The Self-cultivation of Omega Running with the Ball

So in the following week, the child frequently went out to hang out with Pei Du. Sometimes he came back from piano lessons still covered in sweat.

Someone was draining the child's energy, which also gave Wen Qiu a chance to catch his breath. He cleaned up the mess after expelling Gong Changyang in one go, and the company got back on track. He interviewed several directors in one go, hoping to decide on a candidate as soon as possible.

This weekend, he finally had some free time and caught Wen Zhiyao who was about to go out, "Don't leave yet."

Wen Zhiyao had already changed his sneakers and looked at him eagerly, "Uncle Pei and I have an appointment at 9 o'clock..."

"Come here." Wen Qiu sat on the piano stool and opened the piano cover. "Which piece have you practiced recently?"

Wen Zhiyao had no choice but to take off his shoes and walked over slowly, "The third movement of Moonlight Sonata..."

"Well, you've been practicing this song for a long time, let's try playing it." Wen Qiu turned to that page in the music score.

"Oh..." Wen Zhiyao glanced at him, then looked at the music score, gritted his teeth and sat down on the piano stool and began to play.

He made numerous mistakes, including playing several wrong notes from the very beginning. In the end, he couldn't play anymore and stopped, lowering his head in frustration, not daring to look at his father.

Since he started practicing the piano, he had never played a piece so badly.

Wen Qiu asked: "Have you been attending classes well recently? Has the teacher supervised your practice well?"

"Yes, but this one is too difficult, so I need to practice more." Wen Zhiyao's voice became smaller and smaller, "It's almost 9 o'clock, I have to go out..."

"Really?" Wen Qiu said calmly, "No need to look for him, I'll call him over."

Wen Qiu called the piano teacher and Pei Du over with two calls. Three adults and one child sat down in the hall of the Wen family villa. The scene was like a trial. If Wen Zhiyao had not had a strong psychological quality since childhood, he would have been scared and cried at this moment.

Following the piano teacher's narration, Wen Qiu quickly recovered the truth of the matter: It turned out that in order to have time to hang out with Uncle Pei every day, Wen Zhiyao privately found his piano teacher and said, "Mr. Gordon, let's make a deal."

He proposed to finish the two-hour lesson in one hour each time, and his piano teacher was a foreign pianist who loved freedom and laziness by nature. He quickly hit it off with him and even helped him cover up. So Wen Zhiyao had a lot of fun these days and had long forgotten about any practice.

After hearing the whole story, Wen Qiu sent Mr. Gordon out of the house and announced that he was fired. The great pianist left in disgrace and said he would return part of the high tuition.

When he returned to the living room, he saw Wen Zhiyao hiding in Pei Du's arms, trembling like a quail caught in the rain. Wen Qiu walked over with a cold face, and Wen Zhiyao changed his position and hid behind Pei Du.

Pei Du: “…”

He wanted to hide behind the child.

"Okay, Xiao Zhiliao didn't do anything wrong. It's a child's nature to love playing." Pei Du patted Wen Zhiyao's shoulder gently, "Go back to your room first, I'll talk to your father."

Wen Zhiyao didn't dare to move, he just pulled at his legs, looking at Wen Qiu with a nervous face. It wasn't until Wen Qiu waved his hand that he rushed back to the room as if he had been pardoned.

Then Pei Du sat down on the sofa casually like the master of this house, "Shall we talk?"

Wen Qiu stood still, looking at him quietly. Perhaps because he was going out to play with the child, Pei Du was wearing sportswear and sneakers today. He looked particularly young and handsome, which reminded him of the time when they were still on the campus of Jiang University several years ago - he was so good at playing basketball that he even competed with the basketball star of the school for him.

His gaze must have carried some kind of heavy weight, and the relaxed look on Pei Du's face disappeared. To hide his discomfort, he picked up the cold teacup and drank a sip of water. "In fact, it's okay to relax occasionally. You can't expect such a young child to sit in school all day and then sit in the piano room for two hours after school."

"Do you think I'm angry about him playing?" Wen Qiu crossed his arms, "Then I wouldn't have agreed to let you play with him in the first place."

"What's that for?" Pei Du looked at him. Even though they hadn't seen each other for four years, he could always keenly sense when Wen Qiu was in a bad mood, like now.

"He lied to me in order to go out and play." Wen Qiu looked at him coldly, "You and I are both good at lying. I don't want a child with our blood to grow up to be a liar at such a young age."

Pei Du's heart was shaken. Wen Qiu had never mentioned "our child" to him before, and this was the first time he mentioned it.

He was silent for a while before he said, "You know, Xiao Zhiliao told me that he actually doesn't like playing the piano."

"Really? I asked him to try many instruments, and he said he liked the piano."

Moreover, such a large amount of practice over so many years, participating in so many competitions and winning so many awards, can't be sustained by patience alone. This child has both talent and passion. "Well, he did say that he wanted to learn the piano well - so that his father would be proud of him."

Wen Qiu was stunned, "You mean he is learning for me?"

"It's better to say that he is trying to do a lot of things for you." Pei Du pulled him, "Come and sit down."

Wen Qiu was pulled by him to sit down, feeling a little aggrieved. Of course he knew that Xiao Zhiliao always tried to take care of himself, but he didn't expect it to be so obvious that even Pei Du, who had only met her for a short time, noticed it.

Pei Du looked at his face and sighed in his heart. Compared with his early twenties, Wen Qiu had indeed grown up, and his beauty was unrestrained and unreasonable. However, some things have not changed over the years, just like precious porcelain. The higher it is placed, the more delicate and fragile it appears.

You don't know how much you worry about and how much people want to take care of you, and the instincts in the bones of the extremely superior ALPHA will make them involuntarily give everything for the OMEGA they recognize. Because of the absence of ALPHA's father at home, Wen Zhiyao unconsciously wanted to take on this role. He has been doing a great job, but it also makes Pei Du feel distressed.

"Let me tell you one more thing. Why does he always look for me to play with? In fact, it's not that he is particularly attached to me, but as long as I accompany him every day, you don't have to make time to play with him." Pei Du said, "This is what he told me himself. He said that his father has a lot of work to do every day, but he always accompanies him at night and stays up late every day to finish his work."

Wen Qiu listened in a daze. He never knew that Wen Zhiyao, who looked like he had no worries, was thinking about such complicated things every day.

"In fact, you really shouldn't be angry with him. Instead, you should praise him." Pei Du said, his voice was particularly gentle, as if it had some kind of bewitching power. Wen Qiu suddenly remembered that at first he wanted to catch the man for trial and accountability, but he didn't know when he fell into Pei Du's train of thought and felt that every word he said made sense.

Is this also a form of manipulation? The losses he suffered in the past have always made him vigilant, constantly examining and making judgments. However, when he looked into Pei Du's eyes, he saw only sincere and honest love.

Perhaps all he did and said was simply because he loved her deeply.

This realization sent a shiver down Wen Qiu's spine. He calmed down by drinking tea and said, "I see. I will have a good talk with him. I don't want him to suffer like this for me."

"In fact, you are the one who is really working hard." Pei Du sighed, "For so many years, you have been taking care of the child alone, and you are busy with so much work. In fact, you don't have to make yourself so hard..."

If not, how could I sit in front of you so calmly, sitting between this multi-million sofa and Steinway piano, and talk to you calmly about the education of our children? Wen Qiu clenched the teacup. If I were not who I am now, I would definitely curl up into a small ball under your dazzling light, tortured by inferiority all the time, and would have to turn my palms up to beg for mercy from you no matter what I did.

"What do you want to say?" He interrupted Pei Du rudely.

"I want to say - it's okay if you don't accept me now, but please let me take care of Xiaozhi as well. I have too many responsibilities that I haven't fulfilled, and you should have more time for yourself."

For a moment, Wen Qiu suspected that Pei Du was monitoring him, otherwise how could he accurately predict his thoughts. However, when the director's idea was only brewed in his own mind, at most Lu Bing knew about it, and Pei Du could not install a surveillance camera in his heart.

He lowered his eyelashes, neither agreeing nor denying, but just said: "You can do what you want, I will watch. If this is good for the growth of the little cicada, I have no reason to refuse."

"That's enough." Pei Du smiled with satisfaction and patted the back of his hand gently, "I'll show you."

After Pei Du left that day, Wen Qiu chatted with Wen Zhiyao for a long time. By the end, they were both moved and said many apologies to each other.

Wen Qiu hugged the child who was crying breathlessly, and suddenly thought of many years ago, when he often hugged a crying child and patiently comforted the child over and over again... Come to think of it, he was just a confused child at that time.

Fortunately, you are always here with me, my baby, my angel, my little cicada. Wen Qiu kissed the hair on top of his head, feeling his heavy weight in her arms, thinking that he was really growing up very fast, gradually becoming fully grown, and one day he would yearn for a higher sky.

So it was right to let go. Pei Du might not be a very good lover, but he was definitely a very good father - and role model. If Xiao Zhiliao could grow up to be like him in the future, Wen Qiu would be extremely proud of him.

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It's strange that Pei Du, with such a long list of titles and in charge of such a big business as the Pei family, can actually waste all his time in Yan City and play with his children all day long.

There was no need to find a new piano teacher. Pei Du said he could teach. Wen Qiu examined the results with suspicion. Wen Zhiyao played amazingly. Once, the kid even played him a video. In the video, Pei Du was sitting in front of the piano and singing. He said, "Dad, do you know Uncle Pei sings really well?" What else could Wen Qiu say? He could only say, "I know. I knew it a long time ago."

So unknowingly, Pei Du took over Wen Zhiyao's tutoring teachers and tennis teacher. He also took the child to hike, camp, rock climb and sail, and took him to DIY a super complicated moving model for his father... There are many things that Wen Qiu can pay someone to teach him, but he doesn't have time to do it himself. Pei Du is like a Santa Claus who is always available 365 days a year and can bring countless surprises to the child every day.

He had done so much that Wen Qiu no longer had any reason to refuse him from meeting the child.

He also gradually discovered that he suddenly had a lot of free time in his life. A seed in his heart was about to sprout, pushing away the heavy stone above his head and cautiously popping out.

"I want to be a director," he finally couldn't hold back his desire, so he called Lu Bing one night and told her seriously, "I want to shoot "From the Depths."

(End of this chapter)