Back to my parents when I was seventeen

Xu Chuning didn't know what Shen Yubai was thinking. After giving him the water, she sat next to You Shuzhen and watched TV with her.

You Shuzhen was watching a romantic TV series, and Xu Chuning couldn't bear to watch it anymore after a while. She thought about it and took out her phone to log in to QQ.

As soon as she got on the bus, she saw the message from Shen Sinian, asking her if she had returned to the shop.

Xu Chuning: [We’ve arrived.]

After thinking for a while, Xu Chuning told him: [Have fun, don't worry about me.]

Shen Sinian was probably playing and didn't reply to her in time.

Xu Chuning scrolled down again and saw the message sent to her by Gu Jiayi, asking the same question as Shen Sinian.

She replied simply.

After replying, the phone made a ding-dong sound. Xu Chu Ning lowered her eyes and saw a message from the person sitting diagonally opposite her: [Bored? ]

Xu Chuning paused for a moment, lowered his eyes and replied: [Aren’t you bored? ]

Shen Yubai was also watching TV with You Shuzhen.

Shen Yubai: [Not bad.]

"?"

Xu Chuning was a little surprised. She was about to say something else when Shen Yubai suddenly spoke up, "Xu Chuning."

Xu Chuning met You Shuzhen's gaze and blinked slowly, "What?"

Shen Yubai: "I'm going to the bookstore, are you coming?"

Before Xu Chuning could speak, You Shuzhen nodded and said, "Go ahead, there are no customers in the store right now. Ningning, you should go to the bookstore and look around. If you see any books you like, buy two and take them home."

Since You Shuzhen had said so, Xu Chuning could only agree, "Nearby?"

Shen Yubai: "Yeah."

There are many bookstores near the school, but there is only one large-scale one.

Xu Chu Ning and Shen Yu Bai went to the largest bookstore. The bookstore was crowded on weekends. When they went in, they ran into schoolmates who lived nearby.

"Xu Chuning."

Hearing a familiar voice, Xu Chuning turned around, "Cheng Mingyin."

Cheng Mingyin smiled and waved at her, "It's me. I didn't expect to see you here. Are you here to borrow or buy a book?"

Cheng Mingyin was Xu Chuning's classmate in the first year of high school. When the classes were divided into arts and sciences in the second year of high school, the two were assigned to different arts classes, and they had less contact since then. In the first year of high school, they were classmates who sat in front and behind each other, and Xu Chuning and she were half-diners.

"Just looking around," Xu Chuning was surprised, "Why are you here too?"

She remembered that Cheng Mingyin's family didn't live nearby.

Cheng Mingyin sighed and explained, "I'm in my second year of high school. My parents thought my grades were too poor, so they rented me a house nearby, saying that it would be close to school and give me more time to study."

Although Cheng Mingyin felt it was unnecessary, her parents were busy with work and had no time to pick her up.

So the best way is to live near the school so that it is convenient for going to and from school.

Xu Chu Ning understood, "You live alone?"

"Recently, yes," her mother accompanied her when she first moved to the neighborhood.

The two chatted for a while, and Cheng Mingyin suddenly remembered something and asked her, "Did you come here with Shen Yubai just now?"

Xu Chu Ning was slightly startled, then nodded slowly, "Well, he was in our store and said he wanted to come to the bookstore, so I came with him."

Cheng Mingyin exclaimed, her eyes gleaming with gossip, "What's going on between you two?"

Xu Chu Ning lowered his eyes, "Nothing serious, just an ordinary classmate."

"Shen Yubai would come to the bookstore with ordinary classmates?" Cheng Mingyin was surprised.

Xu Chu Ning: "...Why wouldn't he?"

Cheng Mingyin glanced at her and asked, "You don't know?"

"What?" Xu Chu Ning was puzzled.

Cheng Mingyin gossiped with her in a low voice, "There was a girl in their class who wanted to do something with him before, I forgot the details. And do you know what Shen Yubai said?"

Xu Chuning: "What do you mean?"

she does not know.

In fact, she didn't know much about Shen Yubai before.

Cheng Mingyin: "He said he doesn't hang out with girls alone."

Xu Chuning: “…………”

She was stunned for a moment and asked incredulously, "Did he really say that?"

"Yes," Cheng Mingyin muttered, "He seems very pure and innocent."

Hearing this description, Xu Chu Ning didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Pure as ice and jade?"

She glanced at Cheng Mingyin and said, "If the Chinese teacher knew you described boys like this, she would probably be devastated."

"Oh," Cheng Mingyin was also a little embarrassed, "I couldn't find the right adjective for a moment, not to mention that the point now is not how I use the adjective, the point is... Shen Yubai rarely goes out alone with girls."

Xu Chu Ning listened, was silent for a while and said, "No."

Cheng Mingyin's eyes widened, "Why not?"

She looked at Xu Chuning's expression and asked curiously, "Have you ever seen him go out alone with a girl before?"

Xu Chuning didn't say anything.

"Is this true?" Cheng Mingyin was surprised. "Who is it? Is he from our school?"

Xu Chu Ning: “… Yeah.”

"Could it be Xu Zhiyan?" Cheng Mingyin guessed. People in the school said that the Shen and Xu families were very close and had business dealings. Shen Yubai and Xu Zhiyan had been studying in the same school since kindergarten, and they had always been in the same class, and it is still the same now.

If there is any girl that Shen Yubai could be close to, it could not be anyone else except Xu Zhiyan.

Xu Chuning nodded.

Cheng Mingyin exclaimed, "When?"

Xu Chu Ning: “Forgot.”

Cheng Mingyin looked at her expression and wanted to say something, but Shen Yubai came over from the other end. She stopped talking in time, raised her chin slightly towards Xu Chuning, and lowered her voice, "Shen Yubai is coming."

"..."

Xu Chu Ning turned around and looked at the person who took the two books. "Have you chosen?"

Shen Yubai hummed, "Nothing to buy?"

Xu Chu Ning: "...I'll go take a look."

Shen Yubai: "Let's go."

"?"

Xu Chu Ning was stunned for a moment, "You want to go together?"

Shen Yubai raised his eyebrows, "What's the problem?"

Xu Chu Ning choked slightly, "No."

The two walked towards the bookshelf. In this bookstore near the school, you can buy or rent books.

Xu Chu Ning wanted to find some math exercise books. Her math was indeed weaker than other subjects. Although she didn't like her current math teacher, she knew very well that she had to master all subjects well to have a better chance of passing the college entrance examination.

However, what Xu Chuning didn't expect was that she just picked up a math workbook and it was shot down by Shen Yubai.

“This one is just average.”

Xu Chuning changed to another one.

Shen Yubai commented again, "This book doesn't have any particularly tricky questions, so it's not very useful."

"..."

After repeating this several times, Xu Chu Ning was speechless, "How about you help me choose?"

Shen Yubai looked around and said calmly, "There's nothing here that you can use."

Xu Chuning is not good at math compared to other subjects, but compared with other students, she is actually doing well in math. The exercise books here are too ordinary, so it doesn't matter whether she practices or not.

"Next week," Shen Yubai whispered, "I'll get you a few national exam workbooks from North City."

Xu Chu Ning was stunned. "The national exam?"

Shen Yubai: "Yeah."

He lowered his eyes and asked, "Besides the math workbook, do you want to look at anything else?"

Xu Chu Ning thought for a moment and asked, "Should I buy some exercise books for Shen Sinian?"

Shen Yubai: "No need."

Xu Chuning: "Why?"

Shen Yubai thought of what Shen Sinian had said to him before, and said quietly, "His academic performance should not be bad."

Xu Chu Ning: "Are you so confident?"

Seeing that Shen Sinian was either sleeping or reading novels in class every day, she was really worried.

Hearing her doubt, Shen Yubai glanced at her and said arrogantly, "Of course, don't you see whose son he is?"

Xu Chuning: “…”