"You don’t know, I told my mom I wanted to find Jiao Jiao. My mom said, go ahead, Uncle Zhou isn’t an outsider anyway. Haha, I won’t be polite."
Zhou Jiao listened, shook her head with a smile, left the three of them in the living room, and went to the kitchen to ask Aunt Chen to make Zhao Yuanyuan a bowl of noodles with a poached egg.
"Do you want me to prepare a guest room?"
Zhou Jiao shook her head and smiled, "Auntie, don’t bother. Even if you prepare it, she won’t stay. Just let Xiao Wu sleep in the study next door."
"Go ahead, I’ve got this." Aunt Chen understood immediately—these are very close girlfriends.
Zhou Xiaozheng came back from work and hadn’t even entered the living room when he heard bursts of laughter coming from inside. He raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"Uncle Zhou, I’m here."
Zhou Xiaozheng looked up and saw it was the Zhao family’s girl, nodded, "Why didn’t your dad inform me to pick you up? Is everything okay at home?"
Zhao Yuanyuan stuck out her tongue, "Everything is fine. I’m with classmates, my dad and the others aren’t worried."
"Since you’re here, stay a bit longer. Shanshan, take some time to take these young ladies around town."
Lin Lishan smiled and nodded repeatedly. Without him saying it, given the relationship between the two families, she also had to entertain this young lady well. Besides, this kid is so amusing.
Before going to bed, Zhao Yuanyuan finally got a chance to be alone with Zhou Jiao. Thinking about something difficult to say, she sighed softly.
"Jiao Jiao, were you scared when you just married Xiao Wu?"
Zhou Jiao shook her head at her.
Zhao Yuanyuan gazed ahead, not noticing her reaction, and was more talking to herself than asking Zhou Jiao.
"I don’t want to grow up at all, I never planned on marrying early, I just wanted to have the chance to travel to every place. Getting married, revolving around a man and kids, living like my mom, I don’t want that."
Zhou Jiao raised an eyebrow in surprise. Is something really wrong?
"When filling in my university preferences, I thought when the five of us split up, except for Zhang Yuntao, you all seemed quite far away, so I filled in with him. This decision wasn’t wrong. At school, he would protect me, care for me. I think this guy is really loyal."
"Originally, I planned for the two of us to just continue like this. After graduation, if he didn’t have anyone, I’d ask if he liked me. If it worked out, we’d still go out together to find you guys. If not, it was okay, we’d still be friends.
But then everything changed. My plan was disrupted, and he turned out different from the good buddy I had in mind. I can’t quite adapt."
Zhou Jiao found herself lost in the conversation. Can she be a bit clearer?

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