Chapter 60: Wu Yue'er Wants to Rent a Room

The moon meets the clouds, the flowers meet the gentle breeze; the night scenery this evening is very beautiful.

After dinner, Shen Yan had just returned home when Wu Yue'er followed right behind him. Seeing the bay window in Shen Yan's room, her eyes lit up instantly, and she sat on it, blankly watching the beautiful scenery outside.

The stars are bright, and the lights of ten thousand homes are lit, yet not a single one is lit for her.

After pondering for a good while, Wu Yue'er asked Shen Yan cautiously, "Is it just you and your grandma in your house? Where are the others?"

Shen Yan's mopping motion paused, and he said, "Why don't you go ask Youwei?" Wu Yue'er said, "Youwei won't tell me, so I had no choice but to come find you."

"Of course, if it's inconvenient, just pretend I didn't ask."

Shen Yan looked at Wu Yue'er in surprise, feeling that this Huniu was different tonight; her voice was soft, like a completely different person from usual.

Shaking his head to cast away the thoughts in his mind, Shen Yan said nonchalantly, "There's nothing inconvenient about it. My dad passed away from illness when I was two, and my mom just ran off. I don't even have an impression of what she looks like. It was Grandma who raised me through thick and thin."

This account differed somewhat from Wu Yue'er's guess, but it wasn't a big issue.

"Then do you miss your mom?"

Shen Yan said, "Why would I miss her? Even if she appeared in front of me now, I would only treat her as a stranger."

Wu Yue'er felt a sense of shared misery. Leaning against the wall of the bay window with her arms wrapped around her knees, her beautiful legs under her denim shorts looked slender and symmetrical, and she began to recount her own family situation.

"Actually, we are not much different..."

When Wu Yue'er was three, Wu's mother passed away from cancer. Wu's father had a serious preference for sons over daughters and remarried the following year, finding Wu Yue'er a stepmother. The stepmother later gave birth to two sons and was even more acerbic and mean, causing Wu Yue'er to walk on thin ice at home; a slight carelessness would bring a scolding or being punished by not being allowed to eat.

There is an old saying that goes: "A woman without talent is virtuous."

Wu's father was always nagging at home, asking what the use of reading so many books was, telling Wu Yue'er to go out and work after graduating high school to earn money to subsidize the family, while also stating that even if Wu Yue'er got into university, he wouldn't pay a cent of tuition.

Not willing to lose face, the stubborn-tempered Wu Yue'er refused to bow to fate. She studied by the lamp day and night and finally got into Hangzhou University.

During the summer vacation, relying on her beautiful face and figure, she successfully entered the modeling field—print modeling, car modeling, commercial modeling, etc. —doing whatever made money, and she managed to earn a considerable amount of remuneration.

From then on, she completely broke away from that disgusting family.

Shen Yan couldn't help but be moved, as if he saw a strong young girl who had suffered through hardships since childhood and finally succeeded in changing her fate through hard work.

So... is Huniu the way she is because she has experienced so much in the modeling field, leading to so many realizations about life?

In this way, it actually makes sense.

"Why are you telling me so much?" Shen Yan looked puzzled.

"I treat you as a good friend. We are both orphans without fathers or mothers, so we are just pouring our hearts out to each other." Wu Yue'er smiled faintly, looking delicate and soft under the lights.

Shen Yan's lips curled up slightly, and he tentatively accepted this good friend.

Then Wu Yue'er said she wanted to go see the sea, "Why don't you take me and Youwei tomorrow, and we can go play at the seaside together."

Ever since she heard Shen Yan's description of the sea last time, those vivid and lifelike images had been like rivets, deeply nailed into Wu Yue'er's mind, unable to be shaken off.

Now that the sea was close at hand, she was naturally impatient to go and see it for herself.

It was a rare holiday, and going to feel the beauty of the blue sea and sky of nature was a good suggestion, so Shen Yan nodded and agreed.

"Yay!"

Wu Yue'er jumped up with joy on the spot, snatched the mop from Shen Yan's hand, and said, "I'll do this. I'll definitely mop it until it's crystal clear, cleaner than a mirror."

This Huniu definitely has a major illness; she is too abnormal.

Unable to figure it out, he simply stopped thinking about it. Shen Yan was happy to be relaxed and free, so he took out his laptop from his backpack while chatting intermittently with Hao Anqi.

Hao Anqi said she was going to buy a laptop tomorrow to make it easier to video chat with Shen Yan, and Shen Yan mischievously said he was going to the seaside to play tomorrow.

"Ahhh! How can you bear to treat your cute girlfriend like this? You're going out to play and not taking me."

Hao Anqi sent a wronged emoji.

Shen Yan: "It's okay, I'll take your share and play for you."

"Ouch! Do you believe I'll bite you to death? (Grinning)"

Shen Yan: "Bite me a few more times next time we meet (Smirking)."

Hao Anqi's pretty face flushed slightly, "Is that 'bite' of yours serious?"

At this moment, Wu Yue'er raised her head, tucked her loose hair behind her ear with her right hand, and said in a soft, whispering voice, "Shen Yan, your apartment has two rooms, rent one to me."

Shen Yan was slightly stunned: "You're living just fine in your dorm, why come out to rent a place?"

Wu Yue'er said that models sometimes have work at night, and living in the dorm is not very convenient. Shen Yan refused without even thinking.

If Xiao Qiqi found out later, she would surely tear him to pieces.

Wu Yue'er let out an "aiya," twisted her body, and said in a coquettish voice, "Just agree to it, won't you?" Shen Yan felt goosebumps all over his body and looked at her in disbelief.

"Hey, hey, hey! You are very strange today. Can you stop talking in such a cutesy, affected way?"

Wu Yue'er's eyes were charming and alluring, "I am a girl, can't I be a little gentler?"

"Fine, fine, do whatever makes you happy."

Shen Yan turned his head away, feeling a bit unnatural. Damn! Huniu looking like this is simply explosive; I can't hold it.

Those long legs that were whiter than frost and snow were even more tempting.

A triumphant smile appeared on Wu Yue'er's face. Sure enough, with her graceful and enchanting figure, as long as she was a little gentler, how many boys could resist?

"So you've agreed then?" Wu Yue'er asked again.

"Better the friend dies than me," Shen Yan directly passed the buck to Chen Shanni, "Go ask Chen Shanni. I ran into her the day I bought the apartment. You two are both girls, it's more convenient to live together."

"Really?" Wu Yue'er's eyes widened.

Although she had long seen that Chen Shanni's family background was good, it seemed she had still severely underestimated it.

Seeing her take out her phone ready to send a message, Shen Yan immediately stopped her: "You'd better wait until she moves out of the dorm to ask. Since she didn't reveal the matter of buying the apartment, it means she doesn't want people to know for the time being. I don't want others saying I'm a big mouth."

Hearing this, Wu Yue'er didn't insist. Upon learning that Chen Shanni's apartment was right next to Shen Yan's, her eyes suddenly shone like stars.

Being near the water, one gets the moon first.

It was simply a match made in heaven.