Chapter 254: Everyone Was Dumbfounded

Lu Junhan: "..."

Song Qingwan: "..."

The Old Man: "..."

The Experts: "......"

This, this little girl is way too daring!!

Just now, she was going back with a pitiful expression, holding her head like a weak little lamb that had been bullied but didn’t dare to make a sound.

She couldn’t have looked more pitiable.

How did she come back as a mighty warrior ready to blow up a bunker in the blink of an eye?

It’s as if she transformed into a different person!!

Lu Junhan seemed accustomed to the little girl’s changing expressions.

After all, she’s his biological daughter. He couldn’t just discard her; he could only indulge her.

His cold, handsome face didn’t show any change in emotion. He reached out and took the bottle of mineral water handed over by the little girl, his distinctly jointed hand giving it a twist—

The cap was easily opened.

The little girl looked on eagerly, her expression full of admiration.

The man handed the bottle of water back to her and said flatly:

"Drink it up and go back inside. Don’t run around."

"Oh... okay, Daddy!"

The little girl wrapped her chubby hands around the opened bottle of mineral water, happily tilted her chubby little face up, and started gulping it down.

In less than a minute, she finished the whole bottle, her small stomach now roundly bulging.

After drinking, she looked thoroughly satisfied and happy, her little mouth open, and with a small hand rubbing her belly, she gave a long, contented burp.

"Burp~~~"

Lu Junhan: "..."

After she finished drinking, the little girl, still holding the empty bottle, suddenly remembered what she originally came for. She stared at him with her bright big eyes, her baby voice adorably saying:

"Daddy, Daddy, can I use your phone to call Li Li? Li Li promises to give it back after making the call!"

Lu Junhan thought she was bored being all by herself in the ward, so she wanted to chat with her group of childish little friends.

To prevent her from running out again and again.

The man’s strong eyebrows slightly knitted together as he took out his rarely-used spare phone from his jacket pocket and tossed it to her without even looking: "Password, six sixes."

The little girl cheered while holding the phone, tugged at her dad, and said in her stickily sweet little baby voice:

"Thank you, Daddy. I love you so much, Daddy!"

Lu Junhan: "..."

Just now, she was holding her head and angrily calling him a big bad guy.

The worst bad guy in the whole wide world.

Saying this, the little girl happily trotted back to the ward.

"Grandpa! Phone! The phone is here."

The little girl took on a pose as if delivering food from a restaurant and jogged over, handing the phone in her hand to Lu Qidong on the bed.

More than twenty years have passed, and today’s mobile phones are much more advanced than those Lu Qidong used before his car accident, but luckily, the basic operations remain similar.

He quickly found the contact list, clicked in, and found "Aunt," then directly dialed out.

The little girl, with her bright, moist big eyes, lay next to him, her little body sprawled out, and her two little ponytails drooped down as she eagerly stared at the phone screen.

Both of them held their breath, their expressions identical in their nervousness despite the age difference.

Soon, the phone was connected.

On the other end, Song Qingwan’s aloof voice rang out:

"Hello? Who is this?"

Lu Qidong paused for a moment, staying silent.

But his eyes turned slightly red.

This was the first time in over twenty years that he’d heard Song Qingwan’s voice.

But it was very different from the voice in his memory.

In the past, Song Qingwan’s voice was sweet and coquettish, especially good at acting cute to her brother, completely spoiled, a little princess without any fear or restraints, probably because she knew that even if the sky fell, her brother would hold it up, so she was fearless and did whatever she pleased.

But now, there was a lot more calmness and restraint in her voice, cold and rational, almost like a cold machine.

The little princess who had been shielded eventually became her own queen.

Lu Qidong, with reddened eyes, closed them for a moment and took a deep breath.

After a long while, he softly said to the phone: "...Xiao Wan, I woke up."

Song Qingwan frowned and glanced at the screen, the local unknown number, glanced again, still unrecognized.

In the next second, she coldly said: "Psycho!"

"Beep—" The call was then hung up.

Lu Qidong: "..."

Little girl: "..."

The little girl tilted her head, thinking for a moment, then blinked her wet big eyes and said in her babyish voice: "Grandpa, it seems like your way doesn’t work."

Lu Qidong: "..."

Lu Qidong’s previously sad expression immediately became blank.

Thank you, I know, no need to remind me, please save me some face.

Later, not giving up, Lu Qidong tried again, calling the old man. This time, it was even worse as the call was hung up before it was even answered.

Lu Qidong: "..."

What is it, did I wake up at the wrong time?

One by one, why is nobody pleased to see me?

In the end, a thoroughly heartbroken Lu Qidong, with no more hope, also called Lu Junhan.

Thankfully, this call went through.

Lu Qidong’s eyes suddenly lit up.

Without waiting for the other side to say anything, Lu Qidong quickly said:

"Little Hanhan, it’s your dad, your real dad, Lu Qidong. I’m awake now, though you might not believe it. Let’s put it this way, on the choosing ceremony day, you picked money. Your grandpa saw it and wished he could beat you dead and make me have another one. I told him I had a vasectomy already, couldn’t have more, that in this life you’d be my only son, and that’s how you’re still alive; also, when you were little, your piggy bank’s password was 666666, I set it for you, there was no money, just two cards, each with 500 bucks in it, I asked why you only saved 500, you said afraid putting more would make me steal your money..."

Outside—

Song Qingwan saw that after Lu Junhan received a call, his expression grew increasingly peculiar, until his brows knitted tighter together.

Usually, this kind of expression was extremely rare on that stinker’s face.

The last time she saw it was when he threw Li Li into the trash can but took out the trash instead.

Song Qingwan couldn’t hold it back and urgently asked: "What’s wrong? Did you find a way to treat your brother?"

Lu Junhan held the phone for a long time, finally slightly turned his head, and, with a complicated tone, said:

"...I might have seen a ghost."

Lu Qidong on the other end of the phone: "..."

Song Qingwan frowned, walked over, took the phone, looked at the number, "Isn’t this the one that..."

Lu Qidong, helpless, said, "Xiao Wan, it’s your brother, I’ve really woken up."

The Old Man’s eyes widened.

The experts nearby were even more taken aback.

After three seconds of silence, everyone rushed to the ward unanimously!

However, before they got inside, they could already hear the little girl’s crisp babyish voice from a distance away, "Grandpa, Li Li will tell you a little monkey story."

In the next second, a gentle and familiar male voice started,

"Sure."

Instantly, everyone was dumbfounded.