Chapter 518 Ten Years Later
Time flies, and ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Wen Nuan was successfully admitted to the painting department of the Shangjing Academy of Fine Arts.
Nuan Nuan showed her talent for painting at a very young age. Wen Lan studied fashion design in college and was very good at color matching. With a little guidance, Nuan Nuan could master it.
At the age of four and a half, Wen Lan enrolled Nuan Nuan in a painting class taught by a top oil painting master, and she studied for more than ten years.
After Xie Beiheng and Xie Nanchen entered school, Wen Lan returned to the workplace and became Xie Yansheng's assistant.
She had been a housewife for many years to take care of her three children. Xie Yansheng didn't want to let her down, so he proposed to open a women's high-end studio for her in Shangjing, but she refused.
Opening a studio is exhausting. Although the children have all entered school, she still can't spare the energy.
There is another more important reason. In recent years, there have always been some women who overestimate their abilities to tease Xie Yansheng.
Xie Yansheng's business is getting bigger and bigger. Shengyan was listed ten years ago. It has expanded from a single digital game to online shopping, short videos, and live broadcasts. It has become a leader in the domestic Internet industry.
Xie Yansheng's financial resources and status are there. In order to give her children more time to accompany her, she rarely accompanies Xie Yansheng to social events.
Some restless women began to have ideas about Xie Yansheng, including Shengyan's employees and partners. Fortunately, Xie Yansheng is self-disciplined and will tell Wen Lan the truth when there is any movement outside.
But what Wen Lan couldn't guard against was that in the seventh year of living in Beijing, Wen Lan smelled a perfume that didn't belong to her on Xie Yansheng's shirt.
She held the shirt and questioned Xie Yansheng. Xie Yansheng admitted his mistake with a good attitude and said that when he was attending a cocktail party outside, a woman with ulterior motives pretended to fall and fell on him.
Wen Lan sneered a few times and didn't pursue it, but she had a shadow in her heart and began to accompany Xie Yansheng to social events outside every three or five days.
Nuan Nuan is a freshman, Xie Beiheng and Xie Nanchen are in the third year of junior high school and are preparing for the high school entrance exam. No matter how busy Wen Lan is at work, she will put down all her work every weekend to accompany her children.
She goes to the supermarket to buy ingredients in person, puts on an apron and cooks a table of steaming hot meals for the children. M.
Since her two sons entered kindergarten, Wen Lan has begun to study cooking. Over the past ten years, she has gone from a kitchen novice to a "star chef" in the eyes of Xie Yansheng and the children.
If the biggest change in these years is the relationship with the Xie family, it must be the relationship with the Xie family.
Although Mr. Xie's health has not been very good, he always has to stay in the hospital several times a year. Several times he was so serious that he was admitted to the ICU, but he survived.
In recent years, the children have become sensible. Every time they return to Jiangcheng, as long as Wen Lan does not follow them back to the old house, they will make all kinds of guesses.
In order to dispel the children's wild thoughts, Wen Lan began to bite the bullet and go back to the old house with them and appear at the gathering of the Xie family.
Perhaps it was because Xie Yansheng helped Xie Jianning win the custody of Xiaotong that year, Xie Jianning had unprecedented respect for Wen Lan. Although they didn't talk much every time they met, they always called her "sister-in-law" and "sister-in-law".
Wen Lan and Xie Yansheng had obtained their marriage certificate for many years, but they had never held a wedding for various reasons. She was still a little uncomfortable to hear Xie Jianning calling her "sister-in-law".
What made Wen Lan happy was that although Xiaotong had been living with Jianning in the Xie family, Jianning had not remarried. Xiaotong had a positive outlook on life, was willing to study hard, and had a very good relationship with her three children.
Nuannuan was only two months older than Xiaotong. The two took the college entrance examination together. Nuannuan was admitted to the Shangjing Academy of Fine Arts, and Xiaotong was admitted to the Law Department of Shangjing University with the second best score in the liberal arts in Jiangcheng.
Shen Yi would go back to Jiangcheng to see Xiaotong every month, and he was not ambiguous about giving money and things, but Xiaotong was not as close to Shen Yi as to Xie Yansheng.
Perhaps because she grew up in a family without fatherly love, Xiaotong has been very sensible since she was a child. She doesn't have to worry about studying at all, and she is very filial and considerate to Xie Jianning.
Xie Yansheng has only one daughter, Nuannuan, so he can't help but spoil her a little. In addition, her family is well-off, and Nuannuan's temperament is a bit arrogant and domineering. Compared with the sensible Xiaotong, Xie Yansheng also has a little more preference for Xiaotong.
Xiaotong came to Beijing to study at university. Xie Yansheng and Wen Lan invited him to live in Tinglan Mansion several times, but he declined.
Xie Yu and Baizhi had been together for a few years. Seeing that Baizhi's belly was still not moving, he gave Baizhi a sum of money ten years ago to divorce, and married a college student from a poor family who had just left the campus.
The college student's belly was quite promising. She gave birth to two in three years, but they were both daughters. Mr. Xie's heart was already occupied by Xie Yansheng's two sons, so he didn't care about it, but Han Pei was arrogant and often found fault with his daughter-in-law in Xue Cuiyuan, so that Xie Yu and his wife started to divorce again.
Xuecuiyuan was in chaos, and Mr. Xie couldn't stand the commotion, so he moved to the old house with Uncle Zhong.
Since Xie Yansheng and Mr. Xie broke the ice, Xie Yansheng would send his three children back to Jiangcheng for a few days every winter and summer vacation.
As long as the three of them returned to the old house, Xiaotong would go to accompany them. The days when the four children were in the old house made Mr. Xie truly experience the joy of having children and grandchildren around him.
Nuannuan didn't have a good impression of Mr. Xie, and going to the Xie family's old house was just to give Xie Yansheng face and to be in the mood.
Nuannuan told Wen Lan more than once that in addition to Xie Yansheng, only Xie Xiaotong was a good person in the Xie family.
Every time Wen Lan heard this, she would secretly complain: "Xie Yansheng is black-bellied, good at calculating, and not a good person, but he gives all his love to the people he loves."
On the issue of the education of the three children, Wen Lan and Xie Yansheng had a big disagreement.
Xie Yansheng said that his daughters were meant to be spoiled, and Nuannuan could do whatever she liked, but his two sons had to be trained as successors of Shengyan and sent abroad early to broaden their horizons.
Wen Lan felt that the children were too young and she could not go abroad to accompany them, so she strongly opposed it.
In the end, Xie Yansheng compromised.
Fortunately, his two sons worked hard enough. Not only were they excellent in their studies, but they were also able to handle all the special classes arranged by Wen Lan.
Piano, swimming, and equestrianism were all no problem.
Although Xie Beiheng and Xie Nanchen were twins, their facial features and personalities were different.
Xie Beiheng and Xie Yansheng looked eight points alike, and he was unruly in his elegance. He was the most talkative of the three children. Wen Lan sometimes felt that he was more caring than Nuannuan, the little cotton-padded jacket.
Xie Nanchen only had a forehead and a nose similar to Xie Yansheng. He was mature and steady since he was a child. Even at home, he always thought more than he talked.
For Nuan Nuan, she likes playing with Xie Beiheng the most. It is too tiring to be with Xie Nanchen, a little adult!
Xie Nanchen's best playmate is Xiaotong. Both of them are mature at a young age. They have endless topics to talk about when they meet.
Wen Lan accompanies Xie Yansheng in the workplace while taking good care of the three children. Her life is peaceful and comfortable.
When the news of Nuan Nuan's secret love affair comes, Wen Lan's life is turned into a mess.
Because Nuan Nuan's love object is not someone else, but——