My Childhood Sweetheart Is a Little Crybaby!-Chapter 178 (Two-in-One - ) Rabbits Don’t Eat Grass Near Their Burrows
In the evening, Xu Jiayan passed by Jiang Yuan’s room, thinking that the girl should have calmed down by now, so he nonchalantly knocked on the door, wanting to have a chat. However, there was no response after knocking for a long while.
Could she have fallen asleep already?
Xu Jiayan frowned and hesitated for a bit before he decided to open the door anyway, only to find that there was nobody inside. He immediately turned and went back down to the living room.
Xu Jinyan, that kid, was nestled in the living room playing games.
Xu Jiayan walked over and snatched the phone right out of his hands.
Xu Jinyan was engrossed in his game, and the phone was abruptly taken away. Just as he was about to curse, he suddenly met his brother’s face and instantly got a jolt, hastily shutting his mouth.
Xu Jiayan glanced at him and asked, "Where is she?"
"Who?" Xu Jinyan was utterly confused.
Xu Jiayan’s thin lips pressed into a straight line, his eyebrows lightly furrowed, his face clearly showing a trace of displeasure.
Watching his brother’s expression, Xu Jinyan suddenly had a moment of inspiration, "You mean Jiang Xiaoyuan? She went to celebrate a friend’s birthday today, she won’t be coming back tonight."
There is no one else in this family who can elicit a human expression from his brother other than Jiang Xiaoyuan.
Turns out his brother had specially come down to ask him because the girl wasn’t in her room.
Wait a minute, why was his brother going to Jiang Xiaoyuan’s room so late?
Xu Jinyan looked at his brother and immediately his face was full of gossip.
If it was any other day, Xu Jiayan would surely have noticed, but today his attention was on something else.
Is this the first time the girl is spending the night outside to avoid him?
Upon hearing this, Xu Jiayan’s brow wrinkled even tighter as he said, "Whose birthday is it? Aren’t you two always glued together? Why didn’t you go this time? And why hasn’t she returned home after such a late birthday celebration?"
Xu Jinyan shrugged indifferently, "Although Jiang Xiaoyuan and I do spend most of our time together, we also have our own friends and personal space, okay? I don’t know every one of her friends. Besides, a bunch of girls celebrating a birthday, why would I join in the fuss."
"As to why she isn’t coming home tonight, you should ask Lin Xiaowan, she agreed to it."
Halfway through saying this, Xu Jinyan suddenly realized something, and looked at his brother, "But bro, if you wanted to know, why didn’t you just ask her yourself? That girl should still be awake. Also, didn’t Jiang Xiaoyuan tell you?" That can’t be right! Staying overnight at a friend’s place is a big deal; how could that brat not tell her brother in advance?
Suddenly noticing his brother’s face looked off, a thought sparked in his mind, "You two didn’t have a fight again, did you?"
Xu Jinyan perked up, changing his posture and sitting cross-legged on the sofa, staring at his brother with eager anticipation, "It must be because you punished that brat to write a reflection for fighting yesterday, and she’s angry so she deliberately didn’t tell you."
Right!
The more Xu Jinyan spoke, the more excited he became, his face clearly showing schadenfreude.
"Are you very free?" Xu Jiayan looked at him coolly.
"Eh! No!"
Xu Jinyan realized he had laughed too obviously and quickly shut his mouth. Sensing that his brother might be in a bad mood, he decisively jumped off the sofa and ran upstairs, faster than a rabbit, saying, "Bro, I’m going to my room to write a reflection."
Halfway running, he doubled back to take back his phone from his brother’s hand.
As soon as Xu Jinyan returned to his room, he threw himself onto the bed and started messaging Jiang Yuan on his phone.
Reigning Champ in the Kindergarten (Xu Jinyan): [What’s the situation with my brother?]
A while later, Jiang Yuan’s reply came through.
Bunnies Don’t Graze Home Turf (Jiang Yuan): [You got nothing better to do?]
Reigning Champ in the Kindergarten (Xu Jinyan): [Tsk, no wonder you’ve been determined to be my sister-in-law since we were kids; you even talk like my brother. But isn’t your WeChat name suggesting you’re up to something?]
Bunnies Don’t Graze Home Turf (Jiang Yuan): [If there’s no issue, kneel and buzz off! Sis is too busy to deal with you now.]
Reigning Champ in the Kindergarten (Xu Jinyan): [There is an issue, a big issue! Come back and take care of your man; our house is almost turning into a cold storage.]
Bunnies Don’t Graze Home Turf (Jiang Yuan): [What’s wrong with Brother Yan?] She ultimately couldn’t ignore what was happening.
Reigning Champ in the Kindergarten (Xu Jinyan): [That’s what I should be asking you. What’s going on with you two? You didn’t really have a fight, did you?]
Bunnies Don’t Graze Home Turf (Jiang Yuan): [Sort of!]
To be exact, it was she who was unilaterally angry with Brother Yan.
Reigning Champ in the Kindergarten (Xu Jinyan): [Here’s a free tip: My brother is very edgy right now. You might want to use this opportunity to take him down in one fell swoop]
[I’m telling you, men shouldn’t be spoiled; they’ll only get worse. You should leave him hanging, and definitely not forgive him too quickly.]
On the other end of the phone, Jiang Yuan couldn’t help but twitch her mouth, holding the phone.
Why did she feel like this guy just loves to see things get more chaotic?
"Yuanyuan, come on, I’ve prepared the bathwater for you, go take a bath!" Yu Chengcheng’s urging voice came from the bathroom.
Today was Yu Chengcheng’s birthday. She just wanted to invite Jiang Yuan to her house to celebrate with her. Coincidentally running into Lin Wan, she suggested that Jiang Yuan stay overnight at her place. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
Lin Wan was happy that Jiang Yuan made her own friends, and after all, Yuanyuan was grown up enough to spend a night at a friend’s house. Girls can have their heart-to-heart talks at night. Back in college, she and Ah Yun would often squeeze under one quilt, so she happily agreed.
"Got it, be right there."
Jiang Yuan responded, putting down the phone.
Just then, the screen lit up again. Jiang Yuan thought it was another message from Xu Jinyan and didn’t pay much attention to it.
Meanwhile, after sending the message, Xu Jiayan kept staring at the phone. One second, two seconds... one minute, two minutes... until half an hour had passed, and the girl still hadn’t replied to him.
Xu Jiayan picked up the phone, intending to call, but thinking it was late, the girl might have gone to bed, he gave up in the end!
After her bath, Jiang Yuan discovered that her phone had run out of battery and shut down automatically, but she didn’t mind too much about it. She horsed around with Yu Chengcheng for a while, and soon after cozying up in the same quilt and chatting, the two girls quickly fell asleep.
But Xu Jiayan suffered from insomnia.
Every time he closed his eyes, he saw the image of the young girl angrily opening the bedroom door and running out.
Lying in bed, tossing and turning, he just couldn’t fall asleep. He ended up getting up, working through a couple of sets of papers, memorizing a few pages of vocabulary until the sky began to lighten.
In the morning, Xu Annian, seeing his son’s haggard face, expressed his concern: "Are you under too much stress from studying recently? How about we go for a family picnic this weekend to unwind?"
Thinking that the girl would definitely be happy to go out with the family, Xu Jiayan nodded and hummed in agreement.
In the morning, just before self-study class started, Xu Fang stepped one foot into the classroom and immediately noticed someone sprawled across his desk...
