Originally, Yu Shu hadn’t guessed what Yan Jin wanted to do. Seeing that she was about to take off her shoes and socks, he immediately realized she wanted to reach something high up.
Yu Shu volunteered. “I’ll do it!”
Yan Jin hadn’t expected Yu Shu to volunteer. A ripple appeared on her normally calm face.
Seeing Yan Jin look at him with slight surprise, Yu Shu belatedly realized he had spoken too quickly. “Uh… if it’s inconvenient, I can wait for you outside.”
The embarrassment on Yu Shu’s face was so obvious that Yan Jin noticed it.
Her unfortunate younger brother looked quite cute when embarrassed. She really wanted to make him even more uncomfortable.
Too bad they weren’t close, so it wasn’t appropriate to tease him. Yan Jin could only imagine it in her heart.
”It’s not inconvenient.” Yan Jin tried her best to suppress the corners of her lips that wanted to curve up. “It’s just that I’ll have to trouble you to get something for me.”
”No trouble at all!” Seeing that he could be of help, Yu Shu smiled so much that his eye bags showed.
Following Yan Jin’s instructions, Yu Shu took out a lidded storage box from the bookshelf. “So this is the ‘usual place’ mentioned in the note?”
”Yes.” Yan Jin nodded. “I usually use this box to randomly store small miscellaneous items.”
Yu Shu said, “That’s way too random.”
The solid wood bookshelves and tables and chairs looked elegant, dignified, and very expensive. But there was actually an Oxford cloth storage box placed on them.
Although it had a lid, no matter how you looked at it, this storage box clashed completely with the study.
”As long as it’s usable, it’s fine.” Yan Jin said as she opened the storage box. “Don’t tell me the storage boxes for small items in your house are made of sandalwood?”
The moment Yan Jin picked it up, she felt the storage box was heavier than usual. Upon opening it, the gold bars inside were like three rows of neatly arranged soldiers, emanating a faint fragrance of money under the glow of the setting sun filtering through the window.
Yan Jin: “…”
Yu Shu: “…”
Live streaming room viewers: “…”
[Damn it, the glare of money has blinded my eyes.]
[Someone prettier than you is also richer than you. I’m so jealous.]
Yu Shu said slowly, “My family indeed doesn’t have the habit of using Oxford cloth storage boxes to store gold bars.”
Yan Jin rummaged through the gold bars with a straight face. “It seems that even if it’s the same person, there are still subtle differences between the me from the two worlds.”
”Do tell.” Yu Shu placed his right palm by his ear, striking a pose of listening attentively.
Yan Jin: “I store gold bars in plastic bags.”
”?!!!” Yu Shu opened and closed his mouth, and after a long while, he asked in shock, “You store gold bars in plastic bags?”
Yan Jin emphasized, “Black opaque plastic bags.”
Yu Shu widened his eyes. “Is there a difference? Why don’t you put them in a safe?”
”I originally planned to put them in a safe.” Yan Jin explained, “But after I took the gold bars out from the bank, I kept forgetting to open the safe.”
Yu Shu’s tone was full of disbelief. “Then putting them in plastic bags, aren’t you afraid of them being stolen?”
”Generally speaking, no one would think there are gold bars in plastic bags.” Yan Jin said seriously, “At most, they’d think it was some idiot putting bricks in plastic bags.”
Yu Shu furrowed his brows in a tangled expression. “Storing gold bars in plastic bags doesn’t seem much better either.”
”The world of adults is just strange like this,” Yan Jin saw Yu Shu’s furrowed brows and said with great sincerity, “You’ll understand when you grow up.”
”Grow up?” Yu Shu scratched his head. “But I’m already an adult.”
”Huh?” This time it was Yan Jin’s turn to widen her eyes slightly. “You’re over eighteen years old?”
Yu Shu: “…How old did you think I was?”
Sixteen.
Yan Jin had always thought he was a minor.
Seeing Yu Shu’s complex expression, Yan Jin, who was not good at reading people, was unusually perceptive and didn’t say the number in her mind out loud.
[My sense of humor is actually quite refined, but why is their conversation so funny hahaha.]
[Damn! I was just puzzled why Yan Jin had a pretty good attitude towards Yu Shu, sometimes even feeling like she was coaxing a child. Turns out Yan Jin always thought Yu Shu wasn’t an adult.]
Yan Jin’s evasion made Yu Shu feel a bit discouraged. He stood up straight and compared his height difference with Yan Jin.
Yu Shu was very tall. Even Yan Jin, who had a net height of 1.75 meters, was a head shorter than him.
After realizing that he was indeed much taller than Yan Jin, and not much shorter, Yu Shu once again voiced his soul-searching question, “I’m so much taller than you, yet you thought I was a minor?”
”Kids these days have good nutrition and develop well. Even elementary school students can grow to 1.8 meters.” Although Yan Jin’s reasoning wasn’t very convincing, she didn’t show any embarrassment on her face and explained seriously, “You have a youthful and good-looking face, so it’s not strange to suspect you’re a minor.”
”…Don’t think that just because you complimented my looks, I’ll let it slide.” Yu Shu felt a bit uncomfortable under Yan Jin’s serious gaze. His eyes wandered. “I’m not stupid.”
Yan Jin inappropriately thought of an outdated meme. “Silly child, of course you’re not stupid.”
Seeing Yu Shu’s wide-eyed stare, Yan Jin, realizing she may have taken the teasing too far, quickly changed the subject. “There’s still an hour left, have you packed your things?”
Yu Shu knew Yan Jin was beating around the bush, but he didn’t have much experience interacting with the opposite sex usually. He mumbled a sentence and then took up her new topic. “All packed.”
”Just about done here too.” After saying that, Yan Jin closed the storage box.
Yu Shu pressed down on Meatball who had been struggling to have Yan Jin hold him. “You have a lot of books in your study.”
”Some of them are just for show.” Yan Jin was quite frank. “Otherwise the bookshelves would look too empty and not nice.”
After speaking, Yan Jin closed the book with the message from her parallel world self.
”You’re way too honest haha…” Yu Shu’s laughter stopped abruptly halfway when he unintentionally caught a glance of the familiar “Top-Level Demon Lord’s Beloved Runs Away Pregnant” in Yan Jin’s hand.
Yan Jin followed Yu Shu’s line of sight. “‘Top-Level Demon Lord’s Beloved Runs Away Pregnant’, is there a problem with this book?”
Yu Shu’s lips curved up slightly. He coughed. “No problem.”
Yan Jin’s little hobby: reading sugary novels with dogblood titles while criticizing the author’s poor plot writing
Prayer actually works. Last night I dreamed of Yan Jin and Yu Shu going to pick out a wedding dress.
At first, Yan Jin picked a wedding dress with lots of rhinestones and tassels, but Yu Shu didn’t think it looked good and picked a V-neck spaghetti strap dress for her.
Yu Shu was better off not picking at all, because the bottom of that spaghetti strap dress was color-blocked, with yellow, purple and blue, and trimmed in gold. Too ugly, way too ugly.
I have to clarify for Yu Shu here. The real Yu Shu has very good taste and wouldn’t pick such an ugly dress, oh wedding gown.
Praying online, I hope I dream of a handsome young single man tonight.
One would be good, two not bad, three great, four hehe, five mmm.
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Female On Top
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
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