"Why are you both looking at me like that?" Ruan Yiyang felt uneasy under their gaze, "Did I say something wrong?"
He was only stating the facts.
Shen Mianmian was only sixteen and already so beautiful. In two years, when she grows into a young lady, her looks will naturally be remarkable. Plus, if she wanted to, leveraging the He Family’s connections, entering the entertainment industry wouldn’t be difficult for her.
"Stay away from Shen Mianmian in the future," He Nan warned with a dark face.
"I’ve reminded you before, don’t get any funny ideas about Mianmian," Li Yue said, not at all averse to stirring up trouble.
"What are you thinking? Am I that kind of person?" Ruan Yiyang was speechless, "Nan, he doesn’t understand me, but don’t you? We grew up together wearing open-crotch pants."
"Mind your words, I was the one who watched you grow up in open-crotch pants," He Nan corrected him expressionlessly.
Ruan Yiyang couldn’t refute. He Nan was right, after all. He Nan had never worn open-crotch pants past the age of one, while Yiyang had worn them until he was three—and He Nan was precisely one year older than him.
Therefore, when he was born, he had just missed the period when He Nan wore open-crotch pants. To say that He Nan watched him grow up wearing them was perfectly accurate.
After causing a ruckus in the study for a while, both were sent back to their homes by He Nan.
Shen Mianmian, hearing the sound of the door opening and closing outside, guessed that Li Yue and Ruan Yiyang had left. She took some fresh clothes and the toiletries He Nan had bought for her and stepped out of the room. Just then, He Nan finished pouring water into his glass and saw her, pausing for a fraction of a second before he remembered there was one more person in the house.
"Take a bath and sleep early, don’t read too late, you have to rise early for an exam tomorrow."
He gave her that brief instruction before heading back to his room with his glass.
At home, they bathed with a washbasin, which hardly differed from a quick rinse, as the basin wasn’t large enough to hold a person. You could barely sit inside it, with your feet still touching the ground.
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Bathing under a shower, Shen Mianmian found the experience incredibly enjoyable.
The lights in He Nan’s room were very bright, unlike her own home, where they used 15-watt bulbs to save electricity, leaving everything dim.
After washing her clothes, she hung them on the balcony and then returned to her room, standing by the window and letting the evening breeze dry her hair.
Gazing out at the night, Shen Mianmian silently resolved to work hard and earn more money, then buy a small villa like Li Family’s, where she could plant flowers and vegetables in the yard and keep pets.
Find someone suitable to marry and have children with, to live a life that seems simple but is actually quite fulfilling—filling up the regrets from her previous life.
Thinking about all this, Shen Mianmian couldn’t help but laugh.
With the wind blowing, Shen Mianmian’s hair dried quickly. She climbed into bed, covered herself with a thin blanket, closed her eyes, and soon fell fast asleep.
When she woke up, it was already six o’clock in the morning. Shen Mianmian opened the door, didn’t see He Nan, and wasn’t sure if he was still asleep. She freshened up, and by the time she finished, He Nan had walked in with breakfast.
"Come have breakfast, eat up, and I’ll take you to your exam," He Nan said, having bought steamed buns, fried dough sticks, milk, and eggs.
Shen Mianmian wasn’t shy; she ate a steamed bun, a fried dough stick, an egg, and drank a bottle of milk. The rest went into He Nan’s stomach.
After breakfast, He Nan drove Shen Mianmian to school. Anticipating that Shen Jianhua might try to intercept them halfway, he took a different route and perfectly avoided Shen Jianhua.