Gou An didn’t bother to pay attention to his shocked face and shook the paper in her hand, “The knowledge points and question types you answered correctly have clear biases. It’s obvious that someone gave you extra lessons.”

Probably because he didn’t expect Gou An to have such outstanding reconnaissance ability, Gou Xun’s arrogance subsided a little, and he didn’t care about playing games anymore. He retracted his long legs that had been casually hanging on the sofa, and his ears turned red, “No, I’m not in love, don’t talk nonsense.”

Gou An sneered.

Gou Xun hated her arrogant look.

“I’m really not,” the boy frowned. “Someone introduced me to a young teacher. She teaches well and is very patient.”

“Young teacher,” Gou An repeated.

Gou Xun jumped up as if he had been hit on the knee, “Stop being so sarcastic! I invited her to our house. We agreed to have a physics lessons today! You’d better be polite when you see her!”

Gou An found it funny to see him standing in front of the sofa with his hands on his hips, looking mad. The depression that had been brewing in her chest for the whole morning dissipated a little bit. 

She raised her hand to touch her hair and said, “I didn’t say anything, why are you so excited… and you even asked me to be polite. Your young teacher and I have no grudges against each other, what would I even do to them?”

“…”

Gou Xun stared at her, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Gou An didn’t notice the hesitation on his face at all; she stood up and walked to the dining table, “And who is being rude here? It’s already this late, why didn’t you invite your young teacher to your home for lunch? She must be short of money to agree to teach a fool like you who is basically illiterate, otherwise how could she bear to suffer this? If you ask her to come for a simple meal and chat with us, mom would definitely give her a big red envelope—“

She talked a lot and sat down at the dining table. Gou Yu, as if afraid that she would get tired of talking, handed her a bowl of soup.

Gou An took the soup, took a sip, and said sweetly, “Thank you, Dad.”

Gou Yu turned to his son and said, “An’an is right.”

Gou Xun: “…”

Gou Xun: “Dad!”

Jiang Yuan took her irritable son to sit at the table and said gently, “Your sister is right. Since your teacher has helped you make such great progress, you should thank them and have a simple meal with them.”

“… No.”

Gou Xun glanced at Gou An.

“?” Gou An was puzzled. “Why are you looking at me?”

“… It’s fine.”

Gou Xun lowered his head and ate his meal.

Gou Xun has not been back from school for a long time. The family of four finally sat down to eat together. Except for the siblings’ constant bickering, the atmosphere could be considered happy.

During this time, Gou Yu asked Gou An about what happened in Endless Night last night. Hearing her concise and evasive description, he still frowned.

“You should avoid going to places like that.” Jiang Yuan patted the back of her husband’s hand. “I told you that the boy from the He family is unreliable. He took An’an to that kind of place… Fortunately, he brought her out safely, otherwise I would not forgive him.”

“I got out safely, and it had nothing to do with him. He didn’t even know where I was at the time,” Gou An corrected her mother calmly, “I got out by myself.”

When Jiang Yuan heard this, she was a little surprised, as if to say: In that kind of situation, he didn’t even care about you?

Gou Xun was quietly drinking soup at first, but he frowned when he heard this, “Ran ge is not that kind of person.”

Gou An once again felt that that her life was so miserable.

“Yes, yes, I just made it up,” Gou An said. “I really didn’t see him rushing out holding someone else’s hand, nor did I see him placing her onto his motorcycle and considerately putting a helmet on her…”

Gou An paused and said, “The helmet I bought as a birthday gift for him by the way.”

What kind of heart-wrenching scene was this?

There was a brief silence at the table.

Gou An glanced at all the people at the table who were frozen looking her and raised the corners of her lips. “Look, I didn’t want to tell you about this. It was wrong of me to lie and take credit for someone else’s work. But it was exposed and I couldn’t cover it up. That’s embarrassing enough. But this time, I couldn’t handle the engagement properly and my fiancé was stolen by someone else. When disaster struck, my fiancé ran off holding someone else’s hand. Such an embarrassing matter—it’s not exactly something I want to talk about…”

“Who is this someone else?” Jiang Yuan was very good at grasping the key points.

“Who else could it be? Mom, why do you ask even though you already know the answer.” 

Gou An thought for a moment and said, “I didn’t tell you before because I felt that we should just figure out how to solve our own problems. It would be a bit embarrassing to tell our parents about it… But you insist on asking, are you embarrassed now?”

There was a hint of teasing in her tone.

In fact, she was not sad at all—

It was already a good thing that she was betrayed once and still thought about forgiving him, just because they had known each other for so many years—so she endured it when He Ran slapped her in the face by saying ‘I don’t have a girlfriend’ in the school forum that time…

But it didn’t mean that she would allow things to happen again and again.

She was not a Ninja Turtle¹.

If she didn’t say the truth now, would the whole world think that it was that bastard who rescued her from Endless Night?

…. Although the one who saved her was another bastard.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

There was too much information in Gou An’s words, so no one spoke at the table for a while. Everyone was digesting this huge information dump.

After a while, Gou Xun suddenly asked, “You said that the person He Ran was holding hands with was your schoolmate?”

“Hey, are you not calling him ‘Ran ge‘ anymore?”

“I’m asking you a question.” Gou Xun muttered, “You talk a lot of nonsense.”

“Do you need me to say her name before you can understand?” Gou An said expressionlessly, “Lu Wan, remember? She was the one who caused Jiaojiao to die young last month and made him report to the King of Hell in advance. The person whose hair I washed with red wine.”

Gou Xun’s face was blank.

Just then, the doorbell rang.

The maid Ade went to open the door. Gou An just wanted to end this awkward topic, so she turned around and said to Gou Xun with a half-smile, “Your young teacher is here.”

After hearing this, Gou Xun—very rare for him—did not react to her taunting.

Gou An was still wondering at his weird behavior when she heard a soft female voice from the entrance saying,

“Ah, everyone’s still eating… I came too early.”

… …

If Gou An hadn’t been familiar with this voice before today, after what happened this morning, even if she turned into ashes, she would still recognize it.

Her mind went blank for three seconds.

Then she turned her head quickly and stared at Gou Xun.

Gou Xun’s heartbeat slowed down a bit when he got caught in her piercing gaze. The corners of his lips twitched unnaturally, and then he said in a somewhat awkward tone, “He Ran introduced Lu Wan to me for tutoring. He said that she was a top student in your school and needed money… After she learned that you were my sister, she had long wanted to come and formally apologize to you in person for Jiaojiao’s incident.”

Gou Xun said, “I only knew that you impersonated her to save He Ran, and thought that you two could be considered even with Jiaojiao’s matter, but I didn’t know that she and He Ran—”

Gou An interrupted, “Are you an idiot?”

Gou Xun: “…”

“Do you know how much financial aid our school gives out every year? The student union would need to screen the forms of poor students for three days and three nights! Young Master He, does he have nothing better to do than to introduce a girl—a girl who needs money—to tutor you?! I can’t help but ask again, are you an idiot?!”

Gou Xun was speechless.

“Let her go away.”

Gou An threw down the spoon in her hand.

She paused and raised her chin again.

“And oh.”

Gou Xun’s eyes lit up, as if he thought there might be a turn for the better, and he turned to look at her.

But he saw that face—which was actually very similar to his own but softer—full of murderous determination, and saw a rounded, white fingertip pointed at him…

“You go away too.”

From the Day the Engagement was Broken translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 24.1 — Business Card
Chapter 24.2 — Business Card
Chapter 25.1 — Once the Engagement Was Broken, It’s Back to ‘Mr. He’
Chapter 25.2 — Once the Engagement Was Broken, It’s Back to ‘Mr. He’

FOOTNOTE:

1. The first character for the Chinese translation of ‘Ninja Turtle’ means to endure/bear, so to call someone Ninja Turtle means to be forbearing, eat all the hardships silently. ↩︎