Rebirth: Pampered by My Children and Husband-Chapter 238 - : No Stealing Between Father and Son

Chapter 238: Chapter 238: No Stealing Between Father and Son

Father had said that the code to the safe was their little secret, one that couldn’t be shared with anyone else.

Ji Tingyang had always remembered these words, never telling a soul.

However, Xie Changyan had disclosed this code so effortlessly. Could he really be…

“Awesome, he really guessed the code to our family’s safe right. He must be our father. Big brother, you must believe it now,” Ji Yuqiao said joyfully, clapping her hands loudly as if expressing her inner excitement.

“It’s impossible, he must have guessed it.” Ji Tingyang was unwilling to admit it.

“How could someone guess that accurately?” Ji Yuqiao pouted.

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Big brother is too stubborn.

“If the code was guessed, was that little red mole on your butt also guessed?” Xie Changyan raised an eyebrow and said leisurely.

“What kind of secret is that? Plenty of people know about it, someone must have told you,” Ji Tingyang scoffed.

The nanny who had looked after him during his childhood, his grandparents, Lin Xu, and Ji Zeqiu…

They all knew. It might have been one of them who told Xie Changyan.

Perhaps, it was mother who told him.

Of course, there were also those who didn’t know.

Ji Yuqiao looked at Ji Tingyang with surprise, curiosity rising, “What? Big brother has a red mole on his butt? What does it look like, let me see.”

Ji Tingyang cast a sharp, icy glance her way, and Ji Yuqiao immediately backed off, standing obediently to one side.

“What about the time when you were four years old and wet the bed, then carried Ji Zeqiu to your bed to blame it on him?” Xie Changyan’s eyes gleamed mischievously.

“And what about the time you took Lin Xu’s lipstick and did your makeup while she wasn’t home?”

“And more…” Xie Changyan began to reveal more and more, as if he was going to expose all of Ji Tingyang’s past secrets.

Under Lin Xu’s and Ji Yuqiao’s increasingly peculiar looks, Ji Tingyang’s cheeks flushed, and he growled, “Enough!”

“Is that enough?” Xie Changyan chuckled, “If you still don’t believe me, I can say even more.”

“Even if you say more, I will never believe you,” Ji Tingyang said, clearly infuriated, and glared at him fiercely.

The air around them quieted for a long moment.

Ji Yuqiao let out a snicker, “Big brother, I didn’t know you were such a troublemaker when you were little.”

Lin Xu also expressed her astonishment, “I wondered why my lipstick suddenly broke a piece off and sometimes disappeared mysteriously…”

Ji Tingyang clenched his fists, his cheeks reddening up to his ears, his eyes flickering, not daring to speak.

Suddenly.

His gaze scanned over to the password box that had been thrown under the coffee table last time. It was a relic from their father; even their mother didn’t know the code.

He strode quickly forward in three large steps, picked up the password box, and threw it to Xie Changyan, “Since you’re so keen to prove it, open this password box.”

Seeing the palm-sized black password box, Xie Changyan paused for a moment.

His fingertips gently caressed the box, his eyes reflecting a hint of nostalgia, “I thought it had broken, never expected it was still here…”

As Lin Xu saw the box, her curiosity also overflowed, her tone filled with deep reproach, “What on earth is inside this mysterious box?”

“I tried every date I could think of, and none worked,” she complained.

Xie Changyan smiled and didn’t reply.

His slender fingers entered four digits—0519.

Click.

The box opened.

Lin Xu mulled over these four characters in her mind, and after finding no memory associated with them, she twisted Xie Changyan’s arm and demanded, “Is this date the birthday of one of your ex-girlfriends?”

Enduring the pain, Xie Changyan let out a laugh, “I don’t have any ex-girlfriends.”

“Then what does 0519 mean?”

“Can I not say?”

“No, confess honestly, no lying!”

“It was the first time I met you.”

“Our first meeting was clearly on May 29th.” Lin Xu glared at him as if to accuse him of forgetting the date.

Xie Changyan chuckled softly, “You’re talking about the first time we met face to face, while I’m talking about the first time I saw you.”

He had seen her before Lin Xu had ever met him.

Lin Xu paused, and a hint of playfulness emerged in her clear eyes, her tone teasing and drawn-out, “So, someone fell in love with me at first sight even before that~”

Xie Changyan coughed a few times, then took out three small golden locks from the box to divert her attention.

“What are these?” Lin Xu picked up one of the small golden locks and examined it closely.

On the back of the small golden lock were a few engraved words—

Stay safe and healthy.

JTY.

This was obviously intended for Ji Tingyang.

“When we were traveling before and passed by a temple, there was a monk who said our family would undergo a disaster. He recommended these safety locks,” Xie Changyan said.

At that moment, he thought of their three children.

Thinking the safety locks weren’t expensive and worried about the kids getting into trouble, he bought one for each of them.

But unexpectedly, the trouble happened to him and Lin Xu instead, and they never managed to give the locks to the children in time.

Lin Xu smiled and handed the safety lock to Ji Tingyang.

He looked at the safety lock in his hand, his eyes downcast, his long eyelashes shadowing the emotions hidden beneath, making it hard to discern his current feelings.

Lin Xu then pulled out a paper ring from inside, her throat uttering a sound of amazement, “How come you have this ring? Wasn’t it lost?”

Wasn’t this paper ring the one that Ji Tingyang had brought back from kindergarten for her?

It was the first small gift she received from her son, and she was so happy that she stopped wearing any gemstone rings, only wearing this paper ring every day.

Then, after wearing it for two days, the paper ring disappeared.

She and the maid turned the house upside-down but couldn’t find it. She had felt down for several days because of it.

She had never expected to find the paper ring here with him.

Xie Changyan’s gaze drifted around.

Ji Tingyang also remembered this paper ring, and seeing Xie Changyan’s guilty expression, he suddenly realized, “You actually stole the ring I gave to my mother!”

“It’s not stealing between father and son, just safeguarding it for your mother,” Xie Changyan asserted righteously.

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Lin Xu shot him a deep look, “I never thought someone would be jealous even of a child.”

At the time she took off the ruby ring Ji Yanli had given her, he had voiced some objections.

She never expected him to be so childish.

Just then, Ji Yuqiao cheered again, “Yay, this box is open too! Big brother, now you must believe it, right?”

Ji Tingyang seemed unable to believe the result, murmuring “impossible,” and then left with a face of disbelief.