Six months later. Sweden.
The sound of a baby crying was heard in a room which was followed by the frantic footsteps of Lily. “Shhhh.” Lily immediately carried the small baby in her arm and cooed the child as she glared at Zhou Jingren who had followed her inside the room. “Your fault.”
“He is not hungry. Give him to me… I will change his diapers.”
Lily instantly beamed at Zhou Jingren’s words. The man who kept on assuming that their little angel wanted his diapers changed even when he changed his diaper just ten minutes ago. “He is hungry. I will feed him first.” She sat on the rocking chair inside the sky blue painted room. Then she started feeding the now three-month-old Kaen Facci- Zhou. Seeing this, Zhou Jingren’s eyes turned gentle as he sat next to her and started playing with Kaen’s small toes.
“Stop it.”
“This is necessary for his development.” He responded.
“I am feeding him.” Again, Lily glared at her husband. But who was she fooling? Zhou Jingren only smiled in response and kissed her cheeks. Not long after, Kaen, whose name meant flames closed his eyes and fell asleep in his mother’s arms.
“Let me put him back in—” Zhou Jingren didn’t continue his words when he saw Lily glared at him again.
“I will do it.” She said before she started rocking the chair back and forth. “Five minutes.” She said. They said that feeding your baby was one of the most tiring yet rewarding things in the world. Months before, Lily wondered if that statement was really true.
With the cruelty of the world, Lily used to wonder if this was really something that she would experience. Or even worthy of experiencing. But that was before. Three months ago, when she met her angel, she could not stop herself from sobbing. Her emotions ran rampant as she stared at the small baby boy in her husband’s arms.
At that time, she clearly remembered everything around her. The sound of his small cries, the feeling when he grabbed her pinky, the first feeding experience. Everything was so clear and emotional that Lily could still feel the same excitement and joy that she felt that night. The Twenty-ninth day of March. The day that their small bundle of joy was born. A day that she Would remember forever.
“Done?”
“Hmmm.” She nodded as she slowly closed the door behind her. She then looked at the room before her. The Young Kaen’s room was connected to Lily and Zhou Jingren’s room. She eyed Zhou Jingren who was lying on the bed, smiling at her. “Why do you always think about diapers when you see him?”
“Because… he does it every time I’m there.” Zhou Jingren answered without batting an eyelid. “My boy is naughty like that.” He started beaming.
“How could you call him naughty? He is not even six months old yet.” She sat next to him and looked at the new clothes that Lily had ordered and was brought by Zhou Dae Un just yesterday. That’s right. As the person who frequently travels, Zhou Dae Un is the one who had been bringing everything that Lily wanted.
While this place was already prepared with everything that they might need, Lily could not stop herself from shopping online. How could she stop herself from buying such cute clothes and mittens? At first, Zhou Jingren didn’t want to do this as he does not want to risk revealing their location just because of baby clothes. However, his mother promised that she would be as meticulous as she could.
And Zhou Dae Un really did show up looking a little different. Until now, Lily could not process what she saw that night when Zhou Dae Un arrived. The woman was dressed as a flight attendant in front of her, wearing a complete disguise that not even Lily and Zhou Jingren could tell she was their mother.
This was also the first time that Lily heard about the businesses that Zhou Dae Un owned in Korea and Japan from the Tanaka Family. To say that her mother in law was a simple woman was really an understatement. Because of that, Lily started shopping for expensive clothing for her son. From shoes to cute baby bonnets, Lily brought it all.
“What is that?” She eyed Zhou Jingren’s computer. “Company?”
“Hmmm.” He nodded. Despite Bei Tian being recognized as the new owner of Zhou Capital, Zhou Jingren was still the one running everything behind the scenes just as Lily was still the one deciding the most important decisions in Facci Group. Because of this, their company never suffered despite their absence. “You know… now that I think about it… I like this life. Can we live underground forever?” If Lily was going to be honest, this was the first six months in her ‘new life’ that she had slacked though and relaxed. “Slacking is really nice.” She smiled.
In Eight years, this was the first time that Lily didn’t think of anything else other than tending to her son and feeding him. Zhou Jingren was the one taking care of everything else. He cooked for her and washed their clothes and most importantly, he woke up every night to change Kaen’s diaper. Aside from them, a person named Kai was also here with them. The man and his wife Casa had been in this place as they were the people who the Duke trusted to maintain the Bunker.
While Kai monitored everything happening on the outside and did not really do anything else other than look at the computer and check the news. Casa was a doctor and was the one who helped when Lily gave birth. The couple had been staying in the bunker for more than ten years before Lily and Zhou Jingren had arrived here. The two had been really good to them too as they received Grand Duke Phil’s order to treat Lily and Zhou Jingren just like how they treated him.
“I want to live somewhere underground after all this.” Lily was actually a little serious about this statement. These six months of peace made her realize how much she really liked it. She had been used to a life full of schemes that this short period of time where she had experienced this calmness and silence, made her want more of it.
