Huo Junyu's imposing aura, though not angry, made everyone in the room stand there stiffly, not daring to utter a sound.
After a while, Su Ai mustered her courage.
"What...what else do you want?"
Huo Junyu looked up at her.
Su Aiqian was just an ordinary middle-aged woman, overweight and vulgar from head to toe.
Compared to her mother, this woman looked more than ten years older.
Despite her fear, she confronted him like an old sparrow flapping its wings to protect its young.
Huo Junyu suddenly thought of the saying, "The hearts of parents are full of love and worry for their children."
Su Aiqian's maternal love for Jiang Mianmian was no less than that his mother's love for him.
"Hey, wife..." Jiang Youcai gently tugged at Su Aiqian, his expression anxious, and whispered to her, "Don't get into a conflict with him, you can't handle him..."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Su Ai glared at him, then looked at Huo Junyu with great vigilance.
Huo Junyu disdained to argue with them. After a moment of silence, he put his luggage in the corner and went to sit in the porch.
It took the three people in the room a while to come to their senses. They took a deep breath, looked at each other, and then tiptoed back to their own rooms.
The whole afternoon passed peacefully as everyone kept to themselves.
...
Jiang Mianmian stayed in the library. She had been dealing with too many upsetting things lately, and only by studying hard could she temporarily escape those turbulent emotions.
Seeing her like this, Xia Zhi felt both envious and sorry for her. She went out and bought two cups of vanilla coffee, gently placing one in front of her.
"You made me drink coffee in the afternoon, and now you're making me have insomnia tonight?"
Xia Zhi chuckled, "Even if I don't buy coffee, you'll still have insomnia! With another person in the house, how can you sleep?"
"I……"
“Mianmian,” Xia Zhi looked at her from the table, “Does it have to be this way? That Huo Yu isn’t a good person, and he also…”
Xia Zhi swallowed the rest of her words halfway through her sentence.
Jiang Mianmian lowered her head to drink her coffee, her two small hands holding the paper cup, but she still felt her fingertips were cold.
Looking back, she wasn't sure what exactly happened that night.
I've heard that it always hurts and you bleed the first time.
But when she woke up in the hospital, she didn't feel anything unusual. She went to the bathroom and saw that her pants were clean.
So perhaps she didn't...
But you never know.
In short, it is absolutely true that she was drugged by Gu Zihan!
Jiang Mianmian rubbed her temples in frustration, gulped down a large mouthful of coffee, and continued writing her notes with her head down.
The librarians had already started tidying up, and students left one after another. In the end, even Xia Zhi was going home.
Jiang Mianmian had no choice but to pack her things and go back.
When I got home, the clock on the wall pointed to exactly 11 p.m.
The small house was pitch black, and the sound of Dad snoring could be heard from the master bedroom downstairs.
Jiang Mianmian chuckled softly, tiptoed inside, closed the door, and had just taken off her shoes when the living room lights suddenly turned on.
Jiang Mianmian was startled!
"Sis, why are you only getting back now?" Standing there was Jiang Xiaowei, with a relieved expression on her face.
"I just got up to use the bathroom and heard a noise. I thought a thief had broken in..." Jiang Xiaowei rubbed her eyes and yawned. "Then I thought, how could that be! Didn't you just invite a door god back?"
Speaking of door gods, Jiang Mianmian suddenly remembered that person. "Where's Huo Yu? He's not in my room, is he?"
"Of course not," Jiang Xiaowei chuckled, pointing outside. "He's sleeping over there!"
Jiang Mianmian was taken aback.
These old-fashioned villas all have a porch, and Huo Junyu would move his folding bed over there at night and sleep at the other end of the porch.
It's hot now, so sleeping outdoors is quite comfortable, but there are a lot of mosquitoes.
Jiang Mianmian walked over quietly.
This folding bed wasn't a good fit; it's too short, and half of Huo Junyu's long legs are showing.
And the width is not enough.
Overall, it looks like an adult sleeping in a children's bed.
Jiang Mianmian found it somewhat amusing and turned back. Jiang Xiaowei was still waiting in the living room.
"Why aren't you asleep yet?" she asked.
Jiang Xiaowei pointed at Huo Junyu and asked in a low voice, "You didn't bring him back?"
"Did he leave on his own initiative, or did his parents kick him out?"
“It was him,” Jiang Xiaowei replied. “Oh, by the way, sis, are you hungry? I’ll get you something to eat!”
As he spoke, he turned and went into the kitchen, taking out a plate of lobster fried rice.
"It's been kept warm in the pot the whole time!"
Jiang Mianmian froze and looked at Jiang Xiaowei.
This cooking technique doesn't sound like my mom's. Besides, lobsters are expensive. Even if my mom buys lobsters, she cooks them whole and doesn't separate the lobster meat to make fried rice.
"This is……"
Jiang Xiaowei smiled mysteriously, "This is a door god's gift specially left for you!"
"What?"
Jiang Xiaowei told her, "The doorman went out before dinner. My parents didn't know what he was going to do, so they didn't stop him. Who knew he would come back in a little while, carrying four big lobsters!"
Jiang Xiaowei spoke excitedly, gesturing with her hands, "Four of them this big! A whole four!"
Although Jiang Mianmian is not in charge of the household, she knows that prices are skyrocketing.
Let alone four lobsters this big, Su Ai would think twice before even buying just one.
"Hey, sis!" Jiang Xiaowei continued her performance, mimicking Huo Junyu's swaggering walk, "...Look, he just walked in like that, and then with a flourish, *thud*! Four huge lobsters were thrown onto the table!"
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