You are my wife, don't doubt it!

Xiao Yao grabbed Shen Jie's arm and his breathing became heavy.

"You hurt me." Shen Jie didn't move, but told him calmly.

Xiao Yao relaxed the strength in his hands and began to gently stroke her arm with a pitiful expression.

"It's no use trying to act coquettishly and pretend to be pitiful." Shen Jie kept a straight face but did not stop Xiao Yao from touching her arm.

"Okay then, let's break up." Xiao Yao thought for a moment, forced a smile, and stretched out his right hand to Shen Jie: "Then I can pursue you again, Shen Jie, it's our first meeting, please take care of me, I like you, please go on a date with me."

Shen Jie didn't shake his outstretched hand, but tilted her head and thought for a moment: "How are you going to pursue me?"

"As for me," Xiao Yao placed the base of his right hand on the philtrum, "I write you letters every day and put them in your pencil case. I come to talk to you during breaks, order songs for you on the campus radio, write poems and sonnets for you, follow you home after school, and always send you home. I follow you wherever you go and call your home..."

"Ha..." Shen Jie sighed softly, but Xiao Yao didn't know if it was an illusion, and felt that her expression softened a little: "I really want to call the police."

"Then, I'll bring you breakfast every day, reserve a seat in the study room, and fetch you water..."

You've read too many novels about college life. Why would you need to take up a study room in high school? Shen Jie sneered, "Why don't you just tie me up and lock me up in the basement?"

"Okay," Xiao Yao climbed onto his daughter's bed again: "But you have to give me some time. I haven't even started digging my basement yet."

Shen Jie did not push him off the bed again. Her breathing became rapid and her face flushed.

"It's time to go to bed..." She said this but her body didn't move.

Xiao Yao stood up, put his arms around her shoulders, and then bent down.

There was a sound of "ping pong pong" behind him, and Xiao Yao turned around quickly. It was Shen Tianyun in her pajamas.

"I...I'll go boil two more pots of water!" Shen Tianyun ran out the door in a panic.

Shen Jie seized this opportunity and pushed Xiao Yao off the bed again.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Yao fell on his butt this time, and his tail hurt, which made him a little annoyed.

He realized that with his daughter's interruption, Shen Jie's stubborn rationality overcame her emotional weakness and gained the upper hand again.

"Xiao Jun," Shen Jie switched from lying to sitting, facing Xiao Yao with her back against the wall. "It's not gentlemanly to stay at an ordinary friend's house in the middle of the night. If what you call a big incident is telling me this, then you can go back."

"I..." Xiao Yao said.

"If you want to pursue me, that's your business, but my attitude is very clear. We can be friends and talk about other things after we are 30 years old." Shen Jie told him seriously: "Don't say that I am your future wife. Even if I am your current wife, you can't force me during marriage-"

Xiao Yao became annoyed, realizing that the conversation had reached a deadlock again.

This girl is so stubborn!

Now that things have come to this, let’s get down to business.

"I was just doing this summer homework," Xiao Yao picked up the book "Have a Good Summer Vacation" from the ground and waved it at Shen Jie, "and I found that I couldn't do it."

"You had to squeeze in here in the middle of the night just to ask me questions?" Shen Jie frowned.

"Of course not," Xiao Yao said anxiously, "These are just summer homework. They must not be very difficult questions. I may not have learned them, but Yu Luying knows them."

"Yu Luying? What do you mean?"

"The symbiosis has suddenly weakened and is no longer effective. The make-up exam is going to be bad."

"Ah?" Shen Jie was stunned.

Xiao Yao sat down on the edge of the bed again and told Shen Jie what he had discovered while doing his homework just now. He also told her about the result of his phone call to Yu Luying to confirm the weakening of symbiosis.

"Is there such a thing? It won't work if the secret is told out?" Shen Jie frowned.

"I don't know. When I was at school in the afternoon, Yu Luying's hearing ability also deteriorated," Xiao Yao also remembered, "but I didn't think about it at the time, so I didn't notice it at all."

"When did it start?" Shen Jie asked him.

Xiao Yao frowned, thinking carefully and recalling the various clues of the past few days.

"At least, you messed up the shredded pork with green peppers for lunch today." Shen Jie suddenly remembered something.

"Emmmmmm...but definitely not this morning." Xiao Yao said to himself.

"Let's put this aside for now. Let's talk about the present. What are you going to do for the make-up exam?" Shen Jie also frowned slightly, with a worried look on her face.

"That's the problem," Xiao Yao hit his right palm with his left fist, "Yu Luying said she could give me extra lessons, but that's impossible because I have a weak foundation and I only have three days, and it's not the make-up exam at the beginning of the semester. And if I have too much contact with her, I'm afraid you'll be unhappy again--"

"Xiao Jun," Shen Jie replied gently, "As a single person, you don't need to apply to me for dating anyone."

"Hey, stop messing around..." Xiao Yao scratched his temples.

"What do you mean by telling me this now?" Shen Jie started to get fierce again: "Tell me, what can I do to help you? Should I help you with your lessons tonight?"

"That's not what I meant." Xiao Yao held his forehead with his hand. "Didn't I tell you everything? I have learned my lesson now. For the rest of my life, I will not hide anything from you. So my first reaction was to come here and tell you. Is there any problem?"

"It's no longer necessary," Shen Jie told him, "You have no obligation to me anymore."

Xiao Yao raised his voice a few degrees: "And I think, if you mind the fact that I live with another woman, then now-"

"I don't mind," Shen Jie said hypocritically, "I don't care."

"Why aren't you done yet?" Xiao Yao finally got impatient and blurted out, "There's a time and place for acting. I'm already like this now, and I'm already very annoyed—"

"You are like this now," Shen Jie nodded calmly, "So I should coax you, give in to you, hug you, comfort you, find solutions for you, and help you clean up your mess."

"?" Xiao Yao was speechless.

"Please," Shen Jie held her forehead, "You are not Nobita Nobi, and I am not your Doraemon. If you encounter any problems, just call my name. What can I do? Take the exam for you?"

"I don't need you to do anything, I just want to tell you that this is what's going on..."

"Xiao Yao, I'm not your mother, you're not my son, and I'm just a little girl. I'm only one year older than you!" Shen Jie's tone became excited: "We are not in love at all, we are not like husband and wife, we are just like mother and son, okay?"

Xiao Yao froze in place, unable to move, unable to utter a word, and only felt a dryness in his throat.

"What can I do? Who told you not to study hard in your first year of high school?" Shen Jie became more and more excited. "I just don't understand. How am I, Shen Jie, inferior to others? Why is my first boyfriend, my future husband, and my daughter's father such a person who doesn't study and has no ambition? Didn't you think about the result today when you were playing badly? What's the point of asking me now?

"What do you want me to do? I can't see anyone I know right now. Should I ask my dad to help you? Or should I ask Zhang Zhengkai's dad to help you? They can help you solve the problem, are you willing? Or should I ask my dad to find you a new school after you are expelled from school? I'm telling you, you'd better give up on this idea as soon as possible. The expulsion will be included in your file—"

"That's not what I meant, okay?" The veins on Xiao Yao's neck bulged: "Why do you have such a rich imagination?"

"Dad, Mom, why are you two arguing again?" Shen Tianyun's desperate voice came from behind Xiao Yao: "Weren't you almost reconciled just now?"

"Get out!" "Get out!" the two people shouted in unison.

Shen Tianyun made a swear word with her mouth and went out.

To prevent their daughter from hearing, both of them lowered their voices.

Shen Jie said, "I told you this afternoon that you didn't even know how to cheat. What did you tell me? You said it wasn't cheating, and that it didn't matter how you learned it, as long as you knew it - do you know it now? What doesn't belong to you will eventually leave you even if you use extraordinary means to get it. Don't you understand this principle?"

"Yes, you are right. I accept the criticism sincerely." Xiao Yao nodded.

Shen Jie realized that what she said was a bit too radical, and might not be completely fair, and might hurt the boy's self-esteem.

She knew that she was just venting her emotions, but now she just wanted to overturn the table and act wild.

The girl was silent for a while, took a few deep breaths, and stopped herself from saying anything more unpleasant.

At some point, two lines of tears slid down from the corners of her eyes. Xiao Yao hurriedly got up and went to Shen Tianyun's dining table to get tissue paper, then came back to wipe Shen Jie's face.

Shen Jie shook her head, snatched the tissue from his hand, wiped her face, and said in a choked voice: "Xiao Yao, do you know? When I lived with you, I kept thinking about how I would face my father after I returned and get him to agree to let me get engaged to you."

This is a good thing, Xiao Yao thought silently but did not speak.

"Now I feel like it's impossible. I feel so hopeless, Gouzi," Shen Jie cried, "How can I convince my dad to get engaged to someone who would be expelled from high school?"

Let your dad convince you? You're already talking nonsense, right?

"It's all my fault." Xiao Yao said from the bottom of his heart, and then gently hugged Shen Jie: "Meow Mama, don't cry."

Shen Jie let him hug her for three seconds, but didn't hug her back. Then she pushed him away forcefully: "Go back. Don't let our daughter see us like this."

Xiao Yao didn't move.

"Give me some time," Shen Jie said softly, "Don't come over these few days. Let's not meet for now. Study hard on your own and let Silly Girl help you. Just get as many points as you can."

Xiao Yao continued to remain silent.

"Dog, I need some space. I need to think carefully about many things, many, many things." Shen Jie said in an almost pleading tone: "Can you give it to me? Occasionally, let me be willful a little bit?"

Xiao Yao sighed - now that things have come to this, what else can he say?

"Okay." Xiao Yao said as he moved closer and gave Shen Jie a gentle kiss on the cheek.

Shen Jie didn't move or dodge.

Then, Xiao Yao turned his face to the side and paused for three seconds.

Until, that little lip touched his cheek.

"Thank you." Xiao Yao stood up: "Good night."

"Good night." Shen Jie's eyes were still a little dazed.

--split line--

That night, as expected, Xiao Yao slept uneasily.

He was awakened many times by nightmares. When he finally closed his eyes, he was awakened by the sound of wind and rain outside the window.

The wind was so strong that it made the entire window frame make a "cracking" sound. Xiao Yao felt that this old house was like a lone boat in a storm, which could be swallowed up by the whirlpool at any time.

The same is true of my tragic fate of losing everything.

…Late at night, I lay in bed listening to the wind and rain, and Hai Jianzhengkai came into my dream.

A half-sentenced limerick comically popped up in Xiao Yao's mind, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Fan Zhongyan said, "Do not be happy with things, and do not be sad with yourself." This is a state that Xiao Yao could never reach.

In fact, he had been feeling all night that the world was coming to an end.

This time, I'm really going to be expelled from school.

But compared to dropping out of school, Shen Jie's attitude made him feel like he was falling into an icy cave.

Those hurtful words kept rolling over and over in my mind.

It’s so cold…really cold, is this still summer?

Where is the other blanket? Why can't I find it?

It's over, did I catch a cold? Xiao Yao coughed and touched his forehead.

Like? A slight fever?

Where is the thermometer I brought from my uncle's house last time? Never mind. I can't remember it.

Xiao Yao sniffed hard.

"I'll tell you, if something is not yours, it will never be yours." Shen Jie had a complicated look on her face when she said this to him. Xiao Yao felt that the look could perhaps be described as "disappointment," but he wasn't sure.

What is she hinting at?

"How can I convince my dad to let me get engaged to someone who was expelled from high school?" The girl's crying voice still lingered in my ears.

I had originally been harbouring illusions, thinking that Shen Jie was just in a bad mood for a while, but that her mood had eased after the three of us ate macarons together.

Before opening "Have a Good Summer Vacation", Xiao Yao had even begun to believe that Shen Jie had almost calmed down, but was just unable to forgive him for the sake of face.

But now... Xiao Yao has completely lost this confidence.

He began to seriously think about the possibility that "Shen Jie is really going to leave him."

Things that are not yours will never be yours...?

Even though Shen Jie said they broke up after she came back yesterday, she was still concerned about the trouble Song Haijian was causing her at school.

So, now...

The true love we pursue and the happiness we hold tightly are as fleeting as falling flowers...

I must win, I must defeat Song Haijian.

I want to let Shen Jie see that I, Xiao Yao, can win.

But how to win?

If you take the make-up exam after school starts, you still have a chance by trying for two months.

Three days, what about having fun?

When the wind and rain came at night, the closet door was shaking and making a "clacking" sound. At around three o'clock, the door was even blown open violently by the strong wind.

Is it Shen Jie? Are you here to help me cover the quilt? He waited happily.