There was no such thing as father and son in front of good food. The little male lead, after he had recollected himself, looked at Aunty Yan and then at his own dad in the cellphone and made a split-second decision. He did a very good job applying Yan Shuyu’s trick from just a while earlier. “Daddy, would you like to speak to Aunty Yan?”

Yan Shuyu, being put on the spot all of a sudden, looked up abruptly. Before she could say anything, she heard the boss’s chirpy voice from the phone, “Sure!”

And then, the little male lead couldn’t wait to give the cellphone back to her as quickly as possible. He could barely keep his lips from curling upward as he did that.

Yan Shuyu, who was dumbfounded as she got her phone back, “Meow meow meow?”

The timing was perfect for Zhou Yi. Manager Yang just lifted up the scoop with the shrimp paste inside of it. Zhou Yi, who had just gotten rid of the heavy burden, mimicked his little buddy and held out his little bowl as he said shyly, “I would like some too.”

Yang Zifeng fairly divided the cooked shrimp paste between the two of them and couldn’t help but chuckle. “If you two like, we can place another order of the shrimp paste.”

Although Yang Zifeng was dumbfounded, he saw it clearly. The little young master did that just to have some shrimp paste. Any way he looked at it, the little young master’s style of sacrificing even his blood relatives for just a few bites of food looked just like something that Yan Shuyu would do. Yang Zifeng trusted that the prestigious family’s little young master was definitely not like this before.

He wondered what Boss Zhou thought of this right now. Would he still be okay with letting his son hang out with Yanyan?

Boss Zhou was very calm right now. Even when the person he was chatting with has switched, he still maintained a very comfortable smile. Yan Shuyu quickly recollected herself and chatted happily with him, and the call went on and on.

Manger Yan took up the job of feeding the three of them. Zhang Yuanbao and the little young master were easy to take care of. Surprisingly, they seemed to like the exact same things, or that they were influenced by each other. Yan Shuyu, as an adult, was even easier to take care of. Knowing her for so long, Yang Zifeng had learned that she liked her meats a lot. All he needed to do was to drop some meat into her bowl ,and she wouldn’t look up again.

Now that Yan Shuyu was being taken care of as well and that video chatting with the boss was not interfering with her eating, she thoroughly enjoyed the call and no longer wanted to end it too soon.

The boss also seemed to be quite relaxed tonight and went on chatting with her as she never suggested hanging up the phone. The two of them chatted all the way to the end of dinner.

After everybody was full, Yang Zifeng went over to pay, leaving one adult and two kids at the seat.

Now that hotpot was over, Boss Zhou’s charm has also returned. The two kiddos went docilely over to both sides of Yan Shuyu and passionately started talking to him again. The private chat turned into group chat. Yan Shuyu was no longer only chatting with the boss. She also occasionally chatted with the children next to her. For example, right now she was asking them, “Where do you want to go next?”

The two boys exchanged a look and started mulling it over. The boss, from the other end, casually brought it up, “By the way, there was someone else there other than you?”

“Yeah, Manager Yang,” said Yan Shuyu with a smile. “It was his treat.”

Manager Yang, returning from taking care of the bill, suddenly stopped in his steps. He had a bad feeling all of a sudden for some odd reasons. He was sitting there the entire time. Even if Boss Zhou didn’t know it ahead of time, how would it be possible that he didn’t notice the entire time he was chatting with Yanyan? He only asked about it after dinner was over? Was Boss Zhou really “slow” or that there were other reasons behind it?

Yang Zifeng felt that there was no way someone as observant as Boss Zhou would be the first case.

Sure enough, the boss asked gently the next minute, “So Manager Yang will be joining you after dinner?”

Manager Yang couldn’t quite hear what the boss was saying from a distance, but he could see his little buddy nodding heartlessly. “Probably.”

“Probably?” asked the boss caringly. “You made plans?”

“No, not really,” Yan Shuyu explained, “But Manager Yang didn’t mention that he has other plans tonight, so I am guessing he will be hanging out with us.”

Oh, so you two had been together for so long that there was already tacit understanding between the two of you? Nevertheless, the boss smiled and asked, “Isn’t it better if you ask him his opinion before making that decision for him?”

“Is it?” Yan Shuyu was never a stubborn person. The serious look on the boss had her convinced. Lamenting about how thorough a person the boss was, she nodded her understanding and said, “Okay, let me ask him then.”

As soon as she had finished saying that, she saw her little buddy standing not too far away from her out of the corners of her eyes. She quickly waved at him and asked, “Manager Yang, are you coming with us?”

Manager Yang originally felt that his little buddy’s question was very unnecessary. But, thinking about Boss Zhou, he suddenly got it. How did Boss Zhou have so much free time today? To a point that he started video chatting with Yan Shuyu as soon as they sat down and the call lasted all the way till the end of dinner, leaving no time for Yanyan to eat. So, all in all, Boss Zhou just didn’t want him to be too close with Yanyan while he was away.

Granted, with Boss Zhou’s intelligence, he must know that there was nothing more than friendship between the two of them. Meaning, Boss Zhou’s jealousy wasn’t directed toward him; it was directed at any adult male around Yanyan. Yang Zifeng, having arrived at the conclusion, must lament how someone as carefree as Boss Zhou was such a jealous man deep down inside.

And this was just the beginning of their relationship. Manager Yang wondered how his little buddy was confident that she could break up with someone as domineering as Boss Zhou amicably.

Lamenting in his mind was one thing, Manager Yang would not have the guts to remind his little buddy about that. Saving himself would be the right thing to do in this situation. He immediately shook his head, smiled, and said, “Nah, I’ll pass. I am going to meet up with a few friends online to play games. You have fun.”

“Eh?” Yan Shuyu, who was only asking for formality, was really surprised. “You hadn’t mentioned earlier?”

Yang Zifeng walked up and continued to lie through his teeth. “Oh yeah, I made plans over dinner. You were on the call with Boss Zhou so I didn’t mention.”

Yan Shuyu didn’t pay attention to whether Manager Yang had made plans with his friends over dinner so she nodded unsuspectingly and said, “Okay, hurry back then. We will go by ourselves.”

She admired the boss even more now. He was so right about it.

The boss, in the video chat, did not take any credit. Seeing that they have arrived at an agreement, he said, “Okay, you have fun. I am heading in to work now.”

Yan Shuyu put away her cellphone, and they all went to the underground parking lot. They got into their respective cars and headed their own ways.

Distracted by the boss, Yan Shuyu finally remembered to ask the kiddos after they had gotten inside of the car. “You haven’t told me where you want to go yet.”

The little kiddos had reached an agreement earlier already. Both of them said at the same time, “Bumper cars!”

Learning her lesson, Yan Shuyu turned around and said solemnly, “Okay. We can go for bumper cars, but only for one hour. Then we will head home. No disagreements.”

Both little kiddos nodded docilely, but Yan Shuyu, feeling that wasn’t good enough, made them pinky promise her before she had Zhang Yang take them to the plaza. The little kiddos played happily for an hour. And then, as though there was a timer going off, they told Yan Shuyu exactly at 8:40 PM together, “Mommy/Aunty Yan, time is up.”

Both Zhang Yuanjia and Zhou Yi have watches. Yan Shuyu, on the other hand, was the one who didn’t have one. She couldn’t possibly have her cellphone in hand when she was playing bumper cars, so she had the two kids be mindful of the time and have them oversee each other. That technique seemed to have worked very well.

Yan Shuyu got off the bumper car, pleased. “Okay. Time is up. Let’s head home~”

The two little boys, who were true to their words, agreeably let Yan Shuyu carry them out of the cars. Except that there was a lot of longing on the little male lead’s face on their way back.

Zhang Yuanjia may not have been to many places when he was a child, but ever since the fun-loving Yan Shuyu had transmigrated over, she had been taking him to all sorts of places. As such, he was less bummed on their way back. Compared to him, this was like a whole new world to the little male lead of the prestigious family. Being able to play games at a public place with his favorite little buddy and Aunty Yan, it was difficult for him to leave, especially since he didn’t know when would be the next time he could come out to play with them again.

Zhang Yuanjia, as though reading his little friend’s mind suddenly grabbed his hand and asked, “Have you been to the amusement park before?”

Little Zhou Yi blinked his eyes blankly. “Amusement park?”

“The little backpack that you have been using the last few days. Mommy bought it when she went to the amusement park before. I have the exact same one as well~”

Being reminded by Zhang Yuanjia, the little male lead said as if at a loss,“No, I have never been.”

“Me neither. Mommy said I was too young before and can’t go on many of the rides.” Zhang Yuanjia nicely comforted his little friend and then asked, “But Mommy said she’d bring me there this week. Would you like to come with us?”

Zhou Yi’s eyes beamed. It was obvious that he really wanted to say yes right away, but then he looked docilely at Yan Shuyu and asked, “Aunty Yan, may I come with?”

Yan Shuyu thought about it in her head. The boss should be back before the weekend and he would be able to take care of his son. It shouldn’t be too much work for he, so she smiled and nodded. “Of course.”

The two boys quickly talked about what amusement parks were like in their imagination excitedly. One of them said there were big tigers that they could ride on. The other one said they could befriend Peppa Pig there. All sorts of kids talk and crazy ideas. As a mature adult, Yan Shuyu couldn’t join into their conversation. Nevertheless, she was not bored. She had excitedly pulled out her cellphone and texted the boss, informing him that the two boys had already agreed upon themselves of going to the amusement park this coming weekend.

As the boss, Boss Zhou would not chat on the phone during work/meetings, but taking a short break and texting his girlfriend was okay. As such, Yan Shuyu quickly received his response. Just as she had expected, the boss said that he’d be back into the country by then and they could all go together.

Yan Shuyu gave him an “okay”, then she texted him again, “I need to go in to work tomorrow and Yuanbao needs to go to school. What about Xiao Yi? Will someone be picking him up?”

This time the boss didn’t respond for two whole minutes. “Ask him what he wants to do tomorrow.”

Yan Shuyu felt a bit odd. Did the authoritarian boss listen to her advice and had become more liberal? That wasn’t a bad thing. Surely, she felt quite proud of her own achievement, but why did she need to ask the little male lead tomorrow? Why couldn’t she ask him today?

Unfortunately, the car had already pulled up in front of her building before she could raise any objection. Yan Shuyu knew that the time between now and getting the boys into bed would be very busy. The two kids were already excited from their conversation in the car. She couldn’t even imagine how they’d be running around in excitement after they had gotten home. Plus, the pampered little young master was way less independent than her son. She doubted she could expect him to do much by himself.

Yan Shuyu, having a pretty good idea about this, quickly responded “that works” back to the boss before she put her cellphone away and got out of the car. Right when she was about to thank Zhang Yang for having already gotten the two boys out of the car, she heard him saying enthusiastically, “Miss Yan, let me walk up with you.”

“No need. We can go back by ourselves. You can take off now.”