This Life, I'm Raising the Right Man

Jiang Yihuan watched Su Yaoguang enter the academy’s main gate. Her previous hesitation vanished, and she stepped through the door.

From Su Yaoguang’s words, was there something happening with Xiao Yanci?

”What are you doing?”

Jiang Yihuan stood by Xiao Yanci’s window. Through the window, she saw a woman hugging Xiao Yanci’s waist, and immediately felt furious.

However, she quickly calmed down.

She looked at Xiao Yanci with sorrowful eyes, covering her mouth as she cried tearfully.

”I struggled to escape from home, and this is your surprise for me? Brother Xiao, how could you treat me like this? Sob sob...”

As she spoke, her body swayed as if unable to bear the heavy blow, appearing ready to faint at any moment.

Xiao Yanci hurried out, but he was so weak now that even a slight movement could cause him to fall. As he tried to get up, he fell, and Wen Family supported him, his lips brushing against Wen Family’s cheek.

Xiao Yanci was stunned.

Wen Family’s eyes reddened, shyly lowering her head, stammering, ”I... I’m fine. As long as it’s my benefactor, I’m willing to do anything...”

”Xiao Ci, is this how you repay me?” Jiang Yihuan stomped her foot in anger and ran out.

Xiao Yanci was anxious, wanting to chase but unable to, only watching as Jiang Yihuan ran away.

”Sister-in-law Wen, it was an accident just now, I didn’t mean it.” Xiao Yanci looked at Wen Family’s still charming face, speaking stiffly.

”I know, my benefactor is like a deity, I dare not covet my benefactor.” Wen Family sobbed.

Su Yaoguang, dragging Zhou Wangshu, watched from the opposite window, saying to Zhou Wangshu, ”What do you think? Isn’t it a good show? Look at him, his face alone can make women dizzy, you look better than him, but why hasn’t any young girl fancied you?”

”Are you sure it’s him making women dizzy, not women playing him dizzy?” Zhou Wangshu pouted, ”How blind would I have to be to allow such women near me?”

Su Yaoguang looked at Zhou Wangshu in surprise, sizing him up, then happily patted his shoulder, ”Sister doesn’t need to worry about your lifelong matters anymore.”

”It’s still a concern,” Zhou Wangshu said, ”After all, being married so young, if I’m divorced later, I wonder if any good girl would be willing to take over.”

Su Yaoguang: ”...”

She could see that this kid was in a bad mood today, speaking sharply, always contradicting her.

”I’ll go make dinner.” Can’t provoke, better to avoid the storm.

Women’s sobbing noises came from across, Xiao Yanci held back his temper, only offering gentle persuasion.

The messier it got across, the better her mood became.

Humming while making a small hotpot, she invited Zhou Wangshu over to eat.

Zhou Wangshu saw her good mood, unsure if it was due to ’Young Master Zizhan’ or the newly sheltered pair of brothers.

Late at night, Su Yaoguang was awakened by screams. Sitting up, she looked outside in confusion.

”How about you sleep on the bed!” Zhou Wangshu suggested, ”It’s nearer to the window there, the wind is strong, beware of catching a cold. In current times, even a cold could be fatal.”

”No, I’m not cold, but wondering what’s happening outside, the sound is quite frightening.” Su Yaoguang wrapped the blanket tighter.

The night’s atmosphere resembled the evening she was wrongfully killed.

Honestly, lying by the window, listening to the wind, her heart was uneasy.

She wrapped the blanket and got off the bed, put on her shoes, and ran to Zhou Wangshu’s bedside. Before he reacted, she had climbed onto the bed.

”I’ll just stay here for a while, I won’t disturb you, sleep now!” Su Yaoguang curled up in the corner.

Zhou Wangshu sensed she wasn’t right, but since she didn’t say anything, asking wouldn’t help. He sat up, looking at her curled up in the corner, patted beside himself, ”Sleep here.”

”Isn’t this a bit inappropriate?”

”You’ve already climbed up, worried about this much?” Zhou Wangshu said, ”I’m still young, supposed to be like a little brother, is all you said before merely to fool me?”

Su Yaoguang swore, she wasn’t tricked by his provocation, rather...

She needed someone to accompany her now.

She lay down.

Zhou Wangshu commented, ”The sounds outside seem distant, what are you scared of?”

”I’m not afraid, the window’s wind is too strong, I’m a bit cold.”

”Okay, sleep now!”

Zhou Wangshu turned his back to her.

Su Yaoguang breathed a sigh of relief.

Although quite familiar with Zhou Wangshu, sharing a bed with a handsome lad was still awkward. With his back turned, she could relax a bit more.

She reached out, grasping Zhou Wangshu’s clothing corner.

”What’s that noise outside?” A voice from outside, sounding like two sickly students, who were improving, were up and about today.

The earlier distressing sound woke Su Yaoguang, surely others heard it too. Since they heard it, they inevitably wanted to know what happened, resulting in dialogue outside.

”I just asked the guards. One went to investigate, we’ll know what’s happening once he’s back.”

”It’s fortunate the academy hired guards, otherwise we only have weak students left, with so many refugees outside, they could invade at any moment.”

”The guard is back.”

”You two students, rest earlier. We’ve arranged personnel to guard the academy, won’t let trespassers get in.”

”Did something happen?”

”Several refugees broke into a widow’s home, harmed the mother and daughter, and killed them. The government sent people to capture them, should have news soon.”

”Such refugees shouldn’t remain in the city, they ought to be driven out. Those who robbed us were refugees. The County Magistrate shouldn’t sympathize, the gates should close to bar entry.”

”Brother Qian, don’t be so agitated, you’ve not fully recovered yet.”

”I heard the medicine we took came from Taoyao Square, isn’t Taoyao Square Zhou Wangshu’s little wife’s shop? So, the medicine we took is the same Zhou Wangshu took?”

”Correct. Zhou Wangshu went out today, looked fine, we should recover soon too. Brother Qian, the priority is to restore health, don’t jeopardize it.”

”Previously, I bullied Zhou Wangshu, now in hindsight, I’m ashamed.”

”You merely mocked his playing skills, though hurtful, wasn’t truly bullying. Jiang Yihui’s crowd urinated on Zhou Wangshu’s blanket, that was genuine bullying.”

Su Yaoguang clenched her fists, angrily sat up, ”He dared to urinate on your blanket!”

The outside conversation ceased.

Zhou Wangshu sighed, immensely wronged, ”Indeed, it’s really excessive.”

So, when he was bathing, the bathhouse caught fire, he ran naked around the academy, becoming the laughingstock.