Chapter 21: Mysterious Cohabiting Girlfriend?

"Oh right, and this is?" Xie BoShun's gaze turned to HeJin again.

DuYan was thinking that this old fox had already made a thorough investigation on HeJin, but now he was pretending not to know him.

"This is HeJin, my older sister's child."

"Oh." It was as if Xie BoShun was suddenly enlightened, "He’s WenYin's child."

He stepped forward and took HeJin's hand, tears appeared in his eyes, "My child, it's been so hard on you being outside for so many years.”

DuYan saw HeJin's face seemingly stiff for a moment, and felt a little funny in his heart.

"You..." HeJin hesitated and stopped.

DuYan spoke up next to him, "He is your grandpa's older brother, so you can call him your great uncle.”

"Great Uncle, uncle has taken good care of me." HeJin gently and firmly pulled his hands out of the grasp.

"..." Xie BoShun's smiling face stiffened for a few seconds.

What Xie BoShun said just now was just randomly speaking.

Although he also somewhat insinuated that DuYan did not bring HeJin back to recognize his ancestors earlier, so as to provoke the relationship between his uncles and nephews. It's just that the words weren’t made clear. In this kind of big family, who wouldn’t just smile and leave it be.

This child, how could he speak so directly? He was indeed the child of Xie WenYin who ran away with others at a young age.

Xie BoShun didn't know what to say for a while, and HeJin didn't plan to say anything more, and DuYan was not one who would stand up to ease the atmosphere.

When the three of them were relatively speechless, Xie SiQi, who had been standing behind silently, suddenly walked over.

Xie SiQi took DuYan's hand and said, "Cousin, long time no see. You have to have dinner with me today."

DuYan really couldn’t understand this Xie SiQi, obviously he and Xie BoShun could only maintain a superficial peace, but this Xie SiQi was always very intimate every time they met.

The perfume on Xie SiQi's body puffed into his nose. DuYan's senses were originally more sensitive than ordinary people, and his sense of smell was no exception.

Just as he managed to barely hold back the itch in his nose, so as not to sneeze impolitely and be out of character, a hand stretched out to him.

The hand gently squeezed DuYan's arm, and gently and firmly rescued his hand from Xie SiQi.

"Sorry, uncle is not used to being too close to others."

Xie SiQi as the Xie BoShun’s youngest daughter had always been stubborn and willful. Hearing HeJin speak without covering his words, she immediately raised her eyebrows and said, “If this is how you treat girls, isn’t this too demeaning!”

HeJin smiled, "According to our status in generation, should I be calling you auntie?"

What girls hated hearing the most were these kinds of words, and when she was called auntie, Xie SiQi suddenly felt as if she had aged several years. Especially since the words came from a handsome young man like HeJin, it made her even more angry.

"You-you!"

DuYan finally spoke and broke the deadlock, "Apologies, we should go in. It would not be nice to let Grandpa wait a long time."

And that’s how the curtain closed on the scene as each person left with their own thoughts.

***

The meeting between HeJin and Grandfather Xie was unexpectedly smooth.

In front of this great-grandson who he had never met before, Grandfather Xie completely withdrew from his high position, and became an ordinary loving old man.

HeJin's performance was also completely different from when he was outside with Xie BoShun. He had a long conversation with this old man whose death was imminent.

DuYan knew the reason, it was because HeJin looked very much like his grandfather, Xie ShuPing. Except for the sharper temperament, HeJin and Xie Shuping seemed to be almost carved out of the same mold.

Xie ShuPing was originally Grandfather Xie's favorite child, but because the white-haired man sent off the black-haired man first, it added a bit of melancholy. Now that he saw HeJin who looked similar to Xie ShuPing, he naturally loved Xie ShuPing’s family and was even more loving towards their descendants.

If it hadn't been for Xie ShuPing's sudden death, then the struggle for the position of heir to the Xie Family would not be fought like this.

Grandfather Xie now recognized HeJin, and was now waiting to formally introduce HeJin at the family gathering. At that time, HeJin will be fully regarded as a member of the Xie Family.

Although his surname was not Xie, with Grandfather Xie’s acknowledgement, other people wouldn’t dare say anything. Besides, HeJin was an outsider. If he didn’t change his surname, he wasn’t eligible to inherit the Xie Family.

The descendants of the Xie Family won’t regard HeJin as an enemy, but will try to win him over HeJin, or try to split the relationship between him and DuYan.

On the way home, DuYan turned his head to look at HeJin who was concentrating on driving.

HeJin received his driver's license as early as when he finished his 3rd year of high school. Ever since that day, as long as they went out together, he would take up the job of driving.

HeJin was very calm about meeting Grandfather Xie. Because on the day HeJin became an adult, DuYan informed him of his mother and the Xie Family one by one.

After returning to Beicheng, DuYan’s anger had already dissipated, and he told him that one day he had to go back to the Xie Family. HeJin only said one sentence, I don’t plan on changing my surname, so I have no other objections.

The issue of HeJin returning to the Xie Family basically went along smoothly.

However, there was another thing DuYan had to remind HeJin of, lest there be any accidents, and he knocked up Zhou YaLi again.

"The girl named Zhou YaLi today." DuYan speculated on his sentence, so that his words didn’t arouse HeJin’s disgust.

After all, Zhou YaLi had been his childhood friend who had taken him out of his shell. She had some special significance.

HeJin reacted very quickly. When facing DuYan, he was always the most acute, "Uncle, if you have something to say, then say it. I won’t mind.”

DuYan nodded, "You are adults now, you should pay more attention to some things."

"YaLi is just a little sister to me, there is nothing else."

When HeJin said these words, his eyes were so bright that even DuYan felt that something was wrong. It was the look of a husky that hadn’t seen meat and bone in a long time.

Although DuYan thought that HeJin was strange, what should be said had to be finished, “I am not interfering with you being friends, but girls at this age are delicate and easy to have some ambiguous feelings for outstanding boys of the same age. "

"Do you think that I am very outstanding?"

"……"

DuYan found that he and HeJin were not on the same channel at all, so he had to embrace the idea that his generation gap with the youth was really insurmountable, and fell silent.

However, HeJin keenly sensed the invisible anger on DuYan, and quickly said, "You’ve reminded me, so I will pay attention. Once we eat the meal that I owe her, I’ll pay attention to keeping a distance from YaLi. I won’t eat alone with her, I won’t watch movies with her alone, I won’t gaze at the stars with her alone, I won’t allow her circle of friends to praise us both…”

The more DuYan listened, the more wrong it sounded. The more he listened to HeJin, the more strange it became.

He pinched his eyebrows, "You only need to grasp your relationship to a certain degree. You don’t have to promise me so much."

***

Zhou YaLi felt that HeJin was avoiding her.

Ever since enrollment till now, it had been nearly a month since she and HeJin had gotten together, and it was the meal that HeJin owed. And it was with that person called Fang Xiangxiang.

From that day on, no matter what reason Zhou YaLi used, HeJin never agreed to come out with her. She couldn’t even lose her temper because HeJin’s reasons were particularly legitimate.

Such as being busy studying, busy in clubs, or simply being busy outside, there were all kinds of things.

But she was never a person who gave up easily. In Zhou YaLi's opinion, maybe it was Fang Xiangxiang who had secretly said something to HeJin causing him to avoid her like this.

She thought that since she couldn't get through to him for the time being, why not save the nation by using indirect means (1).

Zhou YaLi first broke through Fang Xiangxiang’s defenses and became good friends with her. Then she discovered that Fang Xiangxiang really wasn’t HeJin’s girlfriend. The frequency that Fang Xiangxiang met with HeJin was not much different from her and HeJin.

HeJin was well-known in school, and there were various rumors about him. Zhou YaLi relied on her superb social skills to piece together very credible messages from these true and fake rumors.

HeJin has a house in a community near the school. He didn’t apply for day classes, and he rarely lived at the dormitory, but rather lived in his own home.

The residential area around Beicheng University was a rich area. The housing prices were leading in the entirety of Beicheng. This made HeJin’s status as the male god at Beicheng University even more indestructible. People who could afford to buy a house around Beicheng University definitely had an unusual family background.

In addition, someone once saw HeJin shopping for groceries in a large supermarket nearby. Judging from the amount of purchases, it did not seem to be for a person eating alone.

Therefore, apart from the rumor that Fang Xiangxiang from the College of Liberal Arts was the only girl HeJin treated differently, another version was that HeJin had a girlfriend outside of school and they were secretly living together outside.

The threat of Fang Xiangxiang’s had been ruled out by Zhou YaLi. The mysterious girlfriend aroused Zhou YaLi's full vigilance. Although this news might sound unreliable to others, she felt that it was highly credible.

Because Zhou YaLi couldn’t think of any reason as to why HeJin avoided herself except if he had a girlfriend.

Zhou YaLi secretly made this decision in her heart, she had to know which little BIAO (whore) had snatched HeJin-gege (2). Otherwise, she didn’t even know what her opponent looked like, how could she make a battle plan.

After that, Zhou YaLi tried every means to get HeJin to tell her the location of the house, but he was perfunctory.

There was even one time when Zhou YaLi deliberately stayed outside until the dormitory closed, and asked HeJin for help. HeJin just came over to find a safe hotel near the school and sent Zhou YaLi there. HeJin stopped at the front desk of the hotel, and didn’t even approach the elevator.

Zhou YaLi was repeatedly frustrated. But perhaps God saw her persevering and let her know where HeJin was living now.

Authors note:

It is not a bug that HeJin rarely stays in the dormitory, but actually lives off campus.

Regarding the words that HeJin lives at school, this is all DuYan’s unilateral thoughts~

The next chapter will explain it clearly.