The bull blew past

  In recent years, the progress of urban planning has been extremely rapid. The campus convenience store has long since become a 7-11, and the successor to the flatbread with everything is Subway (sandwiches with everything). So it's not surprising that Yu Tian has changed beyond recognition either.

  I bought a dozen beers and strolled down to the riverbank, sitting down with a sway.

  I used to have a bad habit, always pouring open beer into the river, and when Yutian came, I would suddenly take a big gulp, with red eyes saying I won't care about you anymore, I don't like you anymore. That trick actually didn't work, Yutian was soft-hearted but not hard-hearted, he would just nod slightly and say okay then walk away without looking back, so I changed later on.

  Speaking of which, in the year I spent with Yu Tian, I got rid of many bad habits.

  For example, when kissing, don't stick out your tongue, that kind of proactive thing should be left for boys to do.

  Under Yu Tian's guidance, I am no longer the little girl who would hyperventilate and get distracted at the sight of a handsome guy, as if ready to fall in love at any moment.

  Thinking of this, I took the small ticket and thickened my skin to return all the beer to the convenience store. After all, as a good young man, why should I get drunk and hurt myself for a mediocre life?

  I returned home before dawn, and I was especially careful when opening the door because my mom is a light sleeper and I didn't want to disturb her. The next morning, I was pulled out of bed by my ears at the crack of dawn.

  I've been mentally prepared for this for a long time.

  My parents have been at odds with each other since their divorce, and the only thing they agree on is blaming each other's genes for producing a heartless daughter like me.

  And now, it's been four years since my mom first successfully pinched my ear in person. Pinching and pinching, she started crying, very sentimental, I also tried to cry but couldn't squeeze out tears, so I secretly pinched myself, which was discovered by my mom, who cried and laughed and said "You silly child, even after graduating from college, you're still like when you were a kid."

  The first pass of going home seemed to have gone very smoothly, and then I changed my clothes and washed up under the supervision of my mother and went to the dining room for breakfast together. My stepfather, Lin Shu, was holding a certain morning newspaper and reading it with great interest, he is a knowledgeable person, day and night are particularly elegant, as soon as he saw me, he asked, "Xǐ ah, graduated, how's your study?"

  I paused in our passionate kiss and lifted my head, "Hurray! I've graduated from university with a major in Chinese Language!"

  I studied Chinese for four years at a university in Japan, and according to Junko, the difficulty of the teaching materials was comparable to that of high school language arts in China. My artistic aspirations ultimately came to nothing, and even my mom almost choked on millet porridge.

  "What did you just say? Didn't Si Datong say you were studying law?"

  "Right," I nodded very seriously, "it wasn't until my junior year that I found out foreigners can't practice law in Japan, and even if I went back to China, studying Japanese law would be useless, so I changed majors. Besides, isn't there already a big-time lawyer in our family?"

  I'm referring to Lin Yue, Uncle Lin's own son and my junior brother. He should not be at home, otherwise he would have been eating toast while reading a book with his eyes scanning the lines by now.

  Uncle Lin awkwardly served me dishes, but I thought it was no big deal and continued to smile and chat while checking out the dinner menu.

  My mom couldn't bear to watch anymore, but the phone in the living room suddenly rang, so she could only glare at me and went to answer it. After a few more minutes, as I was about to make my escape after finishing with the fried dough stick, my mom came back.

  Smiling brightly and firmly.

  "Mom, a prodigal son is worth more than a thousand pieces of gold!"

  "Ji Xi, Aunt Zhao said there's a nice young man, I accepted on your behalf, you'll meet him this Saturday."

  Zhao Qian Sun Li...