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"... What happened between you and Ye Mo?" Ye Rou leaned closer to her younger sister and asked in a low voice.

Ye Rou knew Ye Shuang well. Although Ye Shuang had a gentle temperament, she was very timid. Due to her past experiences, she was also reluctant to get to know or interact with people. She and Ye Mo had only met a few times, so they shouldn't be so close.

Therefore, Ye Rou was certain that something must have happened between the two of them. She stared intently at Ye Shuang, waiting for her answer.

"..." Ye Shuang, who was being stared at intently, was very nervous and stammered, "We... we didn't do anything."

Ye Rou narrowed her eyes. "Don't I know you? If nothing happened, why would you be so close to her?"

Ye Shuang's breath hitched, her heart leaping into her throat. She tried to explain, "I just suddenly realized that Sister Momo is a good person... My deskmate is a fan of hers. After finding out she's my cousin, she asked me to get her autograph. When I told Sister Momo, she agreed to give me her autograph without hesitation!"

"Just like that, you think she's a good person?" Ye Rou found it unbelievable, her gaze towards Ye Shuang filled with suspicion.

Ye Shuang avoided her gaze and nodded, saying, "Doesn't that prove she's a good person? Besides, we just chatted in the garden for a while, and Sister Momo was very friendly to me."

Ye Rou: "Is that really true?"

"Really!" Ye Shuang took a deep breath, trying her best to look sincere at her skeptical sister. "What other reason could there be?" In short, she absolutely couldn't talk about her being in a relationship.

Ye Rou stared at her for a few seconds before saying, "... Okay, let's just say that's how it is. Just don't let me find out you're lying to me, or else, hmph."

Hearing her threatening snort, Ye Shuang felt her scalp tingle and almost lost her composure.

Meanwhile, Ye Lin caught Ye Mo and asked him the same question, "What happened between you and Ye Shuang? How come you're so close after just a few minutes apart?"

Ye Mo had promised Ye Shuang not to tell her family about her and Han Heng, so she didn't want to say much. She simply made up an excuse. "Nothing happened. We just ran into each other in the garden, chatted for a while, and found we got along quite well."

No, Ye Shuang isn't someone you can easily get close to.

Without a second thought, Ye Lin rejected Ye Mo's statement in his mind—just like Ye Rou, he knew his cousin very well. After all, that incident had caused quite a stir in their family, and Ye Shuang had become withdrawn for a long time afterward, and had stopped interacting with people since.

so...

"It seems to be a secret that can't be told," he said thoughtfully.

Ye Mo hadn't thought he could hide it from his older brother, so he wasn't surprised to hear him say that. He just smiled and said, "Since you know it's a secret, you won't ask any more questions, right, brother?"

Ye Lin chuckled and said, "I respect your secrets, but if there's anything I can help you with, I hope you'll let me know."

Ye Mo nodded firmly, "Of course. If there's anything you can help with and I don't ask you, then I'd be a real idiot."

She is different from Ye Shuang. Ye Shuang would feel sad and confused because of her surname "Ye" and would not want to rely on the power of the Ye Family, but she would only feel happy because of her surname "Ye". She adheres to the attitude of "if you have resources, don't be a fool", and strives to make the Ye Corporation background bring her the greatest benefit.

Therefore, if Ye Lin really needs her help, Ye Mo will not hesitate at all. As for Ye Shuang and Han Heng's matter, she can still handle it for now, and she has also promised Ye Shuang that she will not tell anyone in her family about it. So, unless it really comes to the point of necessity, she is not in a hurry to ask Ye Lin for help.

On New Year's Day, it wasn't a good time to think about unpleasant things, so Ye Mo temporarily put the matter of Ye Shuang and Han Heng out of his mind.

In Q Province, it's customary to stay up all night on New Year's Eve. After the fireworks display, several mahjong tables were quickly brought out in the Ye Family's living room, and the family began a game of this traditional Chinese pastime. Even Ye Lin sat down at the mahjong table.

Watching the Ye Family set up the mahjong table, take their seats, and begin playing, Ye Mo was somewhat dumbfounded—she hadn't expected that a wealthy family like the Ye Family would spend their New Year's Eve playing mahjong!

What's going on? Why does it feel both unexpected and yet perfectly logical?

"Momo, you're here too." Ruan Xianyue pushed Ye Mo at a mahjong table. When Ye Mo looked up, she met Grandma Ye's cloudy gaze, which was scrutinizing her.

Ye Mo: "..."

She immediately feigned indifference and said, "I don't know how to do this, Mom, you should do it."

Ruan Xianyue smiled and said, "It's alright, I'll teach you. This is very simple... I didn't know how to do it before either, but now I'm quite proficient, aren't I?"

"Hmph." A cold snort came from the other side. It was Grandma Ye who snorted, and then she said fiercely to Ye Mo, "What, you're impatient to play mahjong with this old woman? You think I'm annoying?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Mo immediately sat back down.

"You're too kind," she laughed, "How could I be impatient? I'm just afraid I don't know how to play and will annoy you."

"How could that be? Sister Momo, you're not good at it, and I'm not much better. I'm only a half-baked mahjong player. Anyway, the main thing is to have fun." It was Ye Rou who spoke, smiling and speaking softly and gently.

At their table, besides Grandma Ye and Ye Mo, the other two people were Ye Rou and Ye Baozhu. Now that Ye Rou had said so, Ye Baozhu nodded and said, "Anyway, we're family, so winning or losing doesn't matter."

Since they all said so, Ye Mo reluctantly agreed, "... Alright then, as long as you don't mind that I'm not good at fighting."

"To be honest, mahjong is actually quite simple; it mainly depends on luck..." Grandma Ye said this with an extremely confident expression. However, she had reason to be confident, after all, she had been playing mahjong for forty or fifty years, and no one present could match her.

Ye Rou smiled and explained to Ye Mo, "Grandma has always had a great hand at mahjong. Last year, she single-handedly defeated all of us; no one could beat her... It looks like we still can't beat her this year... Four of a kind!"

"Wait!" Ye Mo, who was diligently learning to play mahjong, called out. She carefully examined her tiles, then turned uncertainly to her mother. "Looks like I won?"

Ruan Xianyue leaned closer for a look, her eyes immediately lighting up. She reached out and pushed the tiles down for Ye Mo: "A pure suit! He wins!"

The other three people at the card table immediately widened their eyes, especially Grandma Ye, who, adjusting her reading glasses, stared intently at Ye Mo's cards, one after another.

"Like a blind cat catching a dead mouse." Having confirmed there was nothing wrong with the cards, the old woman grumbled indignantly.

Ye Mo smiled, completely unaffected.

Then, everyone watched as Ye Mo, who was said to have gotten lucky by chance, kept winning after losing the first few rounds, and all of them were big hands, such as Pure One Suit, Big Four Winds, and □□... directly taking on three opponents at once.

Before long, Ye Rou and Ye Baozhu at the table had gambled away all the cash in their pockets, their faces turning green with despair. Grandma Ye a little better; she didn't lose as much money and even won a small amount, but it really was just a "small win," far less than Ye Mo's. However, compared to Ye Baozhu and Ye Rou, Grandma Ye's gains were already quite good, so the old lady's expression was still relatively pleasant.

"Didn't you say you didn't know how to play mahjong?" Ye Baozhu glared at her, convinced that she must be lying when she said she didn't know how.