Before her afternoon nap, Liu Jing sat on a small stool in her room eating the cupcakes that Lu Ying had brought back.

Disposable paper cups are filled with cake bases, the rims are smoothed with cream, and there are cream flowers and patterns on top.

It cost only one yuan, but it was her entire childhood dream in her previous life.

She carefully scooped out the cream from the edge of the flower and ate it, waiting for Lu Ying to come back after washing her face.

"Did my darling not eat enough for lunch? You're all covered in gravy again!"

Liu Jing put down her spoon, jumped off her stool, and ran towards Lu Ying, calling out, "Mommy!"

The woman picked up a tissue and gently wiped her little face, her eyes full of tenderness and love. "My little darling, you've got food all over your face!"

Liu Jing let her wipe her, but inwardly she was arguing with her.

It's all because the spoon was too big. Even though she opened her mouth as wide as she could, the cream on the spoon still got on her face.

After the woman finished wiping, Liu Jing pulled Lu Ying's hand and sat her down on a small stool. "Give this to Mom."

She held up the paper cup and pointed to the complete cream flower.

Lu Ying was slightly taken aback, her heart softening with warmth. She leaned over and kissed the little dumpling's cheek, "Thank you, Jingjing. How can Mommy's little darling be so thoughtful!"

Liu Jing nestled into her mother's warm embrace, her sweet little voice saying, "Mommy saves all the good food for Jingjing, and Jingjing should also share her favorite foods with Mommy."

The little dumpling was so heartwarming and sensible that Lu Ying's heart had already melted completely.

After a moment's hesitation, I finally voiced the idea that I had already had for a long time.

"Baby, Mommy and Daddy have separated. Would you like to change your name?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Jing paused, then quickly looked up at the woman, "Jingjing will listen to her mother."

After saying that, she tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said, "Then Mommy will give Jingjing a nice name."

The little dumpling's tilted head and pouting face was so cute that Lu Ying couldn't help but smile. She pinched the tip of Jingjing's fair and delicate nose and said, "Okay, Mom will give Jingjing a nice name."

She paused for a moment and then said, "'First Sunshine', is it good? Does Jingjing like it?"

After the rain...

The first glimpse of the sun and clouds, and the clear sky shines eternally.

The little dumpling hugged Lu Ying tightly and happily replied, "I like it!"

The woman hugged her tightly, her eyes full of affection, "Okay, from now on, Jingjing will be renamed Chuqing."

"Yes! Thank you, Mom!"

Actually, from the beginning, Lu Ying had already thought of the name "Chu Qing" for Liu Jing.

Liu Fengming complained incessantly about the household registration issue for Liu Jing, saying it was a waste of time and he wouldn't earn any money. But then he took a phone call and disappeared without a trace.

When he returned in the middle of the night, he was completely drunk. Just as Lu Ying had put Xiao Liu Jing to sleep, he woke her up again with all the noise. The little one cried, and the scoundrel of him made a scene.

She single-handedly comforted the baby and then took care of the older one, only finding peace when she was on the verge of collapse.

The next morning, Liu Fengming was still a little groggy before leaving home. Lu Ying told him many times the "first" in "first time" and the "sunny" in "sunny day".

At the time, he responded perfunctorily with "uh-huh" and "yeah," complaining that she was long-winded and annoying.

When the staff asked him his name, he racked his brains for a long time and seemed to remember the character "静" (jing), but he couldn't recall the character before it.

Urged by the staff, he casually said "Liu Jing". When Lu Ying saw it after he returned, she was dumbfounded.

When questioned, Liu Fengming shoved her to the ground, his eyes wide and veins bulging on his forehead, and said fiercely, "That's my daughter, Liu Fengming's daughter! I say what she's called, and that's it! You're just someone who eats and drinks at home all day and still makes such a fuss!"

It was during that incident that Lu Ying suddenly saw Liu Fengming's true colors. For the next few years, she only endured continuing to live with Liu Fengming because of Liu Jing.

But that's all in the past. Now she's divorced and carefree, and Jingjing is by her side. Everything will turn out well.

I had just mentioned to Lu Jun this morning that I wanted to find a new place to rent before Lu Chuqing started elementary school, and then her older brother brought it up again at lunch.

After some discussion, the elders decided that Lu Ying should move back home first.

It's summer vacation now, and Lu Chuqing won't be back to school for another month. Lu Chengyang will be taking care of her at home.

She just divorced Liu Fengming, so there's no guarantee that the scoundrel won't harass her again.

Lu Jun also goes home every day, and he can drive her back with him.

Upon hearing this, Lu Ying also felt that this was the best solution, and agreed.

After the hottest part of the afternoon, Lu Jun drove a small horse-drawn carriage borrowed from a fellow villager, taking Lu Ying and the two children to the old district to move things.

In Lu Chuqing's distant memory, she remembered that for a long time, she and Lu Ying lived in an old two-story building.

There was a grandparent living downstairs, and all three rooms upstairs were occupied. They lived in the innermost room, which was small and filled with their belongings. Sometimes when it rained, Lu Ying would put basins in several places in the room to catch the water.

Now, returning to this place again, she deeply appreciates the hardships Lu Ying endured during those years with her.

The houses in the old district are visibly dirty and old, with black and green paint on the walls and some even peeling.

That is, within the urban area, if not for this, it is not even comparable to the village on the outskirts of the city where the Lu family lives.

The road is so narrow that it's just wide enough for a car to pass, and pedestrians have to squeeze into the intersection and wait for the car to pass before they can walk.

Garbage was piled up haphazardly by the roadside, the stench was overwhelming, and flies and mosquitoes swarmed everywhere; it wasn't even as clean as the village, which was entirely made of dirt roads.

The house was the second one in the alley, and the horse-drawn carriage couldn't get in, so Lu Jun had the two children wait by the roadside while he and Lu Ying went up to pack their things.

Knowing that her small body couldn't help much, Lu Chuqing obediently nodded and let Lu Chengyang hold her little hand as she sat in the driver's seat to play.

There were no trees along the roadside, and it was hot with no wind, so the children sweated a lot.

Before long, Lu Chuqing's face turned red from the heat, and her whole body was soaked with sweat.

Lu Chengyang was also hot. Seeing that the collar of her short-sleeved shirt was soaked with sweat, he picked her up without saying a word and found a shady place to cool off.

The street where Lu Ying rented a house was lined with one or two-story bungalows, and there was hardly any shade. Lu Chengyang turned around and took the little dumpling to the alley across the street to cool off.

The houses here are old-style apartment buildings, and their condition is not much better than the bungalows across the street.

As soon as they reached the shady spot, Lu Jun came down first carrying two large bags and said to Lu Chengyang across the road, "Chengyang, go upstairs and help your aunt with her things."

"Okay! Got it."

The young boy patted Lu Chuqing's head and said to her seriously, "Qingqing, stay here and don't run around. I'm going to get something, and we'll be leaving in a little while."

As he spoke, he pulled two strawberry-flavored lollipops out of his pocket and stuffed them into her hand.

Lu Chuqing is no longer a child who likes sweets, but Lu Chengyang put the candy in her hand and ran away, disappearing in the blink of an eye, so she had no choice but to give up.

I don't know if it's going to rain, but it's unusually hot and there's not a breath of wind.

Even in the shade, Liu Jing still felt as if she were trapped in a steamer.