Be Careful, Scum Dad! Mommy Is Back!
Chapter 353: They’re Completely Finished

Chapter 353: Chapter 353: They’re Completely Finished

In the following few days.

Lu Xining slowed down the pace of her work, spending most of her time playing with the three children at the experiment base.

In the eyes of others, the leak of the "Artificial Uterus" biological project was a trivial matter to her.

"Mom, are we going to play outside?"

Little Dumpling’s voice was filled with longing for the outside. Recently, because of the cold weather, Mom wouldn’t let her run around outside, so she played indoors with her two brothers every day. For her, she preferred playing on the grass outdoors.

Lu Xining dressed her daughter, saying with a smile, "Yes, we’re going to play outside."

"Nuonuo, would you and your brother like to take on a little task from Mom?"

Ji Chao and Ji Ze looked at each other, a glint of interest appeared in their eyes as they nodded and said, "Mission accepted!"

Little Dumpling’s pupils sparkled, thinking of the cartoons she had recently watched. She stealthily looked around, lowered her voice, and said, "Nuonuo promises too!"

Lu Xining dressed her daughter and then put coats on her two sons.

In the past few days, many families with children were at the ZN experiment base, and the children’s playground downstairs was bustling.

"Come on, Mom is going to take you guys downstairs to play."

It was a five to six-minute walk from the main building, where the office was, to the apartment building.

They arrived at the outdoor children’s playground under the apartment building, with Ji Chao and Ji Ze each holding one of Lu Nuonuo’s hands, while the Little Dumpling in the middle hopped and skipped, the two Little Jiu Jius swaying cutely to either side.

Many families brought their children to the ZN experiment base to visit family members, and the playground was filled with children of similar ages.

Upon seeing Lu Xining’s appearance, the families greeted her somewhat awkwardly.

Shen Congliang was also here, he was with his wife and daughter, swinging in a swing set downstairs, and his little girl was around the same age as Ji Chao and Ji Ze.

Seeing her, he hastily came over to greet, "Professor Lu."

She smiled and said, "I’m here to play with the kids, don’t be restrained, just play whatever you like."

Little Dumpling, holding Ji Chao and Ji Ze’s hands, walked towards the swing set, "Brother, Nuonuo wants to swing."

Next to the swings, there were many other children. Lu Nuonuo and her siblings followed at the back of the queue, their ears perked up to eavesdrop on the other children’s conversations.

With two sons to accompany her daughter, Lu Xining didn’t need to watch them too closely.

She simply sat on a nearby bench, her kids’ water bottles and snacks placed beside her, looking like a mom who had really just come to play with her children.

As she anticipated, it wasn’t long before Shen Congliang came looking for her.

He sat on the bench next to Lu Xining, his gaze on his daughter swinging not far away, but his peripheral vision remained on Lu Xining’s face, trying to discern her emotions, yet he couldn’t make out anything.

Shen Congliang asked casually, "Professor Lu, I heard you invited Teacher Sang over this morning, did you find out anything?"

"Xiao Shen, don’t worry, Teacher Sang is not a traitor, the real traitor is someone else."

Lu Xining’s voice was very light, but it weighed heavily on the man’s ears, making his heart skip a beat.

His tone was somewhat guilty and unnatural, forcing a laugh, he said, "Is, is that so, that’s great. I knew Teacher Sang was so disciplined and upright, he would never betray the laboratory."

Shen Congliang feigned concern as he probed further into how Lu Xining planned to deal with the situation.

He sighed, "Professor Lu, such a big issue would have triggered a first-level alert in any other company. How come you seem so unconcerned?"

"Did you notice?"

Lu Xining purposely looked around and said with a relaxed tone, "Actually, it’s no big deal."

Meanwhile, Lu Nuonuo shared a pack of her stickers with Shen Congliang’s daughter, smiling and saying, "Here, sis, this is for you."

Little Dumpling still had a toy phone around her neck, covered in shiny little rhinestones, showing off the sticker’s magic when receiving a call.

"Look, sis, you stick this on the phone, and it will twinkle when there’s a call."

The little girl opposite was clearly intrigued and quickly ran to Shen Congliang to get his phone, "Daddy, can I put stickers on your phone? These are the ones Nuonuo sister gave me, they’re so pretty."

In order to portray a doting father image in front of Lu Xining, Shen Congliang handed over his phone, wiping her sweat and saying with a smile, "Sure, go put them on, but don’t run too fast."

This little episode didn’t concern him much.

Shen Congliang turned his head towards Lu Xining, seeing her genuinely relaxed expression, his heart tightened even more.

Without realizing, he steered the conversation back, asking, "Have you already identified the traitor?"

She turned to look at him, and seeing the nervousness in his eyes, she smiled with raised lips and whispered, "The data was fake, so it doesn’t matter whether we find the traitor or not."

"Fake?!" Shen Congliang exclaimed, his voice suddenly sharp, eyes filled with disbelief.

Lu Xining frowned, signaling him to keep it down, and continued, "Xiao Shen, you’ve been one of my trusted confidants from Jingzhou Laboratory, and I won’t keep you in the dark. If the data ’Antis’ Bioresearch Company got was truly stolen from our lab, then they’re finished."

Shen Congliang wanted to delve deeper but seeing the cautious and questioning look in Lu Xining’s eyes, he immediately swallowed his words.

He forced a stiff smile, "That’s great then, I always said Professor Lu, you’re so smart, you’d definitely have a backup plan. Hearing you say this sets my mind at ease."

Just then, his daughter finished on the swing, so Shen Congliang found an excuse to leave first.

He went over, picked up his daughter, and played with her to make her laugh, his wife’s gaze filled with love for him and their daughter – a heartwarming scene for any onlooker.

A faint smile lingered on Lu Xining’s lips as she sat in her chair, watching her daughter and son happily play.

In the blink of an eye.

Shen Congliang’s family had vanished from the children’s playground.

Lu Nuonuo sat on the swing giggling, with Ji Chao pushing her from behind, and nearby, Ji Ze turned his head and gestured to Lu Xining with the now empty sticker pack in his hand.

Suddenly, the phone chimed with an alert.

Lu Xining put on her headphones, and as soon as she heard the familiar voice inside, the smile at the corner of her mouth sunk into her eyes.

[Shen Congliang: There’s a problem with the data, check it again carefully! How do I know there’s a problem? I received the very last version of the data, I’m not responsible for this.]

[Shen Congliang: You think I don’t know that you went to my teacher first, and only came to me when he refused? I risked my career to do this; you can’t short-change me a penny.]

[Shen Congliang: Don’t worry, I’ll push everything onto my teacher, ensuring no one will know, as if by ghostly stealth.]

The person on the other side of the phone used a voice changer.

Lu Xining couldn’t recognize the modified voice, but Shen Congliang’s voice was very clear.