan Ge.