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All her hard work paid off. When Ye Wenyu saw her report card and opened the red envelope from her parents, she smiled contentedly, like a worker bee who had worked hard all year looking at her full bag of sweet honey.

She felt more confident about the future, didn't she? She thought to herself that life wasn't as difficult as she had imagined. She could manage on her own, supporting herself and completing her studies smoothly!

In her past life, she was just too weak and stupid. In this life, she worked hard for half a year before she realized how fulfilling it is to earn rewards on your own.

In this life, she will never depend on anyone, nor will she beg others for love, power, money, time, opportunities, or so on.

Ye Wenyu clenched her fist and secretly made a happy vow in her heart.

If she can get through the remaining three and a half years smoothly, and then graduate from university and find a high-paying job, she can marry Brother Wen, buy a house and have children, and then she will have her own home.

One's own home—what a warm and happy place to long for.

Wenyu took a picture of her final exam report card and sent it to Cai Wenchuan. His reply came quickly: a big smile and a thumbs-up. Wenyu smiled, feeling sweet inside, as if she had eaten candy. She knew that her brother Wen was proud of her.

Cai Wenchuan asked her on WeChat, "Are you going home for winter break?"

Winter break? Going home? Ye Wenyu suddenly realized that school was already on winter break. The sunny smile on her face disappeared. Students were already packing their luggage and starting to go home in twos and threes. She looked up and saw that the dormitory that used to have four roommates now only had three. One of them had gone home on the day the exam ended.

Go home? She thought to herself, she wanted to go home too, but where did she have a home? The small house where she grew up had been sold by her mother so that she could have some dowry when she remarried. All her possessions were in two suitcases, which were now in her dormitory. In other words, she had no home to go back to; the dormitory was her home.

Furthermore, another reason is that she still owes the bar three thousand yuan. She has to work during the winter break to pay off the debt before the start of the next semester, so she can't go back.

Therefore, Ye Wenyu sent Cai Wenchuan a private message on WeChat: "I'm not going home." To prevent him from knowing that she was homeless, she also added a smiley face emoji.

Sending the message, I felt a pang of sadness. After all, reason can't completely control emotions. She was thinking that the New Year was just twenty days away, but she had no home to go back to.

However, she still tried to smile and told herself that it was nothing to worry about.

A few minutes later, Cai Wenchuan sent a private message: "I'm not going home either. I'll come see you when I have time."

Wen Yu smiled genuinely this time, a warm feeling washing over her. She thought sweetly, "So Brother Wen isn't going home either!" Although it was a bit lonely living alone in the dormitory during the winter break, the thought that Brother Wen would come to see her made her feel less alone. In fact, her heart began to fill with hope because of his words.

She thought for a moment and replied, "Tell me before you come to see me that I might be studying at the library." Actually, she was working outside, and she had already decided in a moment that she would go to the city to look for a job that afternoon.

In any case, she would use her winter break to work hard and pay off the bar's debts. That way, by the next semester, she would have some savings, pay off the debts, and be able to easily manage her life and have more time to study.

At the same time, a big question mark appeared in Ye Wenyu's mind: why wasn't Cai Wenchuan going home during the long winter vacation, which coincided with the Spring Festival, China's grandest traditional festival? Why didn't he go home? This didn't make sense; he didn't seem to go home during the National Day holiday either.

Won't his parents miss him? It seems like Wen-gege's relationship with his parents is a bit strange. What exactly happened to the Cai family after they moved?

Ye Wenyu was caught up in curiosity and contemplation.

Wen Yu didn't come to her senses until Cai Wenchuan sent her a smiley face. She smiled and then set off to look for a job.

After a long day of job hunting, she felt like all her bones were about to fall apart. Exhausted, she returned to her dormitory. All her roommates had left, leaving her all alone in the quiet room, where she could only hear her own breathing and heartbeat.

She thought back to her past life, how she spent a winter break in her dormitory, and then, in the second semester of her freshman year, when Lin Tingfeng appeared in front of her and showed her great care, she couldn't help but fall in love with him.

She cheered herself up, telling herself to be strong no matter what. It didn't matter that she hadn't found a job today; she would definitely find one tomorrow. Just then, her phone rang. She picked it up and saw that it was her mother calling. It seemed that her mother still cared about her!

A warm feeling washed over Ye Wenyu. She smiled and answered the phone.

She quickly answered the phone, feeling a warm glow in her heart, and sweetly called out, "Mom—"

Her mother, Zhang Susu, laughed on the other end of the phone and asked her, "Xiaoyu, are you on winter vacation?"

Ye Wenyu felt a warmth in her heart. It seemed her mother really cared about her! Her mother knew on the very first day of winter break! She was even happier and smiled, "Yes, Mom, winter break is here. How did you know I was on winter break?" Sensing her mother's care, her tone regained its girlish charm.

Like a child who is reluctant to eat candy, she moves the candy from one side of her mouth to the other, just unwilling to swallow it. She asked her mother with a smile, hoping to hear her mother say, "I remember, you are my precious daughter, how could I not remember?"

However, Zhang Susu said, "Wenchuan called me and said that you're on winter break today."

So that's how it is. Ye Wenyu's smile froze, as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water over her head on a cold day. She couldn't help but feel a pang of disappointment. But a few minutes later, she smiled again. Her mother had started a new family. That family had a stepfather and his two children, one in junior high school and the other in elementary school. They were at the age when they needed the most care and attention, so it was understandable that her mother had forgotten when her winter vacation started.

She is very sensible because she is no longer a child.

What warmed her heart was how considerate and thoughtful Wen was! Hearing that she wasn't going home for winter break and planned to stay in the dormitory, he took it upon himself to call her mother, hoping she would show concern for her and invite her home.

She was sensible and wouldn't go back to her stepfather's house, but if her mother verbally invited her, letting her know that her mother still cared about and loved her, then she would have the courage to keep living.

Brother Wen is truly the best man in the world!