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After getting off the taxi, you have to take a bus, transfer several times, and then take another taxi to finally reach the edge of the town.

Jiang Yujin was in a daze after getting off the bus. The road was difficult to drive on, and he had vomited up almost everything he had eaten that day.

"Are you alright, Xiaojin?" Jiang Mo asked, noticing his pale face.

Jiang Yujin swallowed the acid that welled up in his throat, shook his head, and remained silent.

"I've booked a hotel, and it'll be a little further on the way. Can I manage?"

In recent years, the town has been talking about developing some kind of distinctive tourism, but the roads have been repaired again and again and they are still the same. By the time they get off the bus in the city, it is already dark, and they have to pay a high price to have a taxi taken to the town.

"It's so far, Jiang Mo, I'm so tired."

After a day of traveling, Jiang Yujin's patience was exhausted. After dark, the surrounding mountains were quiet, with only a few lights scattered throughout the town.

"Have some water, we'll be there soon."

Jiang Mo unscrewed the bottle of mineral water and handed it to him.

The motorcycles whizzed past them, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Cough cough cough... cough cough."

Jiang Yujin, who had just taken a sip of water, ended up with a mouthful of ash.

Ptooey! Ptooey!

Who is this, with such rudeness?!

Unable to see clearly on the dark road, Jiang Yujin wanted to curse but lacked the strength.

"Are you alright, Ozu?"

Jiang Mo took a wet tissue and wiped his dirty little face.

The pampered omega, who had always grown up spoiled, followed her back and suffered a lot.

"It's alright, let's keep going, Jiang Mo." Jiang Yujin didn't want to cause Jiang Mo any trouble, so she gritted her teeth and dragged her suitcase on.

He found even one suitcase too troublesome, so how did Jiang Mo, a girl, manage to bring back two urns containing ashes?

In Jiang Yujin's eyes, there is no difference between alphas and omegas; whoever is more capable should be listened to.

The omega waiting beside her initially sat on the bed with his knees drawn up, watching her pack. But in the blink of an eye, he closed his eyes and fell fast asleep without any warning.

He looks really exhausted.

Ignoring the unintentional complaint she made upon arriving in the town, the omega has made great progress by her side.

"good evening."

As she had done countless nights before, Jiang Mo covered him with the blanket, closed the door, and left.

They booked two single rooms, with Jiang Mo's room next door, so they could look after each other.

Jiang Yujin bombarded her with messages early in the morning, so she woke up early too.

Even though the room was right next door, Jiang Yujin insisted on sending the message.

Jiang Mo clicked on it and saw that it was all about "help, help!"

After reading the last sentence, Jiang Mo got up and went to the next room.

"I'm in? Xiao Jin?" Jiang Mo had a spare room card for his room. As soon as he opened the door, a pillow was thrown at her face, hitting the bullseye. In her ear, she heard Jiang Yujin's uncontrollable scream of fear.

"Ahhh, Jiang Mo, there's a cockroach! Help! Help! Stomp it to death!"

Jiang Yujin is a fearless man, except for the cockroaches, a special type of insect that inhabits the south.

He is very clean, and his house is regularly cleaned by maids and cleaners, so you can never see cockroaches.

"Jiang Mo, why are you only arriving now? I was so scared!"

Jiang Mo stopped Jiang Yujin, who was jumping around on the bed clutching the only pillow, and said, "Get out, go to my room, and call the hotel staff to handle this."

"No, Jiang Mo, you'll have some in your room later too, I'm not leaving!" The moment Jiang Yujin let go of the pillow, he grabbed her arm, showing a strong sense of shared hardship.

Jiang Mo couldn't separate himself from his suddenly clingy younger brother, and said helplessly, "Give me your phone."

The hotel owner personally apologized to them and offered to change rooms, but Jiang Yujin insisted on changing to a double room.

"Two separate beds. We're siblings, we're not related. I'm an omega and I haven't complained. Jiang Mo, what are you fussing about?"

To avoid damaging their hard-won sibling relationship, Jiang Mo compromised.

The luggage was placed in the new room, and Jiang Mo said that he would take him to pay respects at his biological parents' graves in the afternoon.

Jiang Yujin was feeling unwell yesterday due to motion sickness, but after a good night's sleep today, he felt energetic and found the ancient and simple town increasingly fascinating.

The town's morning market is bustling with people. Most of the vegetable vendors are elderly people with gray hair who are unwilling to give up their few acres of land and rely on selling vegetables as their source of income.

It only takes an hour to get to the city by motorcycle, which is quite convenient, but the roads are difficult to travel.

"That's our home."

She hasn't been back for five years.

Jiang Mo pointed to a dilapidated house with a locked yard and a rusty iron gate.

"I don't have the key, I can't get in." Jiang Mo laughed self-deprecatingly; the key had been buried underground with his parents' ashes.

Jiang Yujin was wrong back then; all things considered, she was the one who didn't have a home.

Jiang Mo bought some things for the memorial service. His parents' graves were on the mountain, and they climbed for quite a while.

The grave mound was covered with withered leaves and branches, along with rolling yellow soil.

A loving couple was buried together, and their names are engraved on their tombstone.

Is your surname Liang?

Jiang Yujin hesitated for a few seconds.

What a coincidence.

They bumped into each other.

Jiang Mo's expression remained calm: "Mom and Dad, we've come back to see you."

...

After burning the last piece of paper money, Jiang Mo kowtowed three times heavily in front of the grave.

Jiang Yujin had nothing to say. After Jiang Mo finished kowtowing, he followed suit and kowtowed three times as well.

Jiang Yujin treated his biological parents, with whom he had never lived, no differently than strangers. He didn't know what kind of people they were, their habits and hobbies, or their methods of disciplining children.

This is our first meeting.

Thank you for giving birth to me.

Jiang Yujin thought as he looked at the group photo on the tombstone.

Jiang Yujin's eyebrows and eyes resemble the woman in the photo, while the rest of her features resemble the man next to her.

They gave Jiang Yujin a handsome appearance so that he could gain popularity based solely on his looks, provided he didn't cause any trouble.

"Aren't you going to say a few words to them?"

Jiang Mo brought him back to his senses.

"No, Jiang Mo, are you done? Let's go back."

Jiang Yujin had already said everything he wanted to say in his heart.