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After dinner, Li Qingshan left the space to Lin Yoona and her sisters.

The three sisters were drinking and chatting on the outdoor benches in front of the house.

He took Xiaowanzi to feed the dogs. Today, he was going to give the dogs a better meal. In the afternoon, he thawed 6 pounds of frozen beef.

Li Qingshan minced the thawed beef, put it in two stainless steel bowls, and took it out the door.

The three women saw Li Qingshan carrying meat in front, with Xiaowanzi following behind, her short legs making a loud thumping sound as she ran.

The dog was probably starving. When it saw Li Qingshan carrying the basin, it couldn't wait to run to his side and jump around.

Li Qingshan snorted, and the dogs immediately quieted down, staring at him expectantly.

Then they obediently lay on the ground waiting to be fed, with a bowl of meat in front of each dog.

The three women looked at the bowl full of meat, and in just a few bites, much of it was gone. Only then did they truly understand what it meant to wolf down food.

Suddenly, Hyoyeon and Sunny exclaimed and stood up, ready to run towards Maruko, but their hands were grabbed by Im Yoona.

When they saw the dog eating meat, Xiaowanzi reached into the bowl to grab some meat. They knew all too well the dog's instinct to guard its food; if such a giant dog bit her, she might lose her hand.

They were about to rush over when they were pulled back, and were still a little confused. Then they looked again.

The dog didn't react much, and even stopped, waiting for Maruko to move the meat from the edge of the bowl to the center so it could eat it.

Li Qingshan watched from the side without interfering. He knew very well that if Lin Yun'er did this, he couldn't guarantee that nothing would happen, but Xiao Wanzi would definitely be fine.

He had seen a dog bring meat to Xiaowanzi, who was still small at the time. Xiaowanzi opened her mouth to bite, but Li Qingshan stopped her.

Sunny and Hyoyeon listened as Yoona told them about the daily interactions between the child and the dog.

"These past few days, I've sometimes doubted myself, feeling like I don't understand her as well as the two dogs do."

Lin Yoona looked at the father and daughter with a smile, but her eyes were already blurry with tears.

"Little Maruko was born in the United States. I secretly went there to give birth to her. I recovered in less than two months. Because of forced weight loss, I didn't have enough breast milk, so Li Qingshan paid a healthy mother to feed her."

"I saw him, a grown man, asking someone for help. I could see his embarrassment and awkwardness, but at the time I was only focused on returning to China as soon as possible. I neglected many things and was afraid of falling too far behind."

"He always went along with me and never complained. Before Maruko was two years old, I rarely spent time with them. I was busy filming TV dramas, movies, fan meetings, and taking on all sorts of gigs."

The two noticed that Yoona was crying her eyes out, but they didn't stop her. It wasn't a bad thing for her to speak her mind, so they let her say what she wanted to say.

Sunny and Hyoyeon could easily imagine it, and their eyes also turned red without them realizing it.

"Looking back now, I don't even know what I was busy with back then. Was it for money? No, we had already earned enough years ago."

"Is it for my own vanity? A little bit. In this industry in this country, what we fear most is becoming obsolete. This is a mindset we've been taught since childhood: you must succeed, or everything is over."

"I've been thinking a lot these past few days. Before, I always blamed Li Qingshan for spoiling the child, letting her ride the dog, letting the dog and the child share a room, and so on."

"But yesterday he finally said it. He said the child has no friends and can only play with dogs, and told me to stop saying that riding dogs will cause injury."

"I understand what he means. Once I found my child using her own little water bottle to feed the dog water. I was so angry that I was about to hit her. But then the dog barked at me for the first time. I was stunned."

"They were protecting Xiaowanzi, but I, as her mother, had to hit her. I was so angry that I almost cried. Li Qingshan even scolded the child, but I knew it was just an act. The child apologized to me later. Thinking about it now still hurts my heart."

As Yoona finished speaking, she collapsed into Hyoyeon's arms and burst into tears. Her cries were heart-wrenching, and Sunny and Hyoyeon were also in tears, their tears flowing uncontrollably.

Li Qingshan noticed, but didn't go over. Xiaowanzi saw her mother crying and was anxious to run over, but was stopped.

Li Qingshan sat down on the spot, held Xiaowanzi in his arms and told her a story. He wanted Lin Yun'er to have a good cry and release all the grievances in her heart.

Maruko's mind wasn't on the story at all. She seized an opportunity and ran out, suddenly lunging at her mother.

When Yoona saw the child running towards her, she knelt on the ground with her arms outstretched. Although tears were streaming down her face, she smiled brightly and hugged the child tightly.

"Mommy, why are you crying? Did I misbehave and make you angry?" Maruko asked in a childish voice, her voice filled with worry and fear.

"Mommy, don't cry. I'll be good from now on. I'll never ride the dog again."

Maruko burst into tears. She thought it was because she hadn't listened to her mother about riding the dog, and that her mother was sad. She could stop riding the dog, but her mother couldn't be sad. Her thoughts were simple and pure.

"I don't want Mom to be sad. I'll never ride the dog again. Mom, please don't cry."

The child cried very sadly, and even used his little hands to wipe away his mother's tears. Those little hands were clumsy but incredibly gentle.

Hearing what Xiaowanzi said, Lin Yoona felt even more pain in her heart. Even a child knows to give up what they like in order not to hurt their mother.

As for myself, I've almost forgotten about my child because of my career, I deserve to die.

Sunny and Hyoyeon stood by, at a loss, unsure how to offer any advice, and both looked at Lee Cheong-san.

Li Qingshan, who had been standing at a distance, finally walked over, and Sunny breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Qingshan walked over to the mother and daughter, took out his phone, turned on the video recorder, and started filming them.

Sunny and Hyoyeon were stunned by what they saw.

Lim Yoon-a knelt on the ground and cried with her child, crying very sadly. Lee Cheong-san took a series of photos of the mother and daughter with his phone, changing the angles as if he were filming a deeply moving movie.

"Aren't you going to film it? Don't you think it's hilarious? The big and small versions of them are crying with their mouths open exactly the same!"

As Li Qingshan filmed, he spoke with a sigh, his tone devoid of any sadness, but rather tinged with a hint of mockery.

Sunny pulled out her phone and joined in with a look of disgust, leaving Hyoyeon momentarily speechless.

Finally, she quietly took out her phone and started taking pictures too.

As Yoona was crying her heart out, she noticed out of the corner of her eye that the three of them were recording her and her mother on their phones.

"What are you doing?" Yoona turned around and wiped Maruko's tears again: "Baby, don't cry, Mommy isn't angry with you."

"Recording the good things in life, even crying... is a kind of good thing, you know."

Li Qingshan's cheeky voice drifted into Lin Yoona's ears, making her both annoyed and amused.

Maruko was also confused. She stopped crying and stared blankly at her father and the other two mothers.

Lin Yoona hadn't even finished crying herself and was about to comfort the child when she discovered that the child was attracted to Li Qingshan.

"I want to see, I want to see, what did Daddy film?" Maruko bounced around, her curiosity piqued.

Li Qingshan showed the video he had just filmed to the children and jokingly remarked that the two of them looked really ugly while crying.

Yoona teased her daughter by saying the other person was ugly. Sunny and Hyoyeon sighed, "She managed to appease both women in one go. You have to admire her!"

"You're ugly, you're ugly, you're drooling from crying, but I'm not. Mom, look, you're drooling too."

The three of them smiled knowingly at the mother and daughter's childish conversation, and their laughter echoed in the night sky.

Sunny and Hyoyeon took Maruko to take a bath, leaving the two of them alone.

Yoona went to the kitchen and got some soju; she wanted to mix it with beer.

I just poured my heart out and had a good cry. Plus, I figured out a lot of things yesterday, so I'm in a really good mood right now. I want to have a drink and talk to my husband.

"Did you hear what I just said?" Lim Yoona raised her glass coquettishly and clinked glasses with Li Qingshan, her eyes filled with anticipation.

"No." Li Qingshan clinked glasses and downed his drink in one gulp. "I didn't really have to beg anyone for anything."

Yoona thought the beginning was alright, not too embarrassing, but the last sentence made her feel like her face had fallen to the ground, leaving her speechless.

"When you got pregnant, I was prepared for you to abort the baby, but thankfully you didn't."

Li Qingshan gazed calmly at the night sky and spoke, his eyes deep and distant.

"If I had aborted Maruko, would you not have chosen me?"

Li Qingshan didn't answer Lin Yun'er's question. Instead, he picked up a bottle of soju and downed it in one gulp, as if trying to avoid answering.

"I was very happy when I found out you were pregnant, but I also saw your hesitation. I don't know why you still want to have her."

"I love you very much and I am grateful that you were willing to give birth to Xiaowanzi. I am also a father and husband for the first time, so I can only act according to my own ideas."

Li Qingshan opened another bottle, this time mixing it with beer to make a glass, his movements practiced and natural.

"If you had aborted her back then, I don't know what would have happened, to be honest, I don't know."

Li Qingshan calmly turned his head to look into Lin Yoona's eyes and said, his eyes full of sincerity.

"I saw the suffering you endured to give birth to her, your morning sickness, your swollen hands and feet, and the weight gain. I was deeply moved that someone as beautiful as you could let yourself become like that."

Seeing your sacrifices, I secretly made up my mind to love you for a lifetime. As long as you're happy, you can do whatever you want. I'll be there to support you.

"But I love our daughter very much. She holds the same place in my heart as you do. It's okay that she's still young and doesn't have much social life yet, I can manage that. But what will happen when she gets older? She's so smart."

"To be honest, if you don't make a decision, I will leave you with her when she is four years old. We are adults, and we should take responsibility for our own choices."

"But the child is innocent. She has no choice. I would rather she lack maternal love than for her to become disconnected from society and withdrawn. If neither of us is here one day, how will she survive?"

Li Qingshan finished speaking in one breath, without explaining anything else, as if he had poured out all the words that had been pent up in his heart for a long time.

Yoona's feelings at this moment were complicated; she felt touched, guilty, and happy, but mostly happy.

Li Qingshan felt Lin Yoona stand up. She straddled him, wrapped her arms around his neck, and looked at him with a smile.

"Thank you for telling me all this. I'm so lucky. The best choices I ever made were winning you back and having Maruko."

Lin Yoona kissed Li Qingshan on the lips, then nestled in his arms like a docile kitten.

Neither of them spoke; they had said what needed to be said, and the silence at that moment was a tacit understanding between them.

"Mommy and Daddy, I want kisses too!" Maruko's voice suddenly came from the side, startling the two of them.

The two turned their heads at the same time toward the source of the sound, and then looked down. Maruko raised her little head and stared at the two of them with her big, blinking eyes.

Im Yoona remembered that her daughter had seen her kissing her husband, and then she looked at the door and saw Sunny and Hyoyeon smiling and waving at her. Im Yoona suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Lin Yoona was a little embarrassed, so Li Qingshan put his arm around his daughter and placed her between the two of them.

Lin Yoona cupped her daughter's face and gave her a kiss, and her daughter turned to look at Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan also gave a BoBo, and the whole family huddled together, giving each other kisses.

Maruko felt especially happy at that moment, her face beaming with a pure smile.

"Maruko, how about Mommy takes you to the amusement park tomorrow?"

Lin Yoona asked her daughter the suggestion, and also looked at Li Qingshan, her eyes full of expectation.

"Yay! Maruko has never been to an amusement park before!"

Maruko has never been to a crowded place in her life, let alone an amusement park.

She had seen amusement parks in the cartoons she watched, and she was very well-behaved and never made that request.

She was so happy at that moment that her little bottom wiggled, which was a sign of her joy.