The winter vacation had just begun, and Xu Jinzhi enthusiastically invited Su Yunbai to travel to the south with her family and celebrate the New Year.

She urged her three times a day, and she was just short of feeding Su Yunbai some love potion.

Then there was Teacher Tan.

After the winter vacation began, Su Yunbai did not rush to leave school, and clocked in at the office and laboratory every day. Once she met Teacher Tan who came to the school to get some information, and the two chatted for a while.

Teacher Tan was very concerned about Su Yunbai's winter vacation and New Year's arrangements, and urged her to celebrate the New Year together - just like the previous few years.

Immediately afterwards, Su Yunbai received a call from her biological father.

His biological father's surname was Xu. On the phone, Xu's father's concern was cautious. He asked Su Yunbai what her plans were for the New Year, saying that the room at home had always been prepared for her and asked her to come back and live there.

Then, the former lawyer was eager to stay in City A to work overtime during the New Year to avoid her family's urging to get married. She encouraged Su Yunbai to join the overtime team of their law firm...

Everyone who asked was too direct, so Ji Cheng, who was in the middle, asked her if she would go back to City C. The eagerness of a number that she had not yet blocked seemed too restrained.

It is a good thing to have someone care about you, but having too many people care about you seems to be a bit overwhelming. Su Yunbai couldn't favor one over the other, so she simply concentrated on staying in the laboratory and worked overtime happily.

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, Su Yunbai packed up her house in City A and drove back to City C.

She arrived late, and when she got home, all the houses were brightly lit. The conditions in the community were there, not that they were bad, but that they were old. Over the years, people moved out one after another, and new people moved in, and the original old neighbors gradually dispersed. Even Aunt Liu downstairs went to another place with her son for the New Year this year.

Su Yunbai felt upset, but also relieved.

If there were still familiar people in the community, she didn't even know how to explain to others why she returned to City C alone during the New Year.

The house had not been occupied for a long time, and there was a thin layer of dust, which even left some marks when wiped. Su Yunbai knew, of course, that an unoccupied house would quickly fall into disrepair, but she was reluctant to rent it out to outsiders.

It was already late, and Su Yunbai only had time to tidy up her sleeping place and spent the night there. Early the next morning, she got up and busied herself with cleaning.

The spider webs on the roof, the dust on the air conditioner, the glass windows...

Once she was busy, she had less to think about, and her mind became simpler.

Su Yunbai had just finished tidying up the doors and windows in the room when there was a knock on the door.

She listened for a moment before confirming that it was her own knock. She moved closer to the door mirror and looked outside. After hesitating for a long time, she opened the door.

She said, "Senior, why are you here?"

The person who came was Ji Cheng. He was standing outside the door in a long windbreaker, smiling gently: "I came to wish you a happy new year."

Su Yunbai smiled and replied: "Happy New Year!" She glanced around, "My house is a mess, so I won't invite you in. I'll go to wish you a happy new year to Grandpa Ji another day."

Ji Cheng glanced at the rag in Su Yunbai's hand, surprised, "Are you cleaning the house? Why didn't you ask someone to do it?"

"It's okay, I have to clean it before the New Year. Just think of it as exercise."

Ji Cheng stepped forward, "I happen to have nothing to do, come and help."

Su Yunbai was shocked, "No."

She really couldn't imagine Ji Cheng sweeping with a broom or a rag.

Ji Cheng had already entered the house, took off his windbreaker, and rolled up his sleeves.

He smiled and said, "Don't underestimate me. I was naughty when I was a child, but my grandfather couldn't bear to beat me, so he always punished me by making me mop the floor, wash dishes, and clean windows... I have already practiced it.

"Don't be polite with me. Besides, the dust on the roof and the ceiling fan... are you capable of it?"

Ji Cheng said, moving a chair, taking the rag from Su Yunbai's hand, and began to deal with the dust on the ceiling fan.

To be honest, he really looks like a real person when it comes to cleaning.

Su Yunbai, however, looked devastated.

How could she let someone help her with this?

She was a little anxious: "Senior, it's really not necessary. Come down quickly, I'll contact a cleaner... Don't let your clothes get dirty."

"This time of year is the peak season, and the cleaners have to be contacted in advance. "Ji Cheng said, handing her the dirty rag, "How about this, can you help me change the new one? It saves me from going up and down."

Seeing that Su Yunbai didn't move, he urged her: "Hurry up, don't dawdle. If we want to clean the whole house in one day, we have to hurry up."

With one more person, the speed of cleaning the house suddenly increased.

Su Yunbai felt bad, so she specially ordered a local old brand for lunch, fearing that it would not be rich enough.

After eating, Ji Cheng just took a short rest and got busy again.

Before Su Yunbai left last time, she packed up all the items in the house and covered them with dust masks. To be honest, there are not as many places that need to be cleaned as imagined.

The area of ​​the house is not too large, but it is a three-bedroom apartment . The layout is one living room and one bathroom. In addition to the two bedrooms, the remaining room is used as a study and storage room. There is a large bookcase and two tables in it, and everything is neatly arranged.

Ji Cheng is very meticulous in his work. The things in the bookcase were all neatly arranged, so he didn't open it specially. He just stepped on a stool and took a rag to clean the dust on the top layer of the bookcase.

Halfway through the cleaning, he suddenly asked Su Yunbai: "Is this a big box? It's a bit high. What's in it? Should we put it downstairs? It will also save it from dust. "

Su Yunbai followed Ji Cheng's instructions and saw a large black box. It stood at the top of the bookcase, almost occupying all the space between the bookcase and the ceiling.

This box... Su Yunbai was stunned for a moment.

She thought about it and said, "Can you move it? If you can, put it down."

Ji Cheng tentatively moved it and found that although the box was large, it was not very heavy.

He only wasted a little effort to move it down.

Su Yunbai squatted on the ground with his palms on the lid of the wooden black box. There was no movement for a long time.

Ji Cheng was keenly aware that something was wrong: "What's wrong? Do you need me to step aside?"

Su Yunbai shook his head and unlocked the box.

The top lid of the box was right in front of Ji Cheng. He didn't lean over to look at the things in the box, but just carefully observed Su Yunbai's expression.

Su Yunbai stared at the things in the box for a long time without reacting.

Just when Ji Cheng couldn't help but ask, she suddenly raised her head and smiled at him. The smile was a little superficial, "Actually, there's nothing. There are some things in it that my biological father sent over the years..."

Ji Cheng's breath was choked.

He had known about Su Yunbai's unfortunate family relationship for a long time.

He subconsciously said, "I'm sorry..."

He was a little annoyed that he was simply talking about something irrelevant.

Su Yunbai laughed, "It's not your fault. What's there to be sorry about." She moved the box and placed the things in the box in Ji Cheng's field of vision.

The things in the box were very simple. Besides a few dolls, there were clothes and skirts carefully stacked up from small to large. It was a thick stack, with both winter and summer clothes.

It was obvious that these were products accumulated over many years.

Su Yunbai said, "It is said that he started giving them to me when I was one year old... one set for winter and one set for summer. But I never wore any of them.

" "I officially knew about the existence of this box when I was sixteen years old.

"I was admitted to the university, and Mrs. Zhou suddenly came back and said that she wanted to take me to live with her... I had a big fight with her, and my grandmother felt sorry for me, so she told me about the box."

Su Yunbai smiled, a light smile, "Grandma wanted to tell me that besides her, there were other people who cared about me... but there was no need, I already knew all this.

"Not only that, I also know that he already had another family, and I have a half-brother..."

If his hands were not dirty, Ji Cheng could hardly resist the urge to touch her hair and comfort her.

He asked her, "Do you hate him... all these years?"

Su Yunbai was silent for a moment, did not answer, but said, "Grandma told me before she died that his divorce with Mrs. Zhou was very ugly. At the time of the divorce, he didn't even know that Mrs. Zhou was pregnant. He didn't know about it until I was several months old.

"At that time, he had remarried.

"My grandmother said he wanted to take me away, and he even gave her all his money. But my grandmother had raised me for several months and was reluctant to let me go - in fact, she was afraid that his new wife would treat me badly, I always knew it.

"My grandmother said she was sorry for me. But how can people be so greedy, right? It is enough for me to have an unreserved family love.

"I am actually quite lucky. "

Su Yunbai said, and suddenly looked up at him.

When their eyes met, Ji Cheng was looking at her with a very distressed look.

This time, he did not dodge at all, let alone hide.

Su Yunbai avoided it subconsciously.

She lowered her head and looked at the things in the box, her voice muffled: "Although I don't regret my situation, but...'A complete family constitutes a complete life, and a complete life forms a complete personality'...

"Senior, maybe I have serious character defects that I don't even know about...I'm not good at all."

"No." Ji Cheng said firmly, "Yunbai, I..."

"Listen to me first." Su Yunbai interrupted him hurriedly.

She seemed a little panicked, "I have a weird temper, I have always known it. I say this not to back down, but... but to tell you that I am a selfish coward.

"I have never had many things since I was a child. That is why everything is precious. I cherish everything I have..."

She looked at him with a very complicated look, "especially friendship. Do you understand what I mean?"

Ji Cheng almost sighed softly.

He looked at Su Yunbai, "Yunbai, I am over thirty. Do you know what this means? It means that I am a very sober adult, and I can be responsible for what I say and do.

"I know clearly what I want, and I never act on impulse."

Su Yunbai's expression began to evade again.

Ji Cheng looked at her, "You know, right? Yunbai, look at me. Tell me, do you think I'm a despicable person because of Qi Nian?"

Su Yunbai looked at the person who was so close to her and shook her head subconsciously.

"Then do you hate me? Do you think it's a torture to get along with someone like me, and it's simply unbearable?"

Su Yunbai said, "No. But..."

"No buts!" Ji Cheng said firmly, "Look, we clean the house together, we clean the house together... We cooperate well, and this is life.

"We are just ordinary people, living the life that ordinary people live. If we live like this for a long time, we will grow old together. "

Su Yunbai bit her lip subconsciously, "Senior, it's different. "

Marriage and love are said to be old propositions. But even so, they still exist.

Ji Cheng held Su Yunbai's hand and did not let her pull away: "Yunbai, don't rush to refuse. Let's give it a try, okay? How do you know the result if you don't try?

"I won't force you, you can think about it slowly. I can wait as long as it takes. Before that, I can just be Senior Ji. Okay?"