"Okay, Mom will buy a soft-shelled turtle tomorrow and stew it for you."
Nan Yu was finally able to go back to her bedroom.
Nanxingjian was more diligent than him, taking care of everything, big and small, while he had nothing to do and just slept when he went home for holidays.
Two days later.
When Shen Linzhou arrived, Nanmu prepared a large table of dishes.
She treated Shen Linzhou like a son, and confided everything to him.
As they talked, the topic turned to arranging blind dates for Nan Yu.
The moment Shen was smiling with a wine glass in his hand, his expression changed instantly without any transition. Even Nan's mother was startled by his cold face.
Nan Yu quickly said, "Mom, what are you saying? I'm not going to say anything more, I'm still talking."
"I knew you were dating, so I just told Xiaozhou." Nan's mother said as she went to get the photos and showed them to Shen Linzhou, smiling, "Xiaozhou, do you see anyone you like? Auntie will introduce you to someone."
Nanxingjian sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere on the field.
Shen Linzhou forced a stiff smile and said, trying to suppress his discomfort, "I'm sorry, Auntie, I don't like girls."
Nan's mother was taken aback. "What? You haven't met a girl you like yet?" Her expression gradually relaxed, and she smiled. "That's not a problem. When the time is right, the time will come naturally. Auntie will also inquire for you."
Nan Yu, unable to bear it any longer, slammed her chopsticks on the table and stood up. "No marriage! If this continues, I'm not coming back next year!"
Nan's mother was startled. Xiaoyu was a gentle person and rarely lost his temper. She didn't expect that he would get angry at the table after she mentioned dating. Nan's mother didn't dare to provoke her son anymore.
"Mom, stop talking now, sit down and eat."
After that, everyone became quieter.
After dinner, Shen Linzhou pulled Nan Yu outside. Nan Xingjian saw them, but quickly looked away. He thought that since they were together, they were bound to reach this point sooner or later, and his brother should have been mentally prepared.
It seems that we were not mentally prepared.
Shen Linzhou took a taxi and took her to a small park far from the residential area. The two stood in the corridor without saying a word, and Nan Yu couldn't help but speak up.
"I'm not thinking about finding a girlfriend."
Shen Linzhou: "Hmm."
"I'll find an opportunity to talk to my mom."
After a long silence, Shen Linzhou called out, "Xiaoyu."
Nan Yu: "Hmm?"
"Why is Auntie urging me?" Shen Linzhou didn't understand. He hadn't even finished university yet. Even if he graduated, he would get married and have children right after entering the workforce. Why was he so eager to have a grandchild?
Shen Linzhou's success was entirely due to Nan Yu's attempts to please his parents.
When he heard that Nan Yu's mother wanted to set him up on a blind date and even invited him to her wedding banquet during dinner, he really wanted to kill someone; the violent impulses within him had never been so active before.
"People my age already have kids, so I might be getting anxious."
"We've been talking for three years, can we talk about it now?"
"……able."
"I don't want to make things difficult for you, and I don't want your mother to make things difficult for you either. I hate it even more when your mother makes things difficult for me!"
Shen Linzhou was furious and spoke recklessly. All his usual manners had been crushed to dust, and he could explode at the slightest touch.
Nan Yu lowered her eyes and whispered, "I'll tell my mom when we get back."
As if something was pulling at his reason, Shen Linzhou hugged Nan Yu and kept apologizing, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be mean to you, don't be angry with me."
Nan Yu hugged him back and didn't say anything more.
The two didn't return until late at night.
He won't answer my calls.
Nan's mother paced anxiously in the living room. She knew that the two of them hadn't left very happily, but she didn't know why. After thinking about it, she still felt that it might be because she had been meddling in Xiaozhou's affairs by introducing him to a potential partner.
He's back. Hurry over and apologize.
"Xiaozhou, Auntie misspoke. Auntie is bad with words. Please don't hold it against Auntie. As for dating, Auntie won't introduce you to anyone randomly anymore."
Nan Yu's lips were swollen, and there were still bite marks on his lips, but they had faded quite a bit now. He walked up to his mother and said, "Mom, can we talk? Let's go to my room."
Nan's mother was taken aback, noticing her son's lips, and frowned slightly: "What happened to your mouth? Did you bump it?"
Nan Yu shook her head and turned back to her room.
Nan's mother apologized to Shen Linzhou again: "Xiaozhou, I'm so sorry, Auntie didn't mean it, please don't be angry with Auntie."
Shen Linzhou shook his head: "No, why don't you go in and talk to Xiaoyu first? Maybe after you talk, you'll treat me differently."
Nan's mother was puzzled and couldn't understand his riddle, so she could only go in with a questioning mind, and Nan Yu locked the door.
The mother and son looked at each other. The mother asked, "What happened?"
Nan Yu thought and thought for a while, and finally closed her eyes and said, "I'm sorry, Mom, I like men." After saying that, she knelt down with a thud.
Nan's mother understood, yet seemed not to understand: "What did you say?"
“I like Shen Linzhou. We’ve been together for a long time. He’s helped me a lot at school these past few years. His mother already knows about me. If you agree, we’d like to get engaged after graduation this fall and get our marriage certificate abroad in the future.”
Nan's mother was indeed frightened. In all her years, she had never heard of a boy and a boy.
"Son, what happened to you? Xiaozhou, Xiaozhou is a boy, how could this happen..."
Nan Yu: "I know, Mom, I didn't know either. I really can't lie to myself, and I don't want to commit marriage fraud. We still have Xiao Jian in our family. We won't lose her. Mom, can you understand me?"
Nan's mother remained silent for a long time, her legs weak and powerless, and she sat down, holding onto the edge of the bed.
Looking back again and again, all the details that I had previously overlooked now seem to have a traceable origin.
Shen Linzhou waited outside for almost two hours.
Nanxingjian came out to get water midway through his journey. Although he was surprised that Shen Linzhou was still awake so late, he didn't ask any further questions.
Until 3 a.m.
Nan's mother just came out of Nan Yu's room.
He was floating, staggering as he walked, and looked like he was about to fall. Shen Linzhou quickly went to help him up. Nan's mother slowly glanced at him, then sighed heavily, withdrew her hand, and leaned against the wall as she walked back to her room.
Shen Linzhou went to find Nan Yu.
Dengxin was also in a bad mood, with tears still glistening in the corners of her eyes. Shen Linzhou went to pour water, wrung out a hot towel, and took it to wipe Nanyu's face. He then shook her hands and wiped both of her hands.
Nan Yu didn't say anything that night.
Shen Linzhou didn't ask.
I wiped myself clean, took off my clothes, and went to sleep.
I woke up very early the next morning.
Nan Yu stretched and yawned, then squinted at Shen Linzhou. She leaned over and kissed him on the lips, waking him up.
Shen Linzhou returned the kiss and asked, "Shall we get up?"
Nan Yu nodded and took the initiative to talk about what happened last night: "My mom said she needs to think about it, so there should be hope."
Shen Linzhou sighed, "I acted impulsively yesterday. I'm sorry for making you suffer so much."
Nan Yu: "No, we'll talk it out anyway. Get up, I'm going to go see my mom."
Shen Linzhou nodded.
Nan's mother was still asleep, while Nan's father was cooking breakfast.
When Nan's mother woke up during breakfast, she wanted to sigh when she saw the two of them.
Last night I couldn't understand how Xiaoyu could fall for Xiaozhou. When I woke up this morning and looked at him closely, it made no wonder. He was indeed handsome, even better looking than TV stars.
When Shen Linzhou accompanied her to the market, the vendor would always give her two extra scallions and casually inquire whether she had a boyfriend, as he wanted to get married.
"mom."
"Aunt."
Nan's mother sighed again, looked at them again, but nodded.
Nan Yu's eyes lit up, and she looked at Shen Linzhou with excitement.
Shen Linzhou squeezed the boy's hand under the table.
There was also Nan's father. Nan Yu was still thinking about how to bring it up when, at the dinner table, Nan's mother said directly, "Honey, do you think our Xiao Yu and Xiao Zhou are a good match?"
Shen Linzhou and Nan Yu: "..."
Looking at the two of them, Nan's father thought they were a perfect match in terms of looks.
"good."
Nan's mother: "Do you agree to them being together?"
Nan Xingjian: "..."
Did she just ask that so innocently?
"agree."
As Nan's father ate a steamed bun, Nan Yu's eyes glistened with tears. "Dad, really? You really agree?"
Not only was Nan Yu surprised, but Nan Xingjian was also taken aback. He couldn't help but look up at his father, who was drinking his porridge. He looked at Shen Linzhou and said:
“Your eyes are obviously not innocent. Our ancestors were in Jin’an.” Then he looked at Nan Yu. “Your grandfather’s generation even married a godbrother. Your father is in poor health, not old-fashioned. Eat.”
So, have we gotten past the Nan family?
Shen Linzhou went home and shared the good news with his mother, and also wanted to be honest with his father.
“I’ve already talked your father out of it, but there’s one condition. I don’t know if the child will agree.” Mother Shen said, putting down her book and looking at her son.
Shen Linzhou's voice was slightly hoarse: "Please speak."
Mother Shen: "You know the nature of your father's work. It's not about discrimination, but if you want to be together, it's a bit difficult to get the blessings of relatives and friends. With the internet so developed now, it's easy to stir up public opinion. That child has a certain number of fans, and it's easy to make a fuss about it. Your parents won't stop you. You can hold the wedding abroad. In China, both sets of parents can meet and have a simple ceremony without inviting guests or drinking."
Shen Linzhou frowned: "I don't want to wrong him."
Mother Shen: "This is also out of necessity. If relatives can't come, you can invite some like-minded friends. It's not that we don't want you to have a party, but a small one. Your father's political stance won't allow you to do whatever you want. Think it over carefully and ask around before you decide."
Shen Linzhou could only ask Nan Yu first.
Upon hearing this, the wick immediately replied:
"No problem, it's fine if we don't have a ceremony. I just need my family's blessings; everyone else is unimportant."
He didn't want to hold the wedding yet. The Nan family's relatives were sycophantic and bullying. They used to pick on his family and were now jealous that he could make money. Inviting them to the wedding would be asking for trouble.
He wouldn't do something thankless.
Shen Linzhou hugged the lamp wick, deciding that he would treat his wife very, very well in the future to make up for the wedding.
They graduated soon.
The thought of rarely seeing small cakes again in the future is unbearable.
Jiang Yan wanted to cry.
I held back.
Xiao Chuan had long given up hope, but he still enjoyed watching Nan Yu's cross-dressing live stream and sent her a lot of gifts. Nan Yu had secretly asked him about Jiang Yan, since that bag was still in the shop window and hadn't been sold.
Xiao Chuan was surprised: "Shen Linzhou didn't tell you?"
Nan Yu: "What did you say?"
Xiao Chuan: "He went abroad last year."
Nan Yu nodded: "Oh, that's good."
Xiao Chuan: "It was Shen Linzhou who did it, but it's not a big problem."
Nan Yu didn't want to ask too many questions. After confirming there were no hidden dangers, she asked Xiao Chuan, "Do you want a bag?"
Xiao Chuan: "...? What?"
Nan Yu: "I'll sell you the bag. You decide how much to pay."
Xiao Chuan: "What bag?"
Nan Yu flipped the photos over to him. Xiao Chuan's eye twitched slightly. How could he carry a woman's bag? Thinking of what happened that year, he hesitated for a moment, then said, "Okay, how many do you want?"
“Your cousin spent over 1.2 million yuan, you can decide how much to give.”
Xiao Chuan has millions of yuan in pocket money every month, so 120 is nothing to him. Nan Yu sold him the bag and donated all the money.
This marks a complete farewell to the mystery of unrequited love.
*
"Guagua? No, Guagua is a girl... May I ask who you are?"
When Shen Linlin came home from school, she saw a face in the living room that was both strange and familiar, and asked curiously.
Shen Linzhou put his arm around the young man's waist and introduced him: "My future partner, your soon-to-be sister-in-law, is Nan Yu."
Introducing Shen Linlin: "My younger sister."
Shen Linlin: "Brother, you..." Her expression was complicated, "Are you gay?"
Shen Linzhou: "Hmm?"
"Uh, no, it's nothing, hello sister-in-law," she greeted obediently.
"Hello."
“Sister-in-law, you look like a streamer I know.” The more Shen Linlin looked, the more she thought he looked like her. After all, she had been pursuing her 'wife' for three years, and his face was etched into her bones.
Nan Yu smiled and said, "Yes, that's me."
Shen Linlin blinked in the first second, blinked again in the second second, and then let out a sharp scream in the third second: "Ahhhhhh!!! Guagua? You're Guagua? You're really Guagua?"
Nan Yu scratched her head sheepishly: "You don't mind, do you?"
Shen Linlin wanted to rush up and hug Dengxin and kiss him. It was a living Guagua! They had been trying to meet for years but hadn't seen each other once. It turned out she hadn't been wrong before. Well, brother, she had even tried to match him up with Guagua.
It turns out they were already together.
Shen Linlin was quite happy. No matter what happened in the process, the ending was the same as she expected. It turned out to be fate. No wonder she felt that her sister-in-law looked like her at first glance.
"No problem, no problem at all, Guagua, will you and my brother be living at home from now on? That way we can..."
Shen Linzhou interrupted her: "At home, you are not allowed to call me by any other name, you can only call me sister-in-law."
Shen Linlin pouted, but still obediently called out, "Sister-in-law."
Nan Yu laughed: "You can call me whatever you want."
Shen Linlin smiled and asked, "Will you be living at home from now on?"
Shen Linzhou: "No, that's fine. Go ahead and do what you need to do. Don't bother your sister-in-law here. We have other things to do."
Shen Linlin was kicked out just like that.
Shen Linzhou pulled Nan Yuwo onto the sofa, and Deng Xin tried to be more reserved.
After all, it was the first time meeting the parents.
Shen Linzhou wanted to hug him, but he had no choice but to scroll through his phone with him. He unexpectedly discovered that he had another account. He switched accounts, and the profile picture was unfamiliar, but the name was familiar [Shui].
This is the first time I've received a gift from a tycoon at the Carnival during a live stream.
"Hey, was that carnival event you sponsored during my first semester's live stream?" Dengxin asked, looking up.
Shen Linzhou stared at her small mouth, kissed her lips, and smiled: "Yes."
Nan Yu felt sorry for him: "It cost so much money."
"It's worth it to spend money on my baby, no matter how much."
Sweet words were used to coax the little lamp wick into oblivion.
The two laughed and joked, while a gentle spring breeze blew outside the window, and all things grew in celebration of spring, just like their love, which would eventually usher in the light.
...
[Ding, 200 million account settled]
...
(over)
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