I just looked at Mi Cai, not speaking or expressing any opinion. Mi Cai and I locked eyes, and she asked in confusion, “What’s wrong? You’re not showing any emotion or saying anything.”

“Do you think buying clothes is a big deal or a small one?”

Mi Cai blurted out, “A small one.”

“Why do I think it’s a big deal?”

“Why do you think it’s a big deal?”

“Because I don’t have money.”

“I’ll buy them for you!”

I smiled at Mi Cai and said, “Great, great, why don’t you also gift me a villa and a luxury car?”

Mi Cai blinked as if she was thinking, and after a while, she asked, “Do you really want them?”

“Really.”

“Okay, then I’ll give them to you!”

“Then give me a yacht too. Imagine being able to feel the sea breeze and drink red wine on it, I would feel so classy and luxurious!”

Mi Cai finally understood the implication of my words, and she looked at me with a complex expression.

I hugged her and said earnestly, “Actually, gifting clothes and gifting a mansion or a luxury car are essentially the same. Such gifts can corrode love at its root. I think you understand this. And my financial situation doesn’t allow me to wear luxury goods, so I don’t want to force it. So… let me wear normal clothes to the party, okay?… Or if you think I’ll embarrass you, I won’t go.”

“How could I ever look down on you!… Wear whatever you like.”

I nodded, then drank the milk in my cup in one gulp, and said to her with a smile, “You sit and rest for a while, I’ll make breakfast, and after breakfast, we’ll go to the convenience store downstairs to ride the carousel.”

Mi Cai responded with a smile, then picked up a magazine to read while waiting for my breakfast.

……

After breakfast, we went to the convenience store as we had agreed, chatting while riding the carousel.

Mi Cai asked me, “Zhao Yang, what should we do later?”

“Let’s call Wei Xiao and go to the square to race cars, then visit his grandfather at noon.”

“Good idea, it seems like we haven’t visited his grandfather in a long time.”

“Right, let’s go. We’ll go to the mall now to buy some New Year’s goods.”

Mi Cai was in a good mood, she smiled and got off the carousel, then affectionately took my arm, and we walked towards the residential area together.

When we arrived at the parking lot, my Alto was parked next to her Audi. We looked at each other, and finally, I asked, “Whose car should we take?”

“Whichever one you like to drive, you’re the driver today anyway.”

I pinched her nose and laughed, “Look at this, a boyfriend with more functions than a Swiss Army knife, able to be a nanny and a driver, you must have accumulated good karma in your past eight lives, right?”

“Yes, I will cherish it.”

“Good awareness!” I praised, then looked at the two cars, playing a game of ‘eeny, meeny, miny, moe’, finally my finger landed on Mi Cai’s Q7. I sighed, “It seems that God also wants me to experience driving a luxury car. Give me the car keys quickly, let me enjoy it.”

Mi Cai took the car keys out of her bag and handed them to me, and I immediately pulled her towards the car.

On the way, I enjoyed the powerful performance and comfortable ride of the Q7, and couldn’t help but speed up to 80 on the city roads. With the support of speed, we quickly bought the New Year’s goods at the mall, and quickly arrived at the square where we often raced cars.

After parking the car, I took out two oil-powered racing cars from the trunk, and walked towards the square with Mi Cai. The comfort and joy in my heart were something I hadn’t felt in years, and I felt that my current life was a gift from heaven.

I started Mi Cai’s car first, then my own, and we began to play happily. Our cool racing cars quickly attracted many children to watch, and they all took out their own cars to race with us.

Every time our car flipped someone else’s, Mi Cai would laugh very happily, which filled me with a sense of accomplishment. In my memory, none of her genuine smiles were as many as this morning’s. Time quietly passed in this joy, but it brought us a soft world, allowing us to enjoy it freely.

After a while, Wei Xiao also arrived at the square. Seeing me and Mi Cai, he immediately smiled, shook his chubby body and ran towards us, then panted and said, “Big brother, referee sister, Happy New Year.” He thought for a moment and corrected himself, “No, I shouldn’t say Happy New Year, I should say, ‘Congratulations on your fortune, give me a red envelope!’”

Looking at Wei Xiao’s outstretched hand, Mi Cai and I looked at each other and smiled. Finally, Mi Cai took out a red envelope that she had prepared from her bag and handed it to him.

Wei Xiao happily took the red envelope and asked me, “Big brother, where’s yours?”

“Didn’t your referee sister already give you one?”

“Yeah, but you didn’t!”

I smiled and said, “One from the two of us is enough for you. Also, from now on, you can’t call her referee sister anymore, understand?”

Wei Xiao scratched his head in confusion and asked, “Then what should I call her?”I held Mi Cai in my arms and raised an eyebrow at Wei Xiao, saying, “Call her sister-in-law!”

Wei Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly jumped up, his chubby body shaking with excitement, “Wow, big brother, referee sister, you guys are dating!”

Mi Cai and I nodded in unison, laughing.

“Hooray, long live big brother, long live referee sister…”

I snatched the red envelope from Wei Xiao’s hand, then put on a stern face and said, “What did I just tell you to call her? Have you forgotten?”

Wei Xiao looked pitifully at the red envelope in my hand.

Mi Cai slapped me lightly, reprimanding, “Zhao Yang, stop teasing him, give him back his red envelope.”

I stuffed the red envelope back into Wei Xiao’s hand, then said in a commanding tone, “Now thank your sister-in-law!”

Wei Xiao quickly bowed to Mi Cai in the style of an ancient drama, saying, “Thank you, sister-in-law, for your understanding and generosity!”

Mi Cai was amused by Wei Xiao’s comical manner, she smiled sweetly and said to me, “Look at the little fatty, he’s picked up your slick talk, I’m really worried about his future!”

I patted Wei Xiao on the shoulder and said, “Don’t listen to your sister-in-law’s alarmist talk, we call this being eloquent, not slick talk. You need to keep learning from me, improving through learning, understand?”

“Yes, big brother… does that mean if I become as eloquent as you, I’ll also get a beautiful girlfriend like sister-in-law?”

I looked at Wei Xiao, shook my head and joked, “Your hardware is a bit lacking, I doubt it. Besides, there aren’t many women as beautiful as your sister-in-law in all of China, even with a lantern. So, I suggest you lower your standards a bit, okay?”

Wei Xiao was a bit dejected, silent for a long time, then asked with a glimmer of hope, “What if I learn to play the guitar?”

I “scolded” him, “Superficial, naive, do you think your sister-in-law is with me because I can play the guitar?… I have personal charm, you know?”

Mi Cai didn’t want to hear me bragging any longer, she took Wei Xiao’s hand and said, “Little fatty, let’s go play with the cars, leave him here to blow his own trumpet…”

Wei Xiao stuck his tongue out at me, happily took his toy car and followed Mi Cai to the other side.

Watching their retreating figures, I smiled from the bottom of my heart, then, ignoring the presence of the square aunties, I risked lighting a cigarette for myself, leisurely blowing the smoke into the wind, letting it drift towards the city hidden in the clouds.

…

Halfway through my cigarette, the notification sound of my phone interrupted my joy. I took it out of my pocket and saw a message from Circle, he had sent me the time and location of tonight’s gathering.

I couldn’t help but think, since I’ve already had Wei Xiao call Mi Cai sister-in-law, should I also have Circle and Yan Yan call her sister tonight?

I think I will, and I hope they can forget about Jian Wei, and call her sister naturally and smoothly!