Sweat dripped down his muscles, glistening in the sunlight.

Lu Youxi felt as if his eyes were dazzled by the light.

I thought to myself that I was almost 40 years old in my previous life. Logically, I should be more than ten years older than Zhou Shuyan. What in the world had I not seen?

It is really wrong that he is still bewitched by the beauty of a young man like Zhou Shuyan at this time.

But even though he knew this, Lu Youxi couldn't take his gaze away.

Just when Lu Youxi was still in a daze, he was suddenly bumped into by someone.

Lu Youxi stumbled and was pushed away by someone, and then he heard a coquettish voice, "Brother Xu Mai!"

This collision brought Lu Youxi back to his senses, and then he trembled when he heard this voice.

Looking again, I found it was Xiaofen from the same village.

He is two years older than her, and her family is not as patriarchal as the Lu family.

In fact, although Hexing Village is not rich, there are indeed few families as extreme as the Lu family in favoring boys over girls.

Xiaofen studied three years of vocational high school and two years of junior college. After graduation, she worked in a milk tea shop in the town.

It's probably her turn to rest today, so she's at home.

Then Xiaofen was seen holding two cups of milk tea in her hands. She stepped into the yard without waiting for anyone to invite her and walked straight towards Zhou Shuyan.

"Brother Xu Mai, I brought back some milk tea, especially for you. It's iced." Xiaofen walked to Zhou Shuyan who was chopping wood, and saw Xu Mai covered in sweat.

Xiaofen's heartbeat quickened, and her eyes fell on his strong chest, and she couldn't help but fall on his abdominal muscles.

She just thought everything was beautiful and she couldn't see enough.

Xiaofen suddenly had an idea and took out a tissue with the milk tea shop logo printed on it from her bag. She reached out to wipe Zhou Shuyan's sweat, "Brother Xu Mai, you must be tired. Take a break and have some iced milk tea."

However, Xiaofen's hand had just reached out to Zhou Shuyan, but before it touched him, Zhou Shuyan took a big step to the side with the axe in his hand, leaving Xiaofen's hand empty and remaining awkwardly in the air.

Xiaofen: “…”

Zhou Shuyan had a blank expression on his face, his lips pursed in his usual stern lines.

"Why didn't you knock when you came in?" Zhou Shuyan asked in a cold voice with an expressionless face.

Xiaofen was stunned for a moment before she explained dryly, "I just saw that the door was not closed..."

The village has always had the habit of leaving the courtyard gate open, so it is convenient for people from the same village to visit each other without having to shout outside and ask the owner of the house to run out to open the door.

Zhou Shuyan was not used to it at first, but now he has gotten used to it.

"Just because the door is not closed doesn't mean you can come in at will." Zhou Shuyan asked coldly, "Are you from this family?"

Xiaofen: “…”

"Why do you come and go as you please without asking for the owner's consent?" Zhou Shuyan said with a sullen face.

Xiaofen pouted in grievance and was a little angry. "Xu Mai! I felt it was hot, so I just came back from get off work and brought you some iced milk tea. It would be fine if you didn't appreciate it, but why are you saying this to me!"

"I don't drink these." Zhou Shuyan said coldly, "I don't like women getting close to me, and I don't like people who don't know manners and don't knock on the door to come in and out of my house at will."

"This is not your home, this is Grandma Xu's home! You are just someone who was rescued by Grandma Xu and you don't even know who you are!" Xiaofen was so angry at Zhou Shuyan's attitude, "What do you have to be proud of! What's so great about that!"

She doesn't even mind that he has an unknown background, and she might even marry into the family.

He actually had the nerve to despise her and treat her so coldly! "Get out." Zhou Shuyan's face was gloomy, unwilling to say more to her.

"Xu Mai!" Xiaofen raised her voice angrily.

Zhou Shuyan dropped the axe and simply pulled Xiaofen out the door.

If Xiaofen hadn't decided to leave, he wouldn't have needed to touch Xiaofen's arm.

After personally pulling Xiaofen out of the door, Zhou Shuyan said coldly, "Please remember what I just said and don't bother me again in the future."

"Xu Mai!" Xiaofen yelled in anger, and with Lu Youxi beside her, Xiaofen felt even more embarrassed.

She didn't expect that Lu Youxi would come to see Xu Mai.

Lu Youxi usually behaves so noble, as if she is different from them.

Moreover, he is a prospective college student.

Unexpectedly, I also fell in love with Xu Mai's face.

Zhou Shuyan raised the corners of his lips in mockery and said coldly, "Goodbye."

Even though Xiaofen really liked Zhou Shuyan's face, she couldn't stand the way Zhou Shuyan treated her.

Especially with Lu Youxi here.

If Lu Youxi wasn't here, Xiaofen might have still gritted her teeth and stayed here to chat with Zhou Shuyan for a while.

It’s easy for a girl to chase a boy.

She felt that Zhou Shuyan had nothing but a good-looking face.

She was willing to like Zhou Shuyan and give him a place to settle down and a stable life. Zhou Shuyan had no reason to refuse.

But now that Lu Youxi was here, Xiaofen gritted her teeth in anger, stomped her feet twice, and didn't have the face to continue pestering here, so she turned around and left.

Lu Youxi considered herself to be someone who knew how to read people's faces. Seeing the current situation, Zhou Shuyan was probably not in a very good mood. She secretly complained that she had come at a really bad time, even if she had come two minutes earlier.

Zhou Shuyan was probably too lazy to pay attention to her at this moment, so Lu Youxi simply didn't want to bother with her and turned around and left.

"Where are you going?" Lu Youxi just turned around and heard Zhou Shuyan's voice behind him.

She subconsciously didn't think that this sentence was said to her by Zhou Shuyan.

But at this moment, besides her, only Xiaofen is left.

It was obviously even less likely that Zhou Shuyan was talking to Xiaofen, so Lu Youxi stopped, turned back stiffly, and looked at Zhou Shuyan inquiringly.

When Xiaofen heard Zhou Shuyan's words, she also stopped and looked back.

Her eyes fell on Zhou Shuyan, and seeing that he was looking at Lu Youxi, Xiaofen turned to look at Lu Youxi.

When did Lu Youxi become so familiar with Zhou Shuyan?

Xiaofen sneered in her heart, she didn't expect that Lu Youxi had been secretly hooking up with Xu Mai for a long time.

Seeing Zhou Shuyan looking at him, Lu Youxi confirmed that he was talking to her, so he said dryly, "I suddenly remembered that I have something else to do. I'll come to see you another day."

Zhou Shuyan raised his eyebrows, "If you don't want to talk about it today, don't talk about it another day."

Lu Youxi: “…”

What a bad temper this guy has!

"Come in." Zhou Shuyan looked at Lu Youxi, his eyes fell on the courier bag in her hand, and paused for two seconds, "Come in."

Lu Youxi didn't dare look at Xiaofen, but she could clearly feel Xiaofen's death gaze on her face.

She could only bite the bullet and walk past Xiaofen, not daring to even glance at her, silently thinking that as long as I wasn't embarrassed, others would be embarrassed.

Finally, under Xiaofen's gaze that seemed to be able to see through her, she stepped into Grandma Xu's house.

(End of this chapter)