Cheng Xi, her colleagues, Lin Fan, and Meng Qingyang all stayed at the reservoir until the late afternoon. Afterwards, they went over to Cheng Xi’s parents’ home.

Lin Fan was within a crowd of Cheng Xi’s colleagues, so Cheng Xi’s mother actually didn’t recognize him at first. Only after Cheng Xi introduced him did her mother say, amazed, “Ah, are you really Lin Fan? You’ve changed so much!” She looked him up and down. “You’re even more handsome than you were before!”

The head nurse made beef jerky with Cheng Xi’s mother, and even helped prepare a sumptuous dinner for everyone. Everyone kept eating and eating, only going home late into the night.

Cheng Xi didn’t leave. It was rare for her to be able to return home, so she had to stay with her parents for at least another day. When she sent them off, Lin Fan was one of the last to leave. He was aggrieved that the first weekend of his official relationship with Cheng Xi had been filled with so many third...