You are like the warm sun

Chapter 31: The Boy Living Alone

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murderer.

I heard his father killed someone and was sentenced to 18 years in prison, and he hasn't been released yet. After his father went to prison, his mother filed for divorce, and not long after the divorce, his mother remarried and took him with her.

[Oh my god, this is so exciting?!]

[Is this true? Where did you hear this news?]

My friend told me that before the class was divided, all the students in Shao Zhouci's first grade class knew about this.

[Family disgrace should not be made public. This couldn't possibly be something Shao Zhouci told others about himself. Why do I feel like someone is plotting against him?]

How old was he when his father went to prison?

[I think she's still in the first grade of junior high school.]

There is a lot of news.

It took Tang Wan half an hour to browse through the chat logs in the class group. She hadn't paid much attention to the group chats before, and when she did, the number of messages had already accumulated to over 99, so she hadn't participated in the discussion at the time.

This was the first time she saw these chat records, but it was not the first time she heard about Shao Zhouci.

Those unintentional and malicious words are like sharp arrows that can pierce people's hearts.

At this moment, she was very glad that he was not in the group and had not seen these glaring words.

During the two or three days that she took care of him, Tang Wan did not meet any of his elders.

A person's shoes were placed at the entrance.

There is only one set of toiletries in the bathroom.

The kitchen was so clean that there was not a trace of smoke.

And there's only one bedroom...

This single-room rental apartment is filled with the tranquility and loneliness of a young man living alone.

Although Tang Wan was curious, she had never asked about his parents' situation because she felt that would touch upon his forbidden zone. He was like a hedgehog, curling up at the slightest provocation, using his sharp spines to protect himself and refusing others to approach.

Sometimes, she felt that their experiences were somewhat similar.

Just as lonely and helpless.

Tang Wan couldn't help but purse her lips as she held her phone. When Shao Zhouci went out to the living room with his finished homework, he found the girl sitting cross-legged on the sofa, holding her phone in one hand and resting her chin with the other, wondering what she was thinking.

When he picked up the schoolbag beside the sofa and was about to put his homework in it, she noticed the movement and looked up at him.

The look in his eyes... quite loving?
Shao Zhouci felt puzzled.

"Shao Zhouci."

She lowered her legs and called out to him.

The boy who was about to go back to his room looked at her with a leisurely look in his eyes, "What are you doing?"

"What do you want to eat tomorrow morning?" I just want to show some care to him.

"..."

Her tone was so serious that I thought she wanted to say something important, but I didn't expect that she was actually asking him what he wanted to eat.

"casual."

This answer again.

It's too perfunctory.

Tang Wan tilted her head and spoke slowly, "Really? Then I'll buy you a hand-pulled pancake with green onions, cilantro, and chili peppers, but no meat."

Accurately step on thunder.

Every time Shao Zhouci heard her say something, his brows furrowed a little.

She did it on purpose.

Knowing this, he calmly said, "You don't have to buy it, I'll go myself."

"Eh?"

Tang Wan was surprised at first, but after thinking about it, she nodded: "Okay... Then you can buy me some breakfast. I'll eat whatever you eat."

She looked at him with an expression that said, "I'm easy to support."

Shao Zhouci was a little speechless.

But this was just a side note, so after two seconds of silence he responded, "Yeah."

(End of this chapter)