Chapter 23 Part 1
Hearing Yan Shiting's words, Yu Li was completely stunned.
Marriage? Him and Yan Shiting?
Marrying Yan Shiting, this sounded like a fairy tale.
Yet, this was what Yan Shiting himself had said.
"Why?" Yu Li murmured.
Yan Shiting looked at Yu Li and explained, "The child needs to have a legitimate identity, so we need to become legally married spouses."
"Since you've decided you want to keep this child, as its other father, I won't let you bear the responsibility of childbirth and upbringing alone."
Yu Li thought about his words.
He understood Yan Shiting's responsible attitude, and understood why the other party proposed marriage at this time.
But...
Yu Li's gaze was a bit dazed.
Yan Shiting tightened his lips and continued in a deep voice, "I hope to raise it together with you, and provide a complete two-parent family for it as it grows up."
A two-parent family...
Yu Li's eyes darkened a bit.
After a long while, Yu Li finally found his voice from the tangled mess in his head: "Can I consider it a bit more?"
Yan Shiting looked at the conflicted look on his face and nodded, "You can, the decision is up to you."
Seeing Yu Li deep in thought, Yan Shiting lowered his gaze to hide the struggling expression in his eyes.
He picked up the contract he had placed aside, put on his glasses, and got up, saying:
"You can take your time to consider, you don't need to give me an answer right away."
With that, Yan Shiting looked at Yu Li and turned to walk back to the bedroom.
Yu Li stared blankly at his retreating back.
After that previous argument, he had wanted to have no more contact with Yan Shiting and the Yan family.
But now?
Now that there is a child, it is impossible to have no contact.
Since Yan Shiting is willing to take on the responsibility as the child's other father, Yu Li is also willing to respect this identity of his.
But marriage is a big deal after all, with much more to consider than whether to keep the child or not.
Yu Li lowered his eyes and tightened his lips.
Soon, Yan Shiting came out of the wardrobe in a full suit.
He stood by the front door, looking at Yu Li who was still sitting on the sofa, lost in thought.
His slender figure sank into the black leather sofa, exuding a sense of bewilderment and helplessness.
Yan Shiting paused, tightening the corners of his mouth.
He reached for the doorknob, his Adam's apple bobbing, but in the end, his selfish heart prevailed, and he swallowed the words that were about to come out.
He just said, "The breakfast has cooled down, I'll order you a new one."
As the words fell, Yu Li looked up at him.
Yan Shiting silently averted his gaze, avoiding eye contact with him, and left.
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There weren't many people working overtime during the long holiday, so the Yan Corporation building was very quiet.
Soon after Yan Shiting arrived at the office, the door was pushed open and Jiang Yue walked in with a contract.
"President Yan, this is the prenuptial agreement drafted by lawyer Liu as per your request. Please take a look and see if there's anything else that needs to be supplemented."
He placed the contract on the desk, but noticed Yan Shiting's expression was a bit off.
Marriage is usually a joyful event, so why did his boss have such a gloomy expression?
Could it be that he guessed wrong, and President Yan was not preparing to marry Young Master Yu?
Jiang Yue was a bit puzzled, hesitating to speak, "President Yan?"
"Just leave it there." Yan Shiting said in a deep voice.
Jiang Yue collected himself and nodded.
After he left, the office fell into silence again.
It was only then that Yan Shiting's gaze slowly fell on the prenuptial agreement.
Originally, his plan was to persuade Yu Li to keep the child, and then propose marriage.
He knew Yu Li was not good at refusing others, so if he persuaded him with the identity of the child's other father, Yu Li would not refuse.
However, when he returned home and saw the light Yu Li had left for him, Yan Shiting started to hesitate.
He shouldn't use Yu Li's kindness to achieve his own goal.
After sitting on the sofa all night, at the first light of dawn, Yan Shiting had abandoned that dark idea.
But unexpectedly, Yu Li would bring up wanting to keep the child himself, giving him the opportunity, so he could naturally propose marriage.
It was his own vile behavior, using the child as an excuse to keep the person by his side.
Yan Shiting raised his hand to rub his brow, and put the agreement in the bottom drawer.
He knew the chance of using this agreement was not great.
However, although he had mentally prepared himself, when he returned home in the afternoon and saw the empty house, Yan Shiting still couldn't help but stand at the door for a long time.
...
In a small restaurant near the Y City South Train Station.
"Here, Xin Xin, eat up." Yu Li broke apart a pair of disposable chopsticks and handed them to the girl sitting across from him.
The girl was his sister, Yu Xin.
A little after 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Li had just woken up from his nap in the living room, when he suddenly received a call from his sister Yu Xin.
After answering, Yu Xin said in a disorderly manner that she was at the Y City South Train Station, her cash had been swindled away, and her phone was about to run out of power, and she didn't know what to do.
Yu Li was startled, not even bothering to call Yan Shiting, he hurried to the South Train Station and found Yu Xin hugging her backpack in the corner of the square.
"Brother, you eat too." Yu Xin said timidly, gripping the chopsticks.
Yu Li was brought back to his senses by her.
He looked down at the dishes on the table.
Braised eggplant, stir-fried greens, and twice-cooked pork.
They were all very appetizing dishes, but just by the color, one could tell they were heavily oiled and salted.
Yu Li suddenly felt a little nauseous.
He only ordered a sour plum juice, sipping it bit by bit, trying his best not to vomit, otherwise Yu Xin would definitely worry.
"I'm not hungry, I just ate. You must be starving after all this time, eat more."
Yu Xin nodded and seeing that Yu Li really didn't want to eat, she didn't persuade him further.
She put her head down and shoveled the food, eating three bowls in a row, finally feeling a little full in her hungry stomach.
Yu Li looked at her with pity, handing her a milk straw, "How come you didn't buy any food for the 8-hour train ride?"
Yu Xin's eating motion paused.
She looked up at Yu Li, and after a while, said, "I didn't dare to."
Yu Li was slightly taken aback, "What's wrong?"
Yu Xin lowered her head and looked at the half-eaten braised eggplant in front of her, "There were too many people, I didn't dare to speak up and buy food, afraid that others would look at me."
She didn't even dare to go to the bathroom, hugging her backpack the whole way, trying to minimize her presence as much as possible.
Yu Li pressed his lips together.
He knew his sister was shy and introverted, but he didn't expect that in more than half a year, this shyness and introversion had developed in an unhealthy direction.
Perhaps it was precisely because of this that after getting off the train, Yu Xin became the target of the swindler, and the only 200 yuan she had was taken away.
Yu Li opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
His throat was dry, so he just said, "It's okay, eat."
He thought for a while, and then asked, "Does Mom know you came to find me?"
Yu Xin nodded, "Yeah. I told her after I bought the train ticket."
Yu Li asked again, "Why did you suddenly want to come find me?"
He didn't know his sister was going to come to Y City to find him, and was quite surprised when he got the call in the afternoon and she had already arrived.
"Is something wrong at home?"
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