As the Chinese New Year approaches, the large supermarkets in Jiang City are packed with people.
Shi Su has been particularly sleepy lately and has gained a few pounds thanks to Hui’s feeding. Before being taken out for a supermarket run, she didn’t put on makeup, instead wearing a big hat, sunglasses, and a mask, squeezing into the crowd. In such a crowded situation, no one could recognize her.
Jing Jihan was different. While she was over at the shelves buying toys and school supplies, Jing BOSS was calmly pushing a shopping cart through the vegetable section.
Weren’t they supposed to come out to buy gifts for Mianmian? Why did he end up in the vegetable section?
Holding a large box of playhouse toys that little girls like, Shi Su struggled to squeeze through the crowd and leaned over to Jing Jihan’s cart to take a look.
Whoa! Oh boy! Jing Jihan had actually bought quite a few ingredients.
Was he planning to whisk her from the old Jing Family residence to the Nanshan Villa to live? Or was it back to Kaixing Mansion?
In any case, it certainly seemed they weren’t planning to return to the Jing Family tonight.
Sure enough, after leaving the supermarket, the route Jing Jihan drove was not heading towards the Jing Family, nor was it towards his company or Kaixing Mansion.
Shi Su thought they might really be heading back to Nanshan Villa. Just thinking about the so-called real 1982 Lafite there, and those various antique tablewares from who knows which era, made her instinctively grind her teeth in the car, planning not to touch any tableware later, in case something got broken or damaged, she’d feel terribly distressed.
As it turned out, the car didn’t turn into Li Lake Bay when they passed by, but instead went straight in another direction.
The once-confused vision gradually became clear until the car stopped at the old apartment complex that Shi Su hadn’t returned to in more than two years.
When she sold this apartment back then, she felt a pang of heartache. Though the security wasn’t great and it was quite old, with many elderly neighbors, it was the first home she bought for everything after returning from the United States with Mianmian. It held countless memories of her and Mianmian, and... back then, the severely injured Jing Jihan whom she and Mianmian dragged back while he was unconscious...
Fortunately, the apartment later sold for a good price. It was said that the buyers were a middle-aged couple. Because Shi Su is a celebrity, she couldn’t show her face, so Jun helped her sell it, and Shi Su never met the buyers.
Seeing Jing Jihan getting out of the car and taking grocery bags from the trunk, he walked inside as if it were his own home. Shi Su, confused throughout, got out of the car, closed the door, glanced once more in the direction of her own old four-pane window, and hurriedly jogged after him.
The same old apartment entrance, the hallway’s sensor lights installed by each household were still broken. Even in broad daylight, the hallway was entirely dark, but the air was filled with the aroma of food from each household, the simple scent of regular people’s daily life.
Reaching the old door, Shi Su looked down and noticed the ordinary lock that required a key had been replaced with a fingerprint password lock. Seeing Jing Jihan’s gaze directed at her, she thoughtfully looked at him, then recalled his entry passcode at Kaixing Mansion, and couldn’t help but reach out to try pressing it. Instantly, the sound of the lock opening came from the door.
Shi Su was shocked.
Jing Jihan, carrying the grocery bags, entered the door. Seeing Shi Su still standing outside like a wooden post, he turned back to her: "What are you standing there for? Come in."
Shi Su entered and was somewhat entranced by everything inside.