"We've only just started dating, and you're already discussing what our future children's surnames will be?"

"I was just answering my brother's question."

...

Xia Wenxi was speechless at Lin Shen's answer, and it took her a while to realize that the "brother" Lin Shen was referring to was Xia Wensheng.

"Brother...you call me 'brother' more naturally than I do."

After Xia Wenxi finished speaking, she heard Lin Shen chuckle and then say, "It seems he doesn't really like the way I address him."

"He doesn't like it? Impossible, he's definitely faking it."

"Hmm... then I'm relieved. I'll call him 'brother' next time I see him."

If the eldest and second eldest sons of the Lin family saw Lin Shen like this, they would probably be shocked. They wouldn't even be so willing to call him "elder brother" or "second brother" anymore.

After talking with Lin Shen, Xia Wensheng drove straight to his girlfriend's house; he desperately needed some comfort.

His parents and sister are all troublesome to him.

When Xia heard the sound and entered the room, she was about to speak when she saw Ming Huan holding a phone and talking to someone. So she quickly shut her mouth and swallowed her words. She went to the kitchen to wash her hands and poured herself a glass of water before coming out.

"What's wrong? Who called?"

Xia Wensheng came out of the kitchen and saw that Minghuan had already put down her phone, but she looked unhappy.

"I've arranged to meet An Yun tomorrow at noon to talk."

During this time, the two often met in the band, but apart from work-related matters, they had almost no other communication. Minghuan had been trying to find an opportunity to talk to her, but An Yun was avoiding her, and recently she even pretended not to see the messages she sent.

Minghuan felt that things couldn't continue like this, so she simply called her and arranged to meet the next day to explain everything at once.

"It's been so long, and you two still haven't made up?"

Minghuan sighed, "It might not get better. Let's not talk about that. Didn't you just say you had something important to tell me? What is it?"

Speaking of this, Xia Wensheng snorted heavily, "You don't know, Xia Wenxi is in a relationship! You know her boyfriend, it's Lin Shen."

"It's a good thing to be in a relationship. As the older brother, you should be happy for your sister."

Xia Wensheng recalled the scene when Lin Shen called him "brother" earlier, and felt his fists harden.

"Huanhuan, you have no idea, we just met and he actually called me 'brother'! At his age, how could he be so shameless?"

Xia Wensheng said that the other person was "old," as if he had no idea that Lin Shen was the same age as him, or even a little younger.

Minghuan said the same thing to him, "People call you brother out of respect that you are Wenxi's brother. Besides, you know that President Lin, right? You should know what kind of person he is."

Xia Wensheng continued to be stubborn, "I didn't expect to have such a big younger brother."

After saying that, he continued, "Huanhuan, do you remember when we first got together, you introduced me to your friends, and when they asked me... Lin Shen actually told me that their future children would take our family name, Xia. Since his children are going to have the surname Xia, why don't our children have the surname Ming? I think Ming sounds better than Xia."

When Xia Wensheng mentioned the time she introduced him to her friends, Minghuan couldn't help but think of An Yun again.

Before she could think about it further, he made her laugh at his next sentence.

"Isn't it too early for you to worry about the child's surname, Mr. Xia?"

However, Xia Wensheng was already so engrossed in the wonderful life ahead that he couldn't get out of it.

"How about having two? A son and a daughter, one surnamed Ming and the other Xia, what do you think?"

Xia Wensheng was overjoyed. Seeing Minghuan looking at him helplessly, he assumed that she didn't want the child.

It seems the two of them had never seriously discussed having children before.

So, after thinking for a moment, Xia Wensheng said, "I was just thinking about it. Huanhuan, if you don't want to have children, that's fine too. If not, we can adopt one. Look at our Xia Wenxi, she's grown up to be quite decent-looking, right?"

Unable to bear it any longer, Minghuan manually muted his microphone and pinched his mouth shut.

She even suspected that Xia Wensheng didn't talk much in public to maintain the demeanor of a chairman, so he was always very talkative when he got home.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I never said I didn't want to have children. What I mean is, do we really have to discuss what the child's last name should be right now?"

I think it's not too late to discuss this after we actually have one. What do you think, Mr. Xia?

At the same time, Xia Wenxi and Lin Shen were also talking about the same thing.

"Yes, you're right, but Wenxi, I'm telling the truth."

Xia Wenxi suddenly felt her face getting hot. Damn Xia Wensheng, why did he have to bring up the topic of children? Was this something she should be talking about on her first conversation with her sister's boyfriend?!

"It's getting late. You must be very busy tomorrow. Go to sleep early. Good night."

Actually, at this time, ten o'clock, it's not early at all, but when Lin Shen heard Xia Wenxi say that, it seemed like he knew what she was thinking.

Without saying anything else, he smiled and said "Goodnight".

However, half an hour later, Lin Shen received an audio message from Xia Wenxi.

Good night, have a good night's sleep.

The audio was a full twenty minutes long. Lin Shen clicked to play it and understood after listening for a few seconds.

The gurgling sound inside is the snore of the little fish.

Lin Shen: [Just recorded? Is Xiaoyuer asleep?]

Xia Wenxi saw the reply and took a picture of Xiaoyuer sleeping.

[Snoring Pure Enjoyment Edition, wishing you sleep as well as it]

Lin Shen saved the photo and replied: 【Please thank Xiaoyuer for me. You should also get some rest and not stay up too late reading.】

Xia Wenxi replied with an "OK" emoji, put down her phone, and focused her attention back on her book.

On a dark and windy night, study efficiency seems to be higher.

At 12:30 a.m., Lin Shen returned to his room from the study and prepared to go to sleep.

Before, when I slept, I would lie in bed, cover myself with the blanket, close my eyes, and wait for sleep to come.

Now, there's one more step.

Turn on the audio, place your phone on the bedside table, and fall asleep to the sound of your little fish snoring.

Lin Shen felt that he would be able to fall asleep before the twenty-minute audio ended.

He felt sleepy after only a short while.

When you get engrossed in studying, it's easy to lose track of time. By the time Xia Wenxi got into bed, it was already past one in the morning.

Unlike Lin Shen, she didn't need to listen to secondhand snoring through her phone's recording. Instead, she held her warm little fish in her arms and listened to a whole host of "hypnotic sounds."

Listening to the hypnotic gurgling sounds, before falling asleep, Xia Wenxi wondered if Lin Shen had discovered the "little Easter egg" she had left in the audio.