Looking at the sparkle in her eyes, a smile involuntarily crept onto my lips.
Upon seeing this scene, Ye Yao and the others exchanged glances, the warmth in their eyes almost melting the icicles on the eaves.
With a brother-in-law who dotes on his sister, they can finally put their worries about her at ease.
The person I hold dearest in my heart will always be the happiest little princess, like a butterfly that is carefully protected, its wingtips forever stained with honey.
To everyone's surprise, Zhang Weiguo was strolling along the New Year's streets with Shen Xiang and Tang Jiang, just ten meters away.
"Mom, I want to eat this."
"Mom, I want that one, please buy it for me, okay?"
Tang Jiang would ask for candied hawthorns every now and then, and toys every now and then.
My mouth never stopped moving the whole way.
After buying the candied hawthorns, Shen Xiang didn't want to spend any more money on the toys.
Shen Xiang rubbed her fingertips in the pocket of her cotton-padded coat a couple of times, then pulled out a crumpled handkerchief and wiped the sugar stains from the corner of his mouth: "Jiang'er, do you remember, your godfather just bought you a wooden toy gun last month?"
Before he could finish speaking, Tang Jiang's lips curled into a bitter pout, and tears welled up in his eyes: "But that was last month... We should have new toys for the New Year!"
"It's Chinese New Year today, and I've been behaving well, so why won't you buy me a toy? Why?"
Shen Xiang bit her thin lips and could only play the victim: "I'm sorry, Jiang'er, it's all because your mother is incompetent..."
Zhang Weiguo, who had been silent all along, sighed softly at this moment: "I'll pay for it."
Shen Xiang pretended to decline: "Brother Weiguo, this...this is not good. It's such a waste to waste such a young child. We should set a good example."
Zhang Weiguo looked at her deliberately lowered eyelashes, his Adam's apple bobbed, and he took out a few bills from his military green satchel and stuffed them into her hand: "Kids just want to have some fun during the New Year."
"Yay! Thank you, Godfather! I want that one! I want that one!"
"You take your child over and choose something; I'll wait for you here."
"Okay, Brother Weiguo, thank you so much."
Shen Xiang glanced gratefully at Zhang Weiguo, then dropped the pretense, took the money, and happily took Tang Jiang to buy toys.
Zhang Weiguo stood still, while someone in front of him was performing iron flower stunts.
Molten iron, glowing red, was thrown into the night sky. When it exploded, it looked like a handful of broken gold, with sparks falling into the hair of the onlookers.
In that flowing golden light, he saw a familiar figure.
She was looking up at the wrought iron sparks, her profile framed by the warm red and gold glow of the firelight.
It was as if a thunderbolt had struck him hard, leaving him scorched and his mind almost unable to think.
That person...
Is it Ye Nian'an?
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