On the way home from Feather Pen, Xu Shi was in an excellent mood.
"I've never seen you this happy before."
Gu Yi, sitting beside him, teased, "Feels like you're about to start jumping around, Bastard Xu."
"Am I? Maybe."
Xu Shi didn't deny it. "But being able to hear things about my mom, and finding out she was such an incredible person... that's definitely worth being happy about, isn't it?"
After all, he had known absolutely nothing about her before... Mainly because there had been no way for him to learn anything. Maybe he retained a few vague memories from infancy, but after his mother passed away, his father had always refused to speak of her. The strange distance between father and son probably had something to do with that as well.
As for Su Lin? If he asked, she would surely tell him everything she knew, but unfortunately, she knew very little herself. There was nothing to be done about that. It was never easy to make up stories about such things...
That was why Xu Shi had been so engrossed when listening to his grandfather. He even felt that a blank space deep inside him was finally beginning to fill.
Honestly, he still hadn't had enough. If he didn't have other matters to arrange, he might have stayed at Feather Pen and talked with the old man all day.
"That's true."
Miss Black Rabbit nodded. "From what the old man said, Auntie really did sound like a very interesting and perfect person."
"At least now I have something to imagine."
Xu Shi leaned back. "Before, I could only look at her photos, but I couldn't picture what she was really like. How was I supposed to imagine things I didn't know, right?"
"And my dad... I kind