Chapter 10

　　Christian slowly raised his eyes, as deep as a cold pool. \"Xian thinks that when you kissed me, you are now his mother. I’m not the one who is pestering you, he is.\"

　　Mae looked up at him with a guilty heart, \"Where\'s Xian\'s biological mother? Doesn\'t she miss him?\"

　　\"His mother is a heartless green-eyed little wolf. Don’t worry about her.\" He looked at his watch and concluded the conversation with an assertive tone. \"I have a meeting at 11 o\'clock. Xian is with you. I\'ll pick him up at 6 in the afternoon.\"

　　Mae hasn\'t recovered from the previous sentence. When he heard the latter, her heart beat faster, \"What? I- I… But I don’t know how to take care of children-\"

　　\"Don\'t worry, he\'s smarter than you think.\"

　　Christian took out his wallet, pulled out a black card, and handed it to her. \"Xian usually doesn\'t like shopping. If the situation permits, will you go out and buy him some clothes later?\"

　　Mae curls her mouth and tongue for a moment. Her intuition says that this should not happen, but she did not expect the only two men that she holds dear in her life to arrive at her front door.

　　She could almost touch his lips with the side of her head and earlobe.

　　With the touch of a dragonfly skimming the water, Mae was surprised as electricity shocked her. She is flushed red but still avoidant.

　　Between his breath was the faint fragrance of shower gel. Christian gently rubbed the small of her back. He pulled her in and inahled deeply right on her scalp.

　　\"Stay with Xian until I come back.\"

　　Mae was agitated by the ambivalence and nodded hastily.

　　When Christian left, Mae suddenly realized she seems to have agreed to help him with Xian.

　　But she has to go out for an interview.

　　“Urrhhhggg… What is going on? Didn’t we just break up?!”

　　…

　　Xian is a sensible toddler.

　　Mae takes him to the nearby shopping mall to buy clothes in the afternoon. The kid holds Mommy in respect so he takes the initiative to carry her bags.

　　The softest part of Mae\'s heart is happy, the nurturing kind mother that she always wanted to be. The closer she gets to Xian, the more reluctant she is to be separated from him. She also doesn\'t know who his biological mother is and how hardened her heart is to be able to leave such a lovely boy behind.

　　It’s almost five in the afternoon. She glanced at her watch with a heavy feeling.

　　She leads Xian out of the mall. He has put on the new coat Mae bought for him, with a cute frog pattern on the back.

　　He\'s still a baby, and people won\'t laugh at him.

　　Mae crouched in front of Xian, his eyes were full of tenderness, \"You\'ve been wandering around all afternoon. Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?\"

　　His eyes shined even brighter, \"As long as mommy is with me, I will do anything.\"

　　Mae looked around and pointed to a restaurant, \"Let\'s go to that restaurant over there, on the opposite side.”

　　“Your father\'s taste in food is light. How about you?\"

　　\"I prefer spicy ones.\"

　　Mae rubbed the child\'s forehead and led him across the road, \"Really? Wow! Do you also like spicy Sichuan food…?\"

　　Mae\'s phone rings in her pocket. She sees that it\'s Christian.

　　\"Chris?\"

　　At the other end of the line, Christian just came out of the parking lot of the Wu Zhou Group. Controlling the steering wheel with one hand and holding the phone with the other, \"Where are you?\"

　　\"In the central square, Xian and I are going to dinner. Are you off work?\"

　　Hearing her brisk voice, Christian said faintly, \"Wait in the square. I\'ll be there in 15 minutes.\"

　　\"OK, we’re just going through traffic and-”

　　Bang!

　　Mae\'s voice suddenly turns into a blood rattling scream, Christian hears a dull crash, accompanied by the sound of tires braking and a body thudding on the ground.