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

"Oh—oh, you two talk, you two talk." Grandma hurriedly hung up the phone.

"Wife," Xiao Yao called out again, mustering his courage.

"What is it?"

"Can't I call you if there's nothing wrong?" Xiao Yao retorted.

The girl laughed on the other end of the phone: "I didn't say it was impossible. Did Shen Tianyun come back today?"

“She’s back.” Xiao Yao glanced at the wardrobe door: “She locked her door and wouldn’t let me go over there. She even told me to get lost.”

"Still throwing a tantrum?" Shen Jie asked, somewhat surprised.

"Yes, why don't you learn from your Queen Mary's parenting experience?"

"If only she had a son," Shen Jie said in a sorrowful tone. "And she claims to be good at history?"

"Uh……"

“Next time I come and deal with her, she’ll behave herself.”

"Yes, come over here quickly, I can't hold her down any longer." Xiao Yao chuckled to himself.

"...I think you're the one who's dishonest, aren't you?" Shen Jie seemed to realize something.

"No, I'm telling the truth," Xiao Yao said coquettishly. "Come on, come on."

“No,” Shen Jie replied. “My parents are at home. Besides, if I come to your house every day, your grandma will look down on me.”

"Oh~~~" Xiao Yao dragged out the sound, reaching out to fiddle with the plastic basket next to the sofa: "I washed all your socks, and I was thinking you could take them back when you came over."

Actually, it wasn't washed.

"What socks?" Shen Jie was taken aback.

"The ones you gave me in the park, and the ones you gave me at the skating rink."

"You still kept it?" Shen Jie laughed again. "The one at the skating rink was disposable. I asked you to throw it away for me, and you still..."

“That’s yours, I can’t bear to throw it away.” Xiao Yao held the sheer stocking in his left hand.

"When did you become so disgusting?" Shen Jie said reproachfully.

Xiao Yao felt a bit hot and changed his sitting position: "The lace shoes you wore yesterday were also very cute."

"Oh, so you kept glancing at my feet? I didn't know you had this hobby?"

"Actually, no..."

“Okay, I got it,” Shen Jie said in a mysterious tone, “Next time I come over, I’ll bring it to you in a plastic bag.”

Is it really possible?!

"Really?" Xiao Yao said, "Then I'll have to trouble you."

Actually, Shen Jie had only intended to tease him by starting a conversation, but she never expected him to be so shameless, and her brain went blank for a moment.

"Uh, I was just kidding." Xiao Yao realized the atmosphere on the other end was a bit awkward and chickened out.

“Yes, me too,” Shen Jie said.

The two fell silent on the phone for several tens of seconds, and the awkward atmosphere was about to spill out of the receiver.

"Well, if there's nothing else, I'll go ahead..." Shen Jie began hesitantly.

"Honey, something happened at school." Xiao Yao finally remembered the original reason he made the call: "Teacher Yao."

"what happened?"

Xiao Yao recounted everything that had happened at school that day.

"How could this be..." Shen Jie was also greatly shocked, muttering, "It actually happened..."

"I'm completely dumbfounded," Xiao Yao swallowed hard. "I had no idea things would turn out like this. Did we make a mistake?"

"Hmm..." Shen Jie pondered.

"The other students in the class, who used to say good things about Teacher Yao, now all look gloating. It reminds me of the idiom: 'When a wall falls, everyone pushes it down.'"

“I… understand how you feel,” Shen Jie said softly.

"Xiong Ji still thinks that Teacher Yao deserved it, and that this is justice being served..."

"Hmm..." Shen Jie's tone was uncertain.

“Teacher Yao, no matter how many filthy thoughts he may have in his heart, as long as he didn’t put them into practice, he is innocent. Neither the law nor morality should judge him,” Xiao Yao said.

"Let's not talk about this anymore?" Shen Jie said after a moment of silence.

It's a pity, it seems my partner doesn't quite agree with my views.

“However, you don’t need to blame yourself too much,” Shen Jie thought for a moment and comforted him, “After all, you went in to save people, not to harm Teacher Yao, and in the end you did save them. You couldn’t have foreseen that something like this would happen.”

“I don’t think this is a coincidence. There may be a mastermind behind all this, and we have to find him,” Xiao Yao said.

"Mm," Shen Jie said.

Otherwise, who knows if there will be another unlucky one? Could it be me? Xiao Yao wondered.

Just now, Father Yu also said "next time".

Without one's knowledge, desires and evil thoughts are materialized, and the shadow is separated from the original body, coming into the real world to do bad things.

Then they were brainwashed, forced to publicly confess, revealing all their innermost secrets, and then suffered social death...

No one can withstand such a trial; this is killing someone and destroying their spirit.

Xiao Yao felt a chill run down his spine.

“Let’s go to the hospital and ask her when Zhou Qi wakes up,” Shen Jie suggested. “Didn’t she voluntarily enter Teacher Yao’s tutelage? Does she know something else?”

"That's right, how come I didn't think of that!" Xiao Yao said happily.

"Because you're stupid."

"After talking with you, I feel much better," Xiao Yao said. "Thank you, honey."

Even if their views are not entirely the same, a woman who can still firmly support him... perhaps that's what a "wife" is, Xiao Yao thought.

"Mmm," Shen Jie responded softly.

"Speaking of which... what movies are good to watch lately?" Xiao Yao felt it was time to steer the conversation in a lighter direction, since they didn't even know what movie to watch tomorrow.

"Hmm? Troy? Let me see..." Shen Jie's voice went from near to far, and then from far to near again: "I happen to have a newspaper on hand. 'The Mysterious Soul,' 'Troy,' 'Twilight Samurai,' 'Beautiful Shanghai,' 'Candlelight,' 'Sanmao Saves the Fox,' that's all."

"What 'Sanmao Saves the Fox'? It's more like 'Saving an Orphan'."

"Ah, yes, yes... Save the orphan, I misread it." Another earth-shattering laugh erupted from the other end of the phone: "Save the fox... the fox... Hahahahahahahaha..."

"Hahahaha." Xiao Yao laughed along with her, holding the phone. "My wife is so cute."

The laughter from the other side didn't stop. Xiao Yao muttered to himself, "Beautiful Shanghai sounds pretty good. Is it a local-language romance film?"

“Oh, what’s so great about that? It’s just a cheesy, pretentious art film. Let’s go see ‘Troy’ instead,” Shen Jie said.

"Shall we...go and see?" Xiao Yao was momentarily stunned.

"Didn't you ask me to go to the movies?" Shen Jie's tone was a little strange.

“Emmmmm…” Xiao Yao quickly said, “Of course…yes, Troy it is, I’ll do whatever you say.”

Chapter 74 Six Yuan Spicy Hot Pot

2023-01-08

And so, Xiao Yao inexplicably made an appointment with Shen Jie to go to the dark cinema on Sunday afternoon to watch a movie, and to go shopping with her.

“Sunday is fine, I have my final exams on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,” Shen Jie said.

"So early? We have our exams next week." Xiao Yao was a little surprised.

"It's better to take the exam later, so you can study for a few more days."

"The earlier the exam, the earlier the holiday."

"How about we wait until you finish your exam before we look into it?" Shen Jie said after thinking for a moment.

"It's alright, I'm fine, I'm fine," Xiao Yao quickly said.

"Really?" the girl asked suspiciously.

"Oh right, then come with me to the museum, I've wanted to go for a long time."

"Sure, I'll take a look... I'll make it this morning." Shen Jie readily agreed.

"It should be open in the morning, right?"

The atmosphere naturally and inexplicably warmed up, and before we knew it, we had been chatting for more than two hours.

Xiao Yao switched the earpiece from his left ear to his right ear, and then from his right ear to his left ear, until both ears were burning hot.

Xiao Yao felt extremely relieved, but at the same time, a persistent unease lingered in his heart.

After all, he and Shen Jie had been "getting along well" before, but she was always hot and cold, and not long ago she even gave him the "friend zone" card.

Now, their relationship seems to have taken a big step closer. Why is that?