A warm current instantly flowed through her heart. Shen Xi hadn't experienced this maternal feeling in many years, and her eyes couldn't help but redden again.
"These three darlings are so beautiful! Xi Xi, you're truly capable!" Xie Yifei bypassed Shen Xi and went to the three little ones.
The three children were still a bit emotional from the reunion scene and hadn't quite recovered.
"Why don't you quickly greet Aunt Yifei and Grandma Xie," Shen Xi said gently to them.
"Hello, Aunt Yifei!"
"Hello, Grandma Xie!"
The three darlings stood in a line and respectfully greeted them in unison.
Xie Yifei and Xie Han were overjoyed, not knowing what to do with themselves.
They simply kept praising them for being good-looking and cute.
"Yifei, didn't you have gifts for them? Hurry and bring them out," Xie Han reminded her at this moment.
"Oh, right, right. How could Auntie forget that? Just a moment," Xie Yifei lightly tapped her forehead and turned to get the gifts.
One for each, they were distributed into their hands.
"Thank you, Aunt Yifei!" The three children's faces lit up with radiant smiles like blooming flowers.
"Come, everyone sit down. It's getting late, and the children must be hungry. Yifei, ask the waiter to serve the dishes," Xie Han said, her eyes full of affection, pulling the three children to sit beside her.
After Xie Yifei signaled the waiter, she sat down with Shen Xi.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier that Auntie was coming? I wasn't prepared at all," Shen Xi whispered into Xie Yifei's ear.
Xie Yifei smiled back, "No need to prepare anything. We'll have plenty of opportunities to meet in the future. My mother has been living with me since she retired."
"Is that so? What about Senior Zheng? You two had such a long romantic run, when are you planning to get married?" Shen Xi's voice was low.
"It's over," Xie Yifei replied nonchalantly, picking up the plain water on the table and taking a sip.
"What? Over? When did that happen?" Shen Xi looked at her in astonishment.
Xie Yifei said, "Three years ago."
"Why?" Shen Xi still found it hard to believe.
Back in college, Senior Zheng was the one who pursued Yifei. They were inseparable, so how could it just end like that?
Xie Yifei glanced at Xie Han's position. Seeing her chatting with the three children, she quietly replied, "It's all because her mother is too proud and feels our family isn't good enough for them."
Xie Yifei came from a single-parent family. Her parents divorced when she was very young because her father had an affair.
From then on, she took her mother's surname, Xie. Her mother never remarried and raised her alone.
Xie Han was an elementary school teacher and had always been very strict with her.
She had managed to nurture her, a child from an ordinary county town, into a top student at K University.
She just couldn't understand how Yifei, in terms of looks or talent, wasn't good enough for that Zheng Xu.
"How could his mother do that? What era is this? Why does she still have such old-fashioned ideas and interfere with her son's marriage freedom?" Shen Xi was momentarily upset but quickly rationalized, "However, a mama's boy like that, it's better to not have him! Yifei, I believe that the excellent you will surely meet a better man in the future."
Hearing this, Xie Yifei's eyes welled up with tears. She pulled Shen Xi's hand and said, "It seems we're in the same boat, our relationships are both not going smoothly. Alright, let's not talk about me anymore. Let's talk about you. You know, with that mask on, you really look convincing. If we hadn't contacted each other beforehand, I wouldn't have recognized you when you appeared just now."
At this moment, the waiter pushed the door open to serve the dishes. After setting them down, they withdrew.
Xie Han watched them chatting enthusiastically and said with a smile, "What are you two talking about? The dishes are ready, let's eat! We can chat while we eat."