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

At the same moment, Shen Jie was sitting on the bed in the next room, talking to Shen Tianyun.

"Yunyun, there's something I've been wanting to ask you, and I hope you can tell Mom the truth today." Shen Jie sat on Shen Tianyun's bed, her right foot on the edge of the bed, her delicate hands rubbing the skin between her toes through her socks.

"Go ahead and ask, why are you being so serious?" Shen Tianyun sat at the dining table, tilted her head back and gulped down a mouthful of ice-cold Coca-Cola: "When have I ever lied to you?"

“Your dad told me,” Shen Jie carefully chose her words, “that he had never been in a relationship before he met me when he was thirty.”

“That’s exactly what I told him,” Shen Tianyun nodded.

Shen Jie took off her right sock, looked down and frowned: "Is it true? He really has never had... an ex-girlfriend or anything?"

Shen Tianyun was taken aback for a moment, then laughed and said, "Little Mom, why are you suddenly concerned about these things? Does it matter whether you've talked about it or not?"

"Whether it's important or not, you have to tell me the truth," Shen Jie said, glaring at him. "Why did you lie to him?"

Shen Tianyun stood up, bent down to pick up her small medicine box, rummaged through it and found an ointment, which she handed to Shen Jie: "Don't pick at it, it'll break in a bit."

“I’m asking you a question!” Shen Jie said.

……

……

After finishing his phone call, Xiao Yao said goodbye to Teacher Lin, opened the wardrobe door, looked through the mirror, and knocked on the door: "May I come in?"

"Come in!" He didn't know which girl answered him.

The boy entered his daughter's room and saw Shen Jie sitting on the edge of the bed, carefully pulling her right white athletic sock up to her ankle. Her hands stopped there, and she tugged slightly to make the sock cuff fit tightly against her skin.

Then, she screwed on the cap of something that looked like a small toothpaste tube.

"What are we having for lunch?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Eat, eat, eat, is all you care about is your physical needs?" Shen Jie shoved her feet, encased in athletic socks, into plastic slippers and retorted casually, "We're going out with Sha Mei this afternoon, so let's just grab something to eat outside for lunch."

"You went out with Silly Girl this afternoon? Did you know about this?" Xiao Yao asked, his eyes still glazed over.

"Now you know." A slight smile appeared on Shen Jie's lips.

"When did you two agree to meet?" Xiao Yao asked calmly. "If that's the case, why didn't you have lunch at the church?"

Chapter 152 The Father-in-Law's Compromise

2023-04-05

The sweltering heat of summer makes people feel irritable; a wave of heat permeates the air, and there is not a breath of wind.

Standing on the asphalt road, the heat underfoot was unbearable.

Shen Jie, holding a parasol and carrying a beverage bottle, walked with Xiao Yao along the road toward the bus stop.

The two had already had lunch.

The girl didn't wear the sneakers she had worn for her morning run. Instead, she changed into the black Dior leather shoes she had worn at the boat resort, with the tongues pressed against her off-white athletic socks, revealing half of her instep.

Shen Jie didn't wear that crop top anymore, but changed back into a normal-length top.

Aside from that, she was still wearing the same clothes she wore that morning.

"Did you know?" Shen Jie blurted out unexpectedly, "Silly Girl is actually your ex-girlfriend."

"What the heck?" Xiao Yao asked, puzzled.

“In the original timeline, you got together with Sha Mei later, and you didn’t remain single until you were 30,” Shen Jie explained to him. “Shen Tianyun didn’t tell you the truth.”

"She actually lied to me?" Xiao Yao was shocked and clenched his fists angrily.

Shen Jie shrugged: "Who knows, maybe... Hey, over here!"

As they spoke, the two had already approached the bus terminal.

Outside the parking lot, there was an old black car. Xiao Yao recognized it at a glance as Lord Yu Bo's vehicle.

The tinted windshield was rolled down, and Yu Bo and Yu Luying leaned out of the car window to greet Shen Jie and Xiao Yao.

Shen Jie stepped forward and stood next to the driver's seat. Yu Bo took out two maps of Shanghai and handed them to Shen Jie.

Xiao Yao stood at a distance that was neither too close nor too far, looking from behind at the girl's sweaty thighs beneath her shorts.

Yu Bo and Shen Jie were pointing at the half-open map, discussing something.

During lunch, Shen Jie already told Xiao Yao what they wanted to do—

Yu Luying and Yu Bo wanted to test whether the weakened symbiosis still had a distance limit, and if so, they wanted to test the limit of this distance.

This experiment carries inherent risks and therefore requires the supervision of a "guardian".

The plan is as follows: Yu Bo will drive Yu Luying towards Putuo District and Jiading District in the northwest of Shanghai. If any abnormal situation occurs, he will immediately brake and turn around.

Shen Jie and Xiao Yao were heading towards Nanhui in the southeast of Shanghai.

Xiao Yao had some reservations, and not entirely due to safety concerns, but he had no choice but to proceed.

"But if that's the case, why did you send me away this morning to talk about it?" Xiao Yao asked Shen Jie during lunch, but Shen Jie did not answer him.

Xiao Yao turned his gaze back to the girl standing next to the car, holding a black parasol. She had already discussed the route with the priest and was walking towards him.

Yu Bo waved to himself again, rolled up the car window, and drove away.

"Why are we taking the bus?" Xiao Yao asked Shen Jie. "Don't you hate taking the bus?"

"Because I'm almost out of money," Shen Jie replied calmly.

"? So fast." Xiao Yao was taken aback, and a sense of unease immediately rose in his heart.

--split line--

The bus looked brand new; the interior was bright and spacious, the seats were comfortable, and the air was fresh.

The car's suspension system is excellent, so you don't feel much bumping or shaking even when you're riding in it.

Xiao Yao looked around and saw that the carriage was mostly empty, with not many passengers.

A middle-aged woman sat in a corner, taking out a book and beginning to read, occasionally taking off her glasses to rub her eyes. A young man wore headphones, his eyes filled with tranquility and relaxation. An elderly couple nestled together, gazing tenderly at each other, seemingly sensing the weight of time and the warmth of love.

Shen Jie leaned on Xiao Yao's shoulder, her eyes closed, breathing evenly, as if she had fallen into deep thought.

Is it appropriate for her to be so relaxed as the guardian of the experiment?

In short, all of this gives people the illusion of a peaceful and idyllic life.

only……

Xiao Yao looked out the window. People and cars were coming and going on the road, as if everyone was busy and hardworking, just like himself, unable to find rest.

Although he hadn't completely ruled out this possibility, and had even suspected that Shen Tianyun was lying, Xiao Yao still felt a dizzying shock when Shen Jie solemnly told him, "You weren't single since birth until you were 30. In the original timeline, Yu Luying was your ex-girlfriend."

Xiao Yao has always believed that being rejected 100% of the time is his passive talent, or rather, his destiny.

In every corner of this blue planet, in every era, there will be a group of... unlucky souls like myself, destined to lack attraction to the opposite sex.

Love is a luxury for them.

Perhaps many years later, they will still get married and have children.

But at this prime of their lives, they are destined to be immune to love.

Xiao Yao was very grateful to Shen Jie for being by his side at this moment and during this time.

To be honest, overall, this was the happiest period of his life.

However, he knew very well that even if Shen Jie had developed some feelings for him now, if it weren't for the connection through the space-time tunnel in the first place, and if it weren't for Shen Tianyun's appearance, Shen Jie wouldn't have even given him a second glance.

Admittedly, Yu Luying had confessed her feelings to him not long ago, but if it weren't for this mysterious "symbiosis," if it weren't for their extraordinary adventure in the "hall"... she probably wouldn't have changed her mind.

As for Zhao Xiaomei... even if her interest in herself is genuine, it probably started out just because "meat that someone else is fighting over tastes better."

It was because Shen Jie and Yu Luying were always by her side that her value was greatly enhanced without her even realizing it.

Xiao Yao is self-aware.

That's why the news that "even in the original timeline, Yu Luying had a relationship with you" had such a huge impact on him.

This made him realize that he might have underestimated his charm and value.

He felt his confidence had been boosted.

Mom, I am gold, I want to shine.

"What did she tell you?" Xiao Yao shrugged his left shoulder and asked the girl beside him, "How did I win over Yu Luying? What grade were we in? How long were we together? How did we break up? Why did Shen Tianyun lie to me?"

After listening indifferently to the barrage of questions the boy asked, Shen Jie's still slightly narrowed eyes seemed to flash with two cold stars: "You really do get excited when it comes to her."

Being jealous is actually a good thing. Xiao Yao explained, "No, it has nothing to do with Yu Luying. Even if you told me I dated Wu Xufei, I would still care a lot, because it concerns my own evaluation of my attractiveness—"

"Who is Wu Xufei, and who is Saning?" Shen Jie asked curiously.

"Ah—it's not important, I was just making it up, it's just someone from our school," Xiao Yao said.

"Oh." Shen Jie hugged her right knee and lifted it up a bit: "How did you win him over? What year of high school did you get together? How long were you together? How did you break up? I don't know. Tianyun insists that she doesn't know. Actually, I don't know about my dad's earlier romantic history either, so I think she really doesn't know."

"Oh, if there's a chance, I can ask my future self or me, maybe..." Xiao Yao was still lost in his own thoughts.

“I’ll ask for you when I have the chance,” Shen Jie continued. “As for why she kept it from you, Tianyun claimed it was a moment of confusion, but I can guess the real reason.”

"Are you trying to make me feel like nobody wants me, so I'll be devoted to you?" Xiao Yao guessed it himself: "Actually, there's no need, after all, you're so great—"