Lu Yi reached out and stroked the black and white photo, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"I've already planned out my money. I can work at a bubble tea shop during the summer vacation to save some money, and then I can do that during the winter vacation..."

Having been reborn, I can only rely on myself.

My uncle has a chronic illness, and his meager salary is barely enough for him to live on and take his medicine. How could I possibly take his retirement money?

Once you turn 18, you'll have more part-time job options.

He is not only capable of supporting his own living and academic expenses, but it is also not impossible for him to take care of his uncle in his old age.

In short, life will only get better after leaving the Lu family.

"Mom and Dad, I miss you so much!"

Lu Yi leaned forward, pressed his face against the cold tombstone, and hugged it tightly.

Just like they used to hold him in their arms and tell him to come home early.

"Lu...Yi...I've finally found you!"

A heavy sigh pulled Lu Yi back to reality from his distant memories.

Lu Yi lowered his head slightly, and when he looked up again, the warmth from before was gone, replaced by endless coldness in his eyes.

"Miss Lu!"

He stood up and looked around.

The sun hung precariously over the mountaintop, and a breeze had begun to blow through the cemetery.

"What, you think you're all grown up just because you escaped the hospital?"

Lu Baoyun glared at him defiantly, but then she noticed the two photos on the tombstone and her attitude softened.

Call me whatever you want, I didn't come to this godforsaken place today to argue with him.

"Lu Yi, we've prepared a new room for you. If you'd like to stay here for a few days to keep Uncle Lu company, your parents have no objections..."

"Hmph, do they even have the right to offer opinions?"

Lu Yi tilted his chin up, as if he had heard a funny joke.

"Lu Yi, your parents treat all children equally. It's your fault for having too many bad habits and misbehaviors in the past, which made your older sisters worry."

Tiny habits? Bad habits?

Are they still living in fear?

Lu Yi walked a little further away, not wanting his adoptive parents in the afterlife to see this scene.

“Lu Baoyun, I’m asking you, apart from mealtimes, when have you ever seen me enter the main building?”

One sentence is enough to prove one's innocence.

However, Lu Yi in his previous life felt that as a family, there was no need to escalate the matter to the point of pursuing a "complete chain of evidence".

This was the first time Lu Baoyun had heard her name called out by Lu Yi.

And he bit so hard, it was as if he had polished the words with his teeth several times before kicking them out from between his teeth.

Lu Baoyun was stunned, staring blankly at his lean and handsome profile.

Yes! At the time, everyone pointed the finger at Lu Yi, but no one actually saw him "commit the crime".

But Lu Yi wasn't this magnanimous before, was he?

No matter who criticizes him, he would just respond, never arguing back like he does now.

"Even if you haven't been inside... so what? Does that change the fact that you have Lu family blood in your veins?"

At this point, Lu Baoyun's face turned red with anger.

She could have enjoyed herself at the banquet, so why did she have to keep him on her mind and come all this way to be mistreated?

Lu Yi smiled wryly, "That's not the point... it's that you can't distinguish right from wrong, and you don't understand the situation. You can leave now, I need to go back and change my dressing!"

What governs human choices and behavior? The answer is cognition.

No matter how much you talk to someone whose understanding is not on the same level, it's like casting pearls before swine.

Lu Baoyun stretched out her arms, blocking his way.

She stuffed the gifts, the black card, and the "cats" she had drawn into his arms while quickly speaking.

"This white shirt you like the most, the painting I did overnight, and... this black card, you can use it unlimited times, as much as you want, buy whatever you want."

Lu Yi narrowed his eyes and looked at the scene for a moment, using the last rays of the setting sun.

"Thanks a lot!"

Lu Baoyun breathed a sigh of relief and was about to say "It's not hard work," but before she could say those three words, everything floated up in front of her and scattered on the ground.

The black card that so many people dream of lies lying in the grass nearby, among withered leaves and weeds.

The cat in the painting looks pitiful as it's swept up by the wind.

The knot of the gift box was wide open, and a white shirt was tucked behind a tombstone, covered in grass dust.

He really... doesn't care anymore!

Lu Baoyun stood there, stunned, unable to recover for a long time.