"Mom, come play with us!" a chubby little girl with rosy cheeks ran towards Lan Yuxi, giggling.
Lan Yuxi quickly got up from the rocking chair and hugged her.
A little boy, looking serious, walked over. "Lan Mumu, you're almost three and a half years old. You're not a little kid anymore. Don't always cling to Mom!"
Lan Yuxi affectionately pinched his cheek. "Chaoxiao, even if you and Mumu live to be a hundred, in Mom's eyes, you'll always be children."
Chaoxiao's little face instantly turned red from Lan Yuxi's pinch.
Lan Yuxi watched him with amusement, suddenly feeling like teasing him. She bent down and kissed his cheek.
Chaoxiao froze for a moment, then turned and ran away.
"Hahaha..." Lan Yuxi laughed heartily.
Mumu hugged her neck, pouting. "Mom, I want a kiss too~"
"Okay, Mom will kiss you~"
"Mwah~ Mwah~" Lan Yuxi kissed her twice.
Mumu smiled, her eyes crinkling with contentment.
Luo Wanqi walked over with a smile. "You bad mom, you've made my godson so shy."
Lan Yuxi glanced at the small figure about to disappear through the door and smiled, patting her daughter's little bottom. "Go help Mom talk to your brother."
"Okay~" Mumu slid from her mother's embrace, muttering as she ran, "It's just a kiss, what's there to be shy about."
Luo Wanqi shook her head with a smile. "Mumu's personality is like yours, while Chaoxiao is like..."
Lan Yuxi's eyes darkened slightly, and she pulled Luo Wanqi to sit down.
"Wanqi, I remember everything now."
Luo Wanqi was taken aback, then tightly gripped her hand. "You remember the part about giving birth?"
"Yes. Not only do I remember, but I also know who that woman is."
"Who?" Luo Wanqi's grip tightened.
That woman had nearly killed Yuxi. If she found out who she was, she wouldn't let her off.
Of course, she didn't want to let Nan Xiao off either, but Yuxi had forgotten that period and was still as good to Nan Xiao as ever. If she moved against him, Yuxi would be heartbroken.
Lan Yuxi seemed oblivious to any pain, her gaze empty as she looked into the distance.
"Summer Old Witch's own granddaughter, Xia Qianqian! A big star who's won many international awards. She's quite beautiful, has great temperament... and an even better voice!"
Lan Yuxi chuckled self-deprecatingly. While she and their mother and son were hovering between life and death, Nan Xiao and Xia Qianqian were enjoying themselves.
And she had forgotten that painful past. The moment she heard Nan Xiao had become a vegetable, she disregarded her friend's advice, left her two children, and rushed back.
But what had he said to her?
He said: You shouldn't have come back.
Yes, if she came back, it would interfere with his and Xia Qianqian's romance.
Admittedly, during her time back in the country, he had helped her, but his help felt more like atonement.
The internet said they were secretly married, which she didn't believe, because she had personally heard the Nan family discussing finding a wife for Nan Xiao to ward off bad luck.
But she did believe insiders who said they had been dating for six years.
Six years ago, she was eighteen, and it was from that year that Nan Xiao began to deliberately distance himself from her.
In her memory, Xia Qianqian had never visited the Nan family.
Apart from seeing her on television, she had no interaction with her in reality.
So how did they get together?
She racked her brains but couldn't figure it out.
There was another thing she couldn't understand: if they were already together, why didn't Nan Xiao marry her, but instead married Yun Siyan?
This question, she had been
Lan Yuxi lay back lazily in the rocking chair. "That's true! If you guys don't help me, I won't be able to slack off."
"Just keep being lazy!" Luo Wanqi playfully kicked the rocking chair.
The rocking chair swayed, and Lan Yuxi closed her eyes contentedly.
Luo Wanqi looked at her with concern. "Yuxi, after returning to the country, it's impossible for you not to meet him. Can you handle it?"
"I, Lan Yuxi, have always been able to let go. My heart was given to him for a full ten years, and it's time to take it back. From now on, seeing each other will be like seeing strangers!" Lan Yuxi said resolutely.
Her heart had died, and any pain would only be numbness.
"What about the two children? What if he finds out and tries to take them from you?"
"What right does he have to fight me for them? I'm not afraid of him; I'm afraid I won't be able to explain the children's origins to my master and my parents."
"I have a solution."
Lan Yuxi turned her head to look at her. "What solution?"