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Chapter 33: A Single Word Awakens the Dreamer (Seeking Recommendation Tickets)

  Jinyang City First People's Hospital, Song Baiyu took Su Tingting for a full body examination and found that Su Tingting was fine, only then did he put his mind at ease.

  "Song, how come I never noticed you were so nagging before?" Su Tingting said with a charming and flirtatious tone, giving Song Boyu a sideways glance after running around the hospital with him for half a day and being lectured by him for half a day.

  Song Baiyu's gaze fell on Su Tingting's face, the bright red palm print on her pale face was so eye-catching, his eyes were full of tenderness: "Does it still hurt?"

  "It doesn't hurt anymore." Su Tingting said in a crisp voice, and silently added in her heart that even if it still hurts, with you caring about me like this, I don't feel the pain.

  "That bunch of rascals, I'll go back and settle the score with them. Let's see if they dare to bother you again." Song Baiyu said with a hateful tone, looking at Su Tingting whose eyes were shining with tears.

  "Brother Song, it doesn't hurt at all. In fact, I'm even grateful to them. If they hadn't caught me and taken me to the police station, how would I have met Brother Song?" Su Tingting shook her head and said softly.

  When Song Baiyu heard Su Tingting's words, his heart inexplicably skipped a beat. The image of Zhou Yanran appeared in his mind, and he thought about how he had always accommodated Zhou Yanran, only to be met with her disdain and dislike. Yet, unintentionally helping Su Tingting with a small favor had moved her so much. How could people be so different?

  "Alright, Song Dage, let's not talk about these unhappy things anymore. I remember you owe me a favor that you haven't fulfilled yet, can I ask you to take me out for dinner?" Seeing a hint of sadness and pain flash across Song Boyu's eyes, Su Tingting didn't know what sad memory he had recalled, so she hastily changed the subject.

  Song Baiyu was taken aback, when Su Tingting helped him collect so many herbs in the mountains, he indeed said such a sentence, Su Tingting didn't mention it, and he almost forgot.

  "Alright, which restaurant do you want to go to? Choose whichever one you like." Song Boyu smiled brightly as he looked at Su Tingting with a hint of shyness.

  "Hmph, I'll make you poor and see how you pretend to be a big shot then." Upon hearing Song Boyu's generous tone, Su Tingting subconsciously thought of Song Boyu's luxurious villa and extravagant decorations, her face darkening involuntarily. However, she quickly controlled her emotions and chuckled: "If you're not afraid of death, follow me then."

  As soon as she finished speaking, Su Tingting skipped ahead, leading the way without waiting for Song Boyu's response.

  Looking at the lively and energetic Su Tingting in front of him, Song Boyu's mouth curled up into a good-looking arc, and his mood also became more relaxed than ever before, immediately following her.

  Su Tingting was only eighteen years old, but she had developed in all the right places. She just didn't know how to dress herself up and didn't have the conditions to do so, which made her look more naive than many city girls, causing Song Boyu to subconsciously always treat her like a little girl.

  Su Tingting wore a head of long, straight hair, a tight-fitting white blouse that perfectly outlined her slender waist, and a pair of five-yuan stall sandals that couldn't hide her enchanting jade toes.

  Suddenly Su Tingting stopped in front of a stall, her slender figure coming to a halt.

  "Song Dage, do you know what holiday is today?" Su Tingting asked excitedly, unaware that someone was staring at her back.

  "I don't know!" Song Baiyu replied casually.

  "Hmm, you answered so quickly, no sincerity." Su Tingting turned around, her soft mouth corners slightly raised, and pointed to the nearby stall with a pout: "Look at what's being sold on these stalls again, and guess once more what holiday it is today."

  Song Baiyu's eyes followed Su Tingting's mouth and looked in the direction, only to find that the whole street was filled with yuanbao candles. He finally knew what holiday it was today and replied awkwardly: "Qingming!"

  "Song, are you hungry now?" Su Tingting asked with concern. Seeing Song Baoyu shake his head in confusion, she exclaimed: "That's great! I'm not hungry either. Let's go pay our respects to Uncle Liu first, and then we can have dinner after that."

  "Uncle Liu?" Song Baiyu repeated the three words in a low voice, smiling and saying: "Alright, you didn't say it and I almost forgot."

  Liu Shu in Su Tingting's mouth is the old policeman Liu Zhi who adopted Su Tingting, and Su Tingting was reformed under the guidance of the old policeman. It can be said that the old policeman gave her a second life. Seeing Su Tingting remembering the old policeman, Song Boyu also felt very relieved.

  Seeing Song Baiyu nod, Su Tingting immediately happily selected and purchased paper money, ingots and candles for worship at a nearby stall, while Song Baiyu went to a fruit shop on the side to buy some fruit, and then they headed to the Municipal Cemetery with Su Tingting.

  Five years ago, a major police-burglary conflict case occurred in Jinyang City. In that case, Jinyang City lost more than 70 police officers, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the total number of police officers in the city. To mourn these fallen heroes, the municipal government specially allocated funds to build this cemetery.

  Because of the good Feng Shui and great reputation, some wealthy and powerful people in Jinyang City would try every means to buy a plot of land in the cemetery. Five years have passed, this cemetery has become not only the burial place for the original seventy-odd police officers' ashes but also a piece of auspicious land that can increase the municipal government's revenue.

  Liu Zhixi had no relatives in Jinyang City, and before his death, he asked the municipal bureau to be buried in a cemetery. The municipal bureau, seeing that the old policeman had dedicated his whole life to the police career, did not make things difficult for him and allocated a piece of land in the cemetery for the old man.

  "Song, I've known you for so long, but I've never heard you mention your family before. Can you tell me about them?" The two of them were walking to the municipal cemetery, and Su Tingting was very enthusiastic along the way, chattering non-stop.

  "Family?" Upon hearing Su Tingting's question, Song Baiyu's face revealed a bewildered expression. Having been reborn for so long, apart from talking to his sister on the phone, he hadn't contacted anyone else in his family, and they hadn't contacted him either, to the point where he had even forgotten that he still had family.

  "Uh, isn't it inconvenient?" Su Tingting looked at Song Boyu with tension and found that his expression was a bit strange, so she asked softly.

  "There's nothing inconvenient, it's just been a long time since I've contacted my family, so it feels a bit strange." Song Baiyu smiled self-deprecatingly. He wasn't intentionally avoiding his family, but in his past life he was an orphan and got used to living alone, after rebirth he took over someone else's body, and always felt a sense of guilt in his heart, so he didn't dare to take the initiative to contact his family.

  "Song Ge, is your relationship with your family very awkward?" Getting such an unexpected answer from Song Boyu's mouth made Su Tingting even more curious.

  "My family is too demanding, they don't ask for my opinion and arrange everything for me, making me follow the path they've set out for me. But I have my own interests and plans, so I ended up having a falling out with them." Song Baiyu didn't intend to say more, but seeing Su Tingting's dark, deep eyes filled with longing and concern, he subconsciously poured out his heart.

  "So, is being a police officer now your own will or was it arranged by your family?" Without waiting for Song Baiyu's response, she continued in a crisp tone: "Don't answer yet, let me guess. You see if I'm right or not. You definitely didn't want to be a police officer, this job was arranged by your family, wasn't it?"

  "Hmm, how did you guess?" Song Boyu looked at Su Tingting in puzzlement, he remembered that he hadn't told anyone about this matter.

  "I've been to the West City police station several times, and every time I see you fiddling with flowers in the courtyard. You often run to the flower market during your free time, and there are countless potted plants at home, so your interest must be in fiddling with flowers, not being a policeman, right?" Su Tingting counted her reasons one by one with her jade-like fingers.

  Song Baiyu smiled bitterly upon hearing this, Su Tingting hadn't received any education, but it couldn't be denied that her powers of observation and analysis were very strong.

  "Song, there's something I don't know whether to say or not, but for your own good, I have to say it. Although you appear to be resistant to Uncle and Auntie on the surface, deep down you actually love them very much. So, I think you should communicate more with Uncle and Auntie, lest the two elderly people feel sad and worried because of you."

  "What did you say? I love my parents very much, how could I not know?" Hearing Su Tingting say this to him in a serious tone that she had never used before, Song Boyu was extremely surprised.

  "If you don't love your uncle and aunt, you can find a job you like, why stay in the police station and suffer? I don't believe that with Song's abilities, he can't find a good job!" Su Tingting stared at Song Baoyu with piercing eyes, saying with extreme certainty, "You hate being a policeman, but have been stuck in the police bureau for two years, yet you say you don't love your uncle and aunt?"

  After listening to Su Tingting's words, Song Boyu was completely stunned. "Himself" really didn't love his parents? If "himself" really resisted his parents, why would he follow their arrangements and become a police officer for two years?

  "So, you're not resisting the path arranged by your uncle and aunt, but rather their attitude and approach towards you. I believe that as long as you communicate well with them, the gap between you can be eliminated." Su Tingting concluded, seeing Song Boyu's thoughtful expression.

  The two of them walked silently in the direction of the municipal cemetery without saying a word.

  After listening to Su Tingting's words, Song Boyu's heart was like a stormy sea, and the memories of his parents were emerging one after another in his mind. Originally, Song Boyu thought he didn't have much feelings for his parents and often had thoughts of abandoning everything worldly to focus on cultivation, but now he found himself greatly mistaken.

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