Li Wan buried herself in Li Zelin's arms and cried for a long time. She was venting for "Li Wan". The despair, pain, fear and loneliness of being abandoned by everyone were completely vented out in Li Zelin's arms that night.
Not knowing how long she had been crying, Li Wan with red eyes stepped back from Li Zelin's arms embarrassedly, and saw that Li Zelin's black shirt was soaked with her tears.
Li Zelin lifted her face.
Li Wan was crying so hard that she didn't look beautiful like a pear blossom in the rain at all. The rain was like a storm, and when she raised her face, it was a mess.
Li Zelin did not show any disgust. He lowered his eyes and carefully wiped the tears from her face with his fingers, and brushed away the hair stuck to her cheeks. His fingertips were cold, but his heart was burning.
Li Wan looked at him with tearful eyes, sobbing softly, "Brother..."
Li Zelin raised his eyes, stared at her with deep eyes, and said lightly: "Didn't you say that I am your backer? Then do your best and don't embarrass me."
Li Wan's nose felt sore and she felt like crying again. Tears welled up in her eyes and she was about to cry.
Li Zelin used his fingers to catch Li Wan's falling tears, "If you want to cry in the future, you can only cry in front of me."
Li Wan was stunned.
Li Zelin took his hand back and said, "Go wash up and go to bed early."
Li Wan suddenly opened her arms and hugged him again, then let go and sniffed, "I'm going to wash up, good night, brother."
"Um."
…
Li Wan went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror, only to find that her eyes were as red as a rabbit's. The foundation on her face was slightly mottled due to the tears, and there was a circle of mascara under her eyes. She couldn't help but sigh. She was too blindly confident in her beauty. She thought she would look pitiful and tearful when she cried, but she didn't expect to be in such a miserable state.
Thinking of how Li Zelin had just wiped her tears with tenderness, her heart couldn't help but feel warm.
After washing up, Li Wan immediately regained her refreshed image. After thinking about it, she decided to correct the image she had just left in front of Li Zelin.
So he knocked on the door of the study, and then poked his pretty face in, "Brother..."
Li Zelin sat behind the desk, his dark eyes behind the lenses swept over, "Are you not sleeping yet?"
"Right away." Li Wan smiled shyly, "I just want to say goodnight to Big Brother."
The eyebrows behind the lenses softened a bit, "Yeah."
"Don't work too late, brother. Go to bed early."
"Um."
Li Wan said softly, "Good night, brother."
"...Good night." These two words seemed unfamiliar to Li Zelin.
Li Wan finally gave Li Zelin a soft smile, closed the door gently, and returned to her room.
…
Breakfast was shrimp and pork wontons made by Li Wan.
Li Zelin has begun to get used to the breakfast made by Li Wan.
And no matter how much Li Wan cooked, he always managed to eat it all.
This made the aunt very worried. Li Zelin always ate little for breakfast and dinner in the past. She always thought that Li Zelin had a big appetite. But every time Li Wan made breakfast, he would eat more. The aunt thought that it must be that what she cooked was not to his taste, and she suddenly became very worried about her career prospects.
Li Wan scooped up a small wonton with a spoon, blew on it, and put it into his mouth. Suddenly he remembered something, swallowed it down his throat and said, "Brother, I have to go out for a while today."
Li Zelin paused with the spoon in his hand, "Where are we going?"
Li Wan pursed her lips and said nothing, seeming a little embarrassed.
Are you going to see Yuan Yang again?
Li Zelin's face turned slightly cold.
Li Wan said: "I want to go see my mother over there."
Li Zelin's expression visibly eased.
Li Wan continued, "The last time I saw her was three months ago. I left without even saying a few words... so I want to go see her again."
Li Zelin asked: "Do you need me to accompany you?"
Li Wan was flattered and touched, but she decisively refused, "No, I can go by myself."
Li Zelin didn't force it, "I'll let Driver Zhou take you."
Li Wan gave him a sweet smile: "Okay."
After a while, Li Wan asked, "Brother, do you have work today?"
Li Wan judged whether Li Zelin had a job by looking at whether his hair was combed back.
Li Zelin said, "Well, there is a meeting."
Li Wan asked: "Are you going home for dinner tonight? If big brother doesn't come back, I'll just eat something outside and won't bother Auntie to go all the way."
Li Zelin said succinctly: "Yes."
Li Wan curled her eyes and said, "Then I'll come back for dinner too."
Li Zelin said calmly, "Yeah."
The deep brows seemed to be softened by the heat.
…
There are no elevators in old residential buildings.
You had to climb the stairs all the way up and down. Li Wan climbed five floors, reached the door, and knocked.
Someone responded quickly from inside. The door panel had poor sound insulation, and Li Wan could clearly hear the footsteps of someone hurriedly trying to open the door.
"Who is it?"
The door opened.
The middle-aged woman with neat short hair inside was stunned when she saw the person standing at the door. For a moment she didn't even know how to address the person. She froze, her face full of surprise and helplessness.
"Can you let me in?" Li Wan asked softly.
The woman finally reacted and hurriedly opened the door to let the person in. "Come in quickly." Then she saw the plastic bag in Li Wan's hand. She quickly reached out to take it, and her hand felt heavy.
"Have you eaten? What would you like to drink? We have tea and yogurt at home... Do you like yogurt? I'll get you a cup of yogurt. Girls all like yogurt."
The woman was a little incoherent and in a hurry. She even forgot to ask Li Wan to sit down and hurried to the refrigerator to get yogurt.
Li Wan looked around silently. This was a small house with a small living room. The TV was placed on a row of drawers. The furniture was simple but warm. There were also many potted plants and some small ornaments in the house, but it didn't look messy at all. It was obvious that the owner took good care of it every day. Li Wan could almost imagine the family sitting on the small sofa watching TV.
Li Wan noticed that there was a special area on the wall for hanging award certificates. She walked over to take a closer look and found that they were the "Three Good Students" award certificates that Li Rou and Li Chao received when they were children. They were even framed and hung up, which shows how much this family cares about their children.
When the woman came back with the yogurt, she saw Li Wan was still standing, and immediately said, "Please sit down. I'll go wash some fruit for you. Do you like dragon fruit? We have some strawberries at home. I'll wash some for you."
The woman was mumbling to herself and busying herself with her hands.
Li Wan sat on the sofa, quietly watching the woman busying herself, her eyes slightly warm.
"Li Wan" is such a fool.
She thought.
The fear of losing everything overnight made her shrink into the thick shell she had built, trapping herself inside.
If she had a little more courage and given herself and others another chance, perhaps she could have had a simple yet happy ending.
The woman brought the washed strawberries and dragon fruit cut into small squares and placed them on the coffee table, using the most beautiful plates in the house.
"Please sit down." Li Wan said to the woman.
"Okay, okay." The woman wiped her hands on the corners of her clothes twice out of habit after washing the fruit. She suddenly realized that this action might not be so decent. She looked at Li Wan awkwardly and sat down on the single sofa next to her.
Li Wan didn't seem to notice her embarrassment, and said softly, "My name is Li Wan. I don't know if I told you last time I came."
The woman hurriedly said, "Yes, you told me as soon as you came in that your name was Li Wan." As she spoke, her eyes reddened slightly. She felt a little embarrassed and forced a smile at Li Wan. Her eyes fell on Li Wan's face and she stared at him for a long time. The more she stared, the more sad she felt.
This was her daughter; she knew it the first time she saw her.
When Li Rou was little, the neighbors often laughed and said that Li Rou didn't look like her or her father, and wondered if she was picked up from outside.
Fortunately, she and her husband loved each other very much, and her husband trusted her very much without any doubt. She was also very upright and honest, and it was not uncommon for her children to not look like their parents. She never even thought of doing a paternity test and raised Li Rou just like that.
Who knew that God played such a big joke on her, that Li Rou was not actually her daughter.
When Li Wan came to her house that day, before she told her who she was, Jiang Yujiao knew in her heart that this was her daughter. She looked like her, and even more like her deceased husband.
It was just that day when she saw Li Wan for the first time, she was so nervous and flustered that she ran away before she could even say a few words. She only knew that her name was Li Wan.
Li Wan ran away that day. She was worried and asked Li Rou whether Li Wan had returned to the Li family. Li Rou just said that the Li family had settled Li Wan down and asked her not to worry.
She thought about the wealth of the Li family, and the environment here, which Li Wan would definitely not be able to accept and would not want to come back.
But Jiang Yujiao still missed her and wanted to ask her how she grew up over the years.
I didn't expect her to come again, but Jiang Yujiao felt that Li Wan was very different after three months.
Maybe he had recovered from that blow.
"You are so beautiful." Jiang Yujiao looked at Li Wan and held back for a long time before she uttered these words.
Li Wan was startled at first, then smiled and said, "Maybe he looks like you."
Jiang Yujiao never expected that Li Wan would respond with such a sentence. She was stunned for a long while, blushing and adjusting her hair: "How can I be as pretty as you?"
Li Wan's words seemed to melt the thick ice between them. She was finally able to take a closer look at her daughter. After looking at her for a long while, she couldn't help but whispered, "You look more like your father." After saying that, she was worried that Li Wan would be unhappy, and looked at her nervously.
Li Wan was not unhappy. She said, "Can I see a picture of my father?"
Jiang Yujiao was stunned and quickly stood up to get the photo album. When she came back, she sat down next to Li Wan.
It's a thick photo album.
Li Wan put it on her knees and opened it. The first picture was a family photo.
Jiang Yujiao felt a little nervous again.
Li Wan looked at the photo carefully. Li Rou looked only thirteen or fourteen years old at that time. She was wearing a blue dress and her hair was tied in a ponytail. There was only a hint of smile on her cold and pretty face.
The man stood behind Li Rou. He should have been thirty-five or thirty-six years old at that time, but he looked only about twenty. He was tall and thin with a handsome face. His peach blossom eyes were filled with a gentle and bright smile. Jiang Yujiao was right. Li Wan did look like him, especially his eyes. Jiang Yujiao stood beside him with a sweet smile on her face.
Li Wan's gaze finally fell on the boy on Li Rou's left. The boy looked to be about nine or ten years old, very handsome, with a reserved smile on his lips.
"Is this your younger brother?" Li Wan asked.
She knew before that she had a younger brother.
Jiang Yujiao nodded, "His name is Li Chao, the Chao in Chaochaomumu." Then she said with a bit of pride, "He is a sophomore this year, and he always ranks first in the grade."
Li Wan smiled: "So amazing."
Jiang Yujiao said: "Yes, he has been very well behaved and sensible since he was a child. He never gave me any trouble."
The pride is palpable.
"Today is Saturday, do you still have classes?" Li Wan asked.
Jiang Yujiao said: "His school is a key high school, and he is in his second year of high school. He has a heavy workload and only has one day off on Sunday. In order to save time on commuting, he moved to the school."
Li Wan smiled and flipped through the photo album.
Jiang Yujiao said: "Your brother looks most like your father, but he is not as talkative and a bit dull."
Unconsciously, the two of them put their heads together to look at the photos, talking to each other, and the coldness and estrangement from before seemed to have disappeared.
Li Wan looked through the photos and could tell from them that the family had a very good relationship and they took quite a few photos.
Both of her parents seem to be gentle people, with smiling faces in every photo. In comparison, Li Rou looks much colder, and she is not smiling in most of the photos, but there are also photos of her playing with her younger brother when she was a child.
As they grew up, there were fewer photos of them. It seemed that they stopped taking photos as often after their father passed away.
The older she gets, the less Li Rou seems to like to laugh.
It took me nearly an hour to finish flipping through the photo album, accompanied by Jiang Yujiao's explanation.
Jiang Yujiao looked at the time and exclaimed, "Oh, it's almost noon, I'll go cook!" Then she immediately stood up and went to the kitchen.
"Mom." Li Wan called her.
Jiang Yujiao suddenly froze, stopped, and turned around in disbelief.
She...she calls herself mom?
Li Wan stood up and said, "I bought some vegetables, I'll cook."
Jiang Yujiao looked at her in astonishment, and said in disbelief, "You...you can also cook?"
Li Rou said that there is a special cook in the Li family.
Li Wan said calmly, "I learned it when I was studying abroad."
"You don't have to do it, just sit there... You haven't eaten the food I cook yet." Jiang Yujiao said, her eyes red again. She smiled and said, "I just don't know if you can get used to the food I cook."
Li Wan smiled warmly: "Then let's do it together."
Jiang Yujiao was reluctant to let her enter the kitchen, but Li Wan insisted, so Jiang Yujiao had no choice but to let her enter.
Whatever work Li Wan had on hand, she would immediately grab it to do it.
Finally, Li Wan said, "I also want you to try the food I cook." Only then did Jiang Yujiao stop.
Jiang Yujiao felt mixed emotions as she watched Li Wan's white and slender fingers skillfully picking vegetables, holding the knife, and cutting vegetables.
She originally thought that Li Wan was a very precious person in the Li family, and she was afraid that he had never even served his own meals since he was a child. But seeing how skillfully Li Wan did these things, it was definitely not something he learned overnight.
In the end, I made five dishes and one soup.
The soup had been prepared long ago and would be sent to Li Chao later.
"Eat, eat more." Jiang Yujiao kept putting food into Li Wan's bowl. When she saw Li Wan eating, she asked nervously and expectantly, "How is it? Is it delicious? Does it suit your taste?"
Li Wan smiled and said, "Yeah, it's delicious."
Jiang Yujiao smiled happily: "If it tastes good, eat more." Then she put another chicken leg into Li Wan's bowl: "Eat a chicken leg."
"Okay." Li Wan said, and put a piece of pork ribs she made into Jiang Yujiao's bowl: "Mom, try the pork ribs I made."
Jiang Yujiao looked at Li Wan with emotion, then looked at the ribs in her bowl, her eyes began to well up again, "Okay." She took a bite, then smiled and said to Li Wan, "Your brother will definitely like this. He has loved meat since he was a child and doesn't like vegetables. When he was a child, I don't know how much effort I had to put in to get him to taste vegetables." As she spoke, her eyes reddened slightly, "...I don't even know what you like and don't like to eat."
Li Wan smiled and said, "Like my brother, I like to eat meat, but I also eat vegetables. I don't have any good habits since I was a child, except that I am not picky about food."
Jiang Yujiao's eyes were red. "It's better not to be picky about food. It's better not to be picky about food. Then you should eat more meat. Eat more."
This meal was very heartwarming.
With the intention of compensating herself, Jiang Yujiao put a lot of meat on Li Wan's plate, and eventually succeeded in making Li Wan eat so much that he sat on the sofa, drinking tea from the cup in small sips.
"Mom, you gave me too many dishes and I felt too full." Li Wan held the teacup in her hand, her soft tone sounded like she was acting coquettishly instead of complaining.
Jiang Yujiao said a little embarrassedly: "I saw that you didn't pick up any food."
Li Wan said helplessly: "Because my mother picked up too many dishes for me, there was no need for me to pick up any dishes."
Jiang Yujiao smiled with her eyes curved: "Okay, I won't pick any for you next time." She brought up the strawberries and cut apples.
Jiang Yujiao hadn't been so happy in a long time, and the smile on her face almost never stopped.
Before I knew it, it was afternoon.
Li Wan turned sideways and took out an exquisite jewelry box from her bag.
"Mom, I bought you a present."
Jiang Yujiao was flattered and at a loss: "You...why did you buy me a gift?"
"I bought this with my salary." Li Wan pursed her lips and said a little embarrassedly: "This is my first job in my life, and also my first salary. I think it is very meaningful. I didn't know what to buy, so I bought a necklace. It's not an expensive thing. I don't know if you like it."
As she spoke, she opened the jewelry box to Jiang Yujiao.
A necklace lay quietly in the jewelry box, with a delicate and small sapphire hanging on the thin silver chain.
Li Wan said: "If you don't like this style, I can change it."
"No, no." Jiang Yujiao said quickly: "It's very beautiful, I like it very much... I haven't prepared anything for you..."
Li Wan said, "Can I put it on for you?"
"Oh, okay." Jiang Yujiao was so moved that she didn't know what to say. Seeing Li Wan take the necklace out of the box and wanted to give it to her, she quickly turned around.
Li Wan put the necklace on Jiang Yujiao and said, "Let me see it."
Jiang Yujiao turned around again, touched the necklace, and looked at Li Wan with emotion.
Jiang Yujiao has fair skin and a thin neck, and the necklace looks very good on her.
Li Wan pursed her lips and smiled, "It looks really good, very suitable."
Jiang Yujiao looked at Li Wan and gently held her hand, feeling very complicated: "They taught you so well..."
Li Wan shook her head and smiled softly: "I was very ignorant before and did a lot of wrong things. It was this incident that made me wake up and think about what kind of person I want to be."
Jiang Yujiao was more and more moved, and she held Li Wan's hand tightly, "You are a good child."
"I want to go to school to see my brother." Li Wan suddenly said.
Jiang Yujiao was very surprised. "That's great. Let's go together." She stood up and said, "I'll bring the braised spareribs you made so that he can have a taste."
Li Wan smiled and said yes.
Jiang Yujiao took out a thermos bucket, put soup at the bottom and the braised pork ribs made by Li Wan in the upper compartment.
The mother and daughter went out.
The two met their neighbors downstairs.
"Go and deliver food to Chao Chao?" The neighbor said with a smile. After that, his eyes fell on Li Wan's face in surprise, "This is..."
Jiang Yujiao said calmly and even with a hint of pride, "It's my daughter, Li Wan. Wanwan, this is Aunt Wang."
Li Wan nodded and smiled politely: "Hello, Aunt Wang."
Aunt Wang was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time. In this old community, everyone has been neighbors for decades, and no one can hide anything that happens in their family. They also knew about what happened to the Li family a long time ago.
They had heard before that the Li family’s biological daughter came to visit once and then left. They hadn’t seen the Li family’s biological daughter come to visit since then. Li Rou came back occasionally, but they didn’t dare to ask. They didn’t expect to run into her today!
"Oh, oh, she's so beautiful! She looks like a fairy, so beautiful." Aunt Wang praised Li Wan's appearance. She looked her up and down and couldn't find any flaws. Li Wan wore that white dress today, which made her look clean and fresh. "Look at her appearance, she's so beautiful, so beautiful. Yujiao, don't say it, she really looks like her father."
Jiang Yujiao smiled and said, "Yes, I was just saying that Wanwan looks like her father."
Aunt Wang nodded repeatedly and said, "That's great. It's great to be back. Are we going to bring soup to Chao Chao together?"
Jiang Yujiao said, "Yes, my Wanwan hasn't seen Chaochao yet. I'll take her to the school to see him."
"Then go quickly, go quickly, I won't keep you any longer." Aunt Wang said to Li Wan enthusiastically: "What's your name? Wan Wan, right? Come to my house next time, I'll make you something delicious."
Li Wan smiled and nodded in agreement.
The mother and daughter walked out.
Aunt Wang watched the mother and daughter leave, her eyes fell on Li Wan's curvy figure, and she sighed, "This is truly a child raised in a wealthy family, she is just different." Thinking of this, she was eager to share the new news with others and hurried upstairs.
Before dinner time, the whole neighborhood knew that the Li family's biological daughter had returned home. She was extremely beautiful, like a fairy.
Jiang Yujiao and Li Wan took a taxi to the school gate. Just as they were about to enter, they received a phone call saying that the company had an urgent matter and asked Jiang Yujiao to go there.
Jiang Yujiao was in a difficult situation, but the company was indeed in a hurry.
Li Wan asked Jiang Yujiao to go to the company while she went to deliver soup to Li Chao.
Jiang Yujiao had no choice but to hand the thermos to her, told Li Wan and Li Chao's class, gave her a few instructions, and then hurriedly took a taxi and left.
Li Wan watched the taxi drive away before turning around and entering the school gate.
Li Wan was wearing a white dress, with her long, thick black hair casually tucked behind her ears. She walked across the campus calmly and lightly, carrying a thermos in her hand. The sun had not yet set, and the warm light of the evening shone on her. Her whole body seemed to be covered with a layer of sacred halo, and her skin was so white that it was almost transparent. It was the time between afternoon school and evening self-study, and there were students everywhere. The boys and girls aged sixteen, seventeen or eighteen were all amazed and turned their heads to look at her.
Li Wan asked for directions and arrived at the window of Class 2-3 of Senior High School. She glanced inside and didn't see Li Chao, so she called over a polite boy.
The boy told her with a blushing face that Li Chao should be playing basketball.
Some students in the class started to make a fuss and asked him to lead the way.
Li Wan smiled at him and said, "This is my first time here. Could you please take me there?"
The boy led the way for her with a red face.
The two left the classroom, and the students in the classroom immediately ran to the door to watch Li Wan leave, and then broke into a heated discussion.
Along the way, Li Wan asked a few questions about Li Chao's situation. The boy answered everything in detail, with the heat on his face never subsiding.
When passing by the school's small supermarket, Li Wan went in and bought two bottles of iced Coke and handed one to the boy.
The boy took it shyly and held it in his hand.
After walking across half of the campus, we finally arrived at the basketball court. The boy pointed from a distance and said, "Li Chao is right there!"
Li Wan followed the direction of his finger and saw the tall figure in a white school uniform on the second basketball court.
"Thank you." Li Wan smiled at him and walked over there.
The boy felt a little disappointed. He squeezed the Coke in his hand, quickly followed them, and said, "I'm going to watch them play basketball."
They were still playing basketball on the court, with a few boys playing for half the game. It didn't look like a formal game, just a few students playing for fun.
But there were still quite a few girls watching.
Li Wan stood silently in the crowd, looking at the dazzling tall figure.
Li Wan guessed that probably 90% of the girls here came for Li Chao.
He is really, really good-looking.
The young man jumped up, raised his beautiful long arms, and threw the basketball from his palm - and it went easily into the basket.
He then landed on the ground and turned around, revealing an impeccable face of a beautiful young boy.
The girls watching around immediately exclaimed in amazement, and there was a continuous sound of "wow" for a while.
I don’t know whether she was marveling at the good shot or at the boy’s good looks.
Li Wan also smiled slightly.
The boys playing basketball finally noticed Li Wan in the crowd.
"Hey, hey, who is that person?"
"A new teacher?"
"Fuck! Fairy."
“Who dares to ask for WeChat…”
The boys started to make noises.
Li Chao raised his shoulders, lowered his head to wipe the sweat from his eyelids on the cloth on his shoulders, and glanced over there, his eyes suddenly froze.
When Li Wan saw that he saw her, she immediately smiled and raised her right hand and waved at him.
A group of boys' eyes immediately focused on Li Chao.
"Fuck, Li Chao, looking for you?"
Li Chao pursed his lips and walked straight towards Li Wan.
Li Wan looked at Li Chao walking towards her and couldn't help but sigh that genes are really magical things. Even though she hadn't seen a photo beforehand, she could recognize him at a glance.
"Hello Li Chao, I'm Li Wan." Li Wan introduced herself with a smile on her face.
The boy's jet-black hair was soaked with sweat, the ends of his hair were wet, the sweat on his face was shining with crystal light, and his pair of peach blossom eyes, which were 70% similar to hers, looked at her distantly with his dark pupils.
Just as Li Wan could recognize him at first sight, he could also recognize Li Wan at first sight.
What's more, she was holding his thermos in her hand.
"Have a Coke and take a break." Li Wan handed over the iced Coke in his hand.
"I don't drink carbonated drinks," said the boy.
Li Wan was slightly startled. She didn't know there were little boys who didn't like to drink Coke. She smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "Sorry, I don't know. Then don't drink it."
"Forget it, give it to me." The boy stretched out his hand to her.
Li Wan handed it to him and he took it in his hand.
Li Wan said, "Go play ball first. I'll wait for you over there."
"No more playing." said the boy, and walked straight to the audience seats beside the basketball court.
Li Wan followed with the thermos bucket in his arms.
"Li Chao! You don't want to fight anymore?!"
The students on the basketball court asked loudly.
"No more fighting." The boy said without even turning his head.
"Damn it! You value women over friendship!" the boy cursed.
"Hey, that girl looks familiar to me." Another boy suddenly said.
One boy said, "Why do you think she looks familiar? She looks so much like Li Chao. She must be Li Chao's sister. Isn't that the thermos bucket his mother used to bring him soup?"
"Fuck, Li Chao's sister is so pretty! I want to ask Li Chao for her WeChat."
…
Li Wan and Li Chao walked to the audience seats while looking at each other all the way, and they sat down side by side.
"This is the soup that mom made for you. It also contains the spareribs I made for lunch today. Mom said you like it." Li Wan said, "Mom was going to come too. She just walked to the school gate, but the company asked her to come over because of something."
"Yeah." The young man put his arms on his thighs, hummed casually, and looked in the direction of the basketball court.
He didn't seem to want to pay attention to me. Well, with his own sister suddenly appearing, he probably didn't know how to get along with her.
But don't be in a hurry, take your time.
Li Wan smiled and said considerately: "You go play ball, I just came to see you, I'm leaving first."
Li Chao sat up straight, not knowing what to say, and in the end just said "hmm".
Li Wan looked at him, suddenly raised her hand, rubbed his head, and narrowed her eyes: "You look so much like me."
The boy who had been so aloof just now was suddenly stunned.
"I'm leaving now. I'll come to see you next time." Li Wan said as he stood up.
Li Chao stood up as well.
"No need to see me off." Li Wan waved his hand casually and left.
Li Chao watched Li Wan leave. After a while, he raised his hand and slowly touched his rubbed hair.
The cold and distant eyebrows seemed to be melted.
This was the first time someone touched Dad's hair like this since he passed away.
"Li Chao, was that your sister just now?" The boys who were playing basketball just now gathered around when they saw Li Wan leaving.
Li Chao nodded slowly.
"Wow - your sister is so beautiful! Like a fairy."
"How old is your sister? Is she still in college?"
"Li Chao, please send me a WeChat message."
"What, do you want to be Li Chao's brother-in-law?"
A group of boys were laughing and joking.
Suddenly someone set his eyes on the Coke placed together with the thermos.
"Hey! Li Chao, don't you like drinking Coke? I drank it for you." The boy said as he picked up the Coke and prepared to unscrew it.
As soon as he exerted force, Li Chao snatched it back.
The boy looked at him in astonishment.
Li Chao froze, clenched the icy Coke in his hand, and said unnaturally, "I'll buy you a bottle later."
…
"Zelin, let's have dinner and have a couple of drinks together later. It's been a long time since we last drank together." The man handed the club to the caddy beside him, took off his gloves and said with a smile.
Li Zelin swung the last shot with his slender and powerful arms, looked at the direction where the ball landed, and then said, "No."
The man was stunned: "Why? Do you have an appointment?"
Li Zelin said, "Go home and eat."
The man said with a smile: "You are alone, why are you going home to eat? You are so lonely and miserable. We haven't seen each other for so long, why don't you go for a drink?"
Li Zelin handed the club to the caddy, took off his mask, and glanced at him with raised eyelids: "Who said I was alone?"
The smile on the man's face froze, and he said in disbelief: "What do you mean? Is there something wrong? Is there someone at home? Impossible? The thousand-year-old iron tree finally bloomed? Hey, take me home for dinner, I want to see which little demon ate your Tang Monk flesh."
Li Zelin's face darkened, and he ruthlessly pushed away the person who came up to him and walked straight inside.
"Could it be Secretary Wu?" The man followed and said, "I knew that with such a beautiful woman in front of you every day, you would lose control sooner or later--"
…
Yang Mingjiu shamelessly insisted on going home with Li Zelin. After changing his shoes at the entrance, he walked in excitedly and met Li Wan head-on.
The moment he saw Li Wan, Yang Mingjiu was stunned at first, then he turned his head to look at Li Zelin with an expression of sudden realization on his face.
Yang Mingjiu believed that he had seen many beauties, both natural and artificial, but he still had to admit that this girl was very beautiful.
Look at that face, that skin, that hair, that figure—wow, just exquisite.
No wonder Li Zelin's thousand-year-old iron tree has blossomed and been moved.
Li Wan smiled slightly and nodded to Yang Mingjiu, then his eyes fell on Li Zelin behind him, smiling, "Brother."
Big brother?
Yang Mingjiu thought, I didn’t expect that Li Zelin, such an icy person, would be able to play this kind of little tricks.
Li Zelin changed his shoes, walked up from behind, and said concisely, "Yang Mingjiu, Li Wan."
Yang Mingjiu thought his introduction was too simple: "I am his senior brother, you can just call me senior brother... Huh?" He suddenly realized something was wrong and looked at Li Wan suspiciously, "Your last name is Li too?"
Li Wan looked at Li Zelin puzzledly.
Li Zelin didn't say a word of explanation, and naturally took Li Wan's hand and walked inside, "Yes, her last name is also Li."
Li Wan was shocked, blinked, then looked down at the hand that Li Zelin was holding, feeling a little confused.
Why did she feel like she had skipped some important plot?
Yang Mingjiu watched Li Zelin drag his girlfriend into the relationship right in front of him, and scratched his head in confusion. What a coincidence? They just happened to have the same last name?
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