Chapter 3 Three Beginnings

  There is a whole shelf of Barbie dolls in front of me.

  The cabinet is divided into six layers, each layer has about ten, none of them are the same, and each one is unique in shape, like a miniature Barbie doll showcase.

  "Since I was three years old, my dad would give me two every year. If a new version came out, he'd buy that too," Mu Yu Xin's face didn't show any excitement, just calm and ordinary.

  But Tian Nuanyu's heartstrings were lightly plucked, and a distant memory was lifted at the corner.

  It must be that her gaze at Barbie was too focused, Mu Yu Xing tilted her head and asked: "Do you like Barbie?"

  "I don't like it," Tian Nuanyu said calmly.

  I really don't like it, how can I still like it?

  Beautiful Barbie doll, was her most beautiful dream before the age of six. At the age of six, she finally had a pink Barbie, although it was a fake one, but she treasured it like a precious treasure, holding it in her arms for 24 hours a day, hugging it tightly to sleep at night, and dreaming of sweetness and joy.

  But she didn't have time to fully apply this sweetness and joy to her six-year-old sky, the dream was shattered.

  That dusk, just after the rain, a seven-colored rainbow appeared on the horizon, and her beloved Barbie was thrown into the river by the little boy next door.

  For the first time she heard her own heart cracking sound, the river water rose to a high tide, it was her heartbreaking tears, and her Barbie doll drifted away in her tears.

  Her pure and beautiful little girl's dream was ruthlessly extinguished by the distant flowing water, leaving only a faintly cool pain like a goose egg sinking to the bottom of the memory river. As time passed slowly, it ground away the sharp edges of the pain, although it had become smooth, but still could not be erased from the heart.

  "So you don't like me either?" Mu Yu Xin blinked.

  "I just said I don't like Barbie, didn't say I don't like you."

  "You say I look like Barbie, but you don't like Barbie, isn't that the same as not liking me?" She didn't expect her to reason with this logic.

  "I just used Barbie to describe how pretty you look, we've only met for less than ten minutes, it's too early to say if I like you or not," Tian Nanyu already knew that the best way to communicate with this girl was to speak out her true feelings.

  Mù Yǔ Xīn nodded in agreement: "Then what kind of toys do you like?"

  "Teddy bear," Tian Nuoyu casually said one.

  The dream is shattered, all toys have lost their luster, and it doesn't matter which one you like or dislike.

  "How stupid!"

  "Yes, I'm quite silly, I haven't seen many toys," Tian Nuanyu said frankly.

  "I said Teddy is a silly bear," Mu Yu Xin smiled, her smile sweet and innocent.

  Tian Nuoyu also smiled, a bit awkwardly, and a face with sharp lines and few smiles flashed through her mind.

  "Your breasts aren't that big, but they're still quite full," Mu Yu Xing's gaze suddenly fixed on Tian Nuan Yu's chest, and as she spoke, her hand lightly brushed against Tian Nuan Yu's chest like a gentle breeze.

  Her movements were too sudden, Tian Nuan Yu was stunned at first, and then she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, being "slapped" by Mu Yu Xing like that without any warning, Tian Nuan Yu's face showed an awkward expression.

  She hadn't thought of how to respond yet, but saw Mu Yu Xing's eyes rolling around and leaning in close to her saying: "You still have the Three Initials preserved, right?"

  "What's going on?" Tian Nuoyu asked without thinking.

  "You can't tell, you're still quite innocent, just a first kiss, first love, and all that," Mu Yu Xing said with a slanted glance at her, the words rolling off his tongue as naturally as if he were discussing what to have for dinner.

  Tian Nuanyu's face turned red, are kids these days really so precocious? What was I like at 16? As soon as she thought of herself, Tian Nuanyu's expression fell.

  Mu Yu Xing burst out laughing, her laughter like a white dove flying across the sky: "Finally found something we have in common, mine is too."

  The awkwardness dissipated, Tian Nuan Yu's heart inexplicably relaxed a little. She sincerely hoped that this child was pure and clean. She said warmly: "Girls should be self-loving like this."

  "Hmph, so old-fashioned," Mu Yu Xing said disapprovingly, rolling her eyes and then winking: "**If you're still considered a girl, you're an old girl, though**." After she finished speaking, her bright black eyes curved into a semicircle.

  Tian Nuoyu could only silently sigh in her heart.

  "Are you Tian Nuanyu?" asked Mu Yu Xin.

  Tian Nuanyu nodded slightly, it seemed that Mu Ao Yun had already told his daughter about her situation.

  "Do you have another name?"

  "My mom just gave me one name." Her name was indeed given by her mother.

  "This name of yours is too common, I don't like it at all. How about I help you change it?"

  Tian Nuanyu couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time. For Mu Yuexin, changing her name was not as simple as changing a multiple-choice question into a single-choice one.

  "This first needs to go through my parents' agreement, then go to the police station to fill out an application form. After the application is approved and agreed upon, I need to go to the police station again to change the household registration book and ID card. Only after that can I officially use my new name. It's said that this process may take at least three months."

  Tian Nuoyu seemed to have learned a lesson from the "Barbie doll" in front of her and understood that she had to adopt an unconventional way of thinking when conversing with her.

  "It's such a hassle, let's just forget it, who knows if you can even stay here for three months! But your name is too hard to hear, I don't want to call," Mu Yu Xin curled her lips and raised an eyebrow, saying so with a slight frown.