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Shi Shi didn't wait downstairs for long, only about ten minutes, before she saw Shi Yiqing coming down.

"Let's go home." Shi Yiqing said this when she walked up to her.

"Okay." Shi Shi said and followed.

The mother and daughter were walking side by side when Shi Yiqing suddenly said this again.

"Actually, I don't really want to hide it from you forever."

As Shi Yiqing said this, she recalled how she felt when she first saw Shi Shi. Seeing the little girl held in the nurse's arms, her heart softened all of a sudden, and the fatigue after giving birth was swept away, and even the resentment that had accumulated for a long time seemed to disappear.

Having you is the happiest thing in my life.

When Shi Shi heard this, she recalled her "past life". After she heard what Zeng Mu's mother said about her biological father, after torturing herself for several weeks, she finally couldn't help but find Shi Yiqing to ask, and she also said the same thing.

"At first I just thought he wouldn't appear in our lives anyway, so there was no need to tell you and cause you more trouble."

When Shi Yiqing saw her little daughter running back home crying one day and asking her why she didn’t have a father, she also hesitated.

That was the first time her daughter mentioned the word "dad", but she could only respond with lies because she couldn't explain too many words to her daughter that she couldn't understand.

"Because Dad has his own things to do, he can't live with us." Shi Yiqing said this. Shi Shi didn't quite understand it at that time, but she remembered this sentence firmly.

As she grew up, she no longer asked such questions, but she gradually came to realize that the man didn't like her, so he never came to see her.

So, the faint expectation turned into disappointment. So, the obviously fragile body became more resilient and unyielding, in order to cover up the fragility of the heart.

She gradually became a competitive person who would never admit defeat.

But she also knew that she had always been an insecure and low-self-esteem person.

So after being with Qin Yichuan, after a short period of happiness, they had friction and quarrels due to personality reasons. However, they were not the kind of people who liked quarreling, so there were many cold wars afterwards, and there was little affection left.

"Shi Shi is here too?" Qin Lang, who was reading a newspaper in the car, noticed them when the two of them walked to the car. After putting down the newspaper, he saw Shi Shi next to Shi Yiqing.

"Let's go home." Shi Yiqing said this as she sat down in the passenger seat, and then a wave of fatigue hit her. In fact, she was not as calm as she appeared. The seemingly brief stay upstairs had actually consumed all her energy.

Qin Lang was driving intently. When he was waiting for the traffic light, he turned around to say something to Shi Yiqing, only to find that she had fallen asleep.

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On the other side, Feng Yun, who was still sitting in the living room of Du Lin's house, was flipping through the photo album in his hand, which he asked Du Lin to get for him.

He flipped through the pages neither fast nor slow, but suddenly, when he turned to one of the photos, his hands stopped.

This is an old, yellowed photo, a group photo of seven or eight children, one of whom is himself.

Shi Yiqing and Feng Yun are childhood sweethearts. Since they live in a small town, they attended the same school from elementary school to high school.

They fell in love when they were young. After graduating from high school, Feng Yun failed the college entrance examination while Shi Yiqing was admitted to university as she wished.

So Feng Yun went to the city where she attended university and stayed there for three years.

Shi Yiqing always felt that Feng Yun was her only choice in this life.

Therefore, she insisted on marrying him, but no one supported her, including Feng Yun himself, because in the eyes of others he was just a gangster who had accomplished nothing. He also felt that he needed more time to work hard, and that he was not worthy of her at all.

However, Shi Yiqing unexpectedly became pregnant, so they returned to their hometown together and held a quiet wedding.

Because of the baby in her belly, the two people's original plans were disrupted, and they finally chose to stay in their hometown.

Because Feng Yun had saved a considerable amount of money from his previous job, their life was easy after they opened a small shop.

She was very satisfied with the peaceful life at that time, but this kind of life only lasted for four months.

That day, when Feng Yun came back, he looked in a bad mood.

"What's wrong? Didn't you say you were going to drink with friends?" Shi Yiqing quickly noticed Feng Yun's strange mood and asked with concern.

"Nothing, just tired." Actually, something happened, but Feng Yun didn't want to tell his pregnant wife and make her worry. So he changed the subject. "Are you tired today?"

Today was indeed a gathering of a few friends, but Feng Yun didn't expect Liu Shiwu to come as well.

Liu Shiwu and he used to be friends. The last time they met, Liu Shiwu came to borrow money from him. The amount wasn't too large, but it wasn't small either. However, since Feng Yun wasn't short of money at the time, he didn't think of asking him for money.

So when they met this time and greeted each other, he didn't mention this matter, but he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to bring it up and say he wanted to pay him back.

So, halfway through, Liu Shiwu took him to a rental house. The small room was messy and there was no place to sit. Liu Shiwu tidied it up casually and made a seat for Feng Yun to sit down.

"You live here now?" Feng Yun remembered that the last time he saw him, he was clearly living with his family.

"Yes, it's quiet living alone." Liu Shiwu rummaged through a pile of miscellaneous items and finally found something. He handed something wrapped in newspaper to Feng Yun.

"What is this?" Feng Yun asked in confusion.

"I'll return your money. Just count it. It's neither more nor less. The extra amount will be counted as interest for these years."

"No need to count the money, I believe you, but where did you make your fortune?" Hearing Liu Shiwu say this, Feng Yun was not in a hurry to count the money, but was a little curious about where he made the money.

"I was lucky some time ago and sold all the goods I imported. But you, why did you run back to this small place when you were living well in the big city?" As he spoke, Liu Shiwu lit a cigarette and handed it to Feng Yun.

"I won't smoke anymore." Feng Yun refused. He was trying to quit smoking during this period.

"Hey, why don't you even smoke? Married people are really different." Liu Shiwu teased when he saw him refuse.

"My wife is pregnant now and can't stand the smell of cigarettes."

"Okay, I know you're happy. You haven't told me yet, why did you come back to this crappy place to open a shop? Aren't you planning on going back to Y City?"

"I'm not going back for now. It's not that easy to make money in a big city."

"That's true. In fact, it's the same everywhere. It's hard to make money. It depends not only on luck but also on hard work." Liu Shiwu felt a little emotional after hearing this.

"Look at what you said. Aren't you just selling some things? How can you have such experience?"

Liu Shiwu's expression suddenly froze, and then he suddenly sighed.

"Oh, I've experienced this myself."