Seventeen Again: The Sweet Life with My Family

Chapter 221: He’s Not Worthy

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Upon seeing this, Wen Nian tiptoed and planted a gentle kiss on the corner of Shen J tin’s lips.

In that moment, a genuine smile appeared on Shen Jun’s face.

Wen Nian playfully shook Shen Jun’s arm and softly asked, “Shen Jun, my dear, what do you feel like eating?”

Not wanting Wen Nian to go through too much trouble, Shen Jun thought that having egg noodles would be convenient. “Let’s have egg noodles.”

Wen Nian pushed Shen Jun down onto the couch. “Then you sit here for a while or explore on your own. Wait for me for 15 minutes!”

Wen Nian headed to the kitchen to cook the noodles, while Shen Jun remained in the living room, curiously observing the layout of Wen Nian’s home.

It was a rented house, but it was kept clean and tidy, radiating a cozy and homely atmosphere. However, what caught Shen Jun’s attention were the two family photos placed on the TV cabinet.

One was taken earlier that year when they visited the Imperial Palace in the capital. The other was an old photo from a long time ago, capturing the entire family in the ancestral home of the Wen family. In the photo, Wen Nian appeared to be around six or seven years old, standing beside Zhou Mei on one side and Wen Xing on the other. Wen Nian wore a pale yellow dress, her hair styled into two braided pigtails. There was even a small beauty mark drawn with lipstick on her forehead, a popular trend among children during photo shoots.

Shen Jun found young Wen Nian incredibly adorable and couldn’t resist capturing the moment with his phone.

After taking the photo, Shen Jun curiously made his way toward the bedroom area.

Wen Nian’s room was easily recognizable. From the doorway, he could spot the pale pink bedding on the bed, a small cloth doll adorning the bedside table, and on the study desk near the window, neatly arranged among the books, various girly accessories and skincare products.

Shen Jun entered Wen Nian’s bedroom and noticed a small glass bottle tucked in the corner of a makeshift bookshelf, filled with carefully folded paper stars. It immediately caught his attention.

During middle school, there was a period when the girls in Shen Jun’s class also followed a trend. It was said that if they wrote their wishes on paper, folded them into stars, and filled a bottle with 365 of them, their wishes would come true.

He saw through this as a marketing ploy and scoffed at the girls in his class for making wishes in this way.

Shen Jun never expected that Wen Nian also had such a childish phase. He walked over, picked up the bottle, and muttered, “God doesn’t have time to fulfill your wishes. It’s more useful for me to see them.”

Shen Jun opened the bottle without any guilt. “I’m not invading your privacy. 1 just want to help make your wishes come true.”

As he opened the first star, he read the wish written on it: “I hope Wei Xiao will like me soon.”

The smile on Shen Jun’s face instantly vanished, leaving no trace. “What a lousy wish. It’s okay, everyone has their moments of blindness. Luckily, you are cured now.”

Shen Jun opened the second star, but the wish on the paper remained the same. He took a deep breath and opened the third, fourth, and several more stars, only to find that they all contained the same wish, with not even a change in punctuation.

Meanwhile, Wen Nian finished cooking two bowls of noodles and brought them to the dining table. Not finding Shen Jun in the living room, she walked towards the bedroom and saw him sitting at the desk with his back to her. “Shen Jun, the noodles are ready. Come out.”

Not receiving any response from Shen Jun, Wen Nian furrowed her brows in confusion and approached the desk. She noticed the scattered stars on the table, and the wishes written on them caught her eye.

Wen Nian’s expression slightly stiffened. If it weren’t for Shen Jun uncovering them, she wouldn’t have remembered that she had done such things in the past to win Wei Xiao’s heart.

Shen Jun lifted his gaze and looked at Wen Nian, saying in a somewhat sarcastic tone, “1 never expected that you could be so patient. It must have taken you quite some time.”

Wen Nian forced a dry laugh. “I was young and ignorant.”

As Wen Nian spoke, she swept all the opened stars under the table into the trash bin and poured the remaining unopened stars from the glass bottle into it as well.

Seeing Shen Jun staring at the bottle she was about to put away, Wen Nian quickly explained, “This bottle can be used to hold other things. It’s not worth using it as a burial ground for Wei Xiao. He doesn’t deserve it!”

The words “he doesn’t deserve it” pleased Shen Jun, and a subtle softness appeared in his eyes. He took the trash bag directly, saying, “I’ll go take out the trash. You can start eating first.”

After saying that, Shen Jun left Wen Nian’s house with the trash bag. He couldn’t leave any chance for Wen Nian to change her mind!

Wen Nian shook her head helplessly. Then she remembered the poems she had written for Wei Xiao during her teenage infatuation. She quickly took out her notebook, tore out those pages, and then folded and tore them into pieces before flushing them down the toilet..