You're my wife, don't doubt it!

That evening, the three of them returned to Shen Tianyun's room and connected to the internet using the Wi-Fi in her room.

Xiao Yao wanted to play "Bloodline II", but the game had already been shut down online in 2034. So, at Shen Jie's suggestion, the three of them first watched an episode of "Ultraman".

"This is too... silly." Xiao Yao couldn't help but laugh, somewhat confused as to why he had found it so... funny in a different sense when he was a child.

"This is your first love that will break your heart," Shen Jie reminded him at the right moment, "Be serious."

"Is this the original Ultraman...?" Shen Tianyun looked quite interested: "Hey, this is interesting."

"Do kids these days watch Ultraman too?" Xiao Yao asked curiously.

"Look, I'm looking!" Shen Tianyun said excitedly, "Ultraman Mμ, Ultraman π, transform! I am the light!"

"...What nonsense! Is this a new Ultraman?"

“Yes,” Shen Tianyun said, “Ultraman Mμ has 7 evolution forms, can combine with Ultraman π, and there are also several cards and transformation devices. I’ve even bought some merchandise!”

As Xiao Yao listened, his eyes widened in disbelief: "What kind of nonsense is this... Let me see it next time!"

After watching this episode of Ultraman, at Xiao Yao's suggestion, the three of them watched another movie, "Ghost".

Shen Tianyun turned off the lights in the room and placed the computer on the carpet. The three of them sat on the floor with their knees drawn up to their chests, leaning against Shen Tianyun's huge teddy bear.

To be precise, only Shen Tianyun was hugging her knees, while Shen Jie's hands were limply hanging on the ground. Xiao Yao sat between the two girls, with his left arm around one and his right arm around the other.

"Aren't you hot?" Shen Tianyun shivered and shook off Xiao Yao's arm.

Xiao Yao chuckled awkwardly, picked up the air conditioner remote, lowered the temperature by a few degrees, and hugged her again.

In complete darkness, only the glow of the computer screen illuminated the three people's faces, making them appear and disappear.

Xiao Yao felt a lump in his throat. This beautiful scene gave him a sense of unreality, fearing that it was just a pipe dream, or that this moment was like sand slipping through his fingers, fleeting and gone in an instant.

In the movie, the male lead says to the female lead with deep affection, "I love you."

The female protagonist replied, "Me too."

“I love you both,” Xiao Yao said.

No one cares about him.

Xiao Yao patted Shen Jie's arm, and she said, "Yeah, me too."

"Hiss—" Shen Tianyun hugged her shoulders, pretending to be very cold: "Okay, okay, me too."

"The three of us will stay together forever and never be apart, okay?"

“That won’t do,” Shen Jie laughed. “Our Tianyun isn’t getting married? She’ll stay with you forever, wouldn’t that be wonderful?”

“They can live with us even after they get married…or we can find a son-in-law to live with us.” Xiao Yao hugged the two girls in his arms even tighter.

"All I see is darkness," Shen Tianyun commented.

While watching the movie and talking to myself, I unknowingly arrived at that classic scene—the female lead was making pottery, and the male lead hugged her from behind, holding her hand and making pottery together.

Romantic music begins, and two bodies intertwine, passionately kissing...

Oh my love my darling, I've hungry for your touch, A long lonely time...

Xiao Yao recalled that when he first saw this scene as a child, his parents deliberately covered his eyes.

He stood up, walked behind Shen Jie, and was about to do a cosplay when she suddenly fell forward, crawled two steps, stood up, and walked towards the wardrobe.

"Where are we going?" Xiao Yao asked.

“Go get a spittoon,” Shen Jie said. “Don’t come out.”

"Understood," Xiao Yao said.

After Shen Jie left, the father and daughter watched the movie in silence for a while without saying a word.

"By the way...you, how have you been these past few days while we were away?" Xiao Yao scratched his head. "When are your final exams?"

"Oh, you finally remembered to ask? I..." Shen Tianyun said with a teasing smile.

The wardrobe door suddenly opened, and Shen Jie's little head peeked out: "Xiao Yao, it's your phone, it's for you."

"?" Xiao Yao stood up: "Who is it at this hour?"

"I don't know," Shen Jie shook her head. "They said it was your classmate."

Xiao Yao walked out of the mirror with a puzzled look and came to the sofa, where a landline telephone receiver was placed to the side.

"Hello? Who is this?" Xiao Yao picked up the receiver.

"Is this Xiao Yao?" A female voice came from the other end of the phone: "This is Zhao Xiaomei."

"?" Xiao Yao was a little confused: "How did you get my home phone number?"

"I'm sorry, Xiao Yao, Xiao Mei got it from another classmate."

Unlike Yu Luying's cool and aloof voice and Shen Jie's light and bright voice, Zhao Xiaomei's voice was very sweet—in fact, so sweet that it was cloying, making Xiao Yao feel a little uncomfortable.

However, it's hard to say how much of this discomfort stems from the unpleasantness of being suddenly disturbed.

"Because Xiao Yao's phone was out of service, I called his home landline to see if he had run into any problems," Zhao Xiaomei explained.

Out of service area, that's to be expected, because in 2034 I said: "Zhao Xiaomei, what's the matter?"

Xiao Yao realized that his voice sounded somewhat stiff, even extremely impatient.

Zhao Xiaomei clearly understood: "I'm sorry, did I disturb Xiao Yao? If Xiao Yao isn't available to chat right now—"

Hearing Zhao Xiaomei's aggrieved voice, Xiao Yao felt a pang of sympathy. He calmed his breathing and said as gently as possible, "No, it's not like I'm bothering you. But I'm watching a movie with my family right now. If it's not urgent, could we talk about it during the day?"

"Okay." Zhao Xiaomei's obedient voice was like a piece of soft glutinous rice: "By the way, Xiao Yao, was the person who answered the phone just now your girlfriend?"

"No, it's my cousin," Xiao Yao replied, sticking to the same story he told everyone.

Moreover, he didn't want his classmates to have the "wrong impression" that he and his girlfriend were living together.

“Okay,” Zhao Xiaomei said, “I’ll call Xiao Yao again next time. Goodbye, Xiao Yao.”

After saying that, Zhao Xiaomei hung up the phone.

Xiao Yao, holding the microphone, was stunned for a moment.

What's going on with this girl?

If this had happened a month or two ago, and a girl who was not bad-looking—or even just average-looking would have been fine—suddenly appeared and enthusiastically wanted to be friends with him, Xiao Yao would probably have woken up laughing in his dreams.

Just now...

Xiao Yao shrugged, lost in thought as he walked into the mirror in the wardrobe.

"Who is it?" Shen Jie asked casually, without looking at him, her eyes fixed on the screen.

"Zhao Xiaomei." Xiao Yao adopted an honest attitude, as if he had nothing to hide.

"Who is Zhao Xiaomei?" Shen Jie asked.

Shen Tianyun glanced at Xiao Yao in surprise.

The movie has progressed to the point where the male lead has died, and his ghost is hovering around the female lead, but she can no longer hear him speak.

"It's the one I told you about a couple of days ago, the one who hit on me at the wonton shop." Seeing that Shen Jie and Shen Tianyun were sitting together, Xiao Yao didn't want to force them apart, so he sat down next to Shen Jie.

"You even gave them your home phone number?" Shen Jie asked, her eyes still glued to the computer screen.

"I didn't give it to her. I don't even know where she got the phone number from," Xiao Yao said truthfully.

"Oh." Shen Jie didn't say anything more and focused on watching the movie.

Xiao Yao felt a little awkward and wanted to explain something more, but after thinking for a while, he didn't know what to say.

At the end of the movie, the villainous supporting character is killed by a falling glass window, his soul leaves his body, and is immediately dragged down to hell by a terrifying group of shadows, while the male protagonist bids a final farewell to the female protagonist in a beam of light shooting down from the sky, and slowly disappears into the light.

Shen Tianyun clapped.

The end credits begin.

"You guys think it would be nice if there really were heaven and hell in real life, giving good people and bad people the final destination they deserve?" Shen Jie stretched out her legs and yawned.

Shen Tianyun closed her laptop, stood up, and turned on the light, instantly illuminating the night.

“If you believe in Brother Bo’s theories, then it’s true,” Xiao Yao told Shen Jie.

"Hmm," the girl said thoughtfully.

"Take a shower, take a shower, time for bed! I have an exam tomorrow! And I need to return the computer!" Shen Tianyun opened the bedroom door and walked straight out.

"Hey, Gouzi," Shen Jie seemed to suddenly remember something, "Do you have anything planned for tomorrow?"

"It's nothing," Xiao Yao said. "What could possibly be wrong with me?"

"Come with me to the wedding photography studio? I've already picked one," the girl said with a cheerful smile.

"Huh?" Xiao Yao didn't react at first.

"Didn't we agree on this before?" Shen Jie deliberately pouted, "Have you forgotten?"

“I haven’t forgotten, I haven’t forgotten, great, of course,” Xiao Yao said happily, “Then let’s go tomorrow.”

Chapter 99 You stepped on my hair!

2023-02-03