Wen Lan hurriedly clicked the answer button.

"I'm in Jiangcheng." Shen Yi's voice was full of exhaustion and sadness.

Wen Lan let out an "oh", suddenly not knowing what to say.

"If you're not busy, come to Jiangda at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, my mother's ashes—" Shen Yi choked up as he spoke.

Wen Lan realized that tomorrow was Shen's mother's birthday, and it was also the day to sprinkle her ashes into Minglun Lake, Jiangda.

"I'll pass." She replied sadly, "Do you need to prepare sacrifices or something?"

"No, I don't. My uncle and aunt are ready." Shen Yi said slowly, "I still have something to do, hang up first."

Wen Lan hurriedly said goodbye.

As everyone knows, when Jiang Jingci saw the name "Shen Yi" flashing on Wen Lan's mobile phone screen, his face was already covered with frost.

Seeing Wen Lan end the call, Jiang Jingci still asked decently, "Are you going out tomorrow?"

"Don't go out." Wen Lan hurriedly changed the subject, "Last night, thanks to your rescue. It's almost time for dinner, and I'm going to treat you to lunch as a token of appreciation."

"Okay." Being alone with her is Jiang Jingci's dream, but when she hears "to express gratitude", she can't be happy.

When the two went out, Jiang Jingci took the initiative to take Wen Lan's car.

Wen Lan chose a very stylish western restaurant, and when he ordered food, he noticed that the two had not communicated much since TT came out.

"Order whatever you like, don't save me money." She squeezed out a perfunctory smile and pushed the recipe under Jiang Jingci's nose.

"You can just order, I don't care." Jiang Jingci pushed the recipe over again, and said quietly, "I'm going to Beijing tomorrow, and I won't be back in four or five days."

She said softly, yesterday Jiang Jingci said that she would go to Beijing early this morning, presumably because she was delayed by her business.

"If there is anything, remember to call me as soon as possible, my phone is on 24 hours a day." Jiang Jingci's eyebrows were a little lonely in his eyes.

"Lao Jiang, I've caused you too much trouble since I met you." She was full of guilt, so she simply confessed, "The more anxious I am to draw a line with you, the more entangled I find it."

"Why do you have to draw a clear line, isn't it good to keep dating?" Jiang Jingci asked rhetorically.

She shook her head resolutely, one hand already resting on her lower abdomen, "I have found someone to tell my fortune, and my relationship and marriage are not going well at all. You're a good person, I can't drag you down."

"You are so young that you believe in those who have and do not!" Jiang Jingci froze at her, "I never believed in fate."

"I'm already hungry, so I'll get my meal first." Wen Lan couldn't wait to eat well and return to TT, lowered his head and circled the recipe, and then handed it to Jiang Jingci, "See what else needs to be added?"

"Just place your order." Jiang Jingci handed the recipe to the waiter.

The two fell silent.

In order to avoid embarrassment, Wen Lan hurriedly shifted his attention to his mobile phone.

"It's rare to get to sit together like this, let's talk." Jiang Jingci suddenly reached out and picked up her mobile phone and buckled it to the dining table.

She stubbornly asked, knowingly, "What are you talking about?"

"Talk about your life and the rest of your life." Jiang Jingci got straight to the point, "Wen Lan, I'm a lot older than you, and I always look at problems from the most realistic perspective."

"Lao Jiang, let's be straight with you, I'm already preparing to be a single mother, and in order to give my children a warm family atmosphere, I'm not going to find a man anymore." Wen Lan and Jiang Jingci had a showdown.

"A family without a mother is incomplete, and children grow up in single-parent families with more or less flawed personalities." Jiang Jingci tried to persuade, "Jiang Guan's mother died early, I always felt indebted to him, and I used him to be lawless since he was a child, so that he is now open-mouthed, no big or small."

"Compared to this, I feel that the hidden contradictions of reorganizing the family are more terrifying." Wen Lan gasped.

Whether it is between children and children, or between children and adults, as long as there is no blood relationship, conflicts will definitely occur after a long time under the same roof.

stepfather

Stepmother, in Wen Lan's eyes, is not a good word.

Jiang Jingci twisted his eyebrows and asked, "Are you afraid that Jiang Guan and I will treat your children badly in the future?"

"I'd rather let my child grow up in a family without fatherly love than find him a stepfather." Wen Lan once again ruthlessly rejected Jiang Jingci.

When Jiang Jingci heard this, deep despair rippled in his deep eyes.

didn't know that when Wen Lan was pregnant, he felt inferior every time he stood in front of Wen Lan.

After learning that Wen Lan was pregnant, he was angry and angry, but later accepted this fact calmly.

Because Wen Lan has said more than once that there are two reasons for rejecting him, one is age, and the other is that he doesn't want to be a stepmother.

If Wen Lan also has a child, won't it offset his "shortcomings" with a son!

But he never dreamed that Wen Lan would reject him again on the grounds of a child!

The woman in front of her made her hope again and again, and again and again he fell into despair.

In his thirty-six years of life, there is only one woman, Yu Hui, and her marriage is only a few years, and her experience in chasing women is almost zero.

He likes Wen Lan and wants to stay with Wen Lan for a long time, he doesn't want to play tricks, he only knows that it is good for Wen Lan to hold out a sincere heart, but every time he faces the result of being trampled......

"I'm sorry you've helped me again and again, and I have nothing but guilt and gratitude to you." Wen Lan stared deeply at Jiang Jingci, "Lao Jiang, there are many good women, don't waste your thoughts on me in the future, I'm not worth it."

Jiang Jingci couldn't listen anymore, got up and left.

Wen Lan made his words clear, but he was not at all relaxed.

Because, she felt that she owed Jiang Jingci too much.

Let's pay it back slowly when we have a chance in the future!

By the time Wen Lan came to her senses and was ready to leave, the waiter had already come to serve the food, so she had to pack the food and bring it back to TT.

After a busy afternoon of work, before getting off work, Wen Lan received a call from the sales department asking her to see the house.

Hearing that the house was in her preferred location, it was still a 120-square-meter well-decorated existing house, and she happily went.

The community is on Ping'an Street, called "Shuyuan Mansion", diagonally opposite is a public kindergarten, less than 500 meters away from Jiangcheng Experimental No. 2 Elementary School, a proper school district house.

The house introduced to Wen Lan is on the 12th floor of Unit 1 of Building 2 in the community, with three households and two stairs.

The sales lady said that there was a buyer who had paid a deposit, but because of a sudden change in work, he had to give up the house.

Wen Lan took a closer look at each room, three bedrooms and two living rooms, sitting north and facing south, lighting and ventilation, adding a little common furniture, you can move in.

After going around the community below, the supporting facilities and greening are also good, Wen Lan felt that this house was tailor-made for himself, and immediately paid a deposit of 50,000 yuan.