Ye Xinning successfully met Su Wan at the restaurant half an hour later.
Having not seen each other for a long time, Su Wan brought Ye Zhimu another gift.
Ye Zhimu threw herself into her arms and showered her face with kisses, saying, "Thank you, Aunt Wanwan. I love you so much! I missed you so much!"
Ye Xinnian looked at his exaggerated daughter and could hardly bear to look at her.
Who did her daughter get her flamboyant personality from? She doesn't resemble her mother or Shen Lin at all.
Ye Xinning pulled Ye Zhimu back, "Alright, your Aunt Wanwan knows what you like. Stay away and don't ruin her carefully done makeup."
Ye Zhimu looked at her with a pitiful expression, "Mom, are you disgusted with me?"
Ye Xinning had a bit of a headache. "Why don't you ask your Aunt Wanwan if she'll mind?"
"Of course Aunt Wan doesn't mind. She likes me so much. It's my fault for making Mom annoyed. It's all my fault."
Ye Xinning, "..."
She glanced at Su Wan, who was laughing uncontrollably.
Ye Xinning ground her back teeth. If she could, she really wanted to pretend she didn't know Ye Zhimu, this little drama queen.
Looking at the mother and daughter, Su Wan couldn't help but laugh and said, "Alright, alright, stop fooling around, sit down and eat."
After sitting down, Ye Xinning spoke to Su Wan, "You've been back in Jiangcheng for a while now, haven't you?"
Ye Xinning nodded. "It has indeed been some time."
As Su Wan ladled soup, she said with a hint of teasing, "I didn't expect you to come back so soon."
Just by hearing these words, Ye Xinning knew what Su Wan meant. "You think I'll stay in Nancheng? Because of Shen Lin?"
"It's not that I thought so, it's just that I didn't expect Shen Lin to actually bring you back. It's clear that he hasn't given it his all yet," Su Wan said with a long sigh.
Ye Xinning felt a little strange, thinking about the scene of seeing Shen Lin and Bai Yueshu meet today.
“We’ve been apart for so long, it’s only natural that he wants to start a new life.”
Su Wan sensed something was off about those words. "What's wrong? Something doesn't sound right to me."
Ye Xinning shook her head and said, "It's nothing."
At this moment, little Ye Zhimu interjected, "It's not that it's nothing, it's that I'm about to have a stepmother."
Ye Xinning, "..."
Su Wan, "..."
Su Wan looked at Ye Xinning in surprise, "So, Shen Lin, you have a girlfriend?"
Ye Xinning rubbed her temples, wondering how the topic had turned out this way. "There's someone named Bai Yueshu who likes him. As for whether Shen Lin likes him or not, or whether they'll get together, I don't know."
"Then why would Mu Mu say that she's about to have a stepmother?"
"She's talking nonsense, don't take it to heart."
Su Wan let out a long "oh," and seeing Ye Xinning with her head down, she asked again, "What are you thinking right now? Aren't you jealous?"
Ye Xinning, "...No."
Su Wan was skeptical. "Really not?"
"No."
Su Wan smiled and stopped guessing.
After dinner, the two took Ye Zhimu home.
When Ye Xinning arrived downstairs, he stopped the car, looked up, and saw Wen Zhu standing by the car not far away.
She was stunned.
Su Wan also saw Wen Zhu. She smiled, looked at Ye Xinning, and asked, "Didn't you say you found a girlfriend? Why are you here downstairs again?"
Ye Xinning lowered her eyes and said nothing. "Let's go."
After getting out of the car, Wenzhu quickly came to them, "Miss Su, Madam, Miss."
Ye Xinning nodded to Wen Zhu, "What brings Assistant Wen here?"
"President Shen is in Jiangcheng on a business trip and has been thinking about how long it has been since he saw Miss. He asked me to come and pick her up for the night. What do you think, Madam?"
Ye Xinning looked towards the car over there. Wen Zhu probably noticed her gaze and explained awkwardly, "President Shen has some urgent matters to attend to, so he won't get out of the car."
Ye Xinning withdrew her gaze, paused for a few seconds, and then spoke, "Please have Assistant Wen come with me upstairs to pack our things."
Wen Zhu breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Ye Xinning agreed to take Ye Zhimu away; otherwise, she really wouldn't know what to say next.
Wenzhu went upstairs, and Ye Xinning packed some of Ye Zhimu's things for her.
He then said to Ye Zhimu, "When you go to your father's, you must be good and not throw a tantrum. Your father will take you to kindergarten tomorrow morning, and I will pick you up after get off work tomorrow night."
Ye Zhimu pouted and said dejectedly, "You're really carefree. What if Dad takes me away? Aren't you afraid you won't be able to see me again?"
No, it won't.
Ye Xinning said with certainty.
Ye Zhimu waved her hand, "Okay, I'm leaving now. Don't miss me too much."
"Okay, go ahead."
After Wenzhu left with Ye Zhimu, Su Wan stood in front of the French windows for a long time.
Seeing Ye Xinning sitting calmly on the sofa without moving, Su Wan walked over and teased, "You really are calm. It seems you're not afraid of Shen Lin bringing Mu Mu."
Ye Xinning played with her fingernails. "He wouldn't. If he wanted custody of Mu Mu, he wouldn't have let me bring Mu Mu back to Jiangcheng."
"You two understand each other so well, yet things just didn't work out. But speaking of which, is Shen Lin really going to let go? You're a smart person, you don't really think what Wen Zhu said about being busy with work is true, do you?"
"Otherwise what? Did I tell Wenzhu frankly that Shen Lin was deliberately avoiding me and that's why he didn't get out of the car?" Ye Xinning's tone was very calm, so calm that others couldn't see what her current emotions were.
Su Wan sighed, "Well, you decide for yourself."
...
The next morning, Ye Xinning got up, washed up, and came to the living room. Su Wan was sitting on the sofa and waved to her when she saw her come out.
Good morning, come and sit down.
Ye Xinning rubbed her shoulders. "Good morning, what are you doing up so early?"
"I can't sleep."
Ye Xinning nodded, "Okay, I'll go make breakfast. You rest."
Su Wan said, "It's rare that Mu Mu isn't around, why bother making breakfast? Don't bother."
"Then what should we eat?"
"I ordered takeout. Sit down, I have something to tell you."
Ye Xinning sat down next to Su Wan and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong? Why are you being so mysterious? Is something important?"
Su Wan held the tablet up to her face. "Take a look."
Ye Xinning's gaze fell on the tablet.
There was a photograph and a piece of text on it.
— Shen Linjin, president of the Shen Group in Nancheng, has been frequently visiting Jiangcheng recently, seemingly to associate with Bai Yueshu, the daughter of the Bai family.
Ye Xinning looked at the photo carefully. She was very familiar with the background of the photo; it was the place where she had met Bai Yueshu yesterday.
In the photo, Shen Lin and Bai Yueshu are sitting opposite each other. Bai Yueshu has a smile on her face, while Shen Lin has his arms crossed and a faint smile on his lips. They look like a perfect match and do indeed seem to be dating.
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