Chapter 431: My Wife Seems to Have Come Home

Qin Wenhao finished the dishes, then went to take a shower.

After changing into a clean set of clothes, he came out, ready to have a chat with his two children.

"Come here, Keke. Come to Daddy."

Qin Keke blinked her big eyes, staring at this very tan man.

’My daddy doesn’t look like Little Black!’

Qin Keke’s cognitive abilities were actually quite developed.

Seeing this, Mrs. Fu said with a smile, "She probably didn’t recognize you because you’ve gotten so tan."

Qin Wenhao’s expression instantly froze.

’My daughter doesn’t recognize me because I’m tan?’

’Just how tan am I? Even my mother-in-law said it.’

"Hao Hao, Keke, this is your daddy. Quick, go give Daddy a hug."

Mrs. Fu gave the twins a gentle nudge.

The twins didn’t move. They just stared at Qin Wenhao.

Qin Wenhao was speechless.

’Have I changed that much? So much that even my own children don’t recognize me?’

He held out his arms. "Come here."

The two little ones did have some memory of him, after all.

After a moment’s hesitation, they walked toward their very tan father.

Seeing them approach, Qin Wenhao immediately reached out, scooping them up and setting them on his lap.

"What’s this? You really didn’t recognize your daddy?"

"Daddy—" Qin Keke called out in her small, sweet voice.

And Qin Hao, after making sure, also called out crisply, "Daddy!"

Hearing those two calls of "Daddy," a smile immediately spread across Qin Wenhao’s face.

"Good kids! Have you been listening to Grandma while I was away?"

"Yes!" the two children answered in unison.

"Grandma’s nice!"

This remark made Mrs. Fu absolutely beam.

Qin Wenhao played with the children for a while.

The children were a bit reserved at first, but after Qin Wenhao started telling them stories, they warmed up to him considerably.

When it was time for bed, Qin Wenhao said to Mrs. Fu, "Ma, how about letting the kids sleep with me tonight?"

Mrs. Fu refused him outright. "Why would they sleep with you? You just got back from your mission, and you must be exhausted. You need to get a good rest. Besides, the kids are used to sleeping with me. If they slept with you, none of you would get any sleep!"

Her room had been modified to have a large, heated sleeping platform.

There was more than enough room for the three of them, with space to spare.

Seeing her firm stance, Qin Wenhao could only drop the subject.

Back in his own room, he found it clean and tidy, but without his wife, it felt exceptionally empty.

’I wonder how my wife is doing right now...’

Fu Mingxue, who was in the middle of drafting blueprints, suddenly sneezed several times.

The weather there had turned a bit chilly, and she felt a cold draft.

So she grabbed a jacket, draped it over her shoulders, and went back to her blueprints.

Her blueprints were divided into several sections.

This time, she was tackling the high-temperature tolerance of the engine’s combustion chamber, aiming to optimize its performance.

The engine also had to undergo wind tunnel tests.

Dimensions, sonic speeds, high and low temperatures—all of these required specific numerical values.

She had to get these values exactly right.

Completely absorbed in her work, she hadn’t a single thought to spare for Qin Wenhao.

「Three months passed in the blink of an eye.」

This time, after finishing her work on-site, she returned directly to the factory.

Without taking a single break, she immediately convened a meeting with Group Six.

She arrived at the factory at ten o’clock, and the meeting lasted until eleven.

Fortunately, a car from the factory was sent to take her back to the family quarters this time.

Qin Wenhao had been about to lie down to sleep.

But just as his eyes were drifting shut, he heard the sound of a car outside. His eyes shot open.

He quickly threw on some clothes and rushed out—

He opened the door just in time to see his wife getting out of the car.