She tugged at her thick coat and spoke silently.

"I can't walk in all these layers."

Qin Yan looked the other person up and down, feeling that they were still not dressed warmly enough. It was snowing outside, and he didn't want them to catch a cold and get a fever.

"Baby, you'll get cold. You can take it off when you get warmer inside the mall, okay?"

After careful consideration, Qin Yan spoke in a consultative manner. He didn't want her to take off her coat. Yun Nuan considered it for a while and then compromised. She didn't want to have a fever, and she still wanted to eat the food Qin Yan cooked.

She nodded. "Okay, okay, I'll listen to you."

Having received a satisfactory answer, he pulled on the seatbelt, fastened it for Yun Nuan, and started the car to head to the mall.

The festive atmosphere of the New Year is carefully decorated everywhere. Lanterns are hung on both sides of the road, and everywhere is filled with joyful red. Yun Nuan tilted her head and kept looking out the window. The unmelted snow on both sides and the bright red created beautiful scenes.

"The New Year is so wonderful," she murmured to herself, her eyes wide with delight. Especially when she followed Qin Yan into the supermarket, the lively drumming and background music, and the smiles on the faces of passersby.

Qin Yan grabbed her by the collar and pulled her back, but Yun Nuan followed the others and almost lost herself.

"Hold onto my clothes or hold my hand. There are too many people, don't get lost," Qin Yan said worriedly.

Yun Nuan stretched out her hand, her soft little hand outstretched, and playfully moved it as she spoke.

"This handsome gentleman, would you like me to hold your hand? There are a lot of people in the supermarket, and it's not very safe for a handsome guy like you to be out and about. So let me protect you."

A smile flickered in his eyes, his gaze tender and doting, his fingers intertwined with hers, his large hand and her small hand.

"Then you can protect me and not lose me."

Yun Nuan raised an eyebrow and smiled, "Of course!"

Yun Nuan began to stroll around the mall with the group, her excitement evident in every way, her eyes brimming with eagerness.

She would look at Qin Yan whenever she saw something interesting, and then Qin Yan would lead her over to it, only leaving after she had enjoyed it enough.

She liked the claw machine, but all the claw machines in the mall had been tampered with. Qin Yan secretly asked someone to find the owner to fix the machine.

She bought a hundred yuan's worth of coins and started grabbing them. She could grab at least three coins in ten tries. When she jumped up and onto Qin Yan with joy, it was hard to tell that she had been sick for a very long time.

Outsiders are saying that his actions might be going too far, and whether it's necessary to go to such lengths for someone. But what they don't know is that Yun Nuan being alive is the greatest blessing God could bestow upon him, so why not do something that could easily make someone happy?

Being perfunctory and being attentive are two completely different things.

When they reached the men's clothing store, Qin Yan grabbed her and took her away without even giving her a chance to see her, because Yun Nuan's last belongings were clothes, shoes, ties, brooches, and collar clips.

The whole set was delivered one a day. When Qin Yan received the gifts, he almost collapsed. The whole set looked like something he should wear to Yun Nuan's funeral.

From then on, he hid that outfit in a corner, unwilling to throw it away but also unwilling to see it, for seeing it would remind him of how he felt back then.

"Hey, Qin Yan, I was thinking of buying you some clothes! Don't walk so fast!"

Qin Yan immediately covered her eyes and led her away, replying in a somewhat unfriendly tone.

"No, I've been having a phobia about the clothes you've bought me lately. You can buy me more clothes when that phobia is gone."

"Okay, let's go to the supermarket then."

At the supermarket entrance, Qin Yan exchanged some coins and then pushed the shopping cart inside with her. Holding hands, they remained completely unaware of the person secretly filming them from a short distance away.

Michelle Wai had been secretly following the two since they started at the claw machine, taking many photos along the way and posting them to the socialite group. Naturally, the people in the group couldn't sit still.

Finally, they saw Qin Yan again. After his leg healed, Qin Yan rarely appeared in the public eye. The last time he appeared, he disappeared again for almost three months. With the New Year approaching, he was nowhere to be seen at any banquets, big or small. Some socialites began to get restless.

They were all wondering what kind of charm Yun Nuan possessed that made Qin Yan so devoted to her. They had initially thought that Yun Nuan's chances of a successful surgery were slim, but now she was alive and well, which made them both angry and resentful.

Some people even sent these photos to Yunxue. Everyone knows that Yunxue hates Yunnuan the most and never shows any friendliness towards Yunnuan in front of others. Cold ridicule and sarcasm are common for her.

Yunxue is experiencing the darkest moment of her life. Her mother, who claims to love her, actually only wants to use her to help the Yun family and Yunzhou.

She hates everyone: Yun Shanhe who cheated on her, Zhou Yue who was selfish, and Yun Zhou who never stood on her side. He had protected Yun Nuan when they were children, and now that they were adults, he could even abandon them.

She only now realizes that she is a joke, a blatant joke, not to mention that the Yun family is now in dire straits, and Yun Shanhe's mind has been tormented to the point of being somewhat abnormal.

Zhou Yue looked at her as if she were a cold person. She simply told Yun Xue that she would take Yun Shanhe abroad, and that she would no longer care about the lives of Yun Xue and Yun Zhou.

Perhaps she still had a shred of conscience left, because before leaving, Zhou Yue gave half of her savings to Yun Xue and then left S City without hesitation.

When Yunxue saw Yunnuan's photos, she turned the pages one by one without expression. The cause of the Yun family's current situation was never anyone else; she blamed all these misfortunes on Yunnuan.

She thought that following Zhou Yue in tormenting Yun Nuan would make the family more harmonious and happier, but in the end, she lost everything.

She has no home anymore.

She deleted all the socialites' contact information, which she should have done a long time ago, because she had been ridiculed by them a lot because of Zhou Yue's situation.

She was just tired and didn't want to bother with it anymore.

The page stopped at Yunzhou's contact information. They hadn't chatted in a long time. The last time was when she asked Yunzhou where he was, and Yunzhou sent her his location, and that was the end of it.

She planned to go find Yun Zhou. She didn't really need to stay in S City anymore; it was too big and too empty. She was no longer the Yun family's young lady whom everyone praised, and she could no longer bully Yun Nuan by calling her a sickly person.

Perhaps it was karma, but my phone pushed out news about Lin Yu, showing him walking the red carpet hand in hand with Jiang Miao, and everyone praised them as a perfect couple.

He was very happy, at least he had never smiled at himself like that before. "Rising star Lin Yu and promising young actress Jiang Miao walked the red carpet together, exchanging glances more than ten times. It was so sweet!"

The title is flashy, but the couple in the photo are a real couple, a fact that Lin Yu never hid when he debuted.

Yunxue was heartbroken. Even though Zhou Yue repeatedly forced her not to like Lin Yu anymore, she couldn't control herself. But now, seeing these news reports, she felt utterly desolate.

She remembered all of Lin Yu's preferences, but it seemed as if he had never truly known her, never properly called her name.