Xia Wenxi returned to her room that evening and received a call from Minghuan. She had just finished her performance and hadn't changed out of her clothes yet. She called as soon as she saw the WeChat message.

"Wenxi, thank you so much. You even made such a detailed guide. I... I don't know what to say."

She just opened the document and glanced at it. Although she didn't look at it carefully because of time constraints, she could tell at a glance that it was made with great care. There were several places that she had never been to since she came to Fan City. She would never have thought of these places when she was asked to take her parents to play.

"That's only right. We'll all be family from now on. Of course we should welcome your parents properly. My dad did most of the planning. My parents are very happy and are just waiting for you to come."

"Nothing is a given. Wenxi, please tell your uncle and aunt for me. I'll thank them in person next time we meet."

—Huanhuan, why haven't you changed your clothes yet? Everyone's gone.

"Minghuan, are you still busy?"

Xia Wenxi heard the voice on the receiver, glanced at the time, and realized it was already past eight o'clock in the evening. She had spent about an hour in the home gym after dinner before going upstairs.

Minghuan told her colleague she would be right there, and talked to Xia Wenxi as she walked out.

"I've finished my work for today, but tonight a colleague is having a birthday party, so we're all going out to dinner together."

"Then go ahead, Minghuan. See you on Saturday!"

"Okay, see you on Saturday."

Minghuan hung up the phone and quickly went to change her clothes. There were only a few colleagues still standing outside waiting for the car.

"Huanhuan, you're here? The cars they called have all arrived and left to order food. I also hailed a seven-seater car, which is just right to take all five of us together."

There are five more people, four girls and one boy. Five people can't fit in a taxi, and a seven-seater car would be a bit slower, but they can all go together.

"OK."

Minghuan smiled, tightened the scarf around her neck, and stepped forward to stand with them on the roadside to wait for the car to come.

There were four girls, including An Yun. When Ming Huan came over, An Yun was talking to two other girls. After their eyes met, they just nodded awkwardly and didn't say anything.

At this moment, the girl who had been greeting Minghuan inside teased her with a smile, "Huanhuan and her boyfriend have such a good relationship. She called before she even changed her clothes after rehearsal."

Minghuan smiled and said truthfully, "It wasn't my boyfriend's phone, it was my boyfriend's sister's phone."

Actually, Minghuan didn't need to say the second half of the sentence. She didn't need to explain to her colleagues who was calling so clearly, but she said it anyway.

Sure enough, as soon as she finished speaking, her colleague said, "You still call your boyfriend's sister? I'm married and I haven't contacted my husband's sister much. I heard you say 'see you on Saturday' earlier and thought it was your boyfriend."

"My parents are coming on Saturday, and both families will have dinner together."

The car hadn't arrived yet, and everyone was bored standing by the roadside waiting. Just then, they heard Minghuan's words, and everyone started asking her questions all at once.

"Both sets of parents have met. Are they here to discuss the wedding? When are you planning to hold the wedding? Don't forget to invite us!"

"Don't worry, I'll definitely remember you when I get married. But my parents aren't here for that. They're just here for a visit."

My sister just called about my parents' visit; they even did some research on it, something I hadn't even thought of myself.

"This shows that the other family values ​​you, isn't that great?"

"Exactly. When I went back to meet my ex-boyfriend's family, not only did his parents not come to pick me up, but we also ate leftovers from lunch that night. The only thing they cooked that night was two plates of frozen dumplings."

"Seriously? You can tolerate this?"

"Of course not, I bought a ticket and came back right then, so he's my ex-boyfriend."

As they chatted and laughed, the car arrived. Minghuan got on first and took a seat in the last row. An Yun got on later and also sat in the last row next to Minghuan.

The front passenger seat was occupied by a boy, while the other two girls sat in the middle.

"Weiwei posted the menu in the group chat. Let us take a look. Send us the dishes you want to order so we can order them first. Please take a look too."

After they finished speaking, the three people in front started looking at the menus on their phones to figure out what to order, while Minghuan and Anyun in the back row seemed to be sitting in some kind of protective barrier, and neither of them said a word.

Minghuan was looking at the dishes in the menu photos when she suddenly heard the person next to her say, "Were you talking to me about what you just said?"

“You never used to say how good Xia Wensheng was to you, or how good his parents were to you.”

The three people in front were still chattering away, and no one noticed the conversation between the two women behind them.

"I suddenly felt like saying this today. They have been really good to me, better than I ever imagined. I don't know what will happen in the future, but what I should do now is accept and reciprocate, instead of thinking about what will happen if things change in the future. Don't you agree?"

"What are you two talking about? I didn't see you ordering food."

The girl in the front row turned around and started talking to the person who came over. Minghuan shut up and stopped talking. She turned her attention back to the menu, randomly picked two dishes that looked pretty good, and sent them to the group chat.

"You're right."

As Minghuan was getting off the bus, she suddenly heard those words.

Minghuan thought that her conversation with An Yun had come to an end, but she didn't expect to receive another message from her after returning home that evening.

The last time the two had a message exchange was more than a month ago, and it was about work.

[I was angry with you before, and those things I said were actually driven by selfish motives. I've always had an awkward personality, unlike you who can make good friends anywhere. You always have a good temper and rarely get angry. Compared to you, I'm truly a dark-hearted person. After coming here from Jinjiang, I temporarily became your best and closest friend. But I didn't expect you to get a boyfriend so quickly. You'll spend a lot of time with him, and later, you even became good friends with your boyfriend's sister. You'll be family and friends from now on, even closer than our previous friendship. I was a little jealous, and I'm sorry.]

I don't ask for your forgiveness, nor do I expect our relationship to return to what it was before. I just wanted to say this: I wish you happiness, but perhaps you don't need my blessing; you've always been happy.

Minghuan did not reply after reading the message.

She thought that An Yun probably didn't need her reply.

Just as she said, their relationship could never go back to what it was before. An Yun always said that she had a good temper and rarely got angry, and she still says that now.

But she still doesn't understand her enough. Many times, she doesn't get angry because the other person doesn't need to.

She once considered An Yun her most important friend.