At Rong Yan's home, the four children were packing their belongings.
Rong Shiyu and Rong Shimo used to celebrate holidays with the uncles and aunts at the clinic, and had no concept of the word "reunion".
Fu Yunlei and Fu Yunting seemed preoccupied, folding clothes slowly. In previous Spring Festivals, they would always ask their father why other families had both parents with their children, and they wanted their mothers to accompany them too.
But they would get angry every time their mother, Fu Jingsheng, was mentioned, and later they dared not say it again. Now that their mother has appeared, they can spend the Spring Festival with her, and their dream has come true, but their father is not with them.
They were heartbroken.
After discussing it, the two decided to go with their mother.
When Rong Yan got home from get off work, she went straight to her child's bedroom.
Seeing her sensible child silently packing his luggage, she opened her arms and hugged him: "We'll leave tomorrow afternoon and be back on the second day of the Spring Festival."
"Okay," Fu Yunlei replied, tilting his head up.
"Mom, can we have dinner with Dad today? I'll call him and ask him to come home early." Fu Yunlei knew that his parents were arguing and neither of them was willing to back down first.
They'll have to figure something out.
"Okay, fine." Rong Yan rubbed her son's face. "I'll ask Grandma Dou to cook a couple more dishes."
Mom agreed.
Fu Yunlei immediately called Fu Jingsheng. The clever little boy first told his father that his mother had been depressed these past few days and looked thinner.
Mom is too proud to apologize. They're going to Country K tomorrow, and Mom asked him to call Dad and invite him over for dinner tonight.
Was this really Rong Yan's idea? Fu Jingsheng was somewhat doubtful.
Fu Yunlei told his father to come and see for himself if his father had prepared dinner for him.
Fu Jingsheng turned off his computer and went back.
Rong Yan specially instructed the housekeeper to prepare dishes that men like to eat.
Let's just consider it spending New Year's Eve with him early.
She also prepared Moutai liquor; let's have something strong tonight.
After parking his car, Fu Jingsheng went directly to Rong Yan's house.
The table was already full of dishes, and there was indeed an extra set of his chopsticks and bowl.
The children ran to their father and took his hands.
Rong Yan didn't know how to speak first. She pretended to be helping in the kitchen, and finally wiped her hands and came out to say, "The dishes are all ready, let's eat."
Most of the dishes today are ones that Fu Jingsheng likes to eat.
No one mentioned the holiday.
Rong Yan wanted to drink, but Fu Jingsheng stopped her. He knew they were flying to K country tomorrow, and that baijiu (Chinese liquor) would make them drunk easily.
The man was worried that Rong Yan would be too tired taking care of four children by herself.
Fu Jingsheng kept his trip to Country K a secret from everyone.
After dinner, the children went to the playground on the basement level.
Rong Yan and Fu Jingsheng sat quietly in the back garden. Fu Jingsheng secretly reached out his hand to Rong Yan, but quickly withdrew it after touching the woman's fingertips.
Every time the two of them are alone together, even without physical contact, he has thoughts about it.
Rong Yan sat there awkwardly.
Fortunately, Shen Xingzhi sent a video.
To avoid letting her see that Fu Jingsheng was also there, Rong Yan turned slightly to the side to answer the call.
"Yan Yan, what have you been doing these past two months? The money in your account has been disappearing so quickly—ten million, five million, two million… We don't have enough land, and buying a house would cost more than that. I haven't seen you buy a new car, and you certainly don't need that much money for clothes." Shen Xingzhi was afraid that Rong Yan would become addicted to gambling.
After all, Rong Yan used to be very frugal. Even though she had assets of hundreds of millions, the clothes she wore never cost more than five figures.
She has been spending quite a lot on personal expenses lately.
Fu Jingsheng couldn't see the screen, but he could hear the voice: Shen Xingzhi was checking the accounts.
Those expenses were all transferred after Rong Yan slept with him each time.
The man was curious about how Rong Yan would explain it.
Rong Yan quickly lowered her voice and covered the receiver.
"You don't gamble anymore, do you?" Shen Xingzhi asked.
"All I know how to play is Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game), specifically on my phone," Rong Yan denied.
"I remember one thing, the date of the five million, we were at a KTV, but you weren't the one paying the bill. Even if you were, what did we do to spend five million? Yan, could we have been scammed?"
Shen Xingzhi felt increasingly uneasy: "The money was transferred out late at night and in the early morning. Everyone is sound asleep at this time, which is the perfect time for scammers to operate. We should call the police immediately."
Rong Yan deliberately became vague late at night: "Is it possible that I took the money to play around with men?"
"Huh?" Shen Xingzhi didn't hear a word clearly.
Fu Jingsheng walked closer to where Rong Yan was standing. The woman's voice grew softer and softer, and the distance between them grew farther and farther until he could no longer hear it.
Rong Yan swallowed hard, her eyes fixed on the screen: "I'm asking you, is it possible that I used the money to play around with men?"
Shen Xingzhi was so excited that she fell off the chair.
She sat on the floor: "Are you serious? Which celebrity did you spend so much money on?"
Rong Yan shook her head: "She's not a celebrity."
"Good heavens, did she sleep with a married man and get caught by his wife and threatened with violence?" Shen Xingzhi jumped up and said.
"My values aren't that warped, I just drank too much, and then..."
Fu Jingsheng quietly walked behind Rong Yan and peeked out.
“Fu Jingsheng! I understand why you two are still together so late.” Shen Xingzhi rubbed her chest. “You scared me to death. Wait, why did you give him money?”
Rong Yan was surprised by the man's sudden appearance. She hurriedly hung up the video call and sent a message to Shen Xingzhi: "I'm going back to K country tomorrow. The kids want to have a meal with their dad. Don't overthink it."
Shen Xingzhi replied with a sly smile emoji.
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The next morning, Rong Yan went to the branch clinic to hand out red envelopes to everyone.
Shen Xingzhi pulled her along with a malicious smile.
Unable to withstand her best friend's persistent questioning, Rong Yan had no choice but to confess; drunken indiscretion was indeed a convenient excuse.
At noon, the driver picked up Xu Nan from Mengzhou, and Rong Yan planned to take her adoptive mother back to K country.
The children came to the clinic with their mother in the morning, and waited for her to finish get off work before going to the airport.
Fu Jingsheng knew the departure time of Rong Yan and the others. Although he would also be flying to K Country tomorrow, he still decided to see them off in the afternoon.
During lunch break.
He Wei sent the information about the men's hospital in Country K that he had booked to Fu Jingsheng.
The boss is really "dedicated"; even while pursuing his wife in Country K, he didn't forget to make full use of his time to see a doctor.
Fu Jingsheng had never tried it in K country, after all, that was Rong Yan's base of operations before.
He wanted to stay far away from Rong Yan.
The healthcare system in country K is considered quite good by global standards.
The man was full of anticipation for the journey ahead.
In the evening, Shen Xingzhi took Rong Yan and her son to the airport, hugging them again and again.
Fu Yunting sat on the suitcase and mouthed to his brother, "Isn't Dad coming to see us off?"
Fu Yunlei shrugged his little shoulders: "Dad came to dinner last night, which was like saying goodbye to us. He definitely didn't want to talk to us, so we left him and ran away with Mom."
Rong Yan looked around, trying to find Fu Jingsheng in the crowd, but all she saw were strangers rushing to catch their flights.
What is she expecting?
"Wait for him?" Shen Xingzhi asked.
The woman denied it: "No, I went through security. See you next week."
"Rong Yan." A familiar voice sounded behind the woman as she turned around.
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