Chapter 667: The Story in the Story

The painting that I accidentally glimpsed at night is now held in my arms.

Ding Li arched his back and used a gentle face to hide his inner restlessness. He had waited for her for a long time and finally waited for this moment.

His eyes followed Lin Yiyi's lips as he listened to her talk about her past.

In fact, Ding Li had guessed a long time ago from her silence and her circumstances that her past life was not good.

All the shortcomings are hidden by indifference, but the body is full of traces of indifference.

Lin Yiyi’s acting skills of being good at embellishing her words can fool most people, but she cannot fool those who have already seen through her.

"Yiyi, would you like to play a game with me?" Compared to the bitterness in his heart, Ding Li wanted her to let it go more.

The topic suddenly changed too quickly, so Lin Yiyi followed his words and said, "What game?"

It was the first time she was so close to him. His broad embrace felt both strange and reassuring to her.

Ding Li looked into her eyes and slowed down his low voice, "Addition and subtraction game, I will realize for you all the happiness that money can buy.

Every time you are happy, you forget one past unhappiness. "

"..." Who does he think he is? How dare he speak so arrogantly and calmly?

Lin Yiyi was stunned for a moment, caught off guard by his words like a wave. She quickly avoided his gaze for fear of revealing her confidence.

Why should all the helplessness and grievances buried deep in my heart be dug out just because of his game?

She held back the sourness in her nose and disguised it with a cold face, "I don't want to play this game."

Although his tone was cold and distant, his eye sockets were red and itchy, instantly blurring her vision, so that she didn't have to turn her head away to avoid his eyes that could see everything.

How could he be so annoying that he was so unqualified as a boyfriend.

Ding Li said nothing, but just hugged her tightly with heartache, letting her sob secretly in his neck. Her tears rolled down, burning his neck and wetting his clothes.

He kept stroking her back and coaxing her in a low voice, “Yiyi, I didn’t mean to make you cry.

If your heart is filled with too much of the past, it will have no room for the future.

I can’t participate in your past, and I can’t go back to the past.”

"So, I can only make up for it in a way that you can see, hear, and feel."

"Who wants your compensation?" Lin Yiyi was a little annoyed by his thoughtfulness and gentleness. She was afraid that she would be completely trapped, so she stopped crying.

With red eyes, she looked at him with some self-abandonment, trying to scare him away with her snot and tears.

"...Eli, don't be too nice to me..."

"I'm not as good as you think."

Ding Li didn't answer her. He just lifted the hem of his T-shirt with one hand to wipe her tears. "I'm not as good as you think."

"You're fine."

"stupid..."

As soon as the word fell, Ding Li bent down and kissed her instinctively, and held her lips without any instruction. Lin Yiyi didn't expect that her first kiss would be after her tears and snot had flowed. Her heart was in a mess, and she was in a mess.

Fortunately, it was just a quick kiss.

......

After the two people established a relationship, except that they were a little closer when they were together in private, everything else was the same as before.

She is still a maid and he is still Master Ding.

However, it feels a bit like trying to cover up one's own faults. The dozen or so servants in the Ding family are not blind. At the request of housekeeper Mo, they have already treated Miss Lin as the future mistress.

After Ding Li became her fiancé, he could do things with a legitimate reason. As the New Year was only a week away, he was afraid that she would feel pressured, so he privately asked someone to rush to make two formal suits for Lin Yiyi.

The size was secretly measured when he was holding her.

"Yiyi, how about you come with me to Aoshi during the New Year? I want to introduce you to grandpa."

Lin Yiyi hesitated: "…Isn't this too fast? We've only been dating for a few days."

Why do you have to meet the parents when you are in a private relationship?

"You also know that my father and mommy have a strained relationship, and it hasn't eased for several months.

Mommy is alone at grandpa's house during the New Year. As a younger generation, I must go to her to wish her a happy new year, but I also want to be with you. Can you squeeze out a day off for me?"

During the New Year, Lin Yiyi actually just stayed in her room to rest. She had nowhere to go, but she didn't have any suitable clothes to wear to meet her elders, and she couldn't buy them at this time.

So I could only refuse again.

However, her refusal was instantly ineffective when Ding Li took her to the guest room on the second floor.

Looking at the two skirts hanging in the guest room closet, Lin Yiyi was a little surprised. She tilted her head and asked him, "Is this for me? When did you prepare it?"

Ding Li measured her fingers and wrists inconspicuously with his hands. "After you agreed to give me a name, I asked someone to make one for you. One is a cheongsam and the other is a dress. Try them on to see if they fit you."

Lin Yiyi held the skirt in the mirror and knew it would fit her without having to put it on. She knew he was a considerate boyfriend, but she didn't expect him to be so considerate.

"Eli, I seriously doubt that this is your first time in love, otherwise how could you arrange everything so perfectly?"

Her wrists were so thin, Ding Li pursed his lips and smiled, "This is my first time in love, and I can do things so carefully thanks to my father's teachings.

When you ask a question, you have to come up with the answer yourself; when you make a request, you have to plan things ahead of time.

Otherwise it will just create trouble and cause confusion for others.”

“…”Parents who have teaching experience really save themselves the trouble.

Lin Yiyi enjoyed his thoughtfulness and pretended to be reserved, "Since you are ready, I will make time for you during the New Year."

......

New Year’s Eve in 1977, in a sea area in South Asia.

Zhao Sheng stayed here for almost a week. It was the first time for him to travel so far for work. He gained a lot of experience and received a lot of commission.

The world outside is completely different from our previous life, it is more bloody, violent and cruel.

After receiving the goods on the third day of the Lunar New Year, a group of fully armed and masked men returned to the port by boat.

After the goods were delivered to the employer, the "Li" branch distributed the commissions in proportion. Zhao Sheng had nowhere to go during the New Year and could only stay in the rented house. However, he was not idle either. In addition to practicing boxing every day, he also taught himself the language.

He doesn't want to get paid less for doing the same job just because of a language barrier.

He didn't go out much before the Lantern Festival, but Yang Wanchun came to him and had a drink with him.

"Brother Zhao, I have something to do after the New Year. I don't have to hang out on the streets every day anymore."

Seeing that he didn't respond, Yang Wanchun continued to talk to himself with a smile, "Do you know what the job is? A patrol officer!"

Zhao Sheng glanced at him. He was just a street urchin who took off his hat and collected coins from street vendors when he had nothing to do.

"I haven't achieved much, but I am content to have this set of clothes." Yang Wanchun raised his white wine glass, clinked it with his, and drank it in one gulp, enjoying it very much.

When the two of them were drinking, Yang Wanchun was the one talking nonstop most of the time, while Zhao Sheng kept silent, only occasionally giving a glance or two.

Time flies quickly during holidays when we have free time, and before we know it, it’s the Lantern Festival.

Ever since Lin Yiyi visited the Huo family in Australia on the first day of the Lunar New Year, she has been impressed by the appearance of the Huo family members.

There are more than a dozen cousins, each of them is extraordinarily handsome and has the charm of his age.

And his cousins ​​are all very good-looking, making Ding Li look a little ordinary in comparison.

Although Ding Li was mentally prepared, he still felt a little suffocated when he saw Lin Yiyi dazed as if she was strolling in a garden.

Fortunately, I only stayed there for a few hours, and after lunch I took her back to Hong Kong in a hurry.

For some reason, Ding Li became less and less confident in front of her, and always felt that he could not attract her full attention.

Lin Yiyi is not a flower maniac. It's okay for her to look at a handsome man a few more times. Besides, she has been seeing Ding Li for so long that she has become immune to him.

The Lantern Festival is Lin Yiyi’s birthday, and Ding Li took some time to celebrate for her.

Because of what she called her secret relationship, the birthday celebration was just for the two of them.

Dunmi Road in the urban area of ​​the Peninsula.

Lin Yiyi was so tired after climbing nine floors that she was panting. She felt that her physical fitness was poor. She tugged at his clothes and muttered, "Eli, I'm talking about private love, not physical love."