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

"Does what we said earlier about sticking to it today still stand?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Get lost!" Shen Jie suddenly grabbed his ear: "Good morning and good night, huh?"

"Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch!" Xiao Yao cried out, "What good morning and good night?"

"You ask me to say good morning and good night to you every day, and you also ask Yu Luying to say good morning and good night to you every day. How can you manage all that?" Shen Jie tightened her grip.

“I can manage, right? Hey, stop nagging me, listen to me.” Xiao Yao said, “Didn’t you hear what that silly girl said? Equality is the most important thing, even if it’s just a superficial equality. You can’t really treat her like a concubine that you can control all the time, and wear that on your face, can you? What do you think? It’s the 21st century.”

"You still dare to talk back!" Shen Jie retorted, "Do you really think you're not involved here? We've made a complete mess of things, and the culprit is none other than you!"

"It's me! It's me."

"Do you think I don't know? Someone like Yu Luying, it's definitely you who seduced her."

"My lord, you are wronged!"

"Lie still! Don't move!"

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Shen Jie got up, stood on the bed, and stretched out her delicate feet, encased in white cotton socks, toward Xiao Yao's face.

Xiao Yao was careless and failed to dodge, getting firmly stepped on—luckily, the other party didn't step on him too hard.

"It's all your fault, it's all your fault!" Shen Jie said, while gently grinding her teeth.

The view inside the skirt from this angle is not bad, but it's really hard to breathe.

While breathing through his mouth, Xiao Yao reached out with both hands to pry open Shen Jie's feet.

Lift it up, bend it to the left, bend it to the right, but that little foot doesn't budge an inch.

Xiao Yao mischievously blew bubbles from his mouth, and Shen Jie immediately pulled her foot back.

"Aren't you disgusting?" Shen Jie complained as she took a tissue from the bedside table to wipe the bottom of her socks.

"Hey, let me tell you—" Xiao Yao said, wiping his face.

"Don't say anything yet, let me say it," Shen Jie suddenly squatted down and then knelt on the bed: "Truth or Dare isn't over yet, you have to answer my last truth."

"what?"

"If one day I forbid you from talking to that silly girl anymore, will you listen to me?" Shen Jie asked seriously.

"What the hell? You've made such a scene today, and now that silly girl wants to break up with me," Xiao Yao thought bitterly.

"The principal wife always comes first," Xiao Yao said, opening his arms and raising them upwards. "What the Lord gave, the Lord takes back; may the name of the Lord be praised!"

Fortunately, Shen Jie did not immediately make this request after hearing this.

Xiao Yao figured that he had finally managed to appease his "official wife" to the point of being almost completely won over, so he quickly went to comfort Xiao Pingguo. He then asked Shen Jie for her phone so he could go and call Yu Luying back to get her shoes.

"The main problem is that she's been walking barefoot the whole time, and my feet have been hurting terribly ever since, look—"

"I know you feel sorry for that young girl." Shen Jie tossed the phone at me.

Xiao Yao quickly dialed Yu Luying's number. After only half a ring, the phone said, "Hello, the number you dialed is currently busy. Please try again later."

When I dialed again, it only lasted about a fifth of a beep before it started saying, "Hello, the number you dialed is currently busy..."

"What's wrong? Can't get through?" Seeing Xiao Yao's expression, Shen Jie asked while gently rubbing her arch.

"They've blocked us," Xiao Yao said dejectedly.

Opening my QQ friends list, only oO舒荷Oo's grayed-out profile picture remains; "Drowning in the face of an angel" has disappeared.

Shen Jie remained silent.

Xiao Yao was planning to go to the hotel front desk to get a public phone to make a call when suddenly, at that very moment...

He felt as if he were walking step by step into the cool lake water, and a strange physical sensation arose spontaneously.

At first, he felt his feet gently soaking in the lake water, the moisture seeping through his skin with a cool sensation, as if invisible ripples were licking the soles of his feet. Tiny ripples swirled between his toes, the gentle touch softly permeating his body.

As time passed, his calves were gradually surrounded by the lake water, and the water level continued to rise. The coolness of the lake water caressed his skin like delicate silk, giving him a captivating sensation. He could feel the water gently swaying on his calves, soothingly massaging his tired muscles.

As Xiao Yao sank in, the lake level gradually rose until it reached his waist. The boy felt the lake water gently encircling his waist, like a pair of invisible arms embracing him tightly. Cool water droplets slid down his skin, softly touching his waist, as if silently conveying comfort.

……

……

……

"What's with that ghost-seeing look on your face?" Shen Jie waved her hand in front of Xiao Yao's face. "If she doesn't want to answer, she doesn't have to. She's a grown woman, she can't be stumped by a pair of shoes—oh, I get it, she's ignoring you, and you can't stand it?"

Xiao Yao became agitated: "Yu Luying, she fucking jumped into the river!"

"What?" Shen Jie was also stunned.

The air suddenly became tense.

Xiao Yao briefly described everything he was feeling to Shen Jie, and Shen Jie comforted him, saying, "It's okay, she's just being dramatic. Christians don't commit suicide."

After saying this, she herself didn't seem very confident.

Has things really gotten out of hand today?

The phone on the bedside table rang sharply, and Xiao Yao rushed over.

"Hello sir, this is the front desk. It's 2 o'clock. Would you like to check out or extend your stay?"

Chapter 271 Okay, we're friends now.

2023-07-20

It was late July, approaching August, and the weather forecast showed an average outdoor temperature of 37 degrees Celsius with sunny skies in some areas.

Unfortunately, the western suburbs are this "part" of the problem.

Under the direct sunlight, Xiao Yao raced along the road, but he couldn't walk very fast.

Sweat streamed down his forehead and into his eyes, causing a stinging pain and making it difficult to see the road ahead. He had to stop every now and then to lift up the hem of his T-shirt and wipe his eyes.

While lifting the hem of his T-shirt is certainly an unseemly action, it's one of the few places on the boy's body that's still relatively "dry."

Sweat poured down like a waterfall, like a stream, into the neckline of my T-shirt. My entire upper body was soaked, as if I had just climbed out of a river.

The collar was like a large bowl, greedily receiving the salty liquid coming from above.

These are not the most crucial factors.

The key point is that Xiao Yao felt as if his whole body was immersed in water, and his wet clothes and wet trousers (even though he was wearing mid-length trousers) tightly bound him, making his whole body heavy and his hands and legs difficult to move.

This feeling of being both hot and cold, like experiencing both ice and fire, is definitely not very comfortable.

I'm sure many of you readers have had similar experiences. Walking or running in water that's just waist-deep is quite inconvenient. Xiao Yao was walking down the street now, feeling the same way. He was worried about Yu Luying's safety and was both angry and anxious.

Moreover, because the water had reached his neck, he felt chest tightness and shortness of breath. The icy water would occasionally splash against his cheeks, and sometimes even seep into his mouth…

A new wave of panic washed over him. If Yu Luying were to sink to the bottom, would he also collapse and die on the street under the scorching sun?

I can't die, I can't...

Shen Jie was beside her, pushing and pulling. She was wearing a skirt that covered her knees, closed-toe sandals, and white socks, and she was also jumping up and down in a hurry.

“She’s barefoot, she couldn’t have gone far!” Shen Jie said. “Can’t you tell how far she’s walked?”

"I was counting her steps?" Xiao Yao replied with difficulty. "Besides, I was only focused on coaxing you at the time—you live in the western suburbs, don't you know where there's a body of water nearby?"

"Please, I only live in the western suburbs during winter and summer vacations!" Shen Jie exclaimed. "Ah, a body of water? I just remembered an artificial lake that's not too far from here. Shall we go take a look?"

“Go by yourself,” Xiao Yao bent down, placed his hands on his knees, and breathed heavily. “We should split up. That way we’ll be more efficient at finding people. You can also run faster without me by your side.”

Shen Jie shook her head and said, "You don't have a cell phone, how will we contact each other if we're separated?"

Xiao Yao thought for a moment and said, "Let's meet in the hotel lobby. We'll have to go back to get our luggage anyway. If that doesn't work, I'll find a public phone to call you."

Shen Jie was worried that this was the last time she would see Xiao Yao, and she was so anxious that tears were about to fall. She mumbled and refused to leave, but Xiao Yao gently kicked her firm calf with the back of his foot: "Go, go, go save me."

After Shen Jie ran away, Xiao Yao asked several passersby if they had seen a barefoot girl wearing only socks running past, but he did not get any clues.

He sat dejectedly on the sidewalk, his bottom on the sidewalk and his feet on the slow lane.

Closed his eyes.

From a young age, when he closed his eyes, he could see random points of light moving across his retina.

At first they were chaotic, but later they coalesced into a galaxy, or half a train.

They are elusive and intangible, yet clear and distinct, much like so-called "intuition."

Xiao Yao began to consciously focus his attention.

Gradually, the hustle and bustle of the surrounding traffic faded away, and a profound silence filled my ears.

Xiao Yao called out to Yu Luying, trying to understand her feelings.

The light spots on the retina begin to converge in a certain direction.

Xiao Yao opened his eyes.

He looked in a certain direction.

It should be... over there.