Chapter 79: Warm and Flickering Light of a Family's Hearth

  "Wah! Another mock exam!" Listening to the class teacher talking about the end-of-term matters. Su Yisu couldn't help but let out a loud wail, as the end-of-term exams were just like the mock exams, what pressure, what a huge mountain...

  "What's with that?" Li Shuiyan glanced at her lightly, "It's not like we haven't been through it before, you're making it sound like we're going to our deaths."

  "Ugh..." Su Yisu collapsed onto her desk, "Every exam is like going through the gates of hell, just graduate already, I've had enough."

  Li Shuiyan couldn't help but pour cold water on her, "Next semester, you'll have a good time."

  "Wooo..." Su Yisuo was on the verge of tears.

  Time flies, and the New Year's Day has arrived in the blink of an eye. This year, third-year high school students only had one day off. Su Yisu lay on the sunny windowsill of the classroom, watching the first- and second-year students enthusiastically hurrying home with their backpacks, feeling increasingly depressed, muttering to herself: "I want to go home too... Dad has already come back, but I'm still in school, it's not fair at all!"

  However, the time at the end of the semester always passes quickly, and every day is spent running between the dormitory and the classroom. If you're not careful, the final exams will arrive before you know it.

  "Yin Yimou, come on~" The day before the exam, Tan Ziyao still sent a message to cheer her up. Su Yisu smiled and replied with a fighting emoji. In reality, there are BFFs, online there are kindred spirits, occasionally exchanging sweet nothings with lovers, ghost stories with friends, and jokes with family members... probably, life is already fulfilling enough?

  After finishing the exam and making up for the lessons, it was already twenty-three years old. After playing crazy all night after finishing class, Su Yisuo finally realized where the problem lay. The next day, she slept until dawn and then lay on the balcony of the dormitory corridor, at a loss. The area around the school is full of residential areas, even though it's still some time before New Year's Day, but in the past few days, the sound of firecrackers has been ringing out one after another, making Su Yisuo's heart itch, and her originally eager mood became even stronger. However... there was still a very important matter to be resolved in front of her.

  "Hey, why aren't you picking up your things?" Lin Wan came out with a big pile of discarded items and threw them into the trash can at the corner of the door, looking at Su Yisuo standing in the corridor in a daze, unable to help but ask.

  Su Yisuo turned her head and gazed at her with a hint of resentment. "There are so many things to bring back, but they won't be used until next semester. But... how can I carry all those things by myself?"

  Lin Lin shrugged her shoulders, "Really sorry, you figure it out yourself, I have a lot of stuff too." She then walked into the dormitory to continue organizing her clothes and books.

  "Sigh..." Su Yisu let out a dejected sigh and collapsed onto the balcony again.

  "Hey! Su Yisou!" At this time, a shout suddenly came from downstairs. Su Yisu stood up and leaned out to see Su Yixin standing downstairs with a dark face looking up at her.

  "What?! Su Yi Xin?!" In comparison, Su Yi Su's mood was much better. She let out a delighted scream and quickly ran downstairs with a "thud thud thud" sound. "Su Yi Xin, how did you come back?"

  Su Yixin looked at her with a sarcastic smile, "The two old folks at home said that they were afraid you had too many things and couldn't carry them, so they specially rushed me to do the hard labor."

  "Long live Father and Mother!" Su Yisou exclaimed excitedly, raising her hands high. "I was worried about how to take my family back home!"

  "Hmm," Su Yixin coldly snorted, "Are you done yet?"

  Upon hearing this, Su Yisuo's face suddenly showed a hint of embarrassment, "No..."

  "I knew it!" Su Yixin walked to the edge of the flower bed outside the backyard and sat down. She glanced at her with a calm expression, looking at the time on her phone: "I'll give you half an hour, if I don't see you in half an hour, I'm leaving."

  "Sui Xin, you're cruel!" Su Yi Su shouted again and turned around to rush upstairs with a "thud thud thud" sound, hastily packing her things.

  "This one to bring... that one to bring too..." She was seen busily muttering to herself, listing many things to be brought back home. Anyway, there's a free labor force here, hmmph.

  After packing up her things, Su Yisuo ran to persuade the dorm auntie, nagging and pestering her until she finally agreed to let Su Yixin come up to help. Su Yixin leaned against the stairs, listening to Su Yisuo's shameless flirting, and couldn't help but laugh. Why did he find this side of Su Yisuo somewhat endearing?

  However, when he saw the large pile of luggage in front of him, he immediately stopped smiling, swallowed hard, and stared at Su Yisou incredulously. "Su Yisou, are you planning to move all three years' worth of stuff back at once?"

  Su Yi put on an innocent look and pointed at the "property" behind her, answering: "Nope, you see, I still have a lot of things left!"

  At this time, Jiang Mou came in from outside the door and asked, "Su Yisou, have you packed up?"

  "Hurry up, hurry up! Go take a look if Lin Wan is done yet. Once she's finished packing, we can head back!"

  Walking on the campus road, Su Yixin looked at the three people walking leisurely in front of him with a resentful face, and complained to Chen Jierui, who was also carrying big and small bags: "Brother, we are so miserable... Was I really not born to do hard labor? Who sent you to torture me?"

  Chen Jierui smiled silently and shook his head.

  Su Yisuo smiled and turned back to look at him, quoting the lines from "Thunderstorm": "It's fate! An unjust fate!"

  "Hmph..." Lin Wan and Jiang Xiao were suddenly amused, secretly relieved that they weren't drinking water or eating at the moment, otherwise it would have definitely sprayed out. Lin Wan laughed at her, "Su, you're quite good at learning from others."

  "That's necessary." Su Yishou nodded her head with satisfaction, without a hint of modesty.

  No one was outside the school gate, where a tricycle had been intercepted and the luggage of the three young women was thrown onto it. It wasn't until this moment that Su Yixin let out a sigh of relief, saying: "Luckily modern transportation technology is advanced, otherwise I would have been exhausted to death."

  Su Yi's concerns would never be on the same wavelength as Su Yi Xin's, she glanced at the car and said lightly: "It seems like there's no more room."

  "You won't call another car, will you!" Su Yixin cursed and stopped another empty car, pulling and pushing the three people to get on. Chen Jierui answered a phone call in between, just finished listening and came back, looked at the situation in front of him, estimated that if he went together, he would have to call another car again, and his roommate also had something to ask him to hurry back. So he said to Jiang Shuo: "I won't send you off, there's something in the dormitory, you go first."

  Jiang Zuo nodded slightly. "Mm, you should head back too."

  "Let's go!" Su Yixin squeezed onto the luggage-loaded car. With a loud shout, the four of them moved further and further away from school with the rotation of the wheels.

  Another semester has passed. Su Yisu sighed endlessly.

  "Just another half semester and we'll be graduating." Lin Wei also sighed with emotion.

  Then comes Jiang Zhenyu, "and then it's time for parting."

  "Go!" This remark successfully earned Su Yisou and Lin Wan's white eyes.

  Back home, it was already after noon.

  "Ah! Finally home! It feels like it's been an eternity!"

  Su Yixin rubbed her sore arm and coldly hummed: "Now you just think about going home. Wait until you get to college, see what you do then."

  "I won't run far, humph!" Su Yisuo retorted fearlessly.

  "Alright, you two stop arguing and come eat lunch quickly. You must be hungry." Shen Xiulan intervened in a timely manner. This brother and sister...

  Happy days are always too short, time spent at home flies by quickly, and before you know it, it's New Year's Eve again.

  "Fireworks are going off!!!" As soon as night fell, Su Yisuo couldn't wait to shout out loud, tugging at Su Yixin's sleeve: "Su Yixin, give me back a joyful New Year's Eve!"

  Su Yixin came out with a firework tube, beaming with joy, "Great! But I have to say, it's good that you're not allowed to set off the thunderous ones."

  "If you don't let go, I won't let go either. Can't I just watch?" Su Yisu muttered discontentedly. However, she still obediently retreated to the side and stood beside Su Yu and Shen Xiulan, her face full of expectation as she stared at Su Yixin.

  "Boom!!" With a sharp, deafening sound, dazzling fireworks burst forth in the night sky, their brilliant light illuminating the heavens, decorating the darkness with elegance and beauty, bathing the earth in a radiance as bright as day.

  Su Yisu covered her ears and shouted excitedly: "Dad! Mom! Look! Such beautiful fireworks!"

  Su Yu and Shen Xiulan lowered their heads and glanced at Su Yisou, laughing happily. The atmosphere of the New Year is really good.

  It was as if Su Yi Xin's thunderous command had triggered a chain reaction, with household after household competing to release their own dazzling fireworks. The night sky was filled with colorful explosions of light, like a dynamic oil painting in constant motion. Beautiful rays of light burst forth one after another, like shooting stars, like rainbow-colored ribbons, like celestial maidens scattering flowers, an endless display of beauty.

  Looking at the warm light reflected from every household, Su Yisuo said with a moved expression: "Dad, Mom, I hope our family will always be together, and always be this happy!"

  Upon hearing this, Shen Xiulan subconsciously glanced at Su Yu, only to see him still smiling and gazing up at the night sky's fireworks. "There's no need to question that!" he replied. Shen Xiulan finally put her mind at ease, turned around, and gently patted Su Yisuo's shoulder. "Silly child." As she spoke, she quietly let out a sigh, looking troubled. However, this faint sigh was quickly drowned out by the commotion in the entire sky. Both Su Yu and Su Yisuo were excitedly watching the fireworks, neither of them noticing.

  Su Yi Xin had enough of watching other people's fireworks and walked over to ask Su Yi Su, "Are we still going to set off ours? I was so caught up in watching that I forgot about our own..."

  Su Yisuo stared at him speechlessly and replied: "Of course, we have to let go! Other people's things are other people's, our family's things are our family's, these two cannot be confused!"

  "Listen!" Su Yixin smiled and left again. In an instant, a new round of colors burst forth in the night sky once more.

  "True beauty!" Su Yisu looked up with her head tilted back, the speckled colors of the night sky clearly reflected on her face. "A feeling of happiness."

  However, after a good night's sleep, Su Yisuo felt a bit bored. Every day facing Su Yixin, it's a bit visually tired... So on the first day of the year after breakfast, Su Yisuo called Lin Wan, "Wan, let's go out and play! I haven't seen you since I got back home, always saying busy, what are you busy with?"

  Lin Wan seemed to hesitate for a moment, stuttering and unable to answer. Su Yisu finally lost her temper, "Lin Wan, speak! What are you hiding from me?"