A Young Woman's Heart

She saw a little girl who looked just like herself running through a sea of ​​flowers.

However, she doesn't have any memories of being a little girl; she lived as a little boy when she was a child.

"Welcome, welcome~ Welcome to my dream, which is also your dream. I am you, and you are me."

"Is my dream really that happy?"

"This is the deepest level of dream, the real scene deep within your heart."

"oh……?"

"Your state of mind is just like this place."

"A strange dream." Mo Xueyao rolled her eyes, feeling a tickle on her cheek, as if something was scratching her.

So she retreated layer by layer from this deep dream until she opened her eyes and returned to reality.

Then she saw a pair of feet placed next to her face. The bath towel wrapped around Hua Yinyin had already been kicked to the ground. She didn't even know how she slept that night, but she had completely changed direction, practically a 180-degree turn.

Right now, she was sleeping soundly, hugging Mo Xueyao's legs, and even had her toes in her mouth.

Such a comical scene is beyond words.

Doesn't this guy feel dirty...?

"Flower—Silver—Silver—"

"Mmm, delicious... delicious... the jelly is delicious..."

"My feet aren't jelly!" Mo Xueyao pulled her feet out. "Your sleeping posture is way too exaggerated!"

"Waaah... the jelly is gone..." She was still dreaming and hadn't woken up yet.

Mo Xueyao pinched her cheek in annoyance, climbed off the bed, straightened her up, and then covered her with the blankets.

This guy isn't wearing any clothes at all. Doesn't he feel naked and chilly?

"Knock knock." A knock sounded at the door.

"Who?"

"Me," Li Wanyan said calmly.

"What's wrong?"

"Breakfast is ready. Shall we go downstairs together?"

"Oh, wait a moment, I'll wash up first." Mo Xueyao said, opening the door to let Li Wanyan in, followed by Wang Jiale.

"Hehe, Yinyin!" Wang Jiale suddenly pulled back her blanket to startle her, but instead saw a white and sticky 'sweet rice dumpling'.

Li Wanyan quickly closed the door, blocking Gao Yuan's lewd gaze from outside.

"Hey—Xiaoyao, what did you and Yinyin do last night?"

"Nothing was done well at all...!"

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Chapter Twenty-One: Thunderstorm at the Seaside

2000 7 Month 6 Day.

The time is 8:30 in the morning.

The beach was not bathed in the vibrant sunshine of the morning, nor was it graced by the clear blue sky.

As Mo Xueyao walked through the corridor, what she saw through the window was a sky full of dark clouds and a turbulent sea.

The sea surged high into the air, then crashed heavily onto the beach, like a giant whale turning over underwater.

"Boom—!" A huge bolt of lightning ripped through the sky, and a good second or two later a short clap of thunder was heard.

Having had enough fun at the beach yesterday, Mo Xueyao didn't really want to go out. This kind of thunderstorm weather was perfect for staying home and resting.

"Phew—" Mo Xueyao stretched out a big yawn, with Li Wanyan and Wang Jiale walking beside her.

Hua Yinyin was sleeping like a log and couldn't be woken up no matter what, so they simply let her continue sleeping.

"Xiaoyao, does Yinyin not like to wear clothes to bed at night?" Wang Jiale asked curiously. Her expression looked so innocent that it was hard to tell whether she was teasing him or genuinely curious.

"Probably so."

"Luckily I didn't share a room with her, otherwise it would have been too awkward tonight," Wang Jiale said, looking very relieved.

Mo Xueyao nodded in agreement, but unfortunately she had no choice.

Don't think it's normal for girls to sleep naked with each other. If it were a boy, even if they were best friends, the other person would still feel strange if the other slept naked.

But then again, it's better for girls to do this than boys, because if a boy suddenly finds that his blankets are being pushed up by his girlfriend in the middle of the night, it would be really embarrassing and scary.

Mo Xueyao rolled her eyes and still tried to defend her: "It's mainly because she fell asleep while taking a bath last night, so I just wrapped her in a bath towel. And then she probably rubbed the towel off because she was such a restless sleeper last night."

"Oh, no wonder." Wang Jiale seemed to feel a little relieved, perhaps because he realized that the other party wasn't as perverted as he had imagined?

It wasn't too early, but probably because they were all exhausted from yesterday, many people were still sleeping.

Ye Wen didn't bother to wake everyone up. Li Wanyan only found out that breakfast was ready when she woke up and went downstairs.

"Hey, you're down here?" Ye Wen, who was enjoying breakfast, waved to them. "Come on, anyone allergic to seafood? If not, everyone should try the seafood porridge. It's a special breakfast only found in coastal cities!"

"Seafood porridge!" Wang Jiale's eyes lit up immediately. "I love it!"

"It's really delicious!" Huang Yuxi, who had already eaten breakfast, sat on the sofa and held up the whiteboard in her hand.

For some reason, he seemed to be very popular with the teachers. Taiyin and Tianyin sat around him, and even Taiyin, who was usually expressionless, showed him affection in a subtle way. Tianyin even kept pulling him to play a clapping game that didn't require any words.

Although none of the three of them are children anymore, there's a strange feeling that they're like little kids playing house together.

The dining room isn't in the living room; perhaps only in villas like this would a separate room be used as a dining room?

"It looks like a place where nobles eat." Mo Xueyao rubbed her eyes, still feeling a little sleepy. "The table is so long... If a group of people were eating, I feel like they wouldn't be able to reach the food at all."

"If it's the Western-style individual serving system, then there's no problem at all." Wang Jiale looked around, searching for a place to put the food.

"Hello, Teacher Shui." Mo Xueyao greeted Shui Zhishi, who walked in behind them.

What would you like to eat for breakfast?

Is there anything wrong?

"Hmm... I can do most of the simple ones."

"Make it fresh?" Mo Xueyao was taken aback. "Wouldn't that be too much work?"

"It's alright, cooking is my hobby," Shui Zhishi chuckled. "We also have seafood porridge and vegetable dishes now, or... shrimp pan-fried dumplings?"

"Ah, anything is fine." Mo Xueyao was too embarrassed to make any requests, especially since the food was already quite plentiful.

This is just breakfast.

The three of them found a place to sit down, which only occupied a small part of the long table, making it feel quite spacious.

"Having breakfast at a table like this is quite a ritual..." Mo Xueyao suddenly joked, "Lele, when did your family become so rich?"

"Sigh, I guess that's impossible. I'd be perfectly content if my family could afford just a small villa!"

"I don't even want a villa, I just want a spacious house, preferably a two-story one."

Li Wanyan rested her chin on her hand and looked at Mo Xueyao, without participating in the conversation.

"Wow, the class monitor is completely mesmerized by Xiaoyao."

"Doesn't Wanyan often stare at me blankly like this?" Mo Xueyao boasted. "When you have nothing to do, if you could choose where to stare blankly, you would definitely choose a place with a beautiful view, right? And where I am is, that's a place with a beautiful view."

"Ugh—!!" Wang Jiale exclaimed with disgust, "Xiao Yao, you're almost as narcissistic as Yin Yin!"

"Hmph, that's a fact! Confident people are the ones who look good!"

"That also depends on talent, doesn't it..."

As they were chatting, Shui Zhishi brought out three bowls of seafood porridge and three plates of pan-fried buns.

One plate contains five.

That's enough for a girl.

"Too much..." Wang Jiale even felt that she couldn't eat it all.

To be honest, these pan-fried buns are quite big.

"Thank you for your hard work, teacher," Li Wanyan said politely.

“Teacher Shui is like a nanny here… taking care of so many of us.” Li Wanyan coughed twice as soon as Mo Xueyao finished speaking.

In this day and age, calling someone who isn't a nanny a "nanny" is sometimes quite insulting.

"Of course, but there used to be more people. Now, Wenwen and Taiyin help me out, so it's not too tiring." Shui Zhishi blinked and smiled mysteriously, "I'll let you in on a secret: I used to be one of the maids here."

"Huh? A maid?" Mo Xueyao thought she had misheard. "Do they still have those things now?"

"Yes, there were such people in the past. They were probably similar to maids, but Wenwen's father preferred Western culture, so we called them maids. And back then, some of them wore maid outfits."

Is it legal?

“Pfft, um, I don’t know either. But Wenwen’s father was very good to us. Without him, we wouldn’t be living such a good life.” Shui Zhishi smiled gently. Seeing that everyone was listening attentively, she continued, “Back then, Wenwen’s father often stayed here. Many of our maids were actually orphans he adopted. At that time, there weren’t many orphanages, and many orphans could only beg on the streets.”

"So..." Wang Jiale didn't finish her sentence.

"Well, so after we were adopted, we lived with Wenwen as maids. She would go to school, and we also had private tutors, which was like a private school. Back then, I even called Wenwen 'Miss Wenwen'."

"So what's going on now?"

"Well... now it's a new era, so the past has to be discarded. So after the maids came of age, Wenwen's father arranged for them to work in other places. He was also very busy with the family business, so they didn't live here often."

"Teacher Shui is the only maid who stays with Awen!" Mo Xueyao suddenly realized. No wonder she felt that their relationship was different from that of ordinary people. They were like sisters and friends, but there was something else in between.

Now she understands, there's probably still some degree of subordination left.

It's probably just a habit left over from Mizuki Shi.

Mo Xueyao had never had such a luxurious breakfast in her life.