The Male Lead’s Villainess Stepmother

Chapter 319 – Except she wasn’t the original owner! (1)

When Yan Shuyu was in a session that afternoon, the newly-hired receptionist came looking for her excitedly. “Miss Yan, there’s a man asking for you outside!”

Even though Yan Shuyu had turned into Instructor Yan now, but she didn’t mature much more than she was before. She could tell from the look on her colleague that the man she was talking about must be extremely handsome.

The receptionist had met the boss before and she would not have referred to him as “a man”. She would have said her boyfriend was there. So that must be an extremely handsome met that she had not met before. Yan Shuyu was very curious as well but, looking at the pure eyes of her pupils, she was able to calm herself down and said to the girl in a low voice, “I am still in class. Maybe have him wait a little bit for me?”

Xiao Zheng, the receptionist, hesitated. “I told him that you will be done in 20 minutes but he said it is urgent and it has to do with Yuanbao.”

“Yuanbao?’ Yan Shuyu was nervous all of a sudden. “Are you sure he said Yuanbao?”

Xiao Zheng nodded with certainty and added. “He said Yuanbao first, then he used his name.”

Yan Shuyu had a bold guess all of a sudden. She couldn’t wait any longer and had Xiao Zheng showed the man to the break room while she asked among her colleagues to see who could substitute for her for the last 20 minutes of her session. When someone walked over to her, she couldn’t wait to get up. “Xiao Zheng just told me that there was someone looking for me. Let me go check it now.”

Her colleague smiled and waved. “Yeah, go, go. I got this.”

There weren’t a lot of people in the rest area on a weekday. When Yan Shuyu pushed open the door, she saw a slender and fair-skinned man sitting there. She had never seen him before but, for some inexplicable reasons, she called out his name reflexively, “Zhang Xiaolu?”

“Yanyan,” blurted out the other party, at the same time as her. His voice was filled with pleasant surprise and emotions.

After the initial greeting, the two of them fell silence together. Yan Shuyu didn’t know where to start. She wasn’t original owner; she didn’t know how to express her feelings seeing him again. And, how did a dead person come back to life? That was not mentioned in the original novel either.

True was, Yan Shuyu even felt odd being called “Yanyan.” She has had that nickname since her previous life so she was used to it. She only felt odd because she felt that the original owner’s late husband should not have referred to her with that nickname. “Yan Shuyu” wasn’t the original owner’s original name, but one that she had given herself later on. Her original last name was not Yan. Alternatively, perhaps original owner had “Yanyan” as her nickname beforehand, which was why she picked the name Yan Shuyu?

Everything happened so suddenly that Yan Shuyu’s brain was a jumble.

Standing in front of her, the way that “Zhang XiaoLo” was looking at her was also particularly complicated. It was a mixture of excitement, exhilaration, longing, and guilt… wait a minute. Where did the guilt come from? Yan Shuyu really wanted to ask this “ex-husband” what had he done to his wife and son that made him feel guilt. Then again, she wasn’t the original owner after all, so she finally decided against it.

The two of them locked eyes for a long white before Yan Shuyu slowly closed the door behind her. She took a couple of steps forward and broke the silence. She asked a bit awkwardly, “These last few years… how have you been?”

“Zhang XiaoLu”’s eyes deepened again and the there was so much guilt that they could start oozing out of them.

In original owner’s memory, her ex-husband was a very happy-go-lucky and somewhat rebellious big boy. This young man in front of her, however, seemed very blue. She gathered even if it was original owner standing here in her place right now, she might even had a hard time accepting that this was Zhang XiaoLu.