As soon as Si Nian came back and entered the house, he heard Xiao Hai say that Haozi came to see him and was now upstairs.

Remembering that Jiang Sui was still sleeping upstairs, Si Nian immediately ran upstairs in two steps.

As soon as he went upstairs, he saw Haozi and Jiang Sui sitting face to face on both sides of the dining table, seemingly talking about something.

"Mouse, why didn't you say hello to me before you came?"

Si Nian walked over, patted Wu Chunhao on the shoulder, and sat down next to him.

"Hey, I went to talk to you about that job early in the morning! It's too far to go back to my place, so I just stopped by your place on the way! Anyway, I'm on vacation and have nothing to do, so I thought I'd catch up on some sleep at your place and wait for you to come back to talk to you, but I didn't know you had a beautiful mistress hidden in your house!"

Wu Chunhao said this while looking at Si Nian with a wicked smile.

Si Nian glanced at Jiang Sui, and seeing that she had no special reaction, he seriously nudged Haozi with his arm.

"Don't talk nonsense! This is my sister!"

Wu Chunhao's smirk got even worse. He covered his cheek with one hand and whispered in Si Nian's ear, "Don't pretend in front of me! You two have different surnames. How can you be sisters?"

Maybe it’s because Jiang Sui has been practicing listening to various languages since she was a child, so her hearing is particularly good.

Even though Haozi deliberately lowered his voice when speaking in Si Nian's ear, she heard every word.

She saw that after Si Nian heard Haozi's whisper, he immediately turned his eyes to her.

Her ears felt hot and she quickly lowered her head, pretending that she heard nothing.

But her heartbeat was getting faster and faster.

When Si Nian saw Jiang Sui's earlobes gradually turning red, he knew that she had heard everything.

He glared at Wu Chunhao and signaled him to shut up with his eyes.

Of course Wu Chunhao understood. After so many years of cooperation, he could understand what the other person meant with just one look.

This girl is also his taboo, no jokes allowed!

He immediately made a zipper motion on his mouth to indicate that he had shut up.

Then Si Nian coughed and called Jiang Sui.

"Um, Sui Sui, he's the owner of this store, you call him Brother Haozi!"

Jiang Sui looked at Si Nian, then at Wu Chunhao, without any reaction.

Haozi, however, curled his lips and smiled secretly, thinking that you don't need to introduce this, this girl already knows everything.

Si Nian glanced at Haozi and ignored him, continuing to talk to Jiang Sui, "He came to talk to me about work. Can you go downstairs and stay with Xiao Hai for a while?"

Jiang Sui nodded, took his phone and went downstairs.

The two people upstairs watched Jiang Sui's figure disappear at the stairs, and they looked at each other.

"you still..."

"I didn't say anything!"

Two people were talking at the same time. Before Si Nian opened his mouth, Haozi knew what he was going to say to him.

Seeing Haozi's reaction, Si Nian stopped asking him and got back to the business.

"How did the conversation last night go?"

"I'm afraid you'll have to go there yourself. They said they won't agree unless they meet with the main writer of our team for an interview."

Si Nian hesitated for a while and said, "Okay, I'll go with you when I have time."

Then the two of them were silent for a while, and Haozi took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket and handed one to Si Nian.

Si Nian paused and took it.

Wu Chunhao lit a cigarette and turned the topic back to Jiang Sui.

"You know what? Your sister is really pretty. She's a beauty. No wonder you can't stop thinking about her."

Since Jiang Sui was not here at the moment, Wu Chunhao spoke even more without restraint.

Si Nian glanced at Wu Chunhao, took the lighter and lit his own cigarette.

He took a puff, blew out smoke rings, and choked himself and coughed a little.

"Don't talk nonsense, when have I ever forgotten it?"

"You're still pretending to be me! When you were in school, what were those circles on your textbooks? What were those words?"

When Si Nian saw that he was exposed by Haozi, he suddenly laughed.

Yes, Haozi had seen the circles on his textbook, and they all represented the same word.

It is the character “岁”.

At that time, Si Nian was just a freshman in college, and Jiang Sui was just a first-year junior high school student.

They hadn't seen each other for more than four years, but he thought about her every day.

But he could no longer contact her without restraint, so every time he thought of her, he would circle the word "age" on his textbook.

"I was a pervert at that time!"

Si Nian thought about it and began to laugh at himself.

Wu Chunhao was also amused by his words. He hooked his arm around his shoulder and said, "You just realized it! How old was she at that time? You are not only a pervert, you are worse than an animal!"

Hearing his old friend say this about him, Si Nian was not angry. He smoked a cigarette and stared blankly ahead.

After a while, Haozi elbowed him again.

"Hey, seriously, now that this girl has come to Shenhai, don't you plan to seize this opportunity?"

Si Nian understood what Haozi meant. He had kept her in his heart for so many years, and now that she was finally here, he had to let her know his feelings, right?

But he couldn't do that.

Especially after hearing her say last night that she might go abroad for exchange in a year.

"Don't hurt her in my current situation."

He took a long drag on his cigarette and then put out the rest.

"Besides, she won't stay in Shenhai for long."

Seeing Haozi's suspicious look, he told him that Jiang Sui was about to go abroad.

It was over. Haozi, as if he had learned everything by himself, recalled that Si Nian was in a hurry to make money to pay off his debts, and asked him.

"Is this also why you are so anxious to pay back Brother Jin's money?"

Si Nian nodded and said to Haozi with some melancholy, "I have to be prepared, right? If I find that woman before that, and settle my affairs, I won't have to worry about anything anymore. I might have a different choice then."

Wu Chunhao also agreed with his idea. The future was full of uncertainties. Maybe one day he would suddenly see the light.

At noon, Si Nian simply fried two dishes, and the four of them ate together on the second floor. In the afternoon, Si Nian went out with Wu Chunhao.

Jiang Sui didn't know what work they were going to discuss.

When Si Nian came back in the evening, not only Wu Chunhao followed him, but also Xie Xingzhou with a serious look on his face.

Both of them carried a computer bag and hurriedly followed Si Nian up to the second floor.

Jiang Sui didn't want to disturb them from talking about business, so after Xiao Hai got off work, she sat downstairs for a while.

It was not until a delivery man came to the store downstairs with the takeaway food that Jiang Sui realized that Si Nian and the others had ordered takeaway food upstairs.

When Jiang Sui went up to the second floor carrying a large bag of takeout boxes, he saw Si Nian and the other three sitting at the dining table, discussing something intensely.

The laptops in front of Xie Xingzhou and Brother Haozi were turned on, and the two monitors on another small table were also on.

Jiang Sui is not stupid. He knows that they have taken on the job of being a ghostwriter again.

"The takeaway is here, time to eat!"

Jiang Sui saw that the three of them were so engrossed in their work that they didn't notice that she had been standing at the stairs for a while. She could only remind them.

"Hey, sister Sui Sui brought the food. I'm really hungry. Let's eat first."

It was Wu Chunhao who came forward first and took the takeaway from Jiang Sui's hand, and called everyone to eat first.

"Okay, let's eat."

After Wu Chunhao spread out the takeaway box on the table, Xie Xingzhou also stopped what he was doing and came over to pick up the chopsticks.

Only Si Nian returned to his monitor and started typing on the keyboard.

"Nine, let's eat first."

Wu Chunhao called Si Nian to come for dinner, but he asked them to eat first, saying that he would finish the work at hand first.

Jiang Sui glanced at Si Nian, pulled a chair and sat at a corner of the table, and ate first with the other two.

But when she saw Brother Haozi and Xie Xingzhou devouring the food at the dinner table, she became a little restless.

If they continue to eat like this, Si Nian’s dinner will be gone soon.

Jiang Sui took a plate from the kitchen and put a lot of each dish on it.

The other two were so stunned that they gave her a thumbs-up in admiration.

Jiang Sui smiled at them and said, "Eat, eat!"

After dinner, the two men also entered into a busy and intense work.

Jiang Sui was the only one who had nothing to do, so she cleaned up the leftovers from their meal and then went back to her room to practice listening to her foreign language.

When Jiang Sui finished her practice, it was already late, so she prepared to go downstairs to wash up and go to bed.

But when I opened the door, I saw that the three of them were still busy in the small living room, with no sign of dispersing.

She subconsciously glanced towards the kitchen. She had left a lid on the dinner she had left for Si Nian and placed it on the kitchen counter. There was no sign that the lid had been moved.

Has Si Nian not eaten yet?

Jiang Sui couldn't help but wonder in his heart, when he took on jobs in the past, did he often work so hard and forget to eat and sleep?

She felt sad just thinking about it, she thought her health would be ruined if she continued like this.

So Jiang Sui went to the kitchen first, heated up the food in the microwave, added a glass of milk, and brought them both to Si Nian.

"Brother, let's eat first!"

When Si Nian heard the voice, he withdrew his gaze from the monitor and was stunned when he saw Jiang Sui.

"good!"

Si Nian agreed, took the food and asked Jiang Sui to go to bed first.

Jiang Sui ignored him and pulled a chair over to sit next to him.

"I'll watch you eat so you don't get too busy and forget."

Si Nian felt warm in his heart, picked up the chopsticks and looked at Jiang Sui, "Okay, then I'll finish eating and you go to sleep."

Jiang Sui bent his lips and nodded.

Si Nian was eating, but his mind was full of mixed feelings.

It has been many years since he had been cared for like this. Apart from the little girl beside him, no one else would treat him like this.

He shouldn't have kept her this time and given them so much time alone. It would be troublesome if they developed feelings for each other. She would leave sooner or later, so why keep her tied down?

But deep down he wanted to be closer to her, so he gave himself a vacation period and let her stay for a few days. He would keep a distance from her in the future.

"Were you always so slow in eating?"

Si Nian thought about it for a while and replied, "Not really, maybe occasionally."

"Oh, if this happened at home in the past, my grandma would nag me endlessly."

Si Nian smiled.

That’s what my grandmother would do back then.

Listening to Jiang Sui's soft voice, I always feel that she doesn't seem to have grown up in the Northeast, but more like a child raised in the water town of Jiangnan.

Maybe she inherited her personality from her mother. Her mother always used to speak in such a gentle tone.

Thinking of her grandmother and mother, Si Nian's heart was inexplicably stabbed.

Her two closest relatives left her in two consecutive years. How did she survive and still get such excellent results in the college entrance examination?

How helpless the girl must have been at that time, but he couldn't even get to her to comfort her.

Noticing that Jiang Sui beside him seemed to have not spoken for a while, Si Nian tilted his head and glanced at her.

She was lowering her head, fingering her fingers, and seemed a little more depressed than before.

He guessed that she was probably thinking of her departed relatives.

"Year after year..."

Si Nian couldn't help but call her.

"Um?"

Jiang Sui looked up blankly.

"It's okay, I'm still here!"

Although he was not sure how long he could stay with her like this, at this moment he wanted to give her some comfort so that she would feel that she was not alone.

"Ok, I know."

Jiang Sui nodded and smiled sweetly.

Si Nian actually knew what she was thinking just now!

She thought, besides her mother and grandmother, Si Nian was the only one in the world who could understand her.