Brainoid

Just as Qi Min and Anton were arguing, there was another knock on the door.

Qi Min and Anton stopped arguing at the same time, and heard the voice coming from outside the door that should be the front desk clerk in the lobby on the first floor: "Is Mr. Anton Yang here? Your daughter is looking for you."

daughter? Mimi? Qi Min walked over and opened the door, only to see a young woman dressed as a front desk clerk leading a little girl, waiting at the door. And that little girl is obviously Mimi.

Qi Min was stunned for a second when he saw Mimi. Children grow up quickly, and their appearance has changed significantly from half a year ago to half a year later. The biggest difference is that they have grown a lot taller. What made Qi Min really relieved was that she saw Mimi standing like a normal child instead of sitting in a wheelchair or on crutches.

"Mom? Mom!" Mimi was surprised for a second when she saw Qi Min, and then immediately threw herself into Qi Min's arms and cried, "Mom, where have you been...Mom, why haven't you come back for so long..."

Compared to Mimi's height, her weight now seems a bit light. Qi Min also clearly felt that the little girl in her arms was thinner than before. This made her feel sad. God knew what Anton did to borrow money to take Mimi on a long trip across the border to Canada for treatment. You know, he had never even left this state before. And now she has no way of knowing how much Mimi suffered during this process.

"Mimi, don't cry, don't cry. Mom is back." Qi Min hugged the little girl and patted her back. Then he raised his head and said to the front desk clerk who brought her here, "Thank you for bringing her up. I'm so sorry for what happened." Leave her downstairs..."

"Actually, she was left on the motorcycle outside." The front desk clerk said, and she looked at Anton who was standing behind Qi Min and was a little confused, "Are you Mr. Anton Yang? Suggestion You’d better not leave your child outside alone.”

"I'm very sorry..." Anton apologized quickly, "I'm at work, so there's nothing I can do..."

The front desk clerk gave him a strange look, probably because she couldn't understand how the little girl's father could be a food deliveryman if her mother lived in such a high-end hotel.

However, this had nothing to do with the hotel itself, so the front desk clerk left without asking any questions. She knew that most of the people on this floor today were researchers from all over the world attending international conferences. If this kind of thing was publicized, it might have an impact on their reputation.

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Although the process was unexpected, Qi Min still met Mimi. And once she and Mimi meet, it is unlikely that they will completely break away from each other.

Qi Min found that Mimi's legs and feet were much better than she had imagined before, and she could even walk, but her walking posture was a bit strange. It was basically similar to the severity of the stagger caused by poliomyelitis (poliomyelitis). It's not to the point of being "disabled" at all. But even if such a walking posture does not affect normal life, such an obvious flaw will still arouse ridicule from peers. This is Qi Min's biggest worry.

Therefore, Qi Min felt that since she could not fully recover, she had to give Mimi a better growth environment. At least Mimi must be able to study with children raised by educated families in the future, which means that she must not be left in the United States to be raised by Anton alone. This is not discrimination. Objectively speaking, as long as he is in With this kind of income and class in the United States, the education level of the people you come into contact with is not much higher.

After spending all the excitement of the reunion with Mimi, Anton fed Mimi two bites of the takeout noodles ordered by Qi Min.

Seeing Mimi take the chopsticks and struggling to pick up the noodles one by one, he raised his head and said to Qi Min in Chinese: "Mimi doesn't understand anything now. But if she grows up in the future and knows her How did the leg break, and what do you think happened?”

"Nothing will happen." Qi Min said, "I will be her mother and grow up with her. Mimi will understand when she becomes sensible. Of course it was my mistake, but I am her mother after all."

"Do you think you can still raise Mimi as her mother after what happened?" Anton asked with a sneer.

"Otherwise?" Qi Min also sneered, "Am I going to let my daughter hang out with a bunch of illegal immigrant children since she was a child?"

Talking about illegal immigrants is really a bit mean again. Although Anton became an immigrant involuntarily, he still suffered a lot of discrimination from mainstream society in his life. In society, among strangers, no one cares whether you are an ABC descendant of a beautiful boy or a girl, or an Asian-European mixed race who was unfortunately trafficked to the United States.

Perhaps because of this, this sentence successfully silenced Anton.

He turned his eyes away from Qi Min and looked at the abstract oil painting hanging on the wall. There was no clue from that painting, but Anton couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

Qi Min didn't know what he was thinking. But less than five minutes later, Anton quickly said: "You can't take Mimi away. You must admit that I have played a much greater role in Mimi than you over the years. Just for writing that lousy article, You can just let Mimi fall from the fourth floor. Do you think you can take care of her in the future?"

He's actually quite right. For almost four years, Anton has been the main caregiver for Qi Min. Qi Min’s experiments are very time-consuming, and most people in her social circle have the mentality of working more or having fun while they are young, and do not have much family. The atmosphere of life, so she didn't take the initiative to interfere with Mimi's affairs before. It can be said that although Qi Min subjectively believes that she is Mimi's irreplaceable mother, it is obvious that for Mimi, Anton, as her father, is even more irreplaceable.

But Qi Min never thought about raising Mimi by himself before. She is very clear about the upper limit of her ability. Being a laboratory PI is already very energy-consuming. If she still has to take care of Mimi, or even take care of Mimi's schooling in the future, she will definitely not be able to control it.

Therefore, in her opinion, the main problem now has become how to persuade Anton to get back together with her. Anton was so determined to break up with her before and even threw all her belongings out of the apartment, which shows that he was determined.

But Qi Min felt that if it was for Mimi, he should still be able to compromise to a certain extent. So she said somewhat cautiously: "It's not easy for me to take care of Mimi by myself, so... I have to rely on your help."

Who knew that her response would make Anton stunned for several seconds, and then he said in disbelief: "I thought... you wanted to take Mimi back to China."

Hearing what he said, Qi Min suddenly realized that they had been arguing for so long. Was Anton just afraid that she would take away his daughter?

"I want to take Mimi back to China." Qi Min said and couldn't help laughing, "But do you think I will take Mimi away and leave you alone in this shabby place to deliver food? I'm not that ready yet. Lose your conscience!"

Because experiments have always failed recently, I have actually been saving manuscripts for the past two days... I have almost run out of manuscripts and the experiment is still unsuccessful, and I feel tired :(