Only After I Was Reborn Did I Realize That I Had Childhood Sweethearts

After Lin Youxi stayed at Mei Fang’s house for a while, Mei Lijun and his wife Xiang Xiaoxia came back from shopping outside.

As the New Year was approaching, Mei Lijun took a leave and came back from Baizhou City to spend time with his family. After Mei Fang explained Lin Youxi’s situation to his parents and expressed the desire of her to stay overnight, the couple immediately showed strong support without any hesitation.

“You can stay at our house for as long as you want. Although our house is not big, it is definitely warm.”

“Didn’t you used to say the house was big?”

“Now that the children have grown up, and there’s Xiaoya… Oh, where did Xiaoya go?”

“She’s playing at Yuan Yuan’s house. I forgot to pick her up.”

Upon hearing this, Xiang Xiaoxia became quite annoyed, “How could she go to Yuan Yuan’s house to play? Has she finished her homework? What kind of brother are you… I asked you to supervise Xiaoya’s studies properly.”

“Your daughter is so mischievous. I supervise her, but it’s not that easy.”

“Sigh, look at what kind of big brother you are. No sense of responsibility at all.”

After criticizing Mei Fang, Xiang Xiaoxia saw that Lin Youxi looked a bit uncomfortable and went over to pat her shoulder to comfort her.

“Don’t worry, Youxi. We are familiar with Lao Lin. He definitely wants to find a new mother for you for your own good. You are a sensible child, think carefully and consider it. After all, your father has had a hard time all these years…”

Most of the comfort and advice from adults are based on logic, and this condescending attitude often overlooks the purest feelings in a child’s heart. This was also the argument that Mei Fang strongly opposed when comforting Lin Youxi.

Of course, Mei Fang was able to notice this issue due to his ‘buff’ of being a child and having an adult mindset. Fortunately, Lin Youxi had already been comforted by Mei Fang, and the knot in her heart had been untied. Xiang Xiaoxia’s consolation did not provoke her resentment, and she also echoed with a sentence.

“I will think it over… If Dad really likes that aunt and she can lighten his burden, I am willing to try to get along with her.”

“Phew… Youxi is really a good child.”

Xiang Xiaoxia embraced Youxi’s shoulder. She really liked this child who was treated as her goddaughter.

“However, if that woman is not good to you, or if you are not happy at home, you are always welcome here.”

“Yes, thank you, Aunt Mei.”

Lin Youxi’s eyes were filled with gratitude.

In her childhood years when she lost her mother’s company for nearly ten years, the gentle and kind-hearted Xiang Xiaoxia could indeed be considered as half a mother to Lin Youxi.

“Mom, where should I sleep tonight?”

The Mei family’s house was a common 110-square-meter three-bedroom house, with a master bedroom, a guest bedroom, and a study. Usually, Mei Fang slept in his own room, and Mei Ya and her mother slept in the master bedroom. Recently, when their father returned, the three of them slept in the master bedroom, and Mei Fang slept alone.

“Then it’s definitely Xiaoya and Youxi sleeping in your room, and as for you—”

“Just let Mei Fang sleep in the living room, this sofa I bought two years ago is extremely comfortable.”

“No need, Aunt Mei… I can sleep on the sofa,” Lin Youxi quickly declined.

“You silly child… what nonsense are you talking? It’s so cold, how could I let you sleep in the living room.”

Mei Fang tilted his head, showing a puzzled expression, “So it’s fine if I freeze?”

“You’re a boy, why are you competing with a girl? I’ll just give you an extra blanket,” Mei Fang’s mother said.

At this time, Mei Lijun also chimed in, “That’s right! Mei Fang, being with Yuan Yuan and Youxi for so long, it feels like you’ve become too gentle, not at all like the fine young men of our Mei family. You need more masculine energy. What’s the big deal about enduring the cold? When Dad was your age, I was out chopping wood shirtless in the dead of winter, and I was twice as strong!”

“Why are you still here? Go and pick up Xiaoya, and then go buy groceries!” His wife interrupted his boasting.

“We just got back from shopping outside, I’m so tired. Can I have a glass of water…”

“Dad, isn’t your body really strong? You’re tired from just shopping?”

Mei Fang, standing aside with crossed arms, looking very arrogant, “Whenever I go shopping with Yuan Yuan and Youxi, no matter how much stuff I carry, it’s never tiring. You sit comfortably in the office every day, but get tired just by accompanying mom for shopping? Truly lacking in masculine energy.”

“You have the nerve to say that! You really have the nerve!”

Xiang Xiaoxia scolded Mei Fang while knocking his head, “You’re so attentive when you go shopping with Yuan Yuan and Youxi, but accompanying your old mom to buy groceries makes you so tired too. You really haven’t been raised properly, my son.”

“Stop hitting me, Mom, Youxi is watching, it’s embarrassing!”

Mei Fang held his head and scurried away. In this family filled with love and harmony, Lin Youxi, who was sitting on the side, finally released all her stress and burst into laughter, capturing the attention of the entire Mei family in the house.

This child… This is probably the first time in so many years that I’ve seen her laugh so happily.

Mei Lijun picked up Xiaoya from Xia Yuan’s house, and the lively girl had already fallen asleep at there. On the other hand, Lin Youxi accompanied Mei Fang to look at the codes for making a website together.

For Mei Fang, a self-taught programmer, learning Golang was quite challenging. However, Lin Youxi’s progress in learning was much faster than his. Mei Fang’s exposure to coding in his past life was limited to basic understanding, and the difference between his and Lin Youxi’s coding skills was only that he started learning programming three years earlier.

However, since Lin Youxi became interested in Java and gradually delved into various codes known to Mei Fang, and studied his teaching materials, her progress was very rapid. She seemed to be on the verge of surpassing Mei Fang as her teacher.

“I’ve been looking for this bug for so long and couldn’t find where the problem was, but you found it all at once.”

“That’s why writing comments (code comments) is important. You forgot to add comments here, and you forgot to delete an extra loop statement there, that’s why the error log is filled with repeated stacks of this bug.”

“Dealing with this is quite troublesome… when the tools are updated, it would be good to have a quick way to add comments.”

“If you’re not used to it, I can handle this part… You can go and see how to embed the flash player module into the webpage.”

“No problem.”

Lin Youxi then asked, “Ah Fang, Ah Fang, about this website… If it’s set up later, have you thought of a name for it?”

“Well…”

“Now there’s already a website called A Site (AcFun) in China. Why don’t we call it C Site?”

“C Site? Why not call it B Site (Bilibili)?”

“Because the English letter C sounds very similar to the 【Xi】 in your name. Do you think calling it C (Xi) Site would be more meaningful?”

Lin Youxi felt a little embarrassed, “This… this is the website you guided me to make, so it should be called M Site.”

“No, M won’t do!” (TN: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))

“Why not?”

“M is… just weird, and it doesn’t sound like Mei at all!”

“Uh…”

Lin Youxi didn’t continue to argue.

C Site, huh…

Looking at the current mess of the website’s backend on the computer screen, Lin Youxi became pensive.

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