Chapter 16: Going to School Together

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“I’ve heard that after two people marry, they have to sleep together forever.” Cheng Zhiyan said to Zhou Yue adamantly. “Yesterday, she tortured me for the entire night. She kept touching me everywhere all night long. I couldn’t get her to stop. I felt like I was about to lose it.”

“Oh…” Zhou Yue gazed at her son meaningfully, then shook her head and smacked her lips disapprovingly. “You really don’t know how to read cues, not at all…”

“What do you mean I don’t know how to read cues?” Cheng Zhiyan lifted his head up to look at his mother and frowned. “Mom, why do I feel like it’s getting harder and harder to understand what you’re talking about?”

“That’s all right. You’ll understand better when you grow older.” Zhou Yue smiled mysteriously, then patted Xiaotu on the head, and said, “Tutu is still too young. When she grows older, she’ll start acting much more mature. Besides, when you were little, you slept pretty much like Xiaotu anyway.”

“But I…” Cheng Zhiyan opened his mouth to say something more. However, his mother interrupted him and said, “Hurry up and eat, I still have to go to work. In terms of whether or not you want Xiaotu to become your girlfriend, you should think it through more carefully lest you regret your decision in the future.”

“…”

Cheng Zhiyan continued to use his chopsticks to poke at the egg in front of him.

“Regret?

“Regret what?

“Regret that Xiaotu won’t be able to lie on his stomach for his entire life??

“If he’d really agreed to let her become his girlfriend and let her lie on his stomach for his entire life, that would be a decision that he would regret.”

As he thought of all this, Cheng Zhiyan touched his stomach, which was still sore, and he said to Zhou Yue in a quiet voice, “Mom, don’t you know that it would be premature for me to find a girlfriend at my age? My teacher says that premature dating isn’t allowed at school.”

“Oh, that’s all right, you can date prematurely at home,” Zhou Yue said as she placed the dirty plates in the kitchen sink. Then she walked to the shoe cabinet in the living room and hurriedly changed her shoes. With the key in one hand and her handbag in her other hand, she shouted toward Cheng Zhiyan and Xiaotu, “I’m going to work now. You two behave at home.”

“…”

Cheng Zhiyan had no idea what to say as he watched his mother leave. He lifted his head up to see Xiaotu, who was sitting right across from him, and he couldn’t help but sigh as he started to eat the fried egg that he had deformed by poking.

Summer break was going by so fast.

…

The week before school started for Cheng Zhiyan, Xiaotu’s mother and father decided to send Xiaotu to preschool.

Upon hearing that she would be going to school soon, Xiaotu was bursting with joy.

“Mommy, since I’m going to school now, does that mean I can learn how to write?”

“Uh…preschool is a little early to teach children how to write.” Xiaotu’s mother was confused by all the excitement on her daughter’s face. She hesitated for a moment before asking Xiaotu, “How come you’re so excited about going to preschool? I’ve heard that many other children aren’t that willing to go to preschool at first.”

“Of course I’m happy!” Xiaotu’s fair face was as cheerful as a blossom. She said in a clear voice, “Because I can go to school with Brother Orange Juice now.”

Xiaotu’s mother reached out her hand to wipe her forehead, and she felt at a loss for words as she stared at her daughter. She carefully weighed her words before saying tentatively, “Um, Xiaotu…Brother Orange Juice doesn’t go to preschool.”