Su Ci lowered her eyes and stared at the three cards intently.
"I probably know who sent it."
Since Shen Zhiyan's accident, she has never celebrated a birthday again, but she receives three gifts every year.
Every time there is only a very brief sentence: "Happy birthday".
The gifts given are also very thoughtful.
"They are...the three brothers from the Su family?" Huo Yuting guessed, looking at the handmade night light in Su Ci's hand.
Three gifts, Su Ci's interpersonal relationship is very simple, so it is not difficult to guess.
However, he remembered that the three brothers did not appear at the banquet. It seemed that the Shen family had not invited them at all.
Su Ci smiled bitterly and looked up at Huo Yuting: "Do you think I'm cruel? You don't even invite your brother to his birthday?"
In fact, after careful calculation, they did not cause any substantial harm to her. The only blame was Su Honglu and Xu Jing for losing her.
When she returned to the Su family, she no longer had a place in the family.
It's just that some things have gone bad and can never go back.
As early as when she returned to the Su family, the three brothers had already made a choice between her and Su Yue.
From that moment on, they were no longer her relatives.
Even if they meet again, as long as they don't take the initiative to find trouble, she will not rush to ask for anything.
Huo Yuting hugged Su Ci and gently stroked her soft black hair with his warm palms. "You did the right thing. They gave up on you first."
When he thought of the many grievances Su Ci had suffered in the past, he couldn't help but feel dense pain in his heart.
His little girl is beautiful, well-behaved and sensible, but those people are blind and mistake pearls for fish eyes.
"Do you really think I did the right thing?" Su Ci looked up at him in surprise, her eyes slightly moist.
"Well, don't pay attention to them. This is the retribution they should bear."
After a while, Su Ci slowly calmed down and broke free from Huo Yuting's arms.
"Pack up these gifts and put them on the shelf." Even if she likes them, she won't use them.
"Okay." Huo Yuting came over to help and put the three gifts in the corner.
By the time they finished opening the gifts, it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening.
Su Ci stood up from the ground, her legs suddenly became weak and she almost fell to the ground.
Huo Yuting's attention was always on her, and he supported her with quick eyes and hands, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No, my legs are numb after squatting on the ground for too long." Su Ci's cheeks were slightly red, and she clenched her fist and knocked on her legs.
Huo Yuting couldn't hold back and laughed out loud, "I told you to sit on the ground with that thing of yours a long time ago, but you didn't listen."
“I didn’t expect it to be dismantled quickly, and I didn’t want it to be so troublesome!”
Su Ci pursed her lips and asked Huo Yuting to open her arms and "hug me."
Huo Yuting got behind him, put one arm around Su Ci's shoulders, put another hand through the crook of his leg, and hugged her horizontally.
When he returned to the bedroom, he remembered that he seemed to have forgotten to reply to m's message.
She carried Su Ci to the bed, returned to the sofa, turned on her phone and took a look, and found that there were several missed calls.
They were all called by m.
m has a calm personality. If he hadn't encountered something difficult, he wouldn't have called me in such a hurry.
Thinking this, Huo Yuting's face darkened and he called back.
The other end of the phone answered the call quickly, with a deep and deep voice mixed with a hint of concern, "At Ting, has something happened? Why are you picking up the phone now?"
This was the first time Huo Yuting heard worried words from M's mouth, and he found it funny and heart-warming.
"It's okay. I'm opening birthday gifts with my wife."
Her tone was low and calm, with a hint of showing off, as if she was afraid that others would not know that she was married.
When Su Ci heard this, she looked up at him and smiled helplessly.
There was an eerie silence on the other end of the phone, followed by another violent cough.
"Ahem... Wife? Are you married? Who is it?"
Huo Yuting turned his head and glanced at the little girl who was leaning on the bedside, scrolling through her cell phone in boredom. The corners of her lips curled up slightly, "Well, we've already gotten married."
"A Ting, you should be careful about getting married, otherwise you will be in big trouble in the future." M's tone was full of worry.
Huo Yuting leaned on the sofa, tapping his long white fingertips on the back of the sofa, feeling very happy.
Hearing this, he raised his eyebrows slightly, "What trouble can there be? I think everything is wonderful now."
There was another moment of silence.
"Are you in City S now? I'll go find you right away."
Huo Yuting heard the seriousness and solemnity in his tone and asked curiously: "What? You don't seem very happy to know that I am getting married?"
m not only saved his life, but was also his partner. In the past two years, one of them was responsible for managing the company and the other was responsible for execution. They worked together perfectly.
According to Huo Yuting's understanding, M is not a nosy person and has never taken the initiative to ask about his personal affairs before, but today it was very unusual.
M, who was far away in country C, stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel's top suite, with a gloomy look on his face.
His half-masked face was reflected in the transparent glass window, which looked a little strange.
He moved his lips, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Huo Yuting knew his character, so he did not continue to ask, but explained: "You are right, the organization I was in before did have problems. They tampered with my memory, and now I have returned to my original home."
After a pause, the corners of his lips turned into a meaningful arc, "You should have known about this a long time ago, right?"
Otherwise, I wouldn't be so surprised when I heard the news of his marriage.
m's hand held the phone tightly and he said "hmm" in a low voice.
He had indeed known for a long time, as early as the first time he met Huo Yuting, or even earlier.
"So what are your plans now?" he asked.
Huo Yuting glanced at Su Ci again, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, "Let everything get back on track."
If he had doubts at the beginning, now he is 100% sure: he is Shen Zhiyan.
He likes his current life. He doesn't need to fight for food and people, and he doesn't need to go through a hail of bullets for a mission.
There is no need to become the experimental subject of other people's research.
Life now is peaceful and beautiful, something he never dared to dream of before.
m sighed, "Since you have decided, I will take care of my overseas business in the past few days and prepare to return to China."
"good."
Most of the businesses run by Huo Yuting and M are abroad, and almost all of them are under M's name.
Because everyone in the organization is not allowed to have their own private property, if the organization discovers it, the consequences will be disastrous.
But he has never been a person who likes to obey orders.
A year and a half ago, when the self-proclaimed medical experts determined that they could not extract any useful elements from his blood, he made up his mind to break away from the tissue.
After that, he met M, and the two reached a cooperation and began to secretly establish the company.