Inside the Villa No. 3 at Hua Ban Li, Yin Xi saw off Mei Yun and the other two after they had dinner. Afterwards, she walked towards the second floor alone.
Without the children's boisterous noise at home, Yin Xi felt an emptiness in her heart.
Passing Chen Chen's room, she couldn't help but gently push the door open and walk in.
When she was frantically looking for something that afternoon, the room had been in disarray, but it had all been tidied up by the nanny, Xiao Lian.
She walked over slowly and sat by the desk beside the bed.
Recalling how the three of them had sneakily played games here not long ago, Yin Xi couldn't help but smile.
She was so busy every day and had never paid attention to what games they liked to play.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but open a drawer, wanting to take a look.
She suddenly remembered that the tablet had been packed into Chen Chen's clothes by her that afternoon and taken to Xing Lan Bay.
No, she had also bought a tablet for Chen Chen when she was in Country B, so that one should still be here.
As expected, Yin Xi found the tablet she had bought in the second drawer of the desk.
When she turned on the screen, she discovered that it was password-protected.
She chuckled, "This child, I trust him so much, letting him use the tablet, but he wouldn't hide anything private from me, would he?"
Yin Xi thought for a moment and entered the birthdays of the three children, but it was incorrect.
It seemed that Chen Chen was indeed keeping things from her, which only made her more curious.
She pondered for a moment, then entered another string of numbers, and it unlocked.
It was the date they returned to the country. It seemed that he attached great importance to that date.
Her lips curved slightly, and she swiped across the screen a few times. There were some commonly used software and a few mini-games.
Suddenly, she saw the WeChat icon. How could this child have WeChat? Did he have WeChat friends?
Yin Xi curiously clicked on it and found that there was only one friend, and it was Qin Si Ye.
How was this possible? Could it be that they had been in contact for a long time?
When Yin Xi opened the chat history, her eyes widened in shock.
The duration and the amount of content were so much that she was momentarily overwhelmed.
Flipping to the very top and seeing the date, it was shortly after they returned to the country.
If she remembered correctly, it should have been when Qin Si Ye was arguing with Lu Yu Shan online.
Good heavens, it had been several months since then.
It wasn't hard to imagine that Shuo Shuo and Yan Yan must have also participated.
Their coordination as a father and three sons was quite tacit, and she hadn't noticed anything at all.
Yin Xi browsed through the content from beginning to end. As she read, tears began to flow involuntarily.
Every sentence on it was like a sharp needle, piercing her heart.
The words revealed the children's longing for their father and Qin Si Ye's deep affection for her.
Especially the trip to Longcheng Amusement Park. It turned out they had arranged it privately beforehand. No wonder they had had so much fun that day and their coordination was seamless.
As for her, she had always wanted to clarify everything, keeping the truth hidden, and had never seriously considered their feelings, letting them, father and sons, suffer so much torment for so many days.
Thinking about it now, was she too selfish?
After Yin Xi finished reading the content, her heart felt like it was being sliced by a knife. She slumped onto the table and sobbed out loud.
After a long while, she finally calmed her emotions. She took out her phone, intending to send a message to Qin Si Ye to tell him that she would pick up Shuo Shuo for his Rubik's Cube class tomorrow.
As soon as she opened WeChat, she saw a friend request in her contacts.
She gently clicked on it and saw the verification request written as follows:
"Mommy, it's Chen Chen. Add me quickly."
Tears instantly blurred Yin Xi's eyes. Her hands trembled slightly, and she quickly clicked to agree, writing a sentence on it and sending it.
"Chen Chen, is it really you?"
The reply came quickly: "It's me, Mommy. Shuo Shuo and Yan Yan are also here with me."
Yin Xi raised her hand and gently wiped away the tear stains at the corner of her eyes. "That's great. Are you all doing well there?"
"Very well, Mommy, you don't need to worry. Daddy hired many nannies to take care of us. It's just that we miss you so much, we want to video call you." Chen Chen replied with a long paragraph of text.
"Okay. Mommy misses you too." After replying, Yin Xi immediately clicked on the video call request.
In an instant, three adorable little avatars appeared on the phone screen.