Yang Junlian had been throwing her weight around in the Chen family for so many years, but this was the first time she felt fear.

When she saw Xia Xinyu enter the frame and respond to her 'worrying about her daughter-in-law running away' issue, she blushed on the spot.

Completely red.

No!

Why didn't Xinyu tell her that little brat was there?

If she had been there, would she have made such a joke?

Now, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was going to be in trouble.

"Ah... Xinyu, hello," Yang Junlian said with a forced smile, greeting her. "Is it cold over there lately?"

"It's okay, Haidong is warmer than Jingnan," Xia Xinyu replied.

"But it's winter after all. In a few days, you and Chen Yuan should go out for a walk and buy some clothes," Yang Junlian said.

"Ah, okay, I understand." Xia Xinyu nodded, agreeing verbally, then tilted her head to look at Chen Yuan and said, "You chat with Mom, I'm still cooking something, I'll go check on it."

"Okay," Chen Yuan, sitting on the bed like a lord, nodded in response.

"Then Auntie, I'll go over there first."

Then, Xia Xinyu also greeted Yang Junlian, and then, using the excuse that she was cooking something in the room, explicitly opened the door and left.

After the other party left, Yang Junlian immediately confronted him seriously, "What's wrong with you? Why didn't you tell me Xinyu was in the room?"

"You didn't ask..." Chen Yuan said aggrievedly.

"If I didn't ask, couldn't you have said it in advance?"

"Oh, I understand," Chen Yuan said, feigning sudden realization. "Next time I call you, I'll tell Xinyu, 'You go out first, I'm chatting with my mom.'"

"Do you even know how to be in a relationship?" Hearing her son's suffocating answer, Yang Junlian was defeated.

"Then what can I do? I can't say it, and I can't chase her away..."

"Just send me a message when you're about to start the video call," Yang Junlian said, annoyed by this kid. "Mom also needs to maintain her image in front of Xinyu."

"Okay, I understand," Chen Yuan said.

"Was she pretty embarrassed just now?" Yang Junlian asked worriedly.

"Yeah, she and I are closer than kin, and you said she would run away, so she was a little unconvinced..."

"Okay, stop showing off." Listening to her son's confident tone, Yang Junlian couldn't help but laugh.

But to be fair, Chen Yuan did have that kind of charm.

Height, looks, her son was not inferior to others.

Besides this, he also had a particularly good personality, which was – protectiveness.

This was also why some of the younger members of the family especially liked to play with him.

Yang Qiqi always said that Chen Yuan would harm so many good girls in the future. That innocent and reliable appearance was too deceptive.

Indeed, Yang Junlian also knew what her son was like.

It was very normal for girls to be attached to him. When he was in junior high school, girls even found their way to their door, which was the best proof.

But similarly, the bad thing was also here.

"By the way, Chen Yuan," Yang Junlian stared at Chen Yuan and asked curiously, "Are you popular with girls at your Eleventh High School?"

"Really not," Chen Yuan quickly waved his hand. "I don't go out much, how could I be popular with girls?"

"Liars are dirty dogs," Yang Junlian said.

"If it's a puppy, then it's a puppy, why does it have to be a dirty dog..."

"Then it's a puppy, liars are puppies," Yang Junlian said with a smile.

"Tsk." Chen Yuan clicked his tongue and could only honestly confess, "There are a few girls who have a pretty good relationship with me, but it's all pure friendship."

"Then how much pure friendship is there?"

"Two or three."

"Are they pretty?"

"Not as pretty as Xinyu."

"Then what about the impure ones?"

"There are no impure ones, but if you're talking about one-sided crushes, then there are indeed two, but I didn't agree," Chen Yuan said casually.

Hearing this, Yang Junlian roughly understood that her son had even more luck with the ladies than he did in junior high school.

As a parent, there wasn't much she could say.

But regarding matters of the heart, she could offer a small suggestion.

Looking at her handsome son in the screen, Yang Junlian said with a smile, "It's okay to have friends of the opposite sex, and it's understandable for others to like you, but remember, like today, no matter who says bad things about her, you have to tell her that what they said is wrong."

"Are you asking me to talk bad about you behind your back?" Chen Yuan retorted.

"Say what you need to say to whoever you're talking to, and pay attention to your EQ."

"Okay, I'll study 'EQ' hard," Chen Yuan said.

"Okay, I won't say anymore, take care of yourself and eat well, son."

After Yang Junlian greeted Chen Yuan, she hung up the video call.

Then, she stood up from the sofa and paced back and forth nervously.

Anxious about saying the wrong thing.

But as she worried, she suddenly realized that the fault wasn't entirely on her.

How old were these two kids, and they were already often alone in the same room?

And when they were on the video call, Chen Yuan was still sitting on the bed...

Could it be that before the call, the two of them were sleeping in the same bed?

That won't do.

She never thought of becoming a grandmother so soon!

"That's right, it's Chen Yuan's fault. I was just chatting with my son normally, where did I go wrong?"

Yang Junlian's secret to being the head of the family was to minimize mental exhaustion as much as possible.

But after removing the responsibility from herself, she felt much more relaxed.

She went to the bedroom, opened the door, and shouted at Chen Jianye, who was sitting in a chair playing games, "Your son's grades are out! Aren't you going to ask?"

"Ah?" Chen Jianye, who was playing CF, took off his headphones and turned around, looking confused. "They're out today?"

"Do you even know what grade your son is in?" Yang Junlian asked sarcastically.

"...What are you joking about? How could anyone forget that?" Chen Jianye said seriously, with a "don't joke with me" look.

Wasn't it just that when Chen Yuan was in the first grade, she went to his elementary school to attend a parent-teacher conference?

Did she have to remember it for so long?

Of course he knew what grade he was in.

Elimination method.

It definitely wasn't the first year of high school because the time he went to Xia Hai was clearly more than a year.

It shouldn't be the third year of high school either. If it were the third year of high school, he wouldn't be living so comfortably at home.

During his third year of junior high school, Mrs. Yang Junlian gave him quite a hard time.

Clearly, it wasn't the year he was taking the college entrance exam yet.

Therefore, it could be concluded that he was in the second year of high school.

"It's the second year of high school, did you really think I didn't know?" Chen Jianye said a little angrily at the moment he remembered.

"You didn't just think of that, did you?"

"What do you take me for?" Chen Jianye turned around completely, leaned back in his chair, and asked, "So how was it? How did our son do on this joint exam?"

With her arms crossed, leaning against the doorframe, Yang Junlian said nonchalantly, "661 points."

"..."

Hearing this number, Chen Jianye was stunned.

Then, he pressed Esc, exited the game and returned to the lobby.

After being silent for a while, he stood up and let out a deep sigh.

"What's wrong? This score is enough to get into Haidong University, why don't you have any reaction at all?"

Yang Junlian felt that Chen Jianye was a little too calm.

Although she was in charge of the education at home and didn't let this old man, who advocated 'happy education' and even often called his son to play games, interfere much,

But your son got such a high score, and you're not excited at all, just because you don't agree with my educational philosophy? Isn't that too narrow-minded?

Just as she was thinking this, Chen Jianye walked out of the bedroom and into the living room.

Then, in front of Yang Junlian, he walked to the small altar table next to the wine cabinet, took out a lighter from his pocket, lit three red incense sticks, and inserted them into the incense burner, and worshiped piously.

Seeing this scene, Yang Junlian wanted to laugh.

Indeed, if the Chen family could produce a descendant from Haidong University, the ancestors would really have face.

It was no less than their ancestral graves emitting green smoke.

Not to mention modern times, even if you turned to the family tree, not many ancestors could have achieved this, right?

And this was just Haidong University.

If it were Huaqing or Ji University, they would have to open a separate page in the family tree for Chen Yuan.

Forget it, she should also light three incense sticks.

Thinking this, Yang Junlian leaned over, and just as she was about to light the incense, she heard Chen Jianye muttering softly in a ghostly manner, "Ancestors, I knew our Chen family wasn't worse than the Yang family. That Yang guy always uses Yang Qiqi to suppress me. Our Chen Yuan is no worse than her..."

"Tsk!"

Yang Junlian's inner emotion was destroyed by this man's damn competitiveness, and she immediately interrupted unhappily, "Speak properly, say it again!"

………

I wonder what Chen Laodeng's mood will be when he hears the results.

After finishing the video call, Chen Yuan was always very curious.

After all, some of the achievements of children are not only his own, but also have a lot to do with their parents.

Although he usually said that the old man was exploding with gold coins, it seemed a bit like a filial son making everyone laugh.

But who doesn't want to make their parents happy?

He just hoped that they would know it themselves, and not spread it everywhere, making the whole family know that Chen Yuan was destined for Haidong University and so on.

It wasn't that he was afraid of being embarrassed if he didn't get in.

It's just that with his level, aiming for Haidong University was embarrassing.

'Knock knock knock'

At this moment, the sound of knocking on the door rang.

Chen Yuan opened the door.

"Is the phone call over?" Xia Xinyu asked.

"It's over," Chen Yuan replied.

"Hmm..."

And Xia Xinyu, who had just remembered her mother's words, had some opinions, stared at Chen Yuan, and complained, "Didn't you say good things about me in front of your mother? Why does she still think I'm going to run away... Like I'm that kind of fickle girl."

"She's wrong."

Thinking of his mother's instructions, Chen Yuan put what he learned to good use. "In her impression, it's like those girls who are especially beautiful and especially excellent, if you don't hold them firmly in your hands, other boys will covet them, after all, they're just too charming. But how would she know that our Xinyu isn't that kind of ordinary girl? Right?"

"..."

Chen Yuan's words made Xia Xinyu not know what to say, her face was red, and she felt strangely comfortable in her heart. After holding it in for a long time, she finally said, "A man's mouth."

Clearly, she was the one who had been said 'bad things' about by her mother.

But after his explanation, it was as if she had been praised fiercely.

Even the patriarchal words like 'hold her firmly in your hands' seemed a little sweet.

"Don't blame her, anyone who has such a beautiful girlfriend, and you're not even in the same school, no one can feel at ease..."

"Stop," Xia Xinyu stretched out her hand, clenched her fist, interrupted Chen Yuan's casting, and said quite seriously.

After the other party shut up, Xia Xinyu said as if complaining, "Isn't saying this kind of thing clearly not trusting people?"

"That's right, I believe you. It's my mom who's wrong, daring to question Saint Xinyu."

"What's Saint Xinyu? That's too weird."

Xia Xinyu covered her ears, not wanting Chen Yuan to say these embarrassing words, and then could only say forgivingly, "Okay, Mom isn't wrong either, she was just chatting normally. It's all your fault for making me listen."

"Didn't you also make me listen to you chatting with your aunt?"

"I'm different, I'm upright and honest," Xia Xinyu said, sticking out her chest. She said quite proudly.

It's better not to stick it out.

Xinyu, where are you fierce?

"Okay, okay, I know, it's my fault."

"Besides."

After chatting here, Xia Xinyu also said a little proudly, "It's not for sure that I won't get into your school."

This time, Xia Xinyu performed well.

644 points.

Ranked 393rd in the whole school.

Haidong Fourth High School ranking, 1108.

Although her goal was to be within the top 1000 in Fourth High School, after all, there were no bad students in Haidong Fourth High School. Even the affiliated high school with the weakest comprehensive strength could beat Xia Hai's third school, Second High School or Foreign Language School.

So, this result was quite good.

Although it was still difficult to go to the top two universities, it wouldn't be too much pressure to choose other schools in the capital.

"That's right, we'll go to the same school, and even be in the same class," Chen Yuan said, pinching Xia Xinyu's cheek and smiling lightly. "When the time comes, I'll be Xinyu's deskmate for four years."

"Okay," Xia Xinyu just responded with a single word, full of anticipation.

In the university campus, holding hands to go to the classroom together, sitting together during class, taking notes together, and in the cold winter of the North Country, secretly putting her hand in his pocket...

Just thinking about it made her happy.

Being deskmates with someone you like is just that happy.

Wait.

Chen Yuan's current deskmate is Zhou Fu, right...

"Um." Xia Xinyu looked at Chen Yuan and asked curiously, "Does Zhou Fu put her hand in your pocket during class?"

"What are you imagining with such a leap in thinking?"

"Ah, never mind."

At this time, the takeout happened to arrive.

Then, Chen Yuan went out to get the takeout.

The two of them sat in front of the small table, using phone stands to play their favorite variety show, "Informal Talks," while watching and eating.

While Chen Yuan, like a hungry wolf, was seriously eating, Xia Xinyu's eyes glanced slightly to the left, looking at Chen Yuan's pocket.

Then, she slowly reached her hand in.

But at the moment she put it in, she was stunned.

In surprise, she looked at Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan also froze for a second.

Slowly turning his head and looking down at Xia Xinyu's hand, he said, "I forgot to tell you, there's a hole in the bottom of this pocket..."

"You..."

Xia Xinyu's cheeks gradually flushed, and she also lowered her head, weakly asking, "Are you not wearing long johns?"

"Yeah."

"...I see."

Just as Xia Xinyu finished speaking awkwardly and was about to pull her hand out, Chen Yuan suddenly grabbed her wrist.

"Ah?" Xia Xinyu looked at him with a flushed face, completely dumbfounded.

Chen Yuan averted his gaze, looked ahead, covered his mouth with his other hand, and his cheeks were also slightly red, "Your hand is cold, I'll warm it up for you..."

"Al, already warmed up," Xia Xinyu said, stuttering, looking in the same direction as Chen Yuan, with almost the same expression.

"Oh..."

Just like that, the two of them maintained this position, without moving.

Suddenly, Xia Xinyu shuddered.

Then, timidly turning her head, her cheeks so red that she couldn't see any other color, she carefully opened her mouth and said, "Wi, will it move?"

"Cough cough."

Chen Yuan quickly coughed twice to interrupt the conversation, to ease the atmosphere a little.

But clearly, this atmosphere had been made unhealthy by him.

Thankfully.

As long as Xinyu doesn't say anything nonsense, the book won't be banned.

Forget it, let's eat.

Chen Yuan let go of Xia Xinyu's hand and let her go.

However, to his surprise, even though he had already let go, Xia Xinyu still kept her hand inside, not pulling it out.

"What, what's wrong?" Chen Yuan asked, puzzled.

"Um..." Xia Xinyu lowered her head, a little embarrassed, and held it in for a long time before nodding honestly and saying, "I, it's pretty warm."

Of course.

Young men full of vigor were like that.

But that's about enough.

If you don't take it out, the pre-made dishes will get cold!

Finally, Xia Xinyu still pulled her hand out.

The two of them started eating again.

Then, this Yuzi suddenly said out of the blue, "Later, I'll help you sew up the hole."

"It's okay, it's just a school uniform, let it be tattered," Chen Yuan didn't mind.

But Xinyu suddenly became anxious and said worriedly, "If it's not sewn up, what if someone else reaches in?"

"No one will pick my pocket, except..."

"Except what?"

"Boys might," Chen Yuan said honestly.

"That won't do either."

Xia Xinyu gave a light hum, the purest her, said a very mature joke with a serious face, "It can only be mine, this hand warmer."