spring bite mark

Chapter 89 An Accidental Discovery

Yan Changye said meaningfully, yet clearly not intending to elaborate, "I've met you."

Jiang Manman said "Oh," looked at Xie Jian who had a bitter face, and smiled gently, saying, "Alright then, you can eat another broccoli. If you don't want to eat anything else, Auntie won't force you."

Xie Jian breathed a sigh of relief, took a bite of a broccoli, and blinked his big eyes: "Manman, if you would like me more if I didn't pick at my food, I'm willing to eat a little bit of everything."

Jiang Manman said with a hint of smugness, lightly mocking Yan Changye, "See? Xie Jian isn't as difficult to manage as you made him out to be."

Yan Changye: "..."

After breakfast, Jiang Manman, having thanked the uninvited guest, had clearly forgotten about the plan she had made yesterday to visit Yan Changye's workplace. Yan Changye was even less likely to bring it up, so the three of them tacitly returned to the hotel.

"I have to go discuss a project later. Your flight is this afternoon, so I might not be able to see you off." Yan Changye was really busy. He finally had a night to relax, but Xie Jian had to ruin it. He felt uncomfortable all over, so his tone was a bit lazy. "But I'll try my best to get to the airport."

"No need, you go about your business. I'll come see you again after this period of busyness."

Yan Changye gently patted her head, his tone full of affection: "Waiting for you to come see me is uncertain, so I might as well hope that I can finish my work and return to the capital sooner."

After saying that, I caught a glimpse of Xie Jian out of the corner of my eye as he opened his schoolbag and took out his homework.

Yan Changye looked at Jiang Manman with sympathy: "I'll leave the homework tutoring to you today. Just hand him over to the bodyguards before you go to the airport."

Jiang Manman didn't take it seriously: "I'm a master's graduate from a prestigious university. How difficult could it be for me to tutor kindergarten students? Don't worry."

Yan Changye glanced at Xie Jian and said, "Don't bully my wife."

Xie Jian waved his chubby paws impatiently: "You should leave now."

Yan Changye looked at him for a while with concern, then subtly hinted, "Remember not to say anything carelessly."

Jiang Manman raised an eyebrow: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Yan Changye explained slowly, "Xie Jian, this child, sometimes talks nonsense with a straight face, so I just reminded him."

After saying that, he patted Xie Jian's head and turned to leave.

Jiang Manman walked to Xie Jian's side and said gently, "Xie Jian, come on, what question don't you understand?"

Xie Jian blinked, moved to the side, and waited for Jiang Manman to sit next to him before speaking in a childish voice, "I don't need you to help me with my homework, you can just stay with me."

"Can you do all of these?"

"I can look it up myself!" Xie Jian took out his phone from his bag and unlocked it.

It's a cool smartphone with a child-friendly design. The interface is clean, with only a few social and educational apps. One of them is a photo-based problem-solving app. Xie Jian opened it skillfully, took a picture of a problem, and started looking at the explanation.

Jiang Manman, who had never paid attention to learning apps before, couldn't help but ask, "Can you understand everything they say?"

"You can usually understand it. If you really can't understand it, just skip to the end and copy the answers."

Jiang Manman: "...How about I explain it to you?"

"Explaining the problems is tiring, but I can do it myself." Xie Jian persisted and buried himself in his homework.

His first stroke of the first character was messy, but he quickly realized that Jiang Manman was next to him, and then he wrote each stroke very carefully. His handwriting was not very neat, but compared with the crooked and scrawled handwriting that Jiang Manman had seen before, she felt that he had used all his strength today.

Jiang Manman stopped talking and just watched with great interest.

The child I met in person this time was quite different from the one in the video and the one described by Yan Changye.

He was extremely fair-skinned. If you looked closely, you could even tell that he had applied children's cream and lip balm. His soft hair was clean and had a faint fragrance. His long, curled eyelashes looked as if they had been combed with a small comb, each one looking very beautiful.

His clothes were impeccably neat, adorned with several exquisite accessories. Whether intentionally or not, the restless and noisy child in the video sat upright, self-possessed and disciplined, perfectly highlighting the noble air of a young master from a prominent family. Jiang Manman watched intently. Xie Jian finished a page of his homework, secretly glanced at her, and then took a box out of his bag.

He opened the box, which was filled with stickers and a few small red flowers, as well as erasers, pencils, candies, small toys, and other items.

Jiang Manman asked, "Do you want to play?"

Xie Jian shook his head: "These are all prizes the teacher gave me for my good behavior."

Jiang Manman was a little confused. This child came to see her, and even went to the trouble of bringing prizes? So many, probably all the prizes from her three years of kindergarten...

She found it amusing and immediately understood that Xie Jian was deliberately trying to impress her. She exclaimed in agreement, "Wow, Xie Jian is really amazing!"

Xie Jian blushed slightly, but pretended to be calm as she put away the prize box.

Then, he started writing again, this time English words. He still wrote very slowly, but he made sure to put his utmost care into every stroke.

Jiang Manman knew that he was pretending to be well-behaved, but the more she looked at the serious little boy, the more she liked him. She watched him finish his homework with a smile on her lips, and there wasn't a single stain on his homework.

Jiang Manman picked up her phone, took a few pictures of his homework, and sent them to Yan Changye.

Yan Changye replied instantly.

Y: [It's no use finding other people's samples; he can't do it.]

Jiang Manman: [This is Xie Jian's homework]

Y: [Tsk, little liar]

Jiang Manman: [Really]

Y: [I don't believe it]

Jiang Manman ignored him and, seeing Xie Jian packing his schoolbag, couldn't help but say, "Xie Jian, do you have WeChat? Let's add each other, so Auntie can chat with you anytime she misses you."

Xie Jian was momentarily stunned: "Don't you have my WeChat?"

"I don't have your WeChat, I only have your dad's WeChat."

Xie Jian blinked his round eyes, took out his phone, opened WeChat, and handed it to her: "Look, you're on my WeChat."

Jiang Manman only glanced at it before she froze.

On Xie Jian's WeChat page, Xie Yunxi's familiar name and profile picture were blatantly displayed in her eyes.

Jiang Manman's thoughts were a bit jumbled: "Isn't this your daddy Xie Yunxi's WeChat account?"

"No, it's mine." Xie Jian exclaimed, "My daddy never uses this WeChat account, didn't you know?"

Jiang Manman: "..."

She really doesn't know.

"So, all along, it's been you I've been talking to?"

Xie Jian nodded: "That's right! I'm looking for my father—no, I'm looking for you, Yan Changye."

Jiang Manman's mind raced as she began to organize the bits and pieces of their WeChat chat history: "So, when you were beaten up by Yan Changye, was it you who asked me for huge compensation?"

(End of this chapter)