"Thank you again to all our guests who performed on stage tonight. I sincerely wish the audience and friends in front of the TV set good health, peace and joy in the new year."

A four-and-a-half-hour New Year's Day party was coming to an end. The streets were deserted in the early morning. The strong wind blew the trees this way and that, picked up the fallen leaves and flew them everywhere. The temperature had plummeted to below zero.

It was only a few minutes from the TV station to the parking lot, but Li Fei's hands and feet were already freezing cold.

Chi Wen quickly took out a blanket to cover her legs, opened the thermos cup and handed it over: "Sister, I bought the hot milk tea specially, please drink some to warm me up first."

The heating was turned on in the car, and Li Fei reached out to take it, blew on the steaming thermos cup, took a sip, and immediately felt much more comfortable.

"By the way, sister, after you came on stage, a person named Ms. Zhao called me several times today. Do you think...do you want to take the time to give her a reply?"

Chi Wen didn't know who this Ms. Zhao was or what her relationship was with Li Fei.

Why do I keep calling at all times in the past few days? It feels like there is something particularly urgent.

However, Li Fei either pretended not to see it or deleted the call history with a calm expression.

"No, he's not an important person."

Li Fei then took two more sips of hot milk tea, picked up her phone and looked at the long list of missed calls in red. She had made seven or eight calls just an hour ago.

Zhao Jiaqiu was reluctant, and the unread messages that popped up on the home screen of his mobile phone were folded into a pile, about twenty or so.

Li Fei randomly clicked on a few of them and looked through them. The content of the messages was short, just two sentences over and over again. But when she saw it, why did she feel so fake and ridiculous?

[Fei'er, if you have time, come home for a meal. Your dad and I miss you very much. 】

[It’s been cold these two days. Please wear more clothes when performing outside to avoid catching a cold. 】

[I contacted Mr. Fu and he said that you have been preparing for the New Year's Day performance recently. No matter how busy you are, you must remember to eat on time. 】

After Li Wan died, Zhao Jiaqiu always used various excuses to ask her to go home, to the home where she had not settled, and to the home she once longed to return to.

The light outside the car window was dappled. She unconsciously raised her hand to brush her hair, clicked on the information bar to select all, and then decisively deleted it with one click.

When she was a child, she longed for them as parents to remember the existence of a daughter one day.

She had just turned ten when she was sent to her grandfather's house in the countryside. She faced an unfamiliar environment, with a yard full of chickens, ducks and geese, and even the toilet was a dry toilet that required an oil lamp.

Every time she missed home, she would sit under the locust tree at the entrance of the courtyard and secretly wipe her tears.

Her aunt had never read any books, was overbearing and unreasonable, and bullied her into having nowhere to go at such a young age.

In addition to washing her own clothes every day, she also has to help take care of her cousin who is five years younger than her.

In Li Fei's memory, what her aunt said the most to her was: "You were thrown away by your parents like this pile of trash, they don't want you anymore!" 】

When she first arrived in the countryside, Zhao Jiaqiu and his wife would call her every now and then, telling her to listen to her aunt and that they would come to take her home after she graduated from elementary school.

Li Fei just waited and waited, and finally waited until he graduated from elementary school.

That day, she packed her schoolbag and clothes, put on the new dress her grandfather bought her, and sat under the locust tree in the yard, waiting expectantly for her parents to pick her up.

On a hot day, she waited until the sun went down, but her parents didn't show up to pick her up.

In the end...they never called me again, and they never asked me a question during the holidays.

The car stalled and Li Fei's thoughts were instantly brought back.

"Sister, we're at the hotel. We don't have any work plans these two days. You can have a good rest."

Chi Wen saw that her face was not looking good, and thick dark circles appeared under her eyes, full of exhaustion.

A while ago, in order to successfully complete the New Year's Day party performance, I had to rehearse continuously without taking a rest. Even a strong body would not be able to endure it!

In order to avoid any unpleasantness with Fu Lingheng, she took advantage of the party to rehearse and stayed in a hotel outside during this period.

After passing the hotel lobby, the young lady at the front desk saw her appearing, took out a high-end velvet gift box and stopped her: "Miss Li, I have your express delivery."

Li Fei glanced at the velvet gift box and showed a hint of confusion: "Express delivery? I didn't buy anything!"

"It was delivered by a gentleman this afternoon, and he specifically asked me to hand it over to you."

"gentlemen?"

"Yes."

The lady at the front desk nodded and handed her the gift box.

Li Fei reached out and took it, glanced at the address on the express delivery slip, and politely thanked the other party.

Back in the hotel room, she took a shower as quickly as possible and changed into pajamas.

The gift box was quietly thrown aside by her, without even having time to open it and look at it.

She was so tired that she threw herself into bed, her hair messy and spread out on the bed, and fell asleep within a few seconds.

It was past two o'clock in the morning, and the light in the master bedroom on the second floor of Fenghuali Villa was still on.

The man was wearing a black bathrobe with a half-open collar, revealing a piece of cold white skin. The slightly messy black hair had water droplets dripping down on his neck, spreading down the collarbone, and finally fell into his strong chest and disappeared.

On the fifth day after Li Fei didn't come back, the whole villa seemed a little deserted for no reason.

He went downstairs and took out a bottle of whiskey from the wine cabinet. His eyes glanced at the magazines on the coffee table in the living room. He held the wine glass in his hand, and the ice cubes made a crisp sound against the wall of the glass.

He took a sip, walked over and picked up the magazine and flipped through two pages at random.

There are many profiles, works and experiences of celebrities in the music industry.

Fu Lingheng was a little surprised when he saw Li Fei in this magazine.

Her work "Loneliness" has won many awards, and she has also collaborated with many well-known directors and actors on the same stage.

Li Fei is indeed the partner that the old man personally selected for him. Although his personality is a bit cold like a little hedgehog now, he is finally shining in the field that he is good at.

Without the fetters of this marriage, would she be able to go further and fly higher?

Fu Lingheng put the magazine back on the coffee table, stood up from the sofa, walked towards the floor-to-ceiling window with his slender legs, and glanced out the window. The dark night sky was dotted with sporadic spots. He lowered his eyebrows and looked at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth of his left hand, his eyes dim and difficult to distinguish. .

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The next morning.

Because he slept late last night, Li Fei's head still hurt when he woke up.

She rubbed her temples to get some relief.

After getting up and washing up, I was about to go downstairs to have something to eat, when my cell phone rang at an inappropriate time.

She took the phone and saw the name flashing on it, and hung up without even thinking.

But the other party seemed to be on a par with her, calling her one after another.

Finally, she hesitated for a moment and pressed answer.

"Fei'er."

When the phone was picked up, Zhao Jiaqiu's voice came from the receiver, and his tone was unusually gentle.

Li Fei rarely contacted her on weekdays. Suddenly hearing her call him this tone, he felt a sense of disgust in his heart, but he still tried his best to maintain a normal tone.

"Is there a problem?"

"That's it. We plan to go to the nursing home to pick up grandpa. If we have time at noon, let's go home and have a meal together!"

Zhao Jiaqiu invited her with a flattering tone, as if those things he had done had never happened.

Li Fei clenched the phone tightly, his knuckles turned pale, and he was obviously unhappy: "Who allowed you to take grandpa out without permission?"

"I have discussed it with your uncle and aunt. After all, grandpa is old and it is time to move back home and enjoy the blessings. Besides, your grandpa..."

Zhao Jiaqiu was interrupted before he finished speaking, and Li Fei's tone instantly became colder: "Do you want to go back to that shabby village to enjoy your happiness?"

How long had she worked to get out of that remote village, and how much hard work and sweat she had put in, before she was finally able to bring her grandpa to H City. Why would they want her grandpa to go back just by saying something?

What did they do when it was the most difficult time?

Zhao Jiaqiu was silent on the phone for a long time before he reorganized his words and tried to persuade her: "No, Fei'er, we also considered that grandpa has been in the nursing home for too long and will inevitably miss home."

homesick?

Is it that dilapidated house where the roof leaks when it rains and cold wind pours in from the windows in winter?

When she went to the county town to attend high school, there happened to be a highway construction in the village.

Without authorization, my aunt took all the compensation from farmland and mountain farm and immediately went to the county town to buy a two-bedroom house.

He took away his grandfather's share of the money without saying a word, and sent the two of them back to live in a broken house in the village on the grounds that they couldn't live in it.

When her grandfather was ill and hospitalized, her uncle, who was afraid of spending money, pretended to be stupid in front of her, crying about being poor and miserable, unwilling to pay even a penny.

In Li Fei's eyes, the so-called family is just a bunch of hypocritical and disgusting worms. How could she allow them to take grandpa away!

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