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

“I told you so,” Xiao Yao said, “You’re dressing yourself up so strangely, it’s useless. Your dad isn’t here anymore… I mean, your beauty can’t be hidden, it’s all a waste of effort.”

“Is it possible,” Yu Luying pointed out, “that if she hadn’t dressed like this, she wouldn’t have received three letters?”

“Impossible,” Xiao Yao said. “Xu Qingwei, the reason your surrogate mother, Lu Jiya, could dress up like that is because her… basic looks were relatively low, while yours is just a poor imitation.”

"You can't say that on my behalf—" Upon hearing the words "imitating Xi Shi," Shen Jie turned her head, spat the mineral water in her mouth onto the ground, and then burst into laughter.

A large slice of meat fell from the tip of the girl's chopsticks. Yu Luying tried to catch it with quick reflexes, but missed—the slice landed directly on Yu Luying's black trousers, roughly between her thighs.

Shen Jie was still laughing wildly, while Yu Luying and Xiao Yao were both stunned for a moment.

Without thinking twice, Xiao Yao reached out with his chopsticks and picked up a slice of meat from Yu Luying's plate.

Yu Luying: "? The trash can is there—ah, there isn't one on the rooftop."

Seeing Shen Jie still laughing uncontrollably, Xiao Yao gave up on his plan to stuff the meat slices back into her mouth; Yu Luying was already looking around for a trash can, and since the meat had already been picked up by Shen Jie's chopsticks, there was no reason to feed it to Xiao Pingguo.

But it's absolutely impossible for him to throw it away!

This is a sacred meal made by the Holy Little Apple herself, as sacred and inviolable as the Eucharist!

Xiao Yao calmly placed the slices of meat on his portion of white rice and shoveled them into his mouth.

Yu Luying: "...(stunned)."

Shen Jie also stopped smiling immediately.

The three little ones looked at each other and remained silent for a while.

"Shall we eat quickly?" Then, Little Apple's face flushed red as she timidly said, "I still have two exams this afternoon, and I want to take a nap."

"Ah, okay..." Xiao Yao said somewhat blankly.

"You two," Shen Jie shoveled a couple more mouthfuls of rice, "when are you planning to move back?"

"Where are you moving it back?" Yu Luying pretended to be clueless.

“Move back to Xiao Yao’s grandma’s house,” Shen Jie said, looking at Xiao Yao. “Xiao Yao, you haven’t been home to sleep for two days. If you don’t go back today, what am I supposed to say to your grandma?”

Shen Jie blinked, but there was another unspoken meaning in front of Yu Luying—what are you planning to do, leave me to "live alone in an empty room" for a long time?

Yu Luying frowned and answered before Xiao Yao could, "To Xiao Yao's grandmother, you're her granddaughter-in-law now, right? If I go back with her, how am I supposed to explain this to her? What's my status as her?"

Just as Shen Jie was about to answer, Yu Luying continued, "Besides, if I stay at your house," Yu Luying glanced at Xiao Yao, "my parents—my mom wouldn't agree either, would she? How am I supposed to tell my mom? Staying at my uncle's place, at least my mom would feel more at ease—more at ease."

“No,” Shen Jie said unhappily, fiddling with the chopsticks in her hand, “Are you planning to live in the church forever? Have you become nuns? What am I supposed to do then?”

Yu Luying hesitated, then said, "What are you going to do? You'll get bored all alone..."

"What do you mean I'm bored being alone? It's great living by myself!" Shen Jie quickly said, "Yesterday on my way home from school, I don't know if it was just my imagination, but I felt like someone was following me. Hey, have I told you guys before? My deskmate, Tao Tianyi, I always feel like he keeps glancing my way, and he even turns his head to look at me during class..."

"Sister, no offense, but you're just overestimating yourself," Yu Luying couldn't help but retort. "Why don't you just move in too? There are still empty rooms in the main hall. You're studying here temporarily, so my uncle is nominally your guardian, right?"

“Xiao Yao, he has parents,” Shen Jie reminded Yu Luying.

“I also have parents,” Yu Luying said.

"Hey, hey, hey, everything was fine just now, why are you arguing again?" Seeing that things were getting tense and there were signs of trouble in the harem, Xiao Yao quickly said, "Don't you two need to ask me where I live?"

"I won't ask," Yu Luying said firmly, shaking her head.

Xiao Yao: "?"

Shen Jie: "Although I quite like Catholicism—it's okay occasionally, but if you asked me to live in a church every day, I still feel like it would be a bit... boring?"

“I understand,” Yu Luying nodded, her tone unfriendly, “The main problem is that living in the church makes it impossible to be with my boyfriend…”

"Yu Luying!" Xiao Yao quickly called out to stop her.

"What do you mean?" Shen Jie put down her chopsticks.

“You know what I mean.” Yu Luying lowered her eyelids, avoiding her gaze.

"I don't know what you mean," Shen Jie persisted, "What about your boyfriend? Explain yourself."

“Since everyone already knows these things,” Yu Luying raised her eyelids and looked directly into Shen Jie’s eyes, “why bother saying them out loud and making everyone feel awkward?”

"You even have to tell this kind of thing to your silly sister?" Shen Jie turned her eyes and stared intently at Xiao Yao.

"I didn't! I swear! I'm innocent!" Xiao Yao cried out anxiously.

“I can testify that he didn’t tell me,” Yu Luying stepped in to speak the truth: “I forced him to do it—I made him swear before the altar that he didn’t have anything to do with you, but he didn’t dare.”

"It's not that I'm afraid..." Xiao Yao weakly protested.

Shen Jie gave Xiao Yao a look that said, "I'll settle this with you later," and then looked at Yu Luying again: "So what do you want?"

"I didn't mean anything by it," Yu Luying said sarcastically. "You two are a legally married couple, what you do is none of my business."

“If you’re envious and jealous, you can come with him,” Shen Jie blurted out, “It’s just that you’re reluctant to part with your two ounces…”

"Hey, hey, hey." Xiao Yao clapped his hands a few times forcefully.

Ignoring him, Yu Luying continued to say to Shen Jie, "You're right, it's my own reluctance to part with my two ounces. I'm just proud, there's nothing I can do about it."

"Who are you calling shameless?" Shen Jie threw the spoon in her hand on the ground.

"Whoever is shameless knows it in their heart." Yu Luying looked directly into Shen Jie's eyes, not giving an inch.

Xiao Yao grabbed Shen Jie's waist, pulled the flailing girl back, and then reached out and grabbed Yu Luying's arm: "What are you two doing?"

"So you think you're so pure and innocent?" Shen Jie was still trying to break free from Xiao Yao's grip. "What did you two do behind my back? What did you do in front of me? You think you're so clean? I saw a term online before, something like 'virginity watch'..."

“Even a virgin is still a virgin,” Yu Luying said, just as bluntly as Shen Jie, “She’s still better than some people! You’re the one who caused this five-meter symbiotic distance! You two should break up and leave us alone!”

Xiao Yao couldn't hold on to her, and the girl in his arms slipped away. Then he felt a heavy blow to his cheek, and his vision went black.

Of course, the slap didn't land on his face.

Before the golden stars in his eyes had even faded, he heard another sharp slap and felt a sharp pain in his palm.

He forcefully squeezed between the two women, forcibly separating them.

"You two should be the ones breaking up, right?" Shen Jie coldly covered her face. "I'm revoking the authorization I gave you before. It's effective immediately. Xiao Yao, come home with me tonight."

“Okay,” Yu Luying said with a red mark on her cheek and a not-so-attractive smile, as she began to pack up the lunchbox: “It’s up to you.”

"Everyone was angry, and what they said in anger doesn't count," Xiao Yao said.

Yu Luying intended to put the lunchbox on Shen Jie's head, but Xiao Yao had already guessed her intention and snatched the lunchbox from her hands beforehand.

“I wish you both happiness,” Yu Luying said. “Keep going like this every day, keep desecrating your love. Your so-called love.”

After uttering these angry and incoherent words, Yu Luying shook her hands, turned around, and left.

Xiao Yao rushed over and grabbed Yu Luying's upper arm, but Yu Luying was just as strong as him. She pulled her hand away suddenly, causing Xiao Yao to stumble. Then she slammed the rooftop door shut and hurried downstairs with a series of loud bangs.

"Are you crazy?" Xiao Yao shouted.

This woman is really... when she gets hysterical.

Xiao Yao turned to look at Shen Jie, who was still covering her face as she looked at him.

The boy stood still for a second, raised his hand to make a "call" gesture to Shen Jie, opened the rooftop door, and chased after her.

Shen Jie rubbed her burning cheeks and sat down weakly on the rooftop.

The girl arched her knees high and buried her face in them.

After maintaining this position for about three minutes, she raised her head, smiled at herself, and rubbed the corner of her left eye with the junction of her right palm and wrist, then rubbed the corner of her right eye.

Shen Jie stood up, patted her bottom, let down her fake bangs again, put on her glasses, and hid her determined gaze under the double cover of her bangs and thick lenses.

That afternoon, neither Xiao Yao nor Yu Luying were in the mood to take the math and English exams properly; they just rushed through them.

All the lessons Xiao Yao took with Yu Luying during the summer vacation were for nothing, because he can now directly access Yu Luying's knowledge again.

The two of them communicated in their minds a few times and deliberately made mistakes on a few different questions to reduce the similarity rate.

The rest is up to you to improvise.

Xiao Yao estimated that his score was far above the passing mark, so he was too lazy to think about solving the remaining math problems. He simply wrote a few neat and elegant "Solution:" and left the rest blank.

It's said that you can get a point for writing the character "解" (jie), how strange, how really strange.

Never mind, let's do one more question.

Given vector AF = ...

Forget it, I'd better not do it.

Screw vectors.

Little Apple said that Shen Jie and I have desecrated our love. Is that really true?

Xiao Yao bit the pen barrel so hard he almost crushed it.

He spat out the crumbs in his mouth with a "pui" sound and started twirling his pen again.

The boy recalled what happened on August 31, before Shen Jie met Zhang Zhengkai when she went out.

We had already decided to give up by then...

"How about we call it a day?" Shen Jie said at the time.

"Hmm." He lowered his head and pulled the things down.

"Perhaps this is God's will."