Now with this hand warmer, she can sleep soundly.

"Yizhi, thank you so much." Such thoughtful concern made her heart warm.

"It's just a hand warmer, and Sister Wanrong is still so polite to me."

Liu Wanrong smiled and said nothing more, but she kept it in mind in her heart.

"The New Year is coming soon. Where do you plan to spend it? Going back home?" Shen Yizi asked after walking for a while.

"The Liu Mansion is no longer my home. Why should I go back? With the children by my side, I am not afraid of being lonely." Thinking of the children, Liu Wanrong couldn't help but smile.

After spending so much time with them, she had already regarded Xiao Zhao and the others as her own children.

"Sister Wanrong, do you only have the children in your heart? I was thinking of asking you to come over and keep me company on New Year's Eve. It's so sad." Shen Yizhi pretended to be heartbroken and made Liu Wanrong smile.

Looking at her smile, Shen Yizhi knew that her heart was alive again, but the pain in her heart would take time to heal.

"Sister Wanrong, why hasn't Brother Kang come to see you recently?" Shen Yizhizi brought it up casually.

She picked up a flat stone from the roadside and threw it into the lake, causing it to skip on the water.

The stone slid a long way, jumped on the water surface several times before stopping and sinking into the water.

It seems that she is quite good at skipping stones on water.

Liu Wanrong smiled, with a hint of bitterness in her smile, "I told him not to come to see me anymore."

Shen Yizhi looked puzzled.

"The last time he came to see me, he mentioned the marriage we had arranged. He said he wanted to take good care of me in the future."

Shen Yizhi said that this was almost like a proposal. Kang Wansheng had not married for so many years and had been a bachelor, which showed that he still couldn't let go of Sister Wanrong.

"How can I let him down again in my current state? From now on, I will treat Xiao Zhao and the others as my own children. I will take good care of them and watch them grow up. I will be satisfied."

Shen Yizhi couldn't agree with this, "Sister Wanrong, how are you now? How did you implicate him?"

Without waiting for Liu Wanrong to refute, she took out a small mirror with a handle and held it in front of her.

Liu Wanrong subconsciously turned her head away, not daring to look at herself in the mirror.

Ever since she escaped from Deng Biao's clutches, she has not looked in the mirror and usually covers the mirrors in the room with clothes.

In Shen Yizhi's eyes, this kind of behavior is just an expression of being unable to face himself.

However, severe cases require more drastic measures.

She did not give Liu Wanrong a chance to escape and moved the mirror in front of her, "Sister Wanrong, look at yourself."

Liu Wanrong slowly opened her eyes. In the mirror, she had fair and smooth skin and plump lips. Apart from a few fine lines at the corners of her eyes that exposed her age, there was no sign that she was a woman in her thirties.

He looked much better than she had imagined.

Is this her?

She reached out and touched her face in disbelief, and as a result, the white, slender hand came into her sight.

He is no longer the skinny and emaciated person I remember.

All of this is inseparable from her good eating, drinking, sleeping and nourishment from various cosmetics during this period.

With the company of her children, her heart came back to life. She no longer had the will to die, and her life became lively and enjoyable. When her mood improved, her complexion naturally improved.

Shen Yizhi pulled her to sit on a long wooden chair by the roadside, "Sister Wanrong, you see, right? You are now as beautiful as a flower, not older than a young girl, and even more mature. You will have a lot of good days ahead of you.

"You are now a teacher at the college. You have your own career and monthly salary. You can support yourself and buy whatever you want to eat and wear. If you want to live alone, that's great. There is no problem. The most important thing in life is to be happy.

"If you feel lonely, you can adopt a child or a dog to keep you company. If you are not happy here, you can go out for a walk, see the scenery elsewhere, and experience different customs and practices... The college will also give you a pension when you are old, so you don't have to worry about being alone in your old age."

Could life be lived like that? Liu Wanrong could not help but be attracted by the scene she described, her eyes full of longing and yearning.

Shen Yizhi continued, "As for other people's gossip, they have their own mouths and we can't stop them. But they can say whatever they want. Can you lose a piece of meat because of it? You live your life by yourself, not according to other people's wishes. Just do what you feel is good. If you find them annoying, just tell me directly. I have plenty of ways to deal with those gossipy villains!"

"Let's talk about Brother Kang. He hasn't married or had children in all these years. You think you've delayed him, right? You're totally wrong. He didn't marry because of you, but it was his own choice and has nothing to do with you.

"Let me give you a simple example. If a strange man likes you, but you don't like him, and after you reject him, he drinks every day to drown his sorrows and doesn't marry. Then, should you be blamed for this?"

Liu Wanrong said naturally: "It shouldn't be."

"You see, the difference between that strange man and Brother Kang is your attitude towards him. You care about Brother Kang, so you feel that you have delayed him and feel guilty towards him, but it is not the case at all. You can't let him go, but you are afraid that being with him will cause gossip from others, right? Then, in this matter, it is you, Sister Wanrong, who is wrong."

Liu Wanrong opened her eyes wide. How could she be wrong? "You two were interested in each other, but you didn't want him to be talked about by others, so you pushed him away and stopped seeing him. This was just you being nice to him in a self-righteous way. Have you ever asked him if he wanted this kind of kindness?"

"I..." Liu Wanrong was speechless. At that time, Kang Wansheng did say that he was not afraid of being talked about by others, and he did not care whether she was a virgin or not. He only had pity for her and wanted to take good care of her in the future and form a small family with her.

It was her. Thinking about the strange looks from the neighbors after she married him, thinking about how they would point fingers at him and say that he married a woman who had been played with by others...she couldn't help but push him away.