Chapter 1027: Xin Miao (5)
"What’s wrong, wife?" Seeing Shu Jiao hitting Ruan Jie, Ruan Jianguo jogged over, his eyes wide as he looked at Shu Jiao. The meaning in his gaze was obvious—if Shu Jiao said even one bad thing about Ruan Jie, he would immediately roll up his sleeves and step in personally to teach Ruan Jie what true fatherly fury, like a mudslide, felt like!
Shu Jiao shook her head. She was just too shaken. Thinking back on the past few days, she felt Ruan Jiaojiao had been dancing on the edge of death.
Ruan Jiaojiao, who had witnessed everything, silently lit a candle in her heart for her bewildered second brother. This was the first time she had seen Shu Jiao so angry.
The others were even more dumbfounded—the Shu family had never seen Shu Jiao act like this before.
Suppressing her fear and lingering panic, Shu Jiao faced the room full of puzzled faces. She realized her reaction might have been over-the-top. She looked at Ruan Jie and said, "Stop wasting all your time on video games. Read a book for once."
"...," Ruan Jie thought to himself. He had lived like this all along, so why did he get hit today?
"Exactly, that’s right! Look at you—what do you even look like?" Ruan Jianguo, ever the loyal supporter of Shu Jiao, immediately chimed in. He snatched the game console Ruan Jie had been playing mid-game, striking the perfect pose of a parent confiscating a toy. Yet, he secretly pressed the reset button and started playing himself.
"...," Ruan Jie thought to himself. Alright, fine. His status at home was even lower than his dad’s. He decided to stay quiet—better to avoid saying anything in case it turned out wrong.
Ruan Jiaojiao didn’t stay downstairs for long before she became too sleepy to bear it. She leaned against the Ruanlin Family matriarch, dozing off. The matriarch coaxed her upstairs to sleep, and Xiu Xi followed, sitting by her bedside to watch her for a while.