CH 26

When he returned home, Lin Ran quickly ran back to his room and searched for his big brother’s business card in his bag and brought it to Song Zhi Xu so that he could teach him how to make the call. 

It didn’t take long for Lin Mu’s voice to come out of the phone. Lin Ran looked at Song Zhi Xu and smiled at him as he ran upstairs.

Song Zhi Xu’s face showed some helplessness. The little fool was unexpectedly afraid that he would hear their conversation on the phone. Though he didn’t know what he was going to talk to Lin Mu. 

But Song Zhi Xu wasn’t interested in listening to Lin Ran’s phone call either. He stayed downstairs for a while longer, tidied up the living room before he went upstairs.

Although the nanny hadn’t come over for some period of time, Lin Ran would clean up, in addition to that, Lin Ran never messed anything up, so there wasn’t really much to clean up, just putting the cushion back on the sofa. There were also a few footprints that Lin Ran had just stepped on the floor in a hurry.

Song Zhi Xu went back to his study room, he didn’t have to work on weekends, but he would still look at the company’s financial reports if he had time, not to mention the big project he had just negotiated where he still needed to keep his eye on it.

He had originally packed his things for a business trip this week, but since Lin Ran was still at home, he just directly let the company’s vice president go. 

So now, he was the only one on the company side here.

Song Zhi Xu stayed in his study room for a long time. He didn’t hear any sign of activity from Lin Ran, so he looked at the time and saw that it was almost time for lunch. Before he turned off his computer and stood up, he walked out of his study, then went to Lin Ran’s room door again. 

It was probably because Lin Ran was in a hurry when he entered, so he did not close the door tightly, Song Zhi Xu had just reached the entrance when he heard a low talking voice from inside.

He frowned slightly and subconsciously glanced at his watch, it had been almost two hours since Lin Ran entered the room, so was he still on the phone? 

Song Zhi Xu gently pushed open the door from the outside. In the room, Lin Ran was sitting on the bed, holding a photo frame with both hands as he continued to chatter and talk to the photo frame.

It seemed that, when it came to the Interesting or funny ones, Lin Ran even giggled a bit. He put the photo frame on the bedside table and fell onto the bed as he hugged the quilt tightly, as if there were really someone inside the room. 

Song Zhi Xu frowned and knocked gently on the door to attract Lin Ran’s attention.

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Lin Ran turned the photo frame towards Song Zhi Xu, who saw the three people in the photo and was momentarily at a loss for what to say.

He took a moment before he talked to Lin Ran again. 

“Ran Ran, you go down first and see what to eat.”

“Okay.” As he promised, he turned to the picture frame again and said, “Papa, Mama, Gege, Ran Ran is going to eat. I’ll see you guys again later.” 

He carefully wiped the photo frame again, carefully put it back on his bag, set the bag next to the pillow, stood up and walked towards Song Zhi Xu.

Both of them went downstairs together and went to the kitchen. While they were eating, Song Zhi Xu looked up, seemingly unintentionally and asked Lin Ran who was across the table. 

“Ran Ran, do you talk to the photo frame every day? How long has it been?”

“Uh…It’s been a long time, Ran Ran has no friends, no one to talk to, only papa, mama and Gege can accompany Ran Ran.” 

Lin Ran said as he lowered his head, seemingly somewhat reluctant to think back about those past days, Song Zhi Xu was also not very good at comforting people, so at this time, he didn’t know how to open his mouth and say something.

They were silent for a while before Lin Ran suddenly said in a low voice again. 

“Since there’s Song Zhi Xu, Ran Ran is not alone anymore.” Lin Ran’s cheeks had some redness.

When Song Zhi Xu wasn’t around, he was still a little afraid of staying in the big and lonely house by himself every day, so he often nestled back into his room. 

However when Song Zhi Xu was around, he always forgot.

Papa, Mama and Gege are probably angry. 

Song Zhi Xu nodded and didn’t say anything.

He felt that there was something wrong with this matter, but Lin Ran was indeed too lonely all by himself and he also couldn’t be sure and say something about it either. 

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Song Zhi Xu tried his best to come home every day. Apart from not being able to come back at noon, he cooked the remaining two meals for Lin Ran himself, before he finally got rid of Lin Ran’s binge eating problem. 

After a month of nurturing, Lin Ran’s body has grown some flesh, although his body was still very thin, but compared to before he has gained almost ten pounds, from his small face, he could pinch a little flesh and his complexion also looked a lot better visually.

Compared to the way he looked before, when he was so thin that you could almost see his skeleton, Song Zhi Xu’s heart indescribably felt a little more accomplished. 

Although he wasn’t very good at cooking, he had managed to ‘fatten up’ the person quite a lot.

The assistant just came back from delivering food to the villa at noon and went to Song Zhi Xu’s office to get the documents, yet after thinking about it, he said with some gossipy, 

“Boss, you are now home on time every day and don’t work overtime on weekends, the company is full of rumors that you have found a boss’s wife.” The assistant revealed his teeth as he smiled, “But I’m the only one who knows you’re doing it because you have an extra child at home. I didn’t tell anyone about this.”

Song Zhi Xu raised his head up and sized him up, narrowing his eyes slightly. 

“So you’re here to take credit and seek reward for this? You want a raise on your bonus this month?”

“No, no, no, I’m only…saying it.” The assistant rubbed his nose and took a few steps back. 

Although he did not mind at all if he got a little bonus increase, he had followed Song Zhi Xu for many years, therefore from the expression on his boss’s face, the assistant also knew that he had no intention of giving him a bonus increase.

“Then why are you still here?” Song Zhi Xu knew that this assistant of his was talkative, since he was about to get ready to eat lunch, so he just directly kicked him out. 

The assistant nodded his head as he walked out and said,

“Boss, I saw that kid through the villa’s floor-to-ceiling window again when I delivered the food today. He looks a little fatter than before and his complexion also looks much better. Your friend will definitely thank you for this.” 

“Wait a minute.” Song Zhi Xu called out to the person who was just about to go out of the door and without even raising his head, he said, “Your bonus doubled this month. Go to the finance office and report it yourself!”

“Huh?” The assistant was dumbfounded, but seeing that Song Zhi Xu did not have the intention to respond to him anymore, and also fear that Song Zhi Xu would back out of his words, he agreed and quickly ran out of the office. 

He also didn’t know why, but he seemed to have pleased his boss?

Song Zhi Xu stood up in a good mood, when he was just about to go eat his lunch, his phone suddenly rang. 

He picked it up and looked at it, as the words “Little fool” jumped on the screen.

Song Zhi Xu’s lips involuntarily curled up into a smile and immediately picked up the phone and put it to his ear. 

But before he could say anything, Lin Ran’s stammering sobbing sound came to his ears and his voice trembled as he said, “Song Zhi Xu, there are…there are bad people, Ran Ran afraid.”

Song Zhi Xu’s body stiffened and he immediately asked, “Ran Ran? What bad guy? Where are you?” 

“At…home, there are bad people outside the door.”

Song Zhi Xu didn’t even have time to put on his overcoat as he took the car keys and while talking to Lin Ran, he ran out quickly and drove back to the villa.