SAYE [Run Freely]

Chapter 2

ヽ(｀・д・【☆―Happy Chinese New Year!―☆】・д・')ﾉ

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According to his mother's words... Jiang Cheng suddenly felt like this title was a bit strange. His train of thought was bizarrely abrupted, and whatever words were forgotten in a flash.

In the past ten years or so of his life, having parents and a family was all he knew. Whether the relationship was good or bad, mother was always a woman named Shen Yi Qing, father was a man named Jiang Wei, and his younger brother had always been unaffectionate... now all of a sudden, there was another addition to the set, Li Bao Guo and... a few other names he had already forgotten.

He honestly could not wrap his head around it.

The relationship he had with his family was indeed stricken with tension; be it his parents or younger brother, they would all ignite upon contact. Thinking back, he had not talked to his brother in almost a year and even his overtly calm and restrained mother was often caught losing her composure.

Even if that kind of situation had continued since he entered middle school all the way to high school—with him having often contemplated about never returning home and never seeing his parents—the idea of never seeing the face that seemed to have been molded from ones of his parents... when this moment befell him like a wish coming true right before his eyes, he still felt shaken.

Just shaken.

Very shaken.

Ever since his mother had said, "There's something I have to tell you", a few months of cold war and formalities pursued. Even now, everything that had happened felt like a dream he could not come to sense with.

Most of the time, he did not feel much discomfort or agony.

What existed was just confusion.

"Cold?" Li Bao Guo turned around and coughed a few times before he asked, "It's much colder here than where you previously came from, right?"

"En," Jiang Cheng replied behind his face mask.

"It'll be warm once we're inside," Li Bao Guo said. Unfortunately, he then coughed loud and hard enough for his spit to sprayed on Jiang Cheng's face. "I've already cleaned and arranged a room especially for you."

"Thank you," Jiang Cheng answered, pulling his face mask up.

"What is there to thank between us." Li Bao Guo coughed and grinned at the same time as he patted Jiang Cheng's back a few times. "There's no need to say thanks between us father and son!"

Jiang Cheng could not respond. Those two slaps on his back were particularly vigorous. At first, he had inhaled a lung full of cold air and wanted to cough, but once he heard Li Bao Guo cough, he wanted to cough even more. With two more slaps, he simply leaned towards the ground and coughed wildly to the point his tears nearly came out.

"Your body isn't that great eh," Li Bao Guo looked at him. "You have to exercise. When I was your age, I was as strong as a bear."

Once again, Jiang Cheng declined to answer. Instead, he bent over slightly and pulled out his arm, giving the man a thumbs up. Li Bao Guo started to laugh joyously: "Exercise! I still have to depend on you to take care of me later on!"

Hearing that, Jiang Cheng straightened his back and glanced at him.

"Let's go." Li Bao Guo slapped him on the back again.

"Don't touch me." Jiang Cheng knitted his eyebrows together.

"Yo?"[1] Li Bao Guo froze, fairly round eyes peered at him, "What?"