Chapter 8 – Interrogation

While Shan Yijun was stressing over what he realized, Chen Feng and Xiao Daiyu got into Chen Feng’s car.

Chen Feng looked in the rearview mirror of the car and saw the cute little radish trying to frustratingly wave overgrown hair out of her face. He chuckled as he looked at the cute child and saw her look at him through the rearview mirror, startled after having realized she was being observed.

She pouted and laid in the back seat, still blowing hair out of her face.

“How about we go get your hair done first, then eat a bit? Afterwards we’ll go to the orphanage as promised,” Chen Feng proposed.

“Good idea!” Xiao Daiyu bobbed her head in agreement.

They went to a salon to wash and cut her hair shoulder length, after that they went to a children’s restaurant.

They were guided into a private room and sat down.

A waitress came in to give them the menus, but was mesmerized by the good looking daughter and father in the room.

“Sir” the waitress snapped from her daze and handed the menu to Chen Feng, but he handed it to Xiao Daiyu.

“Order whatever you would like,” Chen Feng said casually.

“Really? Thank you!!” Xiao Daiyu was ecstatic. She immediately took the menu and read the content.

The waitress’ heart melted when she saw Xiao Daiyu’s serious face while reading the menu. She briefly wondered if 5 year olds could read, but the little girl surprised her.

“I would like a kiddie mushroom with extra bacon and a umm … vegetable porridge, please,” Xiao Daiyu decided to choose a full balanced meal.

She smiled happily and handed the menu back to the waitress.

“What is it you wanted to order?” Chen Feng asked with a mysterious smile.

“Here ah-” Xiao Daiyu was going to show him on his menu the plates she wanted but she suddenly paused… She stared at him frozen.

“I see,” Chen Feng nodded, as if understanding something.

He handed his menu to the dazed waitress and dismissed her from the room.

The waitress left while deep in thought after seeing their weird interaction.

Once the door was closed, Chen Feng smiled craftily at the child, who was still looking at her lap.

Xiao Daiyu had her head lowered and stared at her little hands, reminding herself over and over again. You’re a child now!! You’re a beggar! You shouldn’t be able to read that fast! You shouldn’t be able to read at all!!

“So you were the one who switched the safety pin…” Chen Feng stated.

“I- I didn’t,” Xiao Daiyu suddenly felt guilty for some reason. Under his stare, she evaded his eyes.

If it was in the past, not even the most torturous experience can’t make her talk. But now, she felt like spilling all the beans in hope that he would spare her from whatever it was he was planning…

She suddenly felt like she was being preyed on by a crafty fox…

“How do you know what a safety pin is?”

D*mn! She fell for his trap! Your sister knows what a safety pin is! Your whole family knows what a safety pin is!

Chen Feng mused to himself as he watched the girl’s range of expressions.

“No child can read that fast , not even my nephew when he was 5. Let alone a child from the streets…”

“Children usually don’t like eating vegetables without being coaxed by their parents.”

“Toddlers would have been crying their eyes out if they were taken hostages.”

Chen Feng wanted to continue but he froze after seeing her teary eyes.

” …. Wu…wuwu” Xiao Daiyu couldn’t take it anymore, she suddenly cried out. She really didn’t want to cry, but her body told her to do so.

It was so embarrassing, she felt like crying even more.

“…” Chen Feng was speechless, he awkwardly patted her head while coaxing her.

“Shh… You… Don’t cry anymore…” He never had a child, Shan Yijun matured early and never cried. He had no idea how to handle a child…

He bet that even kids her age will cry at the sight of a gun, yet she actually slapped it away and swiftly switched the safety pin without anyone noticing. But … she would cry at his so-called interrogation…

Most importantly, no kid her age would know the purpose of a safety pin!

If any of his colleagues knew what he was thinking, they would definitely cry out ‘even the worst criminal would beg on his knees when handled by you! Let alone a kid! Shameless!’.

Seeing that she had no intention of stopping, Chen Feng didn’t get angry at all and just lifted her up causing Xiao Daiyu to be frightened and unconsciously grabbed his arms.

He made her sit in his lap and hugged her making Xiao Daiyu so dumbfounded that she forgot to cry.

Xiao Daiyu: “…”

Chen Feng: *Pat pat…*

Feeling his warm embrace, Xiao Daiyu’s face couldn’t help but turn red. Aside from her colleagues, she had never been close to any men at all. And her colleagues were beauty repellants, all that they could do was release cold air and train.

Xiao Daiyu knew what she felt wasn’t romantic, but rather the shame of doing something she shouldn’t have and even wanted to admit her wrong doings…

Like a child to her parents…

Otherwise, forget about a simple ‘interrogation’ like this, even if it hurt like hell she would rather bite her own tongue off than spill any information.

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