Tong Laoda and his wife returned to the Tong family the day before New Year's, but Tong Xiaohua had no idea beforehand. When she got home from school, as soon as she walked through the door, she saw her dad's and mom's keys hanging on the storage cabinet behind it.
"Dad, Mom, you're back?"
Tong Xiaohua called out loudly towards the inner room while changing her shoes, and then she heard Tong Laoda's voice coming from the backyard.
"Girl, we're back."
Tong Xiaohua dropped her backpack carelessly and ran towards the backyard.
During the days when she was sick, she had missed her parents terribly.
But she didn't want to burst the benevolent lie her parents had so painstakingly kept from her, even though she felt like dying because of the issues with Yan Bo, she had not dared to bother her parents at all.
Her mother was in poor health and lived in a sanatorium in the suburbs because the air was good there and conducive to her recovery.