Chapter 466: and ===GLOSSARY===

Mu Xin didn't really want to bring up the topic again, "I'll pull up the surveillance footage later and show you."

Qing An still wanted to ask, but Mu Nian, who had rushed over, had already approached.

He didn't care how Qing An was there, reached out and handed the phone to his sister, "Baby, Mu Xianqi is looking for you."

Mu Youyu hesitated a moment, then took the phone.

Before the other could speak, she complained, "Xianqi brother, you're really annoying, not even giving us a heads-up."

On the other end, Mu Xianqi heard it as his sister being cute, "Baby, don't be mad……"

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Liangjin snatched the phone and hung up.

Mu Nian took the phone back with schadenfreude.

Mu Xi put a hand on Jiang Liangjin's shoulder and praised, "Nice, we'll ignore him."

Qing An stared dumbfounded, "You just hung up like that? He hadn't finished speaking."

Song Yusui patted his shoulder earnestly, "What could it be? An emergency is just coaxing the little sister; I did it for him."

"He's done." Jiang Liangjin's expression unchanged, he turned and walked back to Mu Youyu's side, lowering his voice, "Later I'll find someone to scold him for you."

Mu Youyu's previously tense expression relaxed a bit, she tilted her head to glance at him, "Isn't that a bit inappropriate?"

Mu Xi withdrew her hand from Jiang Liangjin's shoulder, turned toward the parking lot, "Alright, let's disperse, we have class tomorrow."

The group walked out one after another, Qing An lagging behind, still pressing Song Yusui for details about "Ai'ai."

Song Yusui, unable to shake him off, opened the family group, pulled up the afternoon's live broadcast replay, and showed it to him.

Qing An held the phone, walking and watching, his expression shifting from curious to shocked, then to bewildered, "No, Mu Xianqi usually looks like a normal person, how could his taste in girlfriends be……"

"So unique?" Song Yusui helped him fill in the word.

"I didn't mean that." Qing An chose his words carefully, "I mean, could he have been poisoned by some kind of gu?"

Song Yusui patted his shoulder, "We also want to know the answer to that question."

The next morning, the family group exploded.

Mu Xianqi sent a message after 4 a. m., roughly saying—after a night of deep thought, I've peacefully broken up with Ai'ai, and I won't love anyone else from now on.

Below the message came a long string of emojis.

Uncle Da: 【【Smile】 Great, I said the Nan family's little girl is good, let's meet up later】

Song Yan: 【What good day is today?】

Song Lujing replied with a clasped-hands emoji: 【Condolences and move on】

When Mu Youyu woke up in the morning and saw that message, she was lying in bed rubbing her eyes, staring at the screen for a while before confirming she hadn't misread it.

She turned over, buried her face in the pillow, let out a muffled laugh, then felt she shouldn't laugh, quickly pressed her lips down, and sent a hug emoji in the family group.

Jiang Liangjin's message popped up right after: 【Xianqi brother broke up】

Mu Youyu replied "Seen it," followed by a facepalm emoji.

A Jin: 【He also said he won't love anyone else in this lifetime】

Mu Youyu: 【Pretty good, saves us from him bringing Ai'ai back next time】

Days just slipped by like that; at Nanfeng, all non-exam activities had nothing to do with the seniors.

The third mock exam ended quietly in mid-May.

On the day the scores came out, Mu Youyu's phone vibrated several times, all classmates discussing scores in the group, occasionally tagging her, the year's top rank.

She knew she had performed steadily, and several people had already decided on their future paths, so she didn't open it.

Jiang Liangjin's company affairs had increased a lot since the start; the Jiang clan had several major projects underway, while the Shen clan's internal adjustments were already finished and also pushing projects in sync.

He spent each day either in class or in meetings, his phone constantly ringing.

Sometimes Mu Youyu sat beside him, able to hear various sounds from the other end of the call, which Jiang Liangjin would dismiss with a few words.

Mu Xi's piano competition wrapped up, she won several awards, but didn't specify what they were; Mu Youyu only found out from seeing Grandma Song's post in the family group.

Song Lujing's esports team made the playoffs; he sat in class every day wearing headphones to play ranked matches, Mu Xi glared at him several times, each time he said "just one more game," then kept playing.

Yu Ci and Gu Xingnan were still the same as before—one noisy, one quiet; Yu Ci's earlier remark about starting to work hard from now on turned out to be just talk.

Lin Ning's visits to school began to dwindle; her older sister had already arranged a school for her in Y Guo, all the paperwork done, and she would leave in early June after the senior year exams.

She had compressed her coursework here considerably, spending most of her time handling overseas study affairs, and only occasionally came to school to have a meal with Mu Youyu.

The conversation topics shifted from the former 'How is Ye Zeli today?' to things like 'I heard there are many fun places in Y Guo,' 'I'll miss you so much, you must come see me in the future,' and similar remarks.

As for Ye Zeli's side, it's unclear whether they have reconciled or what, but Lin Ning indeed mentions him less often.

Mu Youyu didn't ask, Lin Ning didn't say; just once, while the two were sitting in the classroom, Ye Zeli brought her a box of cake and a large bag of snacks.

Lin Ning accepted it with a smile, waited for him to sit back in his seat, then suddenly said, 'Actually he's not that bad either,' and after that there was no further talk.

When the classroom countdown sign dropped from two digits to one, the most tranquil spot in Nanfeng Gaozhong turned out to be Class 1 of Senior Year 3.

Several desks and chairs of the recommended students were moved away, the remaining empty seats were gradually filled by students transferred from the Olympiad Class, and the classroom layout kept changing.

Only the long table formed by joining four tables together remained untouched, with no one moving it.

Finally the college entrance exam is here! Han Mo shouted the happiest, "My mom said if I can score over six hundred, she'll give me ten million and a car! Isn't that just a piece of cake?"

Someone chimed in: "Is your mom encouraging you or humiliating you?"

Sporadic laughter rang out indoors.

"You don't know anything; this is called encouragement born of love." Han Mo glanced in that direction, "Unlike you, if you scored 690, your dad would just give you a big red flower."

That person silently turned their head; indeed, the big red flower was sent via WeChat, not as good as the sticker kind.

Song Lujing rarely jumped into the conversation: "Your mom is still pretty strict with you; my mom said as long as I take the exam, she'll buy me an island."

Although his parents aren't often around, the material things they should give have never been lacking in the slightest.

Han Mo was left speechless.

Song Lujing raised his eyebrows: "Why aren't you speaking? Is it because you don't like money?"

"It's because I'm naturally not fond of speaking."

"……"

Jiang Liangjin was flipping through a management-type textbook when he heard the page-turning sound beside him stop; he turned his head, "What's up?"