Chapter 6: Grandmother

He Rou sat in the back seat of the car.

She looked at the quiet Luo Yun beside her and felt a bit uncomfortable.

She was an active person, while the person beside her, perhaps because of the earlier incident, hadn’t moved an inch since getting in the car.

When she touched her hand, it was ice-cold, like an ice sculpture.

So now she was sitting on pins and needles.

Perhaps because she was too bored, He Rou turned her head and looked out the car window.

The outside world seemed gray to her.

Water droplets kept appearing and disappearing on the window.

These water droplets were like paintbrushes, different traces intertwining to form all sorts of imaginative pictures.

The bored He Rou stared at them, feeling a little happy.

At least she had found some way to pass the time.

Time passed bit by bit.

Every thought in He Rou’s mind had been exhausted, yet there was no sign of the car stopping.

Feeling strange, she narrowed her eyes and looked carefully out the window.

Only then did she realize that the scenery around her was completely unfamiliar.

“Uh… This doesn’t seem like the direction to my home.”

He Rou turned her head and asked Luo Yun cautiously.

“I know. This is the direction to my home. Besides, didn’t I tell you we’re going to my place?”

“Hmm, I thought you were just saying that.”

After hearing this, Luo Yun suddenly felt a surge of anger.

“Do you just casually listen to what I say? Did you already forget what I said before you got in the car?”

“Before getting in the car?”

He Rou had indeed forgotten, but rather than forgetting, it was more like she hadn’t heard at all.

At that time, she was being pulled into the car, and it was raining so heavily.

Who would spare an ear and some attention to listen to someone talking?

“Did you really forget? I gave you a chance.”

“Sorry, it won’t happen again.”

After hearing her apology, Luo Yun didn’t know what to do.

“Then I’ll repeat it once more. Now that you’ve gotten into my car, you can’t leave me from now on. So every time you come home with me, you’re coming to my home.”

“Got it…”

Actually, going to which home was the same to He Rou.

But if someone was with her, that was different.

Soon after, the car stopped.

He Rou, whose butt had become sore from sitting, finally let out a breath.

“Why is it so far?”

“This is Nainai and Yeye’s estate. I rarely come here either. Because some important things are happening at home these days, my parents can’t take care of me for now, so they arranged for me to stay here.”

“Then we’re kind of alike…”

After learning this, He Rou sighed softly.

“What?”

“Nothing, haha…”

Luo Yun’s parents, no matter how busy they usually were, always set aside time for her education unless something major happened.

As for He Rou, it seemed that besides her grandmother, no one else in the world loved her.

He Rou followed Luo Yun out of the car.

After a long journey, the rain for the day had become sparse.

Even without an umbrella, it was hard to feel raindrops falling on her.

As He Rou looked up at the sky, wondering if it would rain again today, an old lady in a simple cheongsam came out of the estate gate.

Although her face was covered with wrinkles, her skin’s whiteness and tenderness had not faded with time.

“Xiao Yun! Come here, come here!”

The old lady shouted loudly.

“Just leave the umbrella in the car. This little rain isn’t worth using.”

After saying this, Luo Yun no longer paid attention to He Rou and walked toward Nainai.

When Luo Yun reached Nainai, before she could react, her face was caught by Nainai.

“Oh, so cute! As expected of someone who inherited my genes, no matter how many times I see you each day, I never get tired of it.”

Nainai looked at Luo Yun in front of her with a loving expression, couldn’t help thinking of her younger self.

Her younger self was exactly like her granddaughter now, but time waits for no one.

“Stop it, Nainai. Where’s Yeye?”

“Him? He went on a long trip with his old friends. Really, he just left casually without even telling his children.”

“Mom and Dad have been very busy lately. Yeye’s personal matters shouldn’t bother them.”

“Mmm… Xiao Yun is such a good girl.”

Nainai smiled, narrowed her eyes, and gently stroked Luo Yun’s head, very satisfied with her.

Meanwhile, He Rou, who had been standing aside from the beginning, felt extremely awkward.

It was as if she was a sewer rat that would be immediately driven away after sensing the warmth of someone else’s home.

After Nainai had thoroughly expressed her love for her granddaughter, she suddenly noticed that there was a person following behind Luo Yun.

She looked about the same age as her granddaughter, with a cute face that was even prettier than Luo Yun’s in some ways.

She was short, as if not fully grown, and seemed hesitant and timid.

Growing up with low self-esteem wouldn’t do.

“Xiao Yun, who is this child…”

“She’s my friend.”

Luo Yun then turned around, reached out, and took He Rou’s hand.

“She’s staying here tonight, right, Xiao Rou?”

“Uh… staying the night?”

He Rou’s mind was a bit blank at this point.

After all, her initial goal was just to avoid getting rained on while going home.

How did it turn into staying overnight at a stranger’s house?

Were rich people always this familiar?

“Xiao Yun.”

After He Rou expressed her doubt, Nainai immediately saw through the situation.

“It’s not okay to deceive friends. You understand that, right?”

“It’s not deception. Dad told me that I can get whatever I want. And today I helped her, so she should give me something in return.”

Nainai looked at Luo Yun’s serious face and couldn’t help shaking her head.

Her granddaughter was good in every way, but growing up in such a family always came with a strong desire for control.

She had experienced this feeling in her younger days with Yeye.

“Forget it. I’ll arrange to have you sent back later.”

Everyone present could hear these words.

And He Rou, feeling the pressure on her hand, realized she had to think of some countermeasure.

“Uh… no, I’m going to be with Xiao Yun today, so I’ll trouble you for the night, Nainai.”

“Hehe…”

Nainai was still smiling.

Suddenly, a few raindrops fell on the back of her hand.

“Oh dear, it’s going to rain again. My fault, my fault. Quick, quick, come in, come in. Eh, when people get old, they talk more. Now I’m old and withered. Thinking of the past… it’s not like the carefree days of youth.”

Nainai was still talking to herself, but Luo Yun had already pulled He Rou into the estate.

The estate was very large, but He Rou didn’t take a careful look.

Every step she had taken along the way was not of her own free will.

“You… you slow down. Don’t walk so fast, or at least don’t pull me like this. I can’t keep up.”

“Seriously, why are you so troublesome.”