“She won’t be able to contact me either,” Lin Mo hinted.

"..."

Chen Yajie lowered her head, her bangs falling over her forehead, concealing her tired, worried, and vulnerable face.

"Is it that Ya Jie can't contact you, or that Lin Mo doesn't want me to contact you?"

Lin Mo sighed, rubbing her hand, unsure of what to do.

"Lin Mo...can you hug me?"

Lin Mo remained unmoved.

"Can't you even kiss me anymore?"

"Will we never be able to celebrate the New Year together again?"

"I can't wish you a Happy New Year, I can't wish you a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, I can't celebrate your birthday, I can't look you in the eye anymore, I can't talk to you anymore, I can't eat with you in the cafeteria anymore, I can't hold your hand anymore...?"

"Well, Qingran won't allow it." Lin Mo pulled out his shield.

The basket Chen Yajie was carrying suddenly fell to the ground, and the cleaned bride was once again covered in mud and dust. She clutched her chest, her breath mingling with sobs...

"Lin Mo, it hurts so much here... What should I do..." She shook her head. "I don't want this to happen. I like you so much, you know that?"

"know."

"Do you like me too?"

"..."

After an unknown period of silence, the girl suddenly giggled.

"Okay, uh, it's alright, Ya-jie understands. Well, that's settled then, it's fine..."

"Lin Mo, don't feel guilty, it's okay. It's normal. My mom always tells me that's how it is among young people..."

Chen Yajie lowered her head and pulled her hand away from his. She stumbled as she started to walk, her hands trembling as she lifted the basket.

"Ah, it's dirty again, but it's just a little mud, I can just rinse it in water... Hmm, Lin Mo must be in a hurry to leave, so let's take it with us then, we can't come empty-handed~"

"Anyway, Ya Jie has tried, but there's no way out, so there's nothing we can do... Ya Jie probably still can't forget you. Lin Mo, you should remember to block all my contact information when you go back, because I'm so scared. I'm so clingy, I'll definitely keep calling and texting you, and I'll probably cry and beg you to hug me..."

"so..."

Chen Yajie, her expression a mix of crying and laughing, handed him the basket after the water had been filtered again, which Lin Mo accepted.

She smiled.

"I knew it all along. Meeting Lin Mo was my greatest blessing. I shouldn't have asked for anything more."

"Lin Mo, let's hurry! The old man at the village entrance has a tricycle; he charges very little. Let's go, let's go!"

"If you don't leave now, I'm going to cry terribly..."

"Go away! Go away..."

Chapter 170 He Wants It All

Watching Lin Mo leave, the girl's lips turned purple from being pressed together. Several times she wanted to chase after him and beg for his love with all her might, but she forcibly suppressed it each time.

The understanding Chen Yajie wouldn't do that; begging for acceptance like that would only make her hate herself.

The sound of firecrackers and Lin Mo's footsteps crunching through fallen leaves disappeared together.

After she could no longer see him, Chen Yajie gradually calmed down.

She wasn't sure if she had actually heard Lin Mo's footsteps; logically, the sound of firecrackers should have masked his footsteps.

But just watching him take each step, as if his footsteps were slamming into her chest, made her gasp for breath. She couldn't help but marvel that watching her lover leave meant she could hear his footsteps from a great distance...

I didn't get to see my father pass away before. When he was in the hospital, I was still at school, being scolded by my teacher.

Why can't she even answer such simple questions correctly? Why do her classmates only bully her? Why doesn't she look for the problems within herself?

Chen Yajie thought to herself, "I need to find the problem. Maybe I'm not pretty enough, not gentle enough, not pleasing enough to him. Maybe I'm too clingy, my smile isn't pretty enough, or maybe I looked too ugly when I was all dirty."

Oh, it could also be because she was too hasty. Lin Mo had told her before that while it's good to be kind and compassionate, one shouldn't mistake kindness for selfless devotion.

This will make others take your kindness for granted, and they will become even more demanding, thinking that you are easy to bully and that it is all their right.

Chen Yajie didn't understand; she was only focused on getting close to him and just kept nodding blankly.

Looking back now, I realize that she was used to being good to Lin Mo, but Lin Mo was never used to accepting her kindness.

So he chose Qingran and made a special trip to say goodbye to Yajie.

That makes things simple. She can still be good to her mother; she just needs to channel that pent-up love into her family.

Wanting to let out a soft sigh, the girl realized that her lips were stuck together with saliva because they had been pursed tightly for too long, exposed to the cold wind for a while, and had been crying for a while.

"You should drink some water..."

Without thinking, she cupped her hands and drank from the stream, then coughed, spitting out some sand along with the water.

You can't drink water that hasn't been boiled, she forgot, but it made her much more alert.

The girl suddenly realized that her earlier excitement and harshness towards Lin Mo might have been due to the noise of firecrackers outside, or perhaps she was just drowsy from not having drunk water.

The male and female protagonists in the book will experience many heartbreaks, breakups and reconciliations, which is perfectly normal.

Lin Mo often lectured her with profound truths, like how life isn't just about romance, and that family and friends are also very important. Although she only thought that once they were husband and wife, they were still family... haha...

"It's over. Let it end like this..."

Chen Yajie tried to remove the jade Buddha pendant from her neck, pulling hard for a long time until a bright red mark appeared on her fair neck. She began to experience intense pain, and the dogs surrounding her started barking...

She then realized that she could have simply held the chain and gently removed it from her neck. For some reason, she had instinctively tried to tear it off...

Taking off the jade pendant, Chen Yajie gently stroked its patterns. She then took a plastic bag from her small shoulder bag that she had brought up the mountain. Inside were a neatly folded scarf and another jade pendant.

She always carried the things Lin Mo gave her with her. If they weren't suitable to wear, she would wrap them up in layers of bags and hide them in her schoolbag or handbag, keeping them close to her heart and inseparable from her.

She held both jade pendants in her hands, examining them for a long time, but the one Lin Mo had given her was still the prettier one.

This part of hers is so ugly, the more she looks at it, the more she hates it. No wonder Lin Mo returned it to her. Hmm, if she were Lin Mo, she would definitely have thrown it away.

After all, it was just a girl who wasn't that important, and the gift was just that unimportant, and it was even a gift to pay off a debt. It was as stingy as could be.

She tossed it casually into her bag, then picked up the one Lin Mo had given her, kissed it, something she always did before wearing it.

Try to smile again, because she still needs to be good to her mother, her grandmother, and her friends.

Oh, right, I should send everyone a Happy New Year greeting!

Chen Yajie pulled out her phone, and paused for a moment as she unlocked the screen, because the wallpaper was a photo of her and Lin Mo, which she had secretly taken when Lin Mo wasn't looking...

"QQ, contacts, who should I send it to first... Wanfeng is definitely not awake yet, so I'll send it to the class monitor first..."

Then, Chen Yajie stared blankly at the red exclamation mark on her phone.

"Is the signal bad? But I was able to chat with Lin Mo yesterday..."

She tried messaging Jiang Wanfeng again, but Chen Yajie knew that Jiang Wanfeng rarely used QQ and never saw her messages...

So she sent Shen Yanxi a message, hoping that Xixi would reply with "Happy New Year"?

However, the message received was just an automated reply: "XiXi doesn't plan to use this phone anymore~ Sorry~"

She was stunned for a moment, then her gaze shifted to Li Qingran's account. Li Qingran was still online, but she didn't have the courage to ask...

After all, Qingran was the one Lin Mo truly loved...

Lin Mo...

When Chen Yajie clicked on his profile picture, she only saw the system message "Account has been deleted."

All the special attention and the little flames and big flames have disappeared; all that's left is a long string of black and white chat logs...

When she couldn't resist looking back at her past memories, she quickly turned off the screen.

She couldn't watch it; reason told her she couldn't watch it.

It's over, it's over. I can't keep bothering him.

The sun will be up soon, let's go home first. We need to cook some breakfast for Mom and Grandma. Mom worked hard last night making New Year's Eve dinner, and Grandma isn't feeling well either.

Although I can't wish my friends a Happy New Year, I can still say it to my family.

But as she approached the gate, about to unlock it and go inside, she heard her mother's incessant chatter coming from within.

"Mom, your illness can't be delayed any longer. Ya Jie's father is gone. Ya Jie has lost her father, and the only thing she has left here is you."

"Don't even mention 200,000... we'll get her treated even if it costs 500,000. It's alright. We've almost paid off her father's medical debts, and my daughter Ya-jie and I don't have any other expenses. I have a good job in the city now, so we can focus on treatment first..."

"You haven't even seen Ya Jie go to university, nor have you seen her get married, how can you give up... The doctor said there's hope, even ten more years is a blessing..."

"Hey, you can't touch your savings for your funeral... What? Ya-jie's dowry... We can save that up later..."

"Don't worry, Ya-jie went out to pick mushrooms and hasn't come back yet. We won't let her know..."

Chen Yajie covered her mouth, suppressing her near-desperate grief and not crying out, and retreated repeatedly.

What... what happened...?

Why is this happening...

Grandma is sick too...and she needs a lot of money again, just like Dad did...She and Mom knelt down and went to so many relatives' houses to borrow money, and even Mom was cut off from by Grandma...

Meeting Lin Mo truly used up all her luck in her entire life. Now that she couldn't keep Lin Mo, and couldn't keep her luck either, is this retribution coming...?

She just wanted to wish her mom and grandma a Happy New Year; she didn't want to know this, didn't want to hear this...

"Hey, let's go. We'll take you to the hospital right now. The emergency room should still be open... You'll be fine if you recover within six months. Just trust the doctors and us, don't worry about anything else..."

Hearing this, Chen Yajie hurriedly turned around, even tripping and falling in her haste. Ignoring whether she had cut herself and bled, the girl returned to the stream. Suppressing her heartache and physical pain, she sat on a bench and hastily picked up a bamboo shoot peel, pretending to wash it...

"Ya Jie?" The door opened, and Chen's mother helped an elderly woman out.

"Hey! Mom, what's wrong?"

"You're back so early? Did you pick mushrooms?"

"The mushrooms were all picked, so I came back early and am washing vegetables here..."

"Okay, heat up some food for lunch. Mom and Grandma are going to pay our respects in advance. Our family owes a lot of favors to our relatives, so the earlier we pay our respects, the more sincere we are."

"Okay...okay, bye-bye!" Chen Yajie lowered her head, not daring to look up.

"If you need to go back to the city at noon, take the tricycle at the village entrance."

"OK..."

"..."

The mother and grandmother hurriedly left, and the girl finally raised her head.

It rises and then falls.

In the past, relatives who disliked her family would say that she and her mother were cursed to bring misfortune to their husbands and fathers, that she was a jinx.

But Lin Mo always said that there were stars in her eyes.

Hmm~ A jinx is just a star, isn't it...?

Fortunately, Lin Mo left her on his own initiative, otherwise it wouldn't have been good if he had passed on his bad luck.

"Wang..."

The two dogs crouched beside her and barked softly.

One of them is named Wangcai (meaning "prosperous wealth"), and the other Wangfu (meaning "prosperous husband"). Their simple names encapsulate the hopes her family had longed for.

"Prosperity, good fortune for husbands, New Year... it doesn't seem to bring any joy at all."

"Wang..."

...

"Wang Wang..."

In front of the villa, Li Qingran squatted down, looking at the little black dog in front of her, and poking it with her finger from time to time.

After confirming that it was not aggressive, I opened its cage and took the puppy out.

Instinctively, she turned her head to look for Lin Mo, wanting to share the puppy she had found with him. After looking around, she belatedly remembered what had happened last night.

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