Chapter 3: Isn't this her Yujingyuan house?!

Son, this isn't our home, is it?

Shu Shu questioned life.

Shu Lingchen said, "No, I rented this place to live in."

Huh? We have a house, so why are we renting a place to live?

Shu Lingchen fell silent for a moment, raised his hand and touched his nose. As his mother, Shu Shu instantly recognized this as the small gesture he makes when he feels guilty, but Shu Lingchen only said, "Let's go upstairs first and talk."

Shu Lingchen's rented apartment is a small two-bedroom, one-living-room unit under sixty square meters.

Upon entering.

The indoor atmosphere is light, and it's kept quite tidy.

Shu Shu unconsciously nodded, "Not bad." Her grown‑up son finally has a trait like hers—he likes cleanliness.

You'll stay in this bedroom.

Shu Lingchen pushed open the door of the empty bedroom in front of Shu Shu.

Shu Shu expected to see an empty room.

The result.

The lights came on, revealing a bed with sheets and blankets, a desk, a vanity table, and a cabinet in the room.

Ignoring the size, the arrangement and decoration are exactly the same as Shu Shu's room in Yujingyuan.

Moreover, the room is spotless, clearly cleaned often, and ready to move into at any moment.

This is…

I did this.

Receiving Shu Shu's doubtful gaze, Shu Lingchen lowered his head a bit embarrassed; his voice sounded lost yet tried to sound relaxed:

"Nothing much. I just feel that doing it this way makes it seem like you're always here, never having left, and that I'm not alone."

Shu Shu's separation from her son is no more than the blink of an eye.

But Shu Lingchen has endured a thirteen‑year void where his mother was absent.

Son…

Shu Shu gazed at Shu Lingchen and involuntarily stepped forward.

And Shu Lingchen also looked at Shu Shu and said, "Mom…"

He instinctively opened his arms, ready to accept his mother's moving, long‑overdue, warm embrace.

Then a big flick struck his forehead—

"Your brain's addled—I have my own big room, why are you giving me a snail shell?"

If Shu Lingchen had been in a hazy, dreamlike state just before, now he finally felt the real presence of his mother's return.

Just that flick of the finger—no paternity test needed—this is truly his mother, the real deal!

Shu Shu lowered her hands and walked around the house twice; in fact, she didn't even need to stride—just turning her head let her take in the whole place at a glance.

It didn't even meet the standard she could accept!

"Can we talk now? What happened to our family house? Why are we living here?"

Shu Shu crossed her arms and stared at Shu Lingchen.

Shu Lingchen turned his eyes aside, avoiding eye contact with Shu Shu, and touched his nose again.

Shu Shu narrowed her eyes, about to speak, when the overhead light began to flicker, then went out completely on the third flick.

The living room went dark.

Shu Shu: "Oh, this damned broken house!"

Zero points! Zero points!

"I'll fix the lightbulb first!"

Shu Lingchen, as if finally finding a chance to catch his breath, first shut off the main breaker, then rummaged through the toolbox, dragged a chair under the bulb, and handed Shu Shu his phone with the flashlight turned on.

"Mom, give me a hand."

Shu Shu reluctantly took the phone, raised her hand, and illuminated him.

Suddenly, the phone screen in her hand lit up.

It looked like a special‑follow push notification from a campus forum.

Shu Shu instinctively glanced at it and saw the keywords "Shu Lingchen," "confession," and "Chu Lian, the school belle."

Shu Shu instantly perked up, ready to click in and read.

She hadn't opened it when a password screen popped up.

Shu Shu wondered what password her son would set; three seconds later she pressed 1‑2‑3‑4‑5‑6 in sequence.

It opened.

As soon as she entered, she saw the very push notification she had just seen.

Title:

【Shock! The school bully Shu Lingchen confesses to Chu Lian, the school belle, again and again and gets rejected!】

The post was made three hours ago, and the anonymous replies have piled up to hundreds of floors.

"OP, can't you pick a better title? It must be the shameless toad‑like Shu Lingchen pursuing Chu Lian, getting rejected, then becoming angry and threatening not to let Chu Lian leave!"

"I was actually there watching from afar, just as the first floor said! If it weren't for the Class Monitor Shi Jin of Class 1, I wouldn't know what would happen."

"In my opinion, Shu Lingchen and his gang of troublemakers are the rat droppings of San Zhong; they should be locked up in a juvenile detention center for reform!"

……

Out of those hundreds of posts, eighty‑nine percent are criticizing Shu Lingchen, one percent are criticizing his lackeys, and the remaining ten percent are concerned about Chu Lian's safety.

At that moment, a banner popped up at the top of the screen: "Your special‑follow post has been published!"

Shu Shu accidentally entered while browsing the floors.

She saw a reply from a user whose ID was "I am Chu Xiao Lian ya".

"Hello everyone, I'm Chu Lian, I'm fine, nothing happened. Regarding today's incident, I believe Shu Lingchen, my classmate, was just impulsive and didn't mean to hurt me, so please don't pay too much attention anymore."

Below, she also posted a selfie showing she was fine.

Someone instantly replied, "Wuwu, I'm literally crying to death, school belle Chu Lian, you're beautiful and kind-hearted!"

Shu Shu only felt, this is too naive.

Although the harasser is her own son, but facing such harassment, she would just go hang outside his door in the middle of the night, scare him into peeing himself, and see if he still dares to like her!

Then Shu Shu casually opened that selfie.

In the photo, Chu Lian looks harmless, her body tilted sideways, intentionally or not, revealing the Moutai wall at the upper right corner.

Shu Shu's first reaction was.

Huh?

Has taste!

Because she likes collecting Moutai, whether vintage or zodiac editions, she stores a dozen or so bottles each year.

Taking down an entire wine wall would amount to roughly five or six million.

I didn't expect that Chu Lian's family also has someone who likes this.

"Oh my god, what am I seeing, so much Moutai! Save me, that's too extravagant!"

"Even more, I think Shu Lingchen is like a toad wanting to eat swan meat; for a rich young lady like Chu Lian, the school belle, to be entangled by such a poor loser is just terrible luck for eight lifetimes!"

"Wuwu, Chu Eldest Young Lady, why don't you consider hiring a bodyguard? See if that toad-like guy still dares to harass."

"If I may say, only someone who can match Chu Lian's family background in school would be the class monitor of Class 1, Shi Jin, a rich young master."

Shu Shu enlarged the photo, preparing to carefully appreciate their Moutai, bottle by bottle, her eyes lighting up again and again; not only were their preferences the same, but even the categories of their collections matched.

So identical that—Shu Shu felt increasingly familiar the more she looked.

This……this isn't her Moutai wall!!!

Shu Shu hurriedly clicked into Chu Lian's homepage, scrolling to a post Chu Lian had replied to.

Not many, and they are basically all selfies, without exception the body is tilted sideways, leaving the left or upper right corner empty.

Then Shu Shu flipped through them one by one, and saw:

Her massage bathtub!

Her super-sized princess bed, as soft as cotton candy!

Her custom-made solid wood dressing table!

Her limited-edition figure cabinet!

Her game console, plus a full set of deluxe edition game cards!

Her her her……

All of them are! Hers!

This damn thing is her 300-square-meter big house in Yujingyuan!!!

Shu Lingchen was focused on changing the light bulb, and as he kept at it, for some reason he felt a chill on the back of his neck.

He turned his head to look, and was so frightened he almost fell off his chair.

All that could be seen was Shu Shu's face lit pale by the phone screen, and she said in a gloomy tone:

"Shu Lingchen, from now on you have no right to remain silent, but everything you say from now on will become your last words before your next reincarnation."

She handed Shu Lingchen the selfie of Chu Lian with the Moutai wall and said:

"Explain, why, is she, in, my house."