After four years of living alone after marrying far away, he went back to his parents' home and

Lan Yujuan nodded, immediately put down her cane, and prepared to open the door.

Perfect timing! Let's put the spare key we just grabbed back on the door frame.

But just as she was about to open the door, a thought suddenly flashed through her mind: What if the person knocking on the door isn't her mother?

Judging by the time, if Liu Zhiyuan were to take another taxi, he should arrive by now, right?

"Yujuan? Why aren't you opening the door yet?"

"If you keep banging, the baby will be really scared awake!"

Hearing the knocking, which continued, Mr. Lan couldn't help but walk closer and urge him on in a low voice.

Lan Yujuan's face paled. She quickly turned around, took out her phone, and while turning off airplane mode, explained in a low voice:

"Dad, the person knocking on the door might not be Mom."

"Think about it, even if Mom forgot something, knowing the baby had just fallen asleep, why would she knock on the door so hard?"

"Even if she wasn't worried about waking the baby, wouldn't she consider the neighbors' feelings?"

Upon hearing this, Mr. Lan's face also showed a solemn expression.

"You mean, that bastard who kidnapped my daughter has caught up with us so quickly?"

Thinking of this, Mr. Lan immediately picked up his cane and was about to rush over to open the door.

"He dares to come chasing after me? I'll break his legs!"

Lan Yujuan quickly stopped her agitated father, and while making a phone call, she whispered to soothe him:

"Dad, don't open the door yet!"

"It's just the two of us at home now. What if it really is Liu Zhiyuan? He might just barge into the room, snatch the baby, take him back to his family home, and never let us see him again. What then?"

The thought that his little granddaughter, who was lying obediently in bed, might be taken away and he might never see her again filled Mr. Lan with panic.

"You're right, we really can't open the door now!"

"Wait a minute, Dad will go back to his room to get his phone."

As soon as Mr. Lan turned around, Lan Yujuan dialed a number on the phone.

The next second, the familiar telephone rang outside the door.

Sure enough, it was Liu Zhiyuan knocking on the door!

After ringing a few times, the call ended before Lan Yujuan could hang up. A few seconds later, Liu Zhiyuan called back.

Fortunately, Lan Yujuan had put her phone on silent mode beforehand.

She walked back to her room, closed the door, and then answered the phone, "Feed?"

Liu Zhiyuan was clearly surprised that she would actually answer the phone. After a moment of stunned silence, he said:

"Open the door!"

"Let's meet up, sit down, and have a good talk!"

Lan Yujuan directly refused: "Liu Zhiyuan, there's nothing more to talk about between us."

"We don't need to see each other again from now on!"

After saying that, he was about to hang up the phone.

"Wait a minute!" Liu Zhiyuan raised his voice instantly, his words becoming stern.

"Even if we don't have much to talk about, what about our daughter?"

"Lan Yujuan, have you thought this through?"

"Do you really want our daughter to become an unregistered citizen, a child raised by a single parent? Are you really going to destroy her with your own hands before you're satisfied?"

Lan Yujuan retorted without hesitation, "Don't worry, she's my own daughter, I'll take responsibility for her!"

"You think you're the only man left in the world?"

"If I want, my daughter won't miss having such an incompetent father!"

"roll!"

After scolding her, Lan Yujuan was about to hang up the phone.

Liu Zhiyuan, on the other end, was clearly getting anxious.

"Lan Yujuan, what do you mean?"

"You don't mean to think you can get my daughter involved in changing..."

Before the other person could finish speaking, Lan Yujuan hung up the phone without hesitation.

She didn't even need to guess; based on her understanding of Liu Zhiyuan, those few words were enough to make him furious!

Sure enough, as soon as the phone call ended, there was a loud banging on the door.

Then, Liu Zhiyuan shouted frantically through the door, "Lan Yujuan! Come out here!"

Lan Yujuan was about to make a phone call to ask the community security guards to come and evict people.

Unexpectedly, the door of the neighbor across the street creaked open.

"What's all the shouting about so early in the morning?"

Who are you?

Lan Yujuan immediately recognized the voice as that of her neighbor's older brother.

Her neighbor's older brother is four years older than her, and the two families have a very good relationship.

Back then, my neighbor's older brother rebelled in high school, went against his parents, and his grades plummeted.

It was Lan's mother who mediated between the two sides time and time again, and later it was also her father who personally supervised her tutoring and set strict requirements. In the end, that promising student was admitted to the National Defense University with the highest score in the city's science stream.

Since my neighbor's older brother went to university, he has rarely come home.

Unexpectedly, he was at home this January.

Facing his neighbor's older brother, Liu Zhiyuan was clearly guilty, and his voice instantly dropped.

"Feel sorry!"

"This is my father-in-law's house. My wife and child have gone back to her parents' house, and I've come to pick them up..."

The reason Liu Zhiyuan was so arrogant, daring to bang on the door and harass the Lan family after they arrived, was because he knew that Lan Yujuan was an only child.

He knew in his heart that apart from his elderly father-in-law and mother-in-law, the Lan family had no other brothers or sisters.

Even if a fight breaks out today, he's not afraid!

But Liu Zhiyuan never expected that a Cheng Yaojin would suddenly appear out of nowhere at the Lan family's doorstep!

Just as Lan Yujuan reached the door, she heard a muffled thud outside, followed by Liu Zhiyuan's cry of pain, "Ouch!"

"Who are you? Why are you hitting me?"

Lan Yujuan's heart raced, and she quickly pressed the peephole to look.

"Why are you pulling me? Let go!"

Liu Zhiyuan covered his injured face and was about to argue with his neighbor.

Unexpectedly, the neighbor's older brother, who was much taller than Liu Zhiyuan, grabbed Liu Zhiyuan by the collar without saying a word and dragged him downstairs.

Watching Liu Zhiyuan get punished, Lan Yujuan felt incredibly relieved. She clenched her fists, feeling as if her blood was about to boil.

If it weren't for other concerns, she would have loved to open the door, run after them, and stand by to cheer them on!

"Stop looking!" Suddenly, her father's disgruntled grumbling came from behind Lan Yujuan.

"Your brother Qin Zhang knows what he's doing and knows how to control his strength. He only has a few moves; he can't hurt anyone."

Upon hearing this, Lan Yujuan knew that her father had misunderstood and thought that she was still worried about that man.

"Teacher Lan, you're overthinking it!" Lan Yujuan turned around and grinned.

Then she went over and helped her father to sit down on the sofa, and took the initiative to boil water and make tea, her movements were skillful.

As she brewed tea, she said, "Dad, don't you know who your own daughter takes after?"

When I truly like someone, nothing can stop me.

"But if one day I really don't like it anymore, no one can force me."

Mr. Lan stared intently at his daughter, pondering for a long time.

Finally, it became clear that eyes don't lie. The daughter had probably completely given up on that bastard.

But after realizing this, Mr. Lan felt even more distressed. He immediately grabbed his cane and prepared to get up:

"That bastard!"

"Since he dares to come knocking on my door, I absolutely cannot let him off easily today!"

Mr. Lan dared not think too deeply about how much heartbreak his daughter, whom he had cherished since childhood, had endured over the past four years to reach this point.

Back then, my daughter was willing to break ties with her family and was determined to marry that bastard, which at least shows that her parents treated her quite well!

Could it be that for the past four years, he lied to his own daughter about getting married and having a child, and he didn't even bother to pretend anymore, or even bother to coax her anymore?

Lan Yujuan was focused on making tea when the old man's sudden outburst of anger startled her.

She quickly brought over the tea to coax him:

"Dad, have a cup of tea first, calm down."

"With Brother Qin Zhang at home, why would you need to do anything yourself?"

It's not worth getting angry over someone who's irrelevant to you!

"I don't want to see him now. Just looking at him makes me feel disgusted."

That being said, Lan Yujuan knew very well in her heart:

Now that Liu Zhiyuan has tracked me all the way to Xiangnan, this matter is definitely not over yet...