System: Master Your Life-Chapter 486 - 113: Body Value 80 Reward Unlocked, Valentine’s Day Part 2_3
Xu Lin pointed towards the direction of the setting sun: "The red glow on the horizon is appearing."
"Xu Lin, the sunset is so beautiful!"
Rong Xiyi pulled out her phone, opened the camera, and began to take pictures.
Her phone was a flagship model from a domestic brand known for great photography, but Rong Xiyi took several photos and consistently felt that the pictures weren’t quite right; there was a noticeable visual difference between the sunset in the photos and the actual sunset scene in front of her.
Rong Xiyi mentioned this issue.
"To take good pictures, you need a professional camera and strong photography skills, plus some cameras have lenses that cost tens of thousands, while your phone is only a few thousand or ten thousand, so it’s normal to have differences, isn’t it?"
Xu Lin said: "However, as long as the photos capture the beauty, that’s enough, there’s no need to strive for perfection."
"Hmm, you’re right."
"Xu Lin, let’s take a selfie! Xu Lin, look at the camera!"
"I’m looking."
Then, Rong Xiyi took a dozen selfies with the two of them.
Once the sun had completely set, the horizon turned red, and at that moment it was quite brilliant. Rong Xiyi took several more photos.
Only then did they leave.
Following that, Xu Lin took Rong Xiyi to a cat cafe to see cats.
This cat cafe was one that quite a lot of girls visited, and at the one Xu Lin went to, seventy percent were women.
"Xu Lin, what kind of cats do you like? Ragdoll cats? Golden shaded cats? Silver shaded cats..."
Rong Xiyi listed off several breeds in one breath.
Xu Lin wasn’t interested in those breeds, "I like tabby cats!"
"Why?"
Rong Xiyi said: "I don’t think tabby cats are attractive."
"I can’t really explain; actually, back where I come from, when I was little, my family had a tabby cat. Maybe it was just early exposure, but it died of old age a few years ago."
"Was it cute?"
"Not cute, rural tabby cats need to survive the harsh realities of life, if you think a cat is cute, it would starve to death in the countryside."
"Hmph! I just like cute cats!"
Rong Xiyi was stroking a cat with blue-golden fur, feeling somewhat reluctant to part with it.
They stayed at the cat cafe for over half an hour before leaving.
Afterwards, they went to have a meal together.
When they came out, it was already past eight in the evening.
"Xu Lin, thank you for accompanying me, I’ve been so happy today!"
"Satisfied now!"
"Happy Valentine’s Day!"
Rong Xiyi hugged Xu Lin face-to-face and gave him a brief, butterfly-light kiss on the lips.
Xu Lin felt unsatisfied and directly held the back of her head and kissed her passionately.
"Damn, we’re already so familiar, just a peck, give me a deep kiss!"
"Awful!" Rong Xiyi let out a sugary hum, her pretty face blushed.
Xu Lin: "Let’s head back."
Before leaving, Xu Lin passed by a flower shop, and it felt like a spur of the moment thing for him.
Speaking of it, Rong Xiyi had grumbled several times about wanting flowers in front of Xu Lin, but Xu Lin had never given any flowers. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
After all, she was only eighteen and a bit obsessive about the symbolism and rituals.
Also, flowers aren’t expensive.
At least with Xu Lin’s current financial conditions, there’s no flower he can’t afford.
So Xu Lin parked outside the flower shop.
"Why are we stopping?"
"I’m buying you flowers, do you want some?"
"Yes! But I don’t want carnations!"
"You’ve said it, now I’m tempted to get you carnations."
"Xu Lin, I’d like roses!" Rong Xiyi quickly said.
"How about a big bouquet of roses?"
"I want!"
Xu Lin went into the flower shop and bought a large bouquet of roses.
It consisted of 99 roses, symbolizing eternal love.
Rong Xiyi was overjoyed upon receiving the roses and gave Xu Lin a sweet kiss.
"Xu Lin, let’s go home!"
"Hold on, I need to buy another bouquet."
"For whom?" Rong Xiyi became a bit anxious, fearing Xu Lin might be buying flowers for the woman Yu Xinyan.
"Of course, it’s for my dear Ms. Ren!"
"Oh oh!"
Classmate Rong instantly breathed a sigh of relief.
The bouquet of roses Xu Lin bought for his mom was a small one, while the large bouquet of roses could be sent by Xu Cheng!
It was past nine in the evening when they returned home.
Their mom was watching TV in the living room.
"You’re back?"
Ms. Ren looked at the two and saw Rong Xiyi holding a large bouquet of roses, so she asked, "Why did you buy such a big bouquet of flowers?"
"Mom, there’s a share for you too!"
Rong Xiyi said with a smile.
Xu Lin came over and said, "Dear Ms. Ren Yan, Happy Valentine’s Day."
"Mom is touched!"
Ms. Ren was quite moved. Her son often gave her roses, though they were cliché, but she heard from her colleagues that their children didn’t give them gifts. Only a few colleagues had received gifts from their children.
"Valentine’s Day again!"
Ms. Ren sighed.
Xu Lin asked, "Did Dad send you a message?"
"Just pretend he doesn’t exist, don’t mention him!"
Xu Lin decided not to mention it. The old couple had frequent disagreements, but their reconciliations were just as frequent.
Meanwhile, the mother and daughter arranged the flowers in a vase.
"Yanyan, do you have any luggage to pack? We’re going back to our hometown tomorrow."
"Let me check!"
While the mother and daughter were packing, Xu Lin, on the other side, along with Xie Ting and the other six, prepared to release the new song Xu Lin had given them on this special day of Valentine’s Day.
Xu Lin chatted with them for a while, and right at ten in the evening, all six of them simultaneously released their new song on QQ Music.
Xu Lin didn’t pay too much attention; he was confident there would be no problem with his song, and the same went for Xie Ting and the others.
The song would surely top the charts and stay there.
So, there was no need to pay too much attention; checking it out tomorrow was not too late.
At this moment, Xu Lin opened Yu Xinyan’s chat interface.
That night, Yu Xinyan had also sent Xu Lin some messages, but Xu Lin hadn’t had the chance to reply yet.
Upon checking, it turned out Yu Xinyan had wished Xu Lin a Happy Valentine’s Day.
Xu Lin replied, "Happy Valentine’s Day!"
Yu Xinyan didn’t reply immediately, and Xu Lin wasn’t staring at the phone screen continuously.
Just as he was looking for clothes to take a shower, Yu Xinyan’s message arrived.
"Xu Lin, I’m downstairs!"
"What for?"
Xu Lin thought Yu Xinyan wanted to come up.
"Can you come down for a bit?"
"What’s up?"
"It’s Valentine’s Day, and I want a kiss!"
Yu Xinyan added, "And you’re going back to your hometown tomorrow."
She attached a pitiful emoji.
"Coming down so late, what did your dad say?"
Xu Lin also went down.
"I told him I’d be back soon. Xu Lin, let’s go over there!"
Xu Lin was at the entrance of the building.
As soon as he came out, Yu Xinyan immediately pulled Xu Lin to the pavilion across the water.
It was very quiet here at night.
Yu Xinyan let Xu Lin sit down and she sat sideways on his lap.
Before Yu Xinyan could take the initiative, Xu Lin had already leaned in for a kiss.
Yu Xinyan’s kissing technique had become more skilled; after several minutes, she was still reluctant to stop, holding tightly to Xu Lin.
"Let’s head back."
Xu Lin said, "Otherwise, your dad might call me later."
"Mm-hmm..."
Yu Xinyan pursed her lips.
"How did Rong Xiyi end up being your aunt’s goddaughter?"
"My mom wanted a daughter, so she recognized her as her goddaughter. However, the reasons are a bit complicated and not something that can be explained in just a few words."
Xu Lin couldn’t quite find the words to answer immediately, though that was indeed the reason, but Yu Xinyan wasn’t asking about that.
Xu Lin thought for a moment and continued, "Despite her lively personality, she can be quite willful and naughty at times, but she doesn’t have any family members she cares about. Her mother passed away a few years ago, her stepmother shuns her, her father is indifferent to her, her grandparents don’t care for her, and her maternal grandparents passed away early on. Moreover, on her grandfather’s side, her father inherited everything, leaving her with nothing. She’s surrounded by no one, essentially a fringe person in her own home. Now that she’s not going back, her family won’t even ask about it."
"Ah, how could her family be like that?"
Yu Xinyan was quite surprised. Even though she didn’t like Rong Xiyi, it didn’t mean Yu Xinyan was a bad girl.
She had a happy family; her parents loved her, and her grandparents on both sides were alive and relatively healthy. Therefore, Yu Xinyan had all the love from her relatives, while Rong Xiyi had the exact opposite, having seemingly nothing.
Yu Xinyan was quite shocked, having never encountered such a situation before.
"Every family situation is different. Some are blessed with happiness, while others suffer from misery and loneliness. That’s why Su Shi said, ’People experience separations and reunions; the moon waxes and wanes.’ Then he goes on to say, ’Wishing for long life, to share the same moonlight even if miles apart.’ Because the former is reality, and the latter is merely a hope, an ideal, with a huge gap between ideal and reality, so vast that one might never reach the end in a lifetime."
Xu Lin said, "Of course, she’s still very cheerful and lively, but she just wants to be loved."
