“Let’s play together.” Wen Tingyin scooped up water in her hands and splashed it toward the shore. “Do you know how to swim?”
Huo Yinli also tilted her head up to look at Zhao Chi. “Do you?”
Zhao Chi kept both hands behind her back and smiled slightly. The very next second, Wen Tingyin and Huo Yinli found out whether she knew how to swim or not.
“…So amazing.” Watching Zhao Chi swim a lap, the look in Wen Tingyin’s eyes gradually changed. “Can you teach me?”
Zhao Chi emerged from the water and tilted her head, a face full of confusion. “Don’t you have a teacher to teach you?”
“We do, but I didn’t want to learn back then.” Wen Tingyin drew closer to Huo Yinli. She imitated the way adults spoke and lowered her voice, but Zhao Chi heard every single word clearly: “She’s really amazing.”
“Yeah, I want to learn too.” Huo Yinli and Wen Tingyin looked at Zhao Chi together, their gazes burning. “Is that okay?”
Stared at by the two of them, Zhao Chi didn’t know how to answer for a moment. She looked toward the two adults on the shore. Seeing that Feng Ye and Wen Si looked gentle, she finally felt at ease.
“Okay! I’ll teach you.” Zhao Chi responded loudly, “Come on!”
“Oh?” Wen Ruanqing watched her three older siblings swimming back and forth, splashing water from time to time, and laughing every now and then. This kind of noisy sound made Wen Ruanqing feel secure. Watching her siblings laugh, she couldn’t help but feel sleepy.
Lying in Feng Ye’s arms, she smacked her lips. The noisy sounds around her ear drifted near and far, like a soothing lullaby. With both hands resting against Feng Ye’s lower abdomen, her breathing gradually became steady.
Before her consciousness faded into drowsiness, Wen Ruanqing wondered, When will autumn arrive?
Arriving even faster than late autumn was the start of the school term. Huo Yinli and Wen Tingyin were going to attend kindergarten. Both of them were in the middle class. Plus, they were neighbors, so Huo Yinli and Wen Tingyin attended the same school and were assigned to the same class.
“Little sister, I’m going to school now.” Carrying her little backpack, Wen Tingyin finished her milk and looked at Wen Ruanqing with reluctance to leave. “Will you miss me?”
Wen Ruanqing sat in her baby chair. At first, she didn’t understand what Wen Tingyin meant, but after seeing her two siblings leave, she began to cry.
It was a kind of uncontrollable sadness. She cried so heartbreakingly, sobbing as she lay against Feng Ye’s shoulder. “Sister.”
“Sister has gone to school. How about I take you to pick up sister this afternoon?” Feng Ye patted Wen Ruanqing’s back. “Don’t cry, don’t cry. How about Mommy takes you out for a stroll in a little bit?”
The weather in Haishi had been dropping recently, but it wasn’t particularly freezing. On the contrary, it had reached a comfortable temperature. Wearing a thin jacket, Wen Ruanqing curled up in Feng Ye’s arms to calm her emotions.
“Alright now, crying so heartbreakingly.” Feng Ye wiped away Wen Ruanqing’s tears. The little face was flushed from crying, looking incredibly pitiful. “How about Mommy takes you to the company instead? Let’s go find Mother.”
Feng Ye held Wen Ruanqing under her arms, lifting her up and rocking her slightly. “How about that?”
Hearing the two words “Mother,” Wen Ruanqing stopped crying as much. She blinked her eyes and looked at Feng Ye with a smile, even though tears were still hanging on her face. Feng Ye felt both heartbroken and amused.
“Let’s deliver lunch to Mother!” Holding Wen Ruanqing, Feng Ye stood up. “And take a look at our family’s big company along the way!”
Hearing this, Wen Ruanqing gave a forceful “Mhm,” sniffled her nose, and subconsciously rubbed her tears onto Feng Ye’s face, speaking coaxingly, “Mommy.”
“Little troublemaker.” Feng Ye looked at Wen Ruanqing with indulgence, not blaming her at all.
Feng Ye had personally made the lunch they were bringing to Wen Si at noon, but Feng Ye did not notify Wen Si about this matter, intending to give her a little surprise.
Wen Ruanqing had just finished drinking her medicine. The medicine she had to take was getting bitter and bitter. It was so bitter that every time she drank it, tears would be forced out. At times like this, Wen Tingyin and Huo Yinli would always make her happy, but right now there was no one to amuse her. She kept making “pooh-pooh-pooh” sounds, trying to spit out the bitter taste in her mouth.
“It’s hard on my little baby.” Feng Ye wiped Wen Ruanqing’s drool, carried Wen Ruanqing inside, followed by the driver who was holding the lunch box.
“Is President Wen in the company?” Feng Ye inquired directly at the front desk. After receiving an affirmative reply, she then led Wen Ruanqing upstairs. “Let’s go find Mother.”
This was Wen Ruanqing’s first time at the Wen Corporation. It was such a grand and tall building, with exquisite interior decoration. The employees walking to and fro looked very impressive. Wen Ruanqing parted her mouth slightly, her eyes filled with curiosity.
But it was not Feng Ye’s first time. Back when she and Wen Si were having a falling out, they would often argue inside the company. They were both young back then, always arguing excessively over the slightest things.
But now, they already had two children.
“President Feng.” Wen Si’s assistant looked surprised upon seeing Feng Ye and immediately said, “President Wen is in a meeting. Should I go call President Wen?”
“No need, I’ll wait in here.” Feng Ye took the lunch box and walked into the office. The office area was spacious; one couldn’t even see the entire internal scene at a single glance. Feng Ye directly carried Wen Ruanqing and sat down on Wen Si’s office chair. “Let me see what Mother usually does.”
On the office desk sat a family photo, and there were little ornaments that Wen Tingyin had gifted to Wen Si, all placed on the desktop one by one.
Feng Ye pulled open a drawer, took out a pair of sunglasses, and put them on Wen Ruanqing’s face. “My, look what we put on baby’s face.”
Wen Ruanqing was surprised. She reached out her hand to touch the sunglasses on her face. Seeing that the objects she looked at hadn’t turned completely black, but instead seemed to have a layer of filter added, she was so astonished that she didn’t dare to move. However, the strange sensation on her ears and nose made her feel itchy.
“Ah.” Wen Ruanqing let out a cry, raised her hand to grab the sunglasses, and shook them in her hand. Then she saw the full appearance of the sunglasses. She smacked her lips, and the next second, she was about to stuff them into her mouth. “Mmh.”
Long and slender, they looked delicious.
“Can’t eat that.” Between tears and laughter, Feng Ye took away the sunglasses. “Shall we go to the inner room to sleep this afternoon?”
Wen Ruanqing went to grab the sunglasses, but her little hand only caught Feng Ye’s finger.
“Tell them, if they still don’t produce results, all of them can get out!” Wen Si’s furious voice carried through the door. Hearing it, Wen Ruanqing subconsciously tensed her body, looking at the door nervously, even holding her breath.
“Wait for me, don’t eat—” Wen Si pushed open the door and saw Feng Ye holding Wen Ruanqing while sitting on her office chair. Her wife and daughter had the exact same expression, both looking at her with absolute innocence. The fury in Wen Si’s heart vanished instantly. She let out a brief laugh, followed by a surge of joy.
“You’ve come.” Wen Si quickly stepped forward. Just as she was about to take Wen Ruanqing, she discovered that Wen Ruanqing kept staring at her, and didn’t even proactively reach out her arms to be held.
It seemed her voice had been a little too loud.
“Little baby, did Mother scare you?” Wen Si squatted down. She first glanced at Feng Ye, and only then did she try to hold Wen Ruanqing’s hand. “Mother hold you?”
“Mhm…” Wen Ruanqing was looking at Wen Si. She had heard Wen Si’s voice just now; that person was angry, but the Mother in front of her was gentle.
Can’t be angry. Must not.
Tilting her head, after staring at Wen Si for a few seconds, she suddenly lowered her head and lightly went against Wen Si’s face:
Smack—
Then let’s kiss.