Chapter 21 Wish
"Why don't you go up?"
Li Hsin-chu's voice echoed from the corridor.
He was standing on the balcony making a phone call when he happened to see Ning Changyue getting off the car.
Of course, he also saw the man who got off the bus later, but he couldn't see his face clearly because he was far away. But he was probably good-looking. The man was wearing a white shirt and black trousers, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist and long legs. Judging from Li Hsin-chu's aesthetic taste for high-quality men, he had a very outstanding figure.
After the man drove away, Li Xinzhu thought Ning Changyue would come up right away, but he just stood stupidly on the side of the road holding the box given by the man.
After thinking about it, Li Xinzhu went downstairs on the pretext of throwing away garbage.
At this moment, he came out of the corridor carrying a bag of garbage and said, "Wait for me for a moment, let's talk."
After throwing away the trash at the trash can on the corner, Li Xinzhu stood next to Ning Changyue and said, "What do you think about what I told you last time?"
Ning Changyue moved her gaze to his face and said, "No."
Li Xinzhu was a little surprised and frowned, "Why not? You will be an adult soon, and you don't want to continue studying. You will have to find a way to support yourself in the future. What's wrong with being my assistant? Being my assistant, you have a high degree of work freedom. As for the salary, we are family, and I will definitely not treat you unfairly."
This was a spur-of-the-moment idea. This would never have happened in my previous life.
In his previous life, his relationship with Ning Changyue was not very good, and he was the one who was unilaterally hostile to Ning Changyue.
He was rather naive at that time and felt that Ning Changyue's stay in his home had taken away his mother's love, so he had always been at odds with Ning Changyue.
Although Ning Changyue is taciturn now and may not answer one out of ten questions, he was actually a very active person when he was young. He would snatch things from Li Hsinchu and also fight with Li Hsinchu.
But as I grew up, I never received any favoritism and gradually realized that I was just an outsider with an awkward position in this family. So I became more and more taciturn, even to the point of being autistic, and gradually became an invisible person at home.
From the mature perspective of a 38-year-old, Li Xinzhu feels that his cousin's life is actually not easy.
So he decided to help him regardless of past grudges.
Of course, the main reason is that Ning Changyue is really easy to use.
Since the night I was reborn, I would run to see him in the middle of the night just by receiving a phone call. For more than half a month afterwards, I accompanied him to and from get off work every night.
Although he gave me money, I had to wait for seven or eight hours every night and didn't go anywhere during that time. It would be a shame not to put such a man of his word to good use.
Li Hsin-chu will definitely become very famous in the future. He was stabbed in the back in his previous life because the people around him were not loyal enough.
Ning Changyue is a very good candidate for training. His family has already taken care of him, and Li Hsinchu will give him the best salary in the future. There is no reason for Ning Changyue not to help him seriously.
It's okay to be quiet and reticent; it can actually help you keep secrets better.
In the future, you can even use character flaws as a selling point to create a brotherly and friendly image.
As early as early September, Li Hsin-chu had mentioned this suggestion to Ning Chang-yue, but Ning Chang-yue did not respond at the time, so Li Hsin-chu asked him to think about it carefully.
After that, I had a lot of things to do and forgot about it for a while. I only remembered it today.
But when it was brought up now, Ning Changyue actually refused outright.
Li Hsin-chu said a lot, but Ning Chang-yue still seemed unmoved. So he changed his strategy and started to play the emotional card with him: "Did something happen to you this morning? Mom was very worried about you. All the relatives were at home and dinner was about to start. But when Mom heard that something happened to you, she left immediately."
"Don't think that your mother is usually very fierce to you. In fact, you are the one she is most worried about. She doesn't scold you on purpose, but sometimes...she is under too much psychological pressure."
First, I hate myself for not being able to raise Ning Changyue into a talented person, and second, I hate Ning Changyue for not living up to her expectations.
"You will have a career if you work with me in the future. Mom will feel more at ease. My grandma loves me the most. She knows you are helping me, so she won't be against you anymore."
Li Hsin-chu tried to persuade him.
But Ning Changyue was unmoved. He even looked as if he was distracted, with his eyes a little unfocused.
Someone had tied a small knot on the top of his head with a rubber band, exposing his graceful facial features completely.
When he first took a look, Li Xinzhu was even surprised.
His cousin, apart from other things, has a really delicate appearance, but unfortunately he doesn't know how to dress up.
"I've told you so much, you should at least respond. Do you have any other ideas or are you dissatisfied with something?" Li Xinzhu was also a little tired.
Ning Changyue refocused her eyes on Li Xinzhu's face and finally responded. He said, "I'm moving out."
After a pause, he added a time: "The end of the month."
Li Xinzhu asked in surprise, "Moving out at the end of the month? Have you found a place to live?"
"I'm going home." After saying this, Ning Changyue walked past him and headed towards the stairs.
Li Xinzhu was helpless as they were completely unable to communicate normally. As far as he could remember, Ning Changyue's personality didn't seem to be so weird.
The memory is too old to recall.
When Ning Changyue opened the door and walked into the house, Li Xinzhu's grandmother was sitting in the living room watching TV. She was smiling at first, but when she saw that the person who came in was not her precious grandson, her face changed immediately and she said sarcastically: "Oh, the death star still remembered to come back. You were detained during the holidays. I don't know what immoral things you did. Why did the police let you go? Your relatives saw such an ugly thing. Our family has lost face!"
"Mom, I told you before, it's really just a misunderstanding." My aunt explained weakly.
Grandma turned a deaf ear to her. Seeing Ning Changyue silently walking through the living room to the balcony, she pointed out something and said, "This child without a father or a mother is just uneducated. He eats my family's food and wears my family's clothes. When he sees the elders, he doesn't even know how to greet them. He is good at eating and taking advantage of others."
My aunt sat with her head down, her expression blank and familiar.
Ning Changyue pretended not to hear it, but in fact he really didn't hear it.
He can achieve a certain degree of deafness to words and sounds he doesn't want to hear.
After walking through the living room and across the balcony, Ning Changyue returned to her room.
His room was on the balcony, which was converted from a laundry room. It was not very spacious and only had a single bed, a desk, and a small closet.
The indoor space is so small that I have to use the bed as a stool when doing homework.
The house actually has a lot of space, but someone just can’t accommodate him.
However, Ning Changyue likes this small room very much because there is only half a wall on the outside of the laundry room, and the remaining part together with half of the roof are one-way glass. When she sleeps in bed at night, she can see the starry sky by just looking up.
The sunshine and dew in the daytime seem to fall directly on the face.
Of course, Ning Changyue didn't like this place at first. From the first day he moved in at the age of thirteen, he had a wish, which was to save money and move away, and never come back.
But later, Ning Changyue fell in love with this place and had another wish, in addition to saving money to move out, she also wanted to find someone.
At this moment, Ning Changyue bathed in the orange afterglow of the sunset and opened the gift box sent by Yin Jiu.
Inside is a box of mooncakes.
Tilting her head to take a look, Ning Changyue poured all the mooncakes in the iron box onto the bed. Then she took out the savings card under the mattress and the banknotes hidden in the pages of the book and put them all into the iron box.
The important things are all together.
He laughed.
He only smiles when he is alone.
Because there is something very happy happening and I don’t want anyone to know.