"Nothing…" The boy's voice was muffled, monotonous, and oddly vulnerable. "I want to be with Mommy—"
Yun Shishi's eyelids suddenly fluttered. She frowned, vaguely aware that perhaps the boy had overheard her conversation with Alice. Even though she had kept her voice low, the boy might have heard her and taken it to heart.
Would he think that she was worried about Gong Fan but no longer regarded him as the most important? Unsure how best to comfort him, she tightened her arms around the boy and smiled at the actor and Alice before turning away with him in her arms.
There was a long silence on the way back.
It was only when they were about to enter the villa that Youyou asked quietly, "Mommy, are you… worried that Gong Fan will never come back?"
Yun Shishi was stunned by the boy's question. It was a long time before she found her voice. "I'm a little worried… After all, it's so unusual that he hasn't shown up in so long."
