The temperature in the capital city was already quite high in early July, so Mu Yiran was only wearing a silk dress today.

It's very thin.

The hand on her waist was thin yet powerful, and the touch was distinct. Mu Yiran looked down and unconsciously measured the size of his hand.

Her fingers were straight and long, completely covering half of her waist and abdomen.

His hands didn't seem so cold anymore...

It's not cold at all.

It's still very hot.

"Why haven't you come in yet? I've been waiting for you to get off the plane, waiting for you to get off work, and even after you got home, I still have to wait for you."

A buzzing sound filled her ears, and a fluffy head kept rubbing against her neck, just like a cat seeing its owner return.

This fatal temptation was simply irresistible to Mu Yiran!

She was startled when she felt something warm and soft touch her neck, and she broke free from Shi Youxi's embrace.

“You, Uncle Lin complained to me that you don’t eat properly,” Mu Yiran pushed the plate into his hands.

"I'm waiting for you to come back so we can eat together." Shi Youxi blocked the corridor, not giving the woman a chance to go around him.

"I've been waiting since this morning. I thought my sister would go straight home, but you're only coming back now."

"...Why did you wait for me?"

Mu Yiran felt a little guilty after hearing what he said. She had indeed deliberately not told Shi Youxi that she was going to the company first.

After seeing the photos of Shi Youxi that Lin Bo had secretly taken and sent to her on the plane, Mu Yiran felt a pang of sympathy and decided not to contact him.

That was enough for her, but not enough for Shi Youxi.

Even though he had photos of Ai Ni sent him on his phone.

But how can a photo compare to a real person?

Now that she was right outside the door, he maliciously tried to wait for his sister to come in by herself, but she almost ran away again.

"Shi Youxi, you only have a few crucial days left. Your health is the foundation of everything. If this affects your exam, don't blame me if you don't do well." The woman rambled on, her red lips unconsciously pouting.

This lured Shi Youxi to bend down and get closer to her. "It's all your fault. It was my sister who wanted me to get first place. If I didn't do well, it's all your fault."

Mu Yiran couldn't argue with him, so she could only resort to brute force.

"Ha! Why blame me!"

The boy acted shamelessly and self-righteously, "Since you want me to be number one, then you have to supervise me 24 hours a day to make sure I eat and sleep well, and keep an eye on me, right?"

“I saw that other students’ parents did the same thing. Aunt Su used to accompany Guan Shiyan every day and take him to and from school.”

"He brags to me every day..."

"And I don't even have anyone to have dinner with."

Mu Yiran was forced into a retreat by him, "Who said there isn't? Where's Shi Si? Where's Brother Bi? If they're busy, isn't Uncle Lin with you every day?"

Shi Youxi sold Lin Bo out without any mercy:

"Uncle Lin said it didn't matter if I didn't pass the exam, but looking at his face, I had no motivation at all."

Uncle Lin, who was eavesdropping, was speechless.

Why resort to personal attacks when you're just talking?

"My sister won't eat with me because she doesn't want me to do well on the test. If I don't do well, she'll have an excuse not to give me a reward?"

Shi Youxi held the plate in one hand and gripped Mu Yiran's wrist with the other, leaving Mu Yiran with nowhere to retreat and forcing her into a corner.

Shi Youxi looked down at her, his eyes dark and unfathomable: "Or are you already annoyed by me, sister, and deliberately avoiding me?"

"...I...I didn't!"

She told him both the good and the bad, and Mu Yiran felt like she was a bad parent who was deceiving a child.

"The adults are out there working hard to earn money and are quite busy lately. Shi Youxi, you should be more sensible, supervise yourself, and push yourself. Just because I'm not around doesn't mean you should give up on yourself!"

Mu Yiran resolutely refused to look for problems within herself!

"You've disappointed me so much." She shook her head—a classic quote.

Shi Youxi looked at her for a while, then lowered his voice.

"Besides you, no one else cares about me. Is my sister going to leave me here alone like Father did?"

The boy gave a sorrowful smile: "You don't want to care about me anymore either..."

"..."

OK, that's the winning goal.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault."

Forget about distance, go to hell.

She overestimated her self-control. Mu Yiran just couldn't stand Shi Youxi's pitiful appearance, even if it was an act!

Mu Yiran took his hand in hers, and the two of them sat down in the small living room on the second floor instead of going back to the study.

The two sat side by side, with Shi Youxi sitting to the side, watching her take out the side dishes and porridge.

"Eat up! I'll watch you eat!"

Having tasted the sweetness, Shi Youxi couldn't suppress his smile. Noticing the woman's gaze shifting towards him, he forced a smile and asked, "Could you feed me—"

Mu Yiran sneered: "If you say another word of nonsense, I'll let you starve to death!"

"..."

The boy listlessly ate his porridge with a spoon, then stopped moving and didn't say a word after finishing the vegetables in his bowl, his beautiful phoenix eyes fixed on her.

Mu Yiran put food in his bowl.

Mu Yiran couldn't stand being stared at by his eyes.

Although it's not as round and big as it was when I was a child, it's still very alluring.

With a combination of coercion, enticement, and persuasion, they managed to eat half a small pot of porridge.

After finishing his meal, Shi Youxi licked his lips and looked at Mu Yiran, "Will you come on the day of my exam?"

Having already won her over with meals, how far away will it be if she goes to and from school with him?

"I……"

Mu Yiran wiped his mouth with a tissue, but before she could speak, she heard a ringing bell.

Shi Youxi frowned, took out his phone from his pocket, and turned to answer it.

"Hmm...I understand."

Mu Yiran: "What's wrong?"

"Something came up at school, I need to go there."

"What's going on? Aren't the general exams all over?" Only self-taught students like Shi Youxi are a little late; the rest of the senior high school students have already entered their summer vacation of revelry.

"Maybe he wanted to explain the exam preparations," Shi Youxi said casually, leaning down to touch Mu Yiran's still empty palm.

"I'll be back soon, sister."

Watching his departing figure, Mu Yiran suddenly felt grateful that she had just finished having dinner with him.

When she returned to her room, she remembered that she had bought a bunch of gifts for Shi Youxi during her trip abroad, and it seemed she would have to wait until he came back to give them to him.

But Mu Yiran never expected that this wait would actually last until the day of Shi Youxi's exam.

During that time, their schedules completely overlapped, and they didn't even have dinner together.

On the day of the exam, Mu Yiran was awakened by Shi Youxi's knocking. The boy knocked a few times and then unlocked the door and came in.

Upon seeing the unidentified creature crawling on the bed, he frowned, walked over, and pulled the person off the bed.

"You locked the door again." Mu Yiran was dizzy from low blood sugar, and her voice was muffled, as if she were being coquettish.

Shi Youxi knew that she was at her most docile at this time, so he put his arm around the woman's waist and led her into the bathroom.

"My sister promised to take me to the exam hall. If you keep sleeping, I'll be late. You can't enter the exam hall if you're more than fifteen minutes late."

Mu Yiran: "!"

She instantly snapped out of it, pushed Shi Youxi out, took a quick shower, and on her phone, Li Buhuo reminded her that she had to go to Haishi today.

Mu Yiran: [I have something to do, I'll postpone it until noon.]

Li Bu Huo replied instantly: 【What is it? We have an appointment to have dinner with the vice mayor, we can't be late.】

Mu Yiran did not reply.

If Li Bu Huo knew that he wanted to wait for Shi Youxi to finish his exams before leaving, he would definitely give him a sarcastic rebuke.

When they arrived at the examination center, Mu Yiran escorted Shi Youxi inside. She hadn't taken the national college entrance examination and was participating in it under a different identity, which she found quite unusual.

Seeing that many parents were with their children, Mu Yiran's eyes glazed over for a moment.

If her parents hadn't had that accident, she would probably have become one of those countless ordinary students.

I walked into the examination room under the expectant and loving gaze of my parents.

Instead of struggling alone to survive and study abroad, and risking everything to get back to China.

"elder sister?"

Mu Yiran snapped out of her daze and said, "Hmm."

"So I'll go in? You'll wait for me to come out, right?" Shi Youxi pressed.

Yu Guangli, along with some local media, was filming. Mu Yiran avoided the boy's attempt to pat her head.

I just patted him on the shoulder.

"Go, young man! Get me first place right away! Remember, when you flip through the paper, make big movements! Your expression should be extremely disdainful, tsk tsk, you know how? Tsk louder! Deliver a fatal blow to your opponent, both psychologically and physically!"

Shi Youxi: "..."

Mu Yiran imparted the secret technique without caring whether he absorbed it or not. When it was time to enter the examination room, she didn't return to the car until she could no longer see Shi Youxi's back.

Shi Youxi also participated in the national civil service examination. He only needed to take the subjects set by Lu Keli.

The exam only lasted one morning, and before long, Mu Yiran received a series of calls from Li Buhuo.

Finally, somehow he found out that Mu Yiran was at the exam site, and he drove over in his van.

"Seriously, that's enough. The most important thing right now is to secure the project. He's not a child. Do you really need to wait for him to finish his exams?!"

Mu Yiran stubbornly insisted, "I want to wait myself."

Li Bu Huo took a deep breath. "I told you to keep your distance from him, but you didn't listen at all. Wasn't what happened before enough? Do you want to do it again? Do you know how many people are watching you right now? A single photo could make you lose this project!"

Mu Yiran suddenly leaned against the window and exclaimed excitedly, "They're out! They're out!"

"Aini, where are the flowers!"

Ai Ni, holding the flowers, opened the car door. "Madam, shall we get out?"

Mu Yiran had initially thought that way, but upon hearing Li Buhuo's cold laugh, she quickly changed her mind, "Forget it, let's just wait until he gets in the car..."

"Ah! That looks like Miss Helian." Ai Ni looked at the two people blocked at the school gate.

Helian Xin came to give flowers to Shi Youxi, and many candidates recognized her and crowded together.

Mu Yiran was taken aback and looked out the window.

Helian Xin was smiling as she presented a bouquet of flowers to the tall young man in front of her.

Shi Youxi's face was exposed to the sunlight, and the smile on his lips was clearly visible.

"Ha, they don't need your money anymore, it's a waste of your effort."