Ye Yixing saw this and said, "Alright, I won't get involved in your affairs, make sure you seize the opportunity."
Before leaving, he added, "Cousin, although I've never seen you like any girl, it seems now you're quite good at courting. You even know how to use the little ones to get along with Su Xingwan."
In the evening, it was bedtime for the little ones.
Su Xingwan urged them to go to bed.
"Auntie, we want to hear a story!" The little ones snuggled into their blankets, only their fluffy little heads visible.
"Alright, Auntie will play a story for you to listen to."
In their confusion, Su Xingwan took one of their phones, downloaded a story-listening app, and played a story.
The little ones listened to the voice of a child telling a story from the phone, blinking and staring at it intently.
Su Xingwan patted their heads, "I've set the time for the story. After it's done, you should go to sleep."
With that, she got up and prepared to leave.
Little Su Hua grabbed her auntie's sleeve, "Auntie, we want to hear you tell it."
Little Su Luo also said, "Auntie, I also want to hear you tell the story."
"We don't want to hear the story from the phone."
Little Su Hua nodded in agreement, "Mm, me too."
Hearing that, Su Xingwan was a bit taken aback.
"Do you want Auntie to stay with you?"
The little ones nodded, "Mm, we want to fall asleep to Auntie's storytelling voice."
Su Xingwan understood.
The little ones didn't want just to hear a story; they wanted nighttime companionship.
"Alright, Auntie will tell you a story."
She sat down and opened a storybook they hadn't read together before.
As she read, she noticed Little Su Yan staring at her just as intently as the little ones.
Even though he had already read that storybook on his own, listening to her tell it still filled him with anticipation.
Su Xingwan's gentle voice flowed into their ears, and after a while, as she finished the story, the little ones were fast asleep.
She watched them, noting how rare this was.
Before, when she told stories, they would get more excited, but now they fell asleep so quickly.
Su Xingwan closed the storybook and then turned off the room's main light, leaving only a small lamp by the bedside.
These past few days, she had been busy with filming, and her schedule was quite tight.
She also received a few short plays from Director Jiang.
Finally, when she had a day off, she took the little ones and Lu Yun to visit kindergartens.
The little ones weren't very happy along the way.
Auntie and Uncle were still trying to find a kindergarten for them.
Su Xingwan: "You could hang soy sauce bottles with those pouty lips."
"Auntie, we've said we don't want to go to kindergarten!"
For everything else, Auntie could accommodate their wishes, but when it came to school, she wouldn't listen to them.
Su Xingwan: "Once you go to kindergarten, you'll like it."
The little ones stayed unhappy.
Then they asked, "Isn't Uncle Ye coming with us today?"
There was no sign of Ye Yixing in the car. He usually accompanied them, so the little ones weren't used to it.
Su Xingwan felt the same. As the little ones' cousin, it didn't seem like Ye Yixing would miss this, and she felt a bit puzzled.
"Mr. Lu, is Ye Yixing busy today?"
Lu Yun: "Not sure, probably."
His ambiguous reply made Su Xingwan even more puzzled.
But she didn't think much about it, soon distracted by the little ones' chatter.
After a while, when the little ones got off the car and saw the kindergarten's environment, they were amazed.
In their eyes, the kindergarten looked like a beautiful castle a princess would live in, vibrant and colorful.
The walls inside and outside were covered with cartoon characters, forests, and blue skies with white clouds.
"Auntie! Is this a kindergarten?"
"It looks like the little castle my sister draws!"
Little Su Yan commented when he saw the kindergarten, "Childish."
He felt this kindergarten didn't meet his expectations or seem like a place for learning and exploration.
The kindergarten also had slides, trampolines, and large play areas for children, as introduced by the principal.
Su Xingwan saw the library stocked with all kinds of storybooks and a robotics classroom filled with high-tech gadgets.
The foreign language classroom caught her eye with its variety of languages.
She thought to herself that the preparations she made for their learning were still too few.
In the music classroom, there were various pianos, violins, and other Western and Chinese instruments.
There were many interest classrooms offering both play and knowledge, integrating fun with learning.
After seeing everything, Su Xingwan sighed in admiration.
The little ones hadn't experienced many of these things.
The kindergarten even had an intelligent robot named Keke that could move around freely and greet them.
The little ones really liked her.
They went from being resistant at first to gradually liking it more and more.
"Auntie! We want to come here for school tomorrow!"
Su Xingwan smiled and patted their heads, "Alright."
Turning her head, she noticed Little Su Yan's calm demeanor.
She asked, "Yanbao, don't you place?"
Little Su Yan: "It's okay."
He didn't like it as much as he did before coming here.
Su Xingwan felt helpless, as Yanbao's interests were always opposite to those of the little ones. What they didn't like, he would generally enjoy, and vice versa.
"What do you mean by okay?"
Little Su Yan: "I quite like that robot."
By noon, they had visited three kindergartens with Lu Yun.
Lu Yun asked, "Did you find any you like?"
Su Xingwan: "I think the Star Technology Kindergarten is nice. It's closer to where I live, and the environment is better."
She then asked the little ones, "Which kindergarten do you like?"
"Auntie, I like the one with the cooler robots more!"
Su Xingwan laughed, "Isn't that the Star Technology Kindergarten?"
Earlier, she noticed that when the little ones saw those intelligent robots, they couldn't move their feet.
In the end, they decided on the Star Technology Kindergarten.
That afternoon, when they went there again, the principal stood at the entrance to greet them personally.
"Hello! Little ones!"
Fitting for someone working at a kindergarten, the principal was great at greeting children.
With a warm and gentle smile, he offered candies to the little ones.
"Mr. Lu and Miss Su, have you decided to enroll in our kindergarten?"
Su Xingwan nodded, "Yes."
The principal then invited them into the office to sit.
Earlier, she and a few teachers had learned that Mr. Lu was the president of the Lu Group.
The Lu family's children were enrolling in their kindergarten.