Ten Years of Yearning. My Love, Let Me Protect You.

It took a lot of convincing to get a thing in the children's mind that boys don't wear rings, rather watch. When Wang Fengmin successfully got one of Sheng Ruming's watches which was very big for his little wrist, his mood improved from the sadness of losing Sister Yue's rings!

Even though they did not have any plans to make Sheng Yuexi's 7th birthday a big event, it happened in the end. The birthday girl went to meet her friends who got invitations while Little Fengmin followed her. The little one was busy admiring the shiny watch which was a gift from Uncle Sheng!

"Erli, Fan Fan!" Sheng Yuexi called out excitedly when two children entered her room guided by a bodyguard. 

"Yuexi, happy birthday!" Erli said as she handed a gift box to her.

"Happy birthday too!" An Fan also gave her a gift box which was much bigger than Erli. 

"Thank you!" Sheng Yuexi said happily as she held the gifts.

At that Erli snorted, "Fan Fan, why is your gift box so bigger than mine?!" 

"That… I don't know." An Fan looked lost at her inquiry. "My mother bought it for Yuexi."

"Humph! You should have bought a gift by yourself for your friend's birthday! Don't you even know this?!" The girl told him disdainfully. 

At An Fan's panicky expression, she added, "My Mom took me to the shopping mall and I picked the most beautiful doll for Yuexi, humph!" Her face was filled with smugness. 

An Fan was on the edge of crying as he said to Sheng Yuexi, "Yue… Yuexi! I am sorry!" 

Sheng Yuexi had a question mark on her face as she saw silently. When An Fan saw her quiet, his doe-like eyes began to tear up. At the side, Wang Fengmin listened to them silently and thought with uneasiness, 'I did not give sister a gift! Will she hate me now?!'

However, contrary to what they feared, Sheng Yuexi did not show any interest in the gifts. After putting the gifts aside, she said to them, "It's your first time coming here. Let me show you around."

Both An Fan and Wang Fengmin nodded, however Erli frowned. She glanced at her gift and then at An Fan's. The thought of bullying An Fan further, this thing had to stop and she did not like it. 

Before she could show them around, a maid rushed to Sheng Yuexi's room. 

"Miss, you have to cut the cake to celebrate your birthday now. Please coke with me." The maid said with a smile.

"Oh! I nearly forgot!" The little one dramatically exclaimed. Next, with her friends she went to the first floor. 

With her parents beside her, she cut the cake. When it came the time to feed the first piece of cake to someone, she ate the first piece herself. A wave of laughter rang out in the vicinity at the little girl's doing.

Luo Lixi chuckled as she wiped Sheng Yuexi's little lips, "Eat slowly. You have the whole cake."

"Like mother like daughter." Sheng Ruming murmured under his breath. Luo Lixi turned to him and asked sharply, "What did you just say?"

"Nothing." Sheng Ruming muttered as he cut a tiny piece and fed it to her. As the mother daughter ate, Sheng Ruming's lips bent when he saw the similarities between the two people.

Erli shook her head at Sheng Yuexi's impulse, 'Look at her, does she look like a wealthy family's daughter?! She is the daughter of two CEOs! I need to teach her the way of an elegant little lady!'

...

Luo Lixiang was late to come and saw the function had already started. He came to Sheng Yuexi while Pan Er Jiu followed him. 

"Yuexi." Luo Lixiang spoke in a low voice.

"Ayi, uncle, you are late!" She said with a pout and then jumped into his arms. 

"Happy birthday, young miss." Pan Er Jiu said as she gave the little gift box to her. Sheng Yuexi hugged it tightly and said, "Thank you~"

"Where is your mother?" Luo Lixiang asked. 

"There." Sheng Yuexi pointed towards the way where Luo Lixi and Sheng Ruming were talking with a bunch of people. 

"You play with your friends." He said and put her down in her seat. Pan Er Jiu smiled at her and then both of them left to join the adults. 

Sheng Yuexi pouted as she realized all adults were busy talking while she had to play tea party with her friends and eat cakes!

Erli sipped tea like an elegant lady and stirred her little cup. She had an expressionless face in the group of children while trying to appear quite an adult.

'I am bored.' Sheng Yuexi thought as she jumped down from the mini chair and said to the group of children, "Want to go somewhere else?"

Erli and An Fan nodded and silently followed Sheng Yuexi. The three people ran to the back of the villa, forgetting Wang Fengmin who struggled to get down from his chair. 

"Sister, wait for me!" Wang Fengmin said anxiously. After coming to the back of the villa, in the garden, Wang Fengmin looked around anxiously. 

'Where are they?!' Under the moonlight, he ran in the garden and murmured, "Sister Yue, Sister Li…"

However, he only heard the wind's whispers. He looked at the forest and then guessed, 'Have they gone to see the doggy?!'

With this thought, his little legs moved fast. Under the moonlit night, he ran to the forest and soon his little silhouette became invisible. 

… 

When Sheng Yuexi came back to her mini tea party with her friends, she did not see Wang Fengmin on his seat. 

'Eh? Where did he go?!' She wondered and glanced at the chocolates she just brought (stole) from the kitchen with Erli and An Fan. 

'Did he follow us earlier?! He's so small!' Sheng Yuexi thought anxiously and put down the chocolates on the table. 

"Where are you going?" Erli asked when Sheng Yuexi turned around to leave. 

"You wait here. I am going to find Fengmin and bring him." Sheng Yuexi did not wait longer and ran away. 

"Oh, c'mon. There are servants for such work." Erli shook her head. When she saw An Fan trying to follow her, her eyes turned sharp as she spoke sternly.

"Don't follow her. Sit obediently!" 

"..." An Fan nodded like an obedient baby. His little heart quivered under Erli's sharp eyes. 'Scary!'

...

"Sister Yue!" Wang Fengmin called out pitifully in the open field however nobody replied to him. He realized that nobody was there and turned around to go back the way he had just come. 

Right when he was going to crawl back, a car stopped beside him. Wang Fengmin looked up curiously and saw a pair of black sunglasses. 

The car door opened and the man stared at the little boy.. His lips went up as he thought, 'Yanli's bastard? What a surprise.'