Chapter 521: A Child's Strategy

Wang Yinghao's room.

Sheng Hanyu walked in carrying wontons.

She was wiping away tears, with that massive suitcase placed beside her; her clothes and such were all packed, but she still couldn't bear to leave.

She couldn't bear to leave the children, especially Xiao Erbao.

Xiao Erbao was so small; would it be alright if he were left with an unreliable mother?

She didn't want to stay, but she couldn't bear to leave either.

Wang Yinghao was caught in a dilemma, and just at this moment, her son came over.

"Are you done with the company's business?" She hurriedly turned away to wipe her eyes, not wanting her son to see that she had been crying.

However, Sheng Hanyu saw it anyway.

He didn't expose her, placing the wontons on the table: "Xuanxuan said you hadn't eaten dinner, so she ordered takeout for you."

Wang Yinghao complained: "The fridge is full of everything, why order takeout?"

Although she complained with her mouth, she still sat down at the table, preparing to eat.

"Has Xuanxuan eaten? You keep an eye on her and make sure she eats; she can't lack nutrition, and she can't go on a diet just for the sake of her figure. Xiao Erbao is very picky and refuses to drink formula..."

Once Wang Yinghao started nagging, there was no end to it.

Sheng Hanyu really wanted to just listen without saying a word, waiting for her to finish on her own—wouldn't that be the end of it?

But that wouldn't work.

She simply had no end.

His brows furrowed tighter and tighter, his patience wearing thinner and thinner...

"You don't want to listen, you find my nagging annoying, right? It must be that Xuanxuan said something in front of you... I'll move out right now, so I don't get in your way!"

Sheng Hanyu hurriedly held his mother down.

"Xuanxuan didn't say anything to me; I came straight to you when I got back, I haven't even seen her yet."

"Fine, you haven't even seen her since you got back, yet you said the wontons were bought by her; so you were lying to me too?" Wang Yinghao immediately spotted the loophole in her son's words.

Sheng Hanyu hurriedly explained: "I really did come straight to you when I got back; the takeout was something Xuanxuan called and asked me to buy."

Wang Yinghao: "And you still say she didn't say anything in front of you? She already called you, how could she not have complained?"

Sheng Hanyu:...

He looked at his mother, feeling a bit shocked.

Was this still the person he was familiar with?

Unreasonable, there was simply no way to communicate.

But he still had to communicate; he would just have to bite the bullet.

"Mom, you should just eat."

"Heh, you think I'm nagging too much, right? Fine, I won't say anything."

Wang Yinghao started eating the wontons, tears falling into the bowl one after another; if anyone else saw this, they would think someone had caused her some great grievance.

Sheng Hanyu was completely out of ideas.

He stood up, preparing to leave, when Shi Ran pushed the door open and entered.

"Grandma, Xiao Erbao is crying, and Mom isn't paying attention to him."

"That's too much, how can she not pay attention?" Wang Yinghao stood up and left immediately.

Shi Ran smiled craftily.

"What kind of mischief are you up to again?" Sheng Hanyu asked.

The children's room wasn't far from here; if the child were crying, it would be impossible not to hear it, so only Wang Yinghao would fall for it.

Shi Ran smiled: "I saw you were out of options, so I came to help you; why aren't you grateful?"

Wang Yingzhi pushed open the door to the children's room in a rush, then froze.

Shi Youxuan was teasing Xiao Erbao, the mother and son playing happily; the little guy was laughing "giggle," laughing even more happily than when she was keeping him company.

Wang Yingzhi froze, feeling very unsettled in her heart.

She had basically been the one raising the child since he was born, and even when the confinement nanny and infant nurse were taking care of him, she had always been by his side.

Aside from breastfeeding, Shi Youxuan basically had no other role.

Wang Yinghao had thought Xiao Erbao couldn't do without his grandmother, but it turned out that when she wasn't there, Shi Youxuan could also take good care of the child.

"Mom, have you eaten?" Shi Youxuan took the initiative to speak.

"I ate; the takeout you ordered is quite good."

Shi Youxuan thought to herself that she hadn't ordered takeout for her, but she didn't expose it either.

"Zichen, give Grandma a smile." The child was handed to Wang Yinghao, who took him naturally, held him in her arms, and didn't want to let go.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had reconciled.

It was mainly thanks to Shi Ran.

The little girl first made her mother realize that it was usually Grandma who raised the children and took care of their whole family, which was very hard work.

Then she deliberately let her father out to encounter the most unreasonable side of Grandma!

Letting her father discover that Mom also had it very hard, and to understand Mom.

Finally, she used her younger brother to let Grandma vent her anger, so she couldn't bear to blame Mom anymore.

People are generally like this: before a conflict occurs, they think it's a monumental matter, that they are particularly in the right, and that it's all the other person's fault... so they are like needles against wheat, not wanting to give an inch!

But once the temper passes.

One naturally wants to take a step back, for the sea is wide and the sky is high.

Especially for a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law like Wang Yinghao and Shi Youxuan, whose relationship is usually quite good.

Now that both have cooled their tempers, they have begun to take the initiative to offer each other a way out.

Shi Youxuan took the initiative to explain the concept of weight loss through yoga to her mother-in-law, emphasizing that it would not affect breastfeeding, and apologized, stating that she would never practice yoga with the child on her back again!

She realized that what her mother-in-law said was not without reason.

It wasn't as if there was no one to help look after the child, so why insist on carrying the child on her back to practice?

What if the child were to fall?

With the daughter-in-law showing such an attitude, Wang Yinghao no longer opposed Shi Youxuan's weight loss, and this conflict that had nearly caused a family split was quickly calmed down through the mediation of Shi Ran.

The six-year-old girl had devised a strategy to resolve a matter that even Sheng Hanyu had no way of solving.

……

United States.

Jian Yining's office.

"Help, help—" the mobile phone ringtone blared.

Jian Yining knew it was his mother calling without even looking.

He had saved Lady Jian's number, and this ringtone was the same as his mother's—the "life-shortening triple threat"!

After answering the call from his mother, he regretted it.

Lady Jian's reach was too long; she desperately wanted to control everything about her son.

Including the life between her son and his fiancée, she asked about all these private matters, and in great detail.

Jian Yining had protested several times—but the protests were ineffective.

Every time she called, there was no serious business, yet he could not afford not to answer.

If he didn't answer, she would come to his office.

Jian Yining picked up the phone and swiped to the answer button—"Jian Yining, you bastard, are you only satisfied if you manage to anger me to death?"

His mother roared from the other side of the phone.

Her voice was angrier than usual: "If you anger me to death, then no one will be able to manage you, and you can do whatever you want, free as a fish in the sea or a bird in the sky... Fine, I'll grant your wish, I'll take my medicine right now and die to show you, ending it all once and for all, boo-hoo..."

She had been shouting for a long time, yet she still hadn't stated why she was angry!

The phone had already been placed to the side, and the speakerphone was not on.

Jian Yining continued to look at his documents, busy with his own work, doing what he needed to do.

Even without the speakerphone on, some sound could still come through from the phone; once she finished venting, Jian Yining would offer timely comfort and then use his busy work as an excuse to hang up.

Of course, there was a prerequisite—taking all the blame upon himself.

This was the daily routine of their mother-son phone calls.

But today was different.

The more Lady Jian roared, the angrier she became, questioning her son: "Why didn't you tell me that you two registered your marriage? You kept such a big thing completely hidden from me; do you still have me as your mother in your heart?"

Jian Yining was shocked.

He picked up the phone: "Who did you hear that from? Did you go to find Wan'er again? Didn't I tell you that if you have something to say, come to me, don't go find her, and especially don't go during work hours, why won't you listen..."