1novels Chapter 154 His Occasional Tenderness
Chapter 154 His Occasional Tenderness
The next day, West Elm woke up early in the morning. Xiaowen hadn't woken up yet, and West Elm didn't wake her up. Instead, she took Xiaowen's body temperature first, and found that the fever had subsided a lot, and it didn't rebound. Be safe.
West Elm went downstairs quietly, and then went to the kitchen to make breakfast. She had just put the breakfast on the table when she heard footsteps on the stairs.
Without looking up, Xiyu thought it was Xiaowen and said, "You don't need to wake up so early, you can sleep a little longer, Auntie will take you to the hospital to hang water first, and send you back to the orphanage in the afternoon..."
West Elm put down the poached egg in his hand, looked up with a smile, and saw Ruan Peichen standing on the stairs.
Ruan Peichen was wearing a bathrobe, as if he had just taken a shower...
West Elm was stunned for a moment, never expecting that Ruan Peichen stayed here last night.
She took off her apron nervously, and said good morning to Ruan Peichen unnaturally.
Ruan Peichen didn't notice West Elm's restraint, glanced at the food on the table coldly, and said nonchalantly: "You are a child in an orphanage, you really care."
After Ruan Peichen finished speaking, he went upstairs. Xiyu grabbed his apron and smiled wryly, then went to the kitchen to continue preparing breakfast.
Ruan Peichen went upstairs to change his clothes, and when he walked to the door of the master bedroom, he saw Xiaowen standing by the door rubbing his eyes.
Seeing Ruan Peichen stunned for a while, Xiaowen called out timidly, "Good morning, uncle."
Ruan Peichen narrowed his eyes, softened his face a little, nodded, then squatted down in front of Xiaowen, and asked kindly: "I heard that you have a fever, do you feel better now?"
Xiaowen nodded, then turned her head and shouted behind Ruan Peichen: "Auntie Xixi, good morning!"
Ruan Peichen's expression was slightly startled, the corners of his mouth were pulled down quickly, and he looked back indifferently.
Xielm was holding the handrail with one hand, while the other hand was hanging by his side, looking at him and Xiaowen with a gentle expression. When he met his gaze, Xielm quickly lowered his eyes.
Ruan Peichen stood up, passed West Elm in silence and went downstairs, stranger than a stranger.
Xiyu's eyes were lonely, Xiaowen walked over, took Xixi's hand and asked, "Aunt Xixi, does uncle not like Xiaowen?"
Xiyu looked at Xiaowen in surprise, stroked her soft hair, and said, "Why? Didn't uncle just talk to Xiaowen and care about Xiaowen's body?"
Xiyu just went upstairs to wake Xiaowen up, but he didn't want to see Ruan Peichen squatting in front of Xiaowen, with a gentle voice and a warm smile, caring about Xiaowen's condition.
Ruan Peichen, who is so gentle, is a bit unfamiliar to the current West Elm.
But many years ago, she also saw Ruan Peichen like this, but at that time... the person who saw that smile face to face was not Xiaowen, but her.
Xiaowen looked at West Elm suspiciously, and said, "But I think Uncle seems unhappy."
Xiyu regained consciousness, pulled Xiaowen, and said slowly: "Xiaowen, uncle is just not used to smiling at people. It's not that he doesn't like Xiaowen."
West Elm knows that the children in the orphanage are more sensitive than ordinary children, and they are more able to observe words and expressions, just like when they knew that they were not the daughter of Cui Heyi's relatives when they were young, they always carefully observed Cui Heyi's every move.
She seemed to see a bit of herself in Xiaowen, and couldn't help feeling sorry for the child.
Seeing that Ruan Peichen was at home, West Elm went back to the kitchen to make an extra breakfast. She only prepared breakfast for herself and Xiaowen.
But when she took Xiaowen downstairs, she found that Ruan Peichen had left.
The three breakfasts on the table remained untouched just like before she went upstairs.