Not far away, a child holding a lantern was holding his parents' hands and acting coquettishly.
—Mom and Dad, I want to eat mooncakes tonight, the super big kind.
The three of them walked further and further away.
The child's parents replied, and after hearing their response, the child happily circled around them.
Li Tangyan looked at it for a while and then looked away.
She glanced at the birthday cake next to her, and her eyes welled up with tears.
[Dad, what's the date today?]
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
...
After hanging up the phone, Li Tangyan looked at her phone for a while and found that Yao Qing and Xu Miaomiao had already filled the screen with birthday emojis in the group chat.
After exiting the chat window, she unconsciously slid her finger down until it landed on Wu Chang's WeChat profile picture.
The last chat time shown above was six months ago.
At its feet, the little potato seemed to sense its owner's sudden loss of mood.
With a short kick, it grabbed the edge of the chair with its front paws and barked twice at her.
Li Tangyan raised her eyes and was amused by the sight of it wagging its tail and struggling to jump up with its short legs.
She pinched the little potato's two furry ears.
When I got up again, I looked at the little brat following me around happily.
The annoyance in my heart seemed to vanish in an instant: "Let's go, I'll treat you to a big meal when we get home."
On the way back, Li Tangyan bought some other things.
As she turned into one of the alleys, just as she was about to reply to a message, she heard Potato, who had been quietly following her, suddenly shout.
As soon as Li Tangyan looked up, she saw several people standing a few meters away.
The one in the lead, Li Tangyan, looked somewhat familiar, but I couldn't quite place him.
After whispering to each other for a few moments, the group slowly walked towards her.
His eyes were filled with hostility; it was clear he had no good intentions.
"You're Li Tangyan?"
*
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, most people choose to travel or return to their hometowns to celebrate.
Therefore, the already sparsely populated old neighborhood was even more deserted at this time.
Apart from the whistling wind rushing past her ears as she ran, Li Tangyan could not detect any other movement.
She was chased into a corner by those people, and the cake in her hand was completely ruined after running for a while.
"Aren't you supposed to be a fast runner?"
"Keep running, let's see where you can run to."
Several people surrounded her, their clenched fists cracking against their bones.
Just as I was about to make a move, I heard Potato's voice coming closer from afar.
Li Tangyan was overjoyed, just as she was feeling relieved that the dog food she had fed was not in vain, when Shuzai appeared with the "reinforcements" it had randomly brought over.
The man walked towards them into the light; he was tall and slender, with a cool and aloof demeanor.
His narrow, phoenix-shaped eyes narrowed slightly as his gaze fell on the men, and the pressure around him instantly dropped.
Wow, you really know how to pick a partner.
He went out and actually brought Wen Zhaonian back with him.
*
Those people only wanted to scare Li Tangyan; they didn't intend to make a big fuss.
So when Wen Zhaonian appeared, they didn't linger. They exchanged glances and then ran away.
After those people left, Li Tangyan looked at the person walking towards her step by step and felt a strange sense of déjà vu.
Li Tangyan hadn't seen Wen Zhaonian for quite some time since the last gathering.
I heard he went to S City.
His short hair seemed to have grown a bit, and the wisps of hair falling down his forehead softened the sharpness in his eyes.
The thin black pullover sweater revealed a small section of her fair collarbone.
The veins in his neck were thin and bluish, and as his Adam's apple moved, they created a sexy curve.
Wen Zhaonian walked up to Li Tangyan, only to find that she still had the same expression she had when she first saw him.
The cake I was carrying had already fallen apart, but my gaze lingered on the chocolate label that had fallen off the corner of the box.
"Everyone says that if you see a bad guy, you should run away."
"What, are you planning to go solo with someone—"
A cool breeze blew by, fluttering the girl's clothes and a strand of black hair.
Before Wen Zhaonian could finish speaking, a faint scent of lime wafted into his nostrils as the girl lunged at him.
Li Tangyan's free hand tightly gripped the hem of his clothes, and her head was already pressed against his chest as she lowered her eyes.
His voice was muffled, and his warm breath, seeping through his clothes, landed on his heart.
The heat made Wen Zhaonian feel an unbearable soreness in his heart for a moment: "Why did you take so long to come?"
At this moment, only they remained in the corner, the high wall seemingly designed to completely isolate Wen Zhaonian and Li Tangyan from the outside world.
Only a few branches of the willow tree on one side peeked out from the other side of the wall.
Sunlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves, casting fleeting dappled patterns of light and shadow on the ground.
Beside them, the dog leash that had fallen was picked up by Potato in his mouth.
It crouched between the two, tilted its head, and its round, grape-like eyes were full of curiosity.
Time seemed to slow down to half its original speed, stretching on endlessly yet making one reluctant to let it end.
Wen Zhaonian didn't know how much time had passed before he felt the head in his arms move.
On the other hand, Li Tangyan only remembered what she had just done after she calmed down.
She let go and took two steps back.
Meeting Wen Zhaonian's ambiguous smile, she unconsciously rubbed the ribbon she was holding in the crook of her index finger: "I...I swear, I really didn't mean to take advantage of you."
I just couldn't resist.
"I trust you."
No sooner had Li Tangyan finished speaking than a clear, cold voice came from above.
Immediately, as Wen Zhaonian bent down, the shadow that fell upon him quickly overlapped with his own.
The gritty voice lowered, becoming more seductive as it approached her ear: "You really didn't think about it, you just did it."
"you--"
Li Tangyan's face flushed, and just as she was about to look up, she felt a weight on her head.
The next second, someone gently rubbed my head.
At the same time, Wen Zhaonian took the cake from her hand, his dark eyes reflecting her entire being.
The sound was slow and gentle, like springs of clear water pouring down on parched ground.
Until her heart was completely full: "Let's go, I'll take you home."
*
Although the cake was damaged and deformed, it was still edible.
When Li Tangyan cut two pieces of cake, Wen Zhaonian was pouring dog food for Shuzai, who had brought a bowl and was waiting for his meal.
The living room curtains were drawn to both sides, revealing the trumpet vines that had climbed up the windowsill.
The sunlight streaming in cast a white glow on him.
Wen Zhaonian squatted to one side, his black sweater subtly revealing the outline of his back as he bent over.
A hand with distinct knuckles gently stroked its head.
With her eyelids drooping, her aloofness faded considerably, adding only a sense of languid tranquility.
"Come and have something to eat."
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