"Ding! ~" With a crisp metallic sound, the elevator doors opened.

Ji Ran hurriedly separated from Chen Zihao.

However, it was not Ma Kai who came out of the elevator, but a neighbor of Ji Ran.

Although they are neighbors, they are not familiar with each other, and they only say hello symbolically when they meet occasionally.

"I'm back." Ji Ran greeted the neighbor politely.

"Hmm." The neighbor glanced at Ji Ran and Chen Zihao, nodded with a smile, and left in a hurry.

"There are a lot of acquaintances here, let's go down there." Ji Ran said to Chen Zihao.

"Okay." Chen Zihao nodded and went downstairs with Ji Ran.

The two of them waited downstairs for about half an hour, but they still didn't wait for Ma Kai, and no one answered the phone.

The wind outside was very cold, Chen Zihao gave his clothes to Ji Ran, but he was always frozen.

"Otherwise, find a hotel to stay in, and Ma Kai should be back tomorrow." Chen Zihao suggested.

Ji Ran thought about it, and just wanted to agree, but the phone suddenly rang.

Ji Ran picked up the phone, and it turned out to be Chen Xiumei calling.

"My mother-in-law's phone." Ji Ran said to Chen Zihao, and then turned around and answered the phone.

"Hello? Mother? After Ji Ran answered the phone, he asked.

"Xiao Ran, where have you been? Why don't you go home? Chen Xiumei asked anxiously on the phone.

"Mom, I went out with my friends for a day, and now I'm back." Ji Ran said to Chen Xiumei.

"Coming back? Where are you now? Chen Xiumei asked hurriedly.

"I'm downstairs at my house, and Ma Kai doesn't seem to be at home, and he doesn't answer his calls." Ji Ran said to Chen Xiumei.

"Then you wait, I'll call your father-in-law to pick you up right away." Chen Xiumei said.

"Huh? No, Mom, I'll take a taxi to you now. Ji Ran saw that it was so late, and it was inconvenient for her father-in-law to drive over again, and she still had something to say to Chen Zihao, so she politely declined Chen Xiumei's kindness.

"Okay, then you can take a taxi and pay attention to safety on the road." Chen Xiumei advised.

"yes, okay." Ji Ran nodded and agreed, and hung up the phone.

"What? You're going to your mother-in-law? Chen Zihao asked.

"Well, Susu has always been taken care of by my mother-in-law, and I want to go and see her too." Ji Ran nodded in acknowledgement.

"Is your mother-in-law good to you?" Chen Zihao asked worriedly.

"Well, my mother-in-law is very good to me, and my father-in-law is also good to me." Ji Ran said truthfully.

"Okay, then go to your mother-in-law." Chen Zihao said, stopped a taxi, and sat on it with Ji Ran.

"Happy Community." Ji Ran said the address to the voice-activated system, and then the unmanned taxi drove towards the destination by itself.

"Xiao Ran, I know you are worried about your children, but you can't just think about your children and ignore yourself, if you really can't get by, just divorce Ma Kai, no matter when, I will wait for you, I will tolerate everything for you, including your children." Chen Zihao held Ji Ran's little hand tightly and said sincerely.

When Ji Ran heard Chen Zihao say this, he suddenly felt a warmth in his heart and nodded lightly.

"Thank you Zihao, it's good to have you as a brother." Ji Ran thanked him from the bottom of his heart.

"Remember what you told me about The Battle of Rhodes?" Chen Zihao looked at Ji Ran and said.

"Well, remember, I told you, it was the best cartoon I ever watched as a child." Ji Ran said to Chen Zihao.

"Yes, it's a pity, I didn't watch it when I was a child, and then after you recommended it to me, I didn't watch it seriously, until I experienced so much later, especially in the days without you, I watched this cartoon more than ten times, it's a really good cartoon, and, I think you're like the female elf Tidlight in the film, kind and beautiful, intelligent, it's a pity... I'm not your Pahn, I'm more like Estace who let you leave the Forest of No Return in the first place..."Chen Zihao said, sighing leisurely.

Listening to his words, Ji Ran also lowered his head helplessly.

Estath is also an elf in the Rhodes Island Wars, and the female elf Tiddellite is a childhood sweetheart who grew up together, living together in the elf's hometown of the Forest of No Return, originally the two of them could grow up happily together, maybe they will become husband and wife, and live a happy and comfortable life.

However, Tidlight is an adventurous elven girl who longs to see the beautiful world outside.

In order to help Tiddelit fulfill this dream, Estath helped her escape from the Forest of No Return, however, after leaving the Forest of No Return, Tidwlet fell in love with the human boy Parn, and since then Astath has missed the girl he loves the most.

If Astath could see the future, would he still help Tiddelit escape from the Forest of No Return?

Chen Zihao used this metaphor to say his state of mind at the moment.

If it weren't for the fact that he was forced to drop out of school and leave for Ji Ran because of a high campus loan, maybe Ji Ran would not have encountered so many troubles, let alone marry Ma Kai, a scumbag.

It's a pity that fate is sometimes so elusive, unbearable, and irresistible.

"Xiao Ran, Ma Kai is definitely not your Parn, and I don't want to be your Estas, if you have the opportunity, remember to make another rational choice, I will always wait for you in the magic capital." Chen Zihao said, took out the diamond ring that Ji Ran took off from his pocket, and put it back on her ring finger.

Ji Ran looked at the brand-new diamond ring, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart, he had suffered so much, but Chen Zihao still loved himself as deeply as before, Ji Ran was really moved.

"Well, I wrote it down, thank you Zihao." Ji Ran nodded lightly and said to Chen Zihao.

"Okay, it's time to get there, you go, remember my words, take care of yourself." Chen Zihao told Ji Ran.

"Hmm." Ji Ran nodded, got out of the car, said goodbye to Chen Zihao, and entered the happy community.

After Chen Zihao saw Ji Ran leave, he sat back in the car and slowly drove away from the happy community.

Ji Ran walked into the community and saw from a distance that the lights of her mother-in-law's house were still on, so she quickened her pace and returned home at a speed almost like a trot.

After Ji Ran arrived home, he found that Chen Xiumei and her father-in-law Ma Jianjun were both sitting in the living room, neither of them slept, and their faces were not very good-looking.

Mother-in-law Chen Xiumei was holding Su Su in her arms, and Su Su had already fallen asleep biting the pacifier.

"Dad... Mom..."Ji Ran shouted softly, for fear of waking up Su Su.

"Coming back?" Ma Jianjun's face was not very good-looking, and he asked expressionlessly.

"Well, I'm back..."Before Ji Ran finished speaking, Ma Jianjun got up and left, as if he didn't need her answer at all, obviously he had a lot of opinions about Ji Ran.

(End of chapter)