Wife, please behave yourself.

Chapter 83 I haven't seen you in so long
Wednesday, July 16.

With the ringing of the bell signaling the end of the exams, the final exam officially came to a close.

Liu Songyan walked out of the examination room.

Large numbers of students rushed toward the school gate, ready to embark on a vibrant and exciting summer vacation.

Liu Songyan continued to move forward at a leisurely pace, unlike most students who were eager to leave the school.

The exam is over. I only need to wait two days for the results to be released. I will have to come to the school again after that.

Then you can enjoy your summer vacation to the fullest.

The midday sun was very bright.

Even if thick bangs cover your eyes, you still can't look directly up at the sun overhead.

Liu Songyan lowered his head, his pace slowing down but still maintaining the same rhythm, until a figure running towards him appeared in the distance, at which point he pretended to leave in a hurry.

"Wait, wait for me!"

The girl ran towards him, calling out his name. Chi Jinhe, panting, caught up with Liu Songyan just before he left the school gate.

Many students who were about to leave heard the girl's shouts and turned around curiously to look.

Liu Songyan, the person involved, seemed not to have heard anything until the other party caught up with him, at which point he stopped.

He turned around and looked at the panting girl in front of him.

Seeing Chi Jinhe's silly smile, he pretended to be calm and asked.

"Is something wrong?"

"Didn't you...didn't you hear me call you?"

Sprinting at full speed can indeed leave people who don't exercise regularly breathless, and this is exactly the case for Chi Jinhe now.

Looking at Liu Songyan, who was much taller than her, she paused for more than ten seconds before gradually calming her breathing.

"did not hear it."

"You're lying... You were walking very slowly just now. You only started to speed up after I called you."

"I just want to go home as soon as possible."

"Then, then you..."

"Just say what you have to say, don't bring up other things."

Liu Songyan's words silenced Chi Jinhe, who was about to say something.

Her chubby little face looked a bit aggrieved, and her lips involuntarily pursed together.

"Don't be mean to me..."

"..."

"Here you go."

The item was taken out of his pocket and handed to Liu Songyan. Liu Songyan, whose face was half covered by his hair, lowered his head slightly and, through the gaps in his straight hair, saw what the other person was showing him.

A hair clip.

The heart-shaped decoration, its purpose unknown, adorns the hair clip, adding a touch of girlish freshness to the otherwise ordinary clip.

Liu Songyan stared silently at the hand offered to him, his gaze fixed on the hair clip.

After a long while, until the hand that was being offered began to tremble slightly, he finally looked at the other person again.

"Why are you giving me this?"

"A gift."

Liu Songyan frowned, his brows furrowed beneath his hair, unsure of what kind of gift the other party had given him.

"Your birthday is July 14th, but I had an exam that day, and I didn't see you after the exam..."

"..."

Hearing Chi Jinhe's words, Liu Songyan was speechless for a moment.

His birthday is indeed July 14th in the Gregorian calendar, but his family usually only celebrates birthdays according to the lunar calendar.

Liu Songyan's lunar birthday is the tenth day of the sixth lunar month, which is still a while away.

I don't use the Gregorian calendar.

"what?"

"Our family only celebrates birthdays according to the lunar calendar."

"why is it like this……"

Chi Jinhe's face looked aggrieved. He had finally managed to wait for Liu Songyan after the last exam.

I never expected it to end like this.

"I don't know much about the lunar calendar... So what's your lunar birthday?"

June 10th.

"June 10th... Okay, I've got it."

"Since my birthday hasn't come yet, I'll skip the gift this time."

As Liu Songyan listened to the girl silently reciting her birthday to reinforce her memory, his voice was no longer as cold as it had been at the beginning.

Looking at the hand that handed her the hair clip, she asked, seemingly out of curiosity.

"But why did you give me a hair clip?"

"This..."

Chi Jinhe glanced at the hair clip in her hand, then looked up again with a smile.

"Because your hair is so long, I didn't see you bump into someone in the cafeteria last time, so I thought I'd buy you a hair clip as a gift."

Chi Jinhe withdrew her outstretched hand, worried that Liu Songyan, being a boy, wouldn't know how to use it.

They thoughtfully demonstrated it for them.

"Look, it opens up when you pinch it like this, and you can clip the hair over like this."

Using her own hair for the experiment, Chi Jinhe removed the hair clip after the demonstration, shook her head slightly, and restored her hairstyle to its original state.

He smiled again.

"It's very simple and convenient, right? We girls often keep a few extra so that we can still use them even if they're lost or broken."

"..."

"What's wrong? Don't you like it...?"

"I am male."

"I knew."

Chi Jinhe replied matter-of-factly. She wasn't stupid; how could she not see that Liu Songyan was a man?

Before she could respond, Liu Songyan spoke again.

"How can a man wear a hair clip?"

"But your hair is very long, longer than many girls'."

As she answered, Chi Jinhe's gaze lingered on Liu Songyan's hair, which was much longer than when they first met.

I don't know if it's because I haven't trimmed my hair in a long time, but even though I wash my hair frequently, I still look messy.

Each strand of hair seemed to have its own thoughts, growing wildly and haphazardly.

"Since your family celebrates birthdays according to the lunar calendar, then consider this a gift I prepared in advance for you."

Seeing that the boy in front of her was unmoved, Chi Jinhe muttered to herself as she handed the hair clip to him. Only after seeing the boy take the hair clip did she look satisfied.

She took a step towards the school gate and turned to wave to Liu Songyan beside her.

"I'm going home now, see you next semester."

"..."

"Bye~"

Although Liu Songyan ignored her, Chi Jinhe still said goodbye to him before leaving.

Only after the girl's figure disappeared along with the backs of most of the people leaving the campus did Liu Songyan, who had been watching her all along, slowly lower his head.

I opened my hand, holding the hair clip, and looked at the hair clip lying quietly in my palm.

Without realizing it, a smile had already crept onto my lips.

He gripped it tightly and put the hair clip into his pocket.

He strode towards the school gate.

Leaving the school gate and heading home, Liu Songyan saw the bookstore's open doors in the distance along this only route home. A sense of unease crept into his mind, as his father usually went to the film set at this time.

The bookstore has been closed for a long time.

As Liu Songyan drew closer, he arrived at the bookstore entrance, stepped onto the stairs, and was about to enter the store.

"Wow~"

A figure suddenly appeared, attempting to scare him.

Liu Wanqiu stared wide-eyed at her brother, who had stopped in front of her and remained motionless.

His open mouth slowly closed, and the expression on his face became confused.

"Brother, weren't you scared?"

"Only an idiot would be scared."

With a crooked smile, Liu Songyan started putting on an act again.

He walked past his younger sister and was just about to enter the store.

"Spray~"

The figure that suddenly darted out from the blind spot made Liu Songyan, who was caught off guard, hurriedly retreat.

Unaware that the hair clip had fallen out of her pocket and onto the ground due to the large movement, she assumed a ready-to-attack stance until she clearly saw who the figure darted out in front of her, at which point she returned to her normal standing posture.

"Hahahaha~"

The father's hearty laughter rang out in the bookstore, and then Liu Wanqiu, who was outside, ran back in with a grin.

He circled around Liu Songyan, who was standing still, twice, with a gloating expression on his face.

"You were scared, weren't you? This was all planned beforehand by my dad!"

"Songyan, you need to practice more."

Liu Changcun's large hand landed on his son's head, patted him twice, and then withdrew it.

Seeing that the boy in front of him remained silent, Liu Changcun realized that his son was losing face, so he began to explain.

"Knowing that your exams are over today, your sister and I came to pick you up. We just wanted to make a little joke, so don't look so serious."

"Oh."

“Late Autumn, look, your brother is unhappy.”

"Hehehe~"

Covering her mouth and chuckling, Liu Wanqiu felt inexplicably happy to see her brother humiliated.

In the brief moment of looking down, my sharp eyes spotted the hair clip that had bounced off the wall.

Liu Wanqiu immediately stopped laughing and instead ran over curiously to pick up the hair clip by the wall.

I held it in my hand and examined it.

"It's so beautiful, it's mine!"

The hair clip she found had barely warmed her hands when Liu Songyan snatched it away from her the next second.

The incident happened suddenly, and Liu Wanqiu was completely unprepared.

He blinked rapidly, and it took him a few seconds to realize what was happening.

"Brother! Why are you stealing my things!"

"this is mine."

"You're lying! What use would a boy like you have for a hair clip!"

"Who said this is a hair clip?"

Upon hearing his sister's question, Liu Songyan immediately pinched the hair clip and clipped it onto his index finger.

He raised his hand and showed it to his younger sister.

"Look closely, this is a ring."

"It's clearly a hair clip!"

"It's a ring that looks a lot like a hair clip."

"Well!"

In terms of sophistry, Liu Wanqiu, as the younger sister, is a far cry from her brother.

Having lost the argument, he simply puffed out his cheeks in protest.

The argument between the two reached Liu Changcun's ears. As the father of the brother and sister in front of him, he didn't care at all whether the thing was a ring or a hair clip.

But... Liu Songyan, a 14-year-old boy, actually possesses things that little girls would like.

In an instant, Liu Changcun immediately recalled something his son had once said.

Women are troublesome.

This kid... could he possibly like men?
Once the seed of doubt is planted, it will grow uncontrollably.

Liu Changcun, who had been laughing and joking with his children, immediately became serious and looked at Liu Songyan, who was still confronting his sister, with a complicated expression.

"Songyan, do you have any male friends at school?"

Hearing his father's sudden question, Liu Songyan was somewhat puzzled, but he still turned around and answered honestly.

"No."

"Have you been in contact with Koike recently?"

"..."

"Have!"

The son remained silent, but the daughter, who had been sulking, immediately spoke up.

She raised her little hand high, as if answering a teacher's question in class, and complained to her father.

"Even if we don't eat at the restaurant, I can see my older brother and my crybaby older sister in the cafeteria every day!"

"so far so good."

Upon hearing his daughter's statement, Liu Changcun, who had been somewhat worried about his son's sexual orientation, immediately felt relieved.

Liu Wanqiu was stunned.

She thought her father would criticize her brother, but thankfully... what happened?

Liu Songyan turned his face to the side and did not comment on it.

The family of three each had their own thoughts.

Their thoughts of their incomplete family were only interrupted by the sounds coming from outside the store.

"Boss Liu."

Upon hearing the sound, Liu Changcun, who was relieved that his son was orthodox, looked up.

His serious expression returned to normal when he saw the figure appear outside the store.

"Miss Ning, it's been a long time."

Ning Mengyao stood outside the bookstore, looking into the store with a look of surprise.

She raised her hand and pointed to the flower shop next to her, smiling as if she was a little flustered with excitement.

I just heard something next door... I thought I must have misheard.

"Did I disturb you?"

"No no."

Ning Mengyao hurriedly waved her hand and began to explain.

"I just haven't heard your voice in so long, I thought I was hallucinating..."

"..."

The gaze of the family of three was truly jarring, so much so that even the somewhat excited Ning Mengyao lowered her head in embarrassment.

Looking at the step he was standing on.

He muttered to himself.

"I haven't seen you for over a month..."

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