The assigned apartment was quite spacious, with three bedrooms and a living room. It would have been plenty of room for a family of five or six, but Wang Yue had so many children that it felt a little cramped.
Luckily, Wang Yue knew his way around design, so he managed to turn the three-bedroom apartment into a home that could fit all the children.
Though Wang Yue had put a lot of thought into the design, the children still preferred the spacious courtyard house, which left him feeling a little hurt.
Still, Wang Yue and He Jiali didn't force them. They simply made the extra effort to let the children visit the courtyard house after school and keep Madam He company, then bring them home to sleep at night.
Of course, Yuan Yuan was sensible enough to stay behind and keep Madam He company. She couldn't leave her alone to feel lonely.
The other children sometimes hadn't had enough fun and stayed overnight, too.
When He Jiayi first came to Beijing, she found that Wang Yue and He Jiali weren't living there and that their grandmother was staying in the courtyard house. So she moved in and made it her permanent home.
She was a little older than Zhang Qiulin, but they weren't that far apart in age. Still, she couldn't stand the boy, who was two years younger than her.
So unless her younger sister dragged her along, He Jiayi never would have hung out with Zhang Qiulin. Now that Zhang Qiulin came around so often, He Jiayi was actually rather uncomfortable with it.
But later, He Jiahuan secretly wrote to He Jiayi, asking her to keep an eye on Zhang Qiulin. He Jiayi had no choice and couldn't keep avoiding him.
At first, He Jiayi hadn't thought