He is willing to bow his head in order to get her back to work. Claire really can’t understand Leo’s idea, but Leo agrees so she can’t continue to embarrass him.
Claire is very satisfied and can’t help smiling, “OK, but we just got up and didn’t have breakfast. I’ll have breakfast before I go to work.”
No matter what Claire asks, Leo calmly agrees. Leo beckons Conan to come and take them to breakfast nearby.
In the car, Claire takes Conan to sit in the back seat. Conan whispers in her ear, “Mommy, do you know you were so cocky that people wanted to beat you up?”
Claire glances at him and reaches out and makes a movement to sew his mouth. There is a threat in her eyes.
Conan makes a movement to sew his mouth, too. He sits quietly aside and stops talking.
It’s a little too quiet now. Leo takes them to a nearby breakfast shop for breakfast. After breakfast, Leo looks at Conan and asks, “Conan, Mommy will go to work later. How about you? Do you want to go to work with Mommy? You don’t need to be alone at home and bored.”
Going to work with Mommy? He’ll stand in their way between Mommy and Daddy.
Conan shakes his head and refuses, “no, I’d better stay at home alone and wait for Mommy to come home.”
Although it’s for Mommy’s sake, Leo only thinks Conan is smart and sensible. He thinks the child is a talent.
Leo smiles and asks, “do you want to be at home alone? What do you have for lunch? What do you do when you are hungry?”
After Leo asks, Conan just smiles, “it doesn’t matter. I’ll order myself.”
Conan’s words make Leo frown. He asks uneasily, “what if you were kidnapped by the delivery man? Your mommy will be worried about you.”
At Leo’s words, Conan glances at Claire. She is having breakfast and doesn’t worry about him at all.
Claire calmly eats breakfast and turns a deaf ear to Leo’s words. When they were in France, Conan was at home alone. He cooked and played by himself. If she takes him to work, he will give her trouble.
Claire doesn’t speak and Conan naively says to Leo, “it doesn’t matter. This is not the first time. I will protect myself.”
“This is not the first time?” Conan’s words make Leo more worried. At the same time he looks at Claire discontentedly and thinks that she is so unreliable that she often leaves her son at home alone and goes to work without any guilt.
He said that a woman can’t take care of her child alone. If she is not free, she should at least have a babysitter to look after the child. Claire is not qualified as a mother.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Genius Son Sells his Mom to Dad
The storyline could have been better -- organization and cohesion of episodes could stand improvement, ending could have been more definitive resolving the many conflicts between the protagonists. Of course, the despicable treatment of Leo towards Claire initially, e.g., selling her off in an auction and giving her to the madam of the club as princess is inhuman and a violation to the wife's rights and honor. I was wondering why she did not leave after these maltreatments. Oh, well, the conclusion [if the narrative ends in Chapter 488] is quite disappointing and anti-climactic. Thank you just the same....
The end of the story is wanting, considering how the episodes build up to conflict after conflict and concluding in yet another conflict. But then c'est la vie! Thank you....