Chapter 633 — The Same Question

Chen Yuxuan could only smile bitterly, unable to tell whether his little sister had stumbled onto the truth by sheer luck or had somehow known a thing or two in advance.

"This question of mine is different from the last one! Before, I asked how old you were when you stopped wetting the bed. Now I'm asking whether you still wet the bed. Is that the same? Obviously not, right?" Shen Yushu explained, counting off on her fingers.

"Isn't that pretty much the same?" Su Taizao felt a headache coming on.

"Taizao, you said it yourself — it's pretty much the same, and pretty much the same means it's not the same. So you can answer now," Shen Yushu said.

Su Taizao hadn't expected to fall into the trap again without realizing it. He smiled bitterly. This time he didn't dare choose the dare, and simply picked up a bottle of red wine. "I'll take the penalty — one bottle — and refuse to answer."

After finishing the wine, Su Taizao gasped for breath a few times and finally recovered a little. Seeing that An Liwen was getting impatient, he hurried on with his question. "Brother An, it's my turn to ask now. I want to ask you — what is your ideal girlfriend like?"

"My ideal girlfriend, huh..." An Liwen saw that it was his turn to shine again. This time he couldn't fall for Shen Yushu's tricks again — he mustn't answer her sly questions carelessly! He had to finish his confession in one breath. "My ideal girlfriend — she has to have beautiful long hair, be about one meter sixty-five, tall and slender, a little on the thin side, pure and pretty. Mm, just like Yaoyao..."

"All right, Brother Jianwen, it's your turn to ask my brother! I've already got a new question ready for Sister Yaoyao, so hurry up!" Before An Liwen could even speak, Shen Yushu cut him off.

"Wait, I'm not finished yet!" An Liwen grew anxious. It was Shen Yushu again — why was she so annoying?

"You are finished. Taizao asked what your ideal girlfriend is like, and you've already answered — just like Sister Yaoyao!" Shen Yushu said. "See, you've answered it all."

"I still have more to say, I haven't explained the rest yet..." An Liwen was furious.

"You still need to explain? Then hurry up and explain!" Shen Yushu was a little impatient and spoke blandly.

"Where was I just now?" Cut off by Shen Yushu, An Liwen had somewhat lost his train of thought.

"You said you want to find a girlfriend just like Sister Yaoyao!" Shen Yushu said. "All right, Brother Jianwen, I wish you a girlfriend who's about the same as Sister Yaoyao. Is there anything else you need to explain?"

"Huh?" An Liwen was instantly stunned. Someone about the same as her? I want Gu Mengyao herself — what would I want someone about the same for? So he hurriedly said, "What I mean is, I only want to find Yaoyao!"

"That won't do. Sister Yaoyao already has someone in her heart, and besides, I don't like you either." Shen Yushu waved her hand. "All right, on to the next round!"

An Liwen's nose was so twisted with rage it went crooked. Was this Shen Yushu sent by heaven on purpose to oppose him?

But although he hadn't finished what he wanted to say, with Shen Yushu causing trouble, An Liwen clearly couldn't go on either. He had no choice but to say, "Fine, on to the next round. Brother Yutian, are you still going to marry Qiu Lingshan?"

"I've rather lost heart for it, heh. I feel the gap growing wider and wider, and my hopes smaller and smaller." Chen Yuxuan didn't deliberately dodge this question. He shook his head and said mildly.

With that question answered, it was Chen Yuxuan's turn to ask Shen Yushu.

Chen Yuxuan thought for a moment about what to ask his sister. He had already asked what needed asking. She still didn't have a boyfriend, so it must still have been a false hotel booking, and her silly old temperament must still be the same.

"By the way, when you were little, you and Yaoyao buried an iron box in the yard. What secret is inside it, really?" Chen Yuxuan had asked his sister out of curiosity back then, but she had blushed and refused to answer.

And Gu Mengyao had also deliberately avoided answering this question. For a while afterward, Chen Yuxuan remained very curious about what secret that box held, but he never got an answer. Later he went off to the special training brigade, gradually grew up, and became an armed police soldier stationed on the frontier.

"That box? It's nothing really — just a vow between me and Sister Yaoyao!" Shen Yushu didn't feel embarrassed about it now. Over the years Shen Yushu's character had taken shape — always this sort of silly, great-wisdom-appearing-foolish manner, able to fool anyone to death without batting an eye.

"A vow? What vow?" Chen Yuxuan asked.

An Liwen, too, was wide-eyed, waiting for Shen Yushu's answer. He had little interest in other people's affairs, but Shen Yushu had said this involved a vow of Gu Mengyao's, and anything concerning Gu Mengyao he was exceedingly eager to know.

"Our vow was that one day we'd marry the same man as Yaoyao. Yaoyao would be the first wife, and I'd be the second!" Shen Yushu said, rather pleased with herself.

"Xiaoshu, don't talk nonsense!" Gu Mengyao's face flushed slightly. What sort of vow was that? To this day she had no idea how she had ever agreed to it. Back then she had only thought she didn't want to be parted from Xiaoshu, so that the two of them could be together for a lifetime. But now that she had grown up, looking back, how childish her former self had been. Was such a thing really possible?

Could Xiaoshu really marry the same man as her? Even if she herself agreed, wouldn't it frighten off whatever boyfriend she might have in the future? At this thought, Gu Mengyao did not know why, but the image of a certain person surfaced in her mind... Wei Zhao? Why would she think of him? If Xiaoshu married him, they would actually make a rather fitting pair. Perhaps he was the only one who could put up with Shen Yushu's antics — after living under the same roof for so long, Wei Zhao still did not seem to have grown tired of her.

Chen Yuxuan had never imagined that his little sister had made such a vow when she was so young. Could it be that all those things she had been saying about first wives and second wives were true? She really intended to marry the same man as Gu Mengyao? That was simply too absurd.

It did not serve the interests of the Chen family at all. How could a girl of the Chen family possibly become another man's second wife? How could Grandfather ever agree to that?

Of course, if that man were sufficiently powerful, sought after by all the great houses, then it might be possible. But such men seemed exceedingly rare, and even if one existed, could he tolerate his little sister?

Better that he not end up enjoying none of the second wife's gentleness, only to be pranked to death by her instead.

Chen Yuxuan's gaze came to rest, unbidden, on Wei Zhao. If this man were his instructor, then perhaps he would be a rather good choice?