Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 569 - 443: This Helplessness Is the Happiness He Longs For
When Su Xiaomeng came back, she was already met with Shuangshuang’s discontented complaints,
"Mom! Such a long time! Stayed in the che (toilet) too long! Starving to death! Burp~"
Su Xiaomeng looked speechlessly at Shuangshuang whose mouth was full of soup, the little girl burped as she spoke...
Starving to death? I’d really like to starve you!
Su Xiaomeng glanced at her, ignored it, and sat down, then Yin Shixiu said,
"I asked the waiter to make another bowl, it’ll be brought over in a bit."
The bowl of ramen in front of Xiaomeng was already mushy.
Actually, eating it wouldn’t be a big deal, but Yin Shixiu thought, his wife was in a bad mood, and if the food was bad too... he’d be the one to suffer.
He had never been so cautious with anyone in his life, using up a lifetime’s worth of patience and caution to serve his wife.
Thinking about it was quite helpless, but within this helplessness was the happiness he wanted.
"Oh."
Su Xiaomeng responded, and soon, another small bowl of ramen was brought up.
Shuangshuang was very tempted, but when she touched her belly, it was indeed round and full.
She watched her mom with drooling eyes, but when Xiaomeng turned to feed her more, the little girl wisely shook her head and continued to watch her mom with desire...
Su Xiaomeng was eating with a mix of helplessness and amusement.
Prince Huang finished a small bowl by himself, exhaled deeply, and leaned against Yin Shixiu, as if he was tired from eating, but clearly enjoyed it.
Yin Shixiu had not seriously eaten something in a long time, but his appetite was good today.
A large bowl was eaten until it was squeaky clean!
The warm ramen filled everyone up, and Shuangshuang and Huanghuang both took off their down jackets.
Shuangshuang was looking around with big eyes, and soon Su Xiaomeng noticed that she repeatedly turned around to peer over the back of the chair and quickly retracted her head, doing so repeatedly in quite a sneaky way!
Following her gaze, Xiaomeng saw that at two tables back across the aisle, there was a child of similar age also eating noodles.
The child looked truly unattractive!
Eyebrows so light they seemed nonexistent, small eyes, chubby cheeks drooping downward, and even slightly thick lips...
For a moment, Xiaomeng couldn’t help but worry about the child’s future, and what was in her heart showed on her face as a look of sympathy and pity...
Glancing slightly to the left, she saw the child’s parents, who were looking back at Su Xiaomeng with quite a dissatisfied expression.
Startled, Su Xiaomeng quickly gave an embarrassed smile and withdrew her gaze.
"That child doesn’t look very good, right?"
Yin Shixiu spoke calmly.
Su Xiaomeng and Shuangshuang were sitting with their backs to that table, needing to turn around to see, but Yin Shixiu could just follow his line of sight.
He said it lightly, and without much thought, Su Xiaomeng responded,
"Indeed, not good looking... Eh, but my grandfather used to say, if a child is not good looking when young, they grow up to be pretty, and if they’re pretty when young, they don’t look as good when they’re older."
"Then doesn’t that make me who’s been handsome since I was little quite annoying to others?"
Yin Shixiu picked up the down jacket beside him and put it on Prince Huang.
Listening to these words, Su Xiaomeng wondered... why was it so irritating?
Looking up, the man had a calm expression... she was simply speechless, couldn’t help but roll her eyes, and halfway through, she met Yin Shixiu’s slightly smiling eyes...
Unconsciously... she looked away.
"Come, Shuangshuang, put your clothes on."
"Okay!"
Su Xiaomeng helped Shuangshuang put on her clothes while muttering,
"Look at you, you ate yourself into a ball, your belly is so round that you can’t even zip up your clothes..."
Xiaomeng chattered, expecting the little girl to be a bit shy, but unexpectedly, she wasn’t ashamed at all, instead, she proudly patted her belly,
"Shuangshuang awesome! Watermelon!"
"..."
Is this shameless little girl really her daughter?
Su Xiaomeng felt embarrassed, quickly looked around, afraid that Shuangshuang’s words had been overheard, and indeed, a few people were looking at them, all with barely restrained laughter on their faces!
She looked up, and those close even initiated a conversation,
"The two little girls are so cute!"
Prince Huang pricked up his ears, glanced at the person who spoke, gave a sideways glance, and continued to lean against Dad.
Ignorant peasants!
Shuangshuang, though, was sincere at that moment, pointing to her brother and saying,
"Fangfang (Huanghuang) brother!"
The people by the neighboring table didn’t understand, so Xiaomeng quickly explained,
"They’re siblings, that’s the brother."
"Oh, oh! I see! You two are so lucky, the kids are so clever, how old are they?"
"Two and a half years old."
Xiaomeng had just said it, and the other party was already astonished, "Such strong expression skills at two and a half?!"
"It’s alright."
This was something Su Xiaomeng felt proud of, but outside, she stayed modest.
"Your household must be very lively!"
The smile on Su Xiaomeng’s face froze for half a second but quickly nodded,
"Yes, it’s quite lively."
Quite... lively.
After responding, Xiaomeng glanced at Yin Shixiu, who calmly drank tea... but his gaze fell on her.
This time, she didn’t hurriedly look away, instead just calmly shifted her gaze, motioning for the waiter to bring the bill.
The whole family came in lively to eat, and then left lively.
This liveliness isn’t fake.
"Where to next?"
After getting into the car, Yin Shixiu asked.
Shuangshuang and Huanghuang never expected the day wasn’t over yet!
They hurriedly voiced their opinions as much as possible,
"See robots!"
"I want to see Lanlan!"
"What’s Lanlan?" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
Yin Shixiu was puzzled, Su Xiaomeng explained, "It’s a dolphin at Ocean Park, she named it herself."
Mentioning this, Xiaomeng felt awkward again.
Last week after taking the siblings to Ocean Park, after the dolphin show ended, Xiaomeng communicated with staff, and brought the siblings for a close-up interaction with the dolphins.
As a consequence, upon seeing one of the dolphins, Shuangshuang exclaimed "Lanlan"!
The staff paused, as their dolphin, British by breed, had a very posh and noble name, "Lanlan" was like, what?!
Others might not know, but Xiaomeng does, Lanlan is the name Shuangshuang gave to her dolphin plush toy.
"My Lanlan..."
She kept calling it like that, as if the dolphin belonged to her.
Though children speak without malice, at that moment, Xiaomeng felt some embarrassment...
And besides them, there were other families having close interaction with the dolphins too.
Hearing Shuangshuang shouting "Lanlan", some, not quite understanding, started calling it "Lanlan" too...
The staff had to explain several times, the dolphin’s name is "Locke".
"No Ocean Park today, Dad will take you to the amusement park, then we’ll ride the Ferris wheel at night."
"Ferris wheel, what’s that?"
Shuangshuang quickly asked, even though the term was unfamiliar, since Dad would take them, it must be a good place.
"It’s that large round thing we can see from our house!"
Shuangshuang immediately knew what it was!
Her round eyes widened instantly, and she burst out an English phrase, "Really?!"
Yin Shixiu laughed,
"Really."
It was the Ferris wheel known as the London Eye, formerly the world’s largest, taking about thirty minutes to revolve once.
Shuangshuang didn’t really know what it was, but knowing they would be taken there by dad, it must be a good place.
Once the initial excitement subsided, the kids fell asleep in the car.
Su Xiaomeng dozed off leaning against the children’s car seats, side by side with Shuangshuang and Huanghuang.
Yin Shixiu, glancing back, took a sip of tea... his gaze lingering on Su Xiaomeng.
This time, she didn’t look away in a hurry, only calmly averted her eyes, and beckoned the waitress for the check.
