Chapter 616: Chapter 491: Let Your Heart Hold More Beauty

"Mom told me not to worry about it and just leave it to her to handle."

Xie Yizun actually wasn’t worried about this kind of totally made‑up nonsense.

His brother‑in‑law was his brother‑in‑law, that fact couldn’t be more real.

What was bothering him was something else—"I..."

"What’s wrong?" Ning Youguang asked patiently.

Maybe it was because her gentle voice was like a summer evening breeze, blowing away the restlessness in his heart as soon as it reached his ears, or maybe it was because of the support and respect she’d given Xie Yizun since they were kids.

The teenager hesitated for a moment, then told her the suspicion he hadn’t even mentioned to his mom, "I suspect the people blackening me are the ones training with me."

If nothing had happened, he would’ve brushed off those strange looks he’d seen from a few people in the bathroom that morning. But now that something had happened, there was no way he couldn’t overthink it.

"What makes you say that?" Ning Youguang asked.

"Yesterday..."

Xie Yizun carefully told Ning Youguang everything that had happened in the training camp from yesterday to today.

"I see." Ning Youguang thought for a moment. "Let’s have someone look into it, then. We’ll know soon enough. If someone really hurt you for no reason, we definitely need to make them pay a price. But we also can’t convict someone based purely on guesses—we can’t go around wronging people." 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

"I think that’s good." Xie Yizun also wanted a fair and objective answer.

It would take a bit of time to get an answer.

His mood definitely wouldn’t bounce back that fast.

When you’re upset, you don’t have the energy to train, let alone the fact that he still had to compete the day after tomorrow.

Ning Youguang said slowly, "When a person faces blame and slander, feeling uncomfortable inside also has to do with mindset, because the way we care about the outside world is like a cage—it tightly traps us. That’s where boundaries come in when we interact with people."

"What do you mean by boundaries?" Xie Yizun knew his sister was guiding him and listened very seriously.

"It’s when you’re interacting with someone and you can clearly sense the point where you might need to say ’no’," Ning Youguang said.

"Sis, can you be more specific?"

"It’s that when you deal with people, you can’t think that just because you know someone, they’re your friend. That’s not it. In our whole life, the people who can truly become our friends are actually very, very few. Aside from that, everyone we know has a role in our life. Once you recognize what role they play by your side, you’ll know where the boundary is with them. At the same time, based on their role, you’ll also be very clear about their function and meaning in your life."

"Let me think..." Xie Yizun started to seriously think it through. "For example, my teacher is a teacher. When I interact with him, it’s about studying. The people competing with me, they’re teammates, they’re also competitors, so I only need to intersect with them on things related to training and competition. Then like the people at the company, I have a cooperative relationship with them, so we only need to talk about work. Is that how you distinguish them?"

"Exactly, that’s how you distinguish them." Ning Youguang said with a smile. "Once you’ve drawn out the areas where you must overlap, anything else they pry into too much, you can say ’no’ to. Got it?"

"Got it." Xie Yizun replied.

"That’s right." Ning Youguang’s voice was soft. "My little brother is so simple and straightforward, how could you possibly outplay all those scheming people out there? Don’t be so silly that you fall into their traps without even realizing it."

"I also think these people are so complicated." Xie Yizun felt like his worldview had been constantly flipped recently, and he scratched his head in frustration. "I really kind of can’t wrap my head around it."

"Of course you can’t. Those who are full of schemes and complicated inside are the ones who love coming to you to stir up trouble the most, you know?" Ning Youguang said. "Things that were originally very simple get processed in their brains and become complicated. Tell me, isn’t that them making trouble out of nothing? There weren’t ’problematic people’ to begin with, there were just ’problems’, but they insist on dragging people into it. Once you drag people into any issue, it becomes a mess. That’s how conflicts between people start, and attacks start too."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Xie Yizun was shocked. "Lately so many people have been talking to me about other people around us. I thought they treated me like a brother, that’s why they told me. But after hearing your analysis—damn! They’ve all been digging pits for me!"

"Exactly, they’re digging pits for you." Ning Youguang said. "Anywhere there are people, there’s ’self‑performance’ and gossip. And what’s gossip? It’s stuff that has nothing to do with you. Get it?"