"How could you do that!? Right beside a busy road, with so many people watching! It's not like we're at home!" Chen Shu shielded Xiaoxiao behind him, his brows tightly furrowed as he rebuked Ning Qing several meters away. "Besides, Xiaoxiao's seventeen now! She's in college! Things aren't like they used to be! Can't you be a little more considerate?"
Ning Qing walked ahead, turning a deaf ear.
Zhang Suannai stood to the side, her expression blank.
Instead, the girl behind him comforted him. "It's okay, Brother-in-law. She's already finished hitting me."
"Even if she's finished, I'm still going to tell her off!!"
"Don't be angry..."
"And she hit you so hard! Does it hurt?"
"It's okay..."
"I'll tell you a secret. When she was hitting you just now, I was cursing her like crazy in my head."
"Mm!"
The girl nodded solemnly, believing him completely, then whispered to her brother-in-law, "Brother-in-law, I'll tell you a secret too. I've already given my sister internal injuries. She might look fine now, but in a few hundred years at most, she'll definitely kick the bucket."
"Shh... Don't let her hear you!"
"I said it really quietly..."
"Her ears are sharp..."
"Oh..."
Their voices grew softer as they walked on side by side.
Zhang Suannai followed alongside them, eyes wide.
She vaguely heard the girl grumbling something about "Why should the me of today get beaten for what the me of before did?" Yet she stayed glued to Chen Shu's side. How was that anything like someone with a Celestial Bloodline?
And wasn't she incapable of lying?
Zhang Suannai scratched her head—
The little goddess roommate's whole image had collapsed.
That evening.
Chen Shu finally returned to his room. After making his bed, he bounced straight onto it.
The mattress was soft,