Chapter 22

"Good morning, both of you!" Bell Tong walked into the classroom, greeting everyone cheerfully.

"Xiao Ling!" Raina Nan, who was leaning on her desk, lifted her head upon hearing the voice.

"Xiao Ling, why are you so late? Come over here!" Roxie Lin bounced over to her, as she hadn't seen Bell Tong for several days.

"Hehe, I know you both have many questions, don't worry, I'll answer them one by one~" Bell Tong casually tossed her backpack aside and spoke mysteriously.

"So, what did you and Nan gege talk about?" Roxie Lin curiously asked.

"We talked, talked about a lot..." Bell Tong was at a loss for words, because most of their conversations were just teasing each other.

"What did you talk about?"

"We talked about everything under the sun! That dog can really talk, he's been bothering me so much that I couldn't sleep~" Bell Tong felt strangely satisfied every time she made fun of Samson Nan.

"Really? Xiao Ling, you're amazing!"

"Am I?"

"Yes! You don't know how little Nan gege talks to people he isn't familiar with!" Roxie Lin's eyes sparkled.

"Oh well~"

"..."

Raina Nan didn't want to expose her, so she sat beside her and started flipping through a book.

"Speaking of Raina, don't you have any questions?" Bell Tong grinned and nudged her with her elbow.

"What, what questions..." Raina Nan stared at her book, pretending not to care.

"Really~" Bell Tong wanted to see how calm she could be.

"Roxie, let me tell you quietly~" Bell Tong turned her head to look at Roxie Lin.

"What?"

"Brother Feng... is actually very perverted!!"

"Huh?!"

"Ahem! Cough cough!" Raina Nan was choked by Bell Tong's words, and started coughing.

"~~" Bell Tong saw her reaction and continued, "

"Last night when I woke up to go to the bathroom, guess what I saw?"

"Wh-what?" Roxie Lin grew nervous and her heart skipped a beat.

"That dog, holding a pajama with little strawberries printed on it, he buried his head in it and sniffed like this!!" Bell Tong suddenly raised her volume, telling the story like a ghost story.

"Wh-why?" Roxie Lin's reaction was unexpectedly calm, she furrowed her brows in confusion, not understanding.

"Uh..." Bell Tong was stunned for a moment, not expecting Roxie Lin to be so innocent...

"I don't know, but that pajama should belong to a girl, I wonder whose it is~ It can make that dog so loving!" she said playfully, glancing at Raina Nan, who indeed had her hand tightly gripping the book and her face turning as red as a monkey's bottom...

"Raina, do you know anything?"

"How, how would I know..." Raina Nan's gaze wandered, her voice trembling. Bell Tong wanted exactly this effect, and Raina Nan's reaction was even more interesting than she anticipated.

"Oh, then you should ask your brother when you go back!"

"..." Raina Nan gritted her teeth, thinking that if Samson Nan were in front of her right now, she would definitely pounce on him and bite him to death.

"By the way, Raina, there was a beauty who came to look for Brother Feng this morning!" Bell Tong slapped her forehead, feeling like she forgot something. She couldn't hide things like this.

"Who?"

"The one we saw with your brother shopping outside the movie theater last time!"

"I remember! I remember!" Roxie Lin also remembered.

"Jocelyn York?"

"Correct answer!"

"How did she..." Raina Nan muttered softly."Well, anyway, he's a pretty nice person~ He even drove me here," Bell Tong said, the impression of Jocelyn York quite positive in her mind. At least, she thought that Jocelyn York was sincere enough in dealing with people.

"And...," she said, her eyes suddenly dimming.

"She doesn't have a mother either," she said softly. It was a sensitive topic, and those who knew Bell Tong understood that those two words should never be mentioned in front of her. But this time, she said them herself.

"Bell...," Raina Nan looked at Bell Tong and reached out to touch her head, but withdrew her hand because she didn't know how to comfort her.

The more important someone was to her, the more difficult it was for her to express herself properly. This awkward personality had caused her a lot of trouble, but she couldn't change it...

"Bell! You still have us! If you don't mind, I can be your mother!" Roxie Lin hugged her, but she was the one about to cry first.

"Who wants you to be my mother?! You idiot!" she responded with a laugh and an insult. She knew that Roxie Lin's words were unintentional, but said to make her feel better.

"Then, Bell, did your father call you?"

"No...," Bell Tong looked out the window, disappointment visible in her eyes.

She wouldn't let anyone catch her in a moment of embarrassment. Even if she cried, she had to do it with a smile.

...

"Hey, Samson Nan~ What are you doing?"

"Working, what's the matter?"

Samson Nan received a call from William Wei.

"Hehe, did you receive the clothes?"

"Yeah."

He held the phone with one hand, and the other hand continued to tap on the keyboard.

"Then, aren't you going to thank me?"

"Why should I thank you?"

"I assigned a beauty to deliver them to you!"

"..."

He was speechless. This morning's incident almost sparked a war.

"By the way, Christmas is coming soon. How are you going to celebrate?"

"I don't celebrate Christmas."

"Come on, you always have your sister with you every Christmas. Have you ever considered how it feels to be a brother?! We also feel lonely!!"

William Wei really wanted to swear.

"Don't you have a girlfriend now?"

Normally, it should be Samson Nan who envied and was jealous.

"..."

There was suddenly no sound on the other end of the phone, as if the line had been cut.

"She, she happened to have something and can't come," Samson Nan said.

"Oh, I see. Then, what do you want to do?"

He didn't mind spending Christmas with two men. After all, life was already difficult enough, and some things didn't need to be revealed (bitter smile)...

"Hehe, you agreed! That's easy~ I'll call Lijia right away!"

"Lijia?"

"Yeah, I already talked to her. It seems like we can go to her seaside villa~ I'm a little excited just thinking about it~!"

"Hey, is it really okay to have such a thick skin?"

Samson Nan thought it was probably another unreasonable request from William Wei to Lijia.

"Hehe, you don't need to worry about it~"

"But..."

"But what? I allow you to bring your sister along, is that fine?"

"..."

This time, William Wei accurately guessed what he was thinking. After all, on Christmas, he wouldn't leave Raina Nan alone at home.

After hanging up the phone, he called Raina Nan.

"Hi~ Dead dog, is Raina there?"

The person who answered the phone was Bell Tong.

"Ah, give her the phone."

"Beg me~"

"Do you want to die?"

"Tch~ She's in the bathroom, it's fine if I hang up!"

Bell Tong said uninterestedly, about to hang up the phone.

"Wait."

"What for?"

"I'm going to play with friends this week for Christmas. Tell Raina to get ready."

"Ah?" She heard the word "Christmas" and paused for a moment. "Then...me..." She squeezed her phone tighter, not wanting to be alone in Samson Nan's small apartment. In the past, she would have insisted on going with them, but this time, for some reason, she couldn't bring herself to speak up. "You're not going?" "Huh? Can I go too?" Samson Nan laughed, thinking she was about to scold him again. "Well, mainly I'm afraid you'll steal things from my house if you're left alone." "Then, then I'll go...thank you..." But this time, she was very quiet. "Thank you for what? After all, I'm sort of...your temporary guardian, right?" Samson Nan finished speaking and hung up the phone. "Temporary guardian...hmm?" She looked out the window and murmured to herself...