Chapter 47 The Gloomy Little Poor Boy from the 1970s
Busy and fulfilling days fly by, and before we know it, it's the end of the year. Light snow is falling in Shanghai, and the air is filled with the chill of the year's end and the atmosphere of the upcoming New Year.
Looking at the snowflakes falling outside the window, Shen Ci suddenly made a decision.
"Xiao Huai, let's go back to Huaicheng for the Spring Festival this year."
Shen Huai was somewhat surprised. Life in Shanghai was affluent and comfortable, and he didn't understand why he wanted to go back to that place filled with unpleasant memories.
That place left him with only bad memories.
"You never had a warm, well-fed and well-clothed New Year in Huaicheng. Every winter left you with only the impression of cold and hunger."
Mom wants to take you back, not to avoid you, but to use a new, wonderful New Year to cover up those old, bad memories.
It's not about isolation or distance, but about using new, intensely positive feelings of happiness to overturn old, painful memories—that's true healing.
We should stay away from bad people and isolate ourselves from them; we should overturn and change bad memories, but we should not run away from them.
Shen Huai understood his mother's deep meaning. He felt incredibly fortunate to have met such a wonderful mother, a mother who had never given up on him.
Back in Huaicheng, Uncle Guan and Aunt Fan had already tidied up the house, waiting for them to come back for the New Year. This New Year was indeed different from any other New Year in their memory.
Aunt Fan went to great lengths to prepare an incredibly lavish New Year's Eve dinner. The table was laden with chicken, duck, fish, meat, and all sorts of delicacies, their aroma filling the entire courtyard. Outside, snow was falling heavily, but inside, it was warm as spring, with the lights shining brightly.
He won't be cold this winter.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, Shen Ci enthusiastically dragged Shen Huai to the yard to play in the snow. She made a snowball and threw it at Shen Huai with a smile. Shen Huai was stunned for a moment, then laughed like a child, clumsily making a snowball to throw back.
Only in front of Shen Ci would he show his childlike side and act like a teenager.
He's a little adult in public, but only a child in front of his mother.
The mother and son chased and laughed in the snow. Their joyful laughter dispelled the cold of the winter night and seemed to dispel the gloom that had accumulated in people's hearts for many years.
I never knew winter could be so warm and so joyful.
Just then, a faint, weak sobbing sound came from outside the courtyard wall, which seemed very abrupt in the night.
Shen Ci stopped moving and frowned slightly. Shen Huai heard this and the smile on his face gradually faded.
Could it be a ghost?
The two followed the sound of crying out of the yard, and saw a girl in a thin, tattered cotton-padded coat squatting by a snowdrift under the dim streetlights not far away. She was shivering from the cold, her face was red, and she was crying her heart out.
Just as Shen Ci was about to step forward to ask, her gaze suddenly fixed on the top of the girl's head, where several lines of pale blue text that only she could see appeared out of thin air.
Name: Su Wanqing
Age: 18
Identity: Female protagonist of this world
Past: A poor but diligent female student who shared a deep bond with Shen Huai. She dropped out of school because her family favored boys over girls. She supported Shen Huai and kept each other warm. She was Shen Huai's sweetheart.
Ultimately, she abandoned Shen Huai for her own future, stealing his trade secrets and betraying him, causing Shen Huai to completely turn to the dark side, while Su Wanqing lived a happy life.
Shen Ci's heart skipped a beat!
System notification... Another major factor influencing Shen Huai's blackening...
love?
After reading about the girl's past, she thought to herself, "No wonder my son turned to the dark side. Anyone would turn to the dark side in this situation. Just imagine, on such a cold winter day, two people of the opposite sex huddled together for warmth. Isn't that sharing hardships?"
Anyone would turn to the dark side if betrayed by their beloved who had shared hardships with them.
She understood that the two main factors that caused Shen Huai's descent into darkness were family and love. She had come to make up for the family issue, and now she had come to make up for the love issue.
If we follow Shen Ci's approach, we will know there are tigers in the mountains, but we will not go into those mountains we know are dangerous.
The best course of action is to stay out of it and distance yourself from this girl. The intersecting lines will only be parallel this time, so as not to give them a chance to get to know each other.
Nip it in the bud before it even happens.
But... just as she was thinking, Shen Huai had already walked over. He wasn't a kind-hearted child, but he still went up to her at this moment.
Seeing this scene, Shen Ci could only sigh at the nature of fate. How could she escape the people she was destined to be entangled with? Maybe she should learn from the vicious mothers in those domineering CEO novels.
He handed the little girl a thick wad of cash and said, "Here's some money for you. Get away from my son."
Sigh, it's all because her son is so kind-hearted; he always helps the weak and vulnerable.
Su Wanqing, who was freezing to death, thought she was hallucinating. She could actually smell the aroma of food, and she was sure that the spicy aroma contained braised fish and roast chicken! Then, she saw a boy who looked as handsome as a model in a poster walking towards her.
She thought she was going to die, just like in the fairy tales she read in books. The little match girl was like that before she died; first she smelled the aroma of food, then she saw her warm home, and finally she saw her grandmother come to pick her up.
Su Wanqing couldn't help but cover her face and cry. She was going to die, she would freeze to death, or starve to death on New Year's Eve. But she couldn't understand why she saw a handsome and refined young man instead of her relatives.
The fairy tale says that the little girl saw the person she longed for most before she died. So... was she actually a lovesick girl?
The more I thought about it, the sadder I became. I felt like I was going to die when I suddenly realized that I was someone who judged people by their appearance.
Shen Huai frowned. Why was this person crying even louder? Were you getting carried away?
"Fate is truly unstoppable," Shen Ci sighed. "Since we can't avoid it, let's face it. She's not one to back down. What's done is done."
But Chen Huai's words shattered the illusions of several people.
"Go cry somewhere else, don't cry outside my door."
...
Su Wanqing, who was crying her heart out, had a cracked expression. "You, you, you, how can you say such cold things when your body temperature is 36 degrees Celsius?"
She only came to this corner because she thought the house was tall and could block out more wind and snow.
puff--
One sentence made Shen Ci burst out laughing, but it was also terrifying. She had just thought her son was being controlled by fate again and that she was about to step in to be a hero and save the damsel in distress.
Su Wanqing stared blankly at the two well-dressed people in front of her, her expression a mixture of wanting to cry and feeling embarrassed, unable to hold it in.
"oh oh--
"I'm sorry, I... I'll leave now."
Embarrassed, Su Wanqing dragged her weary body to leave; she had no intention of staying any longer.
"System, pull up the detailed information about Shen Huai and Su Wanqing so I can see. Is this the only girl in Shen Huai's romantic storyline?"
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