Lu Linchuan was filled with anticipation throughout the journey.

I wonder if Wan Tang will like the gift he prepared.

It's been two months since I last saw her. I wonder how Wan Tang is doing.

Lu Linchuan mentally rehearsed what he would say when they met.

He was eager to return home and couldn't wait to see her.

The man took out a vintage pocket watch from his pocket, opened it, and inside was a small black and white photograph.

The photo was taken secretly by him, showing Su Wantang at the age of eighteen.

The girl in the photo is wearing a polka-dot dress, with her long, black hair flowing smoothly down her back. Her features are bright and delicate, with lively eyes and brows. She is as beautiful and exquisite as a doll in a shop window.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to use the most beautiful words in the world to describe her.

Such a wonderful girl deserves to be cherished and pampered.

Lu Linchuan gently traced the girl's features in the photo with his long, rough fingers, and he couldn't help but recall what had happened before.

Back then, his mother and Wan Tang's mother were close friends. They agreed that if their children were of the same gender, they would let them be good friends; if they were of different genders, they would arrange a marriage between them.

However, she was born five years earlier than Wan Tang.

He remembered that when he was five years old, Wan Tang's mother gave birth, and his mother brought him to the hospital to wait.

He sat on a plastic chair in the corridor, watching his mother pace anxiously back and forth.

Not long after, a loud baby's cry came from the ward.

His mother's eyes lit up, "She gave birth! She's finally given birth..."

Then, his mother quickly walked into the ward.

"Lin Chuan, come and see your little sister!" His mother called out to him from inside the hospital room, smiling with delight. "Oh, no, not your sister, she's your fiancée."

Lu Linchuan walked over slowly.

He didn't like the marriage his family had arranged for him.

When he entered the ward and saw the wrinkled, thin, and tiny little guy wrapped in swaddling clothes, looking like a shriveled little monkey, Lu Linchuan disliked him even more.

He was thinking, "What an ugly kid."

He doesn't want her as his fiancée.

"I don't want her to be my fiancée." Five-year-old Lu Linchuan ran away in a huff.

On the day of Xiao Su Wantang's 100-day celebration, Lu Linchuan was forced to go along.

At the banquet, he saw a little dumpling wearing a soft light pink dress and a light pink cotton hat on her head.

It had only been a hundred days since we last saw each other, but the little one was no longer the withered and wrinkled girl she used to be. Her chubby little face was now like a porcelain doll, and her big, clear, bright eyes, like black grapes, looked around. Her eyelashes were long and curled, and her little mouth was also chubby.

Lu Linchuan really wanted to pinch her little face.

That day, Lu Linchuan took the initiative to hold Xiao Wantang tightly and wouldn't let go.

Later, Lu Linchuan watched Su Wantang grow up day by day, watching her grow from a tiny, helpless baby into a bright and beautiful young woman.

His love for Xiao Wantang grew stronger with time.

Unfortunately, Wan Tang didn't like him.

But it doesn't matter. He's already very satisfied that Wan Tang is willing to marry him. They have a long future together.

...

During this time, Su Wantang would visit Wei Juan in the courtyard from time to time. Seeing that her health was getting better day by day, Su Wantang was relieved.