"Xiaoxiao."
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"It's been a month since school started. Have you settled into university life?"
"Yes."
"Are your classmates and teachers easy to get along with?"
"The ones who are easy to get along with are easy to get along with. The ones who aren't aren't."
"Give me a straight answer!"
"My classmates are all very polite to me."
"That's good."
"Yes." The young woman nodded earnestly. After a moment's hesitation, she added, "There's just one bad thing."
"What's that?"
"Sister Suannai keeps coming to pick me up after class."
"I see."
No wonder her classmates were so polite to her.
Chen Shu fell silent for a moment, then asked, "Why is it bad when Sister Suannai picks you up?"
"Because she's always holding something weird when she comes. Sometimes it's a bowl of pork intestine noodles, sometimes a chicken leg, and she squats on the ground by the door to eat it. Sometimes she waves a stick around, and sometimes she carries a whole roast suckling pig or a roast leg of lamb. She's always appearing from strange places, too. Sometimes she deliberately jumps down from a tree branch, sometimes from the second floor, and sometimes she hides behind a flower bed. I'm afraid my classmates will see her and think I'm an idiot too."
"..." Chen Shu fell silent again. "Sister Suannai is just looking out for you."
"..."
"But our Xiaoxiao is so adorable. Even if Sister Suannai didn't pick you up, your classmates would definitely like you."
"..."
The young woman's fair brows drew together slightly. She was grown up now, already in university, an adult. Being called adorable felt strange.
But her brother-in-law had said it, so there was nothing she could do.
If her sister had said it, Xiaoxiao would have given her a