Chapter 500: Chapter 171: 80s Drama Queen Forced to Become a Top Student (6)

Xiao Xuezhen grew even more pleased as he listened. "Just let her start auditing classes next Monday. The child has a mind of her own and might not like our suggestions. We’ll just see if she wants to enter first or second grade after the summer break."

"When she’s home, her mother and older siblings can help her catch up. First-grade material is very simple; a few months is more than enough time."

"We’re just thinking she should get used to school life ahead of time. Besides, what kid her age just runs around playing all day? Instead of having her pitifully watch others go to school while she has nothing to do at home, it’s better for her to follow along and learn..."

Principal Zhang nodded repeatedly. "Chief Editor Xiao, you’re so enlightened. A child’s education should be gradual, but a little push in the right direction now and then can certainly have a positive effect."

Having settled the matter, Xiao Xuezhen didn’t stay long and hurried home.

In truth, the idea of having Sheng Leyun join the class was something Xiao Xuezhen had gleaned from listening to the children’s daily conversations. Don’t underestimate kids; they move in little cliques and are particularly fond of excluding outsiders.

’Heh. Coming from the countryside to the city, suddenly thrown into one of the more renowned schools in all of North City... Sheng Leyun’s mental and emotional development is bound to go through some major fluctuations.’

’Without proper guidance from an adult, she’ll easily become like an over-fertilized sapling—growing too many branches and never developing into useful timber!’

’Ruin her with indulgence.’ In the end, only this phrase remained in Xiao Xuezhen’s mind.

On his way home, he also called for Sheng Leyun to come back.

In ’88, the standard of living was still not high. Only families that were particularly well-off had television sets. In this two-story tube-shaped apartment building, for instance, only the editor-in-chief’s family on the easternmost end had a black-and-white TV.

Basically, at night, after people washed up, they would cool off outside and chat for a while before going home, turning off the lights, and going to sleep.

The weather was neither cold nor hot. Sheng Leyun lay on the balcony, covered by a worn quilt, her eyes squinted as she was about to drift off to sleep.

’I’m a child, after all. I should just relax. Eat, drink, and play is all I need to do.’

So right now, she wasn’t thinking about anything at all, just getting ready to sleep comfortably.

But then, from the solid wood bed less than three meters away, came a rustling sound.

Earlier in the day, both of them had been aroused. If they hadn’t been interrupted, they would have surely sealed the deal. Now, the young man and woman were lying in the same bed, skin against skin, both having been without a partner for a long time.

It was truly a case of dry tinder and a raging flame, ready to ignite at the slightest touch.

At first, Ren Xingchen gently pushed Xiao Xuezhen, whispering shyly, "Brother Xiao, wait a little... Yunyun might not be asleep yet..."

Xiao Xuezhen sneered inwardly.

’He couldn’t stand Sheng Xibao. So what if the country boy soldier had a good physique and a foolishly kind heart?’

’On what grounds did Sheng Xibao get everyone’s affection and even get promoted over him time and again?’

And this feeling of disgust had reached its peak when Ren Xingchen brought the child to visit relatives, which led to all of this.

Sheng Xibao was gone, but a miniature version of him, Sheng Leyun, had successfully captured his attention.

What’s more, from the very beginning, Sheng Leyun had expressed her resistance and dissatisfaction towards him.

’There are many ways to destroy a person. He particularly enjoyed making them rot from the roots up!’

"It’s fine. Kids need a lot of sleep when they’re growing. After a long day, she’ll pass out the moment her head hits the pillow. We’ll just be a little quieter. Don’t you feel for your man?" He didn’t bother to lower his voice and even moved a little as he spoke.

Ren Xingchen let out a soft cry and acquiesced with feigned resistance.

But men have a wicked streak; the more a woman bit her lip to stay silent, the more excited he became.

Listening to the THUMPING sounds from the bed, Sheng Leyun couldn’t help but roll her eyes in secret. ’She knew they were largely doing it on purpose, caught up in the heat of the moment, treating a big girl like her as a mere prop, a piece of furniture!’

Her eyes darted, and she couldn’t resist shouting, "Mr. Xiao, you can just make your point, you don’t have to beat your wife right after getting married!"

"No matter how disobedient my mom is, how unvirtuous, how sloppy her housework is, you’ve already married her. Why can’t you show her a little respect?"

Her shout came out of nowhere, making the couple on the bed jump in fright.

The veins on Xiao Xuezhen’s forehead were about to burst. ’Being interrupted twice in one day was giving him a complex!’

’He had made things out to be too simple, underestimating Sheng Leyun’s destructive power.’

The couple felt as if a bucket of cold water had been dumped on them. All their passion was extinguished, and they could only lie silently under the covers and simply sleep...

It was finally quiet. Sheng Leyun, content, drifted off to dreamland.

「The next morning」

Xiao Xuezhen was up bright and early, hurrying Ren Xingchen and Sheng Leyun along. "We already agreed. We’re going to the kids’ maternal grandparents’ house for breakfast this morning."

"Let the two elders meet you, then we’ll take the children out to have some fun. It’s perfect since they go back to school tomorrow, on Monday."

Ren Xingchen was putting on makeup in front of the mirror, constantly asking how her hair and clothes looked.

Xiao Xuezhen smiled and nodded. "Xingchen, you’re beautiful. You look good in anything."

Sheng Leyun tutted. "Mom, if you want to win over your husband’s first wife’s parents, you should dress plainly. If you go over there all dolled up like that, everyone will think you’re a man-stealing seductress, the evil stepmother from TV and storybooks!"

Ren Xingchen’s hand, applying lipstick, froze. She looked at her elegantly made-up reflection in the mirror, then turned to Xiao Xuezhen with a frown. "Is that true?"

Xiao Xuezhen just smiled. "I love it when you’re dressed up so glamorously. You look so young and beautiful."

"The kids’ maternal grandfather and grandmother are both very kind people. Since they’ve already said they accept you, they certainly won’t care how you’re dressed."

"Are you a different person today in leather than you were yesterday in cloth?"

Sheng Leyun nodded. "Right. A beautiful flower stuck in a pile of cow dung."

A chill entered Xiao Xuezhen’s eyes, but his smile was forgiving as he said, "Yunyun, I know you don’t like me being your stepfather."

"But your mother is still young; she can’t spend the rest of her life with just you. She also needs someone else to support her, to walk hand-in-hand through life’s storms."

"Since she was going to have a stepfather sooner or later, why can’t it be me?"

"Besides," his smile deepened, "your father did save my life. For that debt alone, I have to take good care of you!"

But Sheng Leyun was not the simple original host of this body. She was an old demon-like figure, worldly and weathered from dozens of lives spanning thousands of years.

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