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

"You don't understand, the fragrance of wildflowers can never compare to that of garden flowers."

"Didn't he openly date two people at the same time before? What's the essential difference between dating two and dating three?"

"How could Yu Luying fall for someone like this? She must be under some kind of spell..."

"..."

This tedious chatter annoyed Xiao Yao. He shook the pink envelope in his hand and asked again in a low voice, "What exactly are you up to?"

Xu Qingwei replied loudly, "Yes, yes. I know, I know. Xiao Yao already has a girlfriend, and they're in a great relationship. That's why I hesitated for a long time before deciding to write you this letter. I have no intention of ruining things for you two. I just want to express my feelings clearly and let Xiao Yao know how I feel. That's enough for me. I hope this won't cause Xiao Yao any trouble. If it still does... I'm sorry for causing you any trouble."

As Shen Jie bowed deeply at a 90-degree angle, the classroom erupted in chaos.

Xiao Yao mumbled something, making a few unintelligible sounds, clutching the envelope in both hands, and turned to return to his seat.

“Xiao Yao, I hope you know,” Shen Jie continued loudly behind him, “no matter what you choose, I will always love you. For the remaining two years of high school, I will not be with anyone. Even if I just silently and unilaterally love you, it will be enough for me.”

Xiao Yao waved weakly at Shen Jie and returned to his seat amidst a deafening roar of cheers and jeers.

"What are you trying to do!" That evening, Xiao Yao shouted as soon as he stepped into his grandmother's photo album room.

"Have you read the letters I wrote to you?" Shen Jie asked him calmly. "Didn't you always ask me to write you love letters, and they had to be handwritten—I've told you that so many times already?"

"I've seen it, I've seen it," Xiao Yao said.

"Are you moved?" Shen Jie asked Xiao Yao.

"I was so moved that I almost cried while sitting in my seat," Xiao Yao replied sincerely. "You can ask my deskmate if you don't believe me."

Yu Luying didn't say anything, but just bit her lower lip and pulled off her sneakers without even untying her shoelaces.

"Then why did you yell at me when you came back?" Shen Jie pouted, deliberately showing a wronged expression.

“I wasn’t being mean to you…” Xiao Yao paused, then deliberately softened his tone: “I just think, why didn’t you discuss this with everyone beforehand, given how high-profile you’re doing this?”

"I just wanted to give you a surprise, didn't I?" Shen Jie said. "Don't you know why I did this?"

"I know, too many people are pursuing you, and you're annoyed. You want them to give up completely, so you pulled this stunt. Now the whole school knows—but we've been exposed too."

"This isn't the main issue at all—so what if we get exposed?" Shen Jie said dismissively. "We'll be exposed sooner or later when we go on stage together in the campus's top ten singers competition."

“I had already planned out the plot—Yu Luying would first get to know you, gradually become friends, and then…”

“That’s enough,” Shen Jie interrupted Xiao Yao, “I don’t want to pretend we don’t know each other at school anymore, and keep our eyes glued to each other. It’s exhausting, mentally exhausting.”

"Then you don't need to make yourself look like Zhao Xiaomei, deliberately confessing to a married man. That would be such an ugly persona," Xiao Yao sighed.

"It's good that I look bad. An unlikable persona will keep people away from me," Shen Jie continued dismissively.

Xiao Yao was filled with emotion. He wanted to say something, but for a moment, he didn't know what to say. He just hugged Shen Jie tightly and said, "Wife, thank you."

"That reaction is more like it," Shen Jie said with satisfaction.

"I... I owe you so much..." Xiao Yao said softly, "I should have been the one to come to your class to give you the love letter, I should have been the one to say those things to you, I should have been the one to pursue you, I should have been the one to..."

"It's good that you understand," Shen Jie tiptoed and patted Xiao Yao's head. "Just remember to pay back the favors you owe me slowly."

Yu Luying remained silent, simply changing into her slippers and shuffling into Xiao Yao's bedroom: "Mimi? Mimi, babbling babbling..."

While calling to the cat, he gently clapped his hands.

On Thursday, September 23, when the three children went to school again, they found that about half of the students in their respective classes were missing.

Upon inquiry, it was discovered that many parents were preventing their children from attending school because they believed a new "infectious disease" was spreading in the school.

In Xiao Yao and Yu Luying's class alone, more than ten students have taken sick leave.

Parents joined forces to pressure the school, threatening not to send their children to school until the public health incident was resolved.

The school's first reaction was to suppress the matter, and its second reaction was to try to find and solve the problem, but it failed to do either of these things.

The problem remains unsolved, and the public outcry is impossible to quell. In the internet age, silencing people is no easy task—suddenly, rumors spread like wildfire, with various versions circulating, and some parents even filed complaints directly with the district education bureau.

That evening, Xinmin Evening News almost published the news, but it was stopped and withdrawn just before publication.

Then some people noticed that the disease seems to only infect men—at least so far.

On Friday, September 24th, some girls returned to school, while even more boys asked for leave.

On Friday afternoon, a high school sophomore girl exhibited symptoms of narcolepsy in her classroom.

School finally ended early that day, and the homeroom teachers announced that there would be a holiday next week—which caused a great deal of celebration.

The students threw their books into the air above the classroom. Those who knew the situation understood that it was the start of the holiday next week, while those who didn't might have thought they had just finished the college entrance exam.

The "Top Ten Campus Singers" competition, originally scheduled for the end of September, has also been postponed, which has left Xiao Yao somewhat disappointed.

There were disturbances whether there was a holiday or not – some parents of senior high school students protested, “They’re already in their final year of high school, how can they just give us a holiday like that?” So, the school had no choice but to announce that senior high school students would attend classes as usual, with participation being voluntary.

Amidst this unprecedented chaos, Xiao Yao and Yu Luying could only be thankful that they had managed to complete their visits before the holiday.

Chapter 374 Is Shen Jie a witch?

2023-11-07

Xiao Yao actually had rather complicated feelings about his wife blocking the classroom door and publicly sending him a letter and confessing her love.

His first reaction was that this crazy, outrageous behavior was very damaging to his public image, and that this Shen Jie was probably transformed from Zhao Xiaomei.

Thinking about it carefully afterward, I realized that this was indeed something Shen Jie was capable of doing.

On the surface, she is well-behaved and rational, but from time to time she will suddenly go off the rails and do some capricious and shocking things. This is the true nature of Miss Shen.

To make him happy, and to make herself happy, Shen Jie could be quite shameless.

Just like her uncontrollable, sudden bursts of laughter.

Xiao Yao imagined that perhaps Shen Hongsheng had taught her from a young age that people from noble families like theirs didn't need to care about the worldly prejudices of ordinary people, nor did they need to worry about the consequences; they could do whatever they wanted.

Of course, it's also possible that this was a miscarriage of justice for Shen Hongsheng. After all, Teacher Yao's shadow had commented to his face a long time ago, "Your true nature is still that of a female hooligan who wants to run around recklessly and smash car windshields with a baseball bat."

Is that how it's said? Anyway, that's roughly the meaning; don't worry about the exact words.

Xiao Yao felt genuinely uneasy about this incident and about once again becoming the center of attention across the school.

In the past, he would probably have been smug and felt very proud.

In Shen Tianyun's words, it was just showing off.

Die Mo, ever since his unusual behavior with Yu Luying caused trouble for himself (and her), Xiao Yao now only cares about three things every day: "keep a low profile", "keep a low profile" or damn "keep a low profile"!

He and Yu Luying really did stop drinking water and eating two hours before bed each night to minimize the number of times they needed to urinate or defecate at school. They would empty their bladders in the morning and hold it in until noon, and then spend the rest of the afternoon there—apparently, this is how astronauts adjust their condition.

Having the opportunity to go to space is certainly a huge honor, but it's safe to say that this kind of adjustment-based life is by no means a pleasant thing.

Xiao Yao felt apprehensive at being thrust into the spotlight again, and at the same time, he worried that Shen Jie's identity and his relationship with her would be exposed at school more quickly.

In fact, although there is a lack of sufficient supporting evidence, Xiao Yao suspects that many people have already guessed it, but they just don't say anything.

Xiao Yao kept encouraging himself with Yu Luying's words: "Compared to our mission, those boring rumors in school can't hurt me at all."

Inner strength is the prerequisite for facing difficulties head-on, and it emphasizes the principle of "not being elated by external gains, nor saddened by personal losses."

I'm doing the work of saving the world, how could I let the opinions, feelings, gossip, and attitudes of you ignorant commoners affect my mood?

To put it simply, quality over quantity is the key to having friends; when you reach a higher level, it makes all the difference.

Now let's go back to the letter Shen Jie wrote.

To be honest, Xiao Yao wasn't particularly satisfied with the length of the letter. It was only one sheet of paper, and the back wasn't even full. It only had about six or eight hundred words when he looked at it from all angles.

The handwriting was so-so, the writing style relied on the defense, and only the emotions revealed between the lines were somewhat sincere.

In terms of content, the main storyline is a recollection of the past few months, starting from the first meeting and continuing to the present, from initial reluctance to determination to do one's duty seriously, to gradually discovering Xiao Yao's adorable qualities, and finally to the confession of secret feelings.

He showered Xiao Yao with compliments about his virtues and character, and concluded with a vision for the future and wishes such as "Please take care of me for the rest of my life."

The signature is Loves Mary.

The letter paper was printed with small floral patterns and had some kind of fragrance on it, which smelled delicious.

Over Thursday and Friday, Xiao Yao read his 800-word essay over and over again, a dozen or twenty times, until it drew sarcasm from Yu Luying.

“Write down your envious, jealous, and hateful words for me too,” Xiao Yao said with a grin.

Yu Luying showed a disdainful expression and didn't bother to talk to him.

“Then how about this,” Xiao Yao thought for a moment and suggested, “I’ll write it for you as long as you agree to get back together with me.”

“╭(╯^╰)╮,” Yu Luying sneered, “Are you making a deal with me? Write it first and we’ll talk later.”

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yao thought, "This is promising!"

Yu Luying then added, "I really feel sorry for the first wife who wrote this letter."

Xiao Yao felt guilty and decided not to write to Yu Luying anymore.

So Yu Luying added, "Although this piece looks like it was just something I wrote casually while daydreaming in class."

“Sigh,” Xiao Yao, plesiosaur, lay on the table: “Don’t take it too seriously when it comes to someone like her who can’t even fill in the blanks in her Chinese exam essays.”

Shen Jie claimed that she did this big job to deter those who wanted to pursue her once and for all, so as not to affect her studies and life. However, Xiao Yao knew in his heart that her main motivation was to make him happy.

After all, he had jokingly asked Shen Jie to write him love letters many times, or he had lamented, half-seriously, that no girl had ever written him a love letter or pursued him. Oh, wait, Zhao Xiaomei was one. In short, no girl had ever written him a love letter, and he probably never would.

In Xiao Yao's own opinion, this was just a little bit of "playing around." Although Shen Jie would yell at him to get out every time, he never expected that she would actually take it to heart.