Chapter 12: The Rite of Passage at the Age of 18

Time was like flowing water. Once it left, it was gone forever.

According to DuYan, he still couldn’t find the right time to carry out his planned physiological and health education.

This made him a little anxious, after all, as a Virgo, he had to do things according to the plan.

These set characters really affected DuYan. As an indispensable part in correcting HeJin’s future, as long as the adolescent sex education wasn’t completed, DuYan would not feel relieved.

The only thing that gave him a little comfort was that the relationship between HeJin and Fang Xiangxiang in the past two years were on a normal track, and there weren’t anything particularly out of the ordinary.

DuYan felt that all of this was due to himself. Since he wasn’t able to solve the problem of teaching physiological and health education at the root. DuYan simply implemented the single guardian system and forced HeJin to go home before ten o'clock every day.

HeJin complained about this rule, but he also unexpectedly followed the rule.

DuYan looked at the teenager who was speaking on stage.

This was the practice of Nanwai. Every student held a coming of age ceremony during their third year of senior high school. This could be regarded as a goodbye to their senior high school career and their youth.

Two years later, the 18 year old HeJin’s height jumped again. Originally, he was shorter than DuYan, now he not only caught up, but was also half a head taller than DuYan.

Looking at the high-spirited young man, DuYan felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

One should know that at the opening ceremony of the first year of senior high school, the principal mentioned HeJin as a bad role model. Now, he was speaking on stage as a representative of the senior high school 3rd year students.

HeJin's grades were not the best, and only in the top 20 or so. However, HeJin’s change was a good role model. He was once the school bully, but now he was an excellent student. This story was too inspirational and could be regarded as a story of a rebellious youth growing up.

At the coming of age ceremony, he was most suitable to be the representative of the senior high school 3rd year students.

Apart from this factor, DuYan felt that HeJin's appearance was also one of the important factors of why the school chose him as the representative. Nanwai's coming of age ceremony was very formal, and a long red carpet was laid out in the school auditorium.

18 year old girls took off their school uniforms to wear formal dresses representing growth, and walked on the red carpet. This was the most solemn ceremony of the coming of age ceremony.

At the entrance of the red carpet, the sensational effect caused by HeJin could be seen. HeJin had taken off his school uniform to put on a black formal suit, and became the focus of the whole audience.

DuYan was standing on the side and listened as the 1st and 2nd year girls screamed when HeJin entered the auditorium.

Next to that youth was a girl in a white dress walking beside him.

The young girls didn't mind Fang Xiangxiang’s existence at all. Instead, they began talking about the two of them enthusiastically. They talked about HeJin’s touching deeds in order to change himself for Fang Xiangxiang.

Although this child HeJin never admitted that Fang Xiangxiang was his girlfriend and said continuously that they were only ordinary friends. However, DuYan inferred from his previous adolescence sex education in the past two years that HeJin was actually quite duplicite in terms of emotions.

He didn’t recognize the relationship with Fang Xiangxiang, but that didn’t mean that he didn’t like Fang Xiangxiang. On the contrary, it meant that HeJin attached great importance to Fang Xiangxiang.

According to the key points of the movie, HeJin’s official confession happened the day the college entrance examination ended. Before that, even if the rumors between him and Fang Xiangxiang were well known throughout the school, even the teachers had tacitly agreed that the two were a pair.

HeJin’s unwillingness to admit was a certain kind of persistence.

DuYan didn't want to come to the coming of age ceremony. He always felt that his relationship with HeJin was a bit too close, as if they were truly in a parent and child relationship.

This was not his intention.

Exactly when did it change to this? DuYan sat in his seat, his thoughts floating back to the day two years ago.

…

During HeJin’s first winter vacation in senior high school, it was quite cold that day. DuYan didn’t stay in the company to work overtime, but instead brought his work back home.

About twelve o'clock in the evening, DuYan's cell phone rang. He picked it up and found that it was HeJin.

DuYan found this to be quite strange. The child was at home yet why was the kid calling him? After he picked up the call, HeJin asked him when he was coming home.

"It's already twelve o'clock, are you still working overtime at the company? Aren’t you afraid of fainting due to fatigue?"

"I'm at home." DuYan replied concisely.

"What? You're at home? I’ve been in the living room since eight o'clock..." HeJin suddenly shut up, "I just came back. Downstairs lights have been off the entire time, who are you deceiving."

DuYan knew what was going on right away. At the end of the year, DuYan worked overtime almost every day during this period. He usually didn’t get back home until after ten o'clock.

HeJin probably guessed that it would be the same today and had something important to tell him, so he had planned on blocking DuYan in the living room.

"I'm in the study. I came back early today.”

"I'll come up to find you.” With that, HeJin hung up the phone.

Within a few minutes, the door to the study was knocked, and DuYan told him to enter.

HeJin pushed the door in, with his chin slightly raised, and the expression on his face was quite subtle. From DuYan’s perspective, he looked like a proud cock.

"Do you know what I did today?"

DuYan didn’t have any interest and responded, "Went to school to get your final exam results."

"..." HeJin was shocked, but on second thought, he felt that DuYan took his own business to heart and was happy again.

He placed an envelope in before DuYan and lifted his chin, "Look."

DuYan raised his hand and opened it. He saw the results at a glance and was somewhat surprised.

"How did I do?" HeJin was impatient, and there was no clue from DuYan's expression, so he could only directly ask.

"Not bad." DuYan did not hesitate to praise HeJin's progress in studying, "The results are better than expected."

"Of course. I’ve said it before, it’s only studying. It’s nothing hard.” HeJin lifted his chin again.

DuYan still carried out his own single minded, warmless guardian settings and nodded reservedly, “It is ok. I hope that you can be maintained.”

This could be considered as splashing him with cold water, but HeJin didn’t care. He put his hands on the desk and opened his mouth to say, “As the guardian, shouldn't you reward me for making great progress?"

"I can. You can go pick something you like."

"Do I look like I have no money to buy things? Don't use this formulaic tone to send me away."

HeJin didn't buy it at all. He spent so much energy during this period, and in order to save face, he even asked Fang Xiangxiang to secretly have make-up lessons with him. In just one semester, he had gone from the bottom of his grade to the top 100.

Although he wouldn't tell DuYan these things, but his uncle was trying to give him such simple things for his effort.

DuYan pinched the bridge of his nose, "What do you want?"

HeJin stretched out a finger and said his long calculated plan, "One request."

"A request?"

"En, you reward me with a request. Of course, I won’t ask for too much. It won’t go against your principles.”

DuYan thought about it for a while. He thought that HeJin was only a senior high school student, and at most would just ask for something to buy or to go somewhere to play. It wouldn’t affect him too much, so he agreed.

After that day, this had almost become routine.

Almost every time HeJin’s grades improved, he would look for DuYan to request something.

DuYan attending the coming of age ceremony was also exchanged with HeJin’s request. Otherwise, this noisy and boring scene was really challenging and meaningless to him.

The personality set when entering the dream was influencing DuYan more and more. If it were not for his bloodline ability, and it could blur the dream experience after waking up. DuYan felt that after dreaming, he would probably go straight to the psychiatric department for an appointment.

It was hard to last until the end of the speech part in the auditorium. Next was the children’s major competition and it was time for the guardians to leave.

DuYan returned home, thinking about the key plots afterwards.

It was the beginning of June, and the college entrance examination was going to happen a week later.

In the movie, after the college entrance examination, it was one of the climaxes of the whole movie, and it was also the first turning point.

HeJin confessed to Fang Xiangxiang.

In the original plot, although Fang Xiangxiang had already felt moved, HeJin at that time did not put all his mind into studying, and it had affected Fang Xiangxiang’s response.

Fang Xiangxiang did not perform well during the college entrance examination, and did not follow the steps of the little gege white moonlight to enter Beicheng University, and instead entered Nanwai University.

Fang Xiangxiang, who was hit hard, felt that she and HeJin were not the same kind of people, so she told HeJin about the existence of her white moonlight and refused HeJin’s confession.

This was the first source of nightmare in the plot.

Thinking about it, it wasn’t that surprising. Afterall, he spent three years chasing after this girl, only to be told that she had always had a white moonlight in her heart. No matter who the person was changed to, they would also be hit hard and be left a psychological shadow.

No one can bear the taste of having green clouds over one's head (1).

This was also the reason why DuYan had been so concerned about HeJin's performance during the past three years and was willing to pay a certain price for HeJin's progress in learning.

As far as the current progress was concerned, HeJin was growing up to be a very excellent boy. The factors that were once a problem for Fang Xiangxiang, no longer existed.

Fang Xiangxiang was definitely going to accept HeJin's confession.

So, here comes another problem.

They are still young, and they just finished the college entrance examination. Their mentality after extreme high pressure is to go into a state of indulgence. Add in a girl who has accepted the confession, and confused by the sweet taste of love, it was only a matter of course to want to taste the forbidden fruit as well.

HeJin was now an 18 year old adult. Legally speaking, DuYan is no longer his guardian. Naturally, he had no power to force HeJin to do anything.

In order to prevent life-threatening accidents, DuYan made up his mind that no matter what, today, adolescent sex education must be fully taught.

Thinking up to this point, DuYan directly called HeJin, "HeJin, come to the study after you get home. I have something important to tell you."

After the call ended, DuYan began to search for information on physical and health education, and made a draft. He even considered whether to lock HeJin in the study, lest he become angry and run away again.

DuYan's eyes brightened up slightly, and he felt that this kind of solution was indeed very suitable for HeJin, this troublesome child.

So, after HeJin entered the study, what he saw was DuYan sitting behind the desk. With a plate of bananas on the desk where food had never appeared on before.