After Shu Yan had locked the door and was prepared to head home, she ran into the old lady.

  “You are not staying here tonight?” asked the old lady with a smile.

  Shu Yan was taken aback a little. She hadn’t expected the old lady to initiate a conversation with her.

  “Yes, we still have a lot to do with this place. I will bring my children over and stay for a little while when schools are out. This house is cooler than our apartment,” responded Shu Yan with a smile.

  “Exactly. Young people nowadays all like apartments. I say these traditional houses are much better. You have front and backyards. It’s so spacious.”


  The old lady studied Shu Yan carefully. She was much skinnier than she saw her the previous time and her skin fairer. She had on a pink dress and sandals with heels and her hair was tied back into a pony tail. If she didn’t already know that Shu Yan already had two children, she would think that Shu Yan was still an unmarried girl.

  Her looks were definitely up there. If she was to go by looks alone, then Feng Zeyu, with his scar, would be the reaching one. As for her age? Xiao Yu mentioned that she was just 26 years old and Feng Zeyu was 36. That was 10 years of difference. She was still the one with the shorter end of the stick. As for money. She had an apartment at Nanfu Mansion and she had just splurged on a 330,000-yuan house just like that. She didn’t even blink when she bought the house. And words had it that her company was doing quite well. By this standard, with the exception of the three children, Xiao Yu was the one who was reaching.*

  Translator’s rambling::

  So there was this US sitcom called “How I Met Your Mother?" a few years back. One of the famous line in the show was: “In any relationship, there will be a reacher and a settler.”