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

"Maybe it's a rejection letter?"

"That's right, that's right, why are you all getting so worked up?"

"Quiet! Quiet!" The pretty female class monitor finally started tapping the podium with a set square.

……

……

Tao Tianyi looked towards Wei Sidong's seat, where the latter was opening a letter with a mixture of joy and trepidation.

"Hey, hey." Tao Tianyi nudged his deskmate with his elbow, but the latter nimbly dodged it: "Is it a rejection letter?"

"What else?" Xu Qingwei replied in a matter-of-fact tone, while burying herself in the official strategy guide for Bloodline II.

Tao Tianyi breathed a slight sigh of relief.

--split line--

After having a light vegetarian meal with lots of fish, shrimp, milk, and eggs in the cafeteria at noon, the three little ones once again gathered on the school rooftop, just like in Infernal Affairs.

Xiao Yao didn't really want to choose this "battlefield" as their secret base again, fearing that the two girls would be reminded of the beautiful memories of that girl fight. However... this lousy school is so small, it would be hard to find a more secluded and suitable place for their activities in a short time.

“I was just in the cafeteria,” Xiao Yao said to Shen Jie, “I saw you eating with that Tao… Tao something-or-other—I’m not mistaken, am I?”

"Tao Tianyi," Shen Jie told Xiao Yao, "you didn't see wrong. What's wrong?"

"You two are so close now?" Xiao Yao made no attempt to hide the jealousy in his voice.

"Please," Shen Jie said, "You saw us sitting together, didn't you see that I was sitting there and he came up behind me?"

“Then you can kick him out,” Xiao Yao muttered, “or you can change your seat yourself.”

"Wouldn't that be very impolite, deliberate, unnatural, and targeted at people?" Shen Jie said, her eyes wide.

“Why don’t we announce our breakup?” Yu Luying put down her phone and looked up. “You two should just announce you’re together.”

"How can that be? Wouldn't that violate the principle of being low-key and not attracting attention? And how are you going to explain to others if the two of you are stuck together for five meters?"

"You're still keeping a low profile? I heard you publicly replied to a male classmate's letter during self-study!" Xiao Yao teased deliberately.

"Didn't you tell me to reply? You typed all the drafts yourself." Shen Jie rolled her eyes: "Funny."

“You two are such a lively couple,” Yu Luying asked. “Shen Jie, when you came up here just now, were you followed by that Tao guy?”

"Of course not, I'm very careful," Shen Jie said with a laugh. "Wait a minute, what about that Tao of mine? Gouzi is already jealous, and you're still trying to sow discord, aren't you?"

“I don’t have any,” Yu Luying said with a smile.

"I'm not jealous of your 'deskmate' at all!" Xiao Yao declared. "I was just thinking that you should find a female friend in your class too, so that you can eat lunch together in the cafeteria and he won't have the nerve to come up to you—you can easily find a girlfriend anywhere, right? You need to fit in and be sociable."

"I know, I know," Shen Jie said impatiently, "Yu Luying, what exactly did your uncle say?"

“He said there are organizational arrangements, and he’ll explain them to the three of us in detail tonight,” Yu Luying said. “He also told the three of us, especially you, Shen Jie, because you and Zhao Xiaomei are in the same class, that you have to keep an eye on her and report any unusual behavior to him immediately.”

"Abnormal?" Shen Jie exclaimed, "Is there any part of her that's 'normal' right now?"

“She’ll still be at school,” Xiao Yao chimed in. “No, the fact that she can regain consciousness is abnormal in itself.”

"Could it be your organization?" Shen Jie guessed, "that implanted some kind of puppet AI into Zhao Xiaomei's brain?"

"I can tell, Xiao Yao has been showing you a lot of 'Science Fiction Emperor' this summer," Yu Luying complained.

"But your second concubine has been resurrected, you should be very happy, right?" Shen Jie nudged Xiao Yao with her elbow.

Xiao Yao: "?"

Yu Luying: "No, what do you mean by 'second concubine'?"

Chapter 359 The Master's Mission?

2023-10-23

"But your second concubine has been resurrected, you should be very happy, right?" Shen Jie nudged Xiao Yao with her elbow.

Xiao Yao: "?"

Yu Luying: "No, what do you mean by 'second concubine'?"

Shen Jie chuckled and said, "Don't misunderstand, I didn't say you were the first."

Yu Luying raised her eyebrows: "Why am I not number one—"

He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, realizing something was amiss, but Shen Jie had already started laughing out loud.

"Okay, okay, you're the first one," Shen Jie said with a smile.

Yu Luying's cheeks started to turn red again. Compared to being shy, Xiao Yao believed she was getting angry.

Xiao Yao found it somewhat amusing that both girls were focused on whether Yu Luying was the "first," but no one questioned whether Zhao Xiaomei was the "second wife."

"You can stop now," the boy said, stopping them.

He said "you guys" but actually took sides and hit Shen Jie.

"Why did you hit me?" Shen Jie turned her head and protested, "We were just joking around."

Xiao Yao did not continue the topic directly: "In short, Zhao Xiaomei's situation is very strange. Others may not know what happened, but as those in the know, we cannot pretend to be deaf and dumb."

"Are you pretending to be deaf and dumb?" Just as Shen Jie calmed down, Yu Luying's complaints followed: "This morning when he saw Zhao Xiaomei, he insisted on going up to talk to her without any regard for her. I had no choice but to follow behind him."

"Really?" Shen Jie glanced at Xiao Yao with a half-smile. "So eager—I haven't seen you around."

"Of course I'll be enthusiastic, I'll be!"

"And what happened? People just ignored him, like they were looking at an idiot," Yu Luying said. "It's hilarious."

"What's so funny?" Xiao Yao said.

“That’s what Tao Tianyi told me too,” Shen Jie said, lost in thought. “Tao Tianyi used to be quite familiar with Zhao Xiaomei, but now Zhao Xiaomei seems to not know him at all.”

"Tao Tianyi, Tao Tianyi, Tao Tianyi," Xiao Yao wasn't actually very jealous, but he found it funny to say it like that: "He keeps talking about that Tao Tianyi."

"Fine, I haven't even asked you yet," Shen Jie retorted, baring her teeth and brandishing her claws. "Why do you go up to Zhao Xiaomei whenever you see her? I've been at this school for three days—three days! And you haven't even once come to my class to look at me!"

"Zhao Xiaomei doesn't recognize anyone?" Xiao Yao stroked his chin. "Is it amnesia, or is she faking it? I'm starting to think she's someone else impersonating her, and I'm increasingly convinced of that."

“Tao—people in my class think so too,” Shen Jie said.

"Pfft." Yu Luying, for some reason, covered her mouth and laughed silently.

"Is your Tao Tianyi handsome?" Xiao Yao asked Shen Jie.

“Mine—to be honest, is even uglier than yours,” Shen Jie said with a laugh.

“Oh, good,” Xiao Yao said, “my wife praised me.”

Shen Jie said, "Your second concubine has been resurrected, you should be quite happy," but that was only half true.

Xiao Yao's feelings toward Zhao Xiaomei are complex and conflicted.

First of all, as a self-proclaimed lawful and good, self-proclaimed Crusader paladin, objectively speaking, Xiao Yao does indeed have a strong sense of justice.

Putting aside the fact that Zhao Xiaomei killed Song Haijian, and also ignoring any other misdeeds Xiao Yao was unaware of, Xiao Yao felt that Zhao Xiaomei deserved to pay for her blood debt just for the large-scale terrorist attack she launched at the beach summer camp.

Even if she is spared the death penalty, she must still pay the price for her actions and her crimes, otherwise it would be unjust.

Moreover, letting such a powerful enemy go unpunished would itself be a serious security risk.

If human laws cannot punish her, then Xiao Yao supports the organization's indefinite "illegal detention" of her.

But now, they've released her.

Since Yu Bo has stated that "there are organizational arrangements," it means that the possibility of Zhao Xiaomei escaping from prison and returning to school unscathed is absolutely zero.

Xiao Yao instinctively felt dissatisfied with this.

"Of course, it could also be due to pressure," Xiao Yao thought.

After all, in this country... no one can be lawless or control everything.

Basically... there are relatively few.

If the organization chose to release people because it couldn't hold on any longer, Xiao Yao was very worried about what kind of bloodshed would follow.

“Do you think,” Xiao Yao said, “that Shen Jie’s attack and assassination attempt by ‘Zhang Zhengkai’ might also be related to Zhao Xiaomei?”

"What was the exact date Zhao Xiaomei was released? Please provide details."

"I don't know."

On the other hand, Xiao Yao does have feelings for Zhao Xiaomei.

This feeling isn't necessarily a romantic relationship.

Of course, it's not necessarily true that it isn't.

This feeling... is quite complicated to put into words.

After all, Zhao Xiaomei was the first and, so far, the only girl who had ever pursued him.

This is a great achievement.

Therefore, when Xiao Yao first realized that Zhao Xiaomei had betrayed him during the seaside summer camp, he was extremely frustrated.

He thought Zhao Xiaomei would announce to him, "Yes, that's right, the reason I approached you was all my master's mission."