Chapter 71

Because of Shen Yue's performance in math class, in just a short period of one class, she went from being a little-known student in the class, with only Qing Xiaoyu knowing her, to becoming the apple of everyone's eye.

All the students wanted to come over with their math questions and chat with her for a bit.

However, right after class, Shen Yue immediately became like a boneless creature, lying down, sprawling, slouching - anything but sitting properly.

She looked completely incapable of answering any questions, so her classmates could only leave reluctantly without getting a chance to talk to her.

During the next cooking class, Shen Yue was very obedient and didn't handle knives at all. She just stood by with her hands behind her back, watching others cook. In the end, without having laid a finger on any cooking, she got offered food tastings by most of the class. She was able to get close with all her classmates and promised to help them with their academic studies.

As a result, Shen Yue ate her fill, but got a 0 for her cooking class grade.

But even though Shen Yue got a 0, she still felt that she had eaten very happily during this class, and the other students were also very happy that their cooking got high praise.

The only one who wasn't too happy was Ye Yin.

Because when Shen Yue tasted food from most of the class, she didn't eat his.

The reason being, by the time she got to him, Shen Yue was already full from eating so much that she couldn't take another bite!

Ye Yin was upset, but could only leave with a smile.

When the final bell rang to end class, Shen Yue summarised her day and felt she should be able to sleep well tonight.

"See you tomorrow, Shen Yue," Qing Xiaoyu was the first to pack up her schoolbag and waved to Shen Yue. Beside her stood the girl Gao Qin, whom she had eaten with at lunch.

Shen Yue had already remembered Gao Qin's name, since her little cakes were so tasty.

At this time, Gao Qin was also waving to Shen Yue, "Bye bye~"

So Shen Yue imitated their actions and waved back.

When she got to the classroom door, Zou Xuerong was already waiting there. Seeing Shen Yue appear, she immediately came over, "Yueyue!"

Arriving at the school gate with Zou Xuerong, the familiar car door opened. Shen Yichen was sitting upright in the back seat, holding a tablet and looking in their direction. For a moment, Shen Yue felt a little disoriented.

Shen Yichen turned off his tablet and, seeing Shen Yue just standing at the car door not getting in, asked her, "What's wrong? Worried about your classmate? Her family's driver is here too."

Shen Yue turned to look, and sure enough, Zou Xuerong was already in another car, waving at her.

Seeing that Shen Yue still seemed distracted, Shen Yichen softly asked, "How do you feel about school life?"

Shen Yichen had thought a lot today. If Shen Yue really couldn't adapt to the school environment, they could always arrange private tutoring at home.

It was just that the fifth young master, having lacked interaction with peers for a long time, ended up developing some eccentric habits. If possible, he hoped that Shen Yue could have more contact with other people during her formative years, and experience friendship and see the beauty of the world.

Rather than being stuck in past pains and imprisoning herself for life.

But...was he pushing too hard for quick results, letting Shen Yue face this place that had hurt her so soon again...

"Big brother, I feel going to school is quite fun," Shen Yue's voice rang out beside Shen Yichen's ear just as he was lost in thought.

Around them was the constant stream of students coming and going, noisy, laughing, playing - the most carefree time in a person's life.

This should have been the scene for a child living in ivory towers.

But for Shen Yue it had become an extravagance.

Shen Yichen had never seen Shen Yue like that.

No matter how Shen Yue fooled around with him usually, he knew her surroundings were dead.

But today, he saw vitality in Shen Yue.

This made him feel his decision did not seem to be wrong after all.

"What fun things happened that you can tell me about?" Shen Yichen patted the seat next to him. Shen Yue immediately understood and scrambled up into the car, sitting down and starting to tell Shen Yichen about her day.

Shen Yichen kept listening, occasionally praising Shen Yue. Both had smiles on their faces.

"Big brother, can people see their own end point in advance?" Shen Yue still couldn't help but ask this question. In fact, what she really wanted to ask was, am I really not a Shen family child?

But she couldn't say anything relating to this matter, she could only change how she asked.

Shen Yichen looked at Shen Yue, and saw her seriousness from her eyes.

Shen Yichen did not hurry to answer, but asked Shen Yue in return, "Then if you saw your end point in advance, looking back from the end point, what would you be able to see?" Shen Yue thought about it, it should be...

"The road I took to get there?"

Shen Yichen ruffled Shen Yue's hair, and gently said, "Looking back from the endpoint, you can only see one road, that's your destined path. But looking now towards the end point, there's more than one road."

"If what you wanted to ask about was fate, I really like what Mr. Shi said - not knowing what fate is, is fate."

Shen Yichen grabbed Shen Yue's little braid, enjoying his successful handiwork a second time, and at the same time educating her, "So you should also work hard for your own fate. No more sleeping during class, understand?"

Shen Yue seemed to have understood something, her eyes gradually lighting up, immediately promising, "Mm, no sleeping, or I won't be able to sleep at night!"

Shen Yichen: ......

Oh well, at least she won't sleep in class now.

The next few days also passed uneventfully, Shen Yue lived quite comfortably at school. Apart from occasionally needing to use her brain a bit in math class, everything else was fine.

Her classmates were also great, bringing her food every day. She really liked her new classmates!

Then it was Saturday.

On Friday Shen Yichen had seriously told Shen Yue about an upcoming business trip, and lectured her on many precautions.

But Shen Yue was just looking forward to playing at home alone, and was very happy, not paying much attention. It wasn't until the next morning when she was woken up by crying that she realised things weren't so simple.

Shen Yue's room was on the second floor. Right below her room was the small garden in the house. Looking out from the balcony, one could see beautiful scenery.

But similarly, right under her little balcony was also a place that was great for hiding secrets, like crying for example.

Shen Yue opened her eyes and listened for a while, then flipped over to continue sleeping.

But the intermittent sobs kept entering her ears, still strangely distressing.

Shen Yue didn't want to fall asleep and then dream about this crying sound.

With no other choice, she had to get up in her pajamas to go downstairs and take a look.

Don't ask why it was pajamas - just because she was planning to go back to sleep afterwards.

Shen Yue circled around to under her room, and from far away could see someone crouching there sobbing.

She walked right over and greeted them in a friendly manner, "Could you please go cry somewhere else? You're disturbing my sleep!"

Hearing Shen Yue's words, the sobs lifted their head. Both were startled to see each other's faces.

Wasn't this fourth sister (younger sister)?