Ding Xi instinctively felt a little embarrassed.

"Buzzing..."

"Are we here yet?"

Ji Huai sent her a message. Ding Xi was at a loss and felt reassured. Before she could reply to him, the door to the room in front of her was opened.

Mother Ding was wearing a purple jacquard patterned cheongsam with three-quarter sleeves, and she was still wearing earrings. She seemed to be getting ready to go out. When she opened the door and saw her, surprise flashed in her eyes, and then she calmed down again, neither salty nor cool, "You come here

Already?‌Come in.”

She looks a bit like Ding's mother, who had a pretty face when she was young, and wore a cheongsam and had an elegant temperament.

But after seeing her for a long time, Ding Xi felt that she was much older. She had dyed curly hair, but her hair was a little bit whiter, she had lost a lot of weight, her cheongsam looked a little empty, and the fine lines at the corners of her eyes had deepened several times.

"Mom, how are you doing recently?" Ding Xi put the cake on the table.

"Isn't that the case all the time?" Mother Ding put on her earrings, glanced in the mirror, put on her wedge heels, and took out a handmade bag.

"That's fine, today..."

"You came at a bad time. I have free time to greet you now. I have to go out for something important. Will you wait for me at my house or come back later?" Ding's mother interrupted her words with an expression on her face.

‌Without a trace of emotion.

"How long do we have to wait?" Ding Xi still had a glimmer of hope in her heart. She hoped to have a good meal and chat.

Even if the other party is only an elder.

"I don't know about this. Maybe it won't be possible until tonight. How about that, can you come another day?" Mother Ding glanced at the cake on the table and seemed to have a little mood change. "Thank you for the cake.

It’s hard for you to remember.”

Her tone was polite, distant, and polite.

Ding Xi stood stiffly, her phone vibrating again. She reluctantly regained her emotions and forced a smile, "Okay, if you're busy, I'll come back another day. The cake is ice cream, it...

.”

"I'm going out right now. I'll be there soon." Mother Ding answered the phone and said to the other end, urging her at the same time.

Ding Xi didn't dare to stay any longer, so she put down her gifts and hurried out without saying anything else.

Mother Ding followed her out, closed the door neatly, and walked out. Her pace kept accelerating, looking for the car keys along the way. "How are you going back? Where do you need me to take you?"

"No, I took the subway. The subway station is right outside the door. You can go ahead." Ding Xi waved her hand and quickly refused.

"Okay, be careful on the road." Mother Ding found the car keys and turned around when she said this.

"Mom." Mother Ding looked at her back and found that her waist was not as straight as before. She couldn't help shouting. The other party was too anxious and didn't focus on her at all.

Without even pausing, she lowered her eyes and whispered, "Happy birthday."

I heard that the other party had difficulty in giving birth to her, and she also suffered a lot during confinement.

Why don't you love her?

Mother Ding quickly disappeared from her sight, and she shuffled out, feeling as if a big stone was pressing down on her heart, pressing and pressing, constantly pressing.

She could hardly breathe, she was so sad.

"Buzzing..."

The phone vibrated again.

Ding Xi took it out and saw that it was all Ji Huai's news.

"Are you here yet?"

"?"

"Have you gone to pick up the cake? Be careful, if it's too difficult to pick up, ask them to send it over."

....

When she saw his news, she couldn't control her emotions and called him.

Ji Huai went to work today and picked up the phone very quickly. A clear voice came from the other end, "Are you home?"

Ding Xiyuan controlled her emotions and chatted with him. His words made her eyes turn red and she choked, "I have a family..."

After her grandma passed away, she had a family.

"Where are you?" A voice came from Ji Huai's end, but he did not continue to ask, "Just stand there, I will go find you now."

He didn't know much about the affairs of the Ding family. He only knew that Ding's mother and Ding's father were divorced, and they seemed to have a deep relationship with Ding Xi.

She never told him, but later she found out that it was because Ding's mother failed in her investment and owed a huge loan, so he found out when he called her.

He owed tens of millions, and at that time he knew that Ding's mother could not repay it at all. He was afraid of getting into trouble, so he quickly withdrew. He was not sure what would happen next.

"I'm going back to the dormitory." Ding Xi wiped away tears, unwilling to tell him these things.

She is worse off than a divorced family. She has parents, but she is still alone. Would anyone accept such a family? Would he not mind such a family?

"Didn't you say you want to go to the movies? I still have dinner. You go with me to dinner and I'll go to the movies with you, okay?" He heard that she was not feeling well, but he pressed the question, and instead changed the subject lightly.

Ding Xi ‌‌ rejected him, wiped her tears again, and tried her best to adjust her emotions, "...Hmm."

Twenty minutes later, she saw Ji Huai at the intersection of T Bus Station.

The other party didn't show anything unusual, and when he saw her slightly red eyes, he said with a smile, "Let's go, there is a square nearby, I'm hungry."

Ding Xi was led by him, feeling mixed in her heart.

He should be worried about her, otherwise he wouldn't take a taxi here.

When she almost reached the square, she summoned up the courage and said to him, "I have a family."

"Huh?" Ji Huai took her to his side and said with a smile, "I am also wandering alone and I have a family. When we get married, won't we have a family?"

Ding Xi's voice was choked with sobs, her eyes began to swell again, her lips moved several times, but in the end she still couldn't tell her family situation.

"What to eat?" Ji Huai asked her after looking around.

Ding Xi shook his head.

If she has an appetite, she can eat what he likes.

Ji Huai: "Beef hot pot?"

She was saying a few days ago that this hot pot is good and there are also chain stores here.

Ding Xi: "Yeah."

Ji Huai pulled her towards him, and when he sat down, he poured tea and said, "May Day is coming, are you ready? Do you want to go home with me?"

She had always wanted to go back with him to have a look, but now that something like this happened, she was afraid that the Ji family would look down on her and her family, thinking that she was someone who was in charge of their children. After thinking about it for a while,

Decided to tell the truth, "My parents are divorced, my father has a family, and my mother doesn't care about me. I grew up with my grandma, and after my grandma passed away, I started a family."

Before, her classmates didn't know about her family background, and she once said in public that she didn't like children from single-parent families. In the future, her future partners would not consider such families as they felt that there was something wrong with them.

She also said that her parents taught her that she must stay away from such people, and even if she fell in love, her family would not agree.

Ji Huai seemed stunned and raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you say you were going to celebrate your aunt's birthday? She didn't pay attention to you on your birthday either?"

"She has something to do." Ding Xi followed him carefully and answered instinctively.

"What can you do to be so busy? Do you even have cakes? Are you ready for dinner?" Ji Huai was puzzled and suppressed his displeasure.

Ding Xi didn't feel aggrieved at first, but when he said this, he couldn't bear it any longer, and his eyes filled with tears again. He kept breathing in and his shoulders trembled.

As soon as she cried, Ji Huai quickly stopped and said one more word.

The meal lasted for a long time. Ding Xi was originally sitting opposite him. Later, Ji Huai came to her side and sat with her. When the beef was being cooked, he put it in her bowl and asked tentatively, "How about that?"

Just don’t go to my house?”

Ding Xi paused for a moment while eating. He held the chopsticks with a little more strength, and his fingertips turned slightly white.

Will their family members dislike it?

"I'll take you to the tourist attractions in the city. If you feel better, I'll take you back if you go. If you don't go, we'll come back." He said his plan while boiling the beef.

"What if your family doesn't agree?" she asked, expressing concern.

"What does it have to do with me if they don't agree? I'm not taking you to the interview. I'm just taking you back to meet you. If you feel uncomfortable, just tell me and I'll take you away at any time." Ji Huai didn't have any problem at all.

He spoke hesitantly, and his tone was casual, as if it should be that way.

This is true.

Ji's family had little influence on his decision to intervene. He was very strong and unkind, and Ji's family couldn't give him any good advice.

"Yeah." She agreed.

"I have to talk to you about something. I'm afraid you'll have to worry about it when the time comes. My parents often speak without thinking, and they have the thoughts of a lower class person.

‌Limitations, and I have lived in a mountain village for most of my life, and I can't change it. My eldest sister... I think ‌ also ‌ open ‌, she has been staying at home for ‌‌ years, and she has been switching jobs and saying it is not suitable for her.

She has a lot of problems, her personality is flamboyant, her speech is limited, her self-positioning is not clear, her heart is as high as the sky, and her life is as thin as paper. I am not sure she can get married."

"My second sister is even more stupid. She wants to marry a man who has been married for three years. He has a child. She gave birth to a pair of twin girls. Now she is struggling to make ends meet, and her life is like hell.
To be continued...