Su Zhiruan stood straight, holding an umbrella in her hand. The man lowered his head, buried his head in her shoulder, and put his coat on her, bringing her warm temperature. Her mind was blank.

To be honest, she really didn't expect Lu Peijing to appear here, appear in front of her, and say "Long time no see" to her.

"Lu Peijing?" She shook her body, trying to wake up the man who was immersed in it, "Why are you here?"

"I..." Lu Peijing was led by her to the eaves, and saw her shaking the umbrella, shaking all the water droplets to the ground. He remained silent. Of course, he couldn't say that it was just for her. She had decided to leave him before. If she knew, she would definitely run to a place farther away from him. He thought about it and finally said, "Something happened here, so I came."

Su Zhiruan nodded in understanding. Come to think of it, Lu Peijing was a busy man. If he had something to do, it would be impossible for him to come to this small city.

The two stood side by side, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Even though, half a month ago, they had made love on the bed in the Golden Waterside Pavilion, and before that, she gave birth to his child, and they had been together for more than a year, but now, after the termination of their contractual relationship, they were no different from the most familiar strangers.

In the end, it was Su Zhiruan who spoke first, "How are Mingzhu and the others? They should have grown up a little."

"Grown up," Lu Peijing took out his phone and opened the photo album, "Our child is getting more and more adorable. I took a lot of photos. Let's take a look."

Su Zhiruan was stunned for a moment. When Lu Peijing said the words "our children", it was so natural. If someone didn't know them, they might really think they were a family. She lowered her long eyelashes like crow feathers and looked at the three children in the album with Lu Peijing.

Mingzhu was wearing a light pink dress with small floral patterns. She was crying in the middle of the room. Her little face was wrinkled and tears were falling like raindrops. Her left and right hands were grabbing the corners of her two brothers' clothes respectively.

"The one on the left is Qinghe, and the one on the right is Qingyuan. The eldest is steady and the second is naughty." Lu Peijing pointed at her, but his eyes never left Su Zhiruan. In a place where she couldn't see, his expression was full of relief. As for what he was relieved for? He didn't know, but at this moment, his heart seemed to have found a home, and he felt stable and peaceful.

"Thank you for letting me see the children's photos again." Su Zhiruan hadn't seen her children for a long time. She was reluctant to leave, and all the intertwined emotions burst out at this moment.

She looked at the photo. Qinghe on the left was sitting upright with his little hand on his sister's hand that was pulling at the corner of his clothes. His mental state was stable. Qingyuan on the other side was struggling and twisting as if trying to escape from his sister's clutches.

"What about you? How have you been lately?" Lu Peijing let her flip through the photo album. His current album was full of photos of his three children, as well as the secretly taken photos of Su Zhiruan. However, he had put the latter in a private album and would not let her see it.

Su Zhiruan smiled casually, "It went very smoothly. I used the money to buy a house and a car, and also found something that my grandma wanted to do. I just took the postgraduate written examination, and then I had nothing to do, just waiting for the results."

"Why didn't you choose a university in Jinghua? I remember that you graduated from Jinghua University, and the educational resources in Jinghua will be better." Lu Peijing knew that she was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, but he didn't expect that she would not choose those top universities in Jinghua, but chose a school in this relatively remote small city. "The previous contract... You can go to Jinghua often to see the children. The children miss you too."

Lu Peijing looked into her eyes, unwilling to let go at all, as if he wanted to keep her firmly in his heart and never forget her.

The smile on Su Zhiruan's face faded a lot, and she said in a serious tone, "Since the contract has been completed, let it go. The three children are the blood of the Lu family. I hope Mr. Lu will take good care of them. As for me and grandma, we will just stay in this warm little city for the rest of our lives."

"Mr. Lu, you must have something important to do here. I won't waste your time. I still have to bring an umbrella to grandma!" Su Zhiruan smiled again, shook the umbrella in her hand, then opened her own umbrella and prepared to leave.

At this time, heavy rain came down.

She had a slender figure, and wrapped in his coat, she looked very thin and frail, making people want to take good care of her.

Su Zhiruan also walked out two steps before she realized that she had forgotten to return the coat, so she stepped back, put the umbrella aside, took off her coat and handed it to Lu Peijing, thinking about returning it to him and leaving quickly, she said, "Mr. Lu, your--"

The next second, she was grabbed by the arm by the man, and before she could react, she was pushed against the glass wall behind her. She widened her eyes and was about to say something, but in the blink of an eye, a sullen kiss fell on the corner of her lips.

"You - ah!" Su Zhiruan stared at him with wide eyes and stretched out his hand to hit him.

Lu Peijing pressed down very hard and heavily, and his movements were very violent, but his arms held her from beginning to end to prevent her from being hit by the wall behind her.

"Let go of me--" Su Zhiruan was still trying to argue, but she found that because of her words, the man took a step further.

Lu Peijing found that he must have fainted from anger, or perhaps he had completely given up everything. At this moment, he didn't care about anything and couldn't see anything, whether it was the sky or the earth, the heavy rain, or the occasional surprised eyes of passers-by, he completely ignored them.

He just wanted to shut up this little mouth and not let her say words as sharp as knives, cutting him all over.

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Lu Peijing took the black coat and put it on her while her legs were weak. He held her in his arms and wrapped her in the coat, as if he was wrapping up a rare treasure, the thing he cherished most, and he didn't want others to covet or spy on it.

"Su Zhiruan," he stopped moving suddenly without knowing when. He looked seriously at the dizzy girl in his arms. Her cheeks were flushed and her expression was distracted because of the action just now. He supported her and his cold voice, accompanied by the sound of ripples, entered her ears, "I like you."

Su Zhiruan's eyes suddenly widened. She really didn't expect to hear him say this, "You——"

She couldn't believe it and even suspected that Lu Peijing was drunk or had taken the wrong medicine.

But Lu Peijing was very serious. He looked at her without blinking and repeated, "I like you, not because I'm drunk, not because I lost the truth, not because I was in a spur of the moment, but because I've been thinking about it for a long time."

(End of this chapter)