Chapter 217: Chapter 204: That Surge of Hot Blood in the Chest
This Yin Shihua was anxious at heart, though she had two sons, each one was a treasure.
Ever since Shan Mingxu went to the army, he was all she thought about even in her dreams, and she couldn’t sleep well. If he went into the special forces...
God knows at what time and place that life, oblivious to the dangers, would be at the gates of hell... How is she supposed to live like this?
"Relax, it’s okay. He’s just being stubborn like a kid. Let him go, let him suffer, and he’ll come back obediently."
At this moment, Yin Shihua could only go along with Yin Shixiu’s comforting thought.
So, before the new year, the whole family was revolving around news about Shan Mingxu...
The application went through...
With a backpack, he went to some base for a three-month intensive selection training...
Not coming back for the Chinese New Year...
No good news, and then, Shan Mingxu, like the other soldiers in the selection training, was isolated from all contact with the outside world.
The Yin Family couldn’t get in touch either, after all... There really was such a person who didn’t buy into the old commander’s influence at all.
In the blink of an eye, it was mid-January. Su Xiaomeng finished her elective course exams, and now it was time for the various major subject exams.
After she finished the last class of the semester, Su Xiaomeng headed home with her bag. As soon as she got home, she went straight into the study.
Shuangshuang, who was crawling on the floor in the living room, raised her head upon hearing the sound, saw mom had returned, and just as the excitement started to build, Su Xiaomeng disappeared.
Her big eyes darted around, realizing it might have been her imagination, she didn’t care and slowly crawled over to her brother...
Mrs. Yin had just finished cooking dinner when Yin Shixiu came back.
Seeing Shuangshuang and Huang Huang cuddled up, sleeping on the electric carpet, he took off his coat, washed his hands, and went to carry the little ones into the room.
"Xiaomeng hasn’t come back yet?"
Yin Shixiu asked, puzzled.
Su’s mother pointed to the study, "She went in as soon as she got back."
Yin Shixiu went over and pushed the door open, "Xiao—"
"Ah! Don’t disturb me, don’t disturb me! Get out, get out!"
The large desk was filled with professional books...
Su’s mother chuckled and said leisurely, "If you don’t work hard normally, you’ll be sad at the end of the semester..."
Working on study materials inside, Su Xiaomeng felt she couldn’t explain her woes...
"Come out to eat first."
Yin Shixiu said, but Su Xiaomeng didn’t even raise her head and just waved her hand, "You guys eat first, I’ll eat later. Help close the door, thank you."
Yin Shixiu didn’t give any strict orders but soon brought in a tray of food, walked over to her side, glanced at what she was doing, and couldn’t help but ask, "Organizing review content?"
"Yeah."
"Give me the scope, eat first."
Mentioning "scope," Su Xiaomeng felt like she could spit blood, dropping her head onto the desk, starting to cry, "Those crazy professors! Crazy professors! The scope is the whole book, can that even be called a scope?! Waaah..."
Su Xiaomeng’s head was about to explode! She felt like flinging the books.
"Questions unclear, scope is the whole book, focus on the content lectured in class... aren’t they just messing with me!"
"Meng Meng..."
"What—"
Her head was gently pulled over, and Yin Shixiu bent down, eyes smiling as he kissed her...
After kissing enough, Yin Shixiu finally let her go.
Su Xiaomeng blinked, scolded him, "What are you doing? Sneak attack?"
"Eat first."
Su Xiaomeng, seemingly tempted by the kiss, obediently moved the books aside and started eating...
Yin Shixiu pulled a chair over to sit next to her, took the heap of books from the desk: Introduction to Linguistics, Pragmatics, History of Modern Chinese Literature, History of Foreign Literature...
With five or six books piled there, it really did feel like a big stone weighing on one’s heart.
"When are the exams?"
Yin Shixiu casually asked while flipping through the books.
Su Xiaomeng pointed to Pragmatics and History of Modern Literature, "These two on next Tuesday, and those two on Wednesday."
She then calculated on her fingers, "Three days left..."
Yin Shixiu took out a tablet from the drawer and started looking up the course syllabus on the education website.
Su Xiaomeng leaned over, looking astonished at him...
"What, what are you doing?"
"Can’t you tell? Finding the review scope for you."
"Uh... isn’t this supposed to be set by the professor?"
Without lifting his head, Yin Shixiu said, "A University having a student like you, it’s hard to say if it’s fortunate or unfortunate."
"...Don’t mock me, just speak up."
Su Xiaomeng, with an oily mouth, leaned over, making Yin Shixiu uncomfortable. He grabbed a tissue and wiped her mouth randomly, then handed it to her.
"Tsk, didn’t you just kiss me as if you enjoyed it?"
Su Xiaomeng mumbled and then, without wiping her mouth, hugged his neck and planted several messy kisses on his cheek...
Yin Shixiu said with a steady gaze, "Do you still want the review outline?"
"...I do."
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Su Xiaomeng pulled her head back and continued eating.
Yin Shixiu glanced at her and said, "The professors who wrote these books are all from your A University, and the basic outline on this educational website targeting the curriculum was compiled by these professors. If you don’t review according to this, you really plan to memorize the whole book?"
Su Xiaomeng choked a little. If Yin Shixiu hadn’t mentioned it, she’d never know there was such a method.
"It’s great to study now; all sorts of resources can be found online, oh..."
Su Xiaomeng squinted upon hearing this, with a smile, she said, "Uncle, the way you say this sounds so dated, hahaha..."
"But how come you’re so knowledgeable?"
"Su Xiaomeng, I honestly can’t bear..."
"What?"
"This intelligence might actually be a hard flaw."
Yin Shixiu said this with a sympathetic pat on Su Xiaomeng’s head, and with that sentence, that gesture directly triggered Su Xiaomeng.
She reached out to pinch his thigh, while her whole head was already pulled into his embrace, "Alright, alright, isn’t there still the saying, ’a slow bird must fly first’?"
"...Jerk."
Yin Shixiu chuckled lightly, and forty minutes later, he had outlined the basic scope of several courses for Su Xiaomeng, while she had finished her dinner.
She and Yin Shixiu left the study together, and it was only then she remembered she had two kids, and went to see them.
The little ones had just had their meal and were sleeping soundly.
After New Year’s Day, Dad returned to Chengdu, and in the evening, Su’s mother asked about Shan Mingxu.
After Su Xiaomeng spoke with Su’s mother, she also felt helpless. If it were her in that situation, she’d probably be tangled up too.
Su Xiaomeng took a bath and then snuck back into the study, seeing Yin Shixiu sitting at the desk with his computer on, seemingly dealing with work.
She shuffled over, tidied up his files and placed them on the coffee table, then bluntly said, "You go there."
"...," Yin Shixiu was somewhat taken aback.
"Are you going?"
Yin Shixiu pulled her close, gave her a strong kiss, and then threatened, "I’ve given you the desk, you’d better get some results from your review, otherwise..."
"Go quickly, stop talking nonsense."
Saying this, Su Xiaomeng had already chased Yin Shixiu from the desk to the small coffee table.
Su Xiaomeng leaned back contentedly in the leather chair, and then buried her head in the book.
Yin Shixiu finished the few files at hand as well as the new emails, and it was nearly ten o’clock.
Looking up, Su Xiaomeng was indeed there seriously reviewing, her expression focused...
Yin Shixiu silently yawned, put away his computer and files, went to the bathroom to take a shower, and returned to find Su Xiaomeng still burrowing into her book.
He randomly picked a book from the bookshelf and then leaned back on the sofa to read.
Seeing Su Xiaomeng like this also reminded him of his student days, when he rarely attended professional courses and was outside running a company with some like-minded friends.
In the end, when it came to finals, he spent night after night cramming for exams.
Plus, studying abroad was inherently the most stressful period during one’s student era, unlike many domestic universities, yet domestic top universities also had their undeniable pressures.
Perhaps due to limited mental capacity, the dense text before her eyes became indecipherable...
Su Xiaomeng took a deep breath, looked up, and found Yin Shixiu sitting there reading a book.
Without realizing it, she became engrossed looking at him.
She thought, with someone like Yin Shixiu, she might never fully understand him even with all her life efforts, but as a husband, he’s so perfect, perfect to the point where she couldn’t find any flaw.
How did Mr. Yin and Mrs. Yin raise someone like him?
When Shuangshuang and Huanghuang grew up, should they be handed over to Mr. Yin and Mrs. Yin to educate too?
"Knock knock"...
Su Xiaomeng was so lost in thought she didn’t even notice Yin Shixiu walking up to her.
He tapped on the table twice, "Can’t focus anymore?"
"Hmm...a bit tired."
"It’s over eleven o’clock, let’s go and sleep."
"...Oh."
In this lifetime, the only man who could make her willingly follow him was probably just this one.
She felt very fortunate to be able to love someone so deeply, so deeply.
Fortunately, she was an optimist, knowing that things had two sides yet only focusing on the most positive one.
Otherwise, she’d probably feel afraid, afraid to love this deeply...but in the end, not getting a good result.
After munching through books at home for three whole days, Su Xiaomeng went to take the exams. Speaking of which, she had already taken these courses once last year...
But evidently, a year was enough for her to return every bit of what she learned to the teacher.
Not only that, maybe because she had set goals in life, which brought...special pressure.
Passing the grade line was probably no longer considered a good result in her eyes.
After two days of exams, Su Xiaomeng officially started her winter break.
With her leisure time, Yin Shixiu faced various year-end company work assessments, busy as ever.
By the time Yin Shixiu became relatively free, it was already early February, approaching the Spring Festival.
On the evening of the 26th, Yin Shixiu received a call from the elderly man...
Su Xiaomeng noticed his silence after the call and couldn’t help but ask, "What’s wrong?"
Yin Shixiu pressed his lips together, thought for a bit, and then said to Su Xiaomeng, "Pack up your things, we’re going back to Chengdu tomorrow."