Vivian accepted Lu Yichen's kindness, which made him very happy, at least in his opinion, it was another step forward in the relationship between the two. He understands Vivian's pride, and it is precisely because he understands that he is more convinced that he has entered her world and is truly accepted by her. In the future, Lu Yichen will work hard with her, her dream of studying law school will definitely come true, and when they both have jobs in the future, it will be no problem to pay student loans or something.

"By the way, are you free on August 19th?" Lu Yichen asked suddenly.

"There's no arrangement for the time being, what's wrong?" Vivian looked at the phone schedule and saw nothing special.

"Let's have dinner together that night." Lu Yichen happily invited.

"Okay." Vivian readily agreed.

After hanging up the phone, Vivian herself probably didn't realize that there was a smile on her lips all the time. Frankly speaking, she thought it would be awkward to accept this kind of gift, but she found that it seemed that accepting Lu Yichen's kindness would not make her feel any embarrassment, but more happiness.

After the summer vacation began, Vivian became more engaged in part-time work, and she found an internship at a law firm to get a good recommendation letter for future applications. Lu Yichen is still busy with the team's training, often looking for Vivian after training, and reluctantly has to go home very late.

Everything was moving in an orderly direction, and Vivian also found that he was becoming more and more inseparable from Lu Yichen. As long as you can't see him one day, you will be restless. Seeing his name light up on her phone makes her heart beat faster. She finally realized that her heart was full of him. If this perception had changed, she would have panicked before, but now she feels very calm. Perhaps, it's time to give him an explanation, the question that has been avoided for a long time always has to be answered, Vivian will not run away this time, she wants to tell him seriously, "Please be my boyfriend." Although it can already be imagined, Lu Yichen happily replied: "I have been there for a long time, okay?" Thinking of this, Vivian couldn't help but chuckle.

The phone rang suddenly, and instead of the name she was hoping for, the screen lit up with the enthusiastic social worker Katra from before.

"Hi, Vivian, is it convenient to speak now?" Katra's voice was calm.

"Well, it's convenient, please speak." Vivian unconsciously clenched her phone, her instinct telling her that something must have happened, and ...... It must be a bad thing.

"Don't be nervous, your mother is fine. But there's one thing I have to tell you. Katra sighed lightly, "Your stepfather owed a sum of money while gambling outside, and the creditor found your mother, who was slightly injured, but not in danger of her life. We have contacted the police to investigate and collect evidence...... Your brother ......"

Vivian didn't listen to Katra's words, she just felt her brain explode. This kind of thing has not happened before, she has long persuaded her mother to divorce, and only by completely breaking off the relationship with that man can their lives be peaceful.

Katra was still saying this on the other end of the phone, but Vivian couldn't listen to a word, and only calmly asked, "How much does he owe??" ”

Katra paused for a moment and said the number. Vivian wasn't overly surprised, and she thanked Katra for informing her of this. Of course, Katra didn't make this call to let Vivian deal with the debt, but Vivian knew very well that what police protection was fake, and only by settling those people, only when the mother officially filed for divorce after that, could they really get peace. The social worker's kindness and the real-world malice vivian are more subservient to the latter.

Lu Yichen's innocent smiling face appeared in front of him, and Vivian suddenly felt a pain in his chest. How she wished he was by her side at the moment...... Even a hug would give her the courage to face whatever comes next.

She sat silently for a long time, her mind was very messy, and many pictures flashed in front of her eyes, a small part of which were nightmares that she had always wanted to bury in the depths of her heart and never want to remember again, and more of them were all the sweet pictures since she met Lu Yichen. The two images intertwined in her mind, and eventually intertwined.

After thinking about it for a long, long time, Vivian opened the website that had long been deleted from the bookmark, and the world was on her own. She can't rely on anyone, including Lu Yichen, fortunately...... They didn't establish a relationship.

On the afternoon of August 19, Lu Yichen booked a restaurant, prepared everything, and dialed Vivian's phone.

"I'll pick you up at 7 o'clock tonight." Lu Yichen's hand holding the phone trembled slightly with excitement.

"Huh?" Vivian's reaction was obvious: she had forgotten about tonight's appointment.

"Didn't you say you were going to have dinner together today?" Lu Yichen was a little disappointed.

"I'm sorry, I forgot...... Tonight, I have something else to do, another day. Vivian's voice sounded very unassuming.

"Is anything so important? Does it have to be tonight? Lu Yichen's voice unconsciously increased, he thought she knew what day it was.

"I'm sorry, I'm going to help the teacher at school tonight to sort out some materials, this teacher is very important for my future applications. I'll not talk about it yet, I'm a bit busy. After saying that, she hung up the phone in a hurry, for fear that if she said one more word, she would reveal her stuffing.

Before Lu Yichen could react, he heard a busy sound, he didn't give up, and immediately called back, and the other party was busy.

To be honest, he didn't expect this to be the case. Today is his and Fei'er's birthday, the whole family celebrated a round at noon, and in the evening, Fei'er booked a restaurant outside and invited many friends to party, Lu Yichen only thought about the world with Vivian, so he made another arrangement, and was accused by Fei'er of having the opposite sex and being inhumane.

Tonight's candlelight dinner was a long time ago he had booked, and tonight he wanted to take this opportunity to make her relax and officially promise himself no matter what, but he didn't expect her to know what day it was......

Well, maybe she doesn't care so much about things like birthdays, after all, not every family attaches so much importance to rituals, Lu Yichen can only comfort herself like this, and a bitter smile froze at the corner of her mouth.

When it was time for dinner, he made a phone call to cancel his reservation at the restaurant and drove to the restaurant where Fei'er had booked. After parking the car, he was about to walk to the restaurant when he saw a familiar figure next to the window pane of the door of a restaurant opposite.

Lu Yichen stared at the figure intently, and even his breathing seemed to stop......

His eyes were fixed on the figure, and he picked up his phone and dialed the number 1 button on the quick call list. Sure enough, the figure pulled out his phone from his bag and hung up without hesitation.

Lu Yichen sent a short message without giving up: "What are you busy with?" ”

"I'm helping the professor sort out the papers, I might be back late tonight, don't wait for me." The figure replied quickly with his phone.

Lu Yichen's footsteps unconsciously moved towards that figure, he silently pushed open the door, and moved to that position step by step, as if he was wearing shackles on his feet, and every step was very difficult.

Vivian was sitting in that position with a middle-aged man at the moment, and the middle-aged man's hand had been placed on her lap, and it was still moving up little by little, and his face was about to be touched. Vivian was very uncomfortable at the moment, she wanted to refuse but didn't dare to really refuse. After all, it was her own decision.

"Is he the professor you say?" Hearing Lu Yichen's voice, the cells in Vivian's whole body trembled in an instant, and she hurriedly turned around, seeing Lu Yichen's incomparably complicated gaze, there was anger, disappointment, and more...... Thick and indissolvable wounds......

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