CHAPTER 824: CHAPTER 694: LIKING YOU SINCE THE FIRST GLANCE 37

"Jian Dan?"

Seeing Jian Dan remain silent, Bo Qin called out, and only then did Jian Dan stand up from her seat. It’s been two years, and she’s grown a little taller. She walked over step by step, and Bo Qin saw her flawless, delicate face and faint gaze.

For some reason, Bo Qin suddenly felt very reluctant to face such a Jian Dan.

Jian Dan smiled, "Uncle Qin, thank you. I’ll drink it in a while."

Saying this, she walked past Bo Qin, sat down by the small table, and slowly sipped the sweet soup, yet in reality, she tasted nothing.

In these two years, did she resent Bo Qin?

In truth, not so much resentment; tests and examinations filled every corner of her life, leaving her no extra energy to think about Bo Qin. Only when she was alone did she think more.

Bo Qin came over and sat across from her, "Do you hate the way Uncle Qin has treated you these past two years?"

Jian Dan shook her head, "At first, yes, later on, no. Uncle Qin didn’t have much to do with my father in the first place. Bringing me to stay with him, giving me the best of everything - I’m immensely grateful. How could I harbor resentment against Uncle Qin?

Besides, Uncle Qin’s attitude towards me has been good enough. As a junior, I can’t expect too much; otherwise, I’d be too ungrateful, wouldn’t I?"

She smiled nonchalantly, seemingly indifferent.

But this kind of distant and indifferent Jian Dan suddenly felt unfamiliar to Bo Qin. Then he laughed at himself, wondering if he was the one who made her so unfamiliar. Did he really have the right to blame others for becoming strangers?

Where was the face for that?

Bo Qin, "I don’t want to defend what happened these past two years, but Jianjian, I haven’t changed towards you."

It’s still the care of an uncle for a niece, nothing more.

Jian Dan understood, "Thank you, Uncle Qin, I know."

"Don’t be nervous about the college entrance exam, even if..."

Jian Dan nodded, interrupting Bo Qin, "Uncle Qin, although I don’t like to boast about these things, I feel as your guardian, I should report my results to you. Since the second semester of sophomore year, I’ve consistently been in the top three of the affiliated school’s red list and have never fallen out of it. To me, the college entrance exam is no different from any previous exam. I will give it my all and will get into the university I like."

Bo Qin was stunned, surprised yet happy for Jian Dan. "You’ve always been a sensible child, Uncle trusts you. Sorry, I couldn’t accompany you to visit your father’s grave."

Jian Dan raised her eyes and smiled at him, "It’s okay, Father wouldn’t blame you for that. Dad had a good personality; you know that."

Bo Qin nodded, "Has the Jian Family given you any trouble?"

"No."

Bo Qin didn’t really believe it, since he hoped Jian Dan would complain to him, and that’s why he steered the conversation in that direction. In the past, Jian Dan liked to complain to him and disliked seeing the Jian Family members; it was the same every year.

This year, although he didn’t go, his people did, and saw firsthand how the Jian Family made things difficult for Jian Dan. Since Jian Dan’s return, he has been waiting for her to tell him how she was bullied, but she never did.

He was the one who couldn’t help but come to her, expecting to evoke some dissatisfaction from the girl’s heart, not expecting that she had no such intention at all.

Even if she was bullied, she didn’t tell him.

Even though she was sent back by someone else, she still didn’t mention it.

Why?

He didn’t understand, feeling the distance between them deepening, harder to bridge now.

So, when did this little girl grow up so much that she no longer needed him to stand up for her? She didn’t want him to? She had grown up overnight, able to handle many things herself.

Bo Qin’s throat felt dry, "Is that so?"

Jian Dan paused in her soup serving, eyes curling into smiling crescents, "Uncle Qin, really, it’s nothing. Don’t worry. If I really suffered outside, I wouldn’t just grin and bear it. The things I can solve myself, I won’t trouble you with. You’re so busy; you don’t have time to deal with my trifles."

Jian Dan put down the spoon, "Uncle Qin, I’m going to take a bath. I’ll finish this bowl of sweet soup later, and I’ll take the bowl down later too. You go eat something first."