Yan Xixi was stunned, staring as if at Aladdin’s magic lamp.
The aroma of freshly barbecued at wafted through the room, and Yan Xixi almost cheered. Without hesitation, she imdiately savored the food. Barbecued at with coffee—an ultimate delicacy. It had been a very long ti since she had eaten so joyfully.
After eating and brushing her teeth, a ssage arrived: "How was the barbecued at?"
She chuckled. "Country Bumpkin, you can’t keep this up; you’ll spoil ."
He also laughed heartily, as if he could see her beaming face through the phone.
"It’s nothing more than a small matter."
Was it a small matter? If it were a small matter, would any stranger do this for you?
"Country Bumpkin, why are you so good to ?"
"Miss, for such a small thing, are you really that starved for affection?"
She said very seriously, "Since my father passed away, no one has ever been this good to ."
"..."
"Sigh, I rember on the night of my sixteenth birthday, I suddenly threw a tantrum and didn’t want to eat cake. My father imdiately went out. He was gone for a long ti before he returned, carrying a big box of barbecue skewers. It turned out he had walked seven or eight streets to buy my favorite ostrich skewers... Country Bumpkin, besides my father, you’re the only person who has ever bought skewers for ."
"Really? Miss, I’m flattered to be compared to your father."
It’s true!
That affirmation ca from the bottom of her heart.
This was an extre level of affection, gentleness, and thoughtfulness... In his presence, she could even act spoiled and unrestrained without any inhibitions. Even with Huang Xiaojue, whom she had loved most deeply, she had felt too embarrassed to act this way.
Why did she feel embarrassed?
Was it because, from the very beginning, she had been counting on his contributions? Was it because his circumstances had always been so much better than hers? Or was it because of Mother Huang’s utterly contemptuous attitude?
Mother Huang hadn’t started disliking her rely because she got together with Wan Donglin. Long before that, when her own mother’s health had seriously declined and her family had fallen into hardship, Mother Huang already disliked her.
Even during their school years, because Huang Xiaojue’s family was so much wealthier than hers, and her own family had just suffered a misfortune at a ti when she was feeling most insecure, she often had to rely on Xiaojue’s al card to get by. Consequently, she always saw Huang Xiaojue as a Prince Charming—there was always a distance between them. She was afraid of offending him, afraid he would be unhappy, afraid that their student romance would ultimately lead to them going their separate ways, leaving her with no one to rely on again.
Consequently, she never dared to visit his ho during their school years—even when he invited her, she didn’t dare go.
She rembered a dorm mate from a rural area. Although she was an only child and her parents were migrant workers, her family wasn’t poor. She started dating a boy from their class. The boy was local to the city; his family wasn’t particularly wealthy, but his parents were civil servants and owned two or three properties. After the girl visited the boy’s ho for the first ti, they broke up. The reason was that the boy’s mother strongly disapproved, claiming their families weren’t a good match and she didn’t want her son to date soone from the countryside.
The Yan Family weren’t rural folk, but they were poorer than that rural girl.
Moreover, Huang Xiaojue’s family background, looks, and overall standing were all far, far superior to that rural girl’s.
Hardship makes one mature early. By then, she clearly understood that if she ever went to the Huang Family ho and they learned about her true circumstances, they would undoubtedly dislike her. So, she kept putting it off, delaying for as long as she could.
Especially after he gave her fifty thousand dollars for her mother’s dical treatnt, she regarded him even more as a savior.
Because of this, she had always been cautious and deferential in front of Huang Xiaojue—even after they reconnected, this remained unchanged.
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