20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3776: Just Like Me
In his article, Xia Wenzhuo wrote that, just like a typical monkey troop in the animal kingdom, a alpha male dominates all the female monkeys in the troop. This is an instinct for the continuation of his own genes. This practice of letting the strongest monkey exercise power and pass on its superior genes is also a law of natural selection and evolution.

It's not that men become bad because they've become capable, but rather that their capabilities prove the potential superiority of their genes. As a matter of social responsibility, this compels them to follow their instincts and allow humanity's superior genes to evolve further.

Therefore, Tian Xue understood Xia Wenzhuo's meaning: the sisters should not feel ashamed or immoral towards each other, and secondly, they should have more children for Zhao Chang'an in the future.

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After taking a shower, Zhao Chang'an put on the new underwear and bathrobe that Tian Xue had left in the bathroom and gently pushed open the door to Tian Xue's bedroom.

It was warm inside with the air conditioning on, and the lights were still on, but the curtains were drawn.

The room was filled with the pleasant scent of perfume and shampoo. To Zhao Chang'an's surprise, two sets of women's underwear were hanging on two clothes hangers right under the vent of the air conditioner.

One set was light pink, and the other was bright red. They swayed flamboyantly in the strong hot air from the air conditioner, the two pinks and two reds particularly eye-catching.

Tian Xue slept on the outer side of the upper bunk, her head facing the door. She turned to look at Zhao Chang'an, her eyes sparkling with longing and a shy smile.

Lin Xiaojie, who was sleeping on the inside of the upper bunk wearing a cheongsam, was lying on her side facing the wall. She heard the sound of the door opening and her whole body tensed up. She was sure that Zhao Chang'an would have seen the underwear that Tian Xue was talking about drying on the dryer when she was taking a shower in the bathroom at first glance.

This feeling almost drove her crazy, frantic, yet she didn't know what she could do.

Previously, when the school sometimes organized study trips to counties and cities, in order to save expenses, we would stay in standard rooms, or even three people sharing a room. Two thinner people would squeeze into one bed, while the fatter people or the principals and vice-principals leading the group would sleep in a separate bed.

On one occasion, she shared a standard room with a female teacher in her thirties, Vice Principal Liu who was leading the group, and a man in his forties. Although she felt awkward, there was nothing wrong with it except that Vice Principal Liu would fall asleep as soon as he touched the bed at night and would snore.

On the contrary, Lin Xiaojie found it novel and interesting, and she and the female teacher laughed together.

Moreover, those were two beds placed together, but this was a bunk bed, which was much better than that.

The problem is, back then I slept in jeans and a thermal undershirt, but now I'm only wearing a thin red cheongsam.

After she stopped wearing underwear, she would never dare to stand in front of Zhao Chang'an, as it would be almost the same as not wearing any underwear at all.

The most embarrassing thing was that she had to dry her underwear, otherwise she wouldn't be able to go out the next day.

Now, with her eyes closed, she's reviewing what happened tonight. If she has any complaints, she can only blame herself for being so foolish, for being so heartless over a worthless ingrate.

So much so that he had nothing with him and was dragged to Jiangcheng in a daze.

Knowing that Lin Xiaojie was easily frightened, Zhao Chang'an didn't say anything, but instead locked the door and turned off the bedroom light.

As the bedroom plunged into darkness, Lin Xiaojie finally relaxed, and a feeling of gratitude welled up in her heart for Zhao Chang'an's thoughtfulness.

The air conditioner was blowing air, and the doors and windows in the bedroom were closed. Tian Xue never used the air conditioner when she slept, so even the spare quilt was a thick cotton quilt used in winter.

Because of her earlier nervousness, Lin Xiaojie realized that she was completely soaked in sweat, as if she had been washed.

First, the air conditioning was too hot; second, the blanket was too thick; and third, she was too nervous.

"It's too hot in the room, you're all sweaty."

Tian Xue sat up in surprise and said to Lin Xiaojie, who was sleeping on the other side, "How come you're so hot? I didn't even feel it." "It's cold at night in the mountains, but I'm used to it."

Lin Xiaojie spoke in a low voice, afraid that Zhao Chang'an would hear her.

"Take off your cheongsam, or you won't be able to sleep."

Hearing Tian Xue say that, Lin Xiaojie wanted to say, "Why don't you just open the window?" But she was weak-willed and her pride, masked by poverty, prevented her from saying those words.

She secretly resented Tian Xue, but she also knew that Tian Xue couldn't be blamed for not remembering. A good girl like Tian Xue probably wouldn't even have such thoughts in her mind.

"Take it off, otherwise you'll catch a cold, which isn't worth it."

Suddenly, Zhao Chang'an's concerned voice rang out in the room.

At that moment, Lin Xiaojie was completely stunned. She sighed deeply and resigned herself to her fate.

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Lin Xiaojie barely slept a wink last night. Although she was extremely nervous, thinking about a big man sleeping in the room was like having a tiger in her sight, she still managed to fall asleep amidst the tension.

In her dream, she felt as if she were sleeping on a small boat, and she could hear the singing voices of the women on stage when she was a child.

She was so happy back then, watching plays with her parents and brother, unlike later when she was dating Liu Shilin and sent him almost half of her monthly salary as living expenses for his university studies.

Her parents and brother were very angry about this and argued with her a lot. She also became the laughing stock in the village. Everyone said that she wanted to marry a college student and become a rich official's wife. They were all waiting for her to be dumped.

She stubbornly persisted, and this belief became her source of solace.

However, this hope eventually became a source of amusement for the villagers, who would all say, "I told you so."

Lin Xiaojie felt a sudden, unbearable pain in her heart, as if a mountain was pressing down on her body and her heart. She had become a laughingstock in the end!
Liu Shilin, how cruel you are!

Lin Xiaojie suddenly woke up, panting heavily, her face covered in sweat and tears streaming from her eyes.

She only realized a moment later that because it was too hot in the room, she had pulled all the blankets to the outside and was sleeping sprawled out on her back.

Wouldn't that mean piling all the blankets on Tian Xue's bed? Could she handle that?
Lin Xiaojie was startled and felt extremely sorry for Tian Xue. Moreover, she heard Tian Xue's suppressed voice in her sleep because of the heat, which was the same soft singing voice of the female lead on the stage that she had heard in her dream.

Lin Xiaojie felt incredibly guilty and quickly reached for the blanket, trying to move it closer to her, only to be shocked to discover that Tian Xue wasn't on the upper bunk at all.

Moreover, she felt that the bed was shaking even more violently than before.

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"Hehe, she's sleeping so soundly, but I felt like she didn't sleep at all last night. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't control herself. I called her a lot just now and even tried shaking her, but she didn't wake up."

Tian Xue laughed in the darkness and said, "Actually, when I look at her, I think of the time when Guan Xinyi dumped me. I felt like there was no point in living. And she can escape her previous environment now, but I can't just stop going to school."

Tian Xue's earlier words were accompanied by a relaxed, carefree, and languid smile, but as she spoke, her voice became somewhat heavy and sad.