Mr. Bo, my wife is going on a date with someone again.

The person who could specially go to see on such a family reunion holiday must be very important. The irritability in Gu Chenye's heart was soothed, and the corners of his lips curled up quietly, and even his voice was full of joy: "Yeah."

Although the garden is not large, it is arranged in the style of Jiangnan gardens, with stacked stones, water, pavilions and towers.

Yan Ji leaned against the pillar next to him: "Are there any cigarettes?"

Gu Chenye's expression turned cold in an instant, and he said stiffly, "No."

Yan Ji was not addicted to smoking, she just happened to think of it, so she asked him casually. He said no, and she stopped talking.

"Who are you going to meet on the second day of the New Year? I'll go prepare a gift."

"Need not."

"..."

Gu Chenye clenched his fists, sometimes he really wanted to strangle this woman to death.

The nanny at home came to call him and said that Father Mu wanted to see him for something.

"It's almost time to go back to the living room," Gu Chenye glanced at Yan Ji. Although it was the beginning of spring, the weather was still cold. Even under the sun it was not warm. "If you don't like dealing with those relatives, you don't have to bother with them."

Just as he turned around to leave, his cell phone rang. It was Mu Yunyao calling. Seeing the caller ID, he subconsciously turned his head to look at Yan Ji. The other person was also looking at him, his eyes fixed on him, with a smile on his face.

He paused, subconsciously retracted the foot that was halfway out, and when he reacted, he had already answered the phone in front of her: "What's the matter?"

"Chenye, Happy New Year."

"Ah."

"I just came back and haven't visited my uncle and aunt yet. Have you been back? I'll come to see them now," Mu Yunyao asked tentatively. She was next to her mother when she called Yan Ji just now, so she naturally knew that Gu Chenye brought Yan Ji home for the New Year. In order not to appear too deliberate, she deliberately took so long to call.

Gu Chenye said calmly, without hesitation: "After the New Year, today is New Year's Eve, and the people who came to my house are all relatives, so it's not very convenient."

The smile on Mu Yunyao's face was shaky, and her fingers were tightly grasping the phone. In the past, she didn't need to choose a time to go to Gu's house. Sometimes she stayed at Gu's house for the entire Spring Festival: "Chen Ye, I was also raised by my uncle and aunt. I am considered their half-daughter. It is only right for me to come and wish them a happy new year, right?"

“New Year’s Eve is a family dinner.”

Then why did you bring Yan Ji back?

Fortunately, she regained her senses in time and did not blurt out these words. Although Gu Chenye married her under Yan Ji's threat in order to avoid going to jail, they have been together for two years after all. Before she understands his current attitude, she cannot be impulsive and cannot question him as recklessly as before, otherwise she will only push this man further away.

Her face was distorted, and she almost broke the phone in her hand, but what she said was very considerate: "Then let's do the second day of the Chinese New Year. This year's second day of the Chinese New Year happens to be my birthday according to the lunar calendar."

"I don't know if they were home that day."

Mu Yunyao: "..."

If she didn't know Gu Chenye, she would have really thought he was a straight man and couldn't understand the hidden meaning in her words, but she knew him and knew he was not, so she pretended not to understand and just refused politely.

"Then I'll call my aunt." Her voice was a little reluctant: "Chenye, I left a pair of earrings at your house before. Can you help me find them? I really like that style, but I haven't found the same one in the past two years."

She didn't like the earrings, she just wanted to make things difficult for Yan Ji, although she was not sure whether she could hear her words.

As a result, Gu Chenye remained calm, and the man's tone did not even change: "Okay, I'll let Sister Li go find it."

Yan Ji felt nothing during this family reunion dinner. The lively atmosphere at the table did not affect her. She seemed to be in a different space from the others. Her excessive silence and straight back made her feel out of place.

……

Yan Ji didn't have any relatives who wanted to visit, so he planned to stay at home all day on the first day of the new year. He wanted to sleep in, but just as eight o'clock arrived, he was woken up by WeChat messages from Sheng Rugu and Xiaobai.

She stared at the ceiling, her cell phone vibrating beside her pillow for more than half an hour before it stopped. She took the phone, read the messages one by one, and replied to each of them with a "Happy New Year".

Sheng Rugu: "I sent so many messages, and you only replied me with four words. Do you have a conscience?"

"I know you're worried that I'll be too lonely during the New Year, but you really don't have to tell me every time you go to the bathroom. I just want to sleep now."

"You can't sleep in on the first day of the new year. I've already prayed to all the gods and Buddhas. You should also hurry up and pray that our business will be prosperous this year and our customers will triple."

While the two were joking around, Yan Ji received a call from Zhou Shuyue, asking her to bring Gu Chenye home for dinner tomorrow.

"No, I have something to do tomorrow."

Zhou Shuyue: "Xiao Ji, Mom knows you blame us. I was wrong before. I brought you back but didn't take good care of you. From now on..."

Yan Ji sighed and interrupted her self-reflection: "I'm almost 24 years old. I really don't need motherly love that much. Just like you announced to the public, I'm a stillborn baby. Isn't it better for us not to bother each other?"

Realizing that Yan Ji was about to hang up, Zhou Shuyue became anxious: "Although we wanted a boy at the beginning, we didn't throw you away..."

"Today is the first day of the new year. I want to have a good start, so stop talking. Goodbye."

She knew that they had not intended to abandon her at first, it was just a matter of coincidences. She learned all this from her adoptive mother. When the Yan family took her back, they were afraid of being exposed and having someone catch them, so they did not tell her her real identity, and did not mention a word about those things. It was not until she overheard their conversation by accident that she realized that she was their biological daughter.

But no matter what, it is an indisputable fact that they did not register her household registration in the Yan family, and after taking her back, they ignored her in every way because of Yan Jiaojiao's instigation. She would not accept whitewashing, and would not understand their difficulties.

Yan Ji hung up the phone without mercy. She turned off her phone. When she turned it on on the second day of the Chinese New Year, she found that the Yan family had called her several more times. For the first time ever, there were calls from Yan Weizhen and Yan Chuan.

Gu Chenye had already gotten up and changed into a formal suit with a knee-length cashmere coat on the outside.

After Yan Ji changed his clothes and washed up, he went downstairs and saw the coffee table in the living room filled with high-end gifts. He paused subconsciously.

The man followed her gaze and pretended to be casual: "I don't know who you are taking me to meet. I have prepared men, women, young and old, and all stages of life. You can choose the one that suits you best."

"Thank you."

Yan Ji picked out a box of high-end tea, a set of tea sets, a box of anti-wrinkle skin care products, and a box of chess made of Hainan Huanghuali wood: "Let's go to the airport. The flight to City A is at 9 o'clock."