You are my wife, don't doubt it!

"Wife, I was wrong. I will change."

"Go back to your bed!" the girl yelled.

"Hey, hey, okay." Xiao Yao obeyed.

Shen Jie seemed to adjust her mood, switched her left and right legs, and looked at Xiao Yao again: "Hey."

"I won't scream." Xiao Yao said.

"Hey, let's talk about something serious. Think about it carefully," Shen Jie said, "Since you and Yu Luying have been living together, is this the first time that the connection has weakened?"

"It should be... right?" Xiao Yao moved his nose.

"What do you mean by should? Don't should," Shen Jie told him, "Think about it carefully, recall it carefully, and don't miss any details."

"I understand." Xiao Yao nodded.

"I really admire you," Shen Jie muttered, "It has come to this point, the situation is urgent, and you still have the mind to mess with me!"

In fact, Xiao Yao was not motivated by lust. He mainly wanted to wipe the word "break up" from Shen Jie's lips through intimate behavior that made it a fait accompli.

In fact, it seems that the expected results have been achieved temporarily and effectively.

"Okay, go to sleep," Shen Jie said, "You're sick, so you can't remember the answers I showed you, right?"

"You're not going to -- to enforce justice?"

"If there is another way, do you think I would want it? Who am I in your eyes? A female devil?" Shen Jie walked to Xiao Yao's bed, took another pillow and another blanket, and walked back to the sofa: "Tomorrow, let's go to the mirror and try it out. If there is really no other way, there is still some time."

“Alright—okay!”

"Go to sleep!" Shen Jie bent her legs and lay down on Tianyun's sofa, burying her face in the pillow.

"Good night." Xiao Yao said.

The boy wanted to invite Shen Jie to sleep in his bed, but then he changed his mind and decided to be sensible - besides, what if he got the infection?

He wanted to suggest that Shen Jie sleep on the bed while he slept on the sofa, but he called her several times and got no response, so he had to give up.

After taking the antipyretic medicine, Xiao Yao was finally able to fall asleep.

I don’t know how long I slept, but I was woken up by the urge to pee.

Shen Jie was still snoring and her sleeping posture was still ugly.

Xiao Yao helped her cover the blanket again, bent down, and dragged out the spittoon from under his daughter's bed.

On second thought, he pushed it back in.

He walked past the mirror, back to the side of 2004, walked into the soap room, and urinated directly in the sink under the sink.

Then, turn on the faucet and let the tap water flow through the sink into the drain to achieve the purpose of flushing.

The fever had subsided, which made Xiao Yao feel much better.

He looked around the small room where he had lived for a whole year.

The warm wind lifted the curtains, and the afternoon sun poured in through the window panes, illuminating the dust slowly floating in the air and falling on the tidy desk—er, actually, the dining table, creating a smell, a smell that Xiao Yao had been away from for so long that he couldn't even remember what it was called.

He thought of himself who once wore two stripes.

I remember that I was once responsible for shouting "Stand up" after the teacher shouted "Class started".

The first one to wear a red scarf.

The me who was awarded the title of "Three Good Students".

Xiao Yao pulled out a chair and sat at the dining table. In front of him were neatly arranged textbooks from his high school days.

The dining table was cleared by Shen Jie's housekeeper yesterday. I don't know what he thinks of these brand new old books.

However, Xiao Yao just wanted to laugh, not at others, but at himself.

From the time he ran away from the 7 Days Inn to the time Song Haijian launched the attack, everyone around Xiao Yao, including his lover, friends, elders, teachers, classmates, and even his children, were all worried about his future and fate, and offering suggestions.

However, the person who should be most worried, busy, and doing his best here - Xiao Yao himself, seems to have done nothing, and is even using the crown of justice to stop others from doing something.

Xiao Yao suddenly found that he was just like the man in many stories, who drank, gambled and did nothing all day long, and claimed to be the head of the family. One day, he got into trouble, but he became a coward and threw the problem to his parents, wife and children.

"But there really is no other way..." Xiao Yao said to himself.

The man in the story finally got rid of his troubles and returned to his drunken life until one day, when he was taking advantage of a game played by his friends, he ordered a technician at the place and it turned out to be his daughter.

"Have I tried my best? Have I really tried my best?" Xiao Yao asked himself.

The best time to do the right thing is always “the beginning”.

I don’t know when Xiao Yao, the future man who was not able to marry until he was 30 - uh, marry, whatever, Shen Jie, started to do the right thing.

But for Xiao Yao, who has missed the "beginning", every moment is a new beginning.

He reached for the textbook and opened the first page.

The book lay open in the sun, giving off an aroma that was once unfamiliar to him but now made him feel invigorated. It was the smell of youth.

……

When he looked up from his book again, the sunlight on the desk had already moved to the corner of the desk. Xiao Yao stood up and stretched. He had gradually begun to understand the logic of classical mechanics and had memorized a lot of chemical formulas. He felt much more fulfilled at this moment.

Even mathematics, even mathematics has the illusion of being easy to get started.

Compared to yesterday, when he couldn't even read those strange symbols, Xiao Yao today seemed full of wisdom and his comprehension ability had reached a new level.

Maybe what the teachers said, "He is actually very smart," was not false.

There was a noise coming from the closet, as if someone appeared inside but didn't dare to come out rashly.

"Come out, I'm here." Xiao Yao shouted into the closet.

The door of the wardrobe was carefully pushed open a crack from the inside, and a short-haired girl poked her round little head out from inside.

Seeing Xiao Yao actually studying, the girl's eyes turned into == shapes: "Cramming at the last minute?"

"Yeah." Xiao Yao replied calmly, "It's not fast, but it's light."

"Dog," Shen Jie said, "I'm so hungry - are you feeling better from your cold?"

"What do you want to eat? I'll buy it for you." Xiao Yao stood up.

"Stir-fried pork with green peppers? I want you to make it for me." The look and tone of Shen Jie's voice showed that she was not fully asleep yet.

"I'll burn it." Xiao Yao reminded her.

"Ah, forget it, just go buy it, anything is fine," Shen Jie jumped out of the closet and explained, "If I go out, I have to disguise myself again, which is quite troublesome."

"Okay." Xiao Yao nodded and said, "There is one more thing. You asked me to recall this morning whether there has been any symbiosis weakening before. I have some idea now."

"What do you mean?" Shen Jie suddenly became much more energetic, and her sleepy eyes widened.

"Maybe, there is." Xiao Yao told Shen Jie, "But I didn't pay much attention to it at the time because I didn't think about it that way at all."

"When?"

Chapter 138 The Cause of Symbiosis's Weakness

2023-03-19

In the end, Xiao Yao did not go out to buy food.

"You and I were together at that parent-child education center, in the birdcage," he recalled while chewing on a finger-licking original chicken, "and we had a fight. Do you remember?"

"Remember, it was through symbiosis that Bing Tin Can broke her defense," Shen Jie showed an indignant look on her face. "I thought it was some strange rule of the shadow world. I didn't expect you guys had this connection?"

"I'm really sorry for keeping it from you," Xiao Yao apologized to the girl again, "but I don't know if you noticed a detail. In fact, in Teacher Yao's hall, my right hand was injured and I couldn't use it. This was caused by me smashing the mirror with my hand in the room of the love hotel - but the Yu Luying we met was obviously not injured."

"Of course I remember," Shen Jie nodded and said, "I thought at the time that you were such a reckless person - oh well, okay, I won't say it, I won't say it, go on."

"But we later had a falling out and fought, and the symbiosis was clearly effective. So can we assume that the symbiosis was ineffective when my hand was injured before?"

This was a bit confusing, Shen Jie's eyes turned into @@ shapes: "...When did you hurt your hand?

"Didn't I just tell you? After I separated from her and the little bear, I was trapped in a strange room. Later, I broke the mirror and returned to reality. That's when my hand was injured."

"This, there are too many possibilities. Things in the shadow world are hard to explain." Shen Jie rubbed her temples vigorously: "It could be..."

"If it would fail if someone knew about it, then we would have told Yu Bo a long time ago. We can't still check the blood relationship, right?"

"So, between us, after we entered the mirror and before we found Yu Luying, did you get injured again?

"If you ask me that, it seems that there really isn't one. Even though Don Quixote's armor looks sloppy, it's actually quite useful."

"Okay, then let's go back... Taking the time when we fought Yu Luying in Teacher Yao's Hall and used symbiosis to gain a chance to win as the starting point, let's recall the most recent clear symbiosis reaction. When was it?"

"...Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I can't remember!" Xiao Yao held his head and screamed, "On the day before Yu Luying and I went to Qiangui to look for someone, which was Friday night, Ouyang and I were having dinner, and Yu Luying actually called me in the middle of the meal and asked me what I had for dinner."

"You mean, she should be able to taste what you're eating."

"Isn't it?" Xiao Yao asked back.

"Not necessarily," Shen Jie shook her head and said, "She just tasted it and didn't see the real thing, so it's normal that she can't react to it."

"What you said seems to make sense - yes, yes, I got it! The day before, on Thursday night, I was in the park, using my hand to touch the water in the fountain, and she slapped me hard on the back of my hand."

"Are you sure?" Shen Jie asked, "You weren't electrocuted?"

"...I really can't remember. Oh, by the way, she seemed to have a cello performance on Thursday night, or a rehearsal or something. Anyway, that night I felt my fingers pressing the strings, that touch, that pain..."

"Okay, then let's pretend that Thursday Symbiosis is still here. You can continue to think back to what happened when I wasn't there. Remember everything for me. Don't miss any details."

Xiao Yao began to seriously recall and recount his experiences during that period.

Shen Jie focused on eating the whole time, only occasionally making a few noises to support the comedy, trying her best not to interrupt Xiao Yao's train of thought.

Xiao Yao had almost finished telling his story. Shen Jie wiped her mouth, took out a notebook, and started the testimony questioning session.

"You said that you and Yu Luying took the subway to Qiangui?"

"Yes."

"Nothing happened on the way?"

"I met a little bear."

"No, no, when you and Yu Luying were alone in the subway, nothing happened? A man and a woman riding on a crowded public transportation together..."

"Sister, you also know it's public transportation."

"Who are you calling sister?"

"I was wrong."

"You mean, something is going to happen to you if it's not public transportation?"

"We weren't dating at that time."

"You were already chasing me."

"You rejected me then."

"We were on a break, right?" Shen Jie sneered. (Author's note: This stalk comes from "Friends")

"What what Brick? Okay, I was kicked by Yu Luying at that time."

"What did you do to deserve to be kicked?"

"I...she..."

"If you don't tell me the truth, I won't give you any chances. You know that, right?"

"Actually, there weren't many people on the bus. I let Yu Luying sit, and I stood. I happened to see her chest..."

"Oh!" Shen Jie was really unhappy: "And then?"

"In public, what do you want to do next?"

"Did Yu Luying have any reaction? Didn't you say that you two could communicate with each other when you were living together?"

"Ah, yes, she kicked me in the face bone, it's all blue... Yes, she kicked me and it hurt, but she didn't seem to feel any pain. Fuck!"

"It's selective amnesia indeed."

"But it's possible that she is enduring it with gritted teeth," Xiao Yao pointed out.

"That's true. Silly girl is very patient. When we were on the bus to Qingpu, someone stepped on her foot, but she didn't show any emotion at all. But you, a grown man, screamed like a ghost."

"..."