Shen Youlin opened her eyes slowly but the bright light made her close her eyes again. Rubbing her eyes with a frown and after blinking them rapidly, they finally became able to bear the bright light. 

Her head felt dizzy when she suddenly sat up on the bed while rubbing her open hair. As she looked around the room with a frown, the last night’s events came rushing down in her mind.

She was drugged and Youxin took her to a room and then tied her hands.

After that…

What happened?

“Have it. You’ll feel better.”

She raised her head swiftly at the familiar voice and her eyes went wide.

Only then she noticed clearly that she was in Mo Roulan’s room.

But how….wasn’t she in the bar? Then how did she reach here?

“Youlin…”

“Huh?”

Setting back her eyes on Mo Roulan again, she saw that Mo Roulan was forwarding the glass of lemon juice in her direction.

In a daze, Shen Youlin took that glass avoiding any eye contact with Mo Roulan. 

As she drank the lemon juice, from the corner of her eyes she saw Mo Roulan walking towards her study table and putting her books in the bag.

Shen Youlin drank the juice very slowly and all this while she noticed Mo Roulan’s every action.

Seeing that Mo Roulan was acting very casually she breathed a sigh of relief.

It means that Roulan didn’t know anything she shouldn’t know. But how did she come to Mo Roulan’s house then?

Her trance was broken when she heard Roulan speaking to her.

“I have put your clothes on the bed. Get ready quickly or else we will get late for the college.”

Shen Youlin immediately nodded her head pressing down her questions for some time. As she get down from the bed she noticed that her body didn’t feel sore from anywhere.

‘It seems that Youxin didn’t do anything with her last night.’

Just as the bathroom door closed, Mo Roulan sat down on her bed releasing a heavy sigh.

She needs to stop Shen Youlin from taking drugs but she doesn’t know to what extent Youlin has been addicted to them.

Perhaps she has just started or perhaps it has been already a year or two since she has been taking them.

Mo Roulan read from the internet that the need for drugs can make a person violent also so she had to keep her eye on Shen Youlin and find out by herself everything.

As she imagined the cheerful Shen Youlin lost in the abyss of the drugs, Mo Roulan felt her heart becoming very heavy.

She also wanted to ask Shen Youlin whether that girl did something harmful to her or not. Mo Roulan knew that the bar also has people who were interested in same-sex relationships.

Being forced to do such a thing where she didn’t feel anything for the other person and she was helpless, she could imagine how Shen Youlin must be feeling right now.

She would do whatever she can do to stop this addiction of Shen Youlin.

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While inside the bathroom, Shen Youlin was looking at the red mark on her neck that was left by You Youxin.

Her eyes were filled with disgust as she rubbed that spot again and again till the part of that skin became dark red.

“I’ll kill her the next time I will see her. Disgusting piece of s**t.”

It was only when Mo Roulan knocked on the bathroom door she stopped.

“I’ll be out in five.” She answered Mo Roulan.

Glaring at the red mark, she switched on the shower and rubbed her body vigorously while cursing You Youxin inside her heart.

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When Mo Roulan came down with Shen Youlin she saw Shen Youlin’s car parked outside the building. Sensing her confusion Shen Youlin answered her cheerfully.

“I called the driver using your phone and told him to get the car here.”

  Mo Roulan looked at her face that demanded praise and felt calm for the first time after the sorrowful night.

“You did well.” She praised her earnestly making Shen Youlin’s smile widen.

Shen Youlin told the driver to go back and took the key from him.

As they sat inside the car, Mo Roulan’s gaze suddenly caught the bag placed on the back seat of the car. She remembered an incident where Shen Youlin had overreacted when she had taken her phone out of her bag.

A guess formed in her heart suddenly and Mo Roulan’s smile again went stiff.

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.

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Fortunately, the day in the college passed normally except for the last lecture. The students were given their checked tests.

Mo Roulan face was black as she looked down at the sheet with all over red crosses, in her hands.

“What is this, Youlin?”

She looked at Shen Youlin incredulously who was already feeling ashamed seeing her shocked face and hence avoided her eyes.

“You didn’t even get Multiple choice questions answers right, not even a single one?”

Before this, Mo Roulan never really asked Shen Youlin her marks. After taking the test papers, Shen Youlin would stuff them into her bag and she used to find it normal because she used to do the same thing. She didn’t have anything to look at them as she always got full marks.

But today, she didn’t do this. She intentionally asked Shen Youlin for her test paper. Although it was difficult, in the end, she successfully got the answer sheet. However, looking at the answer sheet her heart was filled with disappointment.

“I …I …didn’t get any time to study. My brother’s engagement and many more things….”

Not letting her complete Mo Roulan asked her.

“What about the previous tests? How much did you get in them? And don’t you dare to lie, I have many other ways to find out.”

She could also go to Professor Han who kept the list of students’ marks and find out Shen Youlin’s marks.

But seeing Shen Youlin’s silence and her lowered head, she already knew the answer.

Sighing she put the test paper in Shen Youlin’s bag and said

“Today you’re going to my home with me.”

“Really?”

And the cheerful Shen Youlin was back. In the past few days, Mo Roulan rarely let her go to her home thinking that she was not spending time with her family at all.

If only Mo Roulan knew that her family was not worthy of her time.

So that’s why she was happy that Mo Roulan herself took the initiative to invite her.

However, the happiness cooled down as soon as they reached home and Mo Roulan made her sit down with Mo Chen.

“Here…Read everything till here and try to remember. I’ll ask you some questions when I’ll come back.”

Mo Roulan said while passing the book to Shen Youlin who looked at it with disgust.

“Youlin”

Hearing the strict tone she hurriedly took the book from Mo Roulan’s hands with a pout and said

“Yes, Teacher Mo.”

Little Mo Chen chuckled when he heard her words.

“Chenchen…come to my room. I have brought some new notebooks for you.”

“Yes, Jiejie”

Mo Chen stood up and followed Mo Roulan to her room.

Closing the door, Mo Roulan brought two new notebooks out from her bag and passed them to Mo Chen.

“Chenchen”

She kneeled in front of her little brother who was sitting on the bed and said

“Jiejie wants you to do something. Will you do it?”

When Mo Chen nodded his head, she patted his head and continued

“Don’t let Youlin Jiejie go anywhere out of your sight till I come back, okay?”

She would have done this herself but she also needs to go out for her tutoring job and she can’t Shen Youlin with her there.

Cheng Yang has started to show improvement but she didn’t know whether he will accept one more person’s presence or not.

Mo Chen was confused hearing his Jiejie’s words and asked

“Why?”

Mo Roulan licked her lips and then after a moment said

“Youlin Jiejie needs to study but she is very irresponsible so Jiejie wants to help her and Jiejie wants Mo Chen’s help in this.”

“Oh…”

Mo Chen’s mouth was formed in ‘o’ shape and then he smiled brightly.

“Jiejie doesn’t need to worry.”

Patting his small chest, Mo Chen said seriously.

“Chenchen will not let sister Youlin out of his sight.”

Mo Roulan smiled and praised him

“Chenchen have become so sensible and intelligent.”

Mo Chen was shy and his ears became red when he heard his Jiejie praise. He hurriedly got down from the bed and ran out of the room making Mo Roulan chuckle at him.

After giving Shen Youlin’s responsibility to her little brother, Mo Roulan finally left the apartment. She taught Cheng Yang for three hours and took a test also to check at what level he was.

As soon as she could, she reached the apartment back. But when she opened the door and found Mo Chen alone in the living room watching cartoons, her eyes widened.

“Mo Chen.”

She shouted amidst the high volume of the T.V. Little Mo Chen stopped laughing and immediately switched off the T.V.

“Where is Youlin?” Without wasting any time, she asked her brother.

Mo Chen looked around the living room with knitted eyebrows and suddenly said

“Yes…Sister Youlin has told that she was going to the washroom.”

Mo Roulan held her forehead and asked again.

“How long has it been since she went inside?”

“Just now, Jiejie.” Little Mo Chen said immediately and the next second he saw his sister running towards her room.

Opening the door of her room, Mo Roulan looked around and her sight paused at the figure seated on her study table.