He involuntarily took a half step back and said somewhat awkwardly, "I like her. She is the most beautiful in my heart, and no one can compare to her."

"What do you like about her? What makes her better than me?"

"...I love everything about her. She's perfect in every way, without any flaws."

Please, stop asking. He's already tried his best to protect her self-esteem!

His smile is like a fairy, and ordinary girls in the mortal world are not even worthy of being her maids!

There's absolutely no comparison!

“I’m leaving. Go back and talk to your parents. It’s not a big deal. They’re all neighbors, there’s no need to make things too ugly.”

After saying that, Han Yunqi ignored Cai Qinghe and ran away without waiting for her to say anything more.

He couldn't care less what the Cai family planned to do next, and the Han family wasn't afraid of them causing trouble anyway. Although his family was somewhat in the wrong, it wasn't a big deal, and it wouldn't sound bad if word got out. After all, oddballs were a minority, and he probably couldn't find another family like the Cai family in the entire D City.

He fled back to his own home, and as soon as he entered the house, he began to complain to his mother.

"Look what you've gotten yourself into! You almost got your son killed!"

After hearing Han Yunqi recount his experiences at the Cai family, Guo Mingli's face contorted with rage.

"Pah! Those two shameless old hags, I'm going to give them a piece of my mind!" Guo Mingli rolled up her sleeves and was about to walk outside when Han Shiping frowned and said, "Can you just shut up? It's the New Year, don't you care about bad luck? Stay away from that family in the future, and stop gossiping with their wife."

Han Shiping knew very well that when Guo Mingli had nothing to do, she liked to stand at the door and gossip with a group of women from the neighborhood, talking about everything under the sun. He hated those gossipy women the most.

Guo Mingli ultimately felt that the matter was her fault, and under the resentful gaze of her son and the reproachful look of her husband, she awkwardly shut her mouth.

However, he secretly resolved that he would find an opportunity to teach the Cai family a lesson after the New Year.

......

While the customs of the Chinese New Year vary slightly across different regions, the level of celebration is uniform throughout the country.

Every year, the Han family would return to their hometown on the 30th of the lunar calendar. On the first day of the new year, the whole family would have a meal at Grandpa Han's house. From the second to the fifth day of the new year, they would visit relatives almost every day. Han Shiping was filial and valued rules. Although he was not valued by his parents when he was young because he went into business and had a rather unpleasant falling out with his family, he never missed the annual etiquette and maintained a superficially warm relationship with his brothers.

Han Yunqi's maternal grandparents had passed away long ago. Guo Mingli's family situation was a bit complicated. She had two older brothers, but they did not share the same parents. Both brothers were born to Guo's father's ex-wife. Guo Mingli's mother and father were remarried. Guo Mingli had not been close to her two brothers since childhood, and after her parents died, they completely lost contact with each other and had not been in touch for many years.

So every year, their family only needs to visit their relatives on the Han family's side.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Han Yunqi sat idly on the sofa at his grandfather's house in K City, playing a game on his phone while waiting for the annual family reunion dinner.

Tang Xiaoxiao was busy celebrating the New Year with her family and didn't have time to pay attention to him.

K City is Han Yunqi's hometown, a county under the jurisdiction of D City, more than 80 kilometers away from Han's home.

The Han family is a large family. Grandpa Han and Grandma Han had five sons, and the five sons then gave them five grandsons.