Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 31: Obedience in Appearance, Defiance in the Heart

Chapter 31: Chapter 31: Obedience in Appearance, Defiance in the Heart

Zhen Yu directly admitted the reason why Mrs. Zhen forbade her children from visiting the Han Family.

"My mom is angry with Uncle Han. Does your dad even know about his affair?"

Han Mingyue looked bewildered, "I don’t know if he knows or not."

The two exchanged a glance and moved on from the topic.

Silence spread throughout the room. Ultimately, Han Mingyue was still a teenager and couldn’t help asking.

"Then you,"

"Will still come." Zhen Yu responded without hesitation, and after a pause, she added, "School is starting soon, I need to help my mom stock up on goods."

"Oh, oh!" Han Mingyue answered, somewhat dazed.

Zhen Yu didn’t mind his reaction and continued, "After school starts, I can only come over on weekends."

Han Mingyue looked up at her and blurted out, "I can come to see you."

"..." Zhen Yu was momentarily speechless, but still agreed, "Okay."

Worst comes to worst, she would just hide him when her mother came back.

-

Han Mingyue understood that he had been impulsive just now, and seeing that she had actually agreed, he suddenly didn’t know what to say anymore.

Seeing that he had no further questions, Zhen Yu stood up to take her leave.

-

Just as Zhen Yu finished cooking rice, Mrs. Zhen came home.

The shoe store wasn’t closed yet at this time, and it was clear Mrs. Zhen had returned earlier than usual.

"Go call your brother back home!" Mrs. Zhen instructed Zhen Yu while tying her apron.

Without a word, Zhen Yu walked into the courtyard, stepped onto a stool by the wall adjacent to Fu Yu’s house, peeked over, and called out, "Zhen Yan! Come home for dinner!"

Grandpa Fu in the courtyard looked up and smiled, "Xiao Yu~ your family is having dinner quite early today!"

"We’re eating early to have a meeting." Zhen Yu let slip what was on her mind.

"A meeting?" Grandpa Fu repeated with a chuckle, "A family meeting?"

"Yes!" Zhen Yu confirmed and then saw her brother walking out of Fu Yu’s house.

"Mom’s back?" Zhen Yan looked up and asked his sister on the wall.

"Yes." Zhen Yu nodded and then jumped off the stool.

Zhen Yan rolled his eyes and bid farewell to everyone at the Fu Family.

-

Zhen Yu was arranging the chairs in the living room when Zhen Yan swaggered into the house.

As soon as the living room door was closed, he became sneaky, "Little sister~ what do we do? Mom doesn’t seem to be in a good mood!"

"Cool it." Zhen Yu rebuffed him without looking up or opening her eyes.

"...Anyway, it wasn’t me who got caught!"

"So you’d better not worry about it."

Zhen Yan was exasperated and lay back, "Just wait for mom to lecture you!"

After dinner, the siblings were called by Mrs. Zhen to stand in the living room, while Mrs. Zhen sat on the edge of the kang (traditional Chinese bed-stove) and began speaking sternly.

"Speak up! Did you both ignore what I said? Or was it just Zhen Yu who didn’t listen?"

Zhen Yan dared not utter a word. Though Mrs. Zhen didn’t hit her children, her nagging was far more damaging and the effect lasted longer...

Zhen Yu calmly spoke, "It was only me who went."

Mrs. Zhen immediately became angry, "Haven’t I told you not to go to the Han Family? You’re a young girl! Why keep looking for that young man to play with? What? To play what?"

Zhen Yu calmly replied, "I went to study."

Mrs. Zhen was stunned for a moment, as if she hadn’t heard clearly, and asked again, "Study what?"

"Study-read, to look at extracurricular books. The teacher told us to broaden our reading, and our family only has textbooks, which I have already reviewed."

Mrs. Zhen looked at Zhen Yan with a complex expression, her mouth open as if wanting to ask something but not knowing where to start.

Zhen Yan hurriedly took over, "Mom! My sister spent the whole summer studying! Han Mingyue has a lot of books; she went there to read. They don’t lend out, so she could only go there to read."

Mrs. Zhen fell silent for a while before saying, "Your teacher told you to read more extracurricular books? What kind of books? We’ll go buy them! No need to read from the Han Family!"

Zhen Yu gently answered, "Okay."

Zhen Yan looked at his sister in surprise. He really hadn’t expected her to agree so easily.

Could it be that she was truly just going to study? He had thought the youngster had started to develop different feelings towards Han Mingyue...

Oh no! Did that mean he wouldn’t be able to hang out with Han Jiayang anymore?

Wait! They could arrange to meet outside...

As Zhen Yan’s mind wandered with these thoughts, Zhen Yu spoke up again.

"Mom, isn’t it time to restock?"

"Right! We’ll go the day after tomorrow! I’ll get the money ready tomorrow."

"Mom! I want to go too!" Zhen Yan immediately chimed in.

Mrs. Zhen promptly agreed with a wave of her hand, "Sure! It’s the change of season, I’ll get each of you a new set of clothes."

"Great! My pants have gotten too short..."

Amidst the conversation between Zhen Yan and Mrs. Zhen, Zhen Yu quietly excused herself and returned to her small bedroom.

She had already previewed more than half of the first year of junior high school curriculum, and her Memory points in the system data had reached 69. Since passing this mark, Zhen Yu found that she could recite things exceptionally fast and remembered them well.

This clearly indicated that what had changed was not just the data, but it had truly transformed her very self.

She planned to add points to Memory until the school year started and from the first day of school, she would start accumulating points for Logic, since starting from junior high school, they would need to study subjects like physics, chemistry, and math, which could not be mastered by rote memorization alone.

Zhen Yu opened her first year textbook and continued studying late into the night.

-

After breakfast the next day, Mrs. Zhen left, seemingly not at all worried about her children defying her orders and continuing to go to the Han Family.

After seeing Mrs. Zhen off, Zhen Yu returned to the small bedroom, Zhen Yan couldn’t help asking, "Little sister, you’re really not going to the Han’s?"

"Nope."

"If not, why aren’t you leaving?"

Zhen Yu glanced at him and commented, "You’re really dumb."

Zhen Yan bristled immediately, "Who are you calling dumb? I’m your brother!"

"I’m talking about you."

Zhen Yan walked in circles a few times, deciding not to stoop to his little sister’s level, "When are you going to the Han’s?"

Zhen Yu remained calm and collected, not even looking up as she asked, "You’re that eager for me to go?"

Zhen Yan scratched his head. It used to be him leading his sister into mischief. What’s happened recently?

He realized that he had been looking up to his sister a lot lately. Was that acceptable?

Well, it wasn’t a big deal...

"Are you going or not? If you’re not going, I will!"

"You go ahead! Mom will probably be back any minute."

"What?" Zhen Yan was stunned, "How do you know?"

"Guessed."

Zhen Yan hesitated for a moment, "Then, I’ll go find Fu Yu!"

"Take care."

"..." Zhen Yan left, at a loss for words.

-

Knock, knock---

Zhen Yu looked up at the door of the small bedroom, got up, and went to open it.

Standing outside were Han Mingyue and Han Jiayang.

"Why are you holed up in the little room? Where’s your brother?" Han Jiayang asked imperiously.

"At Fu Yu’s house."

"Then I’m going to find them!" Having got an answer, Han Jiayang darted off, and as the living room and kitchen doors slammed shut one after the other, the two inside could only watch through the glass window as he sprinted out of the Zhen Family’s courtyard.

Zhen Yu withdrew her gaze and turned back, "Come in."

"Okay." Han Mingyue put the stationery on Zhen Yan’s desk, "Since you didn’t come over, we came here."

"Okay." Zhen Yu sat back down at her own desk, "We’re restocking tomorrow, remember to lock the door."

"Got it." Han Mingyue smiled and opened her book, and both of them immersed themselves in study once more.

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