Chapter 34

When Shen Yue heard Zou Xuezheng's question, Dong Nuo was stunned for a moment before saying, "I know her but she doesn't know me."

Saying this made people even more curious.

Although Li Xing was not very interested in the relationship between the two children, seeing that Zou Xuezheng was finally distracted, he also went along with the atmosphere and asked, "Is Shen Yue very popular at school? I see she doesn't seem to like to talk much here."

Dong Nuo hesitated a little, thinking of the rumors he had heard, and finally decided to believe his own eyes, "She often hangs out with another very famous boy at school, so she is also talked about a lot... She didn't use to be the type who doesn't like to talk."

Zou Xuezheng immediately grasped the key point. Recalling Dong Nuo's hostility towards Shen Yue on the first day, she seemed to understand something. "What are people talking about at school? Does Shen Yue have a boyfriend at such a young age?"

"Not boyfriend..." The rumors at school all said that Shen Yue was Shang Junyu's exclusive toy, an expensive and beautiful toy.

Dong Nuo was not an ignorant child. Going to school at Sihai Academy, he was more or less tainted by some things, and he also knew those were not good descriptions.

Now on the show, he really couldn't say it, so he changed the subject to Shang Junyu, "Anyway, the person Shen Yue is with is not a good person, Shen Yue must have been deceived."

Originally, most of the audience had followed Shen Yue, and now the only ones still watching Dong Nuo were his family and relatives, and that unreliable sister who had run away.

Coincidentally, among Dong Nuo's relatives, there was one who had recently become a fan of Shen Yue. This morning, she had gone on Weibo slaughtering in all directions, suppressing hundreds of people with one post, and fiercely defending Sister Yue and the Shen family’s reputation.

After discovering that Dong Nuo had revealed another victim story about Shen Yue, she immediately called on her friends and followers to find out the truth.

Sister Yue will be protected by them!!!

Dong Nuo still remembered the first time he saw Shen Yue was at a music festival competition. At that time, Shen Yue played an original song of her own on the pipa and won first place in one fell swoop.

The crisp ding-ding sound of the pipa flowing into Dong Nuo's heart was like drops of water falling into his heart. He was immersed in the melody and for the first time knew what the feeling of "being intoxicated and unaware of the way home" was.

Although he only got second place because of Shen Yue, Dong Nuo admitted defeat. Shen Yue deserved first place.

When standing on stage with Shen Yue to receive the award, Dong Nuo was very excited, although he didn't show it.

But gradually, rumors spread around the school about Shen Yue's relationship with Shang Junyu, saying that Shen Yue relied on Shang Junyu to live, and even worse, they said the original song that won Shen Yue the award was specially bought for her by the Shang family, and was not original at all.

Dong Nuo didn't believe it at first. He had seen Shen Yue's emotions when performing the song with his own eyes. How could it be fake?

But what he didn't expect was that Shang Junyu did not deny it when he heard such rumors.

He didn't deny it. So Shen Yue really used someone else's song.

At that moment, it was as if something collapsed in Dong Nuo's heart. He had admired Shen Yue so much, and now he hated Shen Yue just as much.

Losing to someone with real ability was one thing, but losing to someone who bought a song with money, what was that?

At that time, Dong Nuo believed the rumors, even though there were many unreasonable parts in the rumors that he should have looked into deeper, but now being in contact with Shen Yue, as he thought back to the strange parts he noticed back then, he still felt that the song belonged to Shen Yue.

At school, everyone thought Shang Junyu's words were true, but no one had ever heard Shen Yue's side of the story.

They all thought Shen Yue's words were unimportant.

It was probably because of this that the Shen Yue now no longer spoke.

Looking back at everything that happened with unbiased eyes, it was not hard to see that the real problem was not Shen Yue, but Shang Junyu.

Dong Nuo really wanted to apologize, not only for what happened on the show, but for believing one-sided rumors at school.

"Shen Yue was deceived? What exactly happened? Do Shen Yue's parents know?" Zou Xuezheng asked three questions in a row, seeming quite concerned about Shen Yue.

She also seemed to realize that she was too excited, and quickly explained, "I'm sorry, it's just that the injustice done to Shen Yue that day has been weighing on my heart. No matter what I have to make up for it. If Shen Yue encountered bad things at school and she's not the type to speak up, I think it would still be better to let Teacher Shen know."

Hearing Zou Xuezheng's words, Dong Nuo was silent.

After a long while, he replied in a low voice, "Let's talk about it when they get back."

By now, Zou Xuezheng had calmed down again. Apart from slightly red eyes, she looked quite normal. She smiled at Dong Nuo and said, "Yeah, I know. Little Nuo must also want to apologize, our feelings are the same."

...

Shen Yue felt she was a fool.

She knew what kind of person Second Brother was yet still easily believed him.

Specialty snacks? Hmph.

They had been walking for an hour and except for dirt there was nothing to eat.

Apart from houses made of soil, houses made of mud, houses made of soil plus mud, there were concrete houses: even prison cells didn't have so many.

Looking ahead, houses.

Looking further, endless houses.

As for snack stalls, none, zip.

Shen Yue gazed at the sky at a 45 degree angle, saddened. The Soviet Union's "March of the Defenders of Moscow" that Prison Sister liked to sing rippled in her heart. She should have known, there was no chance to enjoy life, there was no chance her whole life to enjoy life, she could only barely get by eating dirt off the streets.

Maybe Shen Yue's expression was too bizarre, Shen Shuangyi couldn't help but explain, "There really were stalls here yesterday when I came out, I don't know why they're gone today. The market is not far ahead, we can also buy things there."

"Is there food."

Don't get me wrong, this was not Shen Yue speaking, but Jiang Shiwen translating in real time based on interpreting Shen Yue's expression.

Receiving Shen Yue's approving gaze after translating correctly,

[Hahaha, you've grown into a mature Jiang Shiwen, even able to translate by yourself now!]

[I'm going to laugh to death because of Jiang Shiwen!]

[Seeing Little Jiang so capable, next time Li Xing fans scold you I'll help you scold them back!]

[Damn it! Hurry up and buy Sister Yue food! Buy it for her!]

Just as the bullet screen was clamoring to buy Shen Yue food, lots of food, a flashy gift appeared out of thin air, with the message: Don't keep eating, eat again at lunch, go exercise first.

One look at the tone and content, it was obvious who it was.

The bullet screen instantly rose up in attack.

[Down with evil big brother-ism! Protect Sister Yue's freedom to eat!]

Zou Xuerong had been following beside Shen Yue the whole time. She basically didn't speak, but holding Shen Yue's hand seemed to make her very satisfied already.

After walking some more, they finally reached the market Shen Shuangyi mentioned.

However, incredibly, there was no food here either.

Shen Shuangyi strangely felt a little guilty, lowered his head to look at Shen Yue next to him, but found she did not throw a tantrum as imagined, instead she seemed quite interested in her surroundings.

Shen Shuangyi strangely felt relieved.

Raising kids was really tiring. This area was all traditional handicrafts. Every stall was very simple, but the items were genuine and valuable.

Those shiny objects displayed in big stores were actually all sold from here.

As Shen Yue walked, she looked around. These were lacquerware pieces - Prison Sister's favorite items were lacquerware. She had a big lacquered hand necklace that she usually hid away, and took out to play with after the guards left. Shen Yue still didn't know what significance it held to this day.

As she thought about this, Shen Yue noticed Zou Xuerong's eyes linger on a gourd-shaped lacquerware piece, but Zou Xuerong quickly looked away after noticing Shen Yue's gaze.

Shen Yue thought for a moment, then suddenly rummaged through her pockets for paper and pen, and wrote a message for the camera crew.

Soon after, Shen Yue's personal butler arrived and bought five of the gourd lacquerware pieces Zou Xuerong had looked at for her.

Shen Yue took out a gourd and placed it in Zou Xuerong's hands. Before Zou Xuerong could react, she also gave one each to Jiang Shiwen and Shen Shuangyi.

Two left, one for herself, one for Big Brother!