Chapter 6

There was no one in the back seat.

The driver said, "You Ran is celebrating a holiday today, so I picked him up at noon."

Wen Chu closed the car door, and the book on his legs became useless and was stuffed into his schoolbag.

With one person missing, the back seat seemed especially empty. He remembered the paper bag Song Youran was holding in her arms that morning, which contained a bouquet of flowers.

The flowers I brought from home are probably for giving to someone.

Song Youran is nice to everyone else except him.

Thinking of this, Wen Chu felt discouraged. He took the book out of his schoolbag again, put it on his lap and read it.

When I returned to the villa, I found the servant standing in the living room, staring at the stairs with a worried look on his face.

Wen Chu walked over with his schoolbag and was about to ask when a loud door slamming sound was heard from upstairs - it seemed that the door was opened and then slammed back by another terrible force, hitting the door frame and bouncing open, leaving a gap - because their voices suddenly became clearly audible.

"...Even if you're in prison, you should get some fresh air every now and then, right? I didn't ask to go anywhere to play. I just want to go to cram school like before and see the outside world on the way. You can't even do that?"

"The extra time you spend on the road can also be used for studying. The most important thing for you right now is your grades."

"Yes. It's for my grades that I go to cram school. I changed the two half-day classes to two full days as you requested. I study day and night. You'd better let me study until I die..."

Bang!

"You are so disobedient."

"Because I'm trash!"

After a moment of silence, Xie Xueruo's voice said, "Can you learn from others? They have good grades and are emotionally stable."

"Emotionally stable?" Song Youran screamed. "Are you kidding me? Is he a normal human? He's a wooden man! A wooden man who doesn't cry, laugh, or have any emotions!"

The servant took a quick glance at Wen Chu standing next to him and discovered that he indeed had no expression on his face, much like the wooden man that Song Youran had described. He quickly made an excuse that he had something to deal with and left the place in a hurry.

The quarrel upstairs continues——

"You can't do what others can do, so you want to slander them? How can you improve in the future if you are so arrogant?"

"What I said was all true. It was you who wanted to compare me with him. You said he had good grades, I admit that, but you said he was emotionally stable, I disagree. He has no emotions at all, and you want me to compare emotions with him? Besides, I don't want to be a wooden man. I can't do the saying 'stay calm when faced with sudden events, stay undisturbed when attacked without cause'! I want to cry when I want to cry, laugh when I want to laugh, love what I love, hate what I hate!"

Wen Chu's eyes were bright. He cried when he wanted to cry and laughed when he wanted to laugh. Is that how it is?

Xie Xuerou said, "Too rigid can easily lead to failure. You are too naive."

After a while, sobbing sounds came from upstairs...

Wen Chu went upstairs with his schoolbag and met Xie Xueruo coming out of the room at the corner.

Xie Xueruo's attitude was normal: "Xiaochu is back. How was your day at school today?"

Wen Chu replied: "Not bad."

Xie Xueruo nodded: "Go to your room and rest for a while. I'll call you when dinner is ready."

Wen Chu thanked her, separated from Xie Xueruo, and returned to his room. He threw his schoolbag on the floor at the door, went to the bedroom to get his cell phone, and sat on the sofa.

Song Mei updates her Moments every day, and most of the photos are of her family.

In the first year after arriving at the Song family's, Wen Chu returned to Rongcheng every weekend, leaving on Friday night, arriving at midnight, and returning on Sunday morning. Song Hongtao was worried that his young age wouldn't allow him to travel physically, but he had no choice but to try to get him a better car.

Wen Chu wanted to return to Rongcheng because he couldn't find a sense of belonging in the Song family. After all, his last name was not Song, and the Song family was not his real home. But one day, Song Mei said to him, "Come over and play during your long vacation."

Wen Chuyi didn't understand at first why he was talking about a long vacation. He came back every weekend, so of course he would come back during the long vacation.

I vaguely felt that this sentence sounded familiar, as if I had heard it somewhere before.

When seeing off guests, Song Hongtao often says, "Come and visit us often when you have time." This has the same effect as Song Mei's words, "Come and visit us when you have a long vacation."

He was treated as a guest, and his frequent visits were considered a nuisance to the host.

He felt sad, but his tears could not flow, and his voice was flat and silent.

"What is a long vacation?"

Song Mei replied: "Winter and summer vacations are long vacations."

He also said, "Your brother is naughty. If you stay for two more days, you can play with him."

His mother didn't see him.

He said "OK", but left Rongcheng that day and never returned to the Wen family.

Yes, the Wen family.

The Song family is not his home, and the Wen family will not be his home in the future.

His parents don't love him.

Song Lan said to him, "It's not that your aunt is trying to sow discord between you. Think about it yourself. Your parents have two sons. Why did they choose to give you a son and not your brother?"

Yes, why not send your brother?

The younger brother was naughty and stayed at home; he was obedient and was sent away.

He could find no other reason to explain his parents' behavior except that they did not love him.

He originally thought he was the only one who was pitiful, but later he found out there was another person whose situation was different: that person's father only cared about work, and that person's mother was very strict, so strict that people mistakenly believed that she loved her son dearly.

The man was like a butterfly with its wings clipped, falling on an uncovered leaf. Any movement made him alert, thinking that it was the arrival of his natural enemy.

Wen Chu was willing to pick a petal and cover the carefully wriggling insect in exchange for a small place on the leaf to live.

But the worm refused and wanted to kill him.

The servant stood at the door and told Wen Chu that dinner was ready.

Wen Chu said, "I'm not hungry yet. I'll go downstairs and eat when I'm hungry."

After the servant left, Wen Chu returned to the sofa and continued reading the novel.

These days, Wen Chu read books day and night just to stop keeping his eyes on Song Youran.

Since Song Youran expressed disgust, he had no choice but to give up - whether it was going out early or postponing dinner time, it was all to reduce the time he spent with Song Youran.

After doing this for a few days, Song Youran's mood seemed to have really improved, so even though Xie Xueruo was in the villa today, he didn't want to make any changes.

Calculating the time, Wen Chu went downstairs with a book in his hand, but he didn't expect to meet Song Youran on the stairs.

Their eyes met and then disappeared. He lowered his eyes and leaned against the railing as hard as he could to make enough space for Song Youran to pass.

Only when he could no longer hear Song Youran's footsteps did he continue downstairs with the book in his arms.

Sitting at the dining table waiting for the chef to heat up the meal, Xie Xueruo suddenly came in, covered his forehead with her hand and asked, "Are you sick?"

Xie Xueruo's hands are like her mother's, with slender fingers and soft palms.

He closed his eyes, and although he was not sick, his voice became hoarse: "I'm fine."

Xie Xueruo let go of her hand: "If you feel uncomfortable, tell someone, understand?"

"Know."

Seeing Xie Xueruo wearing home clothes, he asked, "Are you staying here today?"

"Yeah." Xie Xueruo said with a smile, "It's too late. I don't want to drive."

If you don't want to drive, you can ask someone to drive.

Maybe Xie Xueruo stayed to accompany Song Youran. Song Youran was celebrating the festival today.

After Wen Chu finished his meal, he passed by the living room and saw Xie Xueruo sitting on the sofa looking at her phone. He walked over and asked, "Can I sit next to you and read a book?"

He and Song Youran each have their own rooms and usually don't stay in the living room.

Xie Xueruo nodded: "Of course."

Wen Chu sat down on the single sofa nearby and put the book on his lap.

Seeing that he was focused and quickly immersed in the world of books, Xie Xueruo lowered her head to continue working.

Time slips away quietly without us noticing.

After Xie Xueruo finished processing the last message, she picked up her phone and went to the guest room to make a call.

Wen Chu came out of the bathroom and found that Xie Xueruo was not in the living room, so he went to the guest room to find her.

The door of the room was open and there was no one inside.

Xie Xueruo disappeared.

Wen Chu was reluctant to leave, rubbing his hands as he paced in the corridor outside the guest room. A servant passing by told him that Xie Xueruo had gone to the backyard.

Following the servant's instructions, Wen Chu came to the glass door leading to the backyard.

There was a person squatting on the ground by the door. In the garden, Xie Xueruo was standing next to a plant half a person's height and making a phone call.

"...I'm glad the child is okay, otherwise you won't get a penny..."

The half-human-high plant is a rose called Juliet. It has champagne-colored flowers, is prone to disease, and is not easy to grow. It hasn't bloomed for a long time.

The person at the door looked up at him: Squat down!

Wen Chu bent his knees and heard Song Youran's teeth making a crunching sound, as if he was chewing bones and meat.

Song Youran glared at him, pointed at his feet and shouted silently: Come here!

Wen Chuteng moved over and felt the warmth from Song Youran's breath, and then his ears were covered.

He opened his eyes wide and saw that Song Youran's lips were pressed into a line, and there was a warning in his eyes.

He doesn't like me looking at him, Wen Chu thought, and gently closed his eyes.

Song Youran gritted her teeth: This guy is really a pervert.

Wen Chu was taking a long time to come upstairs, and Song Youran was worried that he would talk nonsense in front of Xie Xueruo. She went back to her room to get her homework book, intending to do it in the living room and keep an eye on them. But when she came downstairs, she found no one in the living room, and there was a book on the chair where Wen Chu was sitting.

Song Youran didn't want to read it, but the picture on the cover was too much. And what was the name of the book? Was it something a human brain could come up with?

While cursing in my heart, I opened the book, and words like "pheromones", "sunny", and "pregnancy" forced their way into my eyes.

Song Youran's fingers burned, the book dropped to her feet, and she cursed angrily with a pale face, "Pervert!"

Now, this pervert was squatting in front of him. He covered his ears just because he didn't want him to hear what Xie Xueruo was saying on the phone. He actually closed his eyes, closed them!

Why close your eyes?

This closed-eye posture is so similar... Song Youran wasn't sure, but that didn't stop him from feeling ants crawling all over his back. He endured the discomfort and held on until Xie Xueruo finished talking about the child. He immediately let go and said to Wen Chu, who had opened his eyes, "Wait here."

Xie Xueruo hung up the phone and was about to turn around...Song Youran lowered her head, got on all fours, and crawled away quickly.

Wen Chu waited obediently there until a voice above his head asked, "Xiao Chu, why are you sitting on the ground?"

Wen Chu raised his head, and Xie Xueruo frowned and looked down at him: "Don't sit on the ground anymore."

He didn't sit on the ground.

But, that doesn't matter anymore.

On the other side, Song Youran washed her hands and lay on the bed.

Xie Xuerou said on the phone: I will try my best to make time and accompany you to the checkup... You take good care of the child... If you have any problems, he can't have any problems either...

"Who are you?

He had seen the pregnancy test report in Xie Xueruo's car before, and he thought Xie Xueruo was pregnant.

Time was tight at the time, and he was afraid of being noticed by Xie Xueruo, so he just glanced at the report twice and stuffed it back under his seat. Now it seems that the ultrasound report belongs to someone else, and the pregnant woman is also someone else.

Who is it?

Who was the one who called Xie Xueruo?

Why does Xie Xueruo care so much about the baby in other people’s belly?

She doesn't care about pregnant women, she only cares about the child?