My whole family is the protagonist, and I am the only cannon fodder!

When Xie Huinian received this message on his mobile phone, he was sitting on the sofa, trimming the branches of the flowers on the table in front of him. He looked very focused, as if he was doing something big, trimming the flowers bit by bit, very delicately.

Su Zaixi raised her wrist to look at her watch. It had been at least half an hour since she came here, but Xie Huinian had been sitting there the whole time. Except for the movements of his hands, his posture had not changed.

Su Zaixi walked over and knocked on the table in front of him, but Xie Huinian remained indifferent, as if he had simply ignored her existence and treated her every word and action as air.

No, at least the air still has some effect. In Xie Huinian's eyes, Su Zaixi is probably just floating dust.

Finally, after more than ten minutes, Xie Huinian finished trimming the large bouquet of flowers in his hand, and arranged them in a staggered and harmonious order in the celadon vase. It looked very coordinated and beautiful - you couldn't tell that Xie Huinian could actually do such a thing, and he looked like he had specially learned the craft of flower arrangement.

After wiping his hands with a cotton towel, Xie Huinian finally had time to raise his head and meet her gaze. His face was emotionless, and his eyes and eyebrows were cold. He only glanced at her once, and quickly changed direction.

Su Zai Xi felt that he certainly couldn't have the same nonchalant expression on his face as the other person, at least it wouldn't look good - after all, who said that Xie Huinian was always bright and handsome, and always the most gentle and polite? Obviously not, when he got a cold face, he could freeze a person to death in June.

It seems that it is a big mistake to guess someone's personality and character based on appearance alone. The actual situation may often be a world of difference.

"I originally wanted to ask you when you would recover from your illness, but now it seems that it will take some time."

"almost."

Su Zaixi gritted her teeth and tried to get used to the perfunctory answer. Her eyes rolled and she suddenly remembered something else. She looked at him with a hint of amusement in her eyes, "First of all, I have to admit my mistake to you. The last time I came here, I accidentally saw a photo in your phone. But it's not a private photo of yours, don't worry."

Xie Huinian didn't say anything and didn't respond.

So Su Zaixi continued, "It was the photo of the eyes that you should have magnified many times. I happened to see the owner of these eyes during swimming lessons."

Xie Huinian's gaze finally stopped on Su Zaixi's face. After a while, his facial lines tightened slightly, but he was still calm and composed, with nothing unusual.

Su Zaixi spread his hands, looking helpless, "Don't look at me like that, I'm just stating an ordinary matter."

After she finished speaking, she raised her eyebrows again, "To be honest, you two are not really suitable for each other. This kind of incompatibility is not determined by appearance or family background. After all, these two things are not that important. It's just a certain temperament or aura. You two are not the same kind of people, and it is destined to be difficult for you to be together."

I'm not sure if Xie Huinian was still listening, or how much he had taken in, because at this moment he was looking down at his phone, staring blankly at the interface. His eyes had become darker than before, his long eyelashes cast shadows, and a strong and very complicated emotion was churning in his eyes.

It was sent by someone who noted twenty-four years ago.

[In fact, we are not familiar enough to express it with the phrase "I haven't paid it back yet", which can easily cause misunderstanding. ]

[Xie, you don't owe me anything, so there's no need to say such serious things.]

【Finally, I wish you a speedy recovery and good health! 】

His fingers tapped unconsciously on the phone screen a few times, he closed his eyes and opened them again, but still couldn't find any words to reply. Xie Huinian pressed the screen-off button on his phone and threw it aside, deciding not to see it.

Then he coughed uncontrollably several times, exhaled, and asked in a light tone, "So?"

Not sure if Xie Huinian was talking to him, Su Zaixi pointed a finger at himself, "...Ah?"

"I mean you just said such a long string of words." Xie Huinian's eyes were filled with mist due to coughing, revealing a bit of sickly temperament, "So?"

"I've said what I wanted to say." Su Zaixi looked at her fearlessly, "My meaning is also very clear. You are two completely different people."

"Miss Su, you actually made a mistake."

"......?" Su Zaixi felt a little confused, so he quickly asked, "What's the matter?"

Xie Huinian gently stroked the veins of the flower, scraped off a drop of fresh water, and then chuckled.

"In this world, apart from life and death, everything else is trivial and not worth mentioning."

Summer vacation in private schools abroad always starts very early. The final week is so busy that one feels hopeless. During the exams, one feels like a zombie. Jiang Shen couldn't stay there for even a second. He only stuffed some necessary electronic devices into his luggage. Then he sat on the plane for more than ten hours. His spine was numb and his butt didn't seem to be his own. His soul and body were split into two parts.

As soon as I landed and smelled the fresh air of my motherland, I immediately became full of energy again. I didn't even bother to adjust to the jet lag and had a dinner with my junior high school classmates who I had made an appointment with long ago.

"It turns out that domestic food is still delicious." Jiang Shen sighed repeatedly, and then ate three servings of bibimbap in one breath.

Everyone else at the table was telling Jiang Shen about what happened after he entered high school. It seemed like a topic that had been accumulated for a century, and it all poured out in an instant, with everyone talking at once and without stopping.

Then they inevitably talked about Ji Siyuan. They had more or less some interactions with Ji Siyuan, and some of their families had some business dealings with him, so their facial expressions were slightly complicated when they mentioned him.

He said that he had been seriously injured recently and his hand was almost half disabled. He also had conflicts with several people at school before, one of whom was the real daughter of the Lincheng Wen family who had just been recognized in March. He was not familiar with the other parties, so he just mentioned them briefly.

Jiang Shen was still lamenting how so many things could have happened in the short period of time when he was away from Lincheng. He was still stuffing meat into his mouth without stopping. When he heard a very familiar but glossed-over name, he was stunned for a second.

Then he swallowed the mouthful of meat forcefully. The emotions in his eyes changed in a short period of time, and he asked with a frown.

"Lu Zaozao? One of them is Lu Zaozao?"