Soon, the bright headlights of the last bus shone towards the bus stop, making Jiang Sui unable to open his eyes.

The bus stopped and there were a few people queuing up to get on the bus. Jiang Sui stood at the end.

"Hey, today is Christmas Eve, what gift have you prepared for your boyfriend?" a girl who was queuing to get on the bus asked another girl.

"Hey, a peace apple!" Another girl took out an exquisitely wrapped apple from her bag and held it in front of her friend with a smile.

Jiang Sui then remembered that she had not yet given Si Nian her Christmas present.

This was her primary purpose for coming here today.

So when it was her turn to get on the bus, she paused.

"Hey, are you ready to get in the car?"

The driver was getting impatient and asked Jiang Sui with some displeasure.

Then she smiled and shook her head and said, "I'm sorry."

She turned and walked back, thinking about how she would speak when she appeared in front of Si Nian again.

Peace apple, yes, there is also the peace apple, you must eat the peace apple on Christmas Eve.

She wants to buy some too.

I found a fruit shop on the way, but they didn't have those exquisitely packaged apples.

Jiang Sui picked the two largest apples in the store and scanned the code to pay.

Returning to the door of Si Nian Store, the first floor was still the same as when Jiang Sui left, pitch black with no lights on.

Jiang Sui opened the door and went in, groping in the dark to the stairs. When going upstairs, her footsteps were very light, for fear that any noise would disturb Si Nian.

But when she reached the second floor, she was suddenly stunned.

Si Nian was standing on a bench, sticking Santa Claus decorations on the ceiling.

Maybe he stretched his arms too long, the hem of his long T-shirt was lifted up, revealing his fair and strong waist.

Jiang Sui stared with his eyes wide open, his mouth dry, and he began to swallow his saliva involuntarily.

Just as Si Nian was about to finish pasting the strip on his hand, the empty space for the remaining strip had already been pasted.

Jiang Sui walked over slowly, picked up a new piece of latte art from the ground, and held it under Si Nian's armpit.

Si Nian put the piece of paper in his hand on and when he looked down he saw the new latte art that had been handed to him.

He was stunned for a moment, and when he looked at Jiang Sui, a flash of surprise passed through his eyes.

Soon he took it over naturally and pasted it on the last blank space.

Then the two of them cleaned up the messy floor together without saying a word.

After cleaning up, the two of them stood in the small living room, both a little at a loss, not knowing what to do next.

It was Si Nian who took the lead in breaking this awkward atmosphere.

"Um, are you hungry? I'll go see what's in the fridge and make something to eat."

Hearing this, Jiang Sui nodded.

As long as he stopped speaking ill of her and drove her away, and was with Si Nian, she would eat anything.

It’s okay to endure hardship!

She doesn't care!

This time, Jiang Sui just sat at the dining table, watching Si Nian busy in the kitchen, without offering to help.

She felt that she should give him more opportunities to prove himself, even if it was just starting with small things, so that he could feel more sense of accomplishment and not lose faith in life.

Soon, two plates of fried noodles were served.

It’s the same food that Jiang Sui ate when he first came to Sinian.

This reminded Jiang Sui of that scene. He was driven away again, but his mood was different.

The last time she was driven away, she just felt wronged. If Si Nian hadn’t come to find her, she might never have set foot here in her life.

This time, she felt wronged and distressed at the same time, distressed for what Si Nian had gone through, so she would come back on her own without him looking for her.

She wanted to stay by his side, be his sun, and help him drive away the cold.

The moment he saw Jiang Sui coming back, Si Nian didn't know what he was feeling.

He thought that joy always outweighs sorrow.

The little girl's eyes are red, she must have been crying.

He didn't dare to ask, and even if he saw it, he could only pretend not to see it.

He knew he had done something stupid again.

He has been in a bad mood since he met Xue Dan and was humiliated and rejected by her.

If this breakthrough cannot be made, his injustice cannot be redressed, and he will not be able to stand by the girl's side.

Instead of dragging her along like this and letting her get deeper and deeper into his trap, it would be better to be ruthless and push her away right now.

At that moment, this was the only thought in his mind.

His brain always moves faster than his heart, and his mouth moves faster than his brain.

When he saw Jiang Sui walking downstairs silently without saying a word, he felt extremely sad again.

After struggling for a few times, he tried to chase the girl.

In the end, his reason prevailed over his heart.

Looking at the mess her carefully decorated small living room had made, he silently picked it up and pasted it back together.

A powerful feeling of loneliness came over me, a feeling I had never experienced before, even in such difficult times.

His Sui Sui, probably, will never come back.

At this moment, the little girl was sitting opposite him again, eating noodles quietly.

Si Nian stared at Jiang Sui silently for a while, then hesitated and called her.

"Year after year..."

"Stop! If you still want to chase me away, then don't say anything."

Jiang Sui didn't even raise his eyes. He continued to pick up noodles with the chopsticks in his hand and put them into his mouth. His cheeks were bulging with noodles, and he looked very cute.

Si Nian couldn't help laughing out loud.

At this time, Jiang Sui raised his eyes and glanced at him.

"Little hamster, how do you know I'm calling you to chase you away again?"

Jiang Sui snorted, ignored him, and continued eating noodles.

Si Nian slowly stopped smiling and started picking up noodles with chopsticks.

"I'm sorry, Sui Sui!"

I shouldn't always drive you away with bad words.

Si Nian lowered his head and put the noodles into his mouth.

When Jiang Sui heard this, his hands paused.

She didn't know what to say to him.

I could only smile at him when our eyes accidentally met.

It doesn't matter?

I'm fine, you don't have to apologize?

She didn't want to say anything now.

She doesn't need Si Nian to apologize.

It's nice to be able to have a home-cooked meal together in peace and quiet.

After dinner, Si Nian washed the dishes.

Jiang Sui had nothing to do, so he leaned on the sofa and browsed his phone.

Recently she followed a cat-raising blogger in the same city.

The blogger’s big orange cat gave birth to five kittens a few days ago. They are so cute that Jiang Sui was almost killed by their cuteness.

Every day when she has free time, she will open the blogger’s homepage to see if there are any updates.

But I don’t know why, the blogger hasn’t updated for two days.

Jiang Sui randomly clicked on a video that the blogger had previously watched. Her heart melted when she saw the five little cuties playing around together.

"like?"

Si Nian's low voice came from above Jiang Sui's head.

Jiang Sui looked up and saw Si Nian holding two freshly washed big apples in his hands, looking down at her.

"Um."

Jiang Sui nodded, and Si Nian handed her an apple.

Then he sat down next to Jiang Sui, looked at the five kittens on Jiang Sui's phone, and asked Jiang Sui seriously.

"Which one do you like?"

These five kittens are of five colors: one black, one white, one gray, one black and white, and one cream.

Based on their appearance alone, Jiang Sui couldn't guess what color their father was.

Jiang Sui pointed at the lively cream-colored kitten and said, "This one!"

"Want to raise one?"

Hearing Si Nian ask this, Jiang Sui pursed his lips.

She took a bite of the apple and mumbled, "It's inconvenient for me to live in the school dormitory. Besides, if I really want to go abroad in a year, what should I do with it?"

Yes, she is going abroad a year later, what should he do?

Si Nian stopped talking and started eating the apple.

Jiang Sui suddenly remembered that the Ping An Fu was still in his schoolbag and he had not given it to Si Nian.

She pulled over the schoolbag beside her, took out the blessing of peace wrapped in red brocade tied with a red string, and handed it to Si Nian.

"Hey, a Christmas present for my brother!"

Si Nian lowered his eyes to take a look.

Christmas in the West brings peace and blessings from the East.

This girl is really creative!

She must have been worried about him.

Si Nian raised his hand, took it and held it in his palm.

"But I didn't prepare Christmas presents for us every year, what should I do?"

Si Nian's voice was low and hoarse, and he looked like he was thinking seriously.

"How about...like when we were kids?"

Jiang Sui frowned, just like when he was a kid, what does that mean?

Suddenly, she remembered something and stood up as if her butt was pierced by a nail.

"I'm not going back tonight. I'm going to take a shower!"

After leaving a few words, Jiang Sui ran downstairs with a red face.

Si Nian sat on the sofa. As Jiang Sui's footsteps faded away, the smile on his face gradually faded.

His gaze turned back to the Ping An Fu tightly held in his hand, his eyes solemn.

Jiang Sui ran straight into the bathroom, closed the door tightly, and began to breathe deeply.

So, what does it mean to be like a kid?

Jiang Sui recalled that when she was a child, she always found various reasons to pester Si Nian for gifts.

Every time Si Nian was busy studying and forgot her gift, he would say, "Sorry, brother forgot. Can you kiss us today and make it up tomorrow?"

Then Si Nian would slowly place a kiss on Jiang Sui's smooth forehead.

Like a feather gently brushing past, Jiang Sui would burst into laughter and nod in agreement.

Jiang Sui looked at his slightly red cheeks in the mirror, blew a breath, and patted them with his hands.

How could Si Nian think of this?

She thought he must be teasing her on purpose.

When the heat on his face faded away, Jiang Sui began to unbutton his woolen cardigan.

She really came to take a bath.

But when she was left with only a layer of underwear and a tank top on her body, she remembered that she had just escaped from the second floor in a hurry and forgot to take a change of clothes and toiletries.

She sighed softly, feeling a little annoyed.

She hesitated for a while between the two options: putting on her clothes and going upstairs to get them, and asking Si Nian to bring them down for her.

Then he picked up the phone on the sink and sent a message to Si Nian.

Anyway, she packed them all in storage bags, so nothing could be seen from the outside.

Si Nian was still sitting on the sofa on the second floor in a daze when the cell phone on the table rang at the right moment.

He took it sideways, opened it and saw that it was Jiang Sui.

[Shanxi: Brother, I forgot to take my clothes and toiletries. They are in my school bag. Please help me take them. /Cute]

Si Nian shook his head and chuckled, this girl!

He casually pulled over Jiang Sui's schoolbag that was placed on the sofa. Inside it were two small storage bags neatly packed.

He took it out and was about to close the bag and put it back, but he saw a little white on the edge of a small pocket inside the bag, which looked like some kind of cloth.

Out of curiosity, he pulled it out to have a look.

When he saw that it was a square folded handkerchief, Si Nian's hand stopped.

A small lotus is embroidered on one corner of the handkerchief, symbolizing "abundance year after year".

If he guessed correctly, there was a word "year" on the diagonal of the lotus.

This is his handkerchief.

When Jiang Sui was young, her grandmother had an old habit of embroidering a handkerchief for each of her brother and sister every year.

The patterns embroidered on the handkerchiefs are different every year.

He remembered that the embroidered lotus was newly embroidered by his grandmother the year he left Jincheng.

When he left, Jiang Sui's little face was all red from crying.

He left the new handkerchief to Jiang Sui.

And told her to return it to him next time they met.

In fact, he didn't know when they would meet next time, or whether they would meet again.

He just wanted to leave her a little hope so that she wouldn't be sad about the separation.

Unexpectedly, this girl actually kept the handkerchief until now.

Wash them clean, fold them neatly, and carry them with you.