Chapter 375: 374 Gifts for 22 years

Translator: 549690339

That time, Shen Yuting was led out of the room by Gu Kai, and it was the first time that Gu Kai told Shen Yuting, with a stern look on his face, that she could either move back to her own room or go home.

His sister’s room was off-limits to anyone.

Shen Yuting was frightened into tears by Gu Kai and pleaded for toys as a consolation.

But Gu Kai still rejected her.

Since then, Shen Yuting never entered that room again because Gu Kai locked it and kept the key himself.

This was told to Wen Ran by Mo Xiuchen after she met her mother.

“Ranran, this is your mother.”

In the room, in the crystal photo frame on Gu Yan’s desk, there was a woman with a gentle smile and soft eyes. Anyone could tell she was a kind and warm woman.

Gu Yan, a burly man, had tears welling up in his eyes.

Yu Han maintained her youth and beauty while he had aged. Sometimes, when he looked at his wife in the photo, he worried about her. How was she doing in the other world? Was she lonely? Was she being bullied?

Sometimes, he wanted to go find her. However, he dared not, thinking that she might be upset if he went to see her without finding their daughter first.

The deep love and the longing pain was agonizingly unbearable.

Wen Ran carefully took the crystal photo frame and looked at the woman in the photo. Unconsciously, her eyes filled with tears. She pressed her lips tightly, allowing her emotions to surge.

The phone on Gu Yan’s side rang. Mo Xiuchen gestured for him to answer the call and assured him that he would stay with Wen Ran.

The call was from overseas. Gu Yan glanced at his daughter and stepped out of the bedroom with his phone.

“Ranran, your mother was an admirable woman. Even though she’s gone, she would surely be very pleased that you’ve come home today,” said Mo Xiuchen, looking at Wen Ran sympathetically.

Tears slid down her face and dripped down her cheeks. She pressed her lips tighter so as not to cry.

“Over at Ah Kai’s, there’s an album with all your baby pictures and family portraits. There’s also your room there. I’ll take you to see it later.”

“Okay.”

Wen Ran nodded, placed her mother’s photo back where it belonged and thought to herself silently: Mom, I’m home now, you don’t have to worry about me anymore.

Mo Xiuchen took Wen Ran to the doorway of her room. He pushed the door open but did not enter immediately. Instead, he looked at her quietly.

Upon seeing the decoration of the room, Wen Ran froze in place.

The familiar décor took her back to her old home.

“Before, this room was always decorated in a style of a princess room for a child. Some days ago, Ah Kai asked your brother, and then redecorated the room to how it is now. Go in and take a look!”

Wen Ran stepped into the room.

The familiar decor dispelled the slight unfamiliarity she felt in her heart. Now this felt like home. Beside the large bookshelf, there was a gift rack.

It was filled with gifts. From the top row, in sequence from her first year, second year, third year… all the way to her twenty-second birthday gifts.

The tears that she had struggled to hold back streamed down again. Standing in front of rows of gifts, she looked at them with teary eyes.

“Ranran, all of these are birthday gifts from Ah Kai.”

The deep voice of Mo Xiuchen was the only sound in the room.

Wen Ran just cried silently, with emotions surging wildly in her heart.

“From your first birthday to last year’s twenty-second, every year on this day, Ah Kai would pull me, Ah Feng, and Ah Mu to celebrate your birthday.”

“But he wouldn’t let us give any gifts. He said, ‘she’s my sister, my gifts are enough. If your gifts are better than mine, then I’m not her best big brother.’”

That was what Gu Kai said many years ago when they were children.

From then on, they never prepared any birthday gifts. They only accompanied Gu Kai to blow out the candles, watched his disappointed and sad expression, then drank with him, listening to him say that he must find his sister and bring her back.

Under Gu Kai’s calm exterior was a stubbornness that was incurable.

He appeared calm, sunny, and handsome. He also had an arrogance that matched Mo Xiuchen and Qin Mu, but was not as apparent. He knew romance and how to treat a girl better than Luo Haofeng, but he never showed it.

There were footsteps outside. Gu Kai was back.

Rapid footsteps echoed. Wen Ran’s heart pounded. Her slim body froze slightly.

Mo Xiuchen turned his head. The footsteps stopped. Gu Kai stood at the doorway, his tall figure blocking most of the door. He didn’t dare to enter, he just stared intently at Wen Ran.

Time seemed to have stopped.

Everything was still for a long while.

Wen Ran slowly turned her head. Her gaze met Gu Kai’s.

One with teary eyes, the other with emotions churning.

Mo Xiuchen just stood aside, watching silently, kindness evident in his handsome face.

Over the years, he joined Ah Kai in looking for his missing sister, while Ah Kai helped him find his life-saving benefactor. They believed that his life-saving benefactor and his sister were the same person.

However, they were not entirely certain.

Now, Wen Ran was indeed the woman they had been looking for all these years. She stood right in front of them, what could be more joyful than this?

This room was no longer just a space for thoughts, it was Ranran’s room. She could stay here anytime she came back. These gifts wouldn’t just be coldly placed there, waiting indefinitely for the owner to unpack.

Gu Kai wanted to give Wen Ran a smile, but when he tried to smile, he found that he could not. Something so joyful, but he couldn’t manage to smile.

He just looked tenderly at the woman standing in the middle of the room – his long-lost sister who had finally returned home and was now standing in this room.

Wen Ran looked at Gu Kai standing in the doorway. Everything was so blurry that she couldn’t see his expression or his facial features.

From the corner of her eye, the rows of gifts seemed to have come to life, as if they had grown wings and flew past her one by one. Her frozen body suddenly moved.

She ran to the tall figure at the door, jumped into his embrace, held him tightly, buried her head in his chest, and sobbingly called out, “Brother!”

Gu Kai’s tall figure suddenly froze.

Something rapidly crystallized in his eyes, then overflowed, falling into Wen Ran’s black hair.

After a long while, he slowly raised his hand and gently embraced the woman in his arms. He smiled charmingly and said, “Ranran, welcome home!”