You're my wife, don't doubt it!

With that, he went into the wardrobe.

Xiao Yao was still somewhat sullen and uneasy.

As we all know, Shanghai is a megacity with an area of ​​6340 square kilometers.

Qingpu is another remote and desolate place.

This means that, mathematically, the probability of someone going out to have fun during summer vacation and getting caught by their homeroom teacher should be infinitely close to 0.

If you have that kind of luck, why not just buy a lottery ticket?

Even in a novel, let alone in the real world, you wouldn't dare write something like this!

Could it be... that it wasn't a coincidence?

The two days of travel had truly drained him of his energy, and Xiao Yao gradually drifted off to sleep.

Not long after I fell asleep, someone knocked on the door. It turned out that Zhang Jialong and Daiyu had arrived.

Xiao Yao smiled, but in his heart he thought... "Why are you two here so early? Are you bored?"

"Wait a minute! They're here!" Xiao Yao shouted, sticking his head into the mirror: "Mommy, baby, my classmate is here, do you want to come out first?"

"What's this 'catty brat' again?!" Shen Tianyun protested loudly.

“No, that won’t do,” Shen Jie said. “The cake isn’t done yet. When we’re about to leave, knock on the cupboard door and ask them to go out.”

"Oh." Xiao Yao had a headache and felt that this matter was not easy to handle.

"Ah, never mind." Shen Jie picked up the oven and told Shen Tianyun to unplug it: "Go outside and do it."

……

"Damn, it took you ten minutes to open the door, you're so annoying." As soon as the door opened, Daiyu threw a soccer ball at Xiao Yao's chest.

"I just woke up and am getting dressed..." Xiao Yao said.

"Wearing a T-shirt and shorts for ten minutes? Are you wearing a painted mask?!" Beltfish barged in, yelling, "Is this the right door?"

"Yes……"

"Hello, are you my cousin's classmates?" Shen Tianyun stood up and greeted them politely.

“Yes,” Zhang Jialong nodded, “we’re here to celebrate Xiao Yao’s birthday.”

"Cousin, we meet again!" Daiyu greeted Shen Jie generously, her eyes lingering on Shen Tianyun a few times. "Brother Yao, isn't this place a bit too small? In my opinion, we might as well go to the seabed—"

Zhang Jialong gave the ribbonfish a light kick, and the latter immediately shut up.

“Shen Tianyun, you’ve both met before,” Xiao Yao said, pointing at Shen Jie and introducing her in a way that seemed to contradict himself. “And this is Shen… Shen Rong, my cousin. This is Zhang Jialong, just call him Brother Long. And this is Daiyu. They’re both my good buddies from class.”

Is it reasonable for my older cousin and younger cousin to share the same surname? Oh well, whatever.

"Hello Brother Long, hello Brother Yu!" Shen Tianyun placed her hands on her cheeks, making a "flower" shape.

Kawaii... Xiao Yao thought, how come I've never seen this side of you before?

"Ah, cousin, hello cousin." Ribbonfish was a little dazed.

Seeing the way the ribbonfish was, Xiao Yao was slightly displeased and led the two to sit down on the sofa that Shen Tianyun had just tidied up.

The genuine leather soccer ball, signed by soccer star Owen, was a birthday gift from Zhang Jialong, while Daiyu's gift was a redemption serial number for the "Ghost Dragon" mount in Bloodline II.

"Wow—brother, you've gifted me such a fine steed! How can I possibly repay you?" Xiao Yao was almost hesitant to accept it.

"Hey, a BMW is for heroes. I'm not asking you to become my godfather, so why are you being so polite?" Ribbonfish joked.

Everyone laughed.

Xiao Yao and Shen Jie told Zhang Jialong and Daiyu about their trip to Qingpu, where they were caught red-handed by Song Haijian at the 7 Days Inn. Zhang Jialong and Daiyu exchanged bewildered glances.

“Even if we don’t catch him in the act,” Zhang Jialong said in a deep voice, “do schools and teachers ever reason with each other? Doesn’t it just go along with what they say? That bastard Song Haijian has disliked you for a long time now, and I reckon he won’t let this go easily this time. We’ll have to come up with something together…”

"Brother Long." This time it was Daiyu's turn to remind him not to create anxiety and ruin the atmosphere.

"It's alright, there will definitely be a way," Zhang Jialong comforted Xiao Yao.

"Oh, you two went out for a while, how could you be so unlucky? Why didn't you tell me?" Shen Tianyun, who had been chatting with Daiyu about something since earlier, suddenly interrupted, "But, couldn't you have just told your teacher Song that you two are cousins?"

“Alright,” Xiao Yao said, “Even Brother Long and Daiyu know that she’s not my cousin.”

"Oh," Shen Tianyun said.

Daiyu kept whispering to Shen Tianyun, which made Xiao Yao feel a little uncomfortable, but he had no reason to stop her. Everyone was talking about Song Haijian. After a while, Xiong Ji and Shen Bin also arrived.

Shen Bin gave Xiao Yao a magnetic levitation globe night light, while Xiong Ji's birthday gift was a metal statue—covered in European-style plate armor, tall and slender with a well-proportioned figure. Except for the metallic color, it was none other than the mysterious white knight who had wreaked havoc in Teacher Yao's hall that time.

"This is..." Xiao Yao's jaw almost dropped: "You did this?"

"I had someone specially make it, isn't it great?" Xiongji said mysteriously with a "shh".

Everyone praised him, but Shen Jie looked uneasy because she felt that Xiong Ji should not reveal elements of "that world" in front of strangers.

"Xiongji, do you know what that bastard Song Haijian is like..."

……

The next person to arrive was Chen Lu, and she wasn't alone when she came.

Behind her followed another girl.

The girl was dressed in gray, wearing a gray coat and trousers over a white T-shirt, cartoon white socks, and breathable N-shaped sneakers. She was carrying a small, unique music box and a backpack.

"You...how could you..." Xiao Yao was a little stunned.

“My friend,” Chen Lu explained.

"Hello everyone," the girl in gray bowed deeply to everyone present, "My name is Zhao Xiaomei, and I am Xiao Yao's good friend."

Shen Jie, who was drinking water, spat it all over the ground.

Chapter 112 Happy Ending

2023-02-17

Xiao Yao was greatly surprised by the uninvited arrival of the spirited young woman, Zhao Xiaomei.

If striking up a conversation with him and calling his home were still within Xiao Yao's understanding of... and could be considered normal behavior, then directly barging into his door... Emmmmm...

"I didn't tell her it was my birthday," Xiao Yao said to Shen Jie in a low voice, but because he was in a hurry, he didn't keep it down very well, and basically... everyone heard it.

"As good friends, do we really need to tell each other our birthdays?" Zhao Xiaomei was surprisingly not embarrassed at all.

"I didn't even know her birthday." Xiao Yao really did lower his voice this time, so much so that Shen Jie didn't hear what he said at all.

"Alright, alright, I know," Shen Jie simply said.

Since Shen Jie had already expressed her mixed feelings of dislike towards him and Zhao Xiaomei, Xiao Yao decided to bravely save his own life first: "Zhao Xiaomei," he emphasized the word "classmate," "I'm really grateful that you came to my birthday party, really. I feel even more embarrassed to accept your gift, and as you can see, my place is very small..."

Chen Lu opened her mouth to speak, but Shen Jie grabbed her sleeve first: "Guests are all welcome, there's always room if we squeeze in."

As she spoke, she greeted Zhao Xiaomei with a smile, took the exquisite music box from her hands, helped her sit down on the bed, and then asked Xiao Yao to get her slippers.

"We're out of slippers." Xiao Yao said with a sour face.

"Then don't bother," Shen Jie said to Zhao Xiaomei.

"It's okay, I'll just go barefoot," Zhao Xiaomei said, starting to untie her shoelaces.

"No, no, no, the floor is dirty." Shen Jie tried to stop her, but couldn't. She watched as the woman took off her shoes and walked on the floor in her socks, and then put her shoes back at the door of the photo room.

Xiao Yao felt a little sorry for the innocent white socks. He followed Zhao Xiaomei to the soap room, picked up a mop, dipped it in water, and went back to his room to mop the floor.

You're so considerate to others, Shen Jie thought to herself.

"Brother Long, what's going on?" Xiao Yao dragged Zhang Jialong behind him and whispered in his ear.

"I don't know..." Zhang Jialong coughed guiltily, "I'll ask Lulu later to see what's going on."

As darkness began to fall, Ouyang Qianqian was the last to arrive at the venue.

Ouyang Qianqian wore a white lace wide-brimmed sun hat and a French-style beige pleated long-sleeved dress with a V-neck and backless design that was too daring for a middle school student. On her feet were a pair of women's short high-heeled sandals, slightly revealing her toes painted with red nail polish.

Seeing that Zhao Xiaomei was barefoot while everyone else was wearing slippers, she took off her sandals and placed them next to the shoe rack that was already full.

"You can wear mine." Shen Jie gave her slippers to Ouyang Qianqian and went barefoot herself.

"No need to."

Actually, saying "the last one" is not quite accurate, because neither of the two people with the surname Yu have arrived yet.

"Come on, everyone, let's move it." Shen Jie and Shen Tianyun lifted the dining table from both sides, and Xiao Yao and a few other boys quickly went to help, moving the square dining table from the window to the center of the room.

Next, Shen Tianyun covered the square table with a wooden disc, which had a rotating glass base.

“Brother.” Ouyang Qianqian didn’t sit down. She pulled down the brim of her hat, took an envelope out of her bag and handed it over, saying it was a birthday present.

"Let me see what good stuff this is?" Surprisingly, Shen Jie snatched the envelope from Ouyang's hand.

Ouyang Qianqian seemed indifferent and turned around to sit on the armrest of the sofa.

Before Shen Jie could even open the envelope, Zhao Xiaomei chimed in, "Shall we guess what Qu Yuqin's gift is?"

"My name isn't Qu Yuqin, please call me Ouyang Qianqian, thank you."

No one paid her any attention, because the crowd had already started chattering amongst themselves: "An envelope? Money? That's quite a lot of stuff?"