[The girl who was obedient when Yuko Moriya was around became unfriendly after leaving her mother.]
[She misses her late father, and she sees your arrival as an intrusion, a replacement, and a change.]
[Guan Yuejing hates change. It was because of the change in her job that her mother became addicted to gambling and she had to live in her grandparents' house. She believes that the way to achieve happiness is to return to the past.]
[However, everything is passing away. Change is the rule of the world. No one can step into the same river twice.]
[You find the girl's resistance interesting. You use Yuko Moritani's name to pressure her. You feel happy when you see her reluctantly listening to you.]
[After dinner, you sent the girl back to Moritani's house.]
[When the old couple Moriya saw that you were the only one who sent Guan Yuejing back, they didn't ask much, but they were just confused.]
[In the next month, you and Moritani Yuko often came to Moritani's house and took Guan Yuejing out for dinner.]
[You took the girl to many famous and interesting restaurants, but the girl never showed any special interest and just stayed quietly beside Yuko Moritani.]
[The time you spend with Guan Yuejing is increasing rapidly, but your relationship with the girl has not changed much.]
[During this month, except for the first meeting, Yuko Moritani never left early. She insisted on sending her daughter home before playing mahjong.]
[This is your coercion. You don't want to cause any trouble, so you let Moritani Yuko pretend to be a good mother in front of the old people in the Moritani family, so that you can take Guan Yuejing away earlier.]
[You had planned to talk to the two old people of the Moriya family about the girl after Guan Yuejing finished this semester. You didn't expect that the two old people of the Moriya family would take the initiative to hand the girl over to you.]
[After a month of getting along, the two old people believe in your character, and Yuko Moritani's outfit is also pretty perfect. ]
[When you came to Moritani's house again to pick up Guan Yuejing for dinner, the two old people packed their granddaughter's luggage! ]
[The Moritani couple are pleased that their daughter has found a reliable husband like you.]
[Yuko Moritani breathed a sigh of relief. She had finally completed the most important part of your prenuptial agreement.]
[You are very happy that Guan Yuejing finally fell into your hands. ]
[Guan Yuejing was very excited. She could finally return to her mother's side.]
[In the past month, Yuko Moritani behaved very kindly, and all the grievances and misunderstandings that Jing Guanyue suffered because of the empty bag turned into surprises in front of her mother's smile and the fact that her mother no longer let her cheat or steal.]
[She thought her mother had changed and returned to the good mother she remembered two years ago.]
[It was only after she moved into your villa that she realized that you were the reason for Yuko Moritani's change and that you had forced Yuko Moritani's kind coat on a woman.]
[At home, you can't stay by a girl's side all the time like you can when you take her out for dinner. When you're not around, Yuko Moritani reveals her true self.]
[On this day, your family of three will have dinner at home.]
A short memory scene appears.
"Jing, it's time to eat!"
Hearing her mother's voice downstairs, Guan Yuejing immediately closed the book in her hand and jumped down from the chair at the desk. She took two steps barefoot, put on the slippers beside her, and walked down quickly.
She didn't want to keep her mother waiting for long.
She walked down the stairs, crossed the corridor, and opened the door of the dining room. She saw the dining table with a sumptuous meal, her smiling mother, and her new father who had just come in.
The mother pulled out a dining chair for her stepfather, set the table with dishes and chopsticks, and waited attentively for the man to sit down.
In Guan Yuejing's memory, her mother had always been the one being served. This change in status made her a little depressed, and she herself couldn't figure out the reason for her depression.
The melancholy in Guan Yuejing's heart was dispelled by her mother's caring words. She responded happily and sat down at the dining table.
She sat on one side, with her mother and stepfather on the other.
This made her a little unhappy. She felt that she should sit next to her mother. Her stepfather came later and his status should be lower than hers.
However, as a sixth grade student, she had a childish maturity and she thought that as long as her mother liked it, she was willing to give in to her stepfather.
She brought up the topic, just like she had done during the previous month's meals, talking about school, teachers, and classmates. She didn't find it interesting, but her mother always liked such topics, and she liked her mother.
At the beginning of the conversation, the atmosphere was harmonious and cheerful as usual.
Until my stepfather received a call.
There was something going on at the company, so my stepfather put down his chopsticks and went to deal with it.
His departure surprised Guan Yuejing. In the previous month, every time she met her mother, the man was always there. She wanted to be alone with her mother, and today she finally had the chance.
"Mom, did you know that our Chinese teacher's husband is a foreigner? I just found out today because Huihui told me!"
Guan Yuejing lied. Huihui told her about this last week, but she had been keeping the topic to herself. She wanted to wait until she was alone with her mother, and now, when there would be no outsiders to disturb her, to talk about it with her mother.
She was filled with joy, and looked at her mother with anticipation in her eyes, looking forward to her mother's surprise, her mother's answer, and the new topics her mother would bring up.
In front of her smile, Yuko Moritani had no words, no expression, no movement, and no response.
The woman ate her lunch quickly, as if she didn't hear what the girl said.
"Mom, do you know that our Chinese teacher's husband is Chinese?" Guan Yuejing repeated what she had just said. She felt a little uneasy and her smile was a little stiff.
Yuko Moritani picked up the bowl of rice, her eyes fell on the side of the dining table, very distracted, she was daydreaming.
She would rather be distracted than pay attention to the girl.
Guan Yuejing's anxiety reached its peak. A year ago, before her grandparents took her away, her mother also ignored her in the same way.
She comforted herself that her mother had changed for the better. In the past month, she had been kinder than she had been two years ago. Now she was just distracted and didn't hear what she said at all.
She thought again that maybe this topic was not suitable and she should find something else to talk about.
She quickly found something else in the topic library and said, "Mom..."
Yuko Moritani finally responded, but this response was not what Jing Guanyue wanted. She would rather her mother did not answer.
"Are you annoying?" Yuko Moritani raised her eyebrows and glared at the girl in front of her.
Guan Yuejing was stunned.
"If it's just the two of us in the future, there's no need to tell me about your affairs. I don't have time and don't want to talk about it." Yuko Moritani was just thinking about last night's card game and was very impatient when the girl interrupted her train of thought.
The smile on Guan Yuejing's face faded, the light in her eyes faded, and the emotions in her heart faded. She finally realized that things were not as she had imagined.
She lowered her head and hummed.
(End of this chapter)