Volume 2: The Initial Ripples Chapter 48

  "There's nothing." Yun Qingran hastily denied, otherwise the consequences would not be so easy to bear: "Xuan Gege, I just wanted to ask if you will leave again?" Yun Qingran's voice was soft and coquettish.

  Ye Ningxuan gently kissed the small, almost imperceptible mole on her forehead, his soft lips landing precisely on it. He then straightened up and said seriously: "I won't be leaving. My dad is being transferred from Beijing to accumulate experience, and a few months after I broke through, your position will be confirmed. So I had my dad choose C City among the three possible places for transfer, which happened to be the best choice among them. This time, it's just me and my dad coming first, but my mom will also be transferred here later."

  "Really?" Yun Qing's eyes lit up in front of her, and it just so happened that she was thinking about whether to go to school early. Although the knowledge at school didn't mean much to her: "When school starts, I plan to go to school in the city, starting directly from third grade. However, unfortunately, the house in the city is too far away from the surrounding schools."

  "Then I'll come to pick you up every day." Ye Ningxuan's hand gently stroked Yun Qingran's face, soft and tender, making him want to take a bite. In fact, he did just that.

  "Don't touch my face." Yun Qingran dodged his hand, but not his lips, leaving a shiny mark on her slightly red cheeks. Out of anger, she grabbed Ning Xuan's neck and childishly nibbled on the exposed collarbone of his unbuttoned shirt, leaving a small toothprint behind. With a muffled voice, she said: "There are almost two months left, let's see how Grandpa and them will arrange things."

  "En, okay." Ye Ningxuan didn't force it, and it was still early anyway. Now that he mentioned it, there was no use: "Qingqing, tell me about how you've been these past few years?"

  "Uh-huh." Yun Qinglian found a comfortable position in his arms and quietly leaned against him, recounting the events that had transpired since becoming a spiritual body.

  Yun Qingran had never known in the past that this life was because she had memories to help her family, but still suffered grievances. What about the previous life? He had never heard her talk about things before meeting him, and he never asked, just afraid of uncovering her wounds. Ye Ningxuan buried his head and pressed his chin on her head, his heart aching. His silly girl.

  It seemed as if Yun Qingran had sensed Ye Ningxuan's heartache, and she smiled at him with a hint of mischief, saying: "And you? How have you been?"

  Ye Ningxuan smiled softly, with a hint of mist in her eyes: "At first, I was like you. When I was young, I also consciously showed my family extremely high intelligence and maturity. Smoothly, the family cultivated me, starting to let me attend family meetings at the age of three, giving me the right to speak at four, and letting me participate in family decisions at five. However, after the family crisis was resolved when I was eight years old, I no longer participated in family matters, only making a suggestion about Father's affair."

  Yun Qing suddenly understood his feelings, and pitied him as she kissed his forehead. Those years must have been exhausting for him; from the previous life, she vaguely knew that he had lost his entire family, including his mother. Now, at such a young age, he was shouldering the burden of reversing the fate of their clan's destruction in front of his family members, and his own plans couldn't be revealed to them yet - it was just him fighting alone, and that feeling of being a lone warrior could drive someone mad.

  "After that, I'll accompany you." Yun Qingran murmured. The one who could overthrow the two families of Ye and Shen with a single effort couldn't be an enemy on the same level, but rather someone behind the scenes.

  "Baby, be good!" Yening Xuan naturally understood Yun Qingran's meaning. The crisis was averted for the time being, but the person behind had not been found yet. In the end, he would inevitably confront the person behind him.

  With a peaceful mind, the dizziness and restlessness of the day made Yun feel exhausted in body and mind. She leaned into his arms and fell asleep to the low sound of Ning Xuan's voice at night.

  Looking at the cloud-like Yun Lian in his arms, her small face occasionally rubbing against his chest, Ye Ningxuan's heart felt a softness. "Being able to hold you like this again, I'm already satisfied." It seemed like a murmur, yet also like a sigh of relief.

  Yun Qingran woke up early, only to find herself back in bed, with a faint warmth and the scent of roses lingering beside her. Ballball was also sleeping next to her pillow, she didn't know when it had crawled out from her hair. Feeling great, she changed into new clothes, stuffed the still-sleeping Ballball into her pocket, and headed to the dining hall. Yesterday's events must have worried her family.

  "Grandpa, grandma... " Yun Qing walked into the dining hall, greeting each family member one by one in a soft tone, but everyone could hear the joy in her heart. She looked at everyone apologetically, just for one night, and under their eyelids were thick black eye circles.

  "Here, come and eat quickly. Let's talk after we've eaten." Seeing Yun Lao Yezi saw Yun Qingran's quick and easy appearance, he put down his worries and let her come over to sit and eat.

  Today is Saturday, so everyone in the family who could come back last night has already returned, and of course they also knew about Yun Qingran's situation. Everyone was worried all night. No one had ever seen Yun Qingran with such a disheartened expression as she had last night; except when she was very young and often had a sweet smile on her face, later on she always had an air of calmness about her, as if nothing could faze her.

  However, Master Yun no longer allows anyone to ask questions now, and naturally, no one dares to refute him. At home, the only person who dares to confront Master Yun is Yun Xiang Fei, and the only person who can change Master Yun's mind is Yun Qing Ran.

  Everyone was quietly eating their meal, each lost in their own thoughts. The Yun family wasn't very particular about not talking while eating, as long as it wasn't loud and boisterous, soft conversations were still acceptable, but such silence was rarely seen.

  From time to time, everyone would secretly glance at Yun Qingran, only to suddenly discover that her eating posture had changed a lot from before, and the innate noble temperament was even more pronounced. The spoon in her hand slowly drank the porridge in the bowl, but such a simple action had an indescribable elegance and nobility, as if she were a young lady from an ancient aristocratic family.

  Yun Qingran knew that everyone was looking at her, and thought it was because of yesterday's incident that she didn't mind, or she had drunk all the porridge and took out a handkerchief to elegantly wipe her mouth. Only then did she raise her head, but was taken aback: "Why are you looking at me like this?"

  "Really, when did you become like this?" Yun Xi asked sorrowfully. She hadn't noticed the change in her own precious daughter; was she an incompetent mother? Never mind, she would take good care of her from now on and make up for lost time. As Yun Xi thought to herself, she secretly scolded herself, causing Yun Qingran's heart to suddenly feel a chill.

  "What have I become?" Yun Qingran's mouth twitched suspiciously, but no one noticed. What's going on? Hasn't she become very normal now? What is this situation?

  "It's just your eating action, how did it suddenly become like this." Yun Xi accused with grievance, almost with tears.

  Yun Qingran's mouth twitched even more noticeably this time, although only Old Man Yun saw it. What was she thinking? It was still that Star brat's doing, saying something about her perfect master needing the best noble etiquette and demeanor, so every day when entering the space, she would spend a certain amount of time training her, making her have corresponding table manners with her already noble temperament. Unconsciously, these habits had become second nature to her. Fortunately, she found an excuse to avoid Star's nagging.

  The change was gradual, so under normal circumstances, the Yun family didn't notice. Because both Old Master Yun and Old Madam Yun were considered aristocratic families, they had certain requirements for etiquette towards everyone on a daily basis. Although Yun Qingran was so standard, she still had the demeanor of an aristocrat.

  "It was taught by Master," Yun Qingyan said lightly. That master was her biggest shield.

  As expected, everyone calmed down after Yun Qingyan said that. It's also possible that Yun Qingyan's master is from a prominent family, and as his successor, he naturally had to learn these "simple" etiquette rules.

  "Yes, yes, what happened yesterday?" After chatting about trivial matters, it's time to ask about the main issue. In this case, the main issue is usually brought up by Old Master Yun.

  "Grandpa, I want to go to school." Yun Qingran didn't respond, instead saying something unrelated.

  Grandpa Yun understood that Yun Qingran was deliberately changing the subject because she didn't want to talk about yesterday's events. What she didn't want to say, no one could pry out of her. So he just followed her lead and asked: "Go straight to first grade? Not attend a semester class?" Okay, forget about kindergarten, this girl would absolutely not go along with those kids who only know how to cry.

  "No, go straight to third grade." Yun Qingran shook her head and replied calmly.

  "Pfft!" Upon hearing this, Yun Chenyi spat out the soy milk he was drinking. His sister is only five years old this year when she started school? You might say, what's the big deal about skipping a grade at five years old? But he remembered his sister mentioning that in elementary school, she would skip one grade per semester. Skipping one grade per semester isn't a big deal, but he's nine years old and in fourth grade. If his sister goes straight to third grade, then next semester she'll be in the same grade as him, and the semester after that she'll be one grade higher than him. Good grief, that's his five-years-younger sister surpassing him, how embarrassing!

  Looking at Yun Chenyi's pitiful gaze, Yun Qingran gave him a "you're thinking correctly" look, immediately shattering the small hope in his heart.

  Yun Chenyi was shocked, but others were calm. It's nothing, it's just third grade, she didn't say directly that she would go to junior high school, so it's fine. Everyone comforted themselves in their hearts, and they got used to being scared from time to time.

  "Why don't you let your dad take you to school for registration when the new semester starts?" Cloud Old Man didn't ask if she could keep up or not? That was a pointless question, let alone primary school curriculum, perhaps even junior high school curriculum wasn't in her eyes. Little did he know, Cloud Old Man still underestimated Yun Qingran.

  In the following days, Ye Ningxuan would come to accompany her every night and leave quietly in the morning. After seeing Ye Ningxuan, the biggest stone in her heart fell, and Yun Qingyan felt that her cultivation speed had accelerated a lot, and she was soon on the verge of breaking through.

  While the villa was being renovated, Yun Qingran also had people plant flowers and grasses in batches in the garden attached to the villa. She didn't dare let the newly planted flowers and grasses wither away, so she only had people water them sparingly, just enough to keep them alive.

  The villa has been decorated for two or three days, and Yun Xi plans to go to the mall to buy some small decorations. After lunch, Chen Cen came to pick her up in his car.

  Yun Qingran accompanied Yun Xi to finish browsing the decorations on two floors, and Yun Xi still wanted to go shopping for clothes here. She didn't like shopping very much, let alone at this time when the clothes looked even worse in her eyes, so she was preparing to wait in a clean and bright coffee shop inside the mall.

  "Mom, I'll go wait for you at that coffee shop over there!" Yun Qingran pulled Yun Xi's hand and pointed to the coffee shop in front of them.

  "Alright, alright. You have to be good and not run around." Yun Xi hesitated for a moment, but when she saw her own daughter's little legs, she agreed, taking out a large red wallet from the big bag slung over her shoulder: "Take the money well, if you want to eat something, buy it yourself."

  Yun was holding the money in her hand, not knowing whether to cry or laugh. Her dear mother wasn't afraid that she would learn to squander money? At this time, prices were still very low, and so much money was a ordinary person's monthly salary.

  Alright, I'll accept the old lady's kind intentions. Yun Qingran put the money into her small bag and then let Yun Xi and Chen Chen send her to the seat by the coffee shop window.

  Digression

  That day I felt annoyed, it's been so long and still can't get to the place I want. It's better to take advantage of the remaining storage time to transmit more, and clear up the previous plain areas in a few days. However, it's likely that there will be fewer updates every day from now on. What do you guys think?