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Sorry and thank you. Please rest assured that I am not running away.

PS For those friends who don’t like watching copies, there is at least good news. What follows is the beginning of another daily love life.

Chapter 259: A short separation makes the heart grow fonder?

2023-07-09

It was evening when everyone gathered in the western suburbs. After coming out of the hall, Shen Jie invited everyone to have dinner at "Xiao Nan Guo". Because the mission was finally accomplished, the atmosphere at the table was quite cheerful and lively. Everyone toasted and even Teacher Yao slowly raised his glass and laughed. Xiao Yao saw that Teacher Yao had recovered some of his thinking and language expression abilities in such a short time. He couldn't help but feel happy and relieved. When he thought that Shen Jie was rescued after all, his mood became high.

"There is always hope, in the future."

During the dinner, Xiao Yao stood up and made a toast to everyone, making such an impassioned speech.

When the show ended, it was already quite late at night.

When the music ended and the crowd dispersed, some people left directly on the spot, while a few others followed back to their hotel rooms to get their luggage.

Xiao Yao thought about it and decided to take Yu Bo's ride back to his grandmother's house first.

"Don't leave."

After Xiao Yao and Shen Jie explained the situation, the latter actually weakly pulled Xiao Yao's sleeve and whispered these two words.

Xiao Yao was slightly stunned.

The way Shen Jie said "don't go" was very much like... well, the little girl who held her mother's hand and refused to leave when her parents sent her to kindergarten.

In Xiao Yao's impression, this is not "Shen Jie" at all.

It’s not that Shen Jie must be “independent”, “strong”, “mature”, “confident”, “calm” and other stereotypes, but, just…

"Be obedient, no." Xiao Yao lowered his voice and looked around.

The interior of this large suite is spacious and bright, with soft beige tones on the walls, gorgeous wallpaper and exquisite decorations, and thick carpets with blue and gold patterns interweaving, delicate and elegant. A large glass window covers an entire wall, through which you can enjoy the charming night view of the western suburbs.

This window reminded Xiao Yao of Shen Jie and his Huangjiang "wedding room", which was also Yu Luying's "dream room".

At this moment, Shen Jie was sitting on a huge bed, with her legs hanging down and the front half of her feet in socks touching the floor. Although it was huge, Xiao Yao felt that it was actually a little smaller than Shen Jie's own bed.

The bed is covered with soft white sheets and a gorgeous embroidered quilt, which seems to target a slightly older audience. There is a delicate table lamp on the bedside table, which emits soft light, and a landscape painting hangs on the opposite wall, giving people a sense of tranquility and relaxation.

In a corner of the room, there is a large dressing mirror with a gorgeous golden frame around it, reflecting the exquisiteness and brilliance of the entire suite. It is large enough for people to see their whole body, so that guests can dress themselves carefully before getting ready to go out.

This large mirror is the core reason why Xiao Yao chose this suite.

This room is really big, with a large bedroom and a large reception room, and of course a bathroom. Previously, a whole group of people were on standby and passing through this suite, and it didn't feel crowded. Now that only he and Shen Jie are left, it naturally feels empty and lonely.

Of course, it is not correct to say that "only he and Shen Jie are left", because Yu Luying is stuck at the door between the reception room and the hotel corridor, with the door ajar, and she is in a dilemma, while her uncle is standing in the corridor.

If I don't let them be alone, it would seem that my sister is to blame. If I let them be alone, it seems that in my uncle's eyes, I am his girlfriend...

So, the clam was stuck there for a while, unable to go in or out.

Fortunately, Xiao Yao was sensible and didn't make her wait too long.

He explained to Shen Jie that he had to hurry back home, as perhaps Shen Hongsheng was not able to react so quickly.

When I get home, I need to explain the current situation to my daughter, and I also have a lot of things to pick up.

"Besides, Brother Bo and the others are still outside. If I just stay here and don't leave, I don't know what they will think behind my back..." Xiao Yao said.

Hearing the word "daughter", Shen Jie's attitude softened: "When you mentioned this, I just remembered, whose ID card did you use to open this room?"

"The one about hairtail. I've thought of it a long time ago." Xiao Yao said to Shen Jie.

"Well," Shen Jie nodded gently: "Go quickly... No, come back early after you finish your work."

"Okay, do you need to tell me that?" Xiao Yao stretched out his right hand, pinched Shen Jie's nose, glanced towards the door like a guilty thief, and gently hugged Shen Jie.

"Go ahead." The girl climbed onto the bed and hid her small body under the white quilt.

On the way back, Xiao Yao had something he wanted to say quietly to Yu Luying, but she got into Yu Bo's passenger seat without hesitation, leaving Xiao Yao sitting alone in the spacious back seat.

Along the way, we didn't even have a chance to say a few words.

"Congratulations," Xiao Yao said, "You've finally awakened your own fortress. It can be said that hard work pays off. Our team will be even stronger in the future."

"Yeah." Yu Luying said lightly.

She seems a little unhappy? Xiao Yao thought.

What are you unhappy about?

"Oh, by the way, when did you awaken the fortress? Did you encounter any opportunity?" Xiao Yao asked again.

While driving, Yu Bo glanced at Yu Luying - Xiao Yao saw it in the rearview mirror.

"Nothing," Yu Luying replied calmly, "After I was teleported downstairs, when I saw Shen Jie's...fly father, I felt very...angry. I wondered why there were so many...bad fathers in this world. Then, I heard her voice."

"She?" Xiao Yao said subconsciously.

"Cinderella." Yu Luying said.

"Oh." Xiao Yao said, "I understand."

"She told me that she was me and I was her, and she was the other side of me that was hidden in my heart," Yu Luying said. "To be honest, I was a little disappointed."

"Disappointed?" Yu Bo asked before Xiao Yao could speak.

"Well... I hope she won't hear me saying this," Yu Luying said a little embarrassedly, "I think... Cinderella is a little too ordinary."

"Ordinary? No, why would you think so?" Xiao Yao said quickly.

"You are Don Quixote, and she is Bloody Mary. One of you is a famous knight, and the other is a majestic queen," Yu Luying said, "In fact, I have always been wondering, who will it be when I awaken the fortress one day? In the end, it was her..."

"Please," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Don Quixote is just a poor, withered old nobleman. In the eyes of his contemporaries, he is a ridiculous lunatic and clown. Queen Mary has been suppressed and bullied by her father since she was a child and was banished to the cold palace. She only had five short years to ascend the throne. God did not give her more time, and her career was destroyed by her own sister after her death... Just because of her womanly kindness and soft-heartedness, who do you think is stronger than Cinderella?"

Yu Luying took out a small round badge from somewhere and said, "Of course you two know this."

Yu Bo turned on a small light inside the car. The badge could not leave Yu Luying's hand, so Xiao Yao had to hold her little hand to look at it.

On the front of the badge was a portrait of Cinderella, with "Cendrillon" written in French below. After Xiao Yao saw it clearly, Yu Luying turned the coin over.

Hmm...it's a short inverted triangular cone with a plain, oval head.

Xiao Yao knew that this was the "soldier" in chess.

No wonder Yu Luying felt unhappy, Xiao Yao thought. They were all good partners and good friends who shared adventures together—even more than good friends. But he was the "horse", Shen Jie was the "queen", and Yu Luying was the "pawn". Who wouldn't feel hurt?

"Did Cinderella become the queen in the end?" Yu Bo quickly tried to smooth things over, "In the eyes of God, the king and the peasant are all equal, it's just that the division of labor is different, that's all."

"It's just a different division of labor." Xiao Yao repeated.

"Hmph." Yu Luying uttered a sound that was unclear whether it was a sneer or something else, and put the chess piece, no, the badge of the spiritual fortress back into her arms.

Yu Bo dropped Xiao Yao and Yu Luying off downstairs at Yu Lihua's house, stepped on the accelerator, and drove away.

"Then... I'll go up first?" Yu Luying said, "Be careful on your way home."

"Yeah." Xiao Yao said, reaching out and hugging the girl in his arms.

The girl did not resist, dodge, or respond to him. Xiao Yao felt as if he was hugging a cold and stiff stone - no, at least her shoulders were trembling slightly, indicating that she was a living thing.

"What's wrong? Are you cold?" Xiao Yao asked gently.

"Well, a little bit." said Yu Luying.

Xiao Yao hugged her tighter and lowered his head, but Yu Luying clenched her teeth.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Yao finally couldn't help it and asked softly.

"Nothing," Yu Luying said, "Go back and clean up. Although Shen Jie seems to be very energetic when eating, I think she is not in a good state now. You shouldn't leave her alone for a long time."

"Yeah, I know, I know." Xiao Yao said gloomily, "I just feel like you're not in a good state either."

"I'm fine, go ahead."

"Is it really okay?"

Yu Luying came up and licked him symbolically, then hit the boy's waist with her little fist.

"Well, I'll go first?" Xiao Yao said, "Would you like to give me your socks?"

"Don't be crazy. Just spend some time with Shen Jie tonight." Yu Luying said.

"That's not good," Xiao Yao said, "Aren't you sleeping with your mother at night? It's not easy for me to call you in the middle of the night."

"Oh." Yu Luying pressed her face with both hands: "That's not what I meant by companionship! Don't come here at night. You guys are not married yet."

"I know, I know." Xiao Yao said, "Hey, Ping."

"what?"

"I think you should be 'Rook', which means 'Rook Castle'," Xiao Yao said, "I think there is something wrong with this system."

"The pumpkin carriage is not really a chariot," Yu Luying said with a smile, "Why are you still brooding over this? I haven't thought about it anymore."

When walking into the alley of his grandmother's house, Xiao Yao first looked around, but did not find anything unusual.

When he entered the soap room, Xiao Yao picked up the kitchen knife again and checked inside and out, but there was no one under the bed.

After making sure there were no intruders, Xiao Yao entered Shen Tianyun's room and called her up.

The sleepy girl looked Xiao Yao up and down: "Dad, no matter what I did wrong, you can teach me a lesson."

"Huh?" Xiao Yao said.

"But can you put down the knife first?" Shen Tianyun said.

"Oh, huh." Xiao Yao said, put the knife aside, lifted the quilt, and was about to climb onto the bed.

Then he was pushed down by Shen Tianyun.

"Can you please not get on my bed when there's a disagreement?" Shen Tianyun said, "Can't you just sit there and talk?"

"Okay, okay," Xiao Yao said, "I'll get your little mother out."

"That's great." Shen Tianyun asked happily, "Where's my little mother?"

"In the hotel," Xiao Yao said, "Neither of us will be able to go home recently, and we won't be able to see each other. I sneaked back here to explain this to you."

"Ah, what's wrong again?" Shen Tianyun's expression and voice revealed that she was very disappointed.

Xiao Yao introduced the adventure of the "skyscraper" to Shen Tianyun in detail, which made the little girl stunned. Then, Xiao Yao told Shen Tianyun that this house could not be lived in anymore, and they had to escape from Shen Hongsheng's pursuit and hide outside for a while.

"So, it's not convenient for me to meet you," Xiao Yao told Shen Tianyun, "The only thing I can't let go of is this. When I think about it, I feel very sad."

"Actually," Shen Tianyun lowered his head and thought for a while, "There is something I don't know whether I should say or not."

"Stop talking nonsense and speak quickly." Xiao Yao said.

"I've spent more time with grandpa than you have, right?" Shen Tianyun said.

It took Xiao Yao a second and a half to realize who "Grandpa" was: "Ah."

"I know him better than you, right?" Shen Tianyun said.

"Probably." Xiao Yao said in the Shanghai dialect.

"Grandpa is not such an unreasonable and unreasonable person." Shen Tianyun put forward his own argument.

"Probably." Xiao Yao repeated the sentence again.

"If you want to hide, just hide for two days," Shen Tianyun said, "I'll come to your place when I have time. If Grandpa or his people come to visit, I'll talk to Grandpa and lay my cards on the table."

"You have to be sure," Xiao Yao said suspiciously, "I doubt whether this is a good idea."

Although he had a tendency to confront the King in his palace, the shadow and the real body were not directly connected. If he told the shadow what he knew, the real body might not know it...

"Oh, don't worry, I know what to do, I know what to do." Shen Tianyun waved his hands impatiently.

"Don't act rashly," Xiao Yao warned Shen Tianyun, "At least wait for me to discuss it with your mother and reach a consensus."

"Of course we have to discuss it with the young mother," Shen Tianyun said, "but our old mother's opinion is also very important."

"Okay," Xiao Yao said, "Let's discuss it separately first."

Shen Tianyun: "Yeah."

Xiao Yao left his old mobile phone with a new SIM card to Shen Tianyun so that Shen Tianyun could go to the room in 04 to contact him.

The boy packed up all kinds of valuables, including bank cards, spare clothes, ID card, gold and silver jewelry given by Future Shen Jie, and a bunch of messy books and sundries. He packed them in a large opaque black garbage plastic bag, went back to his daughter's room, hugged her and gave her other things, said goodbye to her reluctantly for a long time, and then left.

When he went out, he found that it had started to rain heavily outside. The temperature was 35°C with thunder and gale. Xiao Yao felt as if the whole world was covered with boiling water.

Of course he couldn't get a taxi. Xiao Yao was afraid that Shen Jie would get impatient waiting for him, so he wanted to call her. However, he remembered that he had already given his cell phone to Tian Yun, and the shop at the entrance of the alley that provided public telephone services had not yet opened for business. He was in a dilemma.