At first, Hong Yu was amused by watching her husband and niece bicker. She did not intend to help Heero as she wanted to know how her husband took care of her niece.
She smiled mischievously as she found her husband also had a childish side of him. From the bicker, she could tell that Heero did not want to lose against her niece. But that mischievous smile did not last long as she heard Shen Miao's words.
"I am not rude, and you are scum! Last night, you are torturing my Aunt and she kept groaning for an hour. It's domestic violence, what are you if not a Scum? I will make a report to the police after my driver comes!"
Hong Yu's and Heero's smiles froze as they did not expect this would come from the little girl's mouth. Heero opened his mouth and closed his mouth again. He was thinking hard about how to explain that groan, but he could not find the right words.
Meanwhile, Hong Yu's face flushed red as she also did not expect her niece could hear her moan. But her room was supposed to be soundproof, so how could her niece hear her moan last night?
Shen Miao's lips formed a victorious smile as she successfully made the scum speechless.
"Listen, Little Tigress, I was not torturing your aunt, she is my wife, how can I bear to torture my wife?" Heero chose not to explain the groan to the little Shen Miao. He felt it was inappropriate to explain the source of the groan to a four-year little girl.
"Now, let me enter, your Mommy is sick. With my medicine, your mommy can recover faster,"
"Nay! Nay! Nay!" Shen Miao shook her head as she replied, "You tortured my aunt last night, I won't let you, torture mommy!
Moreover, I am not a Little Tigress, call me Lady Shen Miao!"
"Good, Lady Little Tigress, how many times I shall tell you that I am not torturing your aunt. Look!" Heero showed the tray, a bowl closed with a lid, two glasses of water, one was hot water while the other one was cold water, and lastly the green-colored medicine he made in a small bowl.
"How I am going to torture your mommy with these things. This is her breakfast and medicine, moreover, you also can follow me inside."
Heero started getting a headache facing the Little Tigress. Things that puzzled him were why did Shen Miao dislike him? She never showed her dislike to him in the past, but why now?
"If you were not torturing Aunt Hong Yu, then what about the groan I heard last night? I am not a kid that you can deceive, heng!" Shen Miao sneered at Heero.
'It's not groaning! It's a pleasure moan, your aunt was having herself please so she moaned!' Heero wanted to say that out to the Little Tigress, but he refrained to say that.
"Moreover, I have proof! I will report you to the police when my driver arrived" Once again, Shen Miao threatened Heero. Of course, she was not seriously going to report to the police, she just wanted Heero backed down with the threat.
"Proof?"
"Yes, I have the proof of you torturing Aunt Hong Yu last night!" with that said, Shen Miao unlocked her smartwatch. As expected of the child from the inner region, she had her own Smartwatch despite still being four years old.
"I recorded the groan, with this record…" But before Shen Miao could show the voice recording, Heero snatched Shen Miao's smartwatch with a shock on his face.
He had not expected that Shen Miao would record Hong Yu's moan and the same for Hong Yu. She could not stay still and approach the duo. The duo also heard footsteps and turned around, Hong Yu was half-walking and half-running.
Shorty, she reached the duo and snatched the smartwatch. In the process, she accidentally pressed the play button on the smartwatch. Soon, the "groan" filled the third floor.
Surprisingly, the moan was quite clear, it was as if Shen Miao recorded the voice right beside them. Hong Yu froze as she held the smartwatch, soon, her face flushed red as tomatoes.
Heero also froze as the smartwatch emitted the familiar moan. Only Shen Miao had a smug look as she thought she was the winner.
Even though only her husband and her niece, who was still thinking she was tortured present there, she was still embarrassed. Hong Yu snapped out of her daze and frantically stopped the recording. Without hesitation, she deleted the recording instantly and let out a sigh of relief with her red face.
"Auntie, why did you delete the recording?" Shen Miao seemed to notice that Hong Yu deleted the recording and asked with a disbelief look.
"Also, why do you only wear a blanket? Don't tell me this Scum force you to wear the blanket instead of normal clothes?"
As Hong Yu was called Auntie by Shen Miao, mixed feelings emerged inside her. She was happy as this was the first her niece called her Auntie in the last two years. She also felt awkward and helpless at the same time.
"Miao Miao, he is not scum and not torturing me!" Hong Yu explained, but then, the Little Tigress wanted to retort about the groan, but she skillfully added before Shen Miao could speak, "When you grow up, you will know, so don't ask or report him to the police!"
"Also, he is not scum, he is your un…" Hong Yu paused here. She wondered if she should tell the Little Tigress that Heero was her father, stepfather to be exact.
After a moment of consideration, Hong Yu decided to tell her niece the truth, "Moreover, he is also your Mommy's husband. That means, he is also your father!"
She said it in a stern voice and a solemn look while Shen Miao had her eyes opened wide in shock. She could not believe what she heard just now. As she wanted to retort back, there was a gentle voice coming out of the door.
"Miao Miao, don't deliberately make trouble, let your Auntie and Father enter!" surprisingly, Han Ying also told her daughter that Heero was her new father.
Shen Miao was taken back and her body stiffened as she heard the word father from her mommy. Her black and round eyes were still wide open as her jaw dropped. Heero was amused by Shen Miao's reaction. Heero put the tray on the table and took a picture using his smartwatch.
Click!
Even so, Shen Miao was still rooted on the spot as a victorious smile emerged on Heero's face this time. He took the tray and entered the room, but then there was an odd thought that appeared in his mind.
Last night, her wife told him that she hoped that he and her sister could truly be a couple. Now, Han Ying told Shen Miao that he was her stepfather.
Heero had a perplexed look as an odd feeling emerged inside his heart. He said it was an odd feeling because he felt excited when Han Ying said he was her daughter's stepfather. However, he did not understand why he felt excited, that was why he felt odd.
In the end, Heero put that odd feeling aside as he glanced toward the bed. Han Ying was leaning on her bed. Even though her face was a bit pale, he could see the liveliness in her eyes.
'It seems Han Ying will be okay even without my medicine because the medicine for Han Ying is Shen Miao,' Thought Heero as he cast a warm smile at Han Ying and the latter also returned with a gentle smile.
"I brought you Auntie Yun's Porridge," said Heero as he placed the tray beside the bed and opened the lid that covered the bowl.
As he opened the bowl, the fragrance aroma filled the room. It was a fresh aroma, yet also meaty, but not unpleasant. As Heero opened the lid, hurried steps resounded from the door.
These hurried steps belonged to the Little Tigress. She rushed toward the bed as she seemed wanting to say something but only stopped as the fragrance aroma from the porridge entered her little nose.
Just like a kitten, Shen Miao sniffed to find the source of the aroma. Then, she found a bowl of porridge beside the bed. For the first time in her life, she felt that porridge could be this tantalizing.
For Shen Miao who grew up in the inner region, she had tasted many delicacies. However, for the first time, she encountered a bowl of porridge that made her belly growl.
Gulp!
Han Ying smiled gently as she looked at her daughter. She caressed her daughter's hair and said in a soft voice, "Do you want to eat the porridge with Mommy?"
It was what every mother would do, offer her children when they had something delicious. Mother always shared it with her children or even would give it all to her children.
Shen Miao almost nodded her head, but only stopped halfway as she vigorously shook her head afterward, "No, it's Mommy's porridge, you should eat it and get well soon so we can play together."
Surprisingly, the arrogant Little Tigress was sensible enough to refuse to eat the porridge she drooled for. It showed that she still did not forget the care for her mommy despite living in the inner region.
Heero thought Shen Family would teach and say something bad about her biological mother. So, Shen Miao would distance herself from Han Ying. After all, the people in the inner region would never want to associate with the people from the outer region.
Heero's lips curled up as a plan formulated in his mind, 'Miao Miao still can be saved…'
'It seems I have to hasten the preschool project and let Miao Miao enter my Preschool so Han Ying can meet her daughter every day…'
'As Miao Miao is already here, I will not let her go back to the inner region. I have to make Miao Miao stays here, willingly…'