You are my wife, don't doubt it!

"Of course," Xiao Yao said, "You should dress appropriately for the occasion."

"Fuck, I swam at least a mile to the shore, and then I couldn't find the shirt I left on the beach, and I don't know who it is." Hairtail said: "I ran to the Holy Mother Mountain, and you were all gone. No one stayed to wait for me. I called you two several times but no one answered. Are you bullying me?"

Xiao Yao and Yan Xiao quickly took out their cell phones to check, while the rest of the people laughed without any malice, and a happy atmosphere filled the restaurant.

That night, except Lucia, everyone else skipped the "XX Night" event and went back to their rooms to sleep.

This kind of physical and mental exhaustion is no joke.

Gao Sijun went to participate in an activity, and Xiao Yao was lying alone on the bed in room 1503, with his thoughts surging.

Tomorrow afternoon is the closing ceremony of the summer camp. There is no class in the morning so we can have free activities. We all made an appointment to hang out together. It’s quite lively when you think about it.

After the closing ceremony, I can take Shen Jie and Yu Luying back to Dongru to spend the night.

Xiao Yao felt unreal when he thought of the scene when he stood at the door of the party school's house, taking out the key and opening the door in front of Yu Luying and Shen Jie.

Xiao Er's head was slightly tilted and sweat was coming out of his forehead again.

No, we must keep our hearts pure and learn from Lucia.

Forget about all the distracting thoughts!

"Lucia." Xiao Yao muttered these three words to himself with a cute tone.

Then rolled half a circle on the bed.

What on earth am I doing? Xiao Yao was a little confused.

Hiss—it hurts.

My body hurts so much.

My body had clearly fully recovered (except for my physical strength), but the phantom pain was still tormenting me.

As long as you close your eyes, you can feel your body flying in the air.

Fly high, feel like flying.

Then, he slammed into the Notre Dame.

That fear.

Powerless.

And the feeling of hitting your head on the ground.

The huge feeling of dizziness and impact, the sound and feeling of teeth breaking, the taste of blood in the mouth...

There was also the feeling of having my calf run over by a motorcycle wheel, as if I could hear my leg bones breaking.

It is so real and so unpleasant that I don’t want to revisit it at all, but I have to experience it passively and uncontrollably.

It's like a brainwashing melody that lingers in my mind.

Originally, I thought that as a god, Iesu deliberately died and resurrected, which seemed to be just playing house.

Now that I think about it, He may have truly tasted the pain of death.

Perhaps this is the meaning of this sacrifice.

Xiao Yao picked up his cell phone and wanted to call Shen Jie or Yu Luying.

But he didn't dare to hit her, for fear of disturbing the beauty's sleep.

Just when I was in a dilemma, the phone screen suddenly lit up by itself.

It’s Shen Jie calling!

Xiao Yao quickly picked up the phone: "Hello, wife."

"Hey, husband." The girl agreed very smoothly and naturally.

"What's the matter? I thought you were asleep." Xiao Yao said.

"What did Grandpa Yu say to you?" Shen Jie asked Xiao Yao, "When you were eating."

"Well, he said," Xiao Yao replied, "He said, why don't you break up with Shen Hongsheng's daughter?"

Chapter 322 Shen Jie's Confession

2023-09-07

"Well, he said," Xiao Yao replied, "He said, why don't you break up with Shen Hongsheng's daughter?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

Three seconds later: "And what did you say?"

"What can I say in that situation? With those two bald guys staring at me from the left and right, I can only say 'OK'."

There was silence on the other end of the phone again.

"You don't really believe it, do you?" Three seconds later: "I was just kidding you, of course I'm not going to pay any attention to him."

"Oh." Shen Jie said softly.

"Hey, don't be unhappy," Xiao Yao said, "These adults are all the same."

"I didn't expect you to be so popular with the elders of the Yu family," Shen Jie's tone didn't sound very happy: "First it was Yu Luying's mother, then her grandfather..."

"Uh." Xiao Yao said.

"It would be great if you could please my father." Shen Jie said softly.

"Wife..." Xiao Yao wanted to comfort her, but he didn't know how to start.

"Is that all he told you? Nothing else?" Shen Jie asked Xiao Yao.

"More than that." Xiao Yao started from the beginning, from when he entered the door until he made an excuse to go to the toilet. He tried his best to recount all the conversation according to his memory without leaving out anything.

"What does he think?" Shen Jie said, "Let you be a lobbyist? It seems that he thinks highly of you."

"That's right," Xiao Yao said. "I was a little flattered at the time. To be honest, Grandpa Yu was different from what I imagined. He was a very nice person."

"So you agreed?" Shen Jie asked Xiao Yao.

"I agreed." Xiao Yao replied.

"Then you mustn't tell that silly sister." Shen Jie sighed softly.

"What?" Xiao Yao was a little nervous: "I've already told her."

"What?" Shen Jie said.

Xiao Yao told Shen Jie how he met Yu Luying at the toilet door after coming out of the private room, what the two talked about, how Yu Luying got angry and left in a sullen manner, how he chased after her, and how the sullenness was finally interrupted by Shadow Time.

"You, you," Shen Jie sighed heavily after listening to her words, "How are you going to survive in this world in this state?"

"What's wrong with me?" Xiao Yao said, "I don't know why she is angry."

"That's the problem," Shen Jie said, "You still don't know why Silly Girl is angry - if you ask me, she didn't break up with you right then and there, that's really, really, really..."

"Ah? Ah?" Xiao Yao said.

"It seems that you really don't understand." Shen Jie's tone sounded a little strange: "This matter is also my fault. When the Yu family sent someone to pick you up, I should have stopped them. I was also panicked at the time and didn't think about it deeply."

Xiao Yao: "..."

"Grandpa of the Yu family set a trap for you," Shen Jie explained. "Think about it. You met with Yu Luying's grandfather without her knowledge, and those present were the core figures of the Yu family. In this way, they could express your position on your behalf. If it is publicized, no matter what position you express or what suggestions you make in the future, whether you receive money or not, for any reason, for anyone's benefit, you will be questioned by others. At that time, you will have no choice but to shut up and leave. Do you understand?"

"What a mess," Xiao Yao said anxiously, "You think too badly of people. This is just a conspiracy theory."

"You told Yu Luying directly like that—" Shen Jie continued, "Well, just tell her. She'll know it sooner or later even if you don't tell her. It makes you seem honest if you tell her."

"That's what I'm saying," Xiao Yao said, "If you have a chance, please talk to her for me and testify for me. To be honest, I was indeed deceived and I had no idea about it."

"Ah, you, from my perspective, how can I talk to her--" Shen Jie paused and said, "Okay, don't worry about it, I'll take care of it."

"There won't be any problem, right?" After hearing her say that, Xiao Yao still became a little worried.

"What else could be wrong now?" Shen Jie said, "You should thank your Zhao Xiaomei. It was the attack she launched that tied the fate of all of us together. Whether it's the three of us, Yu Luying and her grandfather, or you and her grandfather, we are all comrades who have fought together for our lives. Those little grudges can't shake our friendship."

Zhao Xiaomei...

"By the way, speaking of this, why did you go to Our Lady's Mountain?" Xiao Yao asked Shen Jie: "Isn't the hotel entrance a few steps away from Our Lady's Mountain?"

"I led her and them over there," Shen Jie said, "Didn't they say that the Holy Body can protect against shadows? I just remembered that last time at your grandmother's house, the Holy Heart Statue of Iesu that Father Yu had just given you glowed and dispelled shadows. Do you remember?"

"Remember." Xiao Yao said.

"I just wanted to lead them to the Holy Mother Mountain," Shen Jie said, "what if that works?"

"Did it work?" Xiao Yao asked.

"I don't know, it seems not," Shen Jie replied, "But it's hard to say, who knows if those shadows have been weakened? When I fought with Silly Girl, I felt that they were not as strong as they looked at the beginning."

"Hmm..." Xiao Yao said, "It's hard to say."

"Dog, I feel a little uncomfortable, what should I do?" Shen Jie suddenly changed her tone to a coquettish one.

"Hmm?" Xiao Yao said, "What's the matter?"

"I'm still feeling it... the feeling of being burned, that's what keeps me awake at night."

Shen Jie began to describe to Xiao Yao the feeling of being burned.

The flames licked at her skin, instantly devouring the girl's stockings and skin.

A tingling sensation spread along her legs, as if countless needles were piercing deeply into every inch of her skin.

What kind of feeling is that for Shen Jie?

She was not someone who was afraid of pain. In her memory, she had experienced the biting cold in the snowy mountains, being covered in mud on the grass, and the despair of suffocating underwater many times.

However, the pain of this fire... was almost unbearable for her. She wanted to scream, but all she could do was moan inaudibly.

Her feet were engulfed in flames, and the temperature was so high that she felt like she was about to turn into ashes in the flames. The girl could smell the smell of her skin burning, accompanied by thick smoke rising, as if the whole world was enveloped by the burning.

Time became incredibly slow, no, time was stagnant at that time. Every second seemed like a long lifetime, plunging her into eternal pain.

"Gouzi, I don't want to wear stockings anymore in my life, okay?" Shen Jie said finally.

"Okay, okay, I won't wear it. Where are you? Room 605? Lucia isn't here, right?" Xiao Yao said.

Shen Jie hesitated for a moment, but finally did not refuse him.

Xiao Yao put on his clothes and went down to Room 605. As soon as he entered the room, he hugged Shen Jie lovingly in his arms, then got into bed with her, stroking the girl's hair, whispering and comforting her.

"You, you, you always say bad things about me," Xiao Yao said, "You are a reckless person. Do you feel the pain now? I won't let you be so reckless in the future. Do you hear me?"

"Well," the mother cat was as obedient as a baby cat, "If it weren't for the cutlassfish, you might never see me again. Maybe I would have become a vegetable, or a burnt plant."

"Fuck, when I see him tomorrow, I will kowtow to him no matter how high or low." Xiao Yao said.

"And Brother Bo..." Shen Jie reminded Xiao Yao.

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

Xiao Yao patted her gently as if he was coaxing a little kid, and whispered to her. In the humming sound of the air conditioner, it was unknown whether he had coaxed Shen Jie to sleep, but he fell asleep anyway.

It wasn't long before Shen Jie woke him up again: "You should leave. It's time for the evening activities to end. Lucia will be back soon."

Xiao Yao went upstairs yawning, and Gao Sijun came back soon.

"I heard you said a lot of good things about me?" Xiao Yao looked at Gao Sijun and said, "Good job."

Gao Sijun hesitated and blinked, not knowing whether Xiao Yao was speaking in a serious or sarcastic way: "Of course, we are friends - have you washed?"

When I sleep at night, nightmares and strange dreams visit me alternately.

He first dreamed that Shen Jie was on fire, rolling around in front of him, crying and wailing. Xiao Yao opened the fire hose to put out the fire, but the fire burned even more fiercely. It turned out that he was holding the gas gun from the gas station... After the girl was burned to charcoal, only a headless body was left, with her belly facing up and her limbs facing the ground in reverse, crawling around him like a spider, looking quite scary.

"Why?" Xiao Yao questioned her: "I thought we were friends."

The headless "spider" just crawls around without saying a word.

"Why did you do this?" Xiao Yao continued to question angrily: "You almost killed them both, almost killed me, and you also killed Teacher Song - why did you do this? Was it the organization's mission for you to approach me and pursue me from the beginning? Have you never liked me?"

Xiao Yao no longer remembered how Zhao Xiaomei answered - in fact, the scenes and memories behind the dream were very vague.

He only remembered that he and Zhao Xiaomei walked hand in hand to many places and talked a lot. The feeling in the dream was very warm and a little sweet.

Zhao Xiaomei told him about her difficulties. These difficulties sounded reasonable in the dream, but when she woke up and thought about them, the logic did not stand up to scrutiny.

The two of them went to the small wonton shop where they first met. While eating wontons, Xiao Yao read her his own essays and poems. When they walked out of the wonton shop, it was the small river of Zhouzhuang. Zhao Xiaomei volunteered to go down to the river to catch fish for him.