"..." So he hasn't looked at his phone once in all these days? Then all these days he's been...!!!
"Come in, I'm going to cook lunch for Wan Ge. Do you want to stay for lunch?" Chen Ji said as he walked toward the kitchen.
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Shen Qi silently followed, standing at the door, watching his younger brother skillfully take out a cookbook and flip through a few pages to find a suitable lunch.
Then he started taking out the ingredients. Although he wasn't a pro, he was still quite organized. When did my little brother learn to cook?! Good heavens! What on earth has happened these past few days?!
"Xiao Ji? Why not just have the maid come?" Although he had been staying at Nian Cangyao's house for the past few days, Nian Cangyao was too busy with work to cook for herself, and Shen Qi neither knew how nor ever thought of cooking for himself. So, a housekeeper still came to cook for them every day.
"You don't understand." Chen Ji focused intently on what he was doing. He felt a sense of happiness when he ate the food that Wange cooked, so he hoped that Wange would feel the same way when she ate the food he cooked.
Moreover, being able to cook for the person he loves gives him a feeling of happiness for some reason. That's why he's willing to cook; he wants to cook for Wan Ge for the rest of his life.
Shen Qi fell silent, realizing he truly didn't understand. What confused him even more was that Shen Ji was almost driving him crazy.
Does he actually like Yao Yao? His current behavior makes it seem like he really likes Wan Ge, just as he said he liked Yao Yao but it was just a joke, a test to see how she would react.
"Xiao Ji, do you like Wan Ge?" After hesitating for a moment, Shen Qi still asked this question.
Her calm tone seemed as usual as she answered her brother: "It's not just liking, it's loving her. I want to be with her forever."
He had already fallen for her long ago, perhaps from the moment he started to care about her, or perhaps from the moment he panicked when she broke up with him, but he was certain that he loved her and would never, ever be separated from her.
He had always felt that way, at least before he moved into her house, and he was convinced that he would feel that way for the rest of his life.
Shen Qi noticed that Shen Ji's ear tips had turned red. This always happened when he was shy, but he had only been shy when he was a child. It seemed that he had been taught not to be shy after that. He hadn't seen Shen Ji's ear tips turn red in a long time.
"Brother understands. I'm glad you're alright. In that case, I'll be leaving now."
"Okay, be careful." Chen Ji replied, without seeing the other person out, still dealing with his own business.
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Shen Qi walked out the door, and snow began to fall again. As he returned to his car alone, a feeling of mixed emotions welled up inside him, a feeling he couldn't quite define as either happiness or sadness.
On one hand, she hoped that Chen Ji could truly find happiness, just like she had, but on the other hand, she felt a sense of loss, as if her younger brother, whom she had always been with, was really going to be separated from her.
During the time he was dating, he didn't have this feeling because he was always waiting for his brother at home. It seemed like he could see him anytime, anywhere, so he never thought he would lose his brother or that he would really be separated from him.
But now he suddenly experienced that feeling: spending New Year's Eve alone, staying at home all by himself.
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