During the winter vacation, Lu Yan's interest in studying was very high. She didn't go to visit relatives to pay New Year greetings, and she didn't give up any new year's money. She locked herself in her room and read and studied.

Lu Zhen worked hard for almost half a semester, and his grades improved a lot, at least he wasn't at the bottom of his grade.

But everything has its way, and then it will fade away, and then it will be exhausted. Slowly, someone began to become a little lazy. If it weren't for Lu Yan's supervision, maybe this guy would return to his salty life.

That night, Lu Yan received a text message with no content and only one punctuation mark:.

She replied with a text message: "Who are you?"

"it's me."

"Shen Kuo?"

"Um."

Lu Yan immediately became energetic, sat up from the sofa, and wanted to call him back, but she saw Lu Zhen wearing headphones, humming a melody, and twisting his 1.87-meter tall man from the handrail of the stairs.

Slide down.

Lu Yan decisively cut off the call and replaced it with a text message——

"You bought a mobile phone!"

"Well, I'm not very good at using it yet."

Lu Yan saw that he didn't know how to use it, so it took him five minutes to edit and send just these few words.

She pursed her lips into a smile and asked, "Are you buying a mobile phone to contact me?"

"over thinking."

She hummed softly and while she was editing the text message, Shen Kuo added another message: "It's to let you contact me."

Lu Yan looked at the message, rolled around on the sofa, buried her face in the pillow, and was excited for a long time.

Lu Zhen took off his headphones and looked at her with furrowed brows: "I'm crazy."

Lu Yan stretched out her legs to kick him, and Lu Zhen ducked aside, grabbed her feet with his backhand, and pulled her closer to him: "Who are you texting?"

"No one!"

"Give me the phone."

"No!" Lu Yan kicked him away and rolled to the other end of the sofa: "This is my privacy, you can't invade my privacy!"

Lu Zhen didn't care. He pushed her down on the sofa and reached out to snatch her mobile phone: "I am your father. You have no privacy here."

"Ah, you are so domineering!"

Lu Yan struggled to get up, but Lu Zhen grabbed her feet and dragged her back: "Are you texting Ye Jiaqi? I knew it was him! You brat... you are so evil!"

At this time, Lu Jian came out of the study: "What are you arguing about?"

As if she saw a savior, Lu Yan kicked her father away and ran behind her grandfather to seek shelter: "Lu, Lu Zhen wants to snatch my phone and read my text messages! This is too much!"

Lu Zhen ran over, pointed at Lu Yan and said, "She...she fell in love early! I will take care of her."

Of course Lu Jian wanted to protect her little daughter, so she immediately took off her slippers and pointed at him: "You are still taking care of your sister like this, take care of yourself!"

"I...she..."

Lu Zhen was so anxious that he could not speak.

After all, the brother and the father are different. As the brother, he can ignore his sister, but as the father, no one will care about him.

Lu Zhen has the sense of responsibility of an old father and will never let his daughter be deceived by a bad man at such a young age.

Lu Yan poked her head out from behind her grandfather and stuck out her tongue at Lu Zhen, making Lu Zhen blush with anger, but there was nothing she could do.

"Don't you still want to take the entrance exam for a key university?" Lu Jian escorted Lu Yan to the sofa in the living room and said to Lu Zhen, "Go back to your room and read."

Lu Zhen said angrily: "Then she doesn't care about her puppy love?"

"I don't have puppy love, he's talking nonsense!"

Lu Jian was really a fanatic about protecting girls, and said to Lu Zhen: "If you can get the score of your sister, I won't care if you fall in love early!"

Lu Zhen finally got discouraged and turned around to go upstairs. He kept turning back to threaten Lu Yan with his eyes, indicating that the matter was not over yet.

After he returned to the room, Lu Jian turned around and said seriously to Lu Yan: "You are not allowed to fall in love early."

"No, no, no puppy love!"

Lu Yan was afraid that her grandfather would ask more questions, so she quickly slipped back into the room.

Lying on the soft big bed, holding her mobile phone, she smiled again.

In the past, there were only two people at home, her and her father. Although they always acted like cat and mouse and lived a lively life, there was always...something missing.

Lu Zhen was both a father and a mother, and took good care of Lu Yan, but... after all, there was still a family member missing at home, a mother, and grandparents.

Lu Yan secretly made up her mind that when she comes back this time, she must protect her family, especially... her mother.

She will never let her mother have any accidents again.

Shen Kuo was sitting at the desk, under the warm yellow desk lamp, and there was a "good night" text message from the girl on the black and white screen of his mobile phone.

He is more accustomed to writing more content in a text message, which will be more cost-effective.

"I still owe you a movie. When will you be free? Although your family owns a movie theater, this time, I will buy the tickets."

When Lu Yan received this long message, an unconscious smile appeared on her lips, and she rolled around on the bed excitedly.

He still remembers the joke about "her family owns a movie theater".

She edited the text message and said——

"When will you be free? I'll do it. I'll do whatever you want."

After writing this message and preparing to send it, Lu Yan suddenly remembered the warning given to her by her grandma Meng Zhining, saying that girls should never lose themselves in love.

She paused with her fingertips for a moment, then replied: "Tomorrow night."

"Okay, go to bed early."

"You are the one, don't stay up late reading."

Everyone said that Shen Kuo was smart and had a high IQ, but only Lu Yan knew that Shen Kuo's ability to maintain such results was absolutely inseparable from his diligence.

No one can achieve success easily. When others are working hard, he is working hard.

"Don't stay up late! Don't stay up late! Don't stay up late!"

Shen Kuo received three "no staying up late" text messages in succession, and the corners of his mouth pursed slightly.

He closed the book obediently, stood up and walked out of the room.

Father Shen Jianxun was not asleep yet, sitting on the sofa watching TV.

Zhao Benshan's comedy sketch is being played on TV.

Shen Jianxun likes to watch sketches, and he always picks jokes from the sketches and turns them into jokes to tell to Shen Kuo. Sometimes he has a sense of humor.

He liked to tease Shen Kuo, but Shen Kuo didn't like to laugh very much.

In the years when he was growing up, his son's laughter and laughter were really... very few. The burden of life made him silent and taciturn, and his whole temperament was depressed.

Shen Kuo posted the homework paper with the mobile phone number written on it on the wall of the landline. He turned around and said, "Dad, I bought a mobile phone. If you feel uncomfortable at home, you must call me in time."

"Hey, why are you wasting this money? During this period of time, I... ahem, I feel much better. You don't have to worry." He said distressedly: "Is the mobile phone expensive? Don't spend money on me in the future. It's up to you.

I've been wearing this outfit for several years, so I'm going to buy myself some new clothes for the Chinese New Year."

Shen Kuo explained: "It's not all because of dad."

Shen Jianxun looked at him. Under the light, his eyebrows were lowered, overflowing with a light tenderness——

"I have a girlfriend."

Shen Jianxun was stunned for a moment, then actually laughed: "Okay, brat."

Shen Kuo was precocious and learned to behave like an adult at a very young age, so Shen Jianxun rarely saw such a gentle look on his son's face.

"Is it the girl who came to the house that day?"

"Um."

"That girl looks very good." Shen Jianxun didn't have many adjectives, which already covered all his praise for Lu Yan: "It's just...it looks like that little girl has a good family."

No matter how plainly the children of wealthy families dress up, their calm aura can still be felt.

Shen Jianxun walked to the cabinet, took out a few wrapped bills and handed them to Shen Kuo: "Everything in the future is uncertain. You are still young, but when you are with a girl, you can't be too stingy."

Shen Kuo smiled: "Dad, I know, I also have money."

"Take it."

Shen Kuo knew that this was his father's wish, so he simply stopped refusing. He was still in charge of the family anyway, and at most it would be spent on buying medicine for his father.

"Dad, it will be fine." He said firmly: "I will make everything fine."

You have to wait.

On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Lu Yan was waiting in front of the cinema wearing her brand new pink and white cotton-padded jacket.
To be continued...