Time streamed by, second by second, and as Kang Li noticed the atmosphere around them gradually growing ambiguous, the smile on her face involuntarily stalled. She then deliberately averted her eyes and coughed lightly, saying, "It’s getting late, huh."
Yanqing: "Hmm."
Kang Li: "Tired?"
Yanqing: "I’m okay." Since she wanted him to accompany her in conversation, he would stay with her until she felt sleepy and closed her eyes, then he could sleep without delay.
"Yanqing."
Kang Li called the man’s name.
"Hmm?"
Yanqing looked puzzled.
Kang Li: "Can’t you just smile? Even a casual smile now and then would be nice." He must look really attractive when he smiles.
"I’ll try." Since learning of his father’s sacrifice on the battlefield, he had never smiled again because, after that... his life had been clouded with one misfortune after another.
First, his mother remarried without hesitation, took all the family savings to marry another man, and left him in the care of his grandparents. But that good time didn’t last long; his grandparents fell ill one after the other and passed away. Then, his aunt and uncle felt he was bad luck, a jinx, a burden, and they abandoned him to be raised by the state.
One misfortune after another robbed him of the innocence and smiles a child should have.
He had vowed more than once to become strong, so strong that he wouldn’t need to rely on anyone, so that he wouldn’t be abandoned over and over again, and wouldn’t yearn for any family affection.
Then again, he didn’t smile much as a child, to be more precise, he didn’t tend to show much emotional fluctuation. But he still remembered that he had smiled, when his mother told him... his dad would soon be coming home to see them, and he saw his mother’s happy smile, his mood during that time was so good that he often grinned.
Even if the smile was not wide, the smile not obvious, but he wasn’t mistaken, he was indeed smiling...

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