258: Chapter 258 Fighting for Custody with Strangers

After a long while, the woman finally spoke.

"I don't really know how to raise a child, so just let her stay with the agent. Look, isn't she being taken care of just fine?"

"Heh, you still have the nerve to say that..."

The man retorted almost reflexively.

But he regretted it as soon as he said it.

Sure enough, the woman immediately retorted, "If you think I'm not good enough, then you raise the child!"

"I..."

The man opened his mouth, and it took him a long while to squeeze out a sentence, "I'm a grown man, what would it look like if I were carrying a child around all day!"

"Then what are you blabbering about here!"

The woman became more and more irritated as she spoke.

Seeing that they were about to fight again, Xiao Yuan shouted loudly.

"Enough! Since neither of you wants me, then I don't want you either!"

Xiao Yuan pursed her lips, holding back her grievances, and grabbed Lin Xiao's leg, "I want to go with him!"

Lin Xiao was stunned.

Go with him?

Is this what they call fighting for custody with a stranger on the internet?

That couple was also very surprised.

They looked Lin Xiao up and down, their expressions somewhat complex.

Amidst the confusion, there seemed to be a hint of relief.

For them, having someone help look after the child was naturally a good thing.

But after all, they were parents, so it wasn't good to show it too obviously.

At this moment, Su Yu walked out of the house, holding a document in her hand.

Passing by Lin Xiao, she leaned down and patted Xiao Yuan's head, "The agreement you wanted, I've drafted it for you."

"Uh, Sis, you wrote an agreement for her?"

Lin Xiao was puzzled, wondering when this big and this small one had hooked up together.

What was even more curious was what kind of agreement a four-year-old child had asked this prominent lawyer Su to write.

Xiao Yuan opened the document and looked at it very seriously.

After a while, she sighed softly and handed the document to Lin Xiao, "There's no Pinyin, I don't know many of the characters, so I can't read it."

"..."

Lin Xiao almost thought he had met a prodigy.

Su Yu chuckled and said apologetically, "Sorry, that was my oversight."

Lin Xiao took the document and realized it was actually an adoption contract.

It was an adoption contract for him to adopt Xiao Yuan.

He immediately lowered his voice and asked, "Sis, are you kidding me? You're really going to make me, a stranger, fight for custody against these parents?"

"Pfft, what parents!"

Su Yu glanced at the couple with a hint of disdain and leaned into Lin Xiao's ear, "When they were together, they hadn't reached the legal marriage age, so they didn't go through any procedures. Later, when they had Xiao Yuan, it was at an underground clinic."

Lin Xiao frowned slightly.

He had thought these two were unreliable, but he hadn't expected them to be this unreliable.

"And they didn't register later? Also, where is Xiao Yuan's household registration?"

"Do they look like the type to go back and register? They can't wait to break up and call it a divorce! Xiao Yuan's household registration was handled separately by the neighborhood committee; it was never with them anyway."

When Su Yu investigated these things, she felt both sad and a hint of relief.

Such a cute child as Xiao Yuan had actually suffered so much since birth.

But it was also fortunate that this couple was so unreliable, which made the adoption procedure very simple.

Because, in name, Xiao Yuan had no parents at all.

This agreement now was just a formality.

Lin Xiao sighed and continued reading.

In the agreement, he would serve as Xiao Yuan's guardian.

Because Xiao Yuan's situation was special and she could earn her own money, he didn't need to provide child support.

Instead, thirty percent of the remuneration Xiao Yuan received in the future could be given to him.

Until Xiao Yuan came of age.

"Did she say these things herself?"

Lin Xiao asked.

"Yes, I have professional ethics. Even if the client is only four years old, I would never go against her wishes."

Su Yu nodded.

Lin Xiao looked at Xiao Yuan, who was also looking at him eagerly, as if afraid he wouldn't agree.

She pursed her lips and muttered, "If it really doesn't work, forty percent is also fine."

Looking at Xiao Yuan's pitiful appearance, how could Lin Xiao not agree?

Besides, he wasn't short on money either.

He wouldn't become like this shameless couple just for money.

The couple in front heard it had to do with their daughter's money and immediately got anxious.

They immediately snatched the document from Lin Xiao's hand.

When they saw the content, their expressions turned very ugly.

"No! We can give up custody, but the money must be ours!"

"That's right! If you want custody, you should be paying us! Why should you get my daughter's money?"

"..."

Although he had long anticipated they would have such faces, Lin Xiao couldn't help but frown slightly.

They really didn't care about the child at all!

Seeing that they were about to tear up the agreement, Xiao Yuan spoke up again quietly.

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Hmm?"

The man's hand paused, and he looked at Xiao Yuan.

"If you don't agree, I'll have the uncles and aunts from the neighborhood committee help me call the Officer."

Xiao Yuan's big eyes swept over her biological parents in front of her.

Using the cutest voice, she said the most chilling words, "At that time, I will tell the Officer everything you have done, and none of us will have a good life."

"Xiao Yuan!"

Su Yu picked Xiao Yuan up and comforted her with heartache, "Xiao Yuan, you don't have to do this. Auntie said she would help you!"

Auntie...

Lin Xiao was speechless.

When did they bypass him and determine their identities?

Xiao Yuan's tone was indifferent, but after all, she was just a child.

Facing this situation, her small body was still trembling slightly.

It seemed like fear, and it seemed like sadness.

She just buried her little face on Su Yu's shoulder and stopped speaking.

Su Yu gently patted Xiao Yuan's back, looked up at the couple, her eyes full of coldness.

"I am Xiao Yuan's attorney. I will help her accomplish everything she wants to do. You'd better weigh your options carefully!"

"You..."

The man wanted to say something else, but didn't open his mouth for a long time.

A flash of panic crossed the woman's face; she was clearly scared, but still reluctant to give up her daughter, this cash cow, "Then, then we are her biological parents after all. If we get nothing, isn't that too..."

But before she could finish, Su Yu said indifferently, "Whether you get nothing, or spend the rest of your lives in prison, you can choose for yourselves."

The man said unconvinced, "Don't try to scare me. Even if she calls the police, at most we'll be locked up for a while and will be out soon!"

"Heh, is that so? It seems you don't know what our family does."

Su Yu chuckled, "Our Beijing Lin family has at least a hundred ways to make you wish you were dead for the rest of your lives... Oh, and the legal kind, too."