Chapter 33 - The Poor Childhood Sweetheart's Counter Attack (6)

Ji Yuxin bowed her head, her eyes gleaming with delight. Yan Yaru looked at her, took a deep breath, stood up and bowed to Father Yan and Mother Yan and paused. “Mom and Dad, thank you for your 18 years of teaching, I know you are good to me, but I … After all, I am surnamed Ji. I think, the best choice is to return to each other’s places, please don’t blame me.”

Mother Yan heard her choking voice, her eyes red, but she attached importance to rules and etiquette, in the end, she did not misbehave in front of outsiders, but lowered her eyes to suppress the waves in her heart. Father Yan was silent for a moment and nodded. “Well, Dad respects your choice, and you remember that even if we aren’t related by blood, you are still our daughter.”

Yan Yaru’s tears fell silently to the ground. She blinked, stood up slowly, and answered, “I’ll get my things.” She politely excused herself to the four elders, straightened her back and walked upstairs. Her etiquette was taught by Mother Yan, and naturally didn’t allow herself to be rude in front of others; Even if she is not the little princess of this family, she also has her own pride.

Father Ji and Mother Ji were a little excited. They didn’t expect that Yan Yaru would want to go with them. It’s easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Everyone understood this truth. Now their daughter is willing to go home with them, does it mean that she also wanted to get along well with them?

Father Yan and Mother Yan looked ugly. They were busy at work and had only given birth to one daughter these years. Seeing that Yan Yaru was good enough, they trained Yan Yaru to be the heir to the Yan family and let her enter the company to help, after Yan Yaru graduates from university. But now in return for Ji Yuxin, all their years of hard work have been wasted. Psychologically, they are not satisfied with Ji Yuxin. How could Ji Yuxin be taught at such a big age?

Thinking of this, they were somewhat dissatisfied with the Ji family. They also taught their daughter; how did the Ji family teach their daughter like this?! Why is it so unfair? To trade an excellent Yan Yaru for such a daughter. However, they wouldn’t do such a thing as argue with the Ji family, and there is no point in mentioning it. They could only think about how to teach Ji Yuxin. After all, no matter how good Yan Yaru is, they couldn’t pass on the Yan family to others.

This was also the reason why they did not speak out to retain Yan Yaru. Two daughters at home would create too many conflicts, and making it easy for servants and subordinates to lose sight of true order. In this way, each belongs to their own position, is indeed the best choice. Yan Yaru thought the same way. She knows that Father Yan and Mother Yan, and didn’t want to trouble them. She knew how to advance and retreat.

When Yan Yaru returned to her room, she stood at the door for a while, then slowly looked around the room where she had lived for many years, inch by inch. From now on, it no longer belonged to her. She was upset when she was about to go to a strange environment to get along with her strange parents, but she knew there was no way out. She picked up the photo with Father Yan and Mother Yan on the nightstand, put it in the suitcase, put a thick photo album on the bookshelf to keep some memories, and took two sets of the cheapest clothes in the wardrobe and the books she studied. She didn’t take any of the other things and the valuable jewelry in the drawer, which didn’t belong to her, but belonged to the daughter of the Yan family.

She locked her suitcase and looked up and saw the presents stacked in the corner. It was the gifts from everyone at her 18’th birthday party that day. She hasn’t open it and didn’t know what they were. She was actually looking forward to her 18’th birthday, but these shouldn’t belong to her, and it was useless to tear them open.

Just then, a red-wrapped box caught her eye, and she remembered that it was given to her when Xu Zifan came that day. This… Should it belong to her? She picked up the box and sat down by the bed to open it. As soon as the box was opened, the contents gave off a warm yellow light. Yan Yaru took it out and the light was gone again. She looked closely at it. It was a frosted glass jar.

Yan Yaru hesitantly took a picture with her phone and posted it anonymously to ask what it was. Netizens quickly gave her an answer, saying that this is a sun jar that uses solar energy to convert sunlight into light, and it is a good birthday present, because the warm sunshine would make wishes come true.

Yan Yaru was stupefied, picked up the curtain remote control and closed all the curtains. The room immediately fell into darkness, and then the sun jar in her hand emitted a warm light, making the inscription on it particularly beautiful.

‘No matter how dark it is, you can see sunshine.’

Yan Yaru mulled over the words silently and smiled faintly after a while. Xu Zifan must have known something long ago. He came to stir up some trouble that day. In fact, she was very grateful to Xu Zifan for saving her from losing face in front of so many guests. She looked at the warm sun jar and suddenly felt that she had received a precious gift for her birthday. The darkness was not terrible. She had seen the sun.

Yan Yaru smiled, put the sun jar in her suitcase and opened the door. This time, she didn’t look back.

Mother Yan saw that she had just taken a few things, and immediately said that he would ask the servant to pack all the things in her room and send them to her, which was politely declined by Yan Yaru with a smile. Mother Yan couldn’t resist her, so she had to send a car to take them back to Ji’s house. Ji Yuxin naturally followed her back to pick up her things.

When getting on the car, Ji Yuxin first pulled Father Ji and Mother Ji to the back, looking very intimate. Mother Ji immediately looked at Yan Yaru. Yan Yaru paid no attention and sat in the front passenger seat. It would be awkward for her to go to the back. She was not used to meeting strangers for the first time anyway.

Ji Yuxin was talking to Father Ji and Mother Ji along the way, while they didn’t talk very much. She could talk to them endlessly and even cried twice. In short, she didn’t want to give up their feelings. But the more she did this, the more uncomfortable Father Ji and Mother Ji felt. Once someone suspects a person, they would find everything wrong with them. If she really didn’t want to leave the Ji family, why didn’t she say it in front of the Yan couple just now? On the contrary, it was Yan Yaru’s self-restraint that made them feel sorry for her even more.

They soon arrived at the Ji family home, which had three bedrooms and one living room in 120 square meters. Usually, the family of three felt it was very spacious, but they just came back from the Yan’s, and a comparison shows that the house was small. Mother Ji awkwardly asked Yan Yaru to sit on the sofa and poured her a glass of juice. Yan Yaru used to drink unadulterated natural fresh juice. She had never drunk this boxed drink before, but she didn’t show anything. She just thanked her politely and drank it silently.

Ji Yuxin went back to her room to pack up her things and thought that Yan Yaru would live in this small room in the future. She had a kind of refreshing feeling but also an uncomfortable feeling. Yan Yaru enjoyed 18 years of wealth, and it was simply too cheap for her to get back so lightly. Ji Yuxin thought so and began to ask the Ji husband and wife to help with one thing or another. She hoped to close the relationship with them and add more obstacles for Yan Yaru.

Even Mother Ji felt that the daughter disliked Yan Yaru. Mother Ji bit her lip with displeasure and said to Yan Yaru, “Ah Ru, next door is Zifan’s house. You know each other, right? The relationship between our two families has always been very good, shall I take you to greet them?”

Yan Yaru didn’t want to hear Ji Yuxin’s voice, so she got up and went to the Xu’s house with her.

Mother Xu knew that the Ji family and the Yan family met today. As soon as she saw them, she hurriedly invited them into the door, she smiled and said, “is this Ah Ru? She’s so good-looking, just like you and brother-in-law.”

Yan Yaru smiled politely. “Hello, Auntie.”

“Oh, all right, come on, sit down. You and my son Zifan are schoolmates, right? I’ll get Zifan. By the way, what would you like to drink?”

“Don’t bother. Whitewater is fine. I’ll get it myself.” Mother Ji didn’t go with her either. She went directly to the water dispenser and retrieved a cup of warm water for Yan Yaru.

Xu Zifan was doing third year of junior high school math problems. When he heard that Yan Yaru came, he knew that there must be something going on. At least they needed him to ease the atmosphere. After all, he was the only one who knew Yan Yaru, even though they had only spoken once. He changed his clothes, went out, smiled and said, “Auntie, Yan Yaru, are you moving back today?”

Yan Yaru nodded. “I’ve moved in.”

Xu Zifan didn’t ask them how Ji Yuxin was doing, but looked at his watch and said, “there is a song and dance show in the community square tonight. Would you like to have a look?”

Yan Yaru was stunned, “I…”

“Come one, Mom, Auntie, let’s go with the two families together, and we’ll get to know each other by having dinner together.” Xu Zifan smiled at Yan Yaru. “There is nothing to do at home, so it’s boring. It’s better to go out and have a lot of fun. What do you think?”

Yan Yaru thought that it would be awkward if she were the only one to have dinner with her estranged parents in the evening, and it would be better if it was lively outside. Moreover, she looked at Xu Zifan, the boy seems to be very good at adjusting the atmosphere, could she be more relaxed with him around? So, she looked at Mother Ji, and hesitated for a moment, but didn’t call her ‘mother’. “Auntie, is that all right?”

Mother Ji was a little disappointed, but she also knew she needed to get used to it. She nodded and said, “Of course. We can have whatever you like for dinner.”

Yan Yaru looked at Xu Zifan. How would she know what to eat here? Xu Zifan smiled and said, “how about Japanese food? There’s a new restaurant nearby. It tastes good.”

Yan Yaru nodded, and Mother Ji and Mother Xu thought it was fine, too. They guessed that Yan Yaru couldn’t get used to the kind of stir-fry dish or hot pot, at the moment. Mother Ji glanced gratefully at Xu Zifan and breathed a sigh of relief. Mother Xu patted her hand and felt that she must be very upset, so she winked at Xu Zifan and smiled and said, “Zifan, I have something to show your aunt. You and Ah Ru stay here and watch TV for a while.”

Xu Zifan answered, and when they went into the bedroom and closed the door, Xu Zifan thought about it and asked Yan Yaru, “are you good at math?”

“Hmm?” Yan Yaru was stupefied and nodded subconsciously, “it’s all right.”

“Then can you help me with a few questions?”

“… All right.”

Xu Zifan went back to his room to get the study book that had the mistakes he made, took Yan Yaru to the study, and then pointed out to Yan Yaru that he had answered some wrong, and sincerely asked for advice. “I clearly did it according to the method of examples, why is the answer wrong? Please help me to see which step is wrong.”

Yan Yaru looked down and asked, “Junior high school problems?”

“Yes, I didn’t study well in the past, so if I want to catch up, I have to lay a good foundation first.”

Yan Yaru glanced at the steps of solving the problem, picked up a pen and wrote on it, “There is another step to add here, the train of thought is not like this…”