Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting

"This is our seventh year of marriage, right? This bracelet you gave me... ’seven years’... it really does feel pretty itchy."

After Su Xiaomeng said this, she climbed down from the sink on her own. Just as Yin Shixiu reached out to pull her into his arms, she pushed his hand away...

She lifted her chin and looked at him,

"Dean Qi from Beijing Foreign Studies University has officially offered me a position to return home as an assistant lecturer. I’ve already accepted."

"..."

Yin Shixiu’s expression suddenly changed. Before he could speak, Su Xiaomeng went on,

"I know you’re busy, but there’s really no other way, President Yin. Shuangshuang and Huang Huang weren’t born by me alone... I have to go back to China before September. Before I take up the post, there’s a lot I need to learn and I need time. If Shuangshuang and Huang Huang stay in London for primary school, I probably won’t be able to keep shuttling back and forth to take care of them. Taking care of the kids might fall entirely on you. If you really can’t manage both, then I’ll have to take them back home to study."

Su Xiaomeng stated this reality in a calm tone.

The bit of warmth between husband and wife was worn away by her rational choice and wording.

"The University of Bath should have offered you a position too."

When Su Xiaomeng heard Yin Shixiu say that, she was momentarily stunned, her expression looking genuinely surprised with a trace of sarcasm,

"Didn’t expect you actually knew..."

Yin Shixiu looked at her,

"Everything at home, your matters, the kids’ matters—I’ve always kept them in mind!"

"Don’t make it sound so nice."

"Why not stay at Bath? If you stay at Bath, then..."

"I’m not."

"..."

"I want to go back home."

"Why?"

Yin Shixiu frowned as he asked her, but Su Xiaomeng just stared fixedly at him for a long time without answering. In the end, she merely gave him a cold sidelong glance and then walked past him out of the bathroom.

Su Xiaomeng herself didn’t know how Yin Shixiu could even bring himself to ask that question.

Sure, foreign countries have their advantages, London has its merits, Bath has its charms...

But her roots weren’t here. No matter how long she stayed, she never felt a sense of belonging.

Su Xiaomeng clearly remembered having seriously discussed this with Yin Shixiu before—that so‑called feeling of hometown and homesickness was really not just some affected, melodramatic wording poets used in past eras to pretend at sorrow.

When she was in Beijing, she missed Chengdu; in London, she missed the land where she was born and raised.

Back then, Yin Shixiu had sworn up and down to her that once they finished those three years of study, they would go home.

Now... it’s only just a bit over three years... and he’s already forgotten what he said. The Yin Shixiu who once felt sorry for her homesickness and timidity is now asking why, when she could stay on at Bath, she insists on going back to China to be an assistant lecturer.

How ridiculous does that sound?

Watching the bathroom door open and close, Yin Shixiu felt extremely stifled inside.

He stood there thinking for a few seconds, then suddenly slapped himself on the forehead, feeling he really was unbelievably stupid!

These past few years, aside from going back for ancestor worship and the Spring Festival, they’d barely returned to China.

Xiao Meng had always been someone who missed home... that hadn’t changed as she got older. Not only had it not changed, it had actually grown stronger.

After taking a shower, Yin Shixiu came out of the bathroom only to find that the big bed in the master bedroom was empty of Su Xiaomeng’s figure.

Leaving the master bedroom, he saw the light on in the guest room. Before he could approach the guestroom door, Su Xiaomeng came out from inside, looked at him,

"I know you can use your phone to control the lights, control the doors, but... don’t control me."

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