New Year's Eve.

Watching the Spring Festival Gala after the New Year’s Eve dinner is an annual tradition for the Li family.

Li Zhen sat in the living room with his mother, sister and brother to watch the Spring Festival Gala as in previous years.

Although they said they were watching the Spring Festival Gala, in fact everyone was more interested in accompanying their mothers, so except for Li's mother Wang Yaning and Li Zhen who were watching TV, Li Shu and Li Wen were both browsing on their phones.

When Wang Yaning saw Yue Yunpeng and Sun Yue telling jokes, she smiled and asked Li Zhen, "These two kids are good at crosstalk. Did they come last year?"

Li Zhen replied: "Coming."

Wang Yaning sighed: "Yueyue is a really good kid. He's about your age, right?"

Li Zhen immediately guessed what the conversation was going to be about today, so he didn't say anything.

Wang Yaning then asked, "How old is his child now?"

Li Shu, who was curled up on the sofa, turned his gaze from the mobile phone screen to his mother, "Mom, there is a big age difference between my brother and Xiao Yueyue."

Li's mother immediately glanced at her daughter and said, "I think it's about the same."

Li Shu: "If that's the case, Li Wen is pretty much like my brother. Li Wen, where's your girlfriend?"

Li Wen, who was caught in the crossfire, glanced at his sister, then turned to ask his mother, "Mom, is the pot in the kitchen not hung properly?"

Wang Yaning was neither angry nor amused at once. She picked up the orange on the table and threw it at Li Shu, "You'll be twenty-six soon!"

Li Shu caught the orange accurately and said confidently, "I have a boyfriend, and I've shown him to you."

"Then hurry up and get married and have a baby while I can still take care of it for you."

Li Shu said in an orderly manner: "You have read my plan, right? Having a child is my plan when I turn 30, and I will hire a nanny by then so you don't have to take care of the child. You should think more about what you want to do and enrich your life."

Wang Yaning was furious, "I just wanted to show you the child."

Li Shu looked like he had no other choice, "Then you have to wait until I'm thirty."

"Li Xiaoshu!" Wang Yaning was almost choked to death.

Li Shu immediately stood up from the sofa, stepped over Li Wen with his long legs and jumped to the side of Li Zhen, pushing Li Zhen out, "Mom, mom, my brother is about the same age as Xiao Yueyue, and their child is already ten years old!"

Li Zhen, who was pushed out, didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "If you are such a dog, don't stand up for me."

Li Shu: "You must be kidding. I looked at the program list and Tang Yan and Liu Shishi are about to appear. Do you think I can avoid them?"

Li Zhen: “…”

It turns out that this girl never thought of standing up for him.

Li Wen snickered, "Sister, you are quite different in age from those two, right?"

Li Shu looked at his mother, "Age is never a problem for Ms. Wang Yaning. The only problem is whether they are married or have children."

Wang Yaning said unhappily, "Can you compare your marriage age with that of a big star?"

Li Shu: "But I'm only twenty-six, this age is just..."

"It's a great time to have a baby."

"Well, I can't make it through this New Year." Li Shu surrendered.

Wang Yaning was about to speak when Li Wen said, "Brother, my cousin is shouting in the group, if you don't come out to give out the red envelopes, she will come and get them herself."

"Well, it's time to send out red envelopes." Li Zhen leaned over and picked up the mobile phone on the coffee table.

Li Wen came over immediately and said, "You only send one every time and then I grab it. Sister Huanxi will definitely be so angry that she will jump up."

Li Shu secretly glanced at his mother and quickly joined the red envelope group. "Give out two, I'll grab them too. Lin Huanxi may not last more than two rounds before she has to come over."

Wang Yaning looked at the three grown-up children in front of her and sighed angrily and relievedly: "None of you makes me worry less."

The two children looked at Li Zhen at the same time, and no one said anything. The war of urging marriage was temporarily diverted.

After playing around with the brothers and sisters in the group for a while, Li Shu and Li Wen returned to their own mobile phone circles and occasionally entered the brothers and sisters group to chat. Li Zhen was not very keen on chatting and rarely chatted after that period.

Other people understand his personality and are somewhat in awe of him as the most promising older brother in the family, so no one would tag him for no reason.

Even so, Li Zhen's phone was still filled with messages. Messages of blessing from relatives, friends, colleagues, clients, and some people he couldn't even remember who they were from filled up his WeChat and text messages, and of course there were also group messages.

After chatting with close friends like Jiang Haicheng and Yan Jinghong for a few sentences, he suddenly felt empty inside, and then, as if possessed by a ghost, he scrolled down the long list of red unread messages, but he didn't see the avatar he wanted to see until he reached the bottom.

His heart couldn't help but skip a beat. Could it be that Lu Xingchen had deleted his WeChat?

Li Zhen immediately opened the address book, and he had to scroll almost to the bottom before he found the WeChat account with no text but only a star as its name.

After opening the message boxes between the two, I found that the last conversation was a voice message from more than two months ago, with a call duration of 29 seconds.

During these 29 seconds, Lu Xingchen said to him, "Mr. Li, I still like you." He was stunned for a moment and replied to her, "You are sick."

Li Zhen suddenly felt a pain in his chest. No matter how insincere and heartless Lu Xingchen was, she would feel a little uncomfortable when he said she was sick, right?

All he had wanted was to make her feel uncomfortable.

But now he was worried that she would feel uncomfortable, and also worried that she would not feel uncomfortable.

Li Zhen couldn't help but click on her circle of friends again, and found that there was nothing among her friends. He couldn't help but wonder if she had deleted him.

He subconsciously opened the web page and searched for ways to verify whether the other party had deleted him without letting the other party find out.

Then, based on what he had searched, he secretly clicked on the function to transfer money to her, entered any amount, clicked transfer, and when the page successfully entered the password input page, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief that she had not deleted him.

That’s right, she wouldn’t delete it. With her personality, she would pay him back no matter what.

Yes, since she still has to pay him back, she should not leave Zhencheng.

But that's not true. If Zhiduoxingren's restrictive contract expires, it will be easy for Lu Xingchen to earn 10 million, so she may leave at any time.

After reaching this conclusion, Li Zhen closed his eyes in disbelief.

He had indeed thought about it and said that if Lu Xingchen really wanted to leave, he should let her go, but the thought of her leaving again... It was as if thousands of arrows pierced his heart. Li Zhen stood up suddenly from the sofa with such pain in his heart. He was dizzy for a moment, but he suddenly sobered up when he saw the puzzled eyes of his family.

He tried to remain calm and said, "I suddenly remembered that I had a phone call to make."

After saying that, he took his phone and left the living room.

Wang Yaning watched him go upstairs, then turned to look at his daughter who was also looking at him and asked in a low voice: "Did your brother encounter any problems recently?"

"Is there ever a day when a workaholic has nothing to do? Isn't it always like this?" In fact, Li Shu lied. She had also recently discovered that Li Zhen was occasionally absent-minded. Even this filial son hid on the balcony to smoke when his mother was at home. This had not happened for a long time.

At this moment, Li Zhen took a half-smoked pack of cigarettes from the room and went to the balcony, smoking while feeling the cold wind. He just wanted to clear his mind, but the wind blew, and he thought of Lu Xingchen in various forms more clearly.

But every time she looks like this, she will eventually be replaced by a helpless and apologetic face.

Then she smiled and told him that she was unhappy about bearing the label of being her ex-girlfriend.

Li Zhen began to regret. If he hadn't tried his best to express that he hated her every time, perhaps she wouldn't have fallen into an unhappy situation, and she wouldn't have avoided him so much.

The more I regret, the more I miss her.

He wants to see her.

Want to see her right away.

If not, it would be nice to just listen to her talk. I can't remember how many times I wanted to call her but gave up. I have so much to say but I don't know how to start.

In fact, he was afraid that if he said what was in his heart, she would run faster.

He was afraid of being rejected by her, and he still couldn't accept that she rejected him many years ago.

After exhaling a puff of smoke, Li Zhen smiled bitterly. Perhaps no one would believe it if he said it, but a man like him who seemed to be sure of everything had never had confidence in front of Lu Xingchen. Even if Lu Xingchen was willing to make a move, he would follow her without any resistance.

As for Lu Xingchen, let alone making a pinky promise to him, he didn't even give him a wavering look.

But even so, he still had to use all his strength to resist in order to stop himself from wagging his tail and begging for mercy at her like a dog.

Oh, even if he was extremely unwilling, he could not deny that he was what everyone called a bootlicker. But so what? If he didn't contact Lu Xingchen again, he felt that he might go crazy.

Someone sent him a New Year's greeting on WeChat again. He looked at the group message template for a moment, and suddenly his heart was shocked. He quickly flipped to Lu Xingchen's WeChat with his cigarette between his hands. With his heart beating wildly, he sent her a message:

Happy New Year to you too

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