Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 398 - 360: Forever Friends

Prince Huang slowly crawled from the sofa to the carpet and started playing with his treasured toys.

Shuangshuang saw her brother crawling down and couldn’t sit still herself. Eric picked her up and placed her on the rug, where she sat next to Huang Huang and whispered something to him, giggling secretly for a while.

Prince Huang handed her some building blocks and demonstrated how to build a small house.

Eric watched with great interest.

"Arthur, why don’t I just wait for Shuangshuang then."

"Wait for what?"

"You stole a girlfriend from me, so I want your daughter to make up for it, - oof!"

Yin Shixiu lifted his leg and kicked Eric in the calf.

"Isn’t it a bit much to resort to violence if you don’t agree? Someone as charming and dashing as I am, with royal blood and a future inheritance - "

"I don’t mind adding my daughter’s name to your inheritance list."

"Are you blinded by money or something?"

"Eric, I’m not trying to deflate you..."

Yin Shixiu rested his hand on his knee, speaking calmly, "But your meager assets really don’t impress me."

"Save it for your own retirement, eh."

"Arthur, you’re looking down on people!"

"With my wife backing you up, how dare I look down on you?"

Yin Shixiu said this, but his tone was not the least bit dismissive.

Fortunately, Eric wasn’t the type to hold grudges, though he was a bit stubborn, it was only based on his personal values.

As long as it didn’t touch his bottom line or involve academic issues, Eric was quite easygoing.

This kind of easygoingness was different from Yin Shixiu’s surface-level easygoingness.

Even though Yin Shixiu treated him this way, Eric didn’t get angry; instead, he leaned in beside him, "Arthur, considering our years of friendship, let’s work on a project together?"

Yin Shixiu turned his head to meet Eric’s smiling face.

After two or three seconds of silence, Eric started enthusiastically introducing his project plan.

When Su Xiaomeng came out, she heard Eric rapidly speaking in English.

After all, he was a British person, no matter how fluently he spoke Chinese, it couldn’t compare to his mother tongue.

There was no communication barrier between Yin Shixiu and him, but Su Xiaomeng couldn’t understand, especially when it came to specific specialized terms.

Setting out the bowls and chopsticks, washing Shuangshuang and Huang Huang’s hands, the two still hadn’t finished talking.

"Let’s eat first, you can continue after the meal."

Su Xiaomeng interrupted briefly.

Eric stopped immediately, turned around, saw a table full of dishes, and grinned, quickly going to wash his hands.

Yin Shixiu walked over to Su Xiaomeng and secretly kissed her lips, "Thank you for your hard work."

Unexpectedly, Su Xiaomeng slightly narrowed her eyes, "Let’s talk about life later tonight."

After saying this, Su Xiaomeng tied the napkins for Shuangshuang and Huang Huang.

Yin Shixiu stroked his head, sighing lightly...

After dinner, Eric and Yin Shixiu continued chatting for quite some time; Su Xiaomeng could tell that Yin Shixiu was interested in the project plan Eric proposed.

Sensing Yin Shixiu’s interest, Eric naturally became even more enthusiastic.

By the time they finished talking, it was almost eight o’clock.

After Su Xiaomeng bathed Shuangshuang and Huang Huang, Eric finally got up to leave.

"If you come often, I’ll always make Chinese food for you."

Eric teased, "Arthur might not be so happy about that."

"Don’t worry about him."

Su Xiaomeng mouthed, looking playful.

Next to her, Yin Shixiu could only smile helplessly.

"I won’t be staying in China for long, I’ll probably have to go back next week. Meng Meng, I’ll be waiting for you at the campus in Bath."

Eric extended his hand to Su Xiaomeng, using the manner of a Chinese person.

Su Xiaomeng’s heart was moved, suddenly filled with anticipation for that campus built on the hills of Bath’s outskirts.

The two shook hands, exchanging smiles.

Eric said to Yin Shixiu, "I’ll send you the full project plan once it’s done."

Yin Shixiu nodded, "No need for me to see you off, right?"

Eric, hands in his pockets, looked at Yin Shixiu for a long time...

"What’s up? Don’t want to leave again?"

"Arthur..."

"Eh?"

"You are always my friend... best friend."

Yin Shixiu moved forward and gave him a hug, chuckling softly, "My honour, Eric."

After Eric left, Su Xiaomeng looked at Yin Shixiu, her expression complex.

"What’s wrong?"

Su Xiaomeng leaned against the wall, arms crossed, "I’ve never seen you treat any friend this well before."

"Am I good to him?"

Su Xiaomeng nodded, "Apparently there are many homosexuals in the United Kingdom... If I didn’t know you two had a spat over a girl, I would think there’s something unusual between you."

Yin Shixiu stood in front of her, hands in the pockets of his loose sweatpants, lowering his forehead to hers with a light laugh, "You still aren’t sure whether I’m homosexual?"

Saying this, his hand somehow wrapped around her plump waist, gently rubbing his fingers on her lower back, sparking a fire.

"Hmph..."

"Eric is a genuine person, back then he was really just too young... otherwise, I wouldn’t have lost contact with him for so many years."

"It’s the first time I’m hearing... uh, something like regret from you."

"Because I do really regret it."

"Regret stealing his girlfriend?"

Yin Shixiu cleared his throat and met Su Xiaomeng’s disapproving expression, murmuring, "Your uncle here was once young and inexperienced too. Madam won’t hold it against me, right?"

"Why are you getting so close while talking?"

Su Xiaomeng saw his face getting closer and closer, his breath almost brushing her nose, the atmosphere was quite suggestive...

"Didn’t Madam say she wanted to talk about life with me? I’m just feeling a little... nervous..."

"You get nervous?"

Su Xiaomeng didn’t believe it, "Weren’t you nervous when you stole someone else’s girlfriend?"

"I wouldn’t call it stealing, it was fair competition..."

Yin Shixiu lowered his head and bit her lips, murmuring against them, "See, didn’t I also get you through ’fair competition’?"

Su Xiaomeng raised her hand and hit him, "How dare you bring that up! You’re just an old pro—ugh..."

"Are the kids asleep?"

"Ugh..."

"Then let’s celebrate a bit..."

"Celebrate my foot... ugh..."

Her little mouth was seized, and wanting to say anything more was difficult, her stomach pressing against Yin Shixiu’s abdomen, her hands wrapped around his shoulders bringing his head down...

"Where...?"

"Study, living room, balcony... pick one..."

The almost flirtatious tone made Su Xiaomeng’s ears burn.

Yin Shixiu kissed her from her little mouth to her cheeks, buried his head in her neck, only to find her scent utterly intoxicating.

The third child is honestly a joyful thing.

But for this child, his sex life was indeed greatly affected.

Today Su Xiaomeng was willing, probably because of the acceptance letter from Bath.

He sighed inwardly, but having it is better than not having anything at all.

He picked her up, murmuring, "Let’s go to the guest room then..."

Su Xiaomeng chuckled and nodded.

Neither Yin Shixiu, Su Xiaomeng, nor the previously departed Eric...

None of them expected that their fates would be so tightly intertwined and turned upside down from then on.

The days were typically calm.

As the pregnancy progressed, the fetal movements became more apparent.

Xiaomeng spent quite a few days communicating with Shuangshuang and Huanghuang, managing to let those two little ones understand that there was another little baby under mom’s balloon-like belly.

Fortunately, the siblings had no objection to the soon-to-arrive little sister or brother.

When Xiaomeng told Shuangshuang that in the future she would have to share half of her toys with her little brother or sister, Shuangshuang was silent for quite a while.

Sitting on the floor by herself, staring at her "Treasure Box", who knows what she was thinking...

Just when Su Xiaomeng thought Shuangshuang might not be happy, Shuangshuang took out a stuffed doll from the "Treasure Box" and said to Su Xiaomeng, "Mommy, how about this one?"

"Why this one?"

"Sister will like it..." Shuangshuang earnestly replied.

Only then did Su Xiaomeng feel relieved.

Shuangshuang and Huanghuang were not yet two years old, but even at their age, children can actually be very sensitive.

They were continually receiving information from the outside world.

Xiaomeng tried to communicate with them in a way they could understand, and took care of their feelings.

Since Prince Huang found out there was another baby coming to the house, he occasionally dug out his old stuff and gave them to Su Xiaomeng.

The implication was probably that these could be used for the baby since he no longer needed them.

Su Xiaomeng thought it might be a matter of genetics.

The genes from the uncle are indeed good, and Shuangshuang and Huanghuang do seem to have a better understanding than children of their age.

Of course, she would never say this in front of Yin Shixiu.

All the transfer procedures to A University were completed, and Xiaomeng was now at home focusing on taking care of the pregnancy, planning to give birth before going to Bath, and the timing would perfectly coincide with the start of the term.

Xiaomeng often felt that this child wasn’t an accident, but a special gift from fate.

When Yin Shixiu heard this statement, he was not impressed, "A gift from fate? Why do I feel it’s a gift from me?"

Of course, it felt good to say this, but after saying it, he would definitely earn a big eye roll from Su Xiaomeng.

"Little Treasure is really bringing me good luck, being considerate to mom’s hard work, so the timing was perfectly right, or else, how would it be just in time for this ten-month break?"

In December, A University had finals, which she didn’t participate in because of Yin Shixiu’s car accident.

But after that, she had no academic tasks except for the Bath interview.

And then the start of Bath was in October...

Due at the end of August or beginning of September, finishing the confinement period and perfectly catching the start of the school term!

Every time Xiaomeng thought of this, she felt Yin Xiaobao was exceptionally competent!

And when talking about this with her parents or others in the family, they all agreed with this view.

As for Yin Shixiu, he still thought deep down that this should be credited to him.