Sheng Yueyue wasn’t actually angry about not being pregnant. In her past life, she hadn’t conceived her first child until she was twenty-one.

She would only be nineteen after the New Year, so she wasn’t in a hurry at all.

However, she forgot that in her past life, she hadn’t married He Aijun until she was twenty-one. Before that, she had been attending university the whole time.

The previous incident between He Aiguo and Sheng Yueyue had been so dramatic that everyone in the residential compound knew. He was too ashamed to face Song Zijin.

He was, after all, different from Sheng Yueyue. He had a sense of shame, unlike her, who was so thick-skinned.

Sheng Yueyue was prone to parroting others and just going with the flow. She never thought deeply about issues, much less explored her own genuine thoughts or beliefs.

She refused to accept other people’s opinions or spend time thinking things through. Ultimately, it all boiled down to a lack of responsibility.

She cared only about her own interests and had no sense of responsibility or commitment to others or to society.

She was only concerned with her own pleasure, never considering others or sparing a thought for their feelings.

It was impossible to reason with her. He couldn’t understand how he had ever been captivated by her. With that, he forcibly pulled his wife away.

Dong Yuanyuan was passively dragged away by her husband. Even after they had walked quite a distance, they could still hear Sheng Yueyue cursing and grumbling.

"Look at her, still cursing. If I wasn’t pregnant, I’d go right back there and give Sheng Yueyue a good thrashing."

"Honey, don’t lower yourself to a madwoman’s level. Arguing with someone like that just drags you down."

Dong Yuanyuan’s feelings were a little complicated hearing her husband talk about Sheng Yueyue like that, but she didn’t say anything more.

Sheng Yueyue didn’t hear what Dong Yuanyuan and her husband said. Otherwise, she definitely would have run over and torn them to shreds.

"Damn that Dong Yuanyuan. I was nice enough to tell her she’s having a daughter, and she doesn’t even believe me. So ungrateful."

Song Zijin put an arm around Sheng Yueyue’s shoulder and smiled. "It’s for the best they’re gone. Let’s go eat. We can go shopping for clothes afterward."

’Who asked for your "kindness"?’ he couldn’t help but scorn her inwardly. ’What business is it of yours whether they have a son or a daughter!’

Seeing that Song Zijin was still on her side, Sheng Yueyue didn’t press the issue.

"Okay, let’s go eat," Sheng Yueyue replied casually, though she wasn’t actually hungry.

Song Zijin ordered two of his favorite dishes. After they finished eating, he took Sheng Yueyue to the mall.

As he was picking out clothes for himself, he asked, "How much money did you bring today?"

Sheng Yueyue said extravagantly, "I brought a hundred yuan. Buy whatever you want. My Second Brother gets paid tomorrow."

While she was out acting like a big shot, Second Brother Gu, whose salary she was counting on, hadn’t even eaten dinner because she wasn’t home.

He was saving every penny he could, just holing up at home watching TV when he wasn’t at work, completely letting himself go.

He looked utterly listless as he watched the energetic Sheng Shiwu.

He asked, completely baffled, "Mom, Dad, and Eldest Brother aren’t coming back. Why are you cleaning their rooms?"

"It’s almost the New Year, so I’m just tidying up their rooms," Sheng Shiwu replied, not mentioning that they were, in fact, coming home for the holiday.

’Life is just so unpredictable now,’ he thought. ’Anything is possible.’

He looked at his own second brother, Sheng Er, who seemed to be in good spirits, and asked, "Second Brother, you haven’t eaten yet, have you?"

"Yueyue said she wasn’t coming home for dinner today, so I told the cook she didn’t need to come over," Sheng Er replied.

"She’s not coming home to eat, so you’re just not going to eat?" Sheng Shiwu stared at his second brother in disbelief.

’This brother of mine is as hopeless as Eldest Brother Gu. At least I already called Second Brother Gu and asked him to talk some sense into Eldest Brother Gu.’

So he tried to reason with him earnestly, "Second Brother, are you really going to keep spoiling her like this?"

"What’s wrong with it? Mom, Dad, and Eldest Brother aren’t home, so I’m in charge. It’s my responsibility to take care of my little sister."

"..." Sheng Shiwu suddenly didn’t want to say any more. You can’t wake someone who’s only pretending to be asleep.

’My eldest brother told me he’d already taken leave to come home for the New Year. When he sees how warped our sister has become, I wonder what he’ll think!’

Sheng Shijing had taken an extended leave. His first stop was the Imperial City to see Gu Jiaojiao.

But unexpectedly, just as he was leaving the train station, he saw a young woman having her bag snatched.

The girl looked to be about eighteen or nineteen, with a slender build, fair skin, and delicate features.

She desperately clung to her bag, refusing to let go. But since she wasn’t strong enough, she could only chase after the man.

Who would have thought that instead of stopping, the bag-snatcher would actually speed up, forcing the girl to be dragged along as she held on.

Passersby stopped to watch the scene unfold, but not a single person stepped forward to help.

Sheng Shijing’s heart went out to the girl. Without a second thought, he rushed forward and knocked the man to the ground with a single punch.

"Hey! Who are you? What’s going on? Why are you so barbaric?"

The man roared from where he was sprawled on the ground. He was furious. He and Fu Guoguo were high school classmates.

But they hadn’t gone to the same university; Fu Guoguo had gotten into Imperial University, while he had not.

So they had lost touch after graduation. He never expected to run into her at the train station today.

He had grabbed her bag to try and say hello, but to his surprise, she thought he was a bag-snatcher.

So, on a whim, he’d tugged her bag and pretended to run away, and she had actually chased after him desperately.

Just as he was feeling pleased with himself, some idiot had appeared out of nowhere and knocked him to the ground.

"You’re a bag-snatcher, and you’re asking who I am? Who gave you the nerve?" Sheng Shijing gritted his teeth in anger.

He added, "You look young, too. Learning such bad things at your age, and you have the gall to question me?"

He walked over, squatted down, and grabbed the man’s chin to get a better look. "Tsk, tsk. With a face like this, and you’re learning to be a thief."

"You... What the hell are you, daring to touch me?" the man, who had been called a thief, demanded, flying into a rage out of humiliation.

Incensed at being called a "thing," Sheng Shijing raised his hand to slap the man on the ground.

The man couldn’t dodge in time and took the blow on his arm, which immediately went numb.

He had always thought of himself as a trained fighter, but he never expected to be so easily defeated by the man before him.

"You... How can you just hit people like that?" the boy roared, exasperated and furious. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

This only made Sheng Shijing angrier. "If you’re going to be a thief, you need to accept the consequences. Be prepared to get hit at any time."

"Who’s a thief? I’m... I’m Fu Guoguo’s classmate!" he yelled, struggling.

"Just because you say you’re a classmate doesn’t make it true. Snatching your own classmate’s bag... your morals are truly depraved," Sheng Shijing said angrily.

"That’s right! Grabbing the young lady’s bag and running so far," an old man chimed in, pointing accusingly.

"Comrade, he wasn’t trying to steal my bag. He really is my classmate," Fu Guoguo finally had to speak up.

"Haha... The young man tried to be a hero but ended up in a big misunderstanding," one of the onlookers burst out laughing.

"I could tell they were just playing around. Otherwise, I would have stepped in long ago," a young man said righteously.

The truth was, he had also thought the man was a mugger. Of course, if he had known they were just playing, he would have gone up to stop them.

"..."

Sheng Shijing was mortified!