The Scheming Ex-Husband's Courtship-Chapter 665 - 578: A Person’s Birthday

Jian Si didn’t know how long she had been lost in thought until the complaint in her hands was snatched away. Startled, she looked up to see Nan Zhan standing in front of her desk, eyes cold as he read the document in his hand.

When did he come back?

Jian Si quickly stood up, attempting to retrieve the complaint, but obviously, Nan Zhan had already finished reading it. He was always a fast reader—ten lines at a glance—yet incredibly accurate.

Jian Si lowered her head. She didn’t want him to get involved, even though she really needed his help, but after all, the opponent was his mother.

"Not planning to tell me?" Nan Zhan’s gaze already saw through her thoughts.

Jian Si’s silence was an admission.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly pinched her chin, making her lift her head, and seeing his deep, dark eyes, she felt a moment of calm.

Nan Zhan spoke up, "I’m prepared to take on a case."

"What?" Jian Si blinked, not understanding why he had brought up such a topic. The last case from Hengshan County nearly killed him, and she had no idea what kind of difficult case he had accepted this time.

"A case about a custody battle." He suddenly smiled, a smile bright as the morning sun, utterly disarming, "Miss Jian, get your lawyer’s fee ready."

Jian Si looked at him in surprise, dumbfounded for a moment.

He slowly let go of her chin and then pinched her face, "What, you still don’t understand?"

Jian Si understood, but she wouldn’t agree, "No, it’s not appropriate for you to take this case. I hear the firm’s Tony is very good with such cases, I’ll ask him for help."

"I don’t intend to have someone else handle my woman’s issues." His gaze was piercing as if he could see right through her heart: "Don’t worry, she must have been prepared to go to court against her own son."

"Nan Zhan, no matter what you say, I won’t agree. I don’t want to cause a rift between you and your mother because of me, you’re really not the right person to take this case."

"Then do you intend to simply hand Zhengzheng over?" Nan Zhan stared into her eyes and saw a flicker of panic, "Besides me, no one can beat her, do you understand, Jian Si?"

Jian Si understood, and that’s why her heart ached so terribly.

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These past few days, Jian Si had been absent-minded because of the case, always fearing that Zhengzheng would suddenly leave her. She constantly clung to him, to the annoyance of the little boy who would shy away from her, complaining: "No physical contact between men and women who are not related."

The sensitive little fellow hadn’t been told about the custody dispute. After all, the mistake had been hers alone; it had nothing to do with him.

After dinner, Jian Si went out to take out the trash. Standing in front of the elevator, still pondering the custody matter, she knew she was the child’s biological mother and should have the right to custody. It shouldn’t be Helan Ying, a grandmother, who would compete with her for it. However, there seemed to be not a few conditions that were unfavorable to her, and she didn’t know what Helan Ying would do.

Just then, the elevator doors opened, and a figure plunged toward her. Only when he was close did she smell the heavy scent of alcohol on him.

Jian Si was caught off guard and nearly knocked down, but reflexively she reached out to steady him.

He was slumped against her, his forehead’s black hair hiding his blurry eyes, but Jian Si still recognized him, "Nan Yu? Nan Yu, what happened to you?"

Hearing the familiar voice, Nan Yu lifted his head, joy flickering in his eyes when he saw her: "Sisi, is it really you? Are you here to wish me happy birthday?"

"Today is your birthday?" Jian Si asked incredulously, had he drunk so much just because of his birthday?

"Yeah, it’s my birthday. How sad it is, seems like no one in this world remembers my birthday."

Nan Yu’s words struck Jian Si’s heart with a pang of sorrow. She had heard from Nan Zhan about Nan Yu’s past, how he grew up without parents by his side, raised by his grandmother, and after her passing, he lived alone, working hard to get into the police academy and serve in the police force.

The Nan Family had never acknowledged him, and he had never cared for their acknowledgment.

But every year on his birthday, waking up in the morning to not even have someone to cook noodles for him, let alone wish him a happy birthday, was a different matter.

Jian Si’s heart twinged with pain.

She met Nan Yu two years ago when she was drawing portraits in the square and by chance, she saw someone who resembled a fugitive wanted online. She secretly reported it, and the officer who responded was Nan Yu.