Chapter 223: No Crying, No Laughing

“Brother, where have you been fooling around? Coming back at this hour, if it wasn’t for me interceding with mom and saving it for you, you wouldn’t even have leftovers.”

“I’m going to study with Jing.”

“Really? You’re lying to a three year old here, it’s the weekend and you’re still studying.”

“Really, that’s what high schoolers do.”

Cheng Ming didn’t say that he was learning any knowledge, and that kind of knowledge counts as knowledge.

“If you’re going to study, why are you hiding it from me?”

“There’s no hiding it from you, aren’t you asleep?”

“Won’t you wake me up? It’s not like I have to get a full night’s sleep, bring me with you next week, middle schoolers need to start studying too.”

“No need to wait for next week, we have to study again tomorrow, I’m starving, eat first eat first.” Cheng Ming said as he covered his stomach, if he said any more he would be exposed.

Still overdoing it. Should’ve left more time.

Cheng Li burrowed under the dining table, lying on Cheng Ming’s lap, and asked, “Brother, do you know how I ate this dinner?”

“Eat with your mouth.”

“Nonsense, of course I use my mouth, but mom pinched all the vegetables I don’t like into my bowl, and you’re not here, brother, so I can only eat it with my head.” Cheng Li pounded Cheng Ming’s thigh and said with a watering cry.

“Pretty good, looks like I’m going to be home late for dinner a lot from now on.”

“Brother!” Cheng Li shouted as he twisted the flesh of Cheng Ming’s thigh.

“Okay, okay, I’m kidding you, I’ll be home for dinner on time and on schedule from now on.”

Cheng Li inhaled his nose and asked, “Why does it smell like shower gel on your body, brother did you take a shower?”

“Uh huh.”

“Why are you showering so early?”

“I felt a little sticky and uncomfortable, so I went ahead and took a shower.”

Although his sister couldn’t smell the odor, Cheng Ming was still playing it safe, and the result was that he didn’t make it to the meal.

“Why is the body sticky?” Cheng Li asked, suddenly alert to such a bad word.

“Because of the sweating.”

“Why are you sweating, didn’t you say you were going to study? It’s not possible that you did something with Jingyi-san that will give birth to a small baby, right? Well ……”

Cheng Ming hurriedly covered Cheng Li’s mouth, dad and mom and Xu Juan are not far away from watching the news, good thing the TV is loud enough to cover up their small movements here.

“What are you babbling about, it’s about moving your body after studying.”

Not only did my sister watch those videos, but she also learned biologically how little babies come to be, which can be pretty badass.

If Mom and Dad knew any of this, Cheng Ming would be dogged.

“What are you doing, brother!”

Cheng Ming let go of his sister’s mouth, put the chopsticks on his lips, and looked down, “Shhh.”

“So did brother and Jingyi-san do it?”

“Of course not, we’re still students.”

It’s also just short of the birth part of the thing is all.

Cheng Li came up to his face and touched Cheng Ming’s greasy, reflective lips.

“Xiao Ming, remember to clean up the table after you’re full.” Mom suddenly shouted.

The frightened Cheng Li slammed headfirst into the table, and the bowls and pots on the tabletop shook.

“Ooooh! I know.”

Cheng Li’s knees knelt on Cheng Ming’s insteps, his hands clasped his head, lying on Cheng Ming’s thighs, and wailed sadly, “It hurts.”

“Who told you to drill into the bottom of the table for nothing.” Cheng Ming gently rubbed Cheng Li’s head and said in a good-natured manner.

What is this dead girl playing at? Doesn’t she know how dangerous this thing is? Almost didn’t let her scare me to death.

Cheng Ming held chopsticks in one hand and rubbed his head with the other, eating his meal in a very classless position.

Normally, you’d get a lecture from your dad about holding a bowl in the other hand or something.

No, this position of my sister is even worse, isn’t it, burying her head in that place.

In any case, it was always unlikely that his sister would suddenly take a sip, and biting her mouth or whatever was the limit.

The full-blooded Cheng Li ran towards the sofa with open arms, rested on Li Ying’s thigh, and said, “Mom, let me listen to the little baby in my belly.”

“Being pregnant isn’t like raising flowers and plants, and even if you listened to it every day, my belly wouldn’t grow that fast.”

“I want to have a good relationship with my future siblings.”

“Yes, yes, yes, you all have to be good.” Li Ying said dotingly.

Cheng Ming ate his fill alone, then washed his own dishes and left with Xu Juan against his sister’s grudging gaze.

Cheng Ming rides a motorcycle and Xu Juan rides a bicycle.

Walking side by side, not too fast, there was something that reminded Cheng Ming of himself and Jing Jing going home from their evening study sessions.

Of course, there’s a big difference.

Xu Juan doesn’t take the initiative to find a topic of conversation and answers only when asked.

There was basically silence along the way, not to mention that she would not be like Jing Jing who, after being teased by Cheng Ming, became so annoyed that she hit the motorcycle with the front wheel of the bike.

Cheng Ming enjoyed the quiet time between the two.

That thing to try? The plan to get Xu Juan to tell herself to go to bed on time.

I’ve just warmed up with Jing Jing, so I’m thinking of something else.

Man, man.

But with both my sister and Aunt Liam away in their new home, it was only a once a week opportunity, and four times a month.

If you miss this one you’ll have to wait for the next week, and it’s the Fourth of July soon, so let’s give it a try, and maybe Xu Juan will just open the door and call out mechanically, “It’s eleven o’clock.”

Just go back to your room and go to sleep.

Cheng Ming acted as Xu Juan’s home tutor every night for almost an hour to an hour and a half.

Cheng Ming also didn’t talk too much at once, and had to review yesterday’s and consolidate today’s.

The topics that weren’t covered will be saved for tomorrow so that Xu Juan doesn’t get indigestion.

The questions that Xu Juan couldn’t do were also basically difficult.

It’s also beneficial for Cheng Ming, who is lazy in his studies.

But taking another college entrance exam is just a bit of torture, and having to get into the same college as Jing Jing multiplies the difficulty factor.

“Xu Juan, I have something I’d like to ask for your help, ahem ……”

Cheng Ming coughed twice in embarrassment.

Xu Juan stopped her pen and lifted her head, looking at Cheng Ming with wide eyes.

“Actually, I want to have a normal routine, but you know I’m a person with very poor self-control, and I can’t do it without being supervised, and if I have Ri at home, she can still supervise me to go to bed early, and when she’s not at home, I start to be unconscious.”

“So I want you to come and yell at me to go to bed at eleven o’clock.”

Cheng Ming finished his bedtime phone call with Jing Jing and Chen Zi Yi as usual, then turned on the computer to listen to Wen Wen’s sister Wen Wen’s whining.

The amount of work he needed to handle was less and less, and it also showed that the people on Wen’s side had pretty much eaten up his codes and programs.

Getting easier was nice, but it wasn’t a good thing, and not having to beg for him meant that his importance and presence was diminishing.

Two weeks away from working on Legend, not everything was going as smoothly as Cheng Ming had planned.

The manpower in Wen’s studio is increasing and it is no longer a small workshop.

It’s easy to share the pain, but hard to share the sweetness. They are all fresh graduates, or even college students who haven’t graduated yet, where have they seen so much money.

Cheng Ming asked their future hangouts to give up the name of Pixie Helper and change their vest name, it is not a good thing for hangouts to have too much fame, and a gun to the head is a good thing.

Of course, this was something that Cheng Ming had asked Senior Brother Wen to say in his own name, it wasn’t his turn to tell him what to do as an outsider in the studio, and for Cheng Ming to come and say this would only stir up more dissatisfaction.

Some people disagree, especially the earliest partners. There is already affection for Pixie and a reluctance to give up the ‘brand’.

Wen’s expedient is to split into two studios, the old studio is responsible for the maintenance of the old plug-in, and the new studio will do the new plug-in.

The rift has been created and may grow larger later.

People’s hearts are hard to predict ah, good thing that senior brother Wen’s mind is sober, and did not be swept away by the interests, Cheng Ming does not want him to be in trouble, after all, he is the only person who knows Cheng Ming’s bottom line.

Gentleman: “It feels like it’s gotten stale in the studio, gone are the days when you used to pull all-nighters until morning and use a raffle program to draw a person to get breakfast, so hurry up and make something more powerful to bluff them.”

“Big sister, I’m just a freshman in high school, don’t give me a hard time.”

Although Cheng Ming’s mind was full of awesome things, he didn’t want to do it alone, it had to exhaust him.

Anyhow, we have to build a proper software company, recruit a bunch of programmers, and he’ll come up with the product requirements.

This aspect is where Cheng Ming’s strength lies.

Not only software, Cheng Ming also wants to make a difference in hardware, hard and soft ah.

However, Cheng Ming doesn’t have any talent or money, and he even has only a handful of trustworthy people, so one Shen Xiaoxiao is completely insufficient.

Originally, I wanted to let the power on Wen’s side to harvest the dividends of a wave of hangers on, and then transform into a software development company after accumulating the capital. Now it seems to be a bit difficult, or find someone to start their own business.

Cheng Ming glanced at the time in the lower right corner.

Eh, it’s half past eleven.

As soon as you get busy with business, you completely forget about immodesty.

Xu Juan didn’t come? That’s right. She listens to her mom, not herself.

Cheng Ming turned around and realized that Xu Juan was already lying down on the bed, her feet in slippers still on the floor.

When did you get here? I didn’t see it at all.

Waiting for him to go to bed until you fall asleep again?

This plan was actually possible, how many times had Cheng Ming missed his chance.

Cheng Ming first took off Xu Juan’s slippers and carried her legs to the bed, then reached into her cackling nest, his thumbs could feel the soft touch and moved her body to lie down.

Xu Juan steeply opened her eyes, not at all the kind of sleepy eyes that one would expect after being woken up, and met Cheng Ming’s eyes above her.

The atmosphere suddenly froze.

Still awake?

So the previous one was loaded too?

It’s over. It’s all over.

Xu Juan grabbed Cheng Ming’s hand and pressed it onto her breasts, saying expressionlessly, “Like it?”

Confession?

No, no, no.

Although the reborn Cheng Ming would inevitably be a bit more popular, and was also trying to raise Xu Juan’s favorability as much as possible, but isn’t it a bit sudden to confess right here.

“Poor tits.”

“Uh.”

Speaking of which, ah, Chen Ziyi has really taken people the wrong way.

“Not annoying is all.”

Big is good for big, hard to cover with only one hand, and small is good for small, catchable with only one hand.

You can get tired of eating one dish all the time, and by switching it up, you can always keep it fresh.

But Cheng Ming had a lot of questions right now, which one to ask first.

“That …… Why did you let me touch your breasts?”

“Because you like it.”

“Why should I be allowed to touch it if I like?”

“Rent.”

“Clam?”

“This is rent.” Xu Juan said in a serious manner.

“This is the first time I’ve heard of this kind of rent, and I didn’t say anything about charging this kind of rent.”

“Rei and Ri.”

“What happened to them?”

“They have small breasts.”

“After all, it hasn’t developed much yet, so of course it’s small.”

“I’m not as small as they are, but not big.”

“Being this size at your age is the result of malnutrition.”

Cheng Ming was a bit tired from standing all the time, and it wasn’t good to sit directly on Xu Juan, so he lay down on his side, his hand still being grasped by Xu Juan.

“Do you like it?”

“Like what?”

“My boobs.”

“I should count it as not annoying ……”

“If you don’t hate it, you don’t like it, and I’m going to be evicted.”

“No, why not hate is not like ah, not hate is like is right ah. And how is it that I’m going to be kicked out if I don’t like your boobs ah, this house is not my words ah.”

There is a big misunderstanding here.

Although mom and dad don’t live here, but where Xu Juan lives, but mom said to count, a word, limited during pregnancy.

“Being liked stays.”

“Well, a good boy is always better.”

“But I was the obnoxious kid, and I wasn’t good at school, and I was always saying the wrong things and getting yelled at.”

“Then I stopped talking and got told I was rude again.”

“I laughed so hard when I was playing in the yard, and I laughed when I was told that my father was dead, and then I stopped laughing.”

“And being treated like a broomstick by the people at school, dancing a broom in front of me, with dirty, smelly dust falling in my face.”

“When I cry at home, my mom cries with me, so I don’t cry anymore.”

“Totally at a loss as to what to do for the best, and keep giving my mom trouble.”

“I’m getting kicked out again.”

Xu Juan shrunk her body into a ball and hugged Cheng Ming’s arm tightly, her delicate body trembling slightly.

“It won’t drive you away, and no one will drive you away, don’t worry.” Cheng Ming patted Xu Juan’s back lightly and comforted her.

It was the past that Cheng Ming didn’t know about, but it was always a good thing that it was said in such a way.

This was the first time Xu Juan had opened her mouth.

“I’m sorry, I actually asked you to come and call me to bed at eleven o’clock because I was scheming to get you to get tired like you did in military training and just lay down in my bed and go to sleep so we could sleep together.”

“Does sleeping together mean you like it?”

“You slept with Ri and Ren too.”

“It’s impossible to sleep together if you don’t like it.”

“More kissing?”

Sure enough, the effects of leaving the door unlocked are still there, and Xu Juan, as the god of doors, has opened the door and bumped into too many unspeakable secrets.

“That won’t be necessary.”

Although it seemed like it would be fine if it went on at this pace, this was not the ending Cheng Ming wanted ah. If this was a beauty girl game, choosing to do it at this time would be the most common ending.

In his previous life, that kind of was the bad ending, right, but the reborn Cheng Ming definitely wanted to hit the perfect ending ah.

Still, he seemed to have gone astray, and being reborn was already an unsolved mystery, so he couldn’t expect to bring an archive and a readout.

“No?”

“Uh, it’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just that it’s the kind of thing where both parties have to like each other.”

“Going to kick me out?”

“I told you I wouldn’t kick you out!”

You don’t feel comfortable without a kiss, do you?

“You asked for this.”

Without the shyness and blush of a young girl, she watched Cheng Ming drop her lipstick.

Whether moving or not, the lips remain soft.

It was the first time I kissed Xu Juan.

“You can stop wearing a mask as a human being from now on, no one will bully you here anymore, I’m sitting right next to the garbage can, you still have to go through me if you want to get a broom, you can cry more and smile more, even if you smile, everyone will only smile along with you, no one will scold you. Even if you cry, Auntie Lian won’t cry with you, we and Auntie Lian will comfort you. So cry more, holding it in is not good for your body.”

“Uh-huh.”

The corners of Xu Juan’s eyes were slightly moist, and she didn’t just bawl.

Are you embarrassed to be stared at by him?

“I’ll turn off the lights.”

Cheng Ming got up and turned off the lights, but Xu Juan still held Cheng Ming’s hand and wouldn’t let go.

Come on, let it out.

Still no tears.

“Xu Juan, do you like me?” Cheng Ming asked.

“Not a fan of ……”

“That’s true enough.”

“But it’s not annoying.”

“Sleep.”

“Uh-huh.”