After a long moment of confusion, Shi Nian's gaze gradually focused.

She spoke softly: "Mr. Zhan, we've known each other for a while now, and I think you're a very nice person, unlike the people I imagined from the wealthy neighborhood."

Upon hearing this, Zhan Xiuchen smiled.

He paused and said, “Your comment is worth more than a thousand others. I didn’t eat any candy today, but I feel sweetness in my mouth and in every part of my body.”

Shi Nian: "........."

There was one more thing she didn't say.

That is, Zhan Xiuchen is a very good person!

And he's very talkative.

Shi Nian avoided Zhan Xiuchen's gaze.

The man's gaze was so intense, like a burning cigarette butt, that when he stared at someone.

If you make eye contact with him, you'll get burned.

Shi Nian didn't want to get burned.

“I knew you had people following me, which is why the manager suddenly appeared and apologized to me when I was almost humiliated at the coffee shop yesterday,” Shi Nian said bluntly. “Mr. Zhan, it was because of you, wasn’t it?”

Zhan Xiuchen did not refute.

If Shi Nianruo doesn't know, he won't say it on his own initiative.

But if Shi Nianruo knew, there was no need to hide it anymore.

"Shi Nian, send someone to follow you. I mean no harm and won't interfere with your normal life."

Zhan Xiuchen was interrupted by Shi Nian before he could finish speaking.

Shi Nian said, "Mr. Zhan, I know. I'm not questioning you. I just want to say that you are a really good person. You sent someone to follow me quietly and protect me from being humiliated. You were also protecting my self-esteem."

"You're trying to protect my pitiful and fragile self-esteem, aren't you?" Shi Nian said.

Zhan Xiuchen shook his head.

He said in a low voice, "Your self-esteem is not pitiful or weak at all, because Shi Nian, your mentality is very strong, exceptionally strong."

Even though Shi Nian didn't look at Zhan Xiuchen.

But Zhan Xiuchen's gaze remained fixed on Shi Nian's face.

His gaze towards Shi Nian was not sharp at all.

Yet it seems to be able to penetrate everything.

Just like right now.

His gaze seemed to pierce through Shi Nian's skin and flesh, reaching straight into Shi Nian's heart!

"The things those people say about you won't hurt you or make you feel inferior, so how could your self-esteem be pitiful and weak?"

"Those words will only make you hate the inequality in this country more."

"So if the manager hadn't apologized to you in time," Zhan Xiu sighed, "I think you might have smashed up the coffee shop. So to avoid me having to pay for it for you, I'll take care of it for you first."

Shi Nian: "........."

have a look.

She began to think that this man was more than just good.

She is still very good at speaking.

She was right after all.

This man's mouth!

But strangely enough, he was right.

Yesterday at the coffee shop, she was ridiculed and surrounded by so many disdainful glances.

She was not self-conscious.

Only anger.

It's not just personal anger.

Rather, it was anger at the entire unequal system in Country A.

“Mr. Zhan, take a look.” Just then, Shi Nian’s gaze swept across the car window and pointed to a field: “That’s the field of an old man I know. He works in the field for seven or eight hours every day, regardless of the scorching summer sun or the wind and rain.”

Zhan Xiuchen's gaze followed the direction Shi Nian was pointing.

He saw a large expanse of farmland.

I saw an old man working in the fields.

The old man was over seventy years old and was wearing a straw hat. Even though you couldn't see his face, you could imagine that he had a weathered look on his face.

“He was poor when he was young and couldn’t afford to get married, so he had no children.” Shi Nian said, “He could only work hard to grow rice and sell it. He didn’t make much money, but it was enough to make a living.”

At this point, Shi Nian's tone became bitter: "But the elderly in wealthy areas don't have such worries. Even if they don't have children, they still have the protection of the country."

"It's good that the government will pay for their care so that the elderly can live out their days in peace. But I don't understand why the elderly in rich neighborhoods are considered human beings, while the elderly in poor neighborhoods are not?"

Shi Nian's question was met with no response from Zhan Xiuchen.

He pursed his thin lips, his gaze fixed on the hardworking old man.

After that, Shi Nian took Zhan Xiuchen to a house.

This is a special family.

My father passed away due to illness, and my mother raised me to adulthood.

My mother is blind.

She can't see, she can only rely on her hearing and touch.

The son has cerebral palsy.

Because of his brain disability, the son has no mobility and can only lie in bed day and night.

When Nian brought Zhan Xiuchen to this family's house, the mother was making stir-fried pork for her son.

Because she was blind, Mom accidentally cut her hand while chopping vegetables.

Blood flowed out.

But the mother didn't tell her son, fearing he would worry.

Although my son has cerebral palsy, he still has feelings.

After cooking, the mother fumbled to feed her son, saying, "Baby, eat. Baby, eat."

Even though my son is already quite grown up.

But no matter how old they are, in their mother's heart they are still children.

The son said, "Mom, eat! Mom, you eat, you've worked hard!"

Because of cerebral palsy, her son also has intellectual disabilities, but he still knows how to care for his mother.

Upon hearing this, the mother shook her head vigorously, saying, "Mom won't eat it. Mom hates meat the most. Meat has a fishy smell. Mom only likes sweet potatoes. Meat is not tasty at all."

Just as Nian led Zhan Xiuchen in, those words reached their ears.

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