After Marrying the Cold and Elegant Beauty, I Fell in Love (GL) - Chapter 26.2

Han Shuangshuang snorted in her heart. What did it mean by ambiguous contact? Everything she did was for the great love of saving Shen Yuru. Her heart was very sincere, without even a bit of romantic ambiguity.

After speaking, Han Shuangshuang continued shaking Shen Yuru’s arm, teary-eyed and pitiful. “Sister~ Shen~”

Shen Yuru actually gave a rare crooked evil smile, as though she had won the battle just now. “It’s not impossible. Of course, if you don’t listen, I’ll immediately kick you out.”

Han Shuangshuang instantly stood straight and saluted. “I guarantee I’ll obey Lord Shen’s words.”

Neither of them had class that afternoon, so after this little interlude, they planned to return to Shen Yuru’s place together.

Han Shuangshuang naturally had the tact to dogleggedly take the packaging of the expensive dress from Shen Yuru’s hands and hold it herself.

She followed behind Shen Yuru cheerfully.

The two of them were very quiet along the way. Too many farces had happened today, so they both needed to calm down a little.

The place Shen Yuru lived was not far from school. It only took about twenty minutes to walk there, and along the road, they would pass many shops.

Han Shuangshuang wanted to eat everything she saw. Especially when she saw a delicately decorated high-end dessert shop with many desserts she had never seen before inside, she could not help stopping.

In her original world, her greatest dream had been to achieve dessert freedom.

These desserts looked beautiful and delicious. Who would not love them?

Unfortunately, her pockets were empty, and she could not give these desserts a home.

Han Shuangshuang was extremely disappointed. Why was it that even after becoming a rich kid, she was still a poor rich kid?

Using the corner of her eye, Shen Yuru saw Han Shuangshuang not continue following. So she turned around to look and saw Han Shuangshuang plastered against the dessert shop’s glass, looking inside pitifully in a very worthless way.

“Sister~ Shen~”

Han Shuangshuang kept her expression unchanged and slowly turned her head to look at Shen Yuru.

Shen Yuru’s scalp tingled from Han Shuangshuang’s “Sister Shen,” and even her heart could not help thudding. “Speak properly. Don’t whine. Don’t drag out your tone.”

Han Shuangshuang immediately pursed her lips and clasped her hands in a pleading gesture. “Sister Shen, your future little nanny wants to eat this dessert. Can you advance my wages a little?”

Looking at Han Shuangshuang’s expectant eyes, Shen Yuru walked over and rubbed Han Shuangshuang’s head with her hand. Then the corner of her mouth curved slightly. “You really want to eat it?”

Han Shuangshuang nodded with extreme force. “I do. I want to eat the pink one.”

Shen Yuru seemed to understand and nodded slightly. “Then will you listen to me?”

Han Shuangshuang was obedient. “I’ll listen.”

Shen Yuru’s smile carried a trace of amusement. “Then all right. Be good. We’re not eating it.”

Han Shuangshuang: “??!!”

Shen Yuru was already this old, yet she still tricked children.

There was a bad woman here!

Shen Yuru was a proper bad woman!

Han Shuangshuang twisted her lips and wanted to make a fuss, but Shen Yuru looked over with one glance. “Do you still want a place to live?”

Han Shuangshuang said, “Hmph. Sure enough, what they say online is right. The prettier a woman is, the worse she is. Even her heart and liver are black.”

Han Shuangshuang muttered the whole way. “She won’t even let me eat a little cake. This is exploitation. This is oppression. The people at the bottom must rise up in resistance. For the sake of little cake, I must revolt.”

Shen Yuru simply pretended not to hear.

Doggos could not be spoiled too much. Otherwise, they would no longer know who the master was.

……

The Han family.

Han Ruhua slowly woke. Looking at the ceiling, her eyes immediately filled with tears. Two streams of hot tears slowly flowed from the corners of her eyes.

Seeing her daughter like this, Xiao San grew sad as well. “What is so good about that boy? Why are you so fixated on him?”

Han Ruhua silently turned over, facing away from her mother and no longer looking at her.

Seeing this, Xiao San sighed. “I looked over that boy’s information. He’s the student council president at school. Although his background isn’t that good, his own conditions are still very outstanding. If Han Shuangshuang hadn’t called the police, and if you had told Mother in advance, Mother could have spoken to your father. The two of you still might have had a chance. But now Han Shuangshuang interfered and completely cut off all your hopes with that boy. So stop thinking about him. In the future, you’ll meet someone even better.”

Xiao San could only advise her like this.

Although she knew very clearly in her heart that even if Shen Yuru and Han Shuangshuang had not interfered, she absolutely would not have allowed her daughter to be with that kind of poor boy.

Moreover, after so many years of judging people, she had always been very accurate. She felt that poor boy was no different from a phoenix man.

Although he studied very hard, his character was not very good.

Even though she thought this in her heart, she absolutely would not say these things to Han Ruhua. Instead, she dragged Han Shuangshuang out as a shield to divert Han Ruhua’s resentment.

She wanted Han Ruhua to hate Han Shuangshuang from now on.

At this moment, Han Ruhua sat up in shock. Tear tracks still hung on her face as she looked at her mother in disbelief. “So it was Han Shuangshuang who called the police? Why would she do that? I didn’t provoke her at school, and I didn’t offend her. Why would she ruin my love?”

Xiao San sat beside Han Ruhua’s bed, pulled Han Ruhua into her arms, and gently patted her back. “Hasn’t Han Shuangshuang always been like this? She can’t bear to see us mother and daughter live well. Your father’s health is getting worse and worse. In the future, such a large Han family will still need you to manage it. Han Shuangshuang grew jealous, so she framed you. She didn’t want you to get what you wished for.”

More and more resentment appeared in Han Ruhua’s eyes.

Xiao San said, “Rest properly. Mother will have the nanny prepare dinner for you. There’s no use being unable to forget him. What you need most right now is to recover your body. Only then will everything still be possible.”

After saying that, she left Han Ruhua’s room.

Han Ruhua fumbled around and found the phone on the bedside table. When she lit up the screen, what appeared was a large close-up of a man’s face.

Han Ruhua looked obsessively at the photo on the screen. “Brother Long, if not for Han Shuangshuang, perhaps we would already be together. It’s all because of Han Shuangshuang. I endured her for so many years and always wanted to ease the relationship between her and Father, but she repaid kindness with enmity. She never cared about my affection for her, and now, she even made me lose you. I will never forgive her. I must make her pay the price for this. I must make her taste a pain ten times worse than mine—the pain of losing the person she loves.”

Xiao San hid by the door. Hearing Han Ruhua muttering to herself from inside the room, the corner of her mouth curved into a satisfied smile.

……

At Shen Yuru’s residence, Han Shuangshuang was cooking, cheerfully holding a kitchen knife as she cut vegetables.

Han Shuangshuang suddenly sneezed heavily twice. “Achoo, achoo. I wonder who’s cursing me?”

Shen Yuru brewed a cup of tea and slowly drifted past, walking into the study. She opened her laptop and began handling documents.

At this moment, Han Shuangshuang finished cooking and brought the dishes out. She went to the study and knocked on the door, calling Shen Yuru out to eat.

Shen Yuru had an excellent figure, and her bearing and posture were also exceptionally outstanding. Following behind Shen Yuru like a little attendant, Han Shuangshuang pursed her lips.

“Sister Shen, we’re at home now, and it’s just the two of us. You don’t need to hold yourself so properly, right?”

Shen Yuru lifted her eyelids and glanced at Han Shuangshuang. Han Shuangshuang immediately shut her mouth tactfully and covered it.

After the two finished eating, Han Shuangshuang immediately cleaned up the table. Then she followed Shen Yuru eagerly, wanting to squeeze into Shen Yuru’s study.

[System: Host’s thinking is correct. If Host can lower Shen Yuru’s blackening value to zero before certain plot nodes and raise Shen Yuru’s heart healing progress to one hundred percent, then perhaps the marriage alliance plot between Shen Yuru and Host will not be triggered.

Of course, this is only the system’s guess. Whether Host can achieve this still depends on Host’s own efforts.]

That was why Han Shuangshuang thickened her skin and followed beside Shen Yuru like a little tail that could not be shaken off no matter what.

Because she had to increase her physical contact with Shen Yuru as much as possible, raise Shen Yuru’s heart healing progress, and lower Shen Yuru’s blackening value.

Only then could she avoid, to a greater extent, walking the original owner’s old road toward a cannon-fodder ending.

After all, the male lead Long Aodi had already been cannon foddered. That meant her own ending had become even more unknown. If she did not trigger the marriage alliance plot with Shen Yuru, that would be even safer.

Shen Yuru had a faint smile on her face. It was not warm or cold, but for some reason, it made Han Shuangshuang shiver all over.

Shen Yuru said, “These are the review materials for your final exams. I just found the electronic version and printed them out. Before you sleep tonight, you need to memorize all of these. I’ll quiz you before bed.”

Han Shuangshuang instantly wilted. The light in her eyes visibly disappeared. “Sister Shen…”

Shen Yuru was like an extremely principled dean of discipline, cold and unyielding. “There are still two hours before bedtime. If you keep dragging things out like this, ten minutes will pass. If you can’t finish, you can only take your blanket and sleep by the door.”

Han Shuangshuang glanced outside. It was the height of summer right now, and there were a lot of mosquitoes in the hallway. She did not want to feed mosquitoes in the middle of the night.

She could only unwillingly take the review materials and begin rote memorization.

Han Shuangshuang was rather smart. As long as she entered the right state, she learned everything very quickly, and she would immerse herself in it tirelessly.

The study door was not closed. Han Shuangshuang sat on the sofa and recited from the materials, while Shen Yuru, after hearing Han Shuangshuang’s recitation, stopped typing on her laptop. Tilting her head, she propped it up with her hand and quietly watched Han Shuangshuang’s extremely serious appearance.

According to her observations, Han Shuangshuang was not stupid.

Then why had she failed so many courses last semester?

The living room light shone on Han Shuangshuang. Before she realized it, Shen Yuru became absorbed in watching her. She stared at Han Shuangshuang’s features.

Han Shuangshuang was actually the rather cute type. Her round face had a little flesh, and when she smiled, she revealed two canine teeth. Her eyes were also round, with rounded inner corners, making her look silly and honest. When she smiled, her whole person looked even sillier.

But Shen Yuru had overlooked that Han Shuangshuang was around 1.7 meters tall. It was only in front of her that Han Shuangshuang deliberately acted adorable and silly. When Han Shuangshuang became angry, her aura was still imposing.

If Han Shuangshuang were a little more proper and reserved, she would probably also be a great beauty whom everyone pursued.

Shen Yuru watched as, after Han Shuangshuang finished reciting for a while, she began reviewing. During the next section, she did not make a sound. She merely seemed to have some subconscious little habit, biting her own lips until those two lips were flushed red.

Shen Yuru felt heat rise in her throat. She remembered how, this afternoon, she had done such a thing in front of so many people—licking the corner of Han Shuangshuang’s lips.

At that time, there had been light cream at the corner of Han Shuangshuang’s mouth, and beside her lips lingered the numbing, spicy flavor of boiled pork slices. Sweet and spicy mixed together and instantly bloomed on Shen Yuru’s tongue.

Shen Yuru lowered those phoenix eyes, making herself stop thinking about Han Shuangshuang.

The two of them passed two hours quietly like this. When it was almost ten at night, Shen Yuru planned to wash up and prepare for bed.

Han Shuangshuang obediently brought the review materials to Shen Yuru and asked her to quiz her.

However, Shen Yuru took a quilt from the master bedroom and placed it in Han Shuangshuang’s arms.

Shen Yuru’s place was a small duplex with a first and second floor. Only the second floor was the bedroom, while the first floor contained the living room, kitchen, and bathroom. So either Han Shuangshuang slept on the sofa, or the two of them squeezed onto the same bed.

Clearly, the moment Shen Yuru brought a quilt down from the second floor, she had rejected the option of sleeping together with Han Shuangshuang.

Han Shuangshuang took the quilt in confusion.

Shen Yuru coughed twice. “There is only one bed, so only I can sleep in it. Since you’re living under someone else’s roof, you need to know the rules of living under someone else’s roof. Tonight, you’ll sleep on the sofa. I’m going to take a bath in a moment. Go fill the bathwater.”

Han Shuangshuang held the quilt. No matter how unwilling she was in her heart, her face still showed a gritted-teeth, flattering smile. “All right, Sister Shen. If Sister Shen tells me to go east, I absolutely won’t go west. I’ll definitely serve Sister Shen until she’s perfectly comfortable.”

Then she spread the quilt on the sofa and obediently went to fill the bathwater. But while filling the bathwater, she punched the water. “Bad woman. You didn’t even buy me a little cake, and now you’re ordering me around like this. Bad woman, bad woman, bad woman.”

After Han Shuangshuang finished complaining and turned her head, she discovered Shen Yuru was standing there wrapped only in a bath towel, her fair and tender shoulders exposed, quietly watching her.

Under Han Shuangshuang’s stunned expression, Shen Yuru calmly walked to the bathtub. Then she untied her bath towel, stepped into the tub with her long legs, slowly sat down, and stretched out an arm. There were droplets of water on it, like fine white jade soaked in warm water, emitting faint heat.

Han Shuangshuang immediately covered her nose, her face red as she turned her head away.

Complaints were complaints, but Shen Yuru was still a first-class peerless beauty.

Before, when she read books, she still had not understood what it meant to say one could die beneath peony flowers and still be romantic as a ghost.

Now, she finally understood.

Shen Yuru stretched out that arm. Bored, she lifted her fingers, picked up a strand of Han Shuangshuang’s high ponytail, and wound it around her index finger.

“Serve me properly, and I’ll let you stay a few more days.”

Han Shuangshuang gave a faint hum through her nose.

“I didn’t peek, and I didn’t take advantage. I’m a super proper gentleman.”

Shen Yuru propped up her head and looked at Han Shuangshuang’s ramrod-straight back. The corner of her mouth curved slightly.

For some reason, whenever she saw Han Shuangshuang putting on this act, a desire to tease her would rise in Shen Yuru’s heart. It was like teasing a cat or dog. In any case, after teasing her, Shen Yuru’s mood would become extremely pleasant.

“You’re pure now, but when you were fierce that night, I didn’t see you show any tenderness.”

Han Shuangshuang felt Shen Yuru’s words burn her ears. In this stuffy bathroom, wearing clothes made her unable to sit still at all. She hurriedly got up and ran away.

The night could still be considered peaceful. Han Shuangshuang obediently lay on the sofa on the first floor, curled up as she slept, while Shen Yuru went up to the second floor and lay in bed. Once the smart lights turned off, the room was instantly covered in darkness.

Shen Yuru’s sleep quality was very poor. Every night, she needed a very long time to fall asleep. Now that Han Shuangshuang had moved in too, the room was so quiet that she could hear Han Shuangshuang’s breathing, making it even harder for her to sleep. It was only in the latter half of the night that she finally drifted off in a daze, but then she had a nightmare again.

In the dream, Shen Yuru kept running. She discovered that no matter how she ran, she could not run out of the endless darkness. In the dark sky appeared several man-eating smiling faces. Those relatives pointed at her and criticized her. Piercing noise continuously poured into her ears. Even if she crouched on the ground and covered her ears and eyes, she could still see those scenes.

She was not a jinx. Her parents had not been forced to death by her. This was her parents’ family business. She had to take it back.

She did not want her heart to stop beating. No, she was unwilling. She still did not want to die.

But even though she shouted this in her heart, the situation before her went in the opposite direction from what she hoped. Bit by bit, it became even worse.

She could not find an exit in the dark corner. She kept running through the boundless illusion of empty space, gasping for breath and using all the strength in her body, going from hope to despair, and from despair to even deeper despair.

Where was her light?

“Shen Yuru? Shen Yuru, wake up!”

A familiar voice sounded. In a corner to the due south, a trace of light appeared. In her sleep, Shen Yuru desperately grabbed onto the final life-saving straw.

“Sister Shen, are you dreaming? Wake up quickly. Dreams are all fake.”

Shen Yuru frowned, her forehead covered in cold sweat. She opened her eyes, her gaze sharp and dangerous as it fixed on Han Shuangshuang, who was looking at her anxiously.

Han Shuangshuang had turned on the bedside lamp. The somewhat harsh light shone into Shen Yuru’s eyes. After Shen Yuru slightly closed her eyes, she frowned and half sat up, exhaling a long breath to steady her emotions.

“It’s nothing. Don’t worry.”

Han Shuangshuang pulled two tissues from the bedside table and wiped Shen Yuru’s forehead.

Shen Yuru asked, “What time is it?”

Han Shuangshuang said, “A little past one in the morning.”

Shen Yuru felt that empty, fearful sensation in her heart. It was gripping her heart and continuously dragging it downward, unable to settle.

The light in Shen Yuru’s phoenix eyes was slightly dazed. Only after a while did she recover. Then her gaze slowly focused on Han Shuangshuang’s face.

Her cool, thin lips parted slightly. Looking at Han Shuangshuang, she slowly asked, “Han Shuangshuang, do you know how to help someone sleep?”

Han Shuangshuang froze. “What?”

Shen Yuru lifted the quilt off herself, revealing the ultra-thin silk nightgown beneath. She eased the thin layer of sweat on her body caused by the nightmare. “I mean doing some bedtime exercise to improve sleep.”

Shen Yuru looked at Han Shuangshuang for a long while. Seeing that she did not move, she pulled the quilt back over herself. “Forget it. You’re just a fool. There’s no way to count on you.”

After saying that, she reached toward the bedside table, wanting to open the drawer and look for something.

However, Han Shuangshuang finally understood what Shen Yuru meant and grabbed Shen Yuru’s wrist.

“Does Sister Shen not know that when it comes to this kind of thing, you absolutely shouldn’t provoke the other person?”