Children often look forward to the Chinese New Year. After all, they don’t have to do homework on this day, and they can play all the time. Even if they play all day long, no one will say anything.

But adults are not looking forward to the Chinese New Year at all, such as Zhang Mingyang.

Because he has to do many things on this day, such as posting couplets, visiting relatives, helping give gifts, helping prepare New Year's Eve dinner, etc., all of which require his participation.

It was probably because he had been drinking too much Red Bull recently. Zhang Mingyang lay in bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep the night before.

I finally fell asleep and was woken up by Yan Hui early in the morning to post couplets.

Not only do I have to give it to my family, but I also have to give it to Xu Duanran’s family.

Zhang Mingyang retorted to his mother and said, starting from next year, no one will live in the door opposite our house, so why do we still need to post it?

But Yan Hui insisted on posting the couplets. She said posting them would have a good sign. She also asked her son, when did you stop posting couplets when you saw no one living in a house.

In fact, he had long been accustomed to posting couplets on the opposite door, just to complain.

This year is just like the past ten years or so, when couplets were posted every year, but the reason was not a good sign, but just in case Xu Duanran came back one day.

The two sisters, Xu Duanran and Xu Linyou, accompanied their father to go shopping again. As for his mother, she got up early in the morning to prepare various ingredients.

He was left alone, standing alone in the corridor, holding the tape in one hand and holding the pair in the other. There was no one around to help him.

After finally posting the couplets, Zhang Mingyang opened the door and hid in Xu Duanran's home without even thinking about it.

Just pretend that he hasn’t finished posting the couplet yet.

Zhang Mingyang was lying on the sofa. It was probably because no one had stayed there for so long. Compared with his home, the temperature in the room was very low.

The two houses have almost identical decorations. They were chosen by Yan Hui and Duan Yunyun together. There are even some furniture that they bought together. Yan Hui has repaired them and is still reluctant to replace them.

The only difference is that his house has always been occupied and full of life.

The place where he is lying now only has cold furniture and packed luggage on the ground, which indicates that the owner here is about to leave and live a new life.

Zhang Mingyang was in a daze, but suddenly, his body felt as if he was electrocuted, and he suddenly sat up from the sofa.

Now that Xu Duanran was gone and he was the only one in the room, he suddenly realized that this might be his only chance to see what was in the lockbox that he opened and closed.

In the past few days, he wanted to know more and more what was inside, but he didn't want the eldest lady to know that he had opened the box. He had a very complicated mood.

Zhang Mingyang didn't waste any more time. He stood up from the sofa in a hurry and went straight to the bedroom upstairs.

Now there are only a few simple pieces of furniture and a bed left in the room, and the rest of the things have been packed downstairs.

With the mentality of giving it a try, he opened the cabinet where the password box was stored. To his surprise, other things had been packed downstairs, but the password box was still well placed in the cabinet.

I don’t know if Xu Duanran had no intention of taking the box away, or if he put it here on purpose.

There was only this lockbox in the empty cabinet, which seemed to be a trap to lure prey into a trap.

Zhang Mingyang took the password box out of the cabinet and entered "9392" again.

He pressed the switch, but the password did not change. With a "click" sound, the box opened.

This time he didn't hesitate and opened the box directly.

Just like any other ordinary little girl, after opening the box, Zhang Mingyang saw all kinds of bits and pieces of trinkets.

What takes up more space is a ceramic toy and a box used to hold large bubble gum in the supermarket.

The box is stuffed with paper cranes. These paper cranes are very special. They are not made of special cardboard. They are all made of Green Arrow chewing gum wrapping paper.

This kind of wrapping paper is very fragile, and it is not easy to fold it into a paper crane.

First, cut the long strip of wrapping paper into a square, and then carefully fold it into a paper crane. If you are not careful, all your efforts will be wasted.

"So it's here. Why can't I find it?" He took out the box and looked at the paper crane inside and said to himself.

When I was in elementary school, a classmate was seriously ill. The whole class donated money and folded a jar of paper cranes to wish the classmate a speedy recovery.

Zhang Mingyang was clumsy and couldn't fold at all. Xu Duanran said he disliked him, but he still took the trouble to teach him over and over again.

He didn't want to waste cardboard, so he experimented with the chewing gum wrappers that his mother often bought.

Folding chewing gum wrappers is not easy, but once he got some practice with paper jamming, he became very proficient in it immediately.

Looking at the strange paper cranes in the box, Zhang Mingyang smiled knowingly.

He said that these failed products disappeared later, and it turned out that they were put away by Xu Duanran.

Not only now, the eldest lady also had an awkward personality when she was a child.

If you want to give her a thousand paper cranes yourself, just tell him directly. How could he refuse?

There are many things similar to Thousand Paper Cranes.

There are trinkets he made by himself, as well as birthday gifts he gave her.

Zhang Mingyang even found a bracelet inside that he had knitted when he was a child.

This kind of bracelet is made of colored glass filaments. It is very simple and was once popular in elementary schools.

He also made one up, and Xu Duanran didn't want it when he gave it to her. Unexpectedly, she secretly kept it in the end and kept it for many years.

When I was a child, I was quite stupid. I used to bite my bracelets with my teeth when I was making bracelets. There are still traces of his teeth on the joints of the bracelets. No wonder people don't like it.

The more he searched, the more he felt like he was back when he was a child.

He found that the things in the box all had one thing in common. All Xu Duanran's treasures were related to him and were the common possessions of both of them.

Including the ceramic product that also took up space, it was also the first doll he and the eldest lady painted together.

"Zhang Mingyang and Xu Duanran" were written on it in childish strokes to represent that it was something shared by the two of them.

"Since I was very young, there has only been you in my world."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhang Mingyang remembered what Xu Duanran said in his room that night.

The box in front of him seems to have been proving to him the authenticity of this sentence. Even the secrets that the girl has been hiding in her heart are all related to him.

It turns out that after the separation, he was not the only one suffering.

If we had been more determined, what would have been the final outcome?

Thinking of this, Zhang Mingyang laughed at himself.

That might be a more miserable ending, after all, Xu Mo is still watching them.

Zhang Mingyang put back the things he had just taken out one by one.

He thought his mood would be very complicated, but in the process of putting the things back, his mind went blank, and even the memories disappeared, and he just mechanically repeated the action of putting things back.

While packing the box, Zhang Mingyang suddenly noticed that there was a mezzanine at the bottom of the box. He reached out and touched it, and there was something inside!

He opened the mezzanine and found two envelopes inside.

One of them was so familiar to Zhang Mingyang that he could recognize him at a glance even after more than ten years.

In the middle of the envelope is a white bird, surrounded by a circle of green leaves. This was the most artistic envelope Zhang Mingyang could find at the time.

Inside the envelope was Zhang Mingyang's first love letter to Xu Duanran, and it was also the first time he revealed his feelings.

On the day he sent the love letter, his heart felt as if it was about to jump out of his body and he could not calm down for a long time. He was obviously facing the most familiar person, but he was so nervous.

From the day he sent his love letter, he had been eager to receive a reply.

But Xu Duanran acted as if nothing had happened and waited for him to go to and from school together as usual the next day, never mentioning the love letter again.

It was the first time in my life that I confessed my love and was rejected by others.

Many years later, holding this love letter in his hands again, he seemed to have returned to the night when he handed the love letter to Xu Duanran.

Since one of the envelopes is his love letter to Xu Duanran, what is in the other envelope?

He remembered that he had only written a love letter to the eldest lady. Later, he felt that this method was not easy to use, and his handwriting was too ugly, so he never wrote it again.

It is a very bad behavior to open a letter while the owner of the letter is not around, but Zhang Mingyang still couldn't help it. His curiosity drove him to open the envelope.

I have read everything, except this letter.

Different from the envelope he gave to Xu Duanran, the envelope in his hand now is made of linen, which feels very textured and looks more advanced in appearance.

There is no special paint seal on the envelope and it looks like it has not been used yet.

Zhang Mingyang began to wonder if this was just a separate envelope. In fact, it contained nothing.

As soon as I opened the envelope, a small air-dried flower sealed in plastic film fell out.

The little flower was well preserved by the film, and time has not taken away its beauty.

Zhang Mingyang felt that the small blue flower that fell out looked familiar, but he held it in his hand and looked at it for a long time without remembering what kind of flower it was.

He put the flowers aside and continued to take out the letter paper from the envelope.

There are rows of beautiful small characters on the letter paper. Although it was written by a girl, the writing style is vigorous and powerful. These are the characters of Xu Duanran.

"To Zhang Mingyang, the worst villain in the world."

Zhang Mingyang smiled when he saw the beginning of the letter.

How come he is such a good person and becomes "the worst villain in the world" in Xu Duanran's eyes?

Seeing that this was a letter written by Xu Duanran to himself, he continued
To be continued...