Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart-Chapter 699 - 698: Silence is Golden, True Gold

Lin Nianhe successfully made Sie Yufei cry.

Young Master Sie was in physical pain, emotional pain, and now his head had started hurting too.

He glared at Lin Nianhe for a while, but after being thoroughly ignored by her, he headed home with a heavy heart to fetch an apology gift and also brought a videotape he had recorded.

Lin Nianhe: "You only brought the videotape; do you want me to see the essence through the surface?"

Sie Yufei: "I just left it here for now. I spoke to Aunt Wen, and they can lend me their projector."

"Oh, then let’s go."

Lin Nianhe delivered Sie Yufei’s apology gift to the hospital. Old Wu was indeed fine and didn’t mention anything about yesterday.

Lin Nianhe didn’t hide where these items came from and, after a moment of silence, Old Wu accepted them.

He said, "Sister, it was thoughtful of you to apologize to Comrade Sie on my behalf, I’m not even sure what to say..."

"Don’t overthink it, brother-in-law," Lin Nianhe glanced at Guan Manling sleeping in the hospital room and whispered softly, "I think, Sister Manling feels very happy being with you."

"She... is too naive."

Old Wu sighed again.

"She is very worried about you," Lin Nianhe said thoughtfully, "Brother-in-law, you understand Sister Manling better than I do. You should know, her care for you isn’t less than your care for her... If she is unhappy, naturally you won’t feel good either. If you aren’t happy, how could she possibly feel joyful?"

Since Guan Manling fell ill, Old Wu had been enveloped in guilt, but he had been avoiding it deliberately until outside Sie Yufei broke it open yesterday.

Listening to Lin Nianhe’s words, he fell silent.

"Sister Manling said she likes the Great Northern Wilderness, and I think, it’s not the mountains and rivers of the Great Northern Wilderness she likes, nor the birch forest. She likes the Great Northern Wilderness, maybe just because you and your little home are there."

After finishing these words softly, Lin Nianhe took her leave. Old Wu watched her go, turned back, and noticed that Guan Manling had woken up at some point and was smiling at him.

"Dummy."

He said.

Through the door, she couldn’t hear his voice but responded:

"You’re the dummy."

...

Lin Nianhe didn’t see Sie Yufei at the agreed place.

She recalled the layout of the hospital and turned to walk towards the opposite building, and sure enough, without much effort, she found Sie Yufei crouching sneakily by the window, like a perverted voyeur.

Lin Nianhe walked over, curious to look across, "Fourth Brother, tell me, from this distance what can you actually see?"

Today, snow had fallen, and outside the window, everything was vaguely white.

Never mind seeing the people in the windows of the opposite building, even someone slightly nearsighted couldn’t make out what the opposite building looked like.

Sie Yufei was still crouching, and his breath melted the frost on the glass: "I can’t see anything, but I want to look."

Lin Nianhe rolled her eyes and pulled him away from the glass: "We better go; soon the nurse will report this to public security."

"What does public security have to do with me?"

"Hah, with that heroic look of yours, both resembling a thief and a rogue, you tell me what does it have to do with you?"

"Xiao He, I’m really feeling bad now."

"Okay, so?"

"So could you just stop talking for now? In consideration of our long friendship, give me a break."

"Fine."

Lin Nianhe kindly shut her mouth.

"Xiao He, how does this thing even work?"

Lin Nianhe: "..."

"Xiao He, I couldn’t find the instruction manual."

Lin Nianhe: "..."

"Sister He, I was wrong. Could you please speak?"

Lin Nianhe opened her mouth.

Still silent.

Sie Yufei: "..."

As the confrontation continued in silence, the Wen family’s sisters arrived to help.

"What are you two doing, looking like you’re ready to fight?" As soon as she entered, Wen Ruannuan could sense that the atmosphere was off.

Yufei recently didn’t want to think about anything, and as if he had found a savior, he dragged them over: "Quick, quick, quick, help me coax Xiao He!"

"Odd, you’ve annoyed her and you’re still standing here?" Wen Qingqing chuckled lightly, bending over for a look, it was clear Lin Nianhe wasn’t angry.

She spread her hands: "I dare not meddle in that. What if Student Xiao Lin’s anger burns me? Ruannuan, don’t you think?"

"That’s right," Wen Ruannuan stifled a naughty smile, "From Beijing to Hei Province, who doesn’t know that if Nianhe is angry, Brother Cheng is angry too? Who would dare to interfere... Sister, you stop Fourth Sie, I’ll go and tip off Brother Cheng!"

"Hey hey, girl, you’re adding to the chaos instead of helping, right?"

"Do you see anyone whose upper lip touches their lower lip and then just helps out? I won’t do anything that doesn’t benefit me!"

"Alright, alright, you all are mistresses, I can’t afford to offend... Tell me, what do you want to eat? I’ll treat."

"Oh, then I have to choose carefully. You, Youngest Master Sie, are now rich, can’t let you off cheap."

Ultimately, Rich Sie managed to persuade the Wen family’s sisters to help by bribing them with a meal at Moscow Restaurant.

He felt something was off, but his brain was too tired to think.

"Nianhe, give some face, let him off, will you?" Wen Qingqing raised her eyebrows at Lin Nianhe.

Lin Nianhe folded her arms across her chest and drawled, "He’s bribed you with a meal, then how about a proper apology, shouldn’t it be ten meals?"

Wen Ruannuan turned to Yufei, "Fourth Sie, will that do?"

"Okay, okay," Yufei agreed instantly, "You choose the place, eat whatever you like."

"Okay." Lin Nianhe nodded, then asked him, "What were you saying just now?"

Yufei pointed to a nearby projector, "I don’t know how to use that thing."

Lin Nianhe solemnly walked around the projector, "What a coincidence, I don’t know how either."

Yufei: "...?"

He’d paid the price with eleven meals, and she gave him that answer?

Yufei, unwilling to give up easily, moved closer: "Sister He, I’m really sorry, just play the tape. Grandpa Ji is waiting to watch it."

Lin Nianhe: "I’m not lying this time, I really don’t know how to use this thing."

"Cough cough."

Beside them, Wen Qingqing held her fist to her mouth and feigned coughing a few times to draw attention.

When Yufei looked at her, she tilted her head and said, "My sister and I learned how to use the projector before."

Yufei’s eyes lit up a bit.

Wen Qingqing continued, "But this is quite a physically demanding task..."

Yufei immediately raised his hand to interrupt her, "Tell me, how many meals this time?"

"Look at you being so polite, such a little thing and you still insist on treating us to a meal... ten meals."

Politeness was genuine, and ten meals were also genuine.

Yufei didn’t do anything that day except genuinely promising three people a total of ten meals.

When the screen finally lit up with an image, Yufei suddenly realized: "No, wait! I could have just asked them to use the projector directly. Why did I need to go through you?"

Lin Nianhe eyed him askance: "Do I need to tell you, the last person who unilaterally broke an agreement with me had their entire family pack up and head back to their hometown."

Yufei was stunned again and obediently sat back down.

These few reels of tape hadn’t been edited yet; they were all raw footage shot by Yufei.

But Lin Nianhe watched seriously.

Actually, starting from the seventh shot, she was shocked.

It was a high-angle aerial shot, birch forest covered in snow stretching endlessly, seemingly growing to the end of the world. Ice crystals formed on the treetops, trembling and dancing with the Northwest wind.

In the upper left corner of the frame, a few small black dots swept past, possibly sparrows or even leopards.

"Based on this shot alone, Fourth Sie, if you didn’t just happen to capture this, you’ve got a big future," Lin Nianhe gave him a thumbs up.

She hadn’t included a crane in the equipment she gave to Yufei; how he managed to get this shot, she had no idea.

Beside her, Wen Qingqing and Wen Ruannuan nodded in agreement: "This shot is really beautiful, how did you film it?"

Yufei didn’t answer.

He pondered.

For a long time.

He suddenly said, "But my whole family’s hometown is in Beijing."

Lin Nianhe: "Your reaction time, you could make ten jump ropes out of it and still have 250 meters left over."

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