He has only one child in his life, Yangyang.
The child is still willing to recognise him as his father, although not really close, but at least not alienated.
It was also a kind of psychological comfort.
After ending the call, Yangyang returned the mobile phone to Hai Tong and said to Hai Tong, “Dad wanted to take me back to stay for a few days, I refused, we’ll go and play with Long Ting tomorrow, I don’t want to go back and play with Little Treasure Brother, Little Treasure Brother is always bullying me.”
“But now I’m not afraid of Little Treasure brother, I learnt kung fu.”
Even if he didn’t have much talent in martial arts practice, he had been practising for a long time, his body was stronger, his strength was greater, and the coach said that if he insisted on practising for a few years or ten years, he would still have the ability to defend himself in the future.
Yangyang is not greedy, as long as he can have a body like his sister-in-law.
“Well, don’t go back if you don’t want to.”
Hai Tong touched Yang Yang’s head and said in a warm voice, “It’s late, go to sleep, we’ll leave tomorrow.”
“Good night, Auntie.”
After the aunt and nephew exchanged goodnight greetings, Yangyang went back to his children’s room to rest.
Hai Tong followed over and watched as he climbed into bed and tucked himself in, she helped him turn off the lights, leaving only a small lamp to give the room a little light, lest the little guy get scared.
Zhou Honglin over there sat quietly in the car for a few moments before deciding to call it a day and go home, not wanting to drive any further.
Returning to the familiar neighbourhood, he couldn’t help but be reminded of the time when he and Hai Ling hadn’t yet divorced.
Once upon a time, he was also homing in, running towards home as soon as he got off work.
Since when did he start leaving early and returning late, becoming more and more resentful of Hai Ling?
It started when he got a promotion and a pay rise, and when he got Ye Jiani as his secretary.
You can’t be rich and famous.
He made a mistake here.
And he’s not even rich, he just earns a bit more and drifts away.
In this neighbourhood, Zhou Honglin has become the joke of the neighbourhood.
When Hai Ling brought a group of people over to smash up all the renovations, the commotion was so big that the whole neighbourhood knew about it.
After the divorce, if he was happy, okay, but he was not happy, instead, Hai Ling is living well.
The whole neighbourhood was saying that he was retribution.
Whenever he and his family went out, people saw them, and when they walked past, they would always mutter behind their backs, telling jokes about their family.
The parents felt like they couldn’t hold their heads up.
He was fine with it.
When waiting for the lift, he met the neighbours across the street, and they greeted each other, and then they had no more to say.
A few minutes later, Zhou Honglin returned to his door, took out the key and opened the door, pushed the door open and entered the house, which was dark.
There was no one waiting for him to come back anymore.
There was also no one who would heat up a snack for him and wait for him to come back to eat.
In the past, even if he was late for socialising, there was Hai Ling to take care of him when he returned home.
She would also call him every now and then, urging him to come home early and not drink so much.
At that time, he felt so annoyed, thinking that Hai Ling controlled him too much.
Now, wanting someone to control him, someone to care for him, were gone.
The light suddenly came on.
It was Mother Zhou coming out of her room.
“Hong Lin, coming back so early tonight.”
Mother Zhou came out to pour a cup of water to drink.
Seeing that her son was back, she asked as she went to pour the water, “Did you tell Haitong to pick up Yangyang and come back to stay for a few days?”
“Xiaobao shouts at home every day that he is bored, saying that he wants to play with Yangyang, so hurry up and pick Yangyang back.”
Zhou Honglin said indifferently and coldly, “Yangyang will go to A city tomorrow, he will come back only when Hai Ling comes back from her holiday, there is no way to pick him up and come back to live, he and Xiao Bao can’t play together, Xiao Bao always bullies him, and you guys are biased in favour of Xiao Bao.”
There was resentment towards his mother in his words.
