Old house.
"She's lost weight, so much weight." Seeing Yu Wan again after half a month, Uncle Liu felt heartbroken. He took out a white handkerchief from his pocket and tremblingly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
"Really?" Yu Wan touched her cheek and chuckled. "The current trend is for a slender figure, this is just right."
Uncle Liu frowned: "It's better to be a little chubby. Being too thin is unhealthy. I'll have the kitchen make some soup these few days to try and help you regain your weight."
A smile appeared in Yu Wan's eyes: "Okay."
"Miss, you just got off the plane and haven't had breakfast yet, have you? I'll cook you a bowl of porridge now."
"No, I'm so sleepy right now." Yu Wan quickly grabbed his arm and made up a story: "I stayed up all night playing games last night, and now I just want to catch up on some sleep."
Uncle Liu frowned even more upon hearing this: "Then I'll heat up a cup of milk for you, so you can sleep better. You go upstairs and rest first, and I'll help you carry your suitcase up later."
Yu Wan was chased upstairs by Uncle Liu. Back in her bedroom, she took off her coat, lay down on the bed, and sent a group message to Tang Yue, Meng Shen, and Old Man Yu saying "Arrived home." Then she closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
When Uncle Liu came upstairs, he saw that she was so tired that she hadn't even taken off her clothes, and he felt a pang of heartache. He quickly turned on the air conditioner and adjusted the temperature to 28 degrees Celsius, drew the curtains, took off her shoes, covered her with a blanket, and then quietly left the house.
When we got downstairs, the phone rang in the living room. It was Yu Jianguo calling.
"Wanwan has been abroad for so long, she must not be eating well. Tonight, prepare her favorite spicy chicken, sour fish soup, and red wine braised beef..."
Yu Jianguo rattled off more than a dozen dishes. While he paused to drink water, Uncle Liu said, "I see that Miss has lost a lot of weight. Her diet should be mainly light, and she should have more nourishing soups. Heavy oil and spicy food may cause gastroenteritis, so let's wait a couple of days before making Sichuan dishes for her."
"Wanwan has lost weight? How much weight?" Yu Jianguo's voice suddenly rose as he paced anxiously, convinced that his daughter must have suffered a great injustice abroad. "I'll book a nutritionist right away and give Wanwan a proper makeover."
Uncle Liu agreed, saying, "Miss's health... wasn't very good to begin with, so finding a nutritionist would be a good idea."
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Yu Wan had no idea that Yu Jianguo and Uncle Liu had devised a weight-gain plan for her. When she woke up, it was already dusk. She closed her eyes to rest for a while before opening them again.
The phone kept ringing relentlessly.
Yu Wan swiped to answer the call, her voice low and irritable: "Hello?"
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone before someone cautiously asked, "Were you sleeping just now?"
"...Get straight to the point."
Meng Shenqing coughed twice before saying, "I heard you're back in the country, and everyone's planning a welcome party for you at the Ultraviolet Restaurant tomorrow night. It's settled then, I'll pick you up. The signal's bad, I...I'll...hang...up..."
Hearing the dial tone on the phone, Yu Wan's sleepiness completely vanished, and she got out of bed. After she finished showering and changed into her pajamas, there was a "knock knock knock" on her bedroom door.
Yu Wan dried her hair as she went to open the door.
"You've lost weight, my daughter, you've lost weight." Yu Jianguo said, tears streaming down his face. "You've suffered too much. How about we don't go on trips anymore? Even if we do go on trips, we'll bring a whole bunch of assistants with us."
Yu Wan paused for a moment. Given her father's personality, he was definitely capable of doing such a thing.
"Let me blow-dry your hair."
"?"
The topic changed too quickly, like a tornado.
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"Buzz..."
Yu Wan sat in front of the mirror, while Yu Jianguo stood behind her, the hairdryer in his hand buzzing.
"Do you remember? When we were little, our family was too poor to afford a hairdryer, so I used an electric fan to dry your hair." Thinking of the past, Yu Jianguo laughed: "It was okay in the summer, but in the winter, I would put a charcoal fire next to the bed, and you would be all tucked in under the covers with only your little head sticking out. At that time, I thought to myself, I must work hard to earn money and buy you a hairdryer."
Yu Wan raised an eyebrow: "Later you bought one at the second-hand market, but it started smoking as soon as you plugged it in, and you ended up losing fifty yuan. You were so angry that you had to go and reason with the person who sold it, and you even got into a fight. In the end, you ended up at the police station and were educated by the police officers for an hour."
“Fifty yuan is enough for my daughter and me to eat for a week. Aren’t we worried about getting sick?” Yu Jianguo pouted aggrievedly. “Every day I deliberately go to the market when it’s about to close to buy vegetables. There are plenty of vegetables and they’re cheap then. When I go to pick you up from school, I’m always the last one to leave.”
“The school was empty, and you stood quietly inside the iron fence without making a fuss, never uttering a single complaint.” Yu Jianguo choked up, his eyes welling up with tears again: “It’s Dad who’s sorry for you. I’ve made you suffer all these years.”
The room fell silent immediately.
Yu Wan lowered her eyelids, concealing the red in her eyes. After half a minute, she raised her eyes again, deliberately raising an eyebrow and adopting a nonchalant expression, asking teasingly, "Old man, are you plotting something?"
Yu Jianguo looked puzzled. What did he mean? Artificial intelligence.
"It's almost Chinese New Year, are you worried that I won't be home with you for the holiday, so you're playing the family card?"
"Aren't you planning to spend the New Year at home?" Yu Jianguo abruptly turned off the hairdryer, his mind a jumble of thoughts.
Yu Wan countered, "Where else would you go for the New Year if not at home?"
“With Tang Yue,” Yu Jianguo blurted out matter-of-factly.
Beware of fire, theft, and Tang Yue!
"..."
Yu Wan raised an eyebrow slightly, teasing him deliberately: "Then what should we do? I asked Tang Yue to come back for the New Year together."
Upon hearing this, Yu Jianguo breathed a sigh of relief and laughed out loud: "That's more like it. As long as you don't leave, anything is fine." Anyway, he was under his watchful eye at all times, so no matter what Tang Yue did, he couldn't cause any trouble.
He's so clever!
Yu Wan: "..." Fine, my dad's thought process is always different from normal people.
Soon, Yu Jianguo frowned again: "The guest rooms are all on the second floor, too close to you. No, I have to ask Uncle Liu to vacate a room on the first floor." The more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. He put the hair dryer on the table and hurriedly walked towards the door.
Yu Wan was taken aback.
What's the plot development now? Why can't she understand it?
etc.
Old man, are you just going to accept that I casually bring some random guy home for the New Year?
Are you really not going to stop it?
Just as Yu Jianguo was about to reach the door, Yu Wan quickly called out to him, "Old man."
Yu Jianguo stopped and turned around.
Yu Wan looked steadily into his eyes and smiled: "When I was little, the happiest thing for me was that you would pick me up from school every day." So, I never felt wronged.
Although life was tough, I was accompanied by my father's deep love as I grew up.
Yu Jianguo froze on the spot, his eyes slowly reddening. He wiped his face and muttered, "Tsk, really, how come there's so much dust in the house? Uncle Liu needs to send someone to clean it up properly."
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