Song Qinian looked at Shen Chiyan in anger, feeling there was no one more detestable and scummy than this man.
"What do you want by taking Zaan Zaan? He's still so small, he can't even walk yet. If you want to torture me, fine, but why can't you spare a child?"
Seeing Song Qinian's tear-streaked face, Shen Chiyan grew increasingly irritable. He let out a low hum, "I've been too bored lately. Your son is a very good toy."
Song Qinian gritted his teeth in anger. He actually treated Zaan Zaan as a toy.
As if not seeing Song Qinian's anger and sadness, Shen Chiyan's dark eyes fell on the room they were in. "Do you remember this place?"
Song Qinian's expression froze slightly.
"On this bed, on the table, in the bathroom, on the balcony... we've left traces of our 'loving each other through thick and thin.' You also used those hands of yours here to express your love for me, saying that meeting me and marrying me was the greatest fortune of your life."
Shen Chiyan turned and looked coldly at the pale-faced Song Qinian, his eyes full of mockery and contempt. "I never imagined that you could lie with a straight face! No, you weren't speaking to me then, you just gestured with your hands, and I actually believed it."
Seeing Song Qinian lower his head, Shen Chiyan grabbed his shoulders and forced him to look at him. The anger that had been accumulating over the years made his face look quite frightening. "You love Li Junchen and used me as a substitute, fine. But you are my wife, Shen Chiyan's wife. Even if you wanted to be with him, you could have asked me for a divorce. Why did you have to elope?"
Song Qinian had his own sorrows.
"You played with my feelings like I was an idiot, and then you abandoned me like a dog. How dare you think I could just swallow this?"
Saying this, Shen Chiyan roughly pushed Song Qinian away. "If you had the guts to leave with him, why did you come back? Since you came back, you should have known that I'm vindictive and absolutely won't let this go. From now on, if you want to see your son, do as I say. Unless, of course, you think Li Junchen is really capable of taking your son away from me!"
After Shen Chiyan finished speaking, he left. Song Qinian looked at the empty house, his heart filled with mixed emotions and sadness.
In the following days, Li Junchen outwardly demanded his son from Shen Chiyan, but in Song Qinian's eyes, he was completely helpless.
Shen Chiyan didn't completely forbid Song Qinian from seeing Zaan Zaan. He would often send Zaan Zaan's videos to Song Qinian, each time a precisely timed thirty seconds, which was nowhere near enough to alleviate Song Qinian's longing.
Employees of Ding Sheng Group noticed that the CEO Shen, who had become a workaholic in the past two years, had suddenly stopped working overtime. Instead, he spent his days looking at his phone, sometimes erupting in anger, sometimes unable to help but smile, as if he were going crazy.
Shen Chiyan himself felt quite conflicted. Logically, Zaan Zaan was Song Qinian and Li Junchen's son, and he should have hated him intensely. Yet, every time he saw the little guy looking at him with his innocent big eyes, he didn't know why, but his heart would melt completely.
In the evening, when Shen Chiyan returned home, Zhang Qiaoqiao was showing Zaan Zaan old photos of Song Qinian and telling him the love story of Song Qinian and Shen Chiyan.
As soon as Shen Chiyan saw the little one, his mood became quite complicated.
While it was said that he had kidnapped Song Qinian's son to torment Song Qinian and Li Junchen, in reality, he felt no joy every time he saw Zaan Zaan.
"Young Master, Zaan Zaan was very well-behaved today, and he's very smart. He learns things after seeing them once..."
Praise from Zhang Qiaoqiao made Zaan Zaan proudly lift his little head. However, he missed his mother dearly, wishing he could go find her.
"Ma... Mama... Mama..."
This was the first time Zaan Zaan had spoken. Zhang Qiaoqiao looked at Shen Chiyan in disbelief. "Young Master, Zaan Zaan can call Mama!"
Immediately, she took out her phone. "Zaan Zaan, come, say it again."
"Ma... want Mama, Mama..."
"Oh my, Zaan Zaan is so good! Come, say Auntie..."
Zaan Zaan could only call Mama. Thinking of Mama, his lips quivered and he was about to cry.
Shen Chiyan looked at Zaan Zaan, and a terrible thought suddenly sprang into his mind. He took off his gloves, poked Zaan Zaan's plump little cheek, and grinned. "Come on, call me Daddy, and I'll take you to see your mom!"
As soon as he said this, Zhang Qiaoqiao was so shocked that her phone dropped to the floor.
The sound of the phone hitting the floor seemed to jolt Shen Chiyan back to his senses. His expression became extremely ugly. Had he been possessed just now?
He was going crazy!
Was he so desperate for a child that he would let Li Junchen and Song Qinian's son call him Daddy!
In fact, if he wanted, there were plenty of women lining up to have children with him. Yet, his heart was solely set on Song Qinian.
Feeling extremely agitated, Shen Chiyan stood up and walked towards the second floor. However, he hadn't taken two steps before Zaan Zaan's milky voice reached his ears.
"Dad... Daddy..."
Shen Chiyan stopped abruptly. Zhang Qiaoqiao also exclaimed excitedly, "Young Master, Zaan Zaan called you Daddy! He called you!"
Shen Chiyan felt as if he were frozen in place. He mechanically turned his head and saw Zaan Zaan reaching out his hands towards him, still vaguely calling "Daddy."
At that moment, a warm current flowed through Shen Chiyan's chest. An emotion called joy and excitement firmly occupied his heart. His mind hadn't even registered what was happening before he rushed forward and scooped Zaan Zaan up from the sofa.
"What did you call me? Say it again!"
Zaan Zaan, perhaps startled, pouted and called for Mama, no longer calling Daddy!
"Good boy, say Daddy again. Whatever you want, I'll give it to you."
However, no matter how Shen Chiyan and Zhang Qiaoqiao coaxed and threatened, Zaan Zaan never called him Daddy again.
Shen Chiyan immediately turned to Zhang Qiaoqiao. "Did you record the video of that little brat calling me Daddy just now?"
Zhang Qiaoqiao nodded excitedly. "Yes, I recorded it all!"
"Send it to me!"
As soon as Shen Chiyan received the video, he sent it to Song Qinian with a boastful, triumphant, and mocking message: "Song Qinian, your son is really something. He actually called your ex-husband Daddy! He probably hasn't called Li Junchen Daddy yet, huh... What do you think Li Junchen's reaction would be if he knew his son's first word was 'Daddy' to me? He'd probably die of anger."
Today was the day for casting roles for "Call Me Queen." Song Qinian, as the original author, had been invited by Xie Luofeng to select the actors.
Song Qinian had been busy all day and hadn't had time to check his phone.
After the first day of casting concluded, she walked out of Yun Long Building and then took out her phone. Upon seeing the video of Zaan Zaan calling Shen Chiyan Daddy, Song Qinian was both surprised and filled with a myriad of emotions.
She herself had never expected that the first person Zaan Zaan would call "Daddy" would be Shen Chiyan.
Was this fate's mysterious way, or the power of blood ties?