Chapter 2046: You Have to Pretend Even If You Don't Want To

She hadn’t seen with her own eyes the scene of Bo Yanching and Nan Jiaojiao going into the room together, but just now when Bo Yanching came downstairs, he said Nan Jiaojiao was taking a shower, and with the clothes he was wearing and the water dripping from his hair…

Dammit!

What did those two do in that room!

It’s only been half an hour and Nan Jiaojiao’s already wrapped herself around him, she’s completely shameless!

“Third Brother!”

Song Yuan didn’t want Bo Yanching to go back up, her brain was a mess, she just managed to stop him, but the words stalled in her mouth for a while before she got them out, “Do you have time right now, I have something I want to talk to you about.”

Bo Yanching stopped walking. He was standing on the stairs, with no intention of coming down. His gaze swept down from above, not showing much emotion. Their eyes met, and Song Yuan’s heart started racing.

She didn’t speak, instead she stared at the child in Bo Yanching’s arms.

Basically, she felt the kid shouldn’t be present during this conversation.

But Bo Yanching had no intention of going along with her, “If you’ve got nothing to say, then go to bed early.”

With that, he carried Qianqian upstairs. “Third Uncle will run your bath first, then I’ll ask Granny Chen to come and wash you up later.”

Qianqian nodded cutely, “Mm-hmm!”

Song Yuan chased after him for a few steps, her wheelchair bumping against the stair railing and forcing her back. She was frantic, but no matter how she shouted, Bo Yanching didn’t stop for her a second time.

Instead, behind her, Bo Qingshan let out two slightly mocking laughs.

Song Yuan didn’t look back. It wasn’t that she was afraid of a bratty kid, it was that she didn’t want to offend anyone with the surname Bo. If she wanted to get through the Bo Family’s doors in the future, the relatives’ relationships were the ones she most needed to maintain—especially these two children, who had been doted on by Bo Yanching as if they were his own since they were little. If she soured things right from the start, it’d be hard to fix later.

She swallowed her anger and turned around with a smile. “Qingshan, it’s getting late. I’m going back to my room to sleep. You should go to bed early too.”

Bo Qingshan smiled, not quite smiling, “Okay, Auntie Song, good night.”

“Mm, good night.”

Song Yuan pressed her lips together in reply. Once she got back to her room, she grabbed the vase by the door, ready to smash it, but the water splashing onto the back of her hand jolted her awake.

This isn’t home. She can’t throw a tantrum. If she makes that much noise and someone hears, or wakes up Old Lady Bo in the room next door, it’ll be even harder to clean up the mess.

She called Mrs. Song, opening her mouth straight into a complaint. “Mom, is this plan even workable? I’ve already moved in, and there’s zero progress!”

“It’s only been one day, what progress are you expecting,” Mrs. Song was getting a facial done and hadn’t gone home yet at this hour, “Has Bo Yanching come back?”

“He came back today, but it looks like he’s leaving tomorrow. He basically doesn’t live here at all. I went to all this trouble to move into the Bo Family’s place so I could see him morning and night every day, not to stare at some old hag’s face all the time. You know I can’t even handle serving my own grandma at home, and now I have to think up topics every day to butter up Grandma Bo. I’m going out of my mind!”

Mrs. Song lifted her hand, signaling the beautician to leave first.

She sat up, pressing her fingers lightly to the mask on the side of her face. “Even if he doesn’t live there, he’ll still come back from time to time. You just need to seize the chances to be around him.”

“I want to, but that old hag keeps blocking me. Today they went to the stables, I wanted to go too, but I only found out after they’d left. I begged Grandma Bo to arrange a car for me, and she said my legs are inconvenient, so it’s not suitable for me to go horseback riding. I was livid. This fake injury really is getting impossible to keep up!”

“Even if you’re sick of pretending, you still have to keep it up. Other than those legs, what better excuse do you have right now to stay in that house?”