Jiang Sui just looked at him steadily without saying anything.

The man in front of her was very different from the big boy in her memory. She remembered that when Si Nian was picked up by the luxury car, he didn't seem to be as tall as he is now. Now he was standing so close to her that she had to tilt her head back to see his whole face.

His eye sockets were still as deep, but now they hid many things that Jiang Sui could not understand.

"Have you seen enough?"

The corners of Si Nian's mouth curled up slightly, barely perceptible.

When he asked this, Jiang Sui realized that she had been staring at Si Nian for a while. She lowered her head in embarrassment and her hand unconsciously fastened the handle of the suitcase.

Because of the strange feeling of not seeing each other for many years, Jiang Sui didn't know what to say to him.

Si Nian seemed to understand everything, and he didn't seem to intend to let Jiang Sui continue to be embarrassed like this. He took the suitcase from Jiang Sui's hand, turned around and strode forward.

"Uncle Jiang asked me to pick you up, let's go!"

Jiang Sui was stunned. It turned out that he had always been in contact with his father, but he had only cut off contact with himself.

Jiang Sui couldn't describe what she felt at the moment. He grew up with her and she regarded him as a family member. But how could family members not contact each other for such a long time? It was so long that she not only couldn't recognize his appearance, but she could hardly recognize his voice.

Si Nian took a few steps forward and found that Jiang Sui did not follow him. She was still standing there looking at him, looking aggrieved and as if she wanted to cry but didn't.

He stopped and sighed helplessly, then walked back to her.

"Want to cry?"

Si Nian leaned in front of Jiang Sui and looked at her with a smile.

“No!”

Jiang Sui realized that she had lost her composure, so she turned her face away and forced herself to suppress the grievance in her heart.

After calming herself down, she brushed past Si Nian's shoulder and walked straight forward without saying a word.

Si Nian looked at Jiang Sui's leaving back, shook his head with amusement, picked up the suitcase with one hand and strode after him.

Jiang Sui's footsteps were getting faster and faster, as if he wanted to get rid of the person behind him immediately.

Si Nian just followed her closely until she unconsciously missed the entrance to the parking lot. Then he stepped forward and held her, "Do you know the way?"

Jiang Sui looked at Si Nian in confusion and shook his head.

"How dare you go ahead if you don't know the way?"

Jiang Sui followed Si Nian into the parking lot in annoyance. He stopped in front of a black Range Rover and stuffed Jiang Sui's suitcase into the trunk.

The suitcase was so heavy that Jiang Sui had to use all his strength to lift it a little bit, but he did it easily and effortlessly.

It turned out that the boy had grown into a strong man during the years she could not see.

When Si Nian turned around and returned to the driver's seat, Jiang Sui was still standing in front of the car, staring at him with his dark eyes.

He suddenly let out a sigh as if he had accepted his fate, walked around the front of the car, supported Jiang Sui's back with his hands, opened the passenger door and stuffed her in.

After getting in the car, Si Nian did not rush to start the car. He just tilted his head and stared at Jiang Sui intently.

Although Jiang Sui was looking straight ahead, she could also feel the uncomfortable gaze from Si Nian beside her. She didn't dare turn around and look at him, for fear that the calmness she had pretended with great difficulty would disappear in an instant. She was even more afraid that those questions would surge out like a broken dam.

At the end of August, the temperature in Shenhai City was still a little bit higher than that in the Northeast region where Jiang Sui had stayed the longest. After leaving the air-conditioned airport hall, Jiang Sui's nose tip was soon covered with dense beads of sweat.

Si Nian turned around and silently started the car, adjusted the air conditioner to a suitable temperature, turned his head and reminded Jiang Sui, "Fasten your seat belts."

Jiang Sui turned her head to look at Si Nian, then immediately looked down at herself. Only then did she realize why Si Nian had looked at her for so long but said nothing.

She hurriedly pulled out the passenger seat belt and fastened it, then Si Nian turned the steering wheel and drove the car out of the airport parking lot.

The person sitting next to him was obviously the one he was most familiar with in the past, but now Jiang Sui felt extremely unfamiliar with him. The long river of time had indeed ruthlessly widened the distance between them.

She said nothing, and he said nothing either, and there was complete silence in the car.

Jiang Suiban leaned against the car door, casually looking at the scenery receding outside the window, but his heart was constantly churning.

Si Nian is Nian Nian's brother who ate, slept and played with her when they were little. In fact, Jiang Sui has many questions in her mind that she wants to ask him in person, for example, why he didn't reply to her emails, why she didn't come back to see her off when her mother, who had treated him so well for eight years, passed away, and whether his only relative treated him very well and did everything according to his wishes.

Jiang Sui remembered the day Si Nian left her home. It was midsummer. Cicadas were chirping outside the window, and even the occasional breeze was hot.

That day, Jiang Sui's mother Sui Yuzhu got up early, cooked a table full of sumptuous meals, and dressed Si Nian up to be extremely handsome. The eight-year-old Jiang Sui opened his big eyes wide, emitting a bright light, and kept praising Si Nian in front of him, "Brother is so handsome today!"

Hearing Xiao Jiang's praise, the fourteen-year-old boy became a little shy and timid. His face turned slightly red and he pursed his lips. Two shallow dimples appeared on both sides of his mouth.

At the dinner table that day, Jiang Sui ate voraciously, but Si Nian still sat beside her, stroking her back and whispering in her ear with an infinitely doting yet slightly reproachful tone, "When I'm not around, no one will pat your back. Eat slowly. Girls have to pay attention to their image when they grow up, otherwise no one will want you in the future."

After saying this, Jiang's mother and grandmother at the table turned their heads and tried to adjust their emotions.

Only Xiao Jiang Sui didn't understand what that meant. She pouted and said, "I don't want it. It doesn't matter if no one wants it. I have Brother Nian Nian as long as I have him. No matter what I look like, Brother Nian Nian will never abandon me, right?"

But that day Si Nian just smiled and said nothing...

Later that day, a car with an out-of-town license plate was parked outside Grandma Jiang Sui's yard, attracting many onlookers from the surrounding neighbors.

Jiang Sui loves to be lively, and when he heard the noise he excitedly pulled Si Nian out to join in the fun.

Jiang Sui didn't know much about cars at that time. He only knew that such cars were rarely seen in their 18th-tier city in Northeast China. There might be some experienced people in the crowd who said that the car was a Maybach, very expensive, and it might be difficult to find one in their city.

Xiao Jiangsui didn't understand, but she could tell that the car that suddenly appeared in front of her house was a rare thing. She even walked around the car several times and took a closer look at it.

But she didn't know at that time that this car would eventually take her brother Nian Nian to a very far place called Jiangnan.