CHAPTER 770: CHAPTER 766: XIE YUYUE FROZEN WITH FEAR

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After making the bed, Xie Yuyue even pulled the sofa to the floor-to-ceiling window so she could observe the night view outside—right now, she felt completely sleepless and didn’t want to sleep at all.

This was her first time spending the night not in a familiar environment. She wondered how Mom and Brother Xiao Jiu were doing?

Her three younger brothers must be incredibly worried. But it’s hard to say about Brother Xiao Jiu, she felt that he must not be anxious but probably more likely wanting to scold her because she made Mom angry!

Usually, Brother Xiao Jiu is biased towards her, but when it comes to Mom, the person he loves and favors most is definitely Mom, not her.

Thinking of this, Xie Yuyue felt very upset.

He is clearly her twin brother, why doesn’t he love her the most~

And Dad, she really missed Dad.

She wondered how Dad was doing now... Huh, where are the stars?

Xie Yuyue sat up, initially, there were still a few twinkling stars outside from time to time, but she didn’t know when they had completely disappeared...it looked like a heavy rain was coming!

No, can it be?

The thought of a heavy downpour made Xie Yuyue completely stiffen in fright!

555~~ She was scared of thunder!

If, right now she was the only one downstairs, she didn’t even dare to turn off the lights in the living room. If it thundered, she feared she might be so frightened that she would run upstairs...

That’s completely a reflex action, as soon as it starts raining, she instinctively rushes upstairs, of course not back to her own room, but to Brother Xiao Jiu’s room. Only with Brother Xiao Jiu can she calm down...

Now, what should she do?

It’s dark and gloomy, and she doesn’t even know where she is.

Wuuwuu~ Seeing more and more dark clouds in the sky, Xie Yuyue felt an urgent need to pee!

When nervous, people usually need to pee, and she was no exception.

In this half-hour, as the sky outside the window turned darker, her anxiety increased, and she had already visited the bathroom four or five times; she was getting more and more scared... Yet she couldn’t just run upstairs impulsively, instead, she sat on the sofa, restless, wanting to watch TV... but there had to be a TV first.

Such a large luxury house, yet it doesn’t have a TV!

This surname of theirs, does it naturally have a grudge against her!

Wuuwuu, she wants to go home now, is that possible?

Not to mention what Mom would do, Brother Xiao Jiu and the three little buns must be dying of worry. Xie Yuyue miserably thought of her family, actually, she knew, her Mom must be dying of worry too.

Although she likes to go against Mom, that was just to make Mom spend more time on the five siblings...

Really self-inflicted, beyond help!

Go on then, look at what sort of mess she has made of herself now!

"Boom~~" With a bolt of lightning tearing through the sky, the thunder crashed down, startling Xie Yuyue so much that she screamed "Ah", and huddled trembling into a ball, clutching her head.

Isn’t that typical, whatever you fear the most comes to find you; was she really this cursed today?

Xie Yuyue suddenly thought, could it be that by defying her mom, she was now facing divine punishment?

Before she could determine if that was the reason, another massive lightning bolt split the dark horizon. Xie Yuyue, who had been secretly watching the outside world, screamed again, wrapped herself in her blanket and pillow, and rushed to the staircase, not stopping until she reached the corner, only then realizing she was almost running up to the second floor!

Luckily, her senses came back to her immediately!

However, Xie Yuyue, inexperienced as she was, upon hearing another thunder as if intending to break apart heaven and earth, shut her eyes and screamed, rushing up to the second floor—

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After Yan Jinsu returned home with her sons, they didn’t even eat dinner but sat in the living room. The three little buns, seeing their older brother and mom’s somber faces, didn’t dare to make a noise despite their growling stomachs.

Although they were hungry, they were really worried about their sister who had run away from home.

Yan Jinsu’s hearing was sharp, and when she heard the growling sounds, she suddenly realized that her four sons, besides attending school, were also undergoing quite a bit of physical training. It was already late, way past dinner time.

"Xiao Jiu, take your brothers to have dinner. Mommy will call Uncle Hu, don’t worry, at least Little Shier isn’t truly foolish."

"Okay~" Xie Yuchen glanced at his three listless brothers, nodded, and gave them a look, affording some private space for Mommy.

After seeing the kids were gone, Yan Jinsu finally made a call to Hu Zhengjie, asking him to help look for Little Ya.

Yan Jinsu had no other choice; not wishing to disturb her husband and make Xie Jingchen distracted, she could only call Hu Zhengjie. After all, even if her husband had a team of people, most of them were stationed far away and couldn’t solve immediate issues locally.

Even there, they didn’t have the timely official capacity like Hu Zhengjie.

After hanging up, Yan Jinsu felt somewhat worn out mentally.

She really wasn’t great at parenting. When they were younger, it was okay since children are innocent by nature. As they grew older and learned more, knowing too much, she felt a roughness in her heart, feeling too distant from her children...

And she couldn’t seek her husband’s help for these matters. Over the years, without the help of the Golden Finger, and in Rong Fang where her husband had once exposed his powers, he was often assigned tasks beyond normal human capabilities.

Every mission he took was extremely hazardous, a matter of life and death. The more she understood her husband’s situation, the less Yan Jinsu wanted to burden him with these domestic troubles.

Nevertheless, this time, Little Shier had gone too far; no matter what, running away from home meant she had failed in her duty as a mother.

Also, she didn’t want to hide this from her husband. If she couldn’t correct her daughter’s wrong mindset the first time and it turned into a habit, it would indeed be her own fault.

No matter how angry she was, Little Shier was still her biological child. She was only fifteen, the outside world so perilous. Though not as malignant as in the apocalypse, people with ill intentions never show their true colors. A single slip might lead to a terrible ’what if’ situation, and Yan Jinsu couldn’t forgive herself if that happened.

Given her young age, she thought it might be good for her husband to have a genuine talk with their daughter; maybe that could salvage the situation...

As for their mother-daughter relationship, from the moment Little Shier stepped out of the door, Yan Jinsu’s heart had been deeply hurt.

Between family members, what issue couldn’t be discussed properly? Especially since Little Shier had grown up under her care till fifteen. Did Little Shier really lack understanding?

No, Little Shier was just showing her anger and defiance!

In Yan Jinsu’s eyes, such dangerously excessive behavior was unacceptable. Even if Little Shier had yelled back at her in anger, it wouldn’t have hurt her heart so much!

Little Shier... had gone too far.