Jiang Qiuyi Didn't Know Her Mom Already Knew

Jiang Qiuyi sat bolt upright, her black hair spilling over her shoulders. Dressed in a pink spaghetti-strap nightgown, her two fair, slender legs were exposed beneath the lifted blanket.

Locking eyes with Chen Wen, Jiang Qiuyi stared at him, and her mind suddenly went blank.

Yesterday, they had still been pretending to be ordinary childhood friends. Yet today, they had been "caught in bed" together. It was far too awkward...

It was not that they absolutely could not let their parents know. Jiang Qiuyi had simply been planning some bold moves for the summer, and having them exposed early would always be a little disappointing.

"Hello? Why isn't anyone talking?"

Her mother's puzzled voice came through the phone.

"Ah, I'm here..." Jiang Qiuyi answered, her mind racing as she barely came up with an excuse. "I'm in Chen Wen's room, waking him up."

As she spoke, Jiang Qiuyi climbed out of bed, hurriedly took off her nightgown, and pulled on the tracksuit beside her.

Once dressed, Jiang Qiuyi looked at Chen Wen on the bed, waved at him, and urged him to get up quickly too.

But Chen Wen was staring blankly at Jiang Qiuyi, who had taken off her nightgown and was left in only her underwear.

"You're waking him up? Really?"

"Why not?" Jiang Qiuyi's eyes darted as she swiftly filled in the gaps in her story. "Yesterday, you said you only went on morning runs because of Chen Wen. Shouldn't I prove myself?"

"I see." The sound of a door opening came from Lu Fangmei's end of the call. "Then I'm coming over. Open the door for me."

"Ah?" Jiang Qiuyi's body tensed, but her voice remained calmly casual. "Wait a second, I'm coming."

After hanging up, Jiang Qiuyi hurriedly changed into her running clothes and tossed her pink spaghetti-strap nightgown onto the bed, where it landed right on Chen Wen's head.

"I'll open the door." Jiang Qiuyi headed out of the bedroom. "Hide my nightgown, then get up quickly. I'll try to drag Mom back to the apartment across the hall."

Taking an unconscious breath, Chen Wen removed the nightgown from his head. Seeing that Jiang Qiuyi had already left, he sprang out of bed.

He stuffed Jiang Qiuyi's nightgown into the wardrobe and changed into his tracksuit, just as Aunt Lu's voice came from the door.

"Where's Little Chen?"

"He just got up," Jiang Qiuyi said. "I haven't brushed my teeth yet, so I'm going back to brush them."

With that, Jiang Qiuyi shut the door, giving her mother no chance to enter.

Chen Wen walked out of the bedroom, looked over the empty living room, and finally went into the bathroom to wash up.

While squeezing out toothpaste, Chen Wen instinctively picked up the Blue Rabbit toothbrush before realizing that Jiang Qiuyi was not brushing her teeth with him today.

After washing his face, Chen Wen left the apartment, walked to the door of 902, and rang the bell.

Lu Fangmei opened the door.

"Morning, Little Chen."

"Morning, Aunt Lu."

"Qiuyi is still in the bathroom. Wait a moment." Aunt Lu turned toward the sofa, picked up a blanket, and prepared to take it to the balcony to wash.

Chen Wen said nothing. He stepped forward to help Aunt Lu lift the blanket and carry it onto the balcony.

As he helped, Chen Wen watched Aunt Lu's expression. It was perfectly normal, without any unusual reaction.

It seemed that this morning's incident had not been exposed.

"Little Chen, there must be lots of girls pursuing you at school, right?" Aunt Lu casually asked, as though making ordinary conversation.

"Mm... I think so."

"Is there anyone you like?"

"At school... no."

"You're already a third-year university student. You could find someone and give it a try first." Aunt Lu smiled. "I see other kids dating as early as their first or second year."

Chen Wen did not know how to respond, so he could only nod.

Fortunately, Jiang Qiuyi came out of the bathroom after applying sunscreen and called to Chen Wen, "Let's go, time for our morning run."

"Okay." Chen Wen followed her, then asked Aunt Lu on the balcony before leaving, "Aunt Lu, have you had breakfast? Should we bring you something later?"

"Sure, sure. I completely forgot." Aunt Lu replied. "Sorry to trouble you, Little Chen."

"It's no trouble."

Watching the apartment door close, Aunt Lu felt somewhat emotional.

Although she had not seen any direct evidence that morning, Qiuyi's bed had been so spotless that there was not even a single strand of hair on it.

Who would believe she had just gotten out of bed?

Still, Lu Fangmei did not dare to be completely certain based on that alone.

But after seeing Jiang Qiuyi earlier, she had deliberately glanced at her daughter's right hand and discovered that there really was a dark blue ring on it.

Online viewers might not know about Jiang Qiuyi and Chen Wen's relationship in daily life, but how could Lu Fangmei not know?

Once the matter of the ring was confirmed, along with all sorts of small details supporting it, Lu Fangmei had already guessed the truth about the two of them almost completely.

Since Qiuyi wanted to keep it hidden, Lu Fangmei would let her. She had no intention of exposing them.

After all, she had watched Little Chen grow up and was not afraid that he would fool around. Qiuyi, on the other hand, was the one more likely to stir up trouble.

Even with something as minor as buying breakfast, her own daughter had never thought to ask like that. Chen Wen had been the first to consider it instead.

If those two kids really ended up together, Lu Fangmei felt that happiness would probably make up the greater part of what she felt.

"What did my mom say to you?" Jiang Qiuyi asked curiously as they stepped out of the elevator.

"Nothing much. She just asked whether there were any girls I liked at school and said I could find someone."

"Why is Mom like this?" Jiang Qiuyi puffed out her cheeks. "Hmph!"

"Don't hold onto me. The balcony can see us."

"Oh, right."

Half an hour later, after finishing their morning run, the two sat down in Aunt Liu's breakfast shop downstairs.

"Come to think of it, what exactly are you planning to do this summer? Why do you have to hide our relationship?" Chen Wen asked after taking a sip of sweet soy milk.

"It's nothing much." Jiang Qiuyi fidgeted. "It's just one part of the plans for the alt-account videos."

Ever since they had created a shared Bilibili account, Jiang Qiuyi had often carried a camera around to film their daily life together.

Although not a single video had been released yet, she had already accumulated a large amount of footage.

Now that the exams were finally over, Jiang Qiuyi had time to edit the videos.

Of course, that was only possible after her mother upstairs had left.

Otherwise, if she saw any of that footage, everything would be exposed in an instant.

After breakfast, the two returned to the rental apartment and handed the breakfast they had bought to Lu Fangmei.

After she finished eating, Lu Fangmei replaced Jiang Qiuyi's blanket, bedsheets, pillowcases, and everything else, thoroughly cleaned the apartment, and left a little after nine in the morning.

Back at the hotel, Lu Fangmei could not quite describe how she felt when she thought about her daughter being in a relationship.

In the end, unable to hold herself back, she took out her phone and found the number for Chen Wen's mother.

"Hello, Xue Jing? I need to tell you something..."

[Pu Jie Ri Ji]: I deliberated for a long time over whether to reveal their relationship first, but in the end I decided to take a more dramatic route. It should be more interesting than the original arrangement.

Also, please send some recommendation votes~ I know that two updates a day, with the occasional one-update day, is pretty weak, but pure sweet romance stories like this are not that common. I've also been looking for similar books lately to learn from them and avoid any frustrating points... The earlier He Ran plotline was like that—writing too quickly can easily cause problems. If I slow down a little and get your timely feedback, I can still make adjustments. Please forgive me. This is the early stage of a new book, and the opening plot is very important to the book's overall performance. I hope to make it as good as possible...