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But Li Yanchen said, "If it weren't for some old affection... I wouldn't have asked Third Uncle and Third Aunt to make this trip, but rather I would have made the decision directly."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Huili couldn't help but feel a surge of joy and said, "Yanchen, I knew you still remembered what happened when you were little... Third Aunt really treated you well, it's just that after you grew up... um, the situation changed... Third Aunt had no other way..."
Li Yanchen, without changing his expression, tapped his fingers on the tabletop... It was hard for his Third Aunt to still remember the times when his cousin would bring him leftovers that they had intended to throw away.
Those events from the distant past, he had almost forgotten, but now they had reminded him and he remembered them again.
When he was a child... he yearned for a mother's love, for the affection of relatives, but all he received was hurt.