Reborn as a concubine's daughter and entering a noble family: Xie Lang, don't be too seduc

"Ahem—" Noticing that Huo Sanghua had lost in thought again, Xie Shu coughed lightly to remind her, "If you are tired today, then you should go home and rest early after class."

Hawthorne quickly pulled himself out of his reverie, only to realize that he had unconsciously started thinking about last night again...

"I...I didn't mean to, it's just today..."

"It's alright. Today was a busy day, and you're just an ordinary person, so it's inevitable that you'll get tired and weary." Xie Shu had already put away the book in front of her and calmly and considerately advised, "Knowledge can't be acquired in a day. If your mind isn't on it, even if you sit here for a whole day and night, you won't be able to absorb the knowledge from the book. Why don't you go back and rest for a while, and then come back to study when your mind is at peace?"

"...I'm so sorry, I've wasted your time again." Huo Sanghua felt extremely guilty. Xie Shu had been waiting here since early morning to give her a lesson, but she kept getting distracted and wasting Xie Shu's time.

Seeing her lower her head, Xie Shu couldn't bear to make her blame herself. After thinking for a moment, her tone softened even more. "Since that's the case, if you have anything on your mind, you might as well tell me. Although my knowledge is limited, I might be able to help you find the answer."

Tell him?!

Hawthorne was completely stunned. Was he supposed to tell him... about what happened last night? That would mean...

"If you're unwilling, then so be it." He noticed Huo Sanghua's dilemma and naturally thought that perhaps it was for Xie Lin's sake...

They didn't ask any further questions.

He didn't want to hear about her and Ah Lin from Huo Sanghua.

"Young Master..." Huo Sanghua didn't know why, but she felt that... just a moment ago, Xie Shu seemed to have suddenly become angry.

I don't know what he is angry about.

Xie Shu was about to leave when he heard Sang Hua call him, so he stopped.

“Young Master… I was thinking, I don’t know…” Huo Sanghua pursed his lips, pondering how to tell Xie Shu these things. “I was thinking, sometimes I seem to be particularly stupid, I have no idea what other people are thinking, so I don’t know what to do.”

It's like some people, who were like that last night... ...and then woke up like that this morning... ...

This made her even more concerned and more eager to figure out what he was thinking.

"Why do you say that?" Xie Shu was still curious. Her sudden statement that she was stupid was also an attempt to figure out what everyone was thinking.

"Don't you think I'm stupid, Young Master?" she asked cautiously, genuinely afraid of getting a positive answer from Xie Shu. "I don't know why. I used to think I was somewhat clever, and I know I'm weak-willed. I'm afraid of conflict, so I avoid it whenever possible... I'm just used to it, but sometimes I do have a temper, I get angry, and I fight back. But since I came here, it feels like I don't fit in at all. I don't understand what's going on around me, I don't know why those unfamiliar people dislike me, and I don't know... am I really stupid and annoying?"

"Bored?"

Xie Shu listened patiently to her words, but this seemingly random remark intrigued him. "Who said they were annoyed, Ah Lin?"

“...No, no.” Huo Sanghua was startled. She did think of Xie Lin, but she was still shocked to hear Xie Lin’s name from Xie Shu’s mouth and hurriedly denied it.

But Xie Shu still noticed something was amiss.

"So it's not that Ah-Lin said he finds you annoying, but that you think he finds you annoying... Is that what you mean?"

Although Hawthorne hesitated, every word Xie Shu said seemed to hit the nail on the head, leaving her with no room for rebuttal...

After struggling with the decision for a long time, I had no choice but to nod and admit it.

This morning, as soon as she woke up, Xie Lin fled as if his life depended on it. Thinking back to last night... it was Xie Lin who took the initiative to kiss her, just when she decided to go all out and take her relationship with Xie Lin to the next level.

He stopped, and pulled the quilt over her tightly.

Hawthorne had no idea what Xie Lin was thinking at that moment...

Is he looking down on her?

Xie Lin was lying right next to her, but she didn't have the courage to ask why he... stopped...

Instead, it made her feel extremely awkward, as if she were the one who wanted that thing!

After thinking about it all morning, I think the most likely answer is... Xie Lin doesn't like her at all.

Last night's events were just a fleeting impulse, but he quickly regained his senses and therefore did not want to have a deeper relationship with her.

So the result is simply that Xie Lin doesn't like her.

But why kiss her if you don't like her? It left her confused and bewildered.

That guy is really something...

“Ah Lin… he’s not as proactive as he seems,” Xie Shu said calmly.

Hawthorne's heart skipped a beat... "Take the initiative? He... ..."

Did Xie Shu find out what happened last night?

Xie Shu nodded, "Yes, Ah Lin is slow to warm up and isn't as outgoing as he seems. So sometimes, people who get close to him might misunderstand that he's resisting something."

That seems to be the meaning. So, when he said "proactive," he meant...

Hawthorne gradually came to his senses.

"On the surface, Ah Lin seems optimistic, generous, and unconcerned with details. He appears to care about nothing and is a carefree person with no particular thoughts. But in reality, he is sensitive and extremely cautious. He observes the reactions of those around him to judge how others treat him. In fact, he is very afraid of being disliked..." Xie Shu understood Xie Lin better than she did, so she spoke of Xie Lin's personality in great detail.

He didn't know what had happened between Ah Lin and Sang Hua, but from Sang Hua's reaction this morning and her question just now, it wasn't hard to tell that there was some misunderstanding between them. He thought it might be Ah Lin's personality that made Sang Hua think Ah Lin didn't like her...

"Why would he... ..." Hawthorne recalled Xie Lin's reaction last night.

Afraid of being disliked?

She understood the feeling, but she didn't understand why Xie Lin felt this way...

“When Ah Lin was little, his father brought him back as the son of a concubine. His mother didn’t like him, and no one in the manor liked him either. He was looked down upon wherever he went and had to be extremely careful. But inevitably, some people would gossip behind his back. He knew all of this, but he also understood that if he wanted to continue living here, he had to pretend he didn’t care. If he showed that he cared, those people would become even more aggressive.” Xie Shu also felt sorry for his younger brother. “He was very afraid of being disliked, especially by people he cared about. He would be even more careful with them.”