After abandoning his wife and children, Bo Xilai coaxed and begged her to reconcile.

Hearing Song Jinye return from get off work, Bo Yi immediately grabbed the invitation card from the coffee table and rushed towards her. "Mom, look at this! Come with me!"

Song Jin picked her up and couldn't help but gently pinch her rosy cheeks, showing her great affection.

"What is this? Is it a school event?"

"No, Daddy brought it. It's an event organized by Daddy's company. It's so much fun!" Bo Yi opened the invitation, pointed to the pictures of the event, and chattered on and on: "Mommy, look! We can string beads to make pretty bracelets. I'm going to make you the shiniest bracelet in the world! We can also participate in the Little Dinosaur Challenge, and if we win, we can get a bubble bicycle. Shall we take Uncle with us?"

Song Jin looked at the themes on the invitation card: "Employee Family Open Day" and "Family Carnival." It didn't seem appropriate for her to go, did it?

"You can just go with Dad to his company's event."

"Let's fulfill our daughter's wish and go, shall we? Xiao Jiu wants to go too, right?" Bo Sinian walked over, his tone calm, with a hint of barely perceptible expectation hidden beneath.

Shen Jiuran nodded repeatedly, walked to Song Jinye's side, hugged her leg, and looked at her with his big, grape-like eyes, which were full of water.

Song Jin's eyelashes drooped slightly, a hint of hesitation flashing across her face. "How about I take you to a children's amusement park, a wildlife park, or an ocean park?"

Shen Jiuran pouted, "Let's go to the family carnival this week, the ocean park next week, and the wildlife park the week after, okay?"

Bo Yi raised her chubby arms and clapped them loudly, making her little braids sway. "Great! Great! Mom, let's decide on this, okay?"

Seeing her still hesitant, Bo Sinian took a half step forward, his tone as steady as a rock, "What are you worried about? Your students are all in Yuzhou. You're mentoring them behind the scenes, so you're practically half an employee of the Yuzhou Group. Or do you have other ideas about me, which is why you want to avoid suspicion?"

Song Jin glanced at him too. How could she possibly still have any feelings for him?

She bent down and put Bo Yi down.

When he got up again, the hesitation in his eyes had faded.

She gently patted the two children on the head and smiled as she agreed, "Okay. It's decided then."

The two little ones happily jumped and danced around Song Jin.

*

In the hospital

Yang Lisheng had only been in the ward for less than ten minutes, and he had already checked the time several times. Each time he checked, his face tightened, his expression filled with anxiety.

"What's wrong? Are you in such a hurry to leave again?" Yan Xiao noticed his impatience. Although he was physically standing there, his mind seemed to have already flown away.

"Hmm. There's still a little bit of the plan that hasn't been finished. I need to send it to President Bo for review tonight." Yang Lisheng said in a serious tone, pretending to be diligent as he rocked his mother's hospital bed up a little.

"You're rocking your legs. The hand crank on the headboard is on the left," Yan Xiao reminded him.

"Is your company this busy every day? I remember your company provides a lot of humanistic care for its employees, including paid nursing leave. Could you take a few days off to take care of Mom? The school is having assessments recently, and I'm really overwhelmed with work," Yan Xiao said to him.

Yang Lisheng frowned. "There are indeed such employee benefits. But even if I take leave, I still have to finish the work myself, right?"

"Oh dear, why did you make him take leave? He's a grown man, clumsy and incompetent, he doesn't know how to serve people. Just let him go back to work. Otherwise, taking leave will leave a bad impression on his boss." Yang's mother complained, sounding disgusted with her daughter-in-law for being so inconsiderate.

"Alright, since you're busy with work, don't just stand there. Go and work overtime, finish early so you can get some rest." She frowned and said impatiently to her son, her tone tense and serious.

"Mom, I'll be going now." Yang Lisheng said goodbye, then turned to Yan Xiao apologetically and said, "Thank you for taking care of Mom. Call me if anything happens."

Yan Xiao forced a smile, thinking to herself, "You're so busy, what's the point of calling you?"

In the blink of an eye, Yang Lisheng had already hurriedly left the ward.

Yan Xiao suddenly remembered something and hurriedly chased after him, "Li Sheng, wait a minute."

"What's wrong?" Yang Lisheng turned his head and looked over, subconsciously raising his watch to check the time.

"Xiaoxin asked me these past few days if your company's family carnival date has been set. Some of her classmates at school said they've already received invitations. Has your department sent them out yet? You know, she looks forward to this event every year."

A look of worry suddenly appeared on Yang Lisheng's face. "I don't know. I'll look for it when I'm done with my work. Maybe I sent it but didn't notice. If it's not there, I'll ask them when they come to work tomorrow."

"Okay. Then don't forget, Xiaoxin has been asking me about it these past two days. Drive carefully on the road."

Before Yan Xiao could finish speaking, Yang's mother's voice came from the ward: "Where is she? Where did she go? I want some water."

She had no choice but to hurry back to her ward.

It was almost 1 p.m. on Friday when Song Jin finally left the lab.

When I returned to the office, I saw Yan Xiao sitting to the side.

"Teacher Yan, you wanted to see me?"

"Professor Song, you haven't eaten yet, have you? Let me treat you to a meal, and we can talk as we walk?" Yan Xiao said a little shyly.

"No need, just tell me what's wrong. I'll do my best to help if I can."

"I haven't eaten yet either. How about we go to the fifth canteen for braised beef noodles?" Yan Xiao suggested.

"It seems Teacher Yan has done her homework. Okay, let's go together." Song Jin had also planned to go eat noodles, so the two hit it off immediately.

When the aunt at the window saw that Song Jin had come, she gave her another full serving, as usual.

Yan Xiao and Song Jin also came together and enjoyed the same treatment.

She looked at her noodles, almost questioning her existence. "If this is braised beef noodles, then what were all the other noodles I ate before?"

Song Jin looked at her, puzzled. "The beef noodles here have always been like this. From now on, you should come here for beef noodles."

Yan Xiao shook her head; it wasn't like this before.

She teased, "Sure enough, being pretty can put food on the table." Judging from how enthusiastic the aunt was towards Song Jin, she must have always enjoyed this kind of treatment.

She originally intended to treat Song Jinye to a meal, but unexpectedly ended up benefiting from Song Jinye's generosity.

"By the way, is there something you need from me?" Song Jin also asked her.

"It's a little embarrassing to admit. My husband's company, Yuzhou Group, has an annual employee family day and children's carnival, which my daughter looks forward to every year. But my husband has been too busy lately and accidentally lost the invitation. He's too embarrassed to tell the company. So I was wondering if you could ask Mr. Bo to reissue the invitation?"