She Is Brighter Than the Stars

The boy’s lips were not very soft, with a taste of cold wind, but it tasted much sweeter than expected.

Li Shubai froze for a moment, and only reacted when he felt the warm tip of her tongue, pushing Cheng Nian hard.

Cheng Nian still remembers Li Shubai’s shocked expression, as if she didn’t kiss him, but killed his whole family.

When he wiped his lips desperately, Cheng Nian smiled like a child who had succeeded in playing a prank.

At that time, she was domineering and self-willed, completely disregarding other people’s feelings.

It seems that Li Shubai should hate her.

The fireworks stopped at some point, Cheng Nian let out a long sigh.

As far as fate is concerned, there are no innocent people.

While staring at the distant night sky in a daze, the door of the roof was opened.

“You are indeed here.”

Hearing Xie Junyu’s voice, Cheng Nian turned around, “Why are you here?”

Xie Junyu wrapped up his coat, walked over to Cheng Nian and sat down, “Staying in the room for a long time is really annoying. I came here when I heard Auntie say you were up here.”

Cheng Nian smiled, “It’s your first time attending this kind of party, and you’ll get used to it in the future.”

Xie Junyu sighed, his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of clear glass, and the half-drawn eyelids concealed his emotions.

Cheng Nian looked at him, not knowing what to say.

The illegitimate child in the field of public opinion is always the focus of discussion.

Xie Junyu seemed to be tired of it.

After sitting in silence for a while, Cheng Nian suddenly remembered something, straightened up and said sincerely to Xie Junyu, “Thank you just now.”

Xie Junyu came to his senses and smiled softly: “It’s nothing.”

In the sky, someone set off fireworks again.

Although not as big as the first time she saw it, it lasted for a long time.

After the splendor, the night fell into silence again.

Cheng Nian murmured, “It’s so beautiful.”

Xie Junyu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, when the door of the rooftop was suddenly opened again.

The two followed the noise and saw Su Huiyu sticking her head out, “You two come in, let’s eat.”

Cheng Nian responded, and said softly to Xie Junyu, “Let’s go.”

Xie Junyu closed his mouth hesitantly, and followed her downstairs.

The dining table that had just been cleaned was filled with a variety of delicacies, and everyone chatted while eating.

The TV in the living room was still playing the gala, and soon the host started the countdown to the New Year’s Eve.

The bell rang at twelve o’clock, and everyone held their mobile phones and began to send blessings in groups with one key.

Cheng Nian is no exception.

She edited the good news and chose the group sender. When she saw Li Shubai’s name, she paused, and then quickly passed over.

She didn’t send a message to Li Shubai that night, nor did she receive a text message from Li Shubai.

The two have an tacit understanding.

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On the second day, Cheng Nian’s family left the Su family mansion and went to a cemetery near Hecheng.

Ever since Cheng Nian could remember, their family would come here every year at this time,

Those buried in the cemetery were Cheng Zhiyuan’s parents, Lao Chengtou’s younger brother and sister-in-law.

When the company started to improve, the couple died in a car accident.

At that time, Cheng Zhiyuan was only three years old, and he didn’t know much about death. When he grew up, he understood those things, but he didn’t feel particularly sad because he didn’t have a deep relationship with them.

For this second uncle whom she had never met, Cheng Nian didn’t know what kind of feelings she should have. But seeing Lao Chengtou’s sad face, she didn’t feel awe.

After visiting these two places, Cheng Nian’s New Year is almost over, and other social activities will be done by Lao Chengtou.

It is indeed true that there are relatives in Beihai, but it has been a long time since they have contacted them, and they have no plans to visit them this year.

On the third day, Li Shubai brought a box of frozen pears and came to Cheng’s house early.

The housekeeper didn’t come to work until fifteen, Cheng Nian reluctantly ran down and opened the door for him.

Seeing that Li Shubai was still taking something, Cheng Nian frowned and said, “What is this?”

Li Shubai picked up the box, “Frozen pears.”

Cheng Nian walked into the house and asked casually, “We still have such things here?”

Li Shubai was silent for a while, “Yanran’s father brought it back from the northeast.”

Cheng Nian rolled her eyes, wondering why he was so short-mouthed, and said coldly, “Oh.”

Seeing Li Shubai, Su Huiyu was very close to each other, and asked him repeatedly why he didn’t come for Cheng Nian’s birthday last time.

Cheng Nian was angry at the thought of her birthday, and her attitude towards Su Huiyu was not very good.

“I told you that he had something to do that day, but you still ask.”

Su Huiyu closed her mouth embarrassingly.

Li Shubai smiled at Su Huiyu, “I accompanied my mother for a minor operation that day, so I couldn’t come.”

Cheng Nian glanced at Li Shubai, looking at his calm face, the resentment that had accumulated in her heart for a long time suddenly disappeared a lot.

Su Huiyu said nervously, “What surgery did you do?”

Li Shubai said in embarrassment, “Hemorrhoids.”

Su Huiyu caressed her chest, “I’m terrified to death. Nian Nian, go to see your Aunt Li with Shubai tonight.”

Cheng Nian felt ashamed and responded sullenly.

When she was doing her homework, she finally couldn’t bear the questions in her stomach, and asked Li Shubai in a deep voice, “Why didn’t you tell me that day?”

Li Shubai said indifferently: “It’s just a minor operation, I’m afraid you will worry.”

Cheng Nian snorted, “Then what happened to the apple that the customer gave you?”

Li Shubai took a quick look at Cheng Nian, and said softly, “I bought it, have you eaten yet?”

Cheng Nian straightened up, regretted mentioning this, and said with erratic eyes, “Of course I ate it.”

“Was it sweet?”

Cheng Nian answered vaguely, quickly pointed to a topic in the workbook, and changed the subject, “I don’t know how to do this.”

Li Shubai gave Cheng Nian a meaningful look, then turned his gaze to where her finger was.

What happens when carbon dioxide is introduced into a solution of sodium carbonate?

Li Shubai was stunned for a while, and said softly for a while: “Go and find it in the book yourself.”

Cheng Nian pouted, “Stingy.”

Li Shubai lowered his eyelids halfway, his long and dense eyelashes well covered his faint panic.

In the evening, Su Huiyu prepared a lot of nutritional products for Li Shubai to take back, and by the way, she also packed a few organic tomatoes that Xie Junyu had brought before.

Lao Chengtou was away, and no one at home could drive, so the two of them had to ride the edonkey.

Cheng Nian sat on the back seat of the eDonkey with these things in her hands, and she couldn’t sit still unless she freed up one hand to hold Li Shubai.

Although he was wearing a thick down jacket, Li Shubai’s waist was still slender, and she hugged him easily.

The sky is not yet dark yet, but the moon has already come out. It is so shallow that if you don’t look carefully, you may think it is a relatively round cloud.

Seeing Cheng Nian taking so many things, Li Ying was also quite embarrassed, after all, it was just a small hemorrhoid operation.

When Cheng Nian was leaving, Li Ying filled her bag full of melon seeds and peanuts, saying that the people in the village fried them themselves and they were delicious.

Cheng Nian couldn’t refuse, so she had no choice but to accept it.

When going back, Cheng Nian wanted to ride the bike by herself, but Li Ying felt it was unsafe, so she insisted on Li Shubai to see her off.

Without waiting for the two to give in to each other, Li Shubai picked up the key on the table and said softly to Cheng Nian, “Let’s go.”

Cheng Nian smiled at Li Ying and said politely, “Then Auntie, I’ll go first.”

This time Cheng Nian didn’t have so many things in her hands, so she didn’t hold onto Li Shubai anymore.

When approaching the gate of Cheng’s house, Li Shubai said suddenly.

“I’ll pick you up when school starts.”

Cheng Nian was taken aback.

“Huh? Why?”