However, Lu Lu was immediately distracted by the food Aunty Liu brought out.
“Wow, it’s a rainbow dumpling!”
There were four colors: green, purple, pink, and yellow.
The dumplings were arranged in perfect rows, they looked pretty.
Lu Lu held a small fork, but did not know which color to eat first.
Aunt Liu’s dumplings are usually white, and there is also shrimp in it as well.
Today, the dumplings were prettier, but will they taste better?
Lu Lu thought about it for a while. She still didn’t know which one to eat first.
Lu Lu remembered that in kindergarten, someone taught her a little trick.
“Eeny Meeny Miny Moe……
“Yeah, it’s pink.”
Aunt Liu smiled. “Then Lu Lu should quickly eat it before it turns cold.”
Lu Lu shook her head.
She likes the pink one the most, so she didn’t want to eat it first.
Lu Lu poked the green dumplings and put one in her mouth. She let out a big smile across her face.
At first, Lu Lu didn’t want to eat the dumplings because of how pretty they looked, but now she didn’t care.
Soon, the plate was empty. She burped as she sat on the couch with a comic book.
On the other side of the law firm, things weren’t going too well.
On the phone, the lawyer told Song Heran that they can take over Lu Lu’s custody.
Song Heran knew that it wouldn’t be easy, but he had hope.
The main problem was that there were too many barriers to cross.
If Song Heran wanted to compete for custody of Lu Lu, he was at a big disadvantage.
First, Song Heran was way too young.
Second, Song Heran doesn’t have any blood relations with Lu Lu.
And third, Song Heran was too busy with work. Plus, he was a famous movie star. This wouldn’t go well for a child growing up under these terms.
In simple terms, Zou Lixiang was still a stepmother no matter how terrible she was, and Song Heran was just an outsider.
How can a stranger succeed in a lawsuit if he doesn’t even have the right to compete for custody with her stepmother?
Song Heran’s mood took a dip.
If he hadn’t met Lu Lu in the first place, he wouldn’t have been so sad.
But now, he was heartbroken at the thought of the young little girl going back to her home to be beaten and scolded and despised.
Song Heran felt powerless.
Are blood relationships really that important?
In this world, are there not enough people as terrible parents?
Sigh, why is the law still so goddamn rigid?
Song Heran walked up to the window. He wanted to get some fresh air, but instead, he saw the CBD skyscraper, which made feel even worse.
He was sick of it.
Growing up, he had never been this irritated.
Qiao Yi showed up behind him.
“Is there nothing we can do?” Song Heran asked.
“Of course there is.
“If we can collect evidence of Zou Lixiang’s abuse, then we can deprive Zou Lixiang of her guardian status.”
Song Heran was a bit relieved.
He wanted to scream at the lawyer. Couldn’t he just say that first?
Thinking that he couldn’t do anything, he was almost about to give up.
Qiao Yi knew his personality and patted him on the back.
Song Heran held back his anger.
Qiao Yi continued. “Other than that, is there any other way you know of?”
Lu Lu has left Zou Lixiang for some time, so it was not easy to collect evidence of her abuse.
If Zou Lixiang’s methods weren’t seen by anyone, then it’s just her word against Lu Lu’s.
Lu Lu was still young. What she says has no real value in court.
Zou Lixiang could evade Lu Lu’s testimony by claiming that the child was bribed, giving the court what they want to hear.
The lawyer pushed his gold-rimmed glasses up. “Does Lu Lu have any other blood relatives?
“It is best if she has grandparents, or aunts and uncles.”
Qiao Yi looked at Song Heran. Song shook his head. He didn’t know either.
“In fact, when Lu Lu’s father died, Zou Lixiang and Lu Lu’s father’s marriage relationship was terminated. Technically, Lu Lu is not her daughter, so if a relative were to want to have Lu Lu’s custody, there would be no reason for Zou Lixiang to keep it.
If you can contact Lu Lu’s relatives to come forward for custody, then Zou Lixiang is not qualified to hold custody and not let go.”
After the consultation, Song Heran and Qiao Yi walked out of the firm and went home.
At home, Lu Lu, who had just taken a shower, was building a small house with blocks on the sofa.
Song Heran wanted to ask her about if she has any relatives, so he sat on the couch.
Sofas were soft, when someone sat on one side, the other side would move. Lu Lu’s blocks all fell down in a heap.
Lu Lu looked at her hard-built house that was ruined by Song Heran. She stood up and confronted him, “Look! The blocks!”
Song Heran didn’t want to care about some blocks.“Lu Lu, I have some questions to ask you.”
Lu Lu felt the seriousness of her brother’s tone, she moved on from her brother destroying her house. “What, brother?”
“Lu Lu, do you have any other relatives besides your mom and dad?”
Other relatives?
Why did my brother suddenly ask this?
Does my brother not want me anymore. Is he giving me away?
Lu Lu, who rarely cries, saw how serious Song Heran was and remembered their argument on the set.
Does he think Lu Lu is too troublesome?
Lu Lu tried to keep a straight face, but a few tears fell down her eyes.
Song Heran looked at the little one crying, her eyes all red.
Song Heran was least confident in dealing with crying children.
He asked in a bit of a panic, “Lu Lu, why are you crying?”
Lu Lu pouted her mouth
“Brother, I don’t mean to cry, don’t leave me.”
“When did I say I didn’t want you?” Song Heran was confused. Did he say anything wrong?
Qiao Yi walked up from the side, “You scared her.”
Qiao Yi brought Lu Lu on her lap. “Lu Lu, your brother is just thinking of how to get custody from your stepmother.”
Lu Lu looked at Aunty Qiao Yi and looked at her brother. “Really?”
“Of course. Aunty never lied to you.”
Lu Lu nodded.
Aunty said no one in the new kindergarten will bully her, and that she would make a lot of new friends, which were all true.
“Can Lu Lu tell us if you have any other relatives?”
“Brother, why are you asking this?”
Qiao Yi explained, “This is so that you can stay with your brother in this house.”
As soon as she heard that she could stay at her brother’s house for a long time and no longer have to worry about the evil women, she began thinking.
In the memory of the original little girl, there was only a mom and dad.
Lu Lu thought hard about it, but shook her head.
Song Heran was disappointed. “Lu Lu, can you think harder?”
Lu Lu saw that her brother was a little unhappy. She did not want her brother to be disappointed, so carefully thought back to her memories.
When the original girl was very little, there was an old lady and an old man who came to her house.
Her mother was happy to let her call them Grandpa and Grandma, but they didn’t seem to like her and wouldn’t even look at her.
Lu Lu thought that the words “grandma” and “grandpa” were strange, as there weren’t such words in the lake.
So Lu Lu was a little less sure.
She asked, “Are grandparents relatives?”