Soft temptation

1.

Ever since she could remember, Lou Ruan felt that her adoptive mother didn't like her very much, and she didn't really want her to see her adoptive father.

When she was very young, Xu Xuze had just been born. She went to see him in front of the crib, but when she turned around, she saw Zhou Ran showing a bored look.

It should be hating her, but it can't be hating his own son.

Also when she was relatively young, her adoptive father never came home, but he would show up occasionally, at the school gate, on the way home, and ask her mother what she was doing at home, whether she usually went out, and when she would go out.

He would ask her how she was doing at home, if she was happy, if she wanted to live with her father, and if she had any difficulties, he would call her father.

Every time Lou Ruan said that he didn't know, he was very happy, and it was good to live with his mother and brother, and then went home by himself.

2.

The house is always quiet and peaceful.

When my mother was here, no one dared to speak loudly, and the TV was never turned on.

When she was young, she had less communication with Xu Xuze.

When he saw her, he always left angrily and closed the door angrily.

Lou Ruan has been trying very hard to avoid him.

3.

Once after school, Xu Xuze leaned in the living room to watch TV as soon as she opened the door.

The adoptive mother didn't know where she went, and the aunt disappeared, and he was the only one in the whole house.

Lou Ruan originally wanted to go upstairs quietly, but before the person with the schoolbag took a few steps, the person sitting there watching TV suddenly turned his head.

Four eyes facing each other.

Lou Ruan: "..."

do not know what to say.

Xu Xuze: "..."

Lou Ruan tightened his grip on the schoolbag slightly, and said, "I'm back..."

The person leaning on the sofa glanced at her, turned his head slowly, and said casually, "Oh."

Seeing him turn his head, Lou Ruan breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to go upstairs when Xu Xuze spoke again:

"So stupid."

Lou Ruan raised his eyes, and his eyes fell on the back of his head.

He is watching TV seriously.

It should be talking about the characters on TV.

"so stupid!"

Lou Ruan pursed her lips, and was about to lift her feet to move forward when she saw someone descending the stairs.

Mom is home!

Xu Xuze, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV, didn't realize it. He looked at the TV screen and frowned, "You're so stupid, this villain..."

Lou Ruan raised his eyes, glanced at the person who was slowly stepping down the steps, and coughed lightly.

Xu Xuze didn't realize that he even leaned forward, picked up the coke on the coffee table and drank a couple of sips, until Zhou Ran came down and walked in front of them.

Lou Ruan lowered his head, and stepped back very carefully.

Xu Xuze immediately stood up, picked up the remote control, and turned off the TV.

The house was completely quiet.

Lou Ruan and Xu Xuze stood on the outside of the sofa and on the inside of the sofa, with their heads lowered and not daring to speak.

No one dared to look up.

Zhou Ran was wearing a water-blue silk dress, and she crossed Lou Ruan, "It's really stupid."

Lou Ruan raised his head.

She raised her eyes to see her adoptive mother's expression.

She raised her chin, the water-blue skirt set off her white skin, her tone was calm and without any emotion: "Most villains in film and television dramas and cartoons are very stupid, as if they can be recognized at a glance. It's bad written on the face."

"Actually, the bad guy is not only not low in IQ, but also a gentleman, funny, amiable, and understanding."

4.

It was so quiet in the house.

Lou Ruan didn't dare to make a sound while eating.

Xu Xuze beside her also kept his head down, chewing slowly, without any movement.

Lou Ruan didn't like the fried bamboo shoots on the dinner table, and Xu Xuze beside her didn't like it either. At the beginning of the meal, he picked up his chopsticks and didn't move again.

Zhou Ran, who was sitting in front of them, hadn't left her seat yet, Lou Ruan raised his eyes to look at her.

The woman sitting on the main seat glanced over and said in a calm tone, "Don't you like to eat?"

Lou Ruan didn't dare to say.

Xu Xuze beside her said boldly, "I don't like it."

"After eating," Zhou Ran's voice was still very calm, "If you don't want to eat, don't eat, if you don't want to do it, don't do it, life is not so easy."

Xu Xuze pursed his lips. He stared at the plate of fried bamboo shoots, as if he had begun to feel wronged.

He seemed to really dislike it.

Lou Ruan pursed her lips, she could only pinch a little more, so she could eat more.

But the adoptive mother seemed to have discovered something, and called him coldly, "Xu Xuze."

The person next to her then reluctantly stretched out their chopsticks and ate with her.

He pursed his lips, and the movement of eating was a lot bigger, and the chopsticks knocked the plate loudly.

The woman sitting with them looked over.

Xu Xuze sniffed, lowered his head and took a big mouthful.

5.

The adoptive father appeared again.

He followed her, asking the same questions as before.

What does mother do at home, is she happy living at home, do you want to live with dad, how is your relationship with your younger brother, can you let him live with dad too.

Dad will prepare a big house and a family playground for you to play wherever you want.

At that time, Lou Ruan was still young, she didn't know why he always said these things to her, but she just refused instinctively, whispering over and over again that it was good to be at home.

She walked beside Xu Junyan, turned a corner, and bumped into her aunt who was returning home from shopping.

6.

Auntie seemed to have said that to Mom.

Lou Ruan looked at the woman sitting at the table on the small terrace with some fear, her complexion was not very good, her brows were tightly frowned, and her tone was sharp:

"He left you a phone number?"

did stay.

Lou Ruan nodded cautiously.

"Don't call him, don't see him again."

"Don't let me see you see him again!"

7.

From then on, Lou Ruan was worried every day when she came home from school, for fear of meeting her adoptive father and making her adoptive mother angry.

But Xu Junyan has not appeared for a long time.

8.

After entering junior high school, there were many unfriendly classmates in the school.

They would ask her why no one from her family came during the parent-teacher meeting, and were parents busy.

She didn't know how to answer, so she could only nod dumbly.

Later, someone came up to her and said that she was a liar, so her parents were not busy, they just didn't want to come, because she was adopted, not their own, so parents didn't like her.

She said in her heart that no, her mother never went to Xu Junyan's parent meeting, nor would she pick up Xu Xuze from school.

Not because she was adopted.

She is the same to them all.

But they said that their family didn't even let her change their surname.

9.

When I was young, many people followed suit.

Not everyone is malicious.

When many people saw her, they would look at her with a look of pity that was hard to describe.

Lou Ruan always wonders if she is really pitiful.

When she returned home with her schoolbag on her back, Xu Xuze entered the door right in front of her. He changed his shoes and walked in, looked back at her, and closed the door heavily after going upstairs.

Lou Ruan looked up at the upstairs, pursed her lips, changed her shoes silently and went upstairs.