Chapter 521 - Extremely Guilty

Ying Bao was a four-year-old child after all. No matter how precocious she was, she could have never figured out the underhanded tricks of those criminals.

She thought that it was Huo Yunshen who had sent his staff to pick her up and bully her.

Seeing that her daughter had misunderstood Huo Yunshen, Xu Xiyan patiently explained. "Ying Bao, please listen to Mommy. Daddy is not a bad daddy. Those bad uncles were not even sent by Daddy. Someone pretended to be your daddy's staff and deceived you. You were tricked. Daddy loves you the most and he would never harm you, understand?"

Ying Bao pouted her little mouth, her little eyes staring warily at Huo Yunshen.

Huo Yunshen sighed inwardly. He knew very well that the intimacy he had painstakingly built with the child was completely ruined because of this incident.

If he wanted to re-establish his image in the little girl's mind, he might need to work even harder.

"Ying Bao, didn't Mommy tell you before? Next time, if anyone is looking for you and they say that it was Mommy or Mommy's friends who had sent them, you cannot believe them and you must not go with them, no matter what. And if they say it was Daddy who had sent them, you must not believe them, understand?"

Xu Xiyan took the opportunity to warn her child again and told her not to trust strangers easily.

This incident shall be a painful lesson to her. She hoped that her daughter would not be fooled again in the future.

"Okay," Ying Bao puffed out her cheeks and looked down, not looking at Huo Yunshen anymore.

After a while, she said, "Mommy, Baby has a headache."

Ying Bao felt a headache as well as something pulling tight on her scalp. She reached out to scratch at it subconsciously.

Xu Xiyan held down her hand in time and said, "You are injured. There was a hole in your head. The doctor has stitched it up, applied medicine and bandaged it up for you. You mustn't scratch it now, otherwise, the wound will be infected."

Ying Bao understood and nodded, not saying anything anymore. She only blinked her large eyes as she held onto her mother's hand, not wanting to let her go.

Huo Yunshen felt himself suffocating due to the tension in his chest. He said to Xu Xiyan, "I'm going outside for a while, I'll be back later."

He knew that Ying Bao wanted Xu Xiyan to be with her now, so he decided to leave the ward and give both mother and daughter alone time together.

"Okay," Xu Xiyan nodded.

Huo Yunshen went out of the ward and met Ye Xun outside the door. Ye Xun saw him coming out of the ward and asked, "Is the child awake?"

"Yeah. She is with her mother now."

Huo Yunshen looked somewhat down. After he finished his words, he headed for the hospitals' smoking room.

Ye Xun had wanted to enter the ward, but he decided to follow Huo Yunshen silently instead.

In the smoking room, Huo Yunshen's towering body was facing away from the door. His head was lowered and the expression on his face was not visible, but a great sadness could be felt emanating from him.

Ye Xun walked into the smoking room. Huo Yunshen lifted his head slightly and saw him handing him a cigarette. He did not refuse him and took the cigarette from his hand.

Ye Xun took out a lighter and lit the cigarette for him. He also lit one for himself and took a puff.

The two men silently smoked for a moment before Huo Yunshen let out a deep sigh.

"Why are you sighing? Isn't Ying Bao already awake?"

"She is, but she's very resentful of me now. She's afraid of me."

Huo Yunshen pressed a hand to his eyes, a pain in his voice, "I think... I'm not a good father."

He felt very, very remorseful, and extremely guilty.

He blamed himself for not being able to help when his child needed a blood transfusion.

He felt guilty that he was not being responsible enough for his child and had not protected her well.

Ye Xun gently patted his back and said, "Don't blame yourself, Ying Bao is still temporarily traumatized. After she recovers, she won't hate you anymore."

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