"Auntie, my sister-in-law and I will make mille-feuille cakes and bring them for afternoon tea."
"Well, go ahead."
Se Ziyan walked up to Tang Yao excitedly and issued a harmless invitation: "Sister-in-law, can you leave?"
Tang Yao nodded and turned to Su Lengmo and said, "Lengmo, I'll go to the kitchen and you chat with grandpa and the others."
"Call me if you need anything." Su Leng touched her cheek in a strange and loving way and said.
"I know." Tang Yao smiled back at him.
Se Ziyan watched from the side, using her greatest strength to restrain the screaming jealousy in her heart.
When she and Tang Yao came out, they discovered that there were many marks on her fair wrists that she had pinched out.
"What's wrong with your wrist?" Tang Yaoyao saw it with sharp eyes and asked.
Se Ziyan put down her hand in a panic and said with a smile: "I bumped into it accidentally when I was just going to the bathroom."
"..." Tang Yaoyao thought, if she saw it correctly, it was obviously pinched out with her fingers. The nail marks were deep and shallow, and she could tell at a glance that it was caused by subconsciously inserting force into the flesh.
But this was their privacy, so it was hard for her to ask any questions.
"Let's go." Tang Yao said.
Yan Ziyan might have a guilty conscience, but she always felt that Tang Yao had seen something. She grabbed Tang Yao and said hesitantly: "Sister-in-law, actually... I just lied to you."
Tang Yao smiled: "Zi Yan, everyone has their own privacy. I won't get to the bottom of things you don't want to talk about."
"No, I'm just not used to lying, so I feel a little guilty."
Zi Ziyan smiled sheepishly: "Actually, I pinched myself. When I went to the bathroom just now, my classmate who was far away from abroad called me. He said that the paper I was about to publish had been stolen. That is the result that I spent nearly half a year researching, but now it has become someone else’s thing. I am very angry, but I can’t show it in front of my family, so... "
She smiled bitterly: "Sister-in-law, don't blame me for complaining to you. I don't know why, but I always feel like we are old friends at first sight, so I feel a little aggrieved and want to tell you. I don't know if you will be upset."
Seeing that she didn't seem to be faking it, Tang Yao felt a little moved and asked, "Is it true that I can't get the paper back?"
"He had published it ahead of me, and it was published in a very authoritative local magazine."
Se Ziyan sighed in frustration: "It's all because I trust people easily. I thought that after knowing him for so many years, he would never betray me for the sake of his future. I didn't expect..."
Tang Yao asked tentatively: "Your boyfriend?"
Yan Ziyan shook her head: "No, I just like him unilaterally, but now, I don't think I can like him anymore. I don't know what mentality I should use to like a man who stole my thesis."
"..." Tang Yao didn't know what to say for a moment.
After a pause, she tentatively asked: "Do you want Leng Shanshang to help? I think he should have a way to prove that you wrote the paper, and then ask the local magazine to re-sign it, which will discredit that person."
Yan Ziyan shook her head lonely: "Sister-in-law, no need, I want to handle it alone. After all, I treat him..."
She hesitated, took a deep breath and said, "Sister-in-law, I'm fine. Let's make pastries first."
"Are you sure you can make pastries in this state?"
"Of course, I am the little princess of the color family who cannot be defeated. Even my mother said that I am just a tough, tolerant, scolding, and patient little strongman. It is just a paper, no big deal."
He said it was a big deal, but there were tears in his eyes, which were particularly bright under the refraction of the sun.
Tang Yao pursed her lips, opened her mouth, and finally just silently followed Se Ziyan.
Entering the kitchen, Se Ziyan asked the cook for the ingredients they were going to make for making pastries, but when she started making them, she frequently got distracted and looked preoccupied.
Seeing that Se Ziyan was about to pick up a knife and cut her finger, Tang Yaoyao was so frightened that she quickly snatched the knife from her hand and said, "Be careful!"
Ziyan came back to her senses, saw the knife in Tang Yao's hand, her face turned pale, and she said calmly: "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, I just..." Before she could finish her words, her eyes turned red. Embarrassed, she turned her back to wipe her tears and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, I made you laugh." "
Tang Yao sighed, put down the knife, called the chef and asked them to make the thousand-feuille cake, and then took Yan Ziyan out.
Sitting under the grape trellis, Tang Yao asked the servant to bring some tea. When it was delivered, she poured a cup for Se Ziyan: "It's hot. Drinking it will soften your body and make you less likely to have random thoughts."
Yan Ziyan picked up the cup and took a slow sip. The fragrant chrysanthemum fragrance filled her entire mouth. She whispered: "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry, I just lost my temper."
"Everyone has troubles. You don't need to apologize to me." Tang Yao said, "If you don't mind, you can use me as a listener. Don't worry, I won't say anything casually."
"Sister-in-law, I believe in your character." Zi Ziyan smiled, then fell into deep thought, and her face became a little unsightly.
Tang Yao didn't rush her, just drank tea slowly.
"Sister-in-law, he is a senior I met when I first arrived abroad. He is a Chinese and has lived abroad since he was twelve years old. However, he still speaks Chinese very well. He is also humorous and takes care of me in every aspect. I am alone. Alone in a foreign country, there was a person who was so kind to me, and I fell in love with him over time. However, he simply regarded me as a compatriot, but it didn't matter, as long as he was by my side, so when I was a tutor, I asked me to study a promising career. I invited him to help with the article about genes, and I did not hide much of the information I collected from him. I originally planned to publish it after returning to China to visit relatives, but he published it first."
After being silent for a while, Yan Ziyan said quietly.
"Do you have any plans on what to do?" Tang Yao asked.
"I want to go back in two days and ask him face to face why he did this. Unless he can give me a reasonable explanation, otherwise..." Yan Ziyan did not finish his words, but his eyes flashed with pain.
"Zi Yan, if you think about it, I won't advise you. Some achievements are better to be maintained through hard work. Not every man deserves to have some admiration. When you find that he is not worthy, you must argue with reason. If you can't fight, then Take up the weapon of law." Tang Yao said: "You still have the Yan family behind you, and my father-in-law and mother-in-law love you so much. As long as you say it, the Su family cannot ignore it, and you are not afraid that you will not be able to cure someone who thinks about others. The villain."
(End of chapter)