Chapter 107: Just Like the Young Hero Nezha

A six-year age gap meant that while Shen Mo was in his first year of college, the other was in the sixth grade of elementary school.

Hearing this, Liu Yue's expression turned sour, and she said coldly, "So what my husband means is that I'm a beast, since I'm also six years older than you."

【I feel like my wife is being unreasonable, but I have no proof.】

Shen Mo instantly became resentful.

Liu Yue felt a bit embarrassed—she really was being a little unreasonable—but it didn't matter; she was a woman.

Shen Mo sighed and said, "It's not the same. Between us it's love, while with Qian Duoduo I only have familial affection."

"Pure, innocent familial affection."

In the past, when reading romance novels and seeing the male or female lead get called a scumbag for not choosing their childhood sweetheart, Shen Mo always wanted to argue back on their behalf: they're really not scumbags—it's purely because they don't want to be beasts.

Think about it—you grew up with a member of the opposite sex from childhood.

The two of you ate and lived together, sharing meals from the same pot and sleeping in the same bed; she had you clean up after her when she soiled herself, and you called each other brother and sister.

Are you sure you can treat the other person as a boyfriend or girlfriend, rather than as siblings?

Anyway, Shen Mo felt that was absolutely not love.

Love doesn't look like that.

So Shen Mo had absolutely no thoughts about Qian Duoduo and her sister.

Especially Qian Duoduo—she was someone he'd watched grow up like a little sister.

After Shen Mo's lengthy explanation, Liu Yue finally sorted out the relationships involved.

Just as she would never develop romantic love for Shen Jiafeng, only treating him as family.

And just as when she was with Shen Jiayun back then, it was only to fulfill the marriage contract.

From another angle, if there were no marriage contract binding them, she and Shen Jiayun would have been very good brothers—the other person was quite loyal to his brothers.

The next morning, Qian Duoduo came over early to call everyone to get up for breakfast. Zhou Yi had prepared a series of meals for pregnant women.

She really put her heart into it.

Only at the dining table, Qian Duoduo's gaze at Liu Yue was full of displeasure, as if the other had stolen her beloved toy.

Liu Yue merely smiled slightly at this, not caring at all—just a little girl; my husband loves me.

Especially when Shen Mo placed a deboned chicken foot into her bowl, Liu Yue smiled so hard her eyes curved.

This indifferent attitude made Qian Duoduo even angrier.

Really, too infuriating, absolutely maddening.

How could there be such an infuriating woman in this world? If... if she were Shen Mo's girlfriend, she would never act like this—she'd just keep Shen Mo locked up at home and not let him out.

Shen Mo acted as if he couldn't sense the atmosphere at all, calm and composed, doing his own thing as always.

Whatever he used to do when getting along with Liu Yue, he continued doing now.

After breakfast, Shen Mo and the others went to sweep the graves. Qian Duoduo volunteered to follow, her excuse being that grandma had also taken care of her, and had even left her a room in the house, so as a granddaughter, what was wrong with going to sweep the graves? Was being filial a crime?

Besides, she went every year.

Her words sounded perfect, but everyone knew her real thoughts and felt very conflicted, afraid she might go crazy and cause trouble.

In the end, it was Liu Yue who said having a little girl along for company wasn't bad.

Down the stairs, buying things, driving to the countryside—all in one smooth flow.

Grandma's grave was together with grandpa's, both in the countryside.

This is called joint burial.

The Shen Family wasn't a large clan—just farmers from the countryside.

The reason they had their current fortune was purely because grandma and Shen Yilong were too capable.

So grandma's gravesite wasn't large, located on a hilltop.

Although Shen Yilong hired people to repair the mountain path every year, because it had to pass through someone else's land in the middle, they still had to walk a stretch of it.

Liu Yue was curious—why not just buy that land?

Logically speaking, given the Shen Family's wealth, buying it would be the normal thing to do.

Shen Mo smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that we don't want to buy it—they won't sell." "They're sworn enemies of the Shen Family. Anything the Shen Family can get close to that belongs to them, they won't let the Shen Family have an easy time with."

But because their own ability was limited, they could only nitpick and bully them in small matters like this.

After a leisurely stroll to the front of the gravesite, Shen Mo set up a small stool for Liu Yue, asked Qian Duoduo and Wang Ma to keep her company while she rested, and went nearby to find some stones, planning to build a small stone platform.

After Shen Mo walked away, Qian Duoduo glared viciously at Liu Yue, her malice and displeasure pouring out wildly.

Liu Yue propped her chin on her hand and said calmly, "Little girl, you're not planning to push me and make me miscarry, are you?"

One sentence left Qian Duoduo utterly stunned, and she stammered, "I... I seem like that kind of bad person?"

"Besides, I'm a pervert, not an idiot."

"If I pushed you down, Brother Mo would definitely eat me alive. He doesn't even like me to begin with, so he definitely wouldn't let me off then."

"Right now I can still sneak peeks at him, sleep in his room when he's not there, satisfy myself a little—that's pretty good."

"If you could divorce him and give him to me, that would be even better."

The more Qian Duoduo spoke, the smoother it got. The core meaning was just one thing: I'm a pervert, but not an idiot plus a lunatic.

I like Shen Mo, but I won't hurt the person Shen Mo likes just because I like him too much, or test the other's patience with me.

Just expressing some malice is good enough.

Liu Yue was a bit dumbfounded. Good lord, all the comforting words I prepared are useless now.

So this little girl had already seen things so clearly herself.

This really was an unexpected reversal.

Everyone thought they'd encounter a scene straight out of a novel, but the other person was terrifyingly clear-headed.

Everything she was doing now was purely to disgust people.

"That's seriously impressive."

Wang Ma felt the same—she had thought today would be her chance to show off some fighting skills, but it turned out to be so peaceful.

Liu Yue turned to ask Qian Duoduo why she liked Shen Mo, and at the same time to learn about Shen Mo's childhood stories.

Qian Duoduo said with nostalgia, "Brother Mo was really outstanding when we were kids."

"His studies were bad, he was always laughing and joking around like a silly fool, and apart from decent PE grades, all his other grades were a total mess—the kind the teachers didn't want to bother with, left to fend for himself."

Liu Yue was speechless. How is that outstanding?

"But Brother Mo was famous far and wide as a good person."

"There was a left-behind girl in the village called Zhao Di. Her parents divorced and both left, nobody wanted her, so she could only live with her grandmother. At first, Brother Mo secretly used his own pocket money to support her."

"Later he even got her grandmother a job at Grandma's barbecue shop."

"What Brother Mo didn't know, though, was that Grandma had already had this idea at the time."

At this point, Qian Duoduo revealed a wicked grin.

"Sister Didi also likes Brother Mo. When she came back last New Year, she cried to me saying she regretted being such a coward, and if she'd been more proactive, Brother Mo wouldn't have married you."

Liu Yue was speechless, feeling a bit disgusted.

She clearly sensed Qian Duoduo's malice.

Still, the past Shen Mo rarely talked about took on a three-dimensional shape in Liu Yue's mind.

A model young man who, apart from poor studies, had no problems in any other area.

So outstanding, in fact, that he had a group of beauties secretly in love with him.

As if a switch had been flipped, Qian Duoduo kept going: "Brother Mo also stood up against bullying to save the school flower, donated money to children in poor mountain areas, and even led us to crack down on child kidnappers and rescue people. He was really, really good."

Liu Yue laughed: "Just like the young hero Little Nezha."

(End of chapter)