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"Mom, when is dad coming home?" Linnet, who was eight, asked her mother with a wink.

Xu Yan put down the brush in her hands and hugged Lin Luo on her lap. "You're almost done. Be good and sit back down. Mom's almost done."

Lin Luo was annoyed by Xu Yan's perfunctory attitude. She pouted and said, "Mom, you always say that, soon, but I haven't seen dad for a month."

Xu Yan still maintained her gentle smile and comforted Lin Luo softly, "Daddy is working hard, so that Rolo can live a happier life. Mommy will accompany you, be good, let Mommy finish painting, when daddy comes back, he will definitely be very happy."

She couldn't remember the last time the family had eaten together. It seemed that in her memory, her father hadn't even hugged her, hadn't said a lot to her mother, and sometimes she even suspected that he didn't care about her and her mother at all.

But her mother never complained about this. Only once, when she snuck into the kitchen to eat when she was hungry, she passed by her mother's room and saw her mother sitting alone at the head of the bed, sobbing softly. In her hand was what seemed to be a painting, but Lin Luo had never seen that painting.

Lin Luo sat on the chair with a sunflower in his hand. Although his hands were aching, she still maintained her posture when she saw her mother's focused expression.

Her mother was a very special person, and it wasn't because she was her own mother, Lin Luo, that made her feel this way. Lin Luo went to a private school, and inside there were rich family members similar to her, her friends were all picked up by her family's bodyguards after school every day. Although her mother would occasionally come to pick them up, unlike Lin Luo, Xu Yan would be waiting for her at the school gate on time every day.

Her mother was a very quiet person, and she had a very good temper. Lin Luo had never seen her lose it, she had always been gentle and gentle, only once, her father and mother had quarreled. Although it was a quarrel, in reality, only her father spoke.

In fact, Lin Luo could faintly feel that perhaps his mother didn't love his father, and if his father had feelings for his mother, then Lin Luo couldn't be sure. Perhaps he did, she guessed, or else why would his father marry his mother, but as the number of times his father returned home became fewer, Lin Luo couldn't be sure.

"Mom, will Daddy not want me?"

Xu Yan didn't stop what she was doing and said, "No way, Rolo's so cute and obedient."

"Then, will father leave mother?"

"Good Lo Luo, I'll be finished in a while."

Lin Luo became even more suspicious of her mother's escape. She was afraid that one day, her father would never come back. He would forever leave her and her.

"Mom, Daddy won't leave you. Daddy likes Mommy, right?" She wanted to hear her mother's answer, even if it was a lie. She wanted to hear her mother tell her that her father loved her and that he would not leave.

Xu Yan finally finished painting. She put down her brush, wiped her hands with a tissue, and wiped off the remaining paint. She walked up to Lin Luo and took out a handkerchief to wipe away the tears at the corner of her eyes.

Lin Luo put down the sunflower in his hand and took his mother's hand, which was also stained with some dried pigment. Lin Luo didn't like the smell of it, nor did he like his mother's obsession with painting and embroidery.

Following Xu Yan, Lin Luo entered a small room that she had never been to before. When she opened the door, what entered her eyes was a painting. The people on the painting were all Lin Luo, only one was different.

Lin Luo walked in front of the painting and asked, "Mom, is the person on this painting you?"

Xu Yan looked at that painting with a slightly absent-minded expression and said, "Yes, it was painted for me by a friend when mom was still in high school."

"It was really nice, better than Mom."

"Yeah, Mom would fall for painting. It was all thanks to that friend of hers."

"Then I don't like my mother's friend anymore."

"Why?"

Lin Luo raised his head looking at Xu Yan and said angrily, "It's because Mom likes painting so much that she doesn't even have time to accompany me!" Xu Yan smiled gently and caressed Lin Luo's hair. "How can that be? Mom likes Luo Luo the most, even more than painting."

"Really?"

Xu Yan squinted her eyes and smiled, "Really, otherwise how could there be so many pictures of Rolo in this room. The reason your mom brought you here is to tell you that every picture your mom paints is for Luo. There will always be only Luo Luo in your mom's painting."

Lin Luo recalled the scene where his mother painted in the past. Although her mother would be very focused when painting, so focused that she would ignore him, but without a doubt, the target she drew, every time without exception, was herself.

She threw herself into Xu Yan's arms and cried out loud. "Mom, we want to be together forever, you are the best person in the world."

Xu Yan lightly patted Lin Luo's back. When she was tired from crying and climbed out of her arms, Xu Yan put one of the side pinch into her hand. Lin Luo looked down at that side clip. It was the one her mother and father were holding when they were arguing!

— A hairpin in the shape of a star.

"Rolo, do you remember how Mom taught you how to recognize the Big Dipper?"

Lin Luo nodded and said, "I remember that mother said that the Big Dipper was located in different locations at different times in different seasons. She also said that the ancients would identify the seasons and directions based on the location of the Big Dipper."

Xu Yan nodded in satisfaction and said, "Yes, the star in Luo Luo Luo's hand is one of the stars in the Big Dipper. Xu Yan nodded in satisfaction and said," Yes, the star in Luo Luo's hand is one of the stars in the Big Dipper.

"Since this star is so precious, then Mom should keep it for herself." Lin Luo pushed the hairpin back in front of Xu Yan. Although she really liked it, but if it was something precious to her mother, then she couldn't accept it either.

Xu Yan shook her head and said, "No, although this hair clip is very precious to mom, the most precious thing to mom right now is Rolo. Everything that mom has belongs to Rolo, including this hair clip."