The pretty girl who plays with people's feelings is going to be severely punished.

Because of her cute face, Yu Lian has been popular in school since she was a child.

In kindergarten, all the candy that the teacher gave to the children ended up in Yu Lian's pocket. She had to be the first to choose toys, and the cartoons she liked had to be shown before school ended.

Little Yu Lian didn't want to go to kindergarten and cried as her mother brought her there. The other children, ignoring their own crying, all gathered around to cheer her up. Parents who hadn't left yet watched as their sons crawled around on the ground like dogs, barking and inviting Little Yu Lian to ride on their backs, and left with complicated expressions.

When Yu Lian entered elementary school, the two little pigtails on her head grew into two braids. All the girls in her class wanted to buy the same things as Yu Lian: water bottles, jackets, backpacks, hair ties, and when they bought pretty pens and bookmarks, they would immediately ask to share one with Yu Lian.

During breaks, the boys would gather around Yu Lian, chattering away and vying to be her best friend. One boy tried to pull Yu Lian's braids for attention, but he was chased away by the other girls before he could even touch her. He could only resentfully pretend to fight on the side, hoping that Yu Lian would hear him and turn her head to look at him.

When Yu Lian was chosen as class monitor, her crisp voice rang out, and the entire class of elementary school students, as if they had joined the army, stood in perfect unison, their faces flushed red, shouting without uttering a word.

However, when Yu Lian reached the third grade, she became more intelligent and felt that this was too shameful, so she took the initiative to go to the teacher to resign.

In the junior high school entrance exam, Yu Lian ranked sixth in the entire school and was directly admitted to the junior high school. Her slender height and increasingly prominent teenage features made her stand out even in the oversized school uniform. At the freshman assembly, the top ten students in the entire school had to give a speech on stage. Yu Lian was stage-frightened, her eyelashes drooping and her head not lifting, her cheeks as pink as crisp peaches on a summer branch.

The freshmen on the entire playground were dumbfounded.

Elementary and middle school students are immature and tend to believe in the opinions of class beauties and school beauties after reading romance novels. Yu Lian was famous since elementary school, and people in the middle school also knew about her to some extent, but she was not easy to see in the east and west campuses.

Knowing that Yu Lian had come to the junior high school, all the second and third graders who had never seen her before came to see her, blocking the classroom door completely. This situation even lasted for a week before it stopped.

For a while, Yu Lian had just started playing Honor of Kings, and her grades dropped. Her teacher was worried and talked to Yu Lian, telling her to interact with boys in a proper way, and hinting that Yu Lian might have been involved in a teenage romance.

Yu Lian didn't understand, but she opened her mouth and rattled off a list of the names of the boys in the class who usually teased her. After complaining, she returned to the classroom smugly under the teacher's complicated gaze.

Yu Lian attended a top-tier high school, where the academic pressure was even greater, so much so that she could hardly breathe. The pace of the classes was so fast that if she dropped a pen, she would lose track of what the teacher was saying.

During those years, the family was dirt poor. Every day after school, her parents would argue. She had to mentally prepare herself for a whole day before going back to ask her mother for tuition and textbook fees. Yu Lian never mentioned to her family any summer camps or extracurricular activities that required payment.

At that time, Yu Lian truly didn't want to study anymore. Once, during a final exam, she couldn't answer a multiple-choice question and suddenly broke down in tears. She didn't finish the entire exam and received a zero, ranking last in the class. When she got home and faced with Yu Sihui's questioning, she loudly declared that she didn't want to go to school anymore and would rather work as a hostess.

He got a beating and became obedient.

But he still hated studying, from the first year of high school to the third year. He always had a long face at school and seemed to be antisocial, so he didn't make any serious friends and was extremely aloof.

High school is the most vain time. Even if you wear the same school uniform, you can still tell your family's financial situation from the shoes you wear and the things you use.

In my second year of high school, I don't know who said it first. Yu Lian's family was very poor.

We were very, very poor. Our shoes were cheap, no-name brands, and we didn't have many pairs; we wore them in rotation every day.

Later, when Yu Lian went to school, a guy from another class came up to her with a grin and said he would give her 10,000 yuan if she kissed him.

That's ten thousand yuan.

Yu Lian felt nauseous looking at his face, but shamefully, she was actually falling for him.

That's ten thousand yuan.

Before she could even say yes or no, a boy in the class suddenly rushed out and started fighting with the other boy. It was a brutal fight. The boy was carrying a newly made metal dustpan from the school, with sharp edges. The classroom was filled with screams and blood.

Yu Lian was scared and hid at the very back of the classroom. Someone tugged at her, and she felt at ease and went out the door.

I witnessed her entire life before. I saw her happy, I saw her being admired, I saw how others treated her well.

At that moment, he became a participant.

  



Yu Lian lived in an old-style apartment building that she bought with a housing purchase qualification granted by Yu Sihui's work unit, and her neighbors were also Yu Sihui's colleagues from the same unit. Logically, the neighborly relations should have been very good, but Yu Sihui did not allow Yu Lian to visit her neighbors.

The family living directly opposite Yu Lian's house had a daughter who became pregnant and gave birth around the same time as Yu Sihui. She had a son named Yu Yin.

The baby was only a month old when the company laid off a large number of employees, including Yu Lian's father and Yu Yin's parents. The mortgage was not yet paid off, and raising a child was even more difficult. Yu Lian's father was pulled into the stock market, while Yu Yin's father was rejected everywhere he went looking for a job. When he returned home and saw Yu Yin's mother, he felt that she was living a carefree life. In a fit of resentment, he took action.

My mother ran away and didn't take the children with her.

From as far back as Yu Lian could remember, there were always sounds of smashing and breaking things next door. Yu Yin was also often beaten as he grew up. The man found a high-paying job and was usually alright, but after drinking, he would vent all his resentment towards his mother on him.

Occasionally, she would run into Yu Lian on the street; he was covered in bruises. Yu Lian knew him; they had been in the same school and grade from kindergarten to junior high, and even the same class in high school. Sometimes, their school rankings were one after the other. But she had never spoken to him.

Later, Yu's father died.

It is said that he took Yu Yin to visit relatives, drank too much, and fell into the river and drowned on the way home. At that time, Yu Yin had just started high school, was already over 1.8 meters tall, and lived alone.

High school evening self-study ended at 9:30 every day, and after taking the school bus, there was still a long way to go home. He always silently followed behind Yu Lian, and then silently returned to the house opposite Yu Lian's. His bedroom was only separated from Yu Lian's bedroom by a wall, but Yu Lian never heard him make a sound.

If it weren't for this fight, Yu Lian and he might have remained like two parallel lines that were close but never intersected.

On the day he was expelled and sent home, Yu Lian was taken by the teacher to see him. His once handsome face was swollen like a pig's head. Yu Lian wanted to laugh at the inappropriate time, but she obediently thanked him in front of the teacher.

I also brought him a little gift, a small rabbit-patterned band-aid that I just grabbed from my backpack.

Yu looked at her without speaking, and when he did speak, his voice was very hoarse.

Which school do you want to apply to?

Yu Lian hadn't expected him to ask this, and glancing at the teacher beside her who was also paying close attention to the question, she reluctantly replied, "S University."

"If I can pass the exam."

S University was actually Yu Sihui's expectation, but given Yu Lian's grades at the time, she couldn't get in. The teacher smiled with satisfaction, and Yu Yin nodded as well.

It was as if he didn't know what to say to her anymore, and finally said...

Study hard.

Yu Yin never went home after leaving school. During that time, Yu Lian was always worried and afraid when she came home alone after school at night. When she asked Yu Sihui, she was told that Yu Yin had been picked up by relatives.

I never expected to meet you at S University.

Yu Lian remained stunned for a while, while Yu Yin's expression was hidden behind his mask, his eyes fixed on her.

"Yu Lian".

Hearing his voice, Yu Lian woke up with a start. Her eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings, and her face was blank as she looked up. She didn't know whether her emotions were more shock or something else entirely.

"When did you get back?"

She had always thought that Yu Yin was no longer in S City.

Yu pressed down his eyelashes and used one hand to remove the mask strap, revealing a face with distinct bone structure. His voice was calm, with a weary, faint sense of world-weariness.

"I've always been here."

In the game. At school.

In the shadows of the back alley when you walk home alone.

You can see me as soon as you turn around.

Will I feel at ease? Or will I be afraid?



[Sorry, I'm not your ex-husband, hahaha, your ex-husband can't make milk tea.]

[That concludes the chapter about the Genshin Impact family.]

I've seen all the fan art! It's so cute, I love you all!