"I hope you find someone you like to spend your life with, that's mine and your mother's wish for you."
...
When he returned to the study, the outside was already completely dark.
After delivering the bracelet, Pei Yunshu went to bed in her room, tired from the hustle of the Qixi Festival that lasted half the day.
Pei Yunmeng closed the door of his house, sat down in front of a small table, and placed the jade bracelet wrapped in red cloth on the table,
Under the copper lamp, the small table was covered in scattered wooden blocks that Lu Tong had bumped into, a jumbled mess spreading over the entire surface.
He reached out and brushed aside the scattered wooden blocks to clear a space.
Then, he picked up the wooden blocks and began to stack them one by one.
Over the years, whenever he felt troubled or faced with intractable annoyances, he would sit in front of the small table and slowly, methodically build upward.