A stunning beauty arrived on the island; she invented everything from childcare to babysitting.

"You already know, don't you?" Song Wenyuan smiled, walked behind Li Bowen, and gently massaged his shoulders.

However, Li Bowen wasn't buying it at all and directly shook his hand away: "Don't try to fool me. Do you think I don't know what kind of person you are? Just tell me, what do you want?"

Song Wenyuan showed no embarrassment at being rejected, and put his hand on her again to continue kneading. This time, Li Bowen did not pull away, but began to enjoy it, waiting for Song Wenyuan to continue.

Song Wenyuan didn't get straight to the point. Instead, he carefully massaged Li Bowen for a while before speaking: "That old woman who reported my wife this morning..."

"How dare you talk like that? This is my office, so straighten your manners!" Li Bowen scolded.

Song Wenyuan immediately changed his tune: "This isn't the first time the family member who reported my wife this morning has done something like this, and she's repeatedly refused to change her ways. I don't think such a person is suitable to stay in the army, and her son, as an officer, hasn't fulfilled his duty to persuade her. Keeping such a person in the army will only corrupt the atmosphere and disrupt harmony. What do you think, Regiment Commander?"

“I don’t think it’s useful. This is their family matter, and it’s not my business!” Li Bowen said deliberately.

He'd finally managed to get the kid under control after enduring so much, but he absolutely couldn't let him off so easily.

Song Wenyuan then changed to a more comfortable massage position: "My wife works under you, right? Isn't it affecting her mood at work that she's being bullied like this in the compound?"

"Work? The toy factory won't be officially operational for a while yet, so giving her a break during this period would be fine. She's a woman with a child, so she deserves some preferential treatment. We can't really treat her like a soldier in the army," Li Bowen said thoughtfully.

"Ouch! What are you doing?" He suddenly felt a bit more pressure on his shoulder. "You young man, you have no sportsmanship! Is this how you ask for favors? Let me tell you, this matter won't be resolved in less than ten kilometers!"

"As long as this matter can be resolved, not to mention ten kilometers, even twenty kilometers is no problem."

Song Wenyuan came, and then he left, as if nothing had happened. He waved his sleeves, leaving not a trace of ash in the office.

He hummed a little tune as he returned home, calmly taking over the housework from Anning, and pondering when he could move his belongings back from his single dormitory room.

Just before dinner, Shen Changle returned. As soon as she saw Song Wenyuan, she ran to his side and hugged his long legs.

"Uncle, everyone says you're my dad!"

Song Wenyuan was secretly delighted and said, "What's wrong, Ni'er? Don't you like your uncle to be your father?"

Shen Changle tilted her head, thought for a moment, and said, "I like him, but he's not my dad!"

"Pfft!" An Ning, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Song Wenyuan had been there all afternoon, and finally his wife showed some reaction. He immediately looked to her for help, but Anning still ignored him.

He had no choice but to find a way to explain the problem to his daughter himself.

But no matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't figure out how to explain it.

He used to think the hardest thing was to be honest with his wife, but now he finds that explaining this to his daughter is even more difficult than being honest with his wife.

His wife is at least an adult; she has her own thoughts and she can see that he is correcting his past mistakes. But his daughter is still young; she has grown up in a world without a father.

Even if his wife didn't badmouth him to her, he still found it difficult to explain to her why he suddenly went from being her uncle to her father.

Suddenly, Song Wenyuan saw the model ship that An Ning had placed on the cabinet and had an idea.

"Now that the weather is warm, it's a good time to go boating. Do you want to go, Ni'er? Uncle will take you."

"Really?"

No matter how precocious Shen Changle was, children's attention is easily diverted by fun things, and she had long forgotten about her father, which was not important.

Song Wenyuan felt that his idea was brilliant; it not only helped his daughter forget about the incident but also created an opportunity for him to be alone with his wife.

After this trip, even if we don't manage to coax 70-80% of the people back, we should be able to get 30% back, right?

If he gets 30% today, 30% tomorrow, and 30% the day after tomorrow, then he'll be able to go home the day after that, right?

She was happy for a while, then asked hesitantly, "Can I bring Pengfei along?"

"Brother Pengfei?"

Song Wenyuan knew this name; it belonged to the boy next door to their house, and had appeared frequently in his wife's letters.

Xu Pengfei is the kind of person who will be mentioned almost whenever his daughter's name is mentioned.

A sense of unease suddenly arose in his heart.

Why do you want to bring Pengfei along?

“Because Brother Pengfei said he’ll take me with him whenever there’s something fun to do, so I want to take him with me!” Shen Changle said, then seemed to remember something and tentatively asked, “Uncle, don’t you want to take him? Then I…”

"Of course not!" In order to maintain his image as a wise and powerful father, Song Wenyuan immediately denied his daughter's guess and came up with another reason, "It's just that your brother Pengfei is also a child. If he, a little kid, goes out to play with us, your parents might not feel at ease. Think about it, if you go out to play alone with someone else, your uncle and mother wouldn't feel at ease either."

"Really?" Shen Changle pouted and looked at Anning. "Mom, but I want to take Pengfei with me. What should I do?"

Having spent so much time with Shen Changle, how could An Ning not know what she was thinking?

Why did Xu Pengfei say he would take her out to play in the future, so she wanted to take him along?

She probably picked up the bad habit of bragging from Xu Pengfei and boasted about it. Now Song Wenyuan is saying she can't bring anyone along because she's embarrassed!

However, my daughter is getting older and will be starting elementary school soon, so I have to give her this much face.

She laughed and said, "It's alright! Go ask your Aunt Xuemei. If she's willing to go together, then we can go together, right?"

"Ah yes!"

Shen Changle looked as if he hadn't thought of such a good idea, clapped his hands, and forgot to even ask Song Wenyuan, the one who initiated it, before running towards the next room, leaving Song Wenyuan, who hadn't had time to stop him, staring wide-eyed in place.

An Ning turned her gaze away from her daughter and looked at Song Wenyuan: "What, you made a mess of this yourself and now I have to clean it up for you?"

Song Wenyuan forced a smile: "How...how could that be?"

But that smile was as twisted as could be.

An Ning didn't care about any of that and said lightly, "That's fine then."