Chapter 14 – The Things I Want to Give to You
“They were clearly raised in the same way, so how could one of them turn out like this?” Xu Jing’an sighed. “Forget it. We’ll just have him move out after he graduates from university.”
An Yanming nodded, noncommittal.
From behind the curtains, An Ning watched with reddened eyes. Resentment was written all over his exquisite face.
He has served in the An family for so many years, and now they’re going to discard him just like that?
Dream on!!
The An family, including Li Rong, were all his. They could only be his!
An Ning left angrily. In his heart, he made a firm resolution: He would never let An Ji take away anything that belonged to him!
“An Ji is back!!”
Back at the drawing room, An Yanming stood up abruptly.
Xu Jing’an: “Where? Where is he? Is he injured? Did someone bully him?”
“He’s at the door!”
Xi Jing’an’s eyes lit up. She rushed out in her ten-centimeter tall high-heeled shoes.
An Ji stood at the front door of the An mansion with Li Rong stilled wrapped tightly around him.
“Son, you’re back!” Xu Jing’an was wearing a gorgeous long dress, dashing towards him like a butterfly.
Hearing this familiar voice, all the regrets of the previous life and the joy of rebirth poured out. An Ji rushed to hug Xu Jing’an. His voice choked up. “Mom… I’ve returned!”
Noticing her son’s firm hug, Xu Jing’an’s eyes widened in surprise, and she was almost at a loss for what to do with her nervousness.
Her son has been indifferent since he came back from the Junk Star. When did he become so effusive?
Xu Jing’an originally felt very guilty towards An Ji, but seeing the other party being so intimate, her face flushed red with joy.
“Where did you go? Did you get hurt? Did you get bullied?”
Those accumulated worries were like a cannonball, and turned into questions one after another: “Look how late it is, don’t you know that it is dangerous for an omega to go out alone? What if something happened to you? How would we live on?”
At the end of her torrent of questions, Xu Jingan’s voice got choked up, and the corners of her eyes became moist.
“Our child finally came back. What are you scolding him for?” An Yanming opened his arms to shield both his wife and child. In a low voice, he said, “It’s good that you’re back. It’s good that you’re back.”
An Ji thought that he had no feelings for this family, but when he heard his mother’s familiar nagging, and when he realized that behind his mother’s impatient questions were worry and fear, he realized that his parents cared about him far more than he had imagined.
And he… actually desired this relationship more than he had imagined.
How blind was he in his previous life to take this urgent concern as interrogation? He even thought that his parents only liked their adoptive children, so in the end he wanted nothing more than to sever ties with his family.
If only he had realized this sooner…
He could have lived his life happily ever after.
“It’s my fault.” An Ji sniffed. His eyes started to get red around the rims. “I won’t run all over the place anymore.”
“It’s… it’s not that we’re not letting you go out.” With An Ji being so cooperative, on the contrary Xu Jing’an felt a bit helpless. Her usually fearless and blunt attitude gained a fawning flavor, “Tell me honestly, did you get bullied when you went out this time?”
“No, I…” While An Ji was still thinking about how to explain everything, Li Rong abruptly spoke up.
“I’m sorry, it’s my fault this time.” Li Rong stepped forward, with a sincere tone and a sincere attitude, “I took An Ji away without authorization, and I didn’t have time to inform you two.”
“You took him away?” Xu Jing’an was startled. With her eyes she tried to ask An Ji: Didn’t you run away because you didn’t want to marry Li Rong?
An Ji nodded without any psychological burden: “En, I was with Li Rong.”
Xu Jing’an was even more surprised. When did her son win over Li Rong?
“I’m the one who likes An Ji. Otherwise, I would not have asked my mother to propose a marriage contract.” As if seeing what she was thinking, Li Rong explained with a smile. “I had plans to customize a mecha for An Ji. But it’s not easy to get an appointment with Master Qingkong, so I got ahead of myself and took An Ji along [without permission from his parents].”
“Qingkong?!” An Yanming, who was in his forties, suddenly had his eyes light up, as if he had turned into a boy of seventeen or eighteen.
Li Rong nodded: “Yes.”
Qingkong was a famous master mecha designer in the empire.
According to the quality requirements of the industry, the mecha machines used in the empire must have a matching degree of more than seventy percent between the mecha and the pilot’s spiritual power before it could be put into use. The quality of the mechas produced by the An family could reach between eighty to ninety-five percent, which was already considered a premium product.
But Qingkong was different. The mechas that he produced could reach a matching degree of up to one hundred percent.
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