Love Me As You Love Him

26

"good morning baby."greet zhan.
""good morning papa."
"come sit. we are going ti have breakfast. you must be hungry."
"ok"

before sizhui able to bite his food mr.xiao said "wash your hand first before eat." sizhui looked at his father. "yes, go baby. remember you have to watch your hand before and after your eat. it for your hygiene." reply zhan still cooking pancake.

"it already a lot zhan. i think it enough. i dont want to eat pancake again for lunch."say mr xiao. hearing this sizhui laughing. "papa always overcook. we only got 3 persons in this house. why bother cook many." reply sizhui. "hey you only a baby. how could you talk much huh." said zhan tickling his baby after turn off the stove. all of them laughing. the breakfast become full of the laughing and smilling.

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boom!! the sound of the door opening loudly. saw mrs Wang standing in front of the door in an angry state. everyone stopped doing their work and looked at mrs Wang. yibo who was busy looking at documents while listening to the presentation from the marketing department was interrupted by the presence of mrs wang.

"I'm sorry sir. I forbade..." the words of the young lady who was the receptionist there were cut off by yibo who signaled to leave. The young woman understood and immediately left the meeting room.

"Oh, here you are apparently. Mom is looking for you all over the place." mrs wang was angry"what do you want?" asked Yibo"why did you remove mother from the shareholders in this company?"yibo glared at his mother before telling his workers to continue their presentation.

"WANG YIBO!!! answer mother's question." Ms. Wang shouted as she grabbed the document in Yibo's hand and threw it on the floor. Yibo took a deep breath before answering. "pick it up again." yibo's mother was surprised by what yibo said. "what?" asked mrs yibo in disbelief.

"I said quote the document. You want to know why I removed you as a shareholder because you are useless to this company. I don't want to keep people who do not provide any service or ideas to advance this company. I will not waste my money employ those of you who don't do any work. It's better to use that salary to raise the salaries of those who have worked hard here." said yibo, making everyone there surprised. yibo always let his mother go and ignored her but this time he got back at his mother.

"you can't do that to me. I'm your mother.""You are just my mother who gave birth to me and you are related by blood to me but not to my money. My money belongs to me alone. This is my company. I can do whatever I want and I work hard to develop this company without your help. Now I have answered your question so please pick up the document you threw on the floor, my mother."

mrs yibo felt angry and embarrassed. he immediately collected the document and put it on yibo's desk before rushing out of the room but before he passed the door of the room yibo said "I have banked the money into your account. that is my last money from this company for you. do not disturb me or my father . you have divorced my father and have gotten a lot of money from my father by taking almost 80% of my father's business. you have also taken my father's life and don't forget that you have taken my life too. I hope this is the last time I see you and don't appear in front of me or my company again. from today you are not my mother. thank you for giving birth to me." yibo said long. these are the words that yibo has spoken since 5 years ago. "continue your presentation. sorry for the delay." said yibo.

listening to this, mrs wang's heart felt torn. he's starting to realize his mistakes but he still has a strong ego and he won't bow to that. he quickly passed while wiping his tears.

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just finished the meeting, yibo immediately left the building and started getting in his car to go to a restaurant. he has another meeting with his partner there. he took out sizhui's phone and saw that there was a new missed call from 'papa❤️' yibo giggled when he saw the caller's name. he is sure this must be zhan. "hmm driver chen, can you take this phone to the call center to reset the password." said yibo to his deiver as he handed the phone to his driver. at first yibo intended to go by himself but he was too busy to do so.

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zhan put his phone back in his work locker after sending a few messages to sizhui. he must have had someone pick him up and the phone was on. "zhan, let's do the work again." said auntie susan. "alright." answered zhan and immediately followed auntie susan into the factory.

I have been working here for 3 years. as long as he worked here auntie susan often helped him. he also found an empty house for him to rent in that flat and the price was cheap and still within Zhan's budget.

Zhan's salary is not much but he is grateful to be able to survive in this country. auntie susan also often helps him by showing where to find cheap items. sometimes she would follow auntie susan to houses that were holding bargain sales on their used goods. there Zhan can buy cheap electrical appliances and sometimes still beautiful clothes, games and books for the family.

if zhan has more money he will follow uncle david to the warehouse sale. there he will buy an old warehouse containing items for resale. but this business is like a gamble for Zhan but Zhan still does it if he can afford it because if he is lucky he will get a lot of returns from the sale of goods in the warehouse. this is like extra money for Zhan.

zhan's father does not do any work. he just stays at home to take care of the house and zhan's children. Zhan's father was infected with pulmonary edema. This makes Zhan's father often short of breath. so he would drop off and pick up sizhui by walking or cycling to kindergarten, buy groceries and pay all the bills.

Zhan will give half of his salary to his father. thus Zhan's father is responsible for doing everything related to daily needs, household matters and sizhui. Zhan's father also sells cakes to those who want them. Zhan's father doesn't always get orders and only the people around my flat know and buy from him. This is the only thing Zhan's father can do to lighten Zhan's burden.

sometimes Zhan's father will collect empty cans to sell. usually zhan's father would do it after taking sizhui at school. he and sizhui would go around on bicycles with plastic waste to collect and when there was a lot he would sell it to scrap metal buyers in the city.

sometimes sizhui's school friends will make fun of him as a trash child because of mr xiao's behavior but he never cares or feels sad because to him the taunts are only at school. when at home he has many friends. they will play together under the flat. under the flat is where the motorbikes and mailboxes of the residents of the flat are parked. that's where sizhui often plays with his friends in the flat.