XYLFTL Chapter 7

Chapter 7

The next day, Lin Anping woke up and was instantly stunned by three messages from Shen Xiaoyou.

Inner thoughts: What’s going on? Why is she sending me messages?

Lin Anping opened them with trepidation, only to find that she herself had sent a period.

She breathed a sigh of relief, followed by immense embarrassment.

Then she instantly remembered the dream from last night. How could she have such a dream?

Lin Anping got up to wash, then picked up a basin to wash her underwear. The more she washed, the clearer the dream from last night became.

“If you call me ‘sister,’ I won’t kiss you,” Shen Xiaoyou’s every word, even every expression, played over and over in Lin Anping’s mind.

Lin Anping shook her head, finished washing, and then sat on the bed with her laptop.

She searched in the browser: “Dreaming of kissing a girl,” “Girls kissing girls”… and other related terms.

After reading, Lin Anping leaned against the bed and sighed. Xia Xing suddenly asked from outside the bed curtains, “An’an, what’s wrong?”

Lin Anping was startled, but then cleared her throat and said, “Nothing, why?”

“Oh, I wanted to ask, I can’t get this code to work,” Xia Xing said truthfully.

Lin Anping got out of bed and said, “They haven’t gotten up yet. Let’s go to the library to study.”

“Okay, that’s exactly what I was thinking,” Xia Xing immediately nodded.

After they packed up, the two arrived at the library. It was just a small problem, and Lin Anping quickly helped Xia Xing solve it.

Xia Xing got up to pack her things, but saw Lin Anping sitting in the chair, hesitant to speak.

“An’an, is something wrong?” Xia Xing asked with concern.

Lin Anping nodded.

Xia Xing then sat down again and asked, “It’s okay, tell me, I won’t tell anyone.”

“You absolutely can’t tell anyone, not anyone,” Lin Anping said.

“Okay, I won’t tell anyone,” Xia Xing made a vow with her hand.

Lin Anping told Xia Xing about the dream she had last night.

Then she asked Xia Xing, “Do you and your girlfriend do that?”

Xia Xing said shyly, “We kiss often, but we haven’t tried the wine thing. Maybe I’ll ask my girlfriend to try it next time.”

“It felt pretty good in the dream,” Lin Anping said softly.

“Huh? What did you say?” Xia Xing asked.

“Nothing, nothing, it’s nothing,” Lin Anping quickly waved her hand.

The two spoke in very low voices, almost mouth to ear.

Seeing that Lin Anping didn’t want to talk about it, Xia Xing said, “Let’s go.” Xia Xing felt that if Lin Anping wanted to say something, she would, and if she didn’t want to, there was no need to keep pressing her.

Lin Anping nodded, got up, and followed Xia Xing out.

Just then, Jiang Shixue asked on her phone where they were.

Xia Xing took the opportunity to say that they were going to the cafeteria to buy food, and asked if they wanted them to bring anything back.

On the way to the cafeteria, Xia Xing suddenly said, “I think you can go find Shen Xiaoyou, but what happened in the dream might not happen. I don’t think she’s that kind of person.”

“Okay.” Lin Anping already had this idea, but she was too embarrassed to admit it. Now that Xia Xing was encouraging her, she suddenly felt more confident.

“Bye, be careful on the road.”

“Bye.”

“Bye, come back soon!”

The other three in Dorm 611 said to Lin Anping, who was standing at the door, ready to leave.

Lin Anping waved at them and said, “Okay, okay, I know, I’ll be back soon.”

Then she went out. Lin Anping was going home to take Grandmother to the hospital for a check-up and to pick up medicine.

At this time, the weather in Jingcheng was gradually getting warmer, and the temperature in her hometown was about the same, with a lot of rain.

Lin Anping was wearing a thin jacket, waiting under the bus stop sign.

Inner thoughts: Sigh, the buses are always infrequent during the rainy season.

After waiting for a long time, a Porsche stopped in front of Lin Anping.

Lin Anping was puzzled. The car window was lowered, and Shen Xiaoyou’s stunning and alluring face appeared.

Lin Anping stared at her blankly.

Shen Xiaoyou looked at her carrying a big bag, obviously going somewhere far, and asked, “Little friend, where are you going?”

“Ah? I’m going to the bus station,” Lin Anping said.

“Come on, get in, I’m going that way,” Shen Xiaoyou waved her hand, inviting her to get in.

After Lin Anping got in the car, she had trouble sitting down because of the big bag. She adjusted her posture for a long time.

Shen Xiaoyou looked at her with a smile and said softly, “All set?”

“Yeah,” Lin Anping said, looking down. She didn’t dare to look directly at Shen Xiaoyou; her mind was full of images from the dream.

Just as Lin Anping was thinking, she realized someone was touching her. She was stunned for a moment and then jolted back in fright.

She saw that Shen Xiaoyou was only a few centimeters away from her. Lin Anping was so scared that she didn’t dare breathe.

Shen Xiaoyou pulled out the seatbelt and waved it in front of Lin Anping, “Seatbelt!”

“Sister… you can tell me next time,” Lin Anping was embarrassed to call her “sister” again.

Shen Xiaoyou started the car and nodded, saying, “Okay.”

On the way, Shen Xiaoyou asked Lin Anping, “You’re going to the bus station, are you going home?”

“Yes, I’m going home to see my Grandmother.” When Lin Anping mentioned her Grandmother, her face was full of warmth, losing her usual aloofness.

“Oh~ You’re very filial. Don’t you live with your parents?” Shen Xiaoyou asked.

“My Grandmother found me. I don’t have parents,” Lin Anping said very calmly.

Shen Xiaoyou was stunned by these words and then said, “I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay. It’s good for me to live with my Grandmother. She’s very good to me,” Lin Anping said with a grin.

“As long as you’re happy, where is your home?” Shen Xiaoyou continued to ask.

“In City J,” Lin Anping said.

“That place is very beautiful,” Shen Xiaoyou said.

“Yes,” Lin Anping said, looking out the window.

Shen Xiaoyou didn’t say anything else. Lin Anping watched the rain dripping on the car window.

Rainy days always made people feel gloomy.

Lin Anping soon fell asleep against the car window. Shen Xiaoyou turned up the air conditioning a little more.

She didn’t know how long she slept, but it was already so dark outside that she couldn’t see anything.

Lin Anping saw 23:21 on the display screen.

Inner thoughts: !!! Why is the car still moving?

Lin Anping said, “Senior? Haven’t we arrived yet?”

Shen Xiaoyou turned to look at her and said, “You’re awake? It just so happens that I don’t have much to do these days. Let’s go see some beautiful places.”

“Ah, I’m too embarrassed. Should I pay for the gas?” Lin Anping felt like she should do something.

“No need. I’ve been working for so long. There’s no reason to take money from a kid. I won’t be polite with you after you graduate,” Shen Xiaoyou said.

Lin Anping calculated that she had been driving for at least four hours since they left, so she said to Lin Anping, “Senior, how about I drive for a while? You can rest.”

“Huh? You can drive?” Shen Xiaoyou looked incredulous. She thought Lin Anping was still young.

“I can, I have a driver’s license,” Lin Anping nodded. As soon as she finished the college entrance examination, her Grandmother urged her to learn. It seemed like it was useful now.

Hearing that she had a license, Shen Xiaoyou didn’t stand on ceremony and said, “Okay, you can drive.”

“I’ve never driven on the road before, so I might drive a little slow,” Lin Anping started the car carefully.

Shen Xiaoyou said it was okay, “If you crash it, it’s on me. It’s okay, drive boldly. You have to practice sometime. It’s okay to practice with mine.”

Lin Anping familiarized herself with the car while driving, and soon, she had the car running steadily on the road. Shen Xiaoyou also fell asleep without worry.

The next day, they had already arrived in City J. Lin Anping got out of the car to buy breakfast and waited in the car for Shen Xiaoyou to wake up.

After Shen Xiaoyou woke up, she saw Lin Anping memorizing English words and then looked outside, “We’re here? Why didn’t you keep driving?”

“Senior, you’re awake? I bought breakfast for you. I didn’t know what you liked, so I bought a little of everything. Throw it away if you can’t finish it,” Lin Anping handed her the breakfast.

Shen Xiaoyou glanced at the various breakfasts, instantly feeling overwhelmed.

But she still said, “Let’s go to your house. I’m not in a hurry.”

“It’s okay, Senior. I can take the bus home,” Lin Anping shook her head, wanting to refuse.

“If you don’t drive, I’ll drive. I’m not familiar with this place. I’m scared to be alone,” Shen Xiaoyou gave a pitiful expression.

Lin Anping’s heart softened immediately. She immediately started the car and said, “Okay, okay.”

As the car gradually entered the village, Shen Xiaoyou looked out the window and said, “Wow, this river is so clear. The environment here must be very good.”

“Yes, yes. The air in the countryside is really good. The vegetables are basically grown by ourselves.” When Lin Anping mentioned her hometown, she was very proud.

“No wonder you’re so beautiful. It turns out the place makes the person,” Shen Xiaoyou gave a smile with her eyes crinkling.

Lin Anping felt a little sweaty from her smile, but soon, she adjusted and arrived at her doorstep.

Grandmother was working in front of the house. When Lin Anping saw her, she stopped the car and ran out, “Grandmother, why are you working again?”

Grandmother was stunned at first, but when she saw her granddaughter, she immediately said happily, “Oh, you came back. Why didn’t you tell Grandmother?”

Lin Anping and Grandmother talked, sometimes pretending to be angry, sometimes full of concern.

Shen Xiaoyou felt so warm. She was like this with her maternal grandmother too, but it had been many years since then.

Shen Xiaoyou got out of the car, and Grandmother asked Lin Anping, “An’an, who is this?”

Shen Xiaoyou introduced herself, “Hello, Grandmother. I’m An’an’s friend. I came back with her.”

“Oh, oh! An’an’s friend. Come in, come in quickly,” Grandmother invited the two in.

After Shen Xiaoyou entered the house, she said, “I came so suddenly, and I didn’t prepare anything for you.”

“Oh my, you kids don’t need to prepare anything. What would I do with children’s things?” Grandmother said.

Lin Anping instantly felt that this sounded familiar. Did Shen Xiaoyou think of her as a daughter?

Shen Xiaoyou and Grandmother chatted amiably. Finally, Lin Anping said, “Grandmother, I’ll take you to the hospital for a check-up first, and then we’ll take Shen Xiaoyou out for a meal.”

“Okay, okay, right, eat.” Grandmother got up to put on her clothes.

“Can’t we eat at home?” Shen Xiaoyou asked Lin Anping.

Lin Anping hesitated, “I’m afraid you won’t be used to it.”

“No, we’ll eat at home. I also want to try this firewood-cooked rice,” Shen Xiaoyou helped Lin Anping adjust her clothes.

Lin Anping felt a moment of emotion in her heart. Inner thoughts: But she’s really good to me. Why?

When getting in the car, Lin Anping was in a dilemma. She couldn’t put Grandmother in the front alone, nor could she sit in the front herself. What would that make Shen Xiaoyou?

Shen Xiaoyou saw her dilemma and took the initiative to say, “An’an, you sit in the back with Grandmother.”

Lin Anping immediately nodded gratefully, “Okay, thank you, Senior.”

They drove all the way to the hospital.

After arriving at the hospital, Lin Anping took Grandmother for a check-up. Shen Xiaoyou sat in the hospital lobby.

Lin Anping brought Grandmother back from the check-up and was about to get the medicine when Lin Yuan suddenly appeared.

Lin Yuan looked at Lin Anping and smiled disgustingly on purpose, “Oh, shouldn’t you be in school at this time? You wouldn’t have failed the exam and can only farm at home, right?”

Lin Anping didn’t want to pay attention to her and wanted to walk past her.

But she blocked her way and said, “I’m talking to you. Don’t you have any manners?”

Lin Anping told Grandmother to wait on the side, and she would take care of it soon.

“What do you want to hear?” Lin Anping suppressed her anger, thinking of her past life.

“Hmph, don’t pretend to be noble. Don’t think I don’t know you want to secretly take back the position of the Lin family’s daughter and take my place,” Lin Yuan said each word as if she thought she was very reasonable.

Lin Anping was really speechless, “Are you sick? The position of your Lin family’s daughter, I don’t want it, and I don’t need it. Can I go now?”

Lin Yuan still wanted to say something, but she heard Mother Lin’s voice, “Yuan Yuan, where are you?”

Lin Yuan immediately sat on the ground and shouted, “Mom, I’m here.”

She forced out a few tears. Lin Anping looked at her behavior speechlessly.

Mother Lin came over after hearing the sound and saw Lin Anping and said, “Anping… why are you here?”

Then she saw Lin Yuan crying like a rain-soaked pear blossom on the ground.

Mother Lin immediately asked what happened.

Lin Yuan revealed her ultimate green tea move and said, “Mom, I just saw my sister at the hospital and wanted to ask her what was wrong. But she called me a bastard and said I stole her position, and pushed me down.”

Mother Lin also sided with her without thinking, “Anping, we wanted to compensate you for not raising you in our family, but you refused. Why are you treating Lin Yuan like this?”

“Your family is really one sick person and two sick people. You believe whatever she says. You have no brains,” Lin Anping was too lazy to argue with them. She was thinking that Shen Xiaoyou was still waiting.

Mother Lin immediately said, “Anping, no matter what, I’m still your biological mother. I didn’t deliberately not raise you. How can you say that to me? It’s because you were raised badly in the countryside.”

As she spoke, she came over and grabbed Lin Anping’s clothes, “I have to take you home and teach you a lesson.”

Just as Lin Anping was about to break free, Shen Xiaoyou appeared and pushed Mother Lin’s hand away, “Wouldn’t we know the truth if we look at the surveillance footage?”

Lin Yuan was startled and looked up. She was instantly guilty when she saw the camera. But Mother Lin said, “We’ll see. My daughter who I raised from a young age wouldn’t lie.”

“Okay, let’s go to the surveillance room,” she said, taking Lin Anping’s hand and walking towards the surveillance room.

Lin Anping looked at Shen Xiaoyou as if saying: Why did you come?

Shen Xiaoyou smiled.

Not long ago, Shen Xiaoyou had been waiting in the lobby for a long time but hadn’t seen Lin Anping come out. She got up to look for her and saw Grandmother alone, so she asked, “Grandmother, where’s An’an?”

“Ah, her biological mother and that daughter of hers are blocking her there. An’an told me to go first. I couldn’t refuse her,” Grandmother sighed.

Shen Xiaoyou’s face turned cold. Inner thoughts: They dare to openly bully people in the hospital.

Shen Xiaoyou said to Grandmother, “Grandmother, don’t worry. I’ll go help An’an. You wait for us there for a while.”

Grandmother trusted Shen Xiaoyou. She thought Xiaoyou was a mature child.

On the way, Lin Yuan said to Mother Lin, “Mom, let it go. Let’s not bother with her.”

Mother Lin insisted, “No, this matter must have an explanation.” Mother Lin was angry. How could Anping be completely different from that day?

As they approached the door of the surveillance room, Lin Yuan pulled Mother Lin, wanting to leave. Fortunately, Shen Xiaoyou had already sent security guards to guard them. They couldn’t leave.

Mother Lin looked around and said, “What does this mean?”

“I’m afraid you’ll run away,” Shen Xiaoyou said lightly.

“Who’s running? We wouldn’t run,” Mother Lin said, pulling Lin Yuan into the surveillance room.

Lin Anping and Shen Xiaoyou entered at the same time. Shen Xiaoyou said, “Excuse me, please help me pull up the surveillance footage from the pharmacy area in Zone B on the first floor, from about the last twenty minutes, thank you.”