Actually, Luo Yang had thought of a way to eliminate Shi Yun’s inner fear of Big Brother B.
That was to let her beat up Big Brother B with her own hands.
But she was naturally timid and didn’t dare to make a move when she saw Big Brother B.
How to increase her courage was a problem.
There’s a saying: It’s easy to change rivers and mountains, but hard to alter one’s nature.
Shi Yun’s personality was basically set in stone, that of a timid girl.
Unless something extraordinary happened, it was unlikely that her character would change.
For now, the only course was to gradually make her more optimistic.
Perhaps her family life needed to improve first before she could truly relieve the pent-up frustration in her heart.
If her family’s situation didn’t change, she could never be happy.
Her father was a gambling addict, and just that was a major source of her distress.
Luo Yang also wanted to help her father quit gambling, but it wasn’t something that could be accomplished overnight.
Gambling, like smoking, wasn’t something you could just quit on a whim.
If her father didn’t have the willpower to quit gambling decisively, nothing Luo Yang said would be of any use.
And her brother was also a disappointment, gradually inheriting their father’s inferior traits, which added to her frustrations.
In other words, the unhealthy state of her inner world was mostly due to her family’s dire situation. To change Shi Yun’s nature, one had to start from the root, her family.
But these were someone else’s family affairs, and it wasn’t Luo Yang’s place to interfere too much.
He could only help her family at the right times.
Nothing could be changed in an instant, so Luo Yang could only offer words of comfort, "Sister Xiao Yun, don’t worry. Didn’t I tell you already, that guy won’t bother you anymore."
In Shi Yun’s eyes, she might feel that Luo Yang was just picking the good parts to say, and she wasn’t really completely safe yet.
The atmosphere in the room was quite oppressive.
Luo Yang knew how to lighten everyone’s mood and smiled, "Since everybody’s up now. I’ll tell a riddle, and whoever guesses it, their late-night snack expenses for a year will be on me."
At this good news, the girls cheered.
The mood immediately became lively.
However, Shi Yun still looked pale, and Luo Yang asked, "Sister Xiao Yun, are you ready?"
Shi Yun forced a smile and nodded.
She usually lived life in a weary manner, as if she was scared of interacting with people, always keeping her head down; that dejected appearance was pitiable.
"Sister Xiao Yun, lift your head. Why are you looking down?" Luo Yang said with a smile.
With that encouragement, everyone looked toward Shi Yun.
Her cheeks gradually turned red, and she tilted her head up slightly.
Qin Piao laughed and said, "Niu Zai, come on. I want to answer one. I want to eat free late-night snacks for a year."
Late-night snack money doesn’t come easily, and Luo Yang joked, "Sister Piao, that depends on if you’ve got the skills. I bet Sister Xiao Yun can beat you."
Riddle games involve quick thinking.
In terms of cultural knowledge, Shi Yun was only a middle school student and probably not much richer in knowledge than Qin Piao.
Not to be outdone, Qin Piao said, "Then I’ll have to compete with Shi Yun."
The other girls also egged them on, making Shi Yun embarrassed.
After all, she was the guest, and Qin Piao was the host.
"Alright. Sister Piao, if you can beat Sister Xiao Yun, then I’ll give you two years of free late-night snacks," Luo Yang generously said.
No sooner had he spoken than he felt a slight pain in his arm.
Turning his head, he saw Tang Guihua had taken action; she had started her ’interrupted cultivation’ technique...
"Sister Guihua, lighter please," winced Luo Yang.
"What do you mean, lighter?" Tang Guihua said with a smile.
She was playing dumb.
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