Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 472 - 348: Welcome Banquet

At A University, her marriage and childbearing were widely talked about on campus, not from her mouth, but by others adding fuel to the fire, spreading through imagination and conjecture.

Those strange glances, she pretended not to care, but to say she truly didn’t care was a lie.

New environment, new classmates, new teachers, she didn’t want to make herself stand out from the others right from the start.

Even if she really was different from others, whether to tell or not was her decision alone.

Qin Hui patted Su Xiaomeng on the shoulder,

"Don’t worry, even if others ask, I won’t say anything. It’s your privacy!! Right?"

"Actually, it’s not really privacy... just—"

"Alright, I get it! Your husband must be an incredible person; you can tell just by looking at him!"

"..."

"If I hadn’t happened to run into you today, who knows how long I would have wandered around the airport!"

Qin Hui, cheerful and straightforward in her speech, made Su Xiaomeng feel quite at ease.

Getting back in the car, Yin Shixiu asked,

"You don’t know that woman well, right? What did you talk about?"

"Yeah, not well, I just told her I’m married and not to spread it around."

Yin Shixiu raised an eyebrow, glancing at her.

Su Xiaomeng met his gaze, quickly leaning over with a smile,

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Is getting married embarrassing?"

Hearing this, Su Xiaomeng found his words unexpectedly innocent and teasingly said,

"Once I’m on campus, I’m just a student. If I go around every day shouting that I’m married and have two kids, can I still make friends in the future?"

"Why can’t you make friends?"

"Hmm... male friends, definitely not."

Su Xiaomeng rubbed her chin, her mischievous eyes sneaking a glance at Yin Shixiu, seeing his stern face, she held back her cheeky remarks and chuckled!

"What’s so funny?"

Su Xiaomeng leaned over and gave Yin Shixiu a kiss,

"I just don’t want others spreading things about me. Before at A University, some classmates knew my situation but still exaggerated and gossiped. I don’t know Qin Hui well, so I thought it was best to give a little reminder."

"I’m going to Bath mainly for studies, not socializing. If I can make one or two friends, that’s great, but if not, that’s fine too."

Yin Shixiu held her hand, looking at the priceless plain ring on her slender ring finger,

"Whether you want to say anything is up to you, I only have one request: wear the wedding ring."

"I know, I know!"

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It was Eric’s first time at Yin Shixiu’s place in London.

Royal Wharf, a new luxury riverside residential community at the London Royal Dock, situated by the Thames River, in the heart of London, a prime location where every inch of land is valuable.

Only two apartments on the twenty-seventh floor, the dark brown door was into Yin Shixiu’s place.

Shuangshuang and Huang Huang blinked their eyes, still groggy!

As the door opened, the two little ones suddenly opened their eyes wide, and then!

"Welcome back!"

With a cheerful shout, a confetti cannon was set off!

The clean floor was instantly covered with colorful ribbons!

Yin Shixiu’s face turned dark, but he didn’t lose his temper, just said lightly,

"Brother Rui, clean up before you go back."

Saying this, he intended to lead the two kids inside, but Shuangshuang and Huang Huang were both attracted by the confetti cannon in Yang Rui’s hand!

Seeming to find it magical, the two little kids stared at Yang Rui with big eyes.

"Ah! This must be Shuangshuang and Huang Huang? Wow, Arthur, they really look like you!"

Yang Rui was also fascinated by the twins, squatted down, smiling with his eyes,

"Hello!"

He greeted them, but Huang Huang wasn’t fond of strangers; even though he was interested in the confetti cannon, he wasn’t very interested in Yang Rui.

Shuangshuang was different. Seeing Yang Rui squat down, she reached out and snatched the empty confetti cannon!

"Oh wow! You like this, huh?"

"Hee hee!"

Shuangshuang giggled, turning the now empty cannon tube over and over, then turned, and imitated Yang Rui’s earlier surprise move, shouting a "boom" at Su Xiaomeng!

It seemed like she was mimicking Yang Rui’s earlier act of startling them.

Su Xiaomeng quickly pretended to be scared, retreating a step,

"Oh my, what is this?"

Shuangshuang, achieving her goal, laughed so hard she almost couldn’t breathe!

Seeing she’d had enough fun, Xiao Meng took the tube from her hand.

"Brother Rui, long time no see."

Xiao Meng greeted Yang Rui, who—

"Come here, look, see my empty hands? Watch as uncle performs magic! Abracadabra!"

Yang Rui waved his hands in the air, revealing two candies in his palm as he showed them to Prince Huang!

Huang Huang widened his eyes, finding this uncle before him very magical!

But his interest ended there; he didn’t take the candy from Yang Rui’s hand, instead trotting past Yang Rui, following behind Yin Shixiu.

Yang Rui opened his hands, extremely awkward...

Equally awkward was Xiao Meng, who had been so happy to greet Yang Rui, only to be ignored...

Xiao Meng brought Shuangshuang inside, and only then did Yang Rui get up, just about to close the door when Eric walked in...

Upon seeing Eric, Yang Rui’s eyes almost bulged out!

"You, you..."

Back in the early days of starting a business with Yin Shixiu, Eric had been one of them, but later left the team for a woman.

How many years had it been?

"Brother Yang Rui! Don’t you recognize me?"

"How could I not? You’re the mobile vault!"

"..."

"Arthur, why did you bring traitor Eric here?"

"..."

Eric had dark lines all over his face!

Besides Yang Rui, already waiting to greet them inside were Chen Lan and the Yin Group’s chief secretary, Mary.

Xiao Meng had met them all before.

All familiar faces to Yin Shixiu, Xiao Meng felt a sense of closeness seeing them.

The room’s layout was similar to when they came to London earlier in the year, except one bedroom had been converted into a nursery, thoughtfully arranged in every detail.

The luggage shipped earlier had also been packed away by servants.

The two small beds were made with brightly colored sheets featuring cute cartoon designs that Xiao Meng thought Shuangshuang and Huang Huang would surely love.

But before she could even ask, she saw Shuangshuang carrying her belongings and running out.

In such a large house, there was plenty of space for Shuangshuang to run!

Eric explored Yin Shixiu’s house, with Shuangshuang trailing behind him, and when Eric opened a bedroom door, Shuangshuang peeked inside, seemingly confirming something before swaggering in!

She climbed onto the big bed belonging to Yin Shixiu and Su Xiaomeng, kicked off her shoes, and started bouncing on the bed!

Xiao Meng followed her in, frowning slightly,

"Shuangshuang?"

"Brother! Come!"

Shuangshuang wasn’t satisfied bouncing on her own and wanted to pull Huang Huang along!

"Shuangshuang, come down, we’ll eat soon! Stop bouncing around!"

Just as Xiao Meng finished speaking, Prince Huang also ran to the bed, kicked off his slippers, and climbed onto the bed!

The two little ones started playing on the bed like this...

When Yin Shixiu came over, Su Xiaomeng was dark-faced, ready to educate...

"What’s wrong?"

"They won’t even glance at their own room, they’re just diving in here!"

Shuangshuang and Huang Huang had often mixed onto their bed to sleep since they were small, even though there was a nursery in their Beijing home, it was hardly used.

Yin Shixiu didn’t mind, though,

"Let them be."

"..."

Su Xiaomeng glared at him with an expression like "the kids will be spoiled by you eventually."

"Arthur, you have such a big place here, can you rent me a room?"

Eric asked casually while exploring the house,

"This location is great, close to my company, how about renting me a room?"

"I can help with Shuangshuang and Huang Huang sometimes when I’m free, and I’ll pay for meals..."

"Arthur?"

After murmuring to himself for ages, Eric turned around when he got no response and saw Yin Shixiu had taken Su Xiaomeng to the dining room.

"Hey, I’m talking to you! Don’t be so stingy!"

"..."