Chapter 16

"Other people's children" have always been the biggest enemy of children during their childhood.

She was always obedient and excellent; no matter how hard I tried, I could never surpass her.

Everyone is someone else's child.

Whether it's academic performance, character, personality, or anything else, other parents envy Ren's parents immensely.

Their favorite quality is—

She doesn't cry easily.

"Little Yi is so obedient!"

"If my child were as well-behaved as Xiaoyi, I would have so much less to worry about."

"Learn from your sister, Xiaoyi!"

She smiled at the adults who were praising her.

Because her mother had told her that she should do it this way.

Her mother told her not to cry, and she stopped crying.

The underlying logic behind all of Xiao Renyi's actions is: listen to your mother.

When she was four years old, she had a lovely little sister and a very good friend.

My little sister is tiny and wrinkled, but she's adorable. I casually put a stool under my feet, lie down by the bed and look at her, then reach out and poke her face.

Her best friend lay on the other side and carefully poked her sister's face.

"I'm so envious of you, I wish I had a little sister too."

“Mianmian is also Xiaoyu’s older sister,” Renyi told her.

"Okay." Ruan Mianmian smiled.

The younger sister, lying on the bed, waved her hand and grabbed their fingers.

Renyi and Ruan Mianmian have completely opposite personalities, but that doesn't stop them from becoming each other's best friends.

The two were not classmates, but almost everyone knew that they were very close.

"Renyi, are you waiting for Ruan Mianmian again? She has to do her duty today."

"Ruan Mianmian, you're here again, arbitrarily helping the teacher correct her test papers in the office."

...

"She was just called out by an upperclassman, I think it might be because he confessed his feelings to her?"

Once again, after school, Renyi went to Ruan Mianmian's class to go home with her, and received this reply.

She sat in Ruan Mianmian's seat, waiting for her to return.

"Ayi! Let's go home." Ruan Mianmian rushed back to the classroom, picked up her schoolbag, and was about to leave.

It's getting late, and the owner of the roujiamo (Chinese hamburger) stall at the school gate is about to close up shop.

She likes whatever anyone likes.

Ren Yi didn't say much along the way.

When they reached the roujiamo (Chinese hamburger) stall, Ren Yi finally spoke.

Do you want to date him?

She had no idea how aggrieved she sounded in her tone and expression, or how tightly she was gripping Ruan Mianmian's backpack strap.

"What?" Ruan Mianmian asked, bewildered.

Who should I date?

"They said an upperclassman confessed his feelings to you."

“No! How could that be…” Ruan Mianmian was both amused and exasperated. “He was just relaying a message for the teacher.”

"Oh." Ren Yi withdrew his hand, finally feeling a little better.

"Why are you crying? You..." Ruan Mianmian looked at the crystal-clear tears on her face and hurriedly wiped them away with her hands.

"No." Ren Yi pretended to sneeze, wiping away tears and snot.

"You care about this a lot?" Ruan Mianmian casually observed her expression.

Because Ruan Mianmian never tells her "don't cry," her "heartless" arbitrariness is unexpectedly full of emotion in front of Ruan Mianmian.

Renyi neither said he didn't care nor that he did care.

Not long after, the same thing happened again, only this time the person involved was Renyi, and someone actually confessed their feelings to her.

"No! You can't be in a relationship!" Ruan Mianmian witnessed the whole thing and said seriously before the person had even gone far away.

"Why?"

"No means no..." Ruan Mianmian crossed her arms. "If you get into a relationship, I won't have my best friend anymore."

He walked alongside her without saying another word.

"I've thought of a compromise!" Ruan Mianmian stopped in her tracks, hesitating whether to speak.

Before she could continue, Renyi had already given her a light peck on the cheek.

Then that incident happened, and the classmates intentionally or unintentionally distanced themselves from Ruan Mianmian, which also affected Renyi.

She doesn't like it when classmates deliberately tease her; things like pouring red ink on her seat or putting dead rats in her drawer have happened before.

She didn't tell Ruan Mianmian, but casually mentioned it to Ren Yanyu.

The next day, Ren Yanyu, who was still in junior high school, went to their classroom empty-handed and beat up the prankster.

Unfortunately, Ren Yanyu wasn't very tall at that time, so not only did she not win the fight, but she also got scolded when she got home with a bruised and swollen face.

He applied the medicine to her without making a sound.

"Tell me if you're in pain."

"It doesn't hurt... Ahhh, be gentle!"

Her younger sister is always like this: she was very well-behaved when she was little, like a little shadow, but as she grew up, she rarely saw this side of her anymore.

So when Ren Yanyu cried so bitterly because she and Ruan Mianmian left home to go to university, she took a long video to keep as a memento.

But in the end, the younger sister, who seemed to love home, chose to work in a place far away from home.

She seemed indifferent to everything, yet she returned here to become a primary school teacher.

This was the condition under which Ren's mother allowed her to be with Ruan Mianmian.

When Renyi first mentioned to her parents that she liked girls, neither of them accepted it, simply thinking it was their eldest daughter's belated rebellious phase, a phase she had always been obedient.

When she said that the person she liked was Ruan Mianmian, Ren's mother panicked and confiscated her phone, locked her in the house, and forbade the two of them from meeting during the holiday.

Ren Yanyu became the messenger between the two, running back and forth between their homes with a small note in her hand.

This tug-of-war lasted throughout her and Ruan Mianmian's university years. With Ren Yi and Ruan Mianmian's efforts, Ren's parents finally compromised, with the only request being that Ren Yi and Ruan Mianmian work near their home.

Ren's mother gave Ruan Mianmian half of her and her husband's savings.

Consider it a down payment for the house, which will also be your future home.

"Thank you, Auntie."

“Your uncle and I have thought about it. We’ve watched you grow up, so we’re at ease with everything,” Mrs. Ren said, wiping away her tears. “We’re just worried that the future will be too difficult for you two girls.”

"I will take good care of her."

“You two must take care of each other,” Mrs. Ren said, pulling their hands together. “Xiaoyi, you two must take care of each other.”

Together they carefully selected a suitable property and a suitable renovation company, and a year and a half later, the two finally owned their own home.

Although the mortgage payment seemed daunting, as long as she was with Ruan Mianmian, it wouldn't be difficult.

Later, their mutual friend from college died in childbirth. Neither her husband nor her family wanted the child, so the two of them decided to adopt her.

At that time, neither of them was yet thirty years old. Ren Yi was six months older than Ruan Mianmian, so when Ren Yunyou was a little over a year old, they took the little girl home in Ren Yi's name.

"Let's call her Ren Yunyou." The night before going to complete the formalities, Ruan Mianmian finally came up with a name, "I hope she can be like a cloud, carefree and free."

"Okay." After tidying up the necessary documents, I took off my glasses and rubbed my sore eyes.

Although Yunyun is not related to her mother by blood, she looks very much like them.

Be as brave and bold as your mother, and as thoughtful and considerate as she is.

She knew long ago that she wasn't their biological child.

The child in the cartoon that Ren Yunyou loves to watch says, "Because of Dad and Mom, and Mom loves Dad very much, that's why he was willing to come into Mom's tummy and become a family with Dad and Mom."

Because Mom loves Mommy, and Mommy loves Mommy, and both Mommy and Mommy love Yunyun, fate arranged for Yunyun to become their daughter.

She must have carefully chosen this while she was still in heaven; she was willing to be Mommy's baby.

"Mother……"

"Mother!"

"Mother--"

She opened her eyes at will, having slept for a very, very long time.

The wounds on his arms and the back of his hands were wrapped in clean white bandages.

Ren Yunyou sat on the edge of the bed, swinging his legs.

"Your aunt was worried you'd starve, so she sent me up to wake you."

As I sat up, the sun had already set, leaving only a faint pink halo on the horizon.

She slept through the entire day.

"Okay, Mom will be right downstairs." She patted her daughter's head, got up, washed, and changed her clothes.

"Mommy ordered grilled beef skewers, Mommy will be able to eat them in a little while."

Okay~

Ren Yunyou hadn't seen her for a long time, and as soon as they went out, he grabbed her hand and wouldn't let go.

But she also knew that her mother still had wounds, so she moved very gently.

After cooperating with the investigation at the station, Lao Wang recommended the best local barbecue restaurant to them. Li Xuanyin secretly nudged Ren Yanyu's hand with his tail, and Ren Yanyu immediately decided to eat there that night.

"Ayi!" Ruan Mianmian saw the two people, one big and one small, walking over hand in hand and quickly stood up.

"Does your wound still hurt, sister?" Ren Yanyu moved closer to Li Xuanyin and pulled over a chair.

"Much better." Renyi sat down and nodded to Li Xuanyin. "President Li is here too."

"The beef skewers are here!" The waiter grabbed a large handful of steaming hot skewers and put them on a plate on the table.

Ruan Mianmian picked up a few skewers, wrapped them in a pancake, and fed them to Renyi's mouth.

On the other side, Ren Yunyou opened a can of herbal tea, inserted a straw, and handed it to his mother with both hands.

She blushed a little in front of others, but still ate the wrap in small bites and drank the herbal tea.

"Look at her!" Ren Yanyu said with a mischievous smile.

"Ah—" Just then, Li Xuanyin rolled up some pork belly in lettuce and put it near her mouth.

Actually, you're not much better off.