After four years of living alone after marrying far away, he went back to his parents' home and

The two sat eating breakfast, and Lan Yujuan secretly sized up the man opposite her.

The more she looked, the more she felt that something was amiss.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Mo was breaking open a steamed bun while letting her watch openly, his ears turning slightly red.

Lan Yujuan pointed to his black-rimmed glasses and said seriously:

"Are you nearsighted? How much?"

From the first time they met, she had never seen the man in front of her wear glasses.

Could it be that he's been wearing contact lenses all this time?

Chen Mo paused for a moment, then shook his head awkwardly.

"No, these glasses are just for decoration; they don't have a prescription."

As he spoke, he immediately took off his glasses and handed them over.

"real!"

Lan Yujuan picked up the glasses with some skepticism and tried them on.

Unexpectedly, Chen Mo's face looked quite thin, with defined features and not much flesh, but the frames of his glasses were much larger than his face.

She had just gestured to put it on when it fell off as soon as she let go.

However, just as Chen Mo said, these glasses really do not have a prescription.

"If you don't need glasses, why do you wear them for no reason? Aren't you tired of it?"

Lan Yujuan took off her glasses and returned them, muttering to herself in confusion.

Chen Mo picked up his glasses, put them back on, and his ears were already turning bright red.

"They say that wearing glasses makes one look more refined and scholarly."

Lan Yujuan couldn't help but turn around and burst into laughter.

If Chen Mo hadn't brought it up himself, Lan Yujuan would have almost forgotten about it.

I heard that the man in front of me didn't even graduate from high school before joining the army, and he didn't even go to college.

Lan Yujuan couldn't help but ask, "By the way, I heard from Brother Qin Zhang that you dropped out of school and joined the army when you were 17. Why did you do that?"

"Do you really enjoy being a soldier that much?"

She thought that a smart child like Chen Mo would come from a wealthy family.

Even if someone really likes being a soldier, they would at least try to get into a military academy, or go to university before enlisting, right?

Chen Mo chewed on his bun while staring up at her, his mind seemingly wandering.

Lan Yujuan subconsciously realized that she might have gone too far with her question, and quickly replied:

"If you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to answer."

"I was just asking..."

After finishing the steamed bun, Chen Mo picked up the white porridge next to him and drank it all in one gulp.

"Actually, there's nothing that can't be said."

Then, wiping his mouth, he continued:

"I grew up abroad and only returned to China with Chen Feifei when I was 13."

"Although I have no problem with daily communication, I am clearly falling behind in my studies, especially in high school."

"But I love computers, and I often lock myself in my room to study and learn on my own. If I can't keep up in school, I just skip class."

"Chen Feifei doesn't care about me in this regard. She'll buy me whatever I need, even though she doesn't know anything about it herself."

"As long as I don't cross her bottom line and eat and exercise on time every day, she doesn't care what I do."

Lan Yujuan nodded. "Oh, then Sister Feifei is quite open-minded!"

Now that she is a parent herself, putting herself in her child's shoes, Lan Yujuan knows that she definitely cannot completely let go of her child.

"However, since Sister Feifei is so open-minded, you shouldn't have done that later..."

Before she could finish speaking, Lan Yujuan suddenly pictured Chen Mo's ex-brother-in-law, Qin Su, with his cold and stern face.

Chen Mo glanced at her and said calmly, "You probably guessed it, right?"

"Not long after Chen Feifei returned to China, she learned that her old lover was still single. Her heart softened, and the two reconciled."

"Chen Feifei doesn't learn her lesson. Not long after they got together, she got pregnant."

"The two got married quickly, and when I was 15, Chen Feifei gave birth to Qin Shuyi."

"Her own life is a mess, and her house is in chaos every day."

"The old woman thought she was marrying above her station in the Qin family and had bewitched her son. Chen Feifei couldn't swallow this, and she fought with that old woman to the death every day, so she had no time to care about me."

Lan Yujuan remembered the old lady, silently picked up her porridge bowl, and began to drink it in small sips.

That's no easy task!

She finds it hard to imagine how Chen Feifei, who had just given birth and had a rebellious younger brother when she married into the Qin family, managed to survive there.

Chen Mo picked up the warm water on the table, took a sip, and continued:

"Later, Qin Su took the initiative to take over everything I did."

"He hoped I could get into Tsinghua or Peking University and follow him into a political career after graduation. But I skipped classes every now and then, and he was frequently called in for talks by the school."

"He smashed my computer and cut off my internet. He would check whichever internet cafe I went to."

At this point, Chen Mo couldn't help but laugh.

"Later, I became an unregistered resident of all the internet cafes in Hunan. I was kicked out as soon as I went in, and the managers avoided me like the plague."

"I have no choice but to go to another city to access the internet."

Lan Yujuan was completely bewildered. "You really are... unbeatable."

Lan Yujuan didn't even dare to think about whether she would have a heart attack from anger if she gave birth to such a child.

"So, did you come to the decision to enlist on your own, or...?"

Chen Mo scratched his temple, somewhat embarrassed, and said:

"At first, Qin Su felt he couldn't control me anymore. He saw that I often didn't come home for ten days or half a month, and he was afraid that I would go astray outside."

"Once, after he found me, he simply tied me up and took me in. By the time Chen Feifei found out, it was already too late."

"But it's good too!"

"After going in, I actually had better equipment, more things to learn, and made a lot of friends."

"That period of time was probably the happiest and purest time of my life!"

"This laid a solid foundation for my starting my own business after I was discharged from the military."

Lan Yujuan nodded, "Well, then it was a lucky accident."

"But since you seemed to be having such a good time inside, like a fish in water, why did you decide to leave the military?"

Chen Mo looked up at her and said softly, "Retire due to illness."

"I have insomnia and have taken a lot of medication, but it hasn't helped."

Lan Yujuan stared into those eyes, stunned. "Huh?"

She had heard him mention this symptom more than once.

Seeing his honest expression, Lan Yujuan wanted to believe him from the bottom of her heart.

The problem is, she has seen him fall asleep instantly more than once.

"Hmm, hehe."

Lan Yujuan smiled politely and got up to tidy up the table.

"I'll go wash the dishes, you can do whatever you want!"

When she came out of the kitchen, the living room was quiet. She looked around but couldn't find anyone.

Lan Yujuan wondered to herself: Where is he? Could he be in the study?

She knocked on the study door and then gently pushed it open.

really!

He was already lying on the daybed, his breathing deep and even, and he had fallen asleep again...

Lan Yujuan casually draped a blanket over him, muttering under her breath, "Insomnia? I don't believe you!"

I guess this man finished his work last night and then stayed up all night.

"It's good that she's asleep!"

Lan Yujuan stretched, turned around and sat down at her "workstation." With no one to bother her, she simply continued working...