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

"Xiao Yao," Shen Jie lowered her head and pondered for a while, as if she had made a great decision, then raised her head and said, "If we can get out of here alive, I'll talk to my dad and ask him to transfer you to a better high school."

"Huh?" Xiao Yao said, "You can't just transfer schools based on the high school entrance exam results like that?"

“It’s more complicated working within the system,” Shen Jie said earnestly. “I was just thinking that I’ll have my dad transfer you to a private international high school, and I’ll find someone to tutor you in English during the holidays. Because your grades in the first year of high school were too poor, you can only go to a community college in the US for the first two years of college, and then transfer to a prestigious university in your junior year. After graduation, you can come to the company to gain some entry-level experience, and then our family will sponsor you to study for an MBA at a globally renowned business school. After you come back, you can help me out…”

"Wait a minute, how do you know my grades in the first year of high school were... Business school? MBA? Don't make decisions on your own!" Being assigned this out of nowhere was never part of Xiao Yao's plan: "I've told you before, my dream is to attend the Shanghai Theatre Academy..."

"But if you want to become the son-in-law of the Shen family, you'll have to help take over the business in the future, right?" Shen Jie's voice grew softer and softer until she finally buried her head in her arms.

???

It took Xiao Yao several seconds to realize the meaning behind the girl's seemingly nonchalant tone: "You mean, you've changed your mind and agree to date me—"

"What are you laughing at? I didn't agree to anything, and I didn't change anything!" Shen Jie raised her head and hurriedly said, "Just like that white knight said, if you want to be a king, you can only move one square at a time and you have civil and military officials protecting you. You have to become a knight who has made meritorious contributions in battle to prove that you are qualified, right?"

Xiao Yao felt that his symptoms of low blood sugar had been relieved, so he held the chocolate wrapper to Shen Jie's mouth.

Shen Jie didn't accept his offer of food. She took it from his hand, drank a few sips, and then handed it back to him, saying, "What future can you have by wasting your time in a school like this, under teachers like these?"

Although Xiao Yao was quite happy at the moment, he was still not very pleased to hear this: "What do you mean by 'this kind of school'? Our school is pretty good, okay? It's a key district school, after all?"

"Not bad, a whole bunch of your classmates bullied you?"

Shen Jie's words left Xiao Yao speechless: "What else could you call a teacher like that? Teacher Yao is quite—"

“I even said he was a good person,” Shen Jie interrupted him, “but—I’m only just starting to recover now.”

So that's what bothered you the whole time? Xiao Yao chuckled, then thought for a moment and decided to talk it out: "He really is a good person. At least so far, has Teacher Yao done anything wrong? Didn't he also reject Zhou Qi? If thinking about it is a crime, I would have been—and many others would have been arrested long ago."

"You let it slip, didn't you?" Shen Jie's smile held a hint of mischievousness. "You two are kindred spirits, master and disciple, birds of a feather flock together! How could I possibly be interested in someone like you? No way, I'm going back to get a paternity test done with Tianyun, it might just be a scam."

Xiao Yao told himself that Shen Jie was joking, but he was still very unhappy.

The flesh on his cheek twitched twice, but he didn't say anything.

Shen Jie folded up the empty chocolate wrapper, and when she didn't see a trash can, she put it back in her pocket: "That Zhou Qi is so pitiful. I never knew such terrible things could happen at a bad school."

Hearing the unconscious sense of superiority she revealed when she called it a "bad school," Xiao Yao's anger subsided: "We are all bad schools, only your No. 7 Middle School is a good school!"

"I was talking about Zhou Qi's junior high school—you, you're yelling at me?" Shen Jie was taken aback.

Xiao Yao stood up with a dark face, supporting himself with his hands on the ground: "Zhou Qi is pitiful. The most pitiful person is the one who bullies your Shen family's future son-in-law."

"Oh, alright," Shen Jie also stood up, straightened her skirt, and chased after him, tiptoeing to gently stroke Xiao Yao's head: "The son-in-law is pitiful too, he's a victim."

Since Shen Jie was willing to coax him and had even informally acknowledged the title of "son-in-law," Xiao Yao was happy to back down.

"The most despicable one is Wang Ming. Once I get out, I'll definitely find a way to teach him a lesson."

“I’ll have Johns find someone to beat him up,” Shen Jie replied, half-jokingly.

"Johns?"

"My father's butler."

"Tsk, let's do it this way."

As they were talking, a large group of Seekers marched toward them in unison.

Xiao Yao's first reaction was to turn around and take another route, but Shen Jie grabbed him, and the two of them walked past the Sacks as if nothing had happened.

"Phew..." After the Sekels left, Xiao Yao secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"You can't hold your temper at all," Shen Jie scolded playfully.

“You don’t seem to have the right to say such things,” Xiao Yao said indignantly. “But it’s alright, the equipment given by the White Knight is indeed useful.”

Shen Jie tried to let go, but Xiao Yao grabbed her hand instead. She glared at him, but Xiao Yao explained that it was to blend in with the environment.

Environment, yes.

The corridors were filled with male and female students strolling hand in hand, while others hurried past with their heads down, carrying books.

The sound of students reciting their lessons drifted from the classrooms I passed, while the noise of people playing ball filled the playground downstairs.

The sun hung high in the sky, looking small, yet it cast a golden warmth on the outer half of the corridor, making Xiao Yao feel very comfortable.

The warm winter sun made him even forget that it was summer in the real world.

If it weren't for the occasional passersby, Xiao Yao would have thought that this place was no different from a real school campus.

He was holding Shen Jie's hand, strolling in the afternoon.

This feeling of "going on a picnic with a beautiful girl" reminded him of his first date with Shen Jie.

“We did the same thing that day in the forest park, just walking and walking,” Xiao Yao said.

"Yes, that's right." Shen Jie held a map in one hand, looking at it and then at the road.

"Actually, I was really happy that day, but you ended up getting soaked," Xiao Yao said apologetically. "Thinking back on it, I think that maybe it was just my one-sided happiness that made us happy together."

Shen Jie made two sounds of denial through her nose: "That's not true. Actually, I... had a lot of fun that day too."

"really?"

“Hmm,” Shen Jie looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the corridor, “Actually, I’ve never… disliked or hated you.”

"……Thanks?"

"Alright," Shen Jie pulled her hand away, patted Xiao Yao's hand, and then turned the map to a new page with both hands: "When there's a chance in the future, take me to visit your school during the day."

“Oh, you’re a monkey! I’d like to visit your school too!” Xiao Yao said happily.

"Sorry, it might be a bit difficult," Shen Jie said, pouring cold water on her hopes.

"...Uh, what's going on up there?"

"The light in front seems to be... broken?"

Even though it was broad daylight, the corridor ahead was as dark as a bottomless... black hole.

"Don't linger in the shadows." The two of them simultaneously recalled the White Knight's warning.

Left with no other choice, Shen Jie had to replan her route and take a detour.

There were other shadowy areas along the way, which were not marked on the map, causing the two of them a lot of trouble.

"I, I, I need to go to the toilet," Xiao Yao said, "a large one."

"Look, it's right ahead." Shen Jie looked at the signs for the men's and women's restrooms at the corner of the corridor.

……

"What are you doing coming in here? Get out!" Shen Jie pushed Xiao Yao out of the women's restroom.

“No,” Xiao Yao shook his head, looking serious. “In this place, it’s best if we don’t separate into two rooms.”

Shen Jie tilted her head and thought for a moment, then agreed with Xiao Yao's caution: "As long as you don't say that we can't have two separate rooms, it'll be fine."

Xiao Yao turned on the tap and tilted his head 180 degrees to drink the water.

"Hey, don't drink it, it's dirty," Shen Jie stepped forward to stop him. "Drinking tap water will give you diarrhea, and the school doesn't have the kind of direct drinking water taps you have at home."

Xiao Yao thought for a moment, but there wasn't one at home: "Miss, why don't you go out and stop a Saikeer and ask her where the school store is?"

Shen Jie licked her chapped lips, thought for a moment, then turned on another tap and drank the water in small sips with both hands.

Then, she began to wash her face with water.

Xiao Yao walked into the nearest toilet stall, leaving the door slightly ajar to make sure he could see Shen Jie sitting on the toilet.

In reality, the toilets at St. Francis Secondary School are all squat toilets connected from the bottom, but the facilities in this world are much more advanced.

Xiao Yao made some noises in the cubicle, then let out a long sigh.

"Aren't you disgusting?" Shen Jie walked into the cubicle next to Xiao Yao and locked it with a "click".

"Is this toilet seat clean, Xiao Yao? Do you have any toilet paper? Could I use it?" The girl's voice came from next door.

"I don't have any paper!" Xiao Yao replied without hesitation, then muttered, "Pretentious."

"My tissues are all soaked and ruined in the water dungeon..." Shen Jie said with difficulty.

Wait, no paper?

Xiao Yao suddenly realized that this might be a bit awkward.

Chapter 64 Happy Home

2023-07-31

Hearing the hissing sound of water coming from the cubicle, Xiao Yao felt even more embarrassed.

It wasn't just the sound of water flowing to the bottom of the toilet; there was also a kind of sound... of pressurized fluid being ejected under immense pressure.

Xiao Yao was quite certain that he wouldn't make that kind of sound when he urinated.

The boy chuckled to himself.

“By the way, that strange knight, shouldn’t we be a little wary of him?” Xiao Yao said.

"Why?" the girl said from next door. "If it weren't for them, we would both be in a vegetative state by now."

“I know,” Xiao Yao thought about how to explain to Shen Jie, “but this person’s origins are unknown, and it’s even uncertain whether he’s human. Although he doesn’t seem to have any ill intentions right now, his pretentious and mysterious behavior…”

"You're just jealous, aren't you?" Shen Jie blurted out.