The other person's gaze towards Wan Ge was filled with amazement and joy, suggesting ulterior motives. Considering Wan Ge wanted to break up with him, and yet here she was talking to another man, was it because of that man?

Was she trying to break up with him because she wanted a new boyfriend? No way! So Chen Ji went straight up and hugged Wange. He wanted to assert his ownership, hoping those men would be smart enough not to provoke him.

Wan Ge was pulled to a corner, and Chen Ji kissed her immediately. The boy, who knew absolutely nothing about such things, didn't even know how to kiss properly and almost bumped his teeth in the process.

Wan Ge neither responded to him nor refused. She had simply been cornered for too long and was blushing from lack of oxygen.

Chen Ji also blushed; his delicate and handsome face had never shown such a complexion before.

So this is what kissing feels like. No wonder my brother likes doing this to Nian Cangyao so much.

But why... why isn't Wan Ge happy?

"You still want to break up with me?" Chen Ji's expression immediately turned cold.

"No." Wan Ge said those two words quite firmly.

Why would Wan Ge break up with him? But she'd better play hard to get with Chen Ji, or at least make him realize how much he likes her.

In short, she couldn't let him realize how much she loved him so quickly, otherwise he might not put in much effort, or worse, she might drag him into causing trouble for the main couple. That's what Wan Ge thought was something he was capable of doing in this world.

He silently went through a series of harsh words in his mind, but the other party simply uttered two words: No!

For a moment, they fell silent, not knowing what to say, and simply stood there stunned.

"I'm going home to cook, want to come along?" Wan Ge asked softly.

He silently replied with a "okay" and got into the car with her.

People like them usually get their driver's licenses at the age of eighteen, and Wange drove out directly.

Silently sitting in the passenger seat, watching the girl driving intently, I suddenly realized that I seemed to have never really known her.

When they first got together... no, before he broke up with her, she was always a little apprehensive when she was around him.

But after the day she broke up with him, she seemed like a completely different person.

On that very day, he suddenly became extremely attentive to the other person's every move.

…

The evening song felt more like Chinese New Year than last time. The Shen family would also put up posters, but for the two brothers, Chinese New Year had long since lost its appeal.

When I was little, I heard that the Lunar New Year was a time for family reunion, so I was especially excited to see my parents come home. But no matter if it was the Lunar New Year or not, they would always call to say they weren't coming home.

After that, no matter how much the Shen family tried to create a festive atmosphere for the New Year, the two brothers didn't feel it at all. If the two brothers hadn't been inseparable since childhood, they probably wouldn't have been so attached to each other back then.

However… this year, Shen Ji had a premonition that his brother would spend New Year's Eve with that woman, so he was left alone on New Year's Eve.

Chen Ji had never cooked for himself before. He stood by and watched Wan Ge wash and chop vegetables and put rice into the pot. All her movements were so practiced.

"Do you need my help?" This was the first time in his life that Shen Ji had said such a thing. And it wasn't meant to tease anyone; he genuinely asked the question.