C17

Even if the little girl didn't say anything, he didn't want her to stay in that school any longer. To a child, the horror of being kidnapped would be a shadow over her entire life. He wanted her to avoid anything that might cause her to recall fear.

"Director Huo."

He looked up from his papers and asked, "How's it going?"

"It's quite easy. As long as the adoption procedures are complete, we can pretty much transfer her account to the Huo family. However, there is a rule that the child must change her surname to Huo."

The man was stunned. Change his surname to Huo?

Huo Jinxin? Mmm, it sounds quite nice.

Huo Tinton was in a good mood as he lowered his head to continue looking at the high quality school district nearby. He casually said, "Then change it to Huo Jinxin."

"No!" A childish refusal suddenly came from the back of the sofa

Caught off guard, Wang Xiangnan trembled in fright. The documents in his hands almost spilled onto the ground.

Ye Jinxin had already slept on the sofa for half the morning. Originally, she was happily preparing to eat an ice cream since Huo Tindong had been accustomed to her lately, but when she woke up and heard this seemingly good-natured uncle say that he would change her name, how could that be okay? She was called Ye Jinxin, her mother would call her Little Leaf, the aunt of the orphanage would call her Ye Tou, and the little fatty who often played with her would call her Big Brother Ye.

With so many names, if he changed them, wouldn't he be done for?

She didn't like to change her name, so when she heard that someone wanted to change her precious name, she couldn't help but get up from the sofa. She walked up to Wang Xiangnan barefooted and stared at him, asking, "Why did you change my name?"

Wang Xiangnan immediately felt wronged. "This is not what I want to change. This is Huo …"

"Cough, cough!" Huo Tindong's left hand clenched into a fist as he coughed loudly, interrupting Wang Xiangnan's next words. He then turned to look at his child and said, "This uncle only said it out loud, he hasn't changed yet. Don't worry, you're still called Ye Jinxin."

Wang Xiangnan looked at his beloved Director Huo in disbelief. 'What's going on? You're the one who told me to register her as my household, and now you're saying that I'll take the blame?'

The child pursed his lips to Wang Xiangnan and protested in a thin voice, "I will not change my name. "Just give up on that thought of yours!"

She turned her face away from him.

I give up? He was the one who woke me up in the middle of the night with a phone call. He even hysterically said that he would move you to the Huo Family's residence immediately. He even issued a death order saying that he must see reasonable evidence and information within two days.

Because of a single protest from you, Director Huo gave me this black pot right away? This wasn't fair!

He frowned at her bare feet, walked out of the desk, and picked up the child with one arm.

He touched her cold foot and threatened with a cold expression, "Next time I get out of bed without my shoes, I'll just throw away all the ice cream in the freezer."

"No!" The child cried out in alarm, the fear in his heart clearly expressed.

Looking at her pitiful begging face, Huo Tinton deliberately scrunched up his face, stroking the soft hair of the child before getting back to business. "Why don't you want this uncle to change his name for you?"

The child smacked his lips and said, "I think Ye Jinxin is very nice to listen to."

"But Huo Jinxin is also not bad?"

"But other people only know Ye Jinxin and not Huo Jinxin. This way, they will forget about me."

"You don't want anyone to forget you?"

The child thought about the people and suddenly felt that there were too many people. He shook his head and said, "Aiya, don't worry about it. I don't want to change my name."

"Alright then." Huo Tindong placed the child on the chair and wrapped his arms around her as he supported himself on the back of the chair. He narrowed his eyes and said, "Let's call her daddy and listen. We won't change his name."

Ye Jin's eyes opened wide in shock, while Wang Xiangnan's mouth was wide open in shock.

Actually, this decision wasn't a whim. This was something that Huo Ting Dong had already decided to do when he saw the shivering Ye Jinxin in the rain. The guilt and unease in his heart made him decide at that moment to raise Ye Jinxin as his own child, allowing her to truly become a beloved princess.

Huo Tindong didn't know whether this was a form of atonement or a form of atonement for himself, but he didn't need to know. He could just follow his heart and leave.

Ye Jin's heart twitched and his eyes turned red. His face turned red as he said, "I won't call you father because I don't have a father."

The word "dad" was a phrase that had been missing from Ye Jinxin's entire childhood.

Mom never mentioned the name, only when she was mad would she pinch her neck and shout, "Why don't you go find that man? You should get revenge on him."

The man her mother was referring to should be her so-called father. However, she only felt fear and confusion towards this title. The word would only come back to her when she recalled something terrible.

"Now that you have it, you'll be protected by your father, just like all the other children."

Ye Jinxin suddenly raised her head and stared into Huo Tindong's eyes with her black eyes.

Having her father's protection was a very tempting promise. At the very least, to Ye Jinxin, who had never enjoyed the protection of her family, these words were a dream that she dared not dream of.

The girl gloomily thought that she could really be like the other children in school. Could she have a close family member who asked her if she was tired and thirsty after school?

With her eyes filled with mist, Ye Jin asked softly, "Uncle, can I trust you?"

Huo Tindong's expression changed slightly. The bowstring in his heart instantly tightened. The man touched the soft top of his child's head and replied in a deep voice, "Sure."

Ye Jinxin lowered her eyes and thought deeply for a while, before resolutely raising her eyes and saying, "I can call you father, but you can't change my name. I'm still called Ye Jinxin."

Ye Jinxin clenched her small fists and thought bitterly, 'Mom is already very pitiful, so I have to return mom's little leaf. Everyone abandoned her, so I definitely can't do anything to make mom forget about me.'

Huo Tindong smiled in satisfaction. "Sure." With that, he shook the child's chin and said, "Listen to me, father."

Ye Jinxin's face flushed red. She kicked the chair and said weakly, "Father."

Hearing this, the man greedily thought that if this child could follow his surname Huo again, he would be considered to have achieved perfection.