Jiangzhou.

By the lake, the evening breeze was cool.

Pei Youwei held her phone tight and gazed out at the rippling water and the full moon overhead. She looked faintly let down.

She'd been sitting there a long, long time, and she still hadn't made up her mind.

"Ding-dong~"

Her phone chimed, snapping her out of it. She unlocked it and opened the messages from her brother.

Pei Jianhua: "Youwei, still not done with work?"

Pei Jianhua: "The whole family's waiting for you."

Pei Jianhua: "[Photo]"

Pei Youwei opened the photo. The dinner table was covered with dishes, most of them her favorites, and seven sets of bowls and chopsticks had been laid out.

Mom and Dad, her brother and sister-in-law, her little nephew, plus her. That was six people, and there were seven place settings. Pei Jianhua and her parents hadn't said a word about it, but Pei Youwei knew perfectly well what they wanted: for her to bring Yu Beiwang home.

If she brought Yu Beiwang home on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it would make things between them official.

Pei Youwei tapped the text box. She thought about it for a long time and still didn't know how to answer.

Just then.

A message came in from Yu Beiwang, too. "If you still can't decide, you can tell them I got busy with work and had to fly back to Shanghai."

Pei Youwei froze. Then her eyes quickly steadied, as if she'd finally made her choice.

"Where are you right now?"

"At the hotel."

"I'll come get you. Come home with me."

"Okay~"

After that short exchange, Pei Youwei got up and went back to her car. She opened her photo album and deleted the old photos, the ones from years back, one by one. Then she drove to the hotel.

Yu Beiwang got into the passenger seat with the gifts he'd had ready for a while. Pei Youwei saw what he was holding and spoke first. "If I hadn't come to pick you up tonight, what were you going to do with all that?"

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