The time spent together always feels especially short.
Lian En hadn't even had a chance to savor the happiness of family reunion properly when time silently swept through the entire last month, the New Year, and now it was the sixteenth day of the first month.
With only three or four days left before the school term starts, no matter how reluctant Lian En was, he had to get on that departing train.
Eating the farewell dumplings that his mom, with her big pregnant belly, specially made, he suppressed for the thousandth time the thought of dropping everything and staying by his parents' side to fulfill his filial duty.
He repeated his advice to his younger siblings over and over, until even Xinqing, who was always closest to him, impatiently furrowed her little brows: "Got it, got it, big brother! Mom's situation is different now from before, so we must be careful, careful, and more careful.
