Looking at her slightly trembling shoulders, Chen Yu asked distressedly: "Mu Mu, what's wrong? You were fine just now, why are you crying all of a sudden?"

He placed his hands on her shoulders, asked her to turn around, and looked down at her, "Do you miss your family?"

Suddenly, Su Zimu cried even louder.

Chen Yu had no choice but to let her get in the car and handed her a tissue. "Don't cry, you've turned into a little kitten."

"Chen Yu, don't... care... about me, I just... want to... cry..." Su Zimu said intermittently while crying.

Chen Yu frowned and patted his arms, "Well... I'll lend you my broad shoulders. I won't lend them to other people."

Su Zimu raised his head and looked at his shoulder, and suddenly laughed out loud, "Don't learn... Taiwanese puppet shows."

"Don't be like that. I'm serious." Chen Yu patted his shoulder again.

Su Zimu wiped his tears with tissue, but still couldn't stop gasping for breath.

"Wait a minute." Chen Yu said, opened the car door and jumped out.

Before Su Zimu could react, Chen Yu got into the car in a panic and said, "Drive!"

Not understanding why, she saw him looking panicked, looking back from time to time, and stepped on the accelerator.

It was not until the car drove out of the alley and onto the street that Su Zimu asked, "What happened? Did we get rid of the people chasing us?"

"Who is chasing? No one is chasing us." Chen Yu replied.

"Then why are you so flustered?" Su Zimu was speechless, "My palms are sweating!"

The turning signal came on and Su Zimu decisively stopped the car on the right.

"Fatty Chen, can you be more reliable?" Su Zimu rubbed his hands together.

"Ding Dang." Chen Yu grinned and took out something in his hand and shook it in front of her.

Su Zimu glanced sideways and saw a wooden doorplate swaying in front of her, with Chen Yu's bright smile behind it.

She snatched it away with one hand and was speechless, "You...you...actually stole something?!"

Chen Yu folded his arms across his chest, looking very proud.

"You are a policeman, sir, how dare you steal other people's things?" Su Zimu said this, but he couldn't help turning the doorplate over and over.

"This originally belonged to your family, but you just didn't take it away before. It's good to return it to its original owner now." Chen Yu said.

"But its new owner..." Su Zimu was a little embarrassed. The things that once belonged to her were no longer hers now.

"To the new owner, this thing may just be a house number, but to some people, it has a different meaning."

Su Zimu's index finger gently stroked the two words, his eyes full of cherishment, "Do you know who wrote these two words?"

"I guess...it must be a...little fairy." Chen Yu tilted his head to look at her.

Su Zimu sniffed and said in a muffled voice, "My grandmother and I completed this doorplate together. I even remember that it was a summer afternoon, the sun was so dazzling, and the breeze carried the fragrance of gardenias. I wrote many numbers and finally chose this one. My grandmother hung it on the door herself."

"To reward me, grandma gave me a pineapple-flavored popsicle. It was so delicious." Su Zimu said slowly.

"You love your grandma very much, and your grandma loves you too." Chen Yu seemed to have returned to that summer with her.

"But there will never be such a time again." Su Zimu's nose felt sore and tears fell again. "You say, aren't people strange? When we were young, we always looked forward to growing up. When we really grew up, we realized how wonderful our childhood was. Unfortunately, we can never go back."

Chen Yu handed her a tissue and patted her shoulder.

"Chen Yu, I will no longer have a home. No one will cook for me, wait for me no matter how late it is, and ask if I am hungry or thirsty. No one will care if I am warm or happy every day..."

Su Zimu tried to force out a smile, but was quickly drowned in sadness. "I have really become an adult. We have grown up."

Chen Yu's brows tightened, and he blurted out, "Mu Mu, I can be your family. I will care about whether you are hungry, thirsty, cold, hot, whether you are happy today, and whether you have any troubles every day."

Su Zimu looked at him while crying.

His eyes moved and were bright. "I am not only your classmate, your deskmate, as long as you are willing, I can also..."

The phone rang suddenly. Su Zimu picked up the phone blankly, frowned, sniffed, and then answered the phone, "Hello?"

"Where are you? Why haven't you come home yet?"

Jiang Huaizhou's cold voice came.

"I told you this morning that I was going to attend the class reunion in Tong County." Su Zimu's voice became hoarse because he cried too much.

"When are you coming back?"

"It will take at least three hours to get there." Su Zimu's tone became calmer.

"Who's driving?"

Su Zimu could tell Jiang Huaizhou's tone was a little impatient, "My classmate."

"Who?"

"Yes……"

Before she could say anything, Jiang Huaizhou said, "Stay where you are, I'll send someone to take you back."

The strong tone does not allow for any rebuttal.

"Actually, there's no need for that. My classmates are going back to Huacheng anyway, so it's on their way." Su Zimu glanced at Chen Yu awkwardly.

"Be obedient, okay?"

"But..." Wouldn't this embarrass Chen Yu?

Chen Yu took the phone from her hand. Su Zimu wanted to snatch it, but she heard him speak, "Boss Jiang, I'm Chen Yu. I will send Mu Mu back. You should always trust the police, right?"

The voice on the other end grew deeper, "It's precisely because it's you that I'm even more worried."

Chen Yu: "..."

"Mr. Jiang, I know you are getting married soon, but please understand one thing. Mu Mu is a person. She is not someone's appendage, let alone a pendant of you, Jiang Huaizhou! She needs her own social life and freedom."

"Chen Yu!" Su Zimu didn't expect him to say these words and wanted to stop him.

"Officer Chen, I can take care of Jiang Huaizhou's wife myself, so you don't need to worry about it!"

"It's very late now, and I can't drive after drinking. I will bring Mu Mu back safely tomorrow." Chen Yu said and hung up the phone.

"What are you doing, Fatty Chen?" Su Zimu took back his cell phone.

"Mu Mu, tell me the truth, did he bully you?"

"No."

"You don't have to lie to me. I can see that you are unhappy." Chen Yu looked worried.

"Jiang Huaizhou and I are not what you think. I just thought too much." Su Zimu lowered his eyes. After all, it was just a one-year contract relationship. In the end, he wanted too much and became more and more demanding.

"Mu Mu, I told you, I am your family. You can tell me anything and I will help you." Chen Yu put his hand on her shoulder, as if to cheer her up.

Su Zimu gently pushed his hand away and held the steering wheel with both hands, "Let's go back."

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