Chapter 1405: The Pink Love Letter

"All you ever do is mess with that broken fishing rod of yours, you don't care about the children at all. And what's wrong with Litian? He's suffered such a shock that he won't even swim now that we're at the Resort."

Being complained about by his wife, Sheng Hanyu also noticed that something was wrong with Litian.

But his reaction was different from his wife's; he said indifferently, "It's nothing, isn't it just a breakup? It's a small matter. A life that hasn't experienced a breakup is incomplete. He'll be fine after a while."

Shi Youxuan disagreed and immediately retorted, "A small matter? You're just good at talking about others but not yourself. Back then, you..."

"Stop!"

Sheng Hanyu didn't want his wife to dig up those old, moldy stories from the past. He had a strong survival instinct and immediately asked, "What do you want me to do? Just say it."

"That's more like it."

Shi Youxuan was satisfied. She smilingly snatched the sea fishing rod from her husband's hand and said gently, "Go keep Litian company while he swims."

"Alright."

Fishing was much more fun than swimming, but he couldn't ignore his wife's words. Sheng Hanyu had no choice but to change into his swimming trunks and walk toward Litian...

Shi Youxuan sat down beside her eldest son, Zichen. Zichen was startled: "Oh, Mom, when did you come over? Why didn't you make a sound?"

"Hmph! What is going on with you?"

Shi Youxuan was dissatisfied: "Litian is dejected because he's going through a breakup, but you haven't even been in a relationship, so why do you look like you've lost your soul too?"

"Huh?"

Zichen was a bit surprised: "How do you know about Litian's breakup?"

He hadn't told his mother about the brief relationship between Litian and Lu Feifei, and it was impossible for his brothers to have said anything.

Shi Youxuan was quite proud: "Is there anything in this house that can be hidden from me? Not only do I know he broke up just after starting to date, I also know that you're popular with girls, yet you haven't even dated a single girlfriend. You're not even as good as your younger brother Zihan..."

"Why are you like this? Why bring me into it when you're talking about Litian? You seem so proud that Zihan is dating early. Are you even his real mother?"

The mother in their family was different from most mothers.

When she was with them, she was mostly like a friend, but sometimes her way of thinking was too erratic. For example, right now, Zihan dating early would be enough to give any other mother a headache, but his mother didn't care at all.

"Alright, let's not talk about Zihan."

Shi Youxuan finally realized that her attitude just now was a bit inappropriate.

She brought the topic back: "What's wrong with you? You look so dejected."

"I'm not, I'm doing just fine, I'm completely normal. Where do I look dejected? No, heh heh, no."

No?

To explain is to cover up, and to cover up is to admit the truth.

Shi Youxuan said to Zichen, "Since you're fine, go swimming. On such a hot day, you'll be dried into a piece of jerky on the beach in no time."

"I don't want to—I'm going!"

Zichen stood up and walked toward the sea!

Shi Youxuan called out to her son: "Hey! Who goes swimming while carrying a bag?"

Zichen was wearing swimming trunks but had a small crossbody bag on his back, which looked quite comical.

"Put it down, I'll watch it for you."

Zichen hesitated and seemed unwilling.

"Just put it down. What, are there secrets in the bag? Even if there are, have I ever rummaged through any of your bags from the time you were small until now?"

Zichen thought that made sense. It was indeed true; from childhood to now, although his mother was often unreliable, she had never really rummaged through their diaries, drawers, or bags.

When it came to respecting their children's privacy, his parents did a very good job.

Zichen felt reassured and handed the bag to his mother, emphasizing: "You absolutely cannot give it to Litian."

"Don't worry, I'll only give it back to you."

Zichen went off to swim, feeling at ease.

Shi Youxuan lay on a beach chair, sipping iced coconut juice contentedly, watching the person swimming further and further away in the sea, and muttered to herself: "Further, a little further..."

Very good.

Far enough.

So, without hesitation, she opened Zichen's bag to take a look.

That's right, she really had no history of rummaging through her children's bags, but that was because it hadn't been necessary.

She knew what the children were thinking and what they were doing, even if she wasn't keeping a close eye on them.

As long as the general direction was right, there was no need to manage every little thing.

But now, both Zichen and Litian were having problems.

By intuition, Shi Youxuan felt it all had to do with that girl named Lu Feifei.

First, she took Zichen's phone into her hand.

She tapped it casually, and a cartoon character on the screenscreen said haughtily: "Want to sneak a peek at my phone?"

Then, the character pointed behind itself: "Get lost!"

It had a password?

A small matter.

It took almost no effort at all for the phone's password to be unlocked.

If this had been Shi Ran's phone, she probably wouldn't have been able to unlock it.

But unlocking her sons' phone passwords wasn't a difficult task.

Once unlocked, she checked QQ, WeChat, Bilibili... none of the commonly used apps showed any problems.

So she continued searching in the bag.

There was a hidden compartment at the back of the bag, quite secret and not easily discovered, but Shi Youxuan found it and opened it.

The hidden compartment opened, and inside lay a pink envelope.

She took it out and opened it, looking at the signature first; the signature was Lu Feifei.

Shi Youxuan had guessed correctly; it was indeed a love letter written to Zichen by Lu Feifei that had disturbed his peace of mind.

Dear classmate Zichen:

I like you, just like I am accustomed to my favorite caramel grass jelly pudding milk tea; the sweet, lingering taste always circles in my heart.

You rejected me last time, but I do not hate you; you are so sunny and bright, handsome, and come from a good family, so it is I who am not good enough for you, but I have the right to like you.

You can reject me and not like me, but you cannot stop me from liking you.

I have broken up with Litian; in fact, I never liked him in the first place, and the only person I like is you.

Originally, I was with Litian to make you angry, to see if you would be jealous or not. You didn't seem to be jealous, which made me very sad; am I really that bad?

If I am bad and you don't like me even a little bit, why did you put so much effort into writing a love letter to confess to me back then?

Perhaps you will say that what happened back then was just a prank, and you have already explained that to me.

Fine, even if what happened back then was a prank, later when we were transferred to Class Twelve, you encouraged all the students to study hard just to provide me with a good learning environment; you admit that was your original intention, right?

Whether you admit it or not, the whole class knows anyway; everyone knows that you like me.

If a boy doesn't truly like a girl, how could he do things for her with such care?

You don't admit that you like me because your younger brother Litian also likes me, right?

If you are afraid to admit you like me because of him, there is actually no need at all; I will absolutely, absolutely never like him, and as I have said, being with him was to make you angry, there was no other meaning.

Now we have already separated, though it doesn't really matter whether we separated or not; even when we were together, we weren't truly together, and he and I never even held hands.

We never really went on a date, never went to see a movie together, and never drank milk tea together; we never did a single one of the things that couples are supposed to do!