Tonight was June 29.
Jiangcheng was seeing its last rain of the month.
Rain pattered softly against the transparent glass on the second floor of the bookstore, making Shen Qiao instinctively look over.
He paused, then set down the broom in his hand, walked to the window, and gazed outside.
So quiet.
He would be getting off work soon, so there was not a single customer in the bookstore.
After giving the bookstore a simple cleaning, he was ready to head back as well.
Whether it was the Family Building or the bookstore, ever since Luo Ye and the others had gone traveling, he had been the only one left.
There was no one to talk to, no one to serve as an outlet for him to share the little things in his daily life.
People said he was scheming, but didn't he also want to interact with his friends?
At least then, life would not be so boring.
Once he finished cleaning, he took an umbrella from the bookstore, locked the front door, and left beneath it.
On the way, he stared blankly at a text message on his phone for a long time.
[It's summer break. Mom misses you. Can you come home for a visit?]
The message had arrived this morning, yet Shen Qiao still did not know how to reply.
During the summer after high school graduation, his parents had initially paid Xiao Lei's medical bills. They had even contributed more than Xiao Lei's relatives had.
But his family was only an ordinary one, and his parents could only offer what help they could without affecting their own household.
After that, they began persuading him to stop taking care of Xiao Lei.
As parents, what they did had truly been for his own good. Shen Qiao