Chapter 1073: Shi Yuke Finally Has an Epiphany

The stairwell.

Shi Youxuan: "What is going on with you? How did you end up with him again?"

Shi Yuke: "You've misunderstood. He was just passing by and stopped to see me. There is nothing between us; we are perfectly innocent."

Her gaze was open and honest; she was not lying.

Shi Youxuan believed her, but she did not believe Liu Jun.

That man clearly still harbored designs on her and did not want to divorce!

"You are both married now; you can't go back to how things were. Besides, you didn't even like him back then. I hope you cherish your current life and don't repeat the same mistakes."

After all, Shi Yuke had done many wrong things in the past, and Shi Youxuan was only looking out for her.

Shi Yuke pulled a long face: "Are you here to lecture me? I'm not a child anymore. I know what I should and shouldn't do; I don't need you to manage me."

"If it weren't for the sake of Dad, do you think I'd be willing to care about you? Whether you live or die is none of my business. Shi Yuke, don't be ungrateful. It's already decent of me not to watch you make a fool of yourself. You'd better behave yourself."

Shi Youxuan turned and walked away, feeling frustrated that her sister wouldn't live up to her expectations.

How much suffering had she endured in the past because of that personality of hers?

Why couldn't she ever learn her lesson?

Suddenly, her arm was grabbed!

She turned her head to see Shi Yuke smiling, looking righteous: "You don't usually care about me, and now you want to leave after lecturing me once? No way. A barbecue feast is the only way to move past this."

Shi Youxuan:...

A barbecue restaurant.

Fresh beef and lamb sizzled on the charcoal fire. Shi Yuke stared at the meat, her face glowing with happiness and satisfaction.

When the meat was cooked, she was the first to pick up a piece and put it in Shi Youxuan's bowl, then picked up another piece of sizzling, oily meat, dipped it in the sesame sauce dish in front of her, and put it into her mouth, chewing with satisfaction.

"Delicious, it's truly delicious."

Shi Youxuan hadn't eaten much, while Shi Yuke had eaten quite a lot, leaving her dumbfounded and even forgetting the earlier unpleasantness.

"Aren't you afraid of getting fat?"

In the past, Shi Yuke valued weight management above all else; she wouldn't eat much even of the food she liked most.

Looking at her now—her figure was much rounder.

"Not afraid. If I'm afraid of getting fat, I'll lose a lot of happiness. To have happiness, I can't have a good figure. I thought about it, and happiness is still the most important thing."

"Happiness is important, but it shouldn't be built on the suffering of others." She spoke with hidden meaning.

"I didn't cheat."

Shi Yuke took the initiative to bring the topic to this, explaining: "Liu Jun does come to see me often, but we have always maintained a pure friendship. I won't let anything happen with him. After suffering so many losses, I have already learned my lesson."

"I hope so."

"It's true."

Shi Yuke: "I know you don't believe me, but I can't blame you. It's because I exhausted all my credibility in the past. Whether I'm telling the truth or lies, you can't tell now, so let time prove it."

Her gaze was open and firm.

Shi Youxuan judged through her eyes that her sister was truly different from before.

Shi Yuke indicated that even now, she still couldn't develop romantic love for Gu Zhihao; she had no feeling of heart-fluttering affection.

But she would be devoted to living a life with him. As long as he didn't initiate a divorce, she would grow old with him.

Only those who have seen the great storms of the outside world know that a plain and simple life is the most precious.

She would cherish her current life and didn't want to change it, let alone become a mistress for someone she had once abandoned.

Shi Youxuan hadn't expected her sister's change to be this great.

It seemed she had finally reached an epiphany; she was living much more clearly than before.

The sisters had a very happy meal together.

After the meal, Shi Youxuan went to pay the bill, only to be told it had already been settled.

"Who paid?" She looked left and right, thinking it was an acquaintance or a business partner.

Although the meal didn't cost much, this matter still needed to be cleared up.

Shi Yuke held her arm and walked out: "Let's go, no need to look. I paid the bill."

Cashier: "Yes, it was this beautiful lady."

Shi Youxuan: "Didn't we agree that I would treat? Why are you trying to outsmart me again?"

Shi Yuke: "I've been bullying you since we were little. Treating you to a meal today makes us even."

Shi Youxuan:...

"In your dreams. You think one meal makes us even? No way. At the very least, you have to treat me to meals for the rest of your life."

"Are you trying to extort me?"

"So what if I am? The Dao of Heaven is a cycle; who has Heaven ever spared? You didn't extort me any less in the past."

"Even if that's a fact, you're still going too far. You're a rich woman, a big boss; doing this isn't good, is it?"

"Of course it's appropriate; I'm your sister!"

"Fine, next time we'll eat at a street stall."

Shi Youxuan:...

Her sister really had become a different person, one she didn't even recognize anymore.

A street stall—a place she would have frowned at even passing by in the past—she was now actually taking the initiative to suggest going there. She was truly different.

School dismissal time.

At the school gate.

Shi Youxuan came to pick up the children today, but when Sheng Zichen walked out of the school gate, his smiling face collapsed the moment he saw his mother!

He turned and ran.

"Stop right there, where are you running to?" Shi Youxuan grabbed her son by the collar from behind.

"You little brat, you run as soon as you see me; am I a tiger?"

Shi Youxuan gritted her teeth.

The little guy turned around and managed to squeeze a smile onto his face: "No, hehe, of course not. I was just afraid you were thirsty, Mom, so I wanted to go to the supermarket to buy you a bottle of water... Yes, that's exactly what it is!"

Shi Youxuan: "I'm not thirsty, let's go, come home with me."

Litian was already in the car, and he poked his head out with a grin to say to his brother: "Brother, there's water in the car, get in."

"Shut up."

He glared at his younger brother; despite the two of them usually being as close as one person, whenever their interests conflicted with their mother's, Litian would inevitably stand on their mother's side.

"Alrighty!"

Litian shut his mouth very easily, then pressed the electric window button and leaned comfortably against the leather seat, enjoying the coolness of the air conditioning.

He muttered to himself: "Too bad, wanting to participate in the Chef Conference is too bad, not going to make it..."

Outside the car.

Sheng Zichen knew this well, but he had prepared for a long time and couldn't bear to lose this opportunity, so he still wanted to make one last effort.

"Mom, you and Litian go back first, I'm going to Xi Fu's house to pick something up, I left something at their place." Zichen rolled his eyes and came up with an idea.

Shi Youxuan: "I've already picked it up for you."

She gave birth to her son, how could she not understand him?

Picking something up, indeed; she guaranteed that if she let him go, he wouldn't come home.

Sheng Zichen:...

"But, it's not very polite to leave without saying goodbye, is it? You've taught us since we were little to be polite children, so I still have to go back once to say thank you to Xi Fu."

Shi Youxuan: "You're right, but I've already done the thanking for you. You don't need to do anything at the Shi Family right now, just come home with me."

Her expression was already unpleasant, and although her tone was flat, there was a hint of her gritting her teeth.