Chapter 152 IF Time Travel (The Dog Chasing His Wife) 7: "Mom, Xiao Fang brought you some kebabs." "I don't eat these so late at night."...

"Mom, Xiao Fang brought you some barbecue skewers."

I don't eat this late at night.

"Let's all eat together, and everyone will win money after we finish eating."

The mahjong parlor was bustling with noise. As for Wu Juan's hobby, her daughter Shen Wanqing's attitude was always that as long as Wu Juan was happy, she could do whatever she wanted.

The only two requirements are: you can only play at night and not stay up until the next morning; you can't get too emotional whether you win or lose; if you win, it's best to settle the score yourself if you lose, there's no need to make yourself sick over playing mahjong.

"Everyone's winning money, everyone's winning money, who's going to pay for it?"

Wu Juan pretended to pat her daughter's bottom twice, but she couldn't stop smiling. "I'll go back in a bit, you take Xiao Fang back to rest first."

"Hmm, no rush." ​​Shen Wanqing smiled and drew a card for her mother. After picking it up, she saw that her luck wasn't good, so she quickly slipped out of the deck.

After coming out, Yu Lang, a big guy, stood in the hallway leaning against the wall waiting for him. He didn't seem impatient, but he also didn't look happy at all.

In truth, he had neither the opportunity nor the environment to make him jealous in his past life. After all, he spent most of his time either in his manor or the palace, or on the estate of the Hesheli or Zuoling. He simply didn't have the means to have any shady dealings.

Besides, given her reputation as a shrewish tigress who wouldn't let go of Yulang, and who was stingy and ruthless, no one would dare to mess with her.

Now that he's in this world, even though Yu Lang has been adapting for three years, he rationally knows that whether it's Zhou Hong actively trying to set Shen Wanqing up on a blind date, or her ex-boyfriend who's trying to rekindle their relationship tonight, it's essentially none of Shen Wanqing's business.

But he couldn't resist the pangs of jealousy that kept rising in his heart. The kebabs that were originally delicious didn't taste good anymore, and the wine that wasn't usually intoxicating made him dizzy and lightheaded. He even felt like he was walking on cotton.

Looking up, he saw her coming out of the mahjong parlor. He didn't say anything, just kept his head down and followed Shen Wanqing upstairs.

The door closed, and Shen Wanqing sat down on the sofa. She had originally wanted to have a good chat with the person who was still angry, but he didn't even look at her before going back to his room.

When Shen Wanqing followed her in, she was shocked to see that Lord Yu had wrapped himself up in the blankets like a silkworm cocoon, with only a tuft of hair sticking out from the top of his head, making him look particularly pitiful and stubborn.

"You just went to sleep like that? You didn't even take a shower or talk to me?"

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"Didn't I just explain it to you? That happened so many years ago. People just keep making wild guesses. I can't stop them from thinking about it. Don't you think that makes sense?"

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"Alright, go to sleep if you want, I'm going to take a shower."

*Smack*

After saying this, Shen Wanqing tried to get up, but before she could stand up, a hand reached out from under the covers and grabbed her, causing her to plop back down on the bed.

Shen Wanqing then smiled and knelt on the bed to pull the blanket covering Yu Lang's head. One of them used her heart to pull it away while the other half pushed and half refused. In no time, they pulled the blanket off, revealing Lord Yu, whose face was already red from holding back.

"You'd better tell me who he is today, or this isn't over."

Yu Lang got up and changed his posture, sitting cross-legged on the bed, looking at Shen Wanqing with an accusing expression. This person is too tight-lipped. It was one thing that she didn't say anything in her past life, but she still doesn't say anything in this life. If he hadn't run into her today, she would definitely have kept it from him for the rest of her life.

"He really is my classmate, my high school classmate."

Shen Wanqing was bright, cheerful and good-looking from a young age. When the children played house in kindergarten, she always wanted to be the bride and the mother, because other children always wanted to be the groom and the father.

Later, as she grew older and more sensible, she received countless love letters and boxes of chocolates. But the young girl was delicate and thought all those who actively pursued her were vulgar and uninteresting!

Shen Wanqing squatted in front of the bookshelf and took out old photo albums to show Yulang, to prove that she wasn't bragging. She also took out a small stack of love letters and a few 'yearbooks' and flipped through them for Yulang like they were stories.

"Li Moran was the school heartthrob back then. He was in a different class from me in the first year of high school, and we were put into the same class after the division of arts and sciences in the second year."

Back then, in the second year of high school, classes were divided into regular classes and experimental classes. Li Moran was a true academic star, while Shen Wanqing was always among the bottom students.

Kids are all vain, and Shen Wanqing, being so beautiful, is naturally even more prone to that phase. Her vanity manifests in rejecting those who genuinely like her and instead choosing to like those who seem unapproachable.

"Back then, I thought that anyone who liked me and wrote me love letters to confess their love was an idiot. They were all so tacky and not romantic at all."

"How can that be romantic?"

"If I like someone, he'd better ignore me and not take me seriously. I'd prefer someone who just says 'uh-huh' after I say three sentences. That's the kind of guy I'd like."

Before she could finish speaking, seeing Yu Lang's dumbfounded expression, Shen Wanqing burst into laughter and fell onto the bed. She found it funny even now, but she didn't know why she had actually enjoyed it back then.

At that time, Li Moran was handsome and a top student. He was the kind of person who didn't pay much attention to Shen Wanqing, but would quietly take out his completed homework and throw it to her when she went to school to borrow homework to copy in the morning.

Having been pampered since childhood, Miss Shen had never met someone like this before, and after a few encounters, she began to take a liking to Li Moran.

"Later, for the school sports meet, our school assumed that the senior students should focus on reviewing and not participate, so the junior students' event was the last one."

It was the last time, and even Shen Wanqing, who usually disliked joining in on these kinds of events, signed up for the mixed 400-meter relay. And then, to make matters worse, Li Moran and Shen Wanqing were placed in the baton exchange positions.

"After class, you have to practice running for the relay race, and you also have to practice how to receive the baton without dropping it and how to do it the fastest. And then, all that back and forth, doesn't it just lead to..."

Yu Lang felt incredibly jealous upon hearing this. Relay race, tacit understanding—these were things he had never done with her before. Not only had he never done them, but if he hadn't come through this life with her, he couldn't even imagine what Shen Jiyun, who actively liked someone, would be like.

"That……"

"So you really liked him back then, right?"

Yu Lang was flipping through the photo album with his head down, and it's no wonder he cared so much about this. Mainly, their relationship had started so horribly; even if Shen Wanqing had a good life, it could still be described as: a lack of freedom. Unlike the pure, heartfelt affection she was now expressing.

"I like him. He's good-looking and academically excellent. We started dating not long after the sports meet. But he's a top student and said he's about to take the college entrance exam and doesn't want to date me because he's afraid it will affect his grades. He also said that we should study hard together and get into the same university, and then we can start dating."

Now, Shen Wanqing thinks Li Moran is out of his mind. Does dating affect grades while flirting doesn't? Back then, they went to school together, came home together, and ate lunch together in the cafeteria. The only thing they didn't do was go to the toilet together during breaks. She doesn't know what he was burying his head in the sand for.

But Shen Wanqing was really naive back then. She thought Li Moran's words made a lot of sense, and she couldn't let him interfere with his studies. She even started studying hard, hoping to get into the same university as Li Moran, so that she could be with the person she loved forever.

"To be together forever?"

Yu Lang grew less angry as he listened. The idea of ​​who came first was the most unreasonable thing in the world. Even if he was the one who loved Shen Wanqing the most in this world, in the last world, and in every world, it didn't matter that she came first.

"Just saying, can a child's opinion really have any say?"

"You never told me about forever, neither before nor now."

Shen Wanqing found quite a few photo albums. Yu Lang choked up as he spoke, and lowered his head to flip through the albums as if to hide his emotions, not daring to say another word to Shen Wanqing.

Shen Wanqing leaned down and looked up at Yu Lang with a cheeky grin. Only when she saw his red eyes and the tip of his nose did she realize that he really took this matter seriously.

"You really cried? How could you really cry? I only tell you everything because I consider you my lover. If you're going to act like this, then I'll never bring this up again."

"I didn't cry, it was just the alcohol kicking in."

Yu Lang was still stubborn, which made Shen Wanqing, who was already soft-hearted, unable to resist hugging him. "Back then, I was ignorant and didn't know how important a promise was, so I dared to say 'forever' without any respect."

"Right now, I really don't dare to say anything. I just want to spend every day with you properly. Don't make grand promises or ask for too much. If we don't ask for too much, God won't know about us two time-traveling thieves. If I want everything and ask for everything, what if God really hears and finds out and separates us?"

Shen Wanqing was always confident, and Yu Lang rarely heard her say the word "dare not." Now, hearing her say that, he was still humming that he was so angry, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up. He clung to Shen Wanqing like a koala and pounced on her onto the bed.

"So what happened next? Why didn't you end up together? What do you mean by 'almost became her ex-boyfriend'?"

"You're treating this like a story! And you want me to be your storyteller, huh?"

Shen Wanqing rolled her eyes at Yu Lang in annoyance, but after turning over and finding a comfortable position to rest her head on Yu Lang's arm, she continued the story.

"We were both in the experimental class. One of us was always at the top of the class and the other was always at the bottom. No matter how hard I tried, I could never catch up with him. Besides, at that time, I was always thinking about whether he liked me or not, and how much he liked me. If I was thinking about this, how much focus could I have on my studies?"

However, this can't be entirely blamed on Li Moran; Shen Wanqing knows her own limitations. When she was in school, she loved playing, sleeping, and reading novels, but she didn't like studying. The fact that she was at the bottom of the experimental class was entirely due to her father forcing her to improve her intelligence—which was indeed sufficient.

Back then, her feelings for Shen Wanqing could motivate her to work hard, but that was all it was. In the end, after the college entrance examination, it was impossible for the two of them to get into the same school.

"At the time, he told me that a long-distance relationship was okay, but once I entered the big, exciting world of university, he didn't have the mind to pay attention to me and I didn't have the mind to pay attention to him either. Just talking to each other on the phone every day became a burden."

Neither of them wanted to be the first to say "let's call it quits," but everyone knew that the two of them couldn't be together. Li Moran felt that his university wasn't good enough, and Shen Wanqing felt that he was far away and never around when she needed him.

“Until my family had a tragedy and my father passed away, it wasn’t common to post obituaries on social media back then. But our two families lived just two streets apart, and his mother and my mother were mahjong partners. His mother even came to my father’s memorial service.”

"The funeral lasted a week, and he didn't call me once, nor did I think of him even once. So, after the funeral and I returned to school, the first thing I did was call him and tell him that we should forget about dating."

"You're just going to let it go like that?"

"Yeah, let's just leave it at that."

"We didn't contact each other for many years after that, until we met again at a class reunion last year. After seeing him, he went crazy and kept saying that he wanted to rekindle our relationship. He wasn't like this when we were in school."

Shen Wanqing genuinely thought Li Moran was crazy. She turned over, hugged Yu Lang, and seriously complained, "I think he's probably driven crazy by his family's pressure to get married. He thinks he can just settle for me since I'm not married yet."

"If I hadn't come here, or if you hadn't traveled through time at all, would you have agreed to try again with him?"

"No, definitely not."

"Why?"

"I don't love him, why should I bother with him? If he wants to get married, I'll just treat him as someone he can marry. Am I some kind of dog he can just call on at will?"

"And what about me? Why did you agree to let me pursue you before?"

Step by step, Lord Yu was like the most cautious and far-sighted hunter in the world. He asked so many questions and listened to so many things, just wanting to hear the answer he most wanted to hear.

"Because I love you, because you're in my heart, because I just want to experience what it feels like to be chased after me."

"Is Lord Yu satisfied with this answer?"

Satisfied? How could he not be? Satisfied, Yu Lang became even more attentive, completely disregarding others when he returned to work. Every day after work, he would rush from the project site to the company, saying he was there to pick up Shen Wanqing.

Shen Wanqing didn't care that she could get home by the time he spent waiting. She didn't leave after work, but waited for Yulang to drive his car downstairs in a showy and arrogant manner, so that they could go home together.