A few people chatted in the living room for a while. Si Chen didn’t forget the main reason for coming this ti, so he dragged Bao Ye upstairs to the study to work on the project.
Only Jiang Ruan and Feng iling were left chatting downstairs. Jiang Ruan asked the servant to prepare a fruit platter and afternoon tea, asking Feng iling what she liked to drink.
Feng iling said that black coffee would be fine.
She was on a diet recently.
Jiang Ruan’s eyes lit up suddenly: "What a coincidence, I also like black coffee."
"You’re already so slim, why do you need to diet?"
Feng iling stuck out her tongue, "To maintain my figure. Isn’t there no girl who doesn’t like a perfect body?"
Jiang Ruan nodded, "True."
So she let the servant prepare it.
Turning back, she heard Feng iling teasing, "But really, sister-in-law, you have such a nice figure, so slim yet curvy. It’s really enviable. Compared to you, I lack femininity. I don’t have flesh where there should be."
Hearing this, Jiang Ruan laughed, "You might as well say I’m fat."
Speaking of this, she was also troubled, "I do seem to have gained a bit of weight recently. When I get back to work, I have to diet."
"Don’t." Feng iling said: "What are you dieting for? Sister-in-law, you’re just right as you are now. I’m telling you, n like this kind of figure, and Brother Bo definitely does too."
"You really shouldn’t diet."
Jiang Ruan raised an eyebrow, curious: "Why?"
Feng iling leaned closer to her face, sneakily, "Because there’s substance."
"Actually, being too skinny isn’t good either, like a skeleton. Especially during, you know, certain tis, I heard the experience isn’t good at all and it’s said to not be great for childbirth. Just what I read online."
Jiang Ruan was amused and annoyed, "How do you even have research on this kind of thing?"
"Alright, I know I’ve gained weight recently. Stop comforting ."
"Let’s change the topic, it’s too heart-wrenching."
The two shifted away from the topic of weight.
Jiang Ruan asked her, "Did you and Si Chen grow up with Bao Ye?"
Feng iling: "Kind of, but not really."
Jiang Ruan: "Huh?"
"So is it or isn’t it?"
Kind of, but not really.
"No," Feng iling said: "Although our family and the Si and Bo families have a good relationship, kind of like family friends, I and Si Chen are a few years younger than Brother Bo. Although we saw each other as kids, we never really played together."
Feng iling laughed, "Maybe Brother Bo thought we were childish."
"Plus, the Bo family has very strict family rules. They were famous for it in the circle back then."
"Brother Bo, as the sole heir of the Bo family, was surely more strictly managed. I rember he was taught personally by Grandpa Bao, who was a particularly stern and rigid person. I just thought he was really fierce, the kind who would scold you at the drop of a hat."
"Brother Bo went through a lot of hardships growing up under him. I heard Brother Bo was sent to a special forces training camp at the age of seven. That kind of place is brutal, tut-tut. I bet no other family in the circle sent their kid there, and my dad said it was quite a sensation when the news ca out."
"Special forces training camp," Jiang Ruan repeated.
"Yes," Feng iling said: "It’s said that no matter how rebellious or untamable soone is, they get skinned alive there and beco obedient."
"Because the people in there aren’t gentle with you. They’re all trained year-round, and if you don’t complete your goals, you don’t get any food. If you do sothing wrong, you get directly punished physically, it’s like hell on earth."
"Hard to imagine, right? Brother Bo was sent there at the age of seven."
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