Chapter 285: An Unexpected Guest

Translator:

_Min_

Editor:

Rundi

Even if they knew that the moment the doors opened, only shambles awaited them, if they didn’t optimistically believe in the 1% possibility, then they may not even have the courage to wait till the doors opened.

“It’s New Year, let’s not talk about something so depressing,” Jiang Chen hugged her around the waist and said gently.

“Mhmm.” Sun Jiao buried her head embarrassedly to cover her blushed face as the sternness in her eyes were washed away.

“Speaking of this, what would you do during New Year on your side?” To get rid of the somber atmosphere, she forcibly changed the topic.

“I would usually spend it with my parents.” When Jiang Chen said that, he felt melancholic.

Unfortunately, he didn’t know what kind of identity he would use when he heads home now. At least this New Year, he probably wouldn’t have the opportunity to visit them.

“Do you miss home?” Sun Jiao detected the strangeness in Jiang Chen’s eyes as she asked caringly.

“I went back just not long ago. I wouldn’t say I miss it too much. My parents’ health is good and they are living a happy life. As long as they are happy, I don’t have much to worry about.”

“I see… Your family are all there, that’s good,” Sun Jiao murmured to herself.

“What about your sister?” Jiang Chen felt awkward when he talked about Sun Xiaorou, but he still pushed the words out of his mouth.

“Her…body is not doing too well.”

“What happened?” Jiang Chen hastily asked.

“Lin Lin… Although Tingting destroyed the chip that blocked her memory in the hippocampus, it still affected the nerve in her lower body. Now, she can only sit in a wheelchair.” Sun Jiao was feeling down.

Jiang Chen felt perplexed. A part of him was glad that he wasn’t the one that made Sun Xiaorou sit in the wheelchair, the other part was feeling sympathetic for her sister.

“A rare opportunity. You should take her around.”

“Eh? But-” Sun Jiao looked shockingly at Jiang Chen.

“Although the base knew that an assassin attempted to assassinate me, they don’t know who the assassin was, and no one saw her face. It is better to spend New Year with the family if you still have a family.”

Jiang Chen paused. He had a comforting smile on his face as he continued, “Maybe if you take her around this cheerful atmosphere, the trauma in her mind will be healed. Go now.”

“Mhmm…” Sun Jiao hid her reddened face before heading downstairs.

Watching Sun Jiao leave, Jiang Chen looked back at the square again.

People shouted, chatted.

A young man was strumming a guitar made out of wood as he played an unknown but peaceful melody.

“Family,” Jiang Chen muttered to himself as he suddenly thought of a cute girl.

She doesn’t have a family anymore.

…

Without surprise, Yao Yao still stayed in her room.

She didn’t play with her computer or other electronic devices as usual. Right now, she was sitting in front of the table while dangling her feet, unable to touch the ground. Her hands were placed against her chin as she zoned out.

In the years before, people would play electronic fireworks to celebrate New Year’s Eve. But after she woke up, everything changed, if she didn’t meet her big brother…

Yao Yao was too afraid to think what would have happened.

She really liked this place. No need to face the cold winter; no need to face the repressing radiation dust.