Love Purification Agreement

Yan Huan felt that the Western-style house was very spacious, probably because part of the second and third floors were hollowed out, making the ceiling of the living room very high, so there was naturally no sense of restraint like that of an ordinary bungalow.

At the same time, the lighting was bright, which was in line with the indoor habits of Oriental people. For a moment, Yan Huan thought he had entered a palace.

"Aunt Chen, we're back."

"Hey, Miss, is there a traffic jam? It's even later than the time Shiyu told me. Shiyu, your mother is back!"

The sound came from the side of the first floor, which seemed to be the kitchen.

While Ye Lan was helping Yan Huan change her shoes, the person wearing an apron came out.

She was a middle-aged woman with curly hair wearing an apron and a kind smile on her face.

"Aunt Chen, this is Xiao Huan I mentioned earlier. This is Aunt Chen, who also just followed me from Longguo to Linmen. Your parents also know Aunt Chen. Don't be shy, we're all acquaintances."

"Hello, Aunt Chen."

"Oh, time flies so fast! The next generation of children have grown up so much and are still so handsome. It's great, so great."

Ye Lan supported Yan Huan's back and was about to call his daughter out to say hello, but Yan Huan's nose caught a faint fragrance first, which seemed to be the scent of some flower.

Following the scent, Yan Huan looked up and saw a girl in a black chiffon dress in the middle of the spiral staircase connecting the living room to the second floor.

Under the hem of her skirt, a pair of slightly thicker black socks outlined the shape of her calves, wrapped around her feet and hidden in dark gray slippers. It was unknown when she had been standing there.

She had long black hair that reached her waist, without any hair accessories or makeup. Her skin was as white as snow, forming a sharp contrast with the dark-colored clothes she wore.

Different from Ye Lan's soft willow-shaped eyes, Ye Shiyu's eyes were slightly longer and narrower. Under her long eyelashes, her beautiful face showed no emotion except for a hint of coldness in her deep black eyes.

She was very tall, actually slightly shorter than Yan Huan who was 184cm tall. She had a well-proportioned and healthy body. Her tight but not overly slender white arms were exposed under the milky white chiffon cuffs.

And in her hand, for some reason, she was holding a pair of long scissors, which seemed to be the tool she was using just now.

Yan Huan blinked and met the girl's gaze, neither of them looking away.

Slightly startled, when Ye Lan was about to call her, Yan Huan's face accurately changed into a sunny and polite smile. He was the first to greet her,

"elder sister."

When she heard Yan Huan's name, her lowered gaze trembled slightly, like a huge bell being struck.

Ye Lan turned around and found that her daughter was already standing on the stairs.

"Ah, Shiyu, come on, you didn't even say hello. Let me introduce you. This is the child of Mom's old friend, Yan Huan. He's one year younger than you and your younger brother. Xiao Huan, this is Shiyu. You can call her Sister Shiyu or Sister."

Ye Shiyu kept looking at Yan Huan who was standing next to Ye Lan, motionless and silent.

It was not until Ye Lan pouted her lips to urge her to be more polite that she greeted Yan Huan like a slow machine.

"Hello, I'm Ye Shiyu."

Just as Ye Lan had laid out before, Ye Shiyu's personality seemed very strange, which made Yan Huan feel more and more uneasy.

Ye Lan was somewhat dissatisfied with Ye Shiyu's reaction, but she knew her daughter very well and knew that this was what she would say.

Aunt Chen quickly took over the conversation, wiped the water off her hands with her apron, and said,

"Since Xiao Huan is here, shall we eat now? The dishes are ready. I prepared Dragon Country cuisine especially for Xiao Huan. I don't know if it suits his taste. Aunt Chen doesn't know much about Linmen, so I don't know what you like to eat."

"I can eat anything, Aunt Chen."

"That's great. Wait a moment, Miss, you and Xiao Huan take a seat first. I'll bring the dishes."

Ye Lan smiled and nodded, then turned to Ye Shiyu and said,

"Shiyu, put your things back in the room and come down to eat."

Ye Shiyu just stared at the boy with a sunny smile. After hearing her mother's words, she nodded slowly, turned around and went upstairs again with the scissors in hand.

The intermittent sound of Ye Lan and Yan Huan's conversation could be heard from below. Ye Shiyu walked up the stairs to the third floor with an expressionless face and stopped in front of the door of the second bedroom at the end, not far from the master bedroom.

When I opened the door, I found that the originally spacious room seemed a bit crowded because there were too many things in it.

However, in the glass cabinets against the wall of the room, there were various female dolls wearing exquisite costumes, movable soldiers with realistic appearances, two-dimensional style movable figures, not to mention an unknown number of other puppets, pottery dolls and clay dolls.

There was even a life-size doll wearing a gorgeous Gothic dress sitting on a wooden chair next to the bed.

The exquisitely crafted clothes on these dolls are of different shapes, but the only thing they have in common is that the names are written in tiny words by the makers, either on the inside of the corners of the clothes or on the hidden collars.

"Ye Shiyu"

Ye Shiyu placed the scissors in her hand next to the sewing box with an expressionless face. On the table was a piece of high-end fabric that had not yet been sewn. On the handle of the scissors, there was also Juanxiu's name written.

"Ye Shiyu"

She picked up the phone on the table, slid it to unlock, and revealed the chat software that was not closed before the lock screen. It was showing a chat window with Ye Lan, and the note was "Mom".

"Baby, Mommy will bring Yan Huan, whom I mentioned earlier, home for dinner later. Ask Aunt Chen to prepare it well."

"Okay, I've said it."

"His mother used to be my best friend. When we were little, I often showed you pictures of her. Do you remember?"

"Ah."

"He's been living alone in Linmen for so many years and it's been very hard. Mom wants him to come live with us, maybe in the guest room downstairs. What do you think?"

Ye Shiyu didn't reply, but Ye Lan sent several messages in a row.

"He is only one year younger than you. You should have something in common. Besides, you go to the same school and can go to and from school together."

"This way, I'll have someone to keep me company, and I won't have to stay with the doll every day like I do back home."

"Having another little brother sounds great, don't you think, babe?"

"Mom wants to hear your opinion."

Until now, when Ye Shiyu turned on her phone, there was no other reply.

Ye Shiyu closed the chat software, revealing a desktop background picture of a puppet wearing gorgeous clothes.

And above that background, every mobile phone application is neatly planned and placed in various finely classified folders. For Ye Shiyu, using the mobile phone in this way seems to be more convenient.

However, outside of all the carefully classified folders, there was only a strange APP with a purple heart icon standing alone.

The APP didn’t have any name and floated on the phone’s desktop like a bug.

Ye Shiyu just stared at the app, as if in a daze, until Ye Lan's voice came from outside the door again.

"Shiyu, come out for dinner! Are you not ready yet?"

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After a moment of silence, Ye Shiyu seemed to have made a decision in her heart. She then pressed the lock screen button, put her phone in her pocket, turned around and walked out of the room.

"Here I come, Mom."

Chapter 5 She said she was here to add contact information

Aunt Chen served a dazzling array of delicious food on the table, and just smelling the ethereal fragrance made one subconsciously salivate.

He glanced at the food on the plate, then turned around and saw Ye Lan, who had changed into a home cotton shorts and had let her long hair down, sitting on the main seat to the side, holding her chin and looking at him with a smile.

"Are you hungry, little greedy cat? Wait for Aunt Chen to bring the dishes and chopsticks. Once Shiyu arrives, we can start eating."

The smiling eyes and the intimate address made Yan Huan feel shy for the first time in a long time. He avoided Ye Lan's gaze and prepared to get up to help Aunt Chen get the dishes.

"Then I'll go and help Aunt Chen bring it over."

"No need, Xiao Huan, just sit down, I've already brought it."

Before he finished speaking, Aunt Chen came out of the kitchen with dishes and chopsticks, and placed them on the seats next to Ye Lan, Yan Huan and him in turn.

Only three bowls and three pairs of chopsticks?

Just when Yan Huan thought that Aunt Chen was not going to eat with them, Aunt Chen turned around and went back to the kitchen, came back with a pair of pure black porcelain bowls and stainless steel chopsticks, and placed them opposite Yan Huan.

Yan Huan looked at it blankly, and then he found that the black porcelain bowl, which was different from the others, had a small white character engraved on it.

"Ye Shiyu"

The same name was written in small characters on the end of each of the stainless steel chopsticks.

Yan Huan looked at Ye Lan doubtfully, but only received a helpless smile from her in response. Aunt Chen, who was sitting beside Yan Huan with a smile, explained for him.

"This is a set of porcelain that Shiyu specially ordered from the Porcelain Capital in Longguo. She also had it made for us and brought it back. But she's the only one who likes black. Her mother and I think black doesn't look good, so we use ordinary bowls."

“Are the stainless steel chopsticks also specially made?

"Oh, that's not it. It's just the chopsticks I bought. It's just that Shiyu has a habit of writing her name on everything she owns. Oh, she has to write her name on everything. Every time she comes back from shopping, it takes her a long time to do this."

Aunt Chen scooped rice and poured drinks for the others, and said,

"She'd never throw anything away unless it was completely useless. If she accidentally lost something, she'd keep looking for it until she found it."

What kind of strange habit is this?

Yan Huan blinked and thought so.

Ye Lan's expression became increasingly helpless, but she did not belittle her daughter's stubborn habit. Instead, she said optimistically,

"She's gotten much better since she started college. If it's not something extremely valuable, she'll give it up if she can't find it. This shows that your sister Shiyu really values ​​everything she has, which I think is a good quality."

"If I had a habit like my sister, I wouldn't have been criticized by my high school teachers for being forgetful."

Yan Huan echoed, and Ye Lan covered her mouth and chuckled.

There were barely perceptible footsteps coming from the stairs next to him. Ye Lan turned around and saw Ye Shiyu coming down. She waved and said with a smile,

"Shiyu, come and eat."

"Ah."

Ye Shiyu nodded, her face still expressionless, neither enthusiastic nor indifferent. She just sat opposite Yan Huan and gently held the glass.

And the next second, just as she expected, Ye Lan raised his cup with a smile and said to Yan Huan,

"Then let's start dinner. Come, welcome Xiao Huan to our home. Cheers."

"Thank you auntie."

"Be good, don't say thank you to your aunt."

Ye Shiyu also raised her glass and gently clinked it with Ye Lan, Aunt Chen, and finally Yan Huan.

But she just took a small sip, then licked her lips with her tongue.

This is the signal for dinner to begin.

Ye Shiyu held the black bowl in her left hand, and her white, powdered fingertips slowly stroked the name engraved on the bowl, watching her mother frantically pick up food for Yan Huan and herself.

Ye Lan's family did not have the habit of not talking while eating, and the topics discussed at family dinners were usually simple. Aunt Chen would often interrupt and ask about trivial matters, such as the vegetables in the supermarket were not fresh.

It was only after Ye Lan reminded her that she realized that Linmen was on the sea, there was basically no arable land, and all the vegetables were shipped from abroad.

Ye Shiyu ate her food slowly and elegantly, without saying a word.

As for Ye Lan, she was more concerned about Yan Huan's well-being, asking him more about school matters that she had not asked in the car, and intentionally or unintentionally led the topic to the direction that his peers were interested in.

"Do you rely on school buses to pick you up and drop you off at school?"

"Yes, Auntie. Every district has a bus service, including the Jinghe District, but it seems to be quite far away. Students living in the nearby communities probably don't need to take the campus bus."

"Yes, it would be faster to pick up Shiyu from school and save commuting time. But I'm very busy on weekdays and don't have much time, so I can only arrange a separate car to pick up Shiyu."

Not sure if it was an illusion, but Yan Huan vaguely felt that Ye Lan had been laying the groundwork for words that had not yet been spoken.

As Ye Lan was talking, he put down his chopsticks as if he suddenly remembered something, and suggested to Yan Huan with bright eyes,

"Yes, Xiao Huan, how about you come and stay at your aunt's house?"

"what?"

"You're classmates at the same school, and you're about the same age. This way, you can go to and from school with Shiyu, and you won't have to rush to catch the bus every morning or evening. Aunt Chen can also take care of breakfast and dinner at home. How about preparing some desserts for you to take to school, Xiaohuan?"

Yan Huan paused while eating, blinked and looked at Ye Lan, whose eyes were full of hope. Suddenly, he understood why she told the principal that she was her "mother" when they were at school.

Ye Lan came to see Yan Huan not only to reminisce about the past and remember his deceased mother, she came here to adopt Yan Huan.

Does Ye Lan have any other impure motives?

No, not at all.

If you insist on saying there was something, it was just as she had said, that she hoped he could take better care of Ye Shiyu, his sister with a weird temper, that's all.

Besides, she is the person in charge of Ye International in Linmen, and Yan Huan is just a college student. No matter whether you are the student union president or an outstanding student, she has no need to have any other purpose.