I'm In Love With the Guy I Grew Up With-Chapter 296: Come into My Heart, or I’ll Come for You 10

Chapter 296: Chapter 296: Come into My Heart, or I’ll Come for You 10
Ying City, Chinese New Year’s Eve, heavy snow.
Ning Xixi and Miaomiao were sprawled in front of the window, watching the snowflakes fluttering outside. Miaomiao tugged at Ning Xixi’s sleeve, "Sister, why hasn’t brother returned yet?"
"He said he would come back today, let’s wait a little longer..."
Ning Xixi said this with little confidence.
She hadn’t expected that Ji Yebai’s departure would lead to almost complete silence.
During these days, he had only phoned her twice, and each call was less than two minutes before he hung up. It was clear that he was very busy.
The Ji Family here had kept it very well hidden, nobody knew about the car accident involving Ji Yemo. But Ning Xixi grew more and more worried...
Although Ji Yebai hadn’t made it clear, the situation with Ji Yemo... seemed to not be very optimistic...
"Xixi, Miaomiao, Grandpa is going to write the spring couplets! Both of you come over!" Ji’s mother called out, and Ning Xixi hurriedly pulled Miaomiao along.
The spring couplets of the Ji Family were personally written by Grandpa Ji each year.
His calligraphy was profoundly accomplished, and the simple couplets were vigorous and powerful.
Ning Xixi obediently ground the inkstone for Grandpa Ji, while Miaomiao dabbed her fingertips into the ink, curiously scrutinizing everything.
The cute appearance of the two of them nearly melted everyone’s hearts.
After finishing the spring couplets, people were busy putting them up. Ning Xixi, lacking enthusiasm, stood still without moving.
Grandpa Ji asked with a smile, "Little Xixi, why the unhappy face? Did that Yebai scoundrel bully you?"
"No..." Ning Xixi shook her head, biting her lip, "I just can’t settle down..."
"Silly girl." Grandpa Ji sighed, "Grandpa knows, you’re missing Yebai."
Just like him, missing Grandma Ji.
With emotions stirred, he took up the brush and briskly wrote a few lines, then leant on his cane and returned to his room.
After the New Year’s Eve dinner, the Ji Family all gathered in the living room to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
Ning Xixi couldn’t concentrate at all, her gaze constantly wandering towards the doorway, but that tall and handsome figure still didn’t appear.
Her long eyelashes drooped in desolation, her mood sinking deeper and deeper. Ji’s mother, seeing this, thought to find something for her to do, "Xixi, could you tidy up the study?"
Ning Xixi complied and went to the study, and while organizing, she discovered a poem written by Grandpa Ji.
She uttered a "huh" without much thought, then went downstairs after finishing her cleaning.
Passing by Grandpa Ji’s door, she halted her steps.
From inside Grandpa Ji’s room, a suppressed low weeping was heard.
"Ahuan... How could you bear to leave me alone... Ahuan, Ahuan..."
Ahuan was the name of Grandma Ji.
Ning Xixi suddenly understood why Grandpa Ji had written that particular poem by Su Shi—
[Ten years living and dead have drawn apart. I do nothing to remember, but never to forget. A thousand miles of desolate tomb, no place to speak of the bleak. Even if we met, I would not recognize you, your face covered with dust, hair frost on the temples.
At night the dream of returning home comes suddenly. Small window of the chamber, preparing the makeup. We look at each other without words, only tears flowing in a thousand lines. I can predict where every year my guts will tear, in the bright moonlit night, on the short pine ridge.]
Grandma Ji passed away very young, and now, it’s been who knows how many decades since.
Ning Xixi’s eyes brimmed with tears.
Grandpa Ji must have truly loved Grandma Ji, right?
That’s why even in her absence, year after year, he still longed for her.
These few days that she waited for Ji Yebai were already so unbearable, what then must Grandpa Ji’s state of heart be as he waited for someone who was destined to never return in this life?
Suddenly, the noise of an airplane propeller came from the rooftop, interrupting Ning Xixi’s thoughts.
She was stunned for a few seconds, as if realizing something, and then she ran outside with all her might——