Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 477 - 353: Last Place in Class D

Qin Hui didn’t mention class division until now, and as soon as she did, Su Xiaomeng got up and walked right past her.

Class A? She felt like she was going to be expelled!

Su Xiaomeng brushed past Qin Hui silently and walked away without even a greeting, leaving Qin Hui stunned for a good while.

Qin Hui is also a bit coarse-nerved, two years older than Xiaomeng, but mentally probably just a straightforward sixteen-year-old.

She packed her things and prepared to go home too.

Class A, B, C, or D didn’t make much difference to her.

She had always been at the bottom since she was a child, with experiences quite similar to Xiaomeng’s. Her usual grades weren’t great, and her performance in school was average, but at critical moments, she always turned into a dark horse.

Friends familiar with her since childhood always called her the "Comeback Princess."

Also, because her father is the dean of the Beijing University Foreign Language School, the title "Comeback Princess" was often misunderstood as an excuse to cover up her father’s attempts to give her unfair advantages.

Qin Hui knew about it but wasn’t angry.

There was sadness, but you can’t self-doubt because of others’ opinions, right?

Qin Hui is a happy-go-lucky person, and honestly, very much like Su Xiaomeng a few years ago.

Just as she stepped out of the classroom, she ran into Eric and several school leader-looking figures coming from the end of the corridor...

Even if they were all British, not all were like Eric—tall, handsome, and stylish—making the school leaders standing beside him seem even duller by contrast.

Qin Hui’s little heart started beating wildly, "thump thump," luckily her skin was on the darker side, or she’d have already blushed madly.

To greet or not to greet?

Before coming to a conclusion, Qin Hui had already taken two steps back, instinctively ducking back into the classroom.

Although Eric was discussing matters with the school leaders, he had already noticed Qin Hui coming out of the classroom, had thought of going over to say hi, but when he raised his eyes again, the little girl shrank back...

The way she looked...like a little turtle whose head had been gently tapped.

Eric found it quite amusing deep down.

As he walked past that classroom, he glanced to the side but didn’t see Qin Hui. Eric raised an eyebrow...

Hid?

Qin Hui hid behind the wall, who knows what she was hiding from!

Why not just go up and say hi openly?

But...besides her heart jumbling "thump thump thump," she couldn’t speak, nor could she lift her feet.

Not until the voices of the conversation gradually faded away...Qin Hui emerged again.

The little girl had a silly grin on her face, skipping happily out of the campus.

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When Xiaomeng got home, two maids were preparing dinner.

One was named Lily, a young person, not yet thirty, with five or six years of experience in the domestic service industry.

The other maid was Claire, somewhat older, around forty, experienced with childcare and holding an early education certificate.

Both were handpicked by Yin Shixiu after much effort.

Su Xiaomeng asked about their pay, which gave her a shock. She almost felt like skipping school to stay home and babysit instead.

Yin Shixiu even joked that she had no ambition.

"Ma’am, you’re back! Was everything smooth today?"

Lily and Claire could speak a bit of daily Chinese, though their speech certainly wasn’t as fluent as Eric’s, always lending a slightly awkward feeling like they might trip over their tongues.

Su Xiaomeng just nodded slightly.

Shuangshuang and Huanghuang were stacking blocks in the living room, learning the twenty-six letters...

Seeing their mother return, they rushed up affectionately.

Su Xiaomeng changed into comfy, loose attire, sat down in the living room, leaning over the coffee table watching the siblings debate like a recorder over whether it was "b" or "d."

Looking at the siblings, then at the busy maids in the kitchen.

What to do, she was really getting more and more interested in Lily and Claire’s job!

Scratching her head, she thought she really was quite useless, letting such a trivial matter get to her...

Feeling that this kind of downheartedness was really not her style, she shook her head and silently chanted: away with evil spirits!

Then got up energetically and dashed into the kitchen, swaying between Lily and Claire,

"Anywhere I can help? Is there?!"

Lily and Claire exchanged glances, apparently finding Mrs. Yin amusing, they said,

"Haley and Aaron should be enough to keep you busy, ma’am, right?"

Haley is Shuangshuang’s English name, Aaron is Prince Huang’s, both chosen by Yin Shixiu who said it would be more convenient to use English names when they go to kindergarten.

Su Xiaomeng didn’t understand what the names were based on.

Hearing Lily and Claire say this, Su Xiaomeng roughly realized she didn’t have a place in the kitchen.

So she gathered her spirits again, energetically returned to the living room, and joined Shuangshuang and Huanghuang in stacking blocks.

Su Xiaomeng really wanted to forget about the exams, and after playing with Shuangshuang and Huanghuang for almost an hour, she did indeed forget her worries.

Just then Yin Shixiu returned, as soon as the door opened...

Su Xiaomeng let out a "whoop," got up and charged over, faster than Shuangshuang and Huanghuang!

Yin Shixiu, holding a laptop bag in his hand, had to raise both arms in a gesture of surrender as his wife rushed over.

"I was hit hard today...placement exam, placement exam...sob sob..."

It turns out, just his presence was enough to crush all her pretense of being strong and indifferent.

She felt wronged, uncomfortable, inferior, anxious...

She just wanted to tell him, to let him know, to have him comfort her...

If he said it didn’t matter, then she would feel it didn’t matter.

"What placement exam?"

Su Xiaomeng wasn’t afraid of being watched by the maids, just held tightly onto Yin Shixiu’s waist, explaining a long string of words.

Lily took the laptop bag from Yin Shixiu’s hand.

Then Yin Shixiu patted her back,

"My bad, I really didn’t see that email, it’s likely it was cleared to the trash when the system automatically deleted expired emails."

"Ah ah!"

"Ah ah ah!"

Su Xiaomeng wasn’t done throwing her little tantrum when the two little ones had already rushed up to circle around Yin Shixiu’s feet, just waiting for mommy to let go so it could be their turn.

However, waiting for mommy neither showed any signs of letting go nor was satisfied with just waiting.

This made Shuangshuang and Huanghuang anxious, looking up with identical little faces like chirping baby birds.

Su Xiaomeng frowned, glanced down at them,

"Go play with your blocks..."

"Ah ah ah! Daddy..."

Yin Shixiu felt overwhelmed too, it was like raising three kids.

Xiaomeng was in a bad mood, determined to rival the mischievous siblings for affection! Clinging to Yin Shixiu, unwilling to let go!

Prince Huang’s anxious eyes rolled around, Shuangshuang was already desperate enough to try climbing up Yin Shixiu’s pant leg...

"Daddy, hug...Daddy, hug..."

Yin Shixiu held back his bottom, feeling like Shuangshuang was going to pull his suit trousers down!

"Daddy will hug, just wait a moment."

Finally receiving a response from daddy, Shuangshuang tempered her impatience, looking up at the tall figure of her father!

Yin Shixiu patted Xiaomeng’s back,

"Placement exams aren’t that important, don’t take it too seriously."

"I think I might have gotten only twenty points... I knew I was doomed as soon as I finished the test..."

"Even if you scored zero, it wouldn’t be the end, with me here, who dares let it be the end for you?"

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaomeng thought, Yes! That’s true!

So she touched her nose, releasing Yin Shixiu.

Just as Xiaomeng released her grip, Shuangshuang eagerly wedged herself between the two, pulling at Yin Shixiu’s pant leg, shoving her little bottom back to push Su Xiaomeng a bit further away.

Xiaomeng was astonished to see Shuangshuang lift her paws, asking daddy for a hug...

Yin Shixiu squatted down, lifting Shuangshuang in one arm and Huanghuang in the other, left with a kiss, right with a kiss.

Xiaomeng went to get him clothes to change into, dinner would be soon.

With Yin Shixiu’s comfort, Xiaomeng felt much more relaxed.

However, this relaxation only lasted until the next day when the class division list came out.

Last in Class D.

Just at the computer, Xiaomeng’s old face turned red, and she started thinking about Lily and Claire’s job again.