In the seventh month of the sixteenth year of the Qianping era, severe flooding struck Jiangnan, leaving countless people homeless.
Pei Xi was one of them.
He fled his home with no money to his name, and during his escape, he accidentally fell off a cliff. When he woke up, kind villagers had rescued him.
"Young sir, natural disasters and human calamities are unavoidable. No matter what happens, you must take good care of the child and live on."
The kind villagers comforted him in a dilapidated thatched cottage.
Pei Xi blinked in confusion. ???
He was a single, innocent man. Where had this child come from?
"I don't have, "
He hadn't even finished denying it when a tearful little voice sounded beside him.
"Papa..."
Pei Xi turned around in alarm. A little cherub with rosy cheeks was standing by the bed on tiptoe, lips tightly pursed and eyes red as he stared at Pei Xi.
This... darn it!
The little one looked so pitiful. If he denied it, the child would surely cry, wouldn't he?
His heart softened, and Pei Xi somehow wound up taking the child in, beginning his life as a young widower raising a child ahead of schedule.
The little one was clever, sensible, and adorable, and didn't even mind that they couldn't afford to buy meat.
Apart from insisting on calling Pei Xi Papa and liking to pick up strangers outside, he was perfect in every way. Pei Xi couldn't get enough of him, and every night he had to hold the sweet, soft little bundle before he could fall asleep.
He was determined to give the child a good life.
Looking at the thatched cottage with nothing but bare walls and windows that let in the wind, Pei Xi silently made up his mind.
Four-year-old Pei Yu had been feeling troubled lately.
After an accident, he had not only lost contact with his father, but even his always doting papa no longer recognized him.
At long last, he found his father and got Papa to bring him home. But when his father woke up, he didn't remember him either.
Watching his papa and father struggle to make ends meet every day, the only one who was awake to the truth, the little one thought: I'm so small, yet I have to bear so much...
[Little Scene]
Much later, Pei Xi tossed and turned all night before secretly wiping away his tears and hugging the little bundle he had grown so fond of. Choking up a little, he said, "Don't worry, little one. We'll find your birth parents and reunite your family."
Xie Yanjing (Da Jing), beside him, nodded silently.
The little one: Stunned.jpg.
I'm so tired.
What do I do if I'm suddenly not their biological child anymore?
The little one: They're my biological papa and father. What else can I do but spoil them? [Resigned little one.jpg]
PS: A sweet, lighthearted story about raising a child. Even though neither of the two men remembers the little one, they still treat him wonderfully, so he doesn't feel neglected.
Theme: Return to a simpler life and appreciate its beauty.