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Qian Fan did not reply for a long time and Ruan Zhiyin carried out the freshly steamed crab from the kitchen.

Cheng Yuelin walked over to the dining room and reached for the crab that Ruan Zhiyin passed him.

Butler Liu knew that Ruan Zhiyin liked to eat crabs and had specially reserved a box of the fattest crabs for her to bring home. Her smooth and practiced actions quickly created a small mountain of crab shells on the plate next to her.

Cheng Yuelin had not even started. He just quietly watched her before suddenly saying: “Previously when you decided to learn to fight, was it really because of Yang Xue?”

Fifteen years ago, Ruan Shengwen and his wife had unfortunately lost their lives in a landslide while they were searching for their daughter. Grandfather Ruan suddenly lost his children and the only one left by his side was his son-in-law Lin Cheng.

Even if he originally disliked Lin Cheng, but after more than a decade of Lin Cheng being by his side and receiving respect and care, as though he was his father, there was no way the old man would not be moved.

Cheng Yuelin knew that Ruan Zhiyin had made some preparations for Lin Cheng, but out of consideration for her grandfather’s health, she had not done anything yet.

Except for the fact that she got rid of Lin Zhe the moment she returned to China. Even if it was clear that Lin Cheng would not fight her for Lin Zhe’s sake, it was clear how much she hated Lin Zhe.

Thinking of Qian Fan’s words, Cheng Yuelin’s dark eyes were a little inquisitive.

“Otherwise?” Ruan Zhiyin looked up at him and smiled. “Why else would I learn this?”

She did not want to tell Cheng Yuelin too much about the Lin Family.

When she had ran into him at the gym all those years ago, he had lazily asked her why she was learning something like this. At the time, Ruan Zhiyin had only said that she wanted to be able to deal with people like Yang Xue.

But it was only one of the reasons. The other reason was indeed related to Lin Zhe.

Lin Zhe often went to the Ruan family home during high school and the Lin family had hopes that Lin Zhe would be able to get close to her. But at some point, Lin Zhe decided to go into her room to hide a few things, but she ended up discovering it.

Ruan Zhiyin’s appearance in the middle of the night with a knife, as though she was sleepwalking, completely frightened Lin Zhe. If Lin Zhe had run a little faster, Ruan Zhiyin would not have been able to hurt him. But Lin Zhe was so scared, he fell and froze in place. She could only slash at him with a bit of intention.

After that, Lin Zhe avoided her whenever he saw her and did not dare to bother her again.

She knew that this worked only because Lin Zhe was easily frightened, with the gap in the natural strength between men and women, it would not be bad for girls to learn some self-defense.

Pulling herself out of her memories, Ruan Zhiyin saw that Cheng Yuelin had not touched the crab in front of him.

“You’re not eating?”

Cheng Yuelin’s gaze paused and froze on the crab, before he pursed his lips and said: “I don’t really know how to eat food that requires you to peel the shell.”

Ruan Zhiyin glanced at him and saw that his eyes appeared though he was too lazy to bother with anything. She assumed that he did not want to lower himself to peel some crabs.

She could only sigh and slid the plate filled with crab meat over to him and said: “This plate is for you.”

She was familiar with peeling crabs and could peel them quickly. She was also used to his holier than thou attitude and did not feel like bothering with him.

Cheng Yuelin’s eyes lingered on the plate of crab meat and slowly reached for it. He also picked up his phone to take a few photos.

“Why are you taking a photo?” Ruan Zhiyin asked him in confusion.

“Qian Fan said that if there’s nothing going on, I can send pictures in my friend’s circle.” He lifted a brow and slowly said. “It’s the first time I’m eating this, so I should make a record of it.”

As he finished speaking, Cheng Yuelin opened his friend’s circle, added the photo and uploaded it.

On the other side, Qian Fan who was working hard on his laptop to look for stories about the crematorium routes that he would send to Cheng Yuelin for “education”, opened his friend’s circle and saw the pictures without any captions.

He silently stared in surprise for a few seconds, before he suddenly understood and gave a like. If you think about it, you would know that this plate of crab meat must have been specially peeled by sister-in-law for Brother Lin!

Looking at the screen, Qian Fan had some mixed feelings.

Damn, how could he have questioned sister-in-law’s love for Brother Lin!

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After eating the crabs, Cheng Yuelin went into the kitchen to wash the dishes.

It was not necessary to say, but his nitpicking personality would also manifest in these sorts of trivial matters. For example, even though there is a dishwasher, Cheng Yuelin would still do the dishes himself. That was because after he had used the dishwasher previously, he had noticed that there was a dirty spot left behind on a bowl.

Even though the dirty spot was just the size of a sesame seed, from then on, Cheng Yuelin would stubbornly do the dishes by hand. Ruan Zhiyin did not know how she should judge this behavior.

But the one doing the work was him, so Ruan Zhiyin had put her thoughts away.