After being kicked out of the wealthy family along with her yandere childhood friend

"So, baby, you saw my mom?"

Pei Jin looked at Bai Tao with a somewhat amused expression.

He was just guessing and wanted to ask tentatively, but Bai Tao froze on the sofa.

No?

What did she say? How did I guess it so quickly...?

Bai Tao doesn't lie, but she's not ready to speak yet.

She covered her mouth and didn't speak, so Pei Jin picked her up and placed her on his lap.

"Did I guess right?"

Bai Tao nestled into his arms and whispered a soft "Mmm".

Pei Jin chuckled.

"What kind of person is she? Does the baby like her?"

Bai Tao thought for a moment,

"I think he's a very pitiful person..."

She told him everything she knew: the Xie family, the Shen family, the saying that their horoscopes didn't match, the accident, and how she had lived in a sanatorium for ten years.

Pei Jin leaned back on the sofa, one hand supporting his chin, listening to her indignant speech, especially when she talked about how the absurd birth charts were incompatible with the Xie family's fortune.

She kept swearing and cursing, repeating the same few words over and over again.

He listened attentively, but his gaze lingered on her more than on the other matters.

"So I think it's really outrageous."

Bai Tao became increasingly angry as she spoke.

"The Xie family is such a large and powerful family. Look at Xie Lingyun, he is so well-mannered. I never would have thought that they would be this kind of people."

That's too superstitious. You're so capable; you'll only make this family stronger—"

Before Bai Tao could finish speaking, Pei Jin reached out, pinched her chin, and kissed her.

He found it a bit outrageous after hearing it, but if Bai Tao felt wronged on his behalf, he wouldn't feel wronged anymore.

"So what did the baby sell? Is it with my mom now?"

Pei Jin breathed a sigh of relief. That's good.

Bai Tao nodded.

Pei Jin pulled her closer to him. She leaned against his chest and secretly looked up at him. When she was discovered, she pretended to look down at her phone.

"Aren't you angry?"

Pei Jin shook his head.

He knew himself too well. If he hadn't been sent away by the Xie family, he might not have been willing to give himself a chance to understand Bai Tao.

This is the best arrangement fate has made for him.

The Xie family.

Xie Lingyun came out of his mother's bedroom, looking rather unwell.

He had just gone in to ask her if her uncle had a child. Although his mother's expression didn't change, he still caught the fleeting panic in her eyes.

She said no, her tone flat.

"Your uncle died young, how could he possibly have children?"

He didn't believe it and asked again.

His mother interrupted him.

"Your grandparents valued tradition the most. If your uncle really had a child, how could they not acknowledge him?"

Okay, I'm tired. You can leave now.

Xie Lingyun frowned as he walked out of the room, the only sound in the quiet corridor being his own footsteps.

The Xie family does indeed value offspring and bloodlines the most; if someone is a child of the Xie family, it is impossible for them to be left to wander outside.

But he always felt that something was wrong.

So annoying.

After the door closed, Shu Guangna's face darkened.

How did Xie Lingyun know?

She remembered that the Pei family had kicked her out a while ago in an attempt to curry favor with her.

If that child returns to the Xie family, he and Xie Lingyun will both be direct descendants, and Xie Lingyun is currently the most promising child of this generation, with the greatest potential to become the head of the Xie family.

She cannot let that child appear.

She picked up her phone and dialed a number.

"Feed? Find out what that child that Bae Seungri chased away is doing now."

She answered the phone, hung up, placed her phone on the table, and looked at the moon outside the window. Some things shouldn't appear if they don't appear at first.

-

Five days have passed, and Bai Tao's costume project hasn't even started.

She couldn't sleep at night due to anxiety, and Pei Jin hugged her from behind.

Finally, she couldn't hold back and cried in Pei Jin's arms.

Pei Jin didn't ask any further questions, but simply tightened his grip on her arm. He waited until she slowly stopped before speaking.

"What's wrong, baby?"

"Jessica wants me to choose one of my three designs and turn it into a finished product within a month and hand it over to her."

But five days have passed, and I still haven't fully understood the properties of the fabric.

Pei Jin roughly knew where the problem lay.

It's like a child saying they want to study hard, but when they open the book, the first page always says "abandon."

Bai Tao really wanted to learn from scratch and thoroughly understand every piece of fabric, but time waits for no one.

If you can't grasp the key points, it's very difficult to go through everything from scratch, and how could Jessica not know that a month is simply not enough time to learn everything?

He patted her on the back.

"Why should the baby understand every single one before starting?"

Bai Tao's voice was muffled in his arms.

"Because only by understanding each one can I know which one is the best."

Pei Jin did not refute her.

He stretched out his arm to reach the phone on the bedside table and handed it to her.

"Then let me see your design draft, baby, okay?"

He only glanced at it at the time, but now he wants to take a closer look.

Bai Tao opened the photo album and found the three design sketches she had drawn.

Pei Jin clicked on one of them,

A sweet and cool girly outfit, the top is a turquoise blue and black patchwork strapless top.

She wore wide-leg fuchsia pants with black accents.

The other one is a sheer, nude-colored halter-neck mini dress.

Pearls and butterflies are interwoven with white silk threads, wrapping around the hem from bottom to top, making the butterflies seem to come alive and fly upwards.

Pei Jin watched for a while, then turned his head to look at her.

"Look at this, if it's this pair of pants, then I'd guess it's either denim or a structured fabric."

If you use real silk or satin, it's obviously inappropriate, baby.

Bai Tao nestled in his arms, listening quietly, and nodded.

"So actually, the first thing you see when you see it is already in your mind what type of fabric it should be made of."

Does that mean you can narrow down your focus and concentrate your efforts on this type of fabric?

This saves time and improves your efficiency. It's much faster than learning each one individually, summarizing, and then judging and filtering them, right?

Moreover, I think Jessica's real intention was to see if you had the talent. You should focus on doing this one piece well first, and then gradually learn about the rest.

Um?"

Bai Tao nodded; she understood what Pei Jin meant.

The intention is to prevent her from wasting her energy. By narrowing her focus, she will have more time to learn 3D modeling and pattern making.

She put down her phone, turned around, wrapped her arms around Pei Jin's neck, and leaned against him.

"Thank you, honey."

He's right. Her immediate priority is to produce some work and leave it behind; she can learn the rest later.

From then on, Bai Tao started coming home later and later.

Pei Jin felt sorry for her, so every morning he would drive her to work first, so she could eat breakfast in the car and save twenty minutes to sleep a little longer.

He had prepared a complete set of clothes for her in advance; she wore whatever he brought out without being picky.

Pei Jin thoroughly enjoyed the real-life dress-up game.

Every time she stood in the entryway, head down, adjusting her clothes, he stood behind her.

His gaze held a satisfaction and fascination that he himself was unaware of.

a month's time,

Bai Tao worked tirelessly and finally turned two of the three initial designs into finished products, which were then hung in front of Jessica's design desk.

Jessica looked at her for a moment, then looked up and her gaze fell on her.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Her eyes held admiration and satisfaction as she looked at Bai Tao.

During this month, Bai Tao was the only one who arrived at eight o'clock every day and didn't leave until nine o'clock at night. She learned quickly and was willing to work hard.

For someone who only started learning fashion design at the age of 24, achieving this is already quite remarkable.

"Lucy has a series of fashion design competitions, and the top three works can walk the runway on Etherea's summer private catwalk."

Ethereum will help you build your reputation then.

Jessica thought for a moment, then added,

"Good luck."

Bai Tao nodded and walked out with light steps.

When she opened the door, Pei Jin had parked his car not far from the studio entrance.

He sat in the driver's seat with the window half open, holding his phone.

The new product has just passed internal testing. They donated several medical machines to the school for experiments and spent their days out conducting market research.

But he still drove for an hour and a half to show up at the studio entrance.

Bai Tao walked over quickly, opened the passenger door, and got in.

Pei Jin put his phone away, turned to look at her. She had just run over laughing, and he asked her the question he already knew the answer to.

"How are you, baby?"

Bai Tao chuckled, as if she had finally waited for someone to ask her that question.

"It's over, it's over~"

Pei Jin also smiled.

"Great! Let's go out for hot pot tonight to celebrate, okay?"

"OK!"

She reached over and fastened her seatbelt, then Pei Jin started the car.

A gust of wind blew in through the half-open window, ruffling the stray hairs on her forehead. Pei Jin glanced at her sideways.

This is what he believes happiness should look like.