Chapter 75: Why Don't You Come Back to the Village with Me for the New Year?_2

Watching Lin Ran's expressions change, Gu Heng also felt he might have been a bit too callous. After all, they had been husband and wife for a night... He then changed the subject, "What about you? I remember your family isn't in Shanghai, right? When are you going home?"

"I'm not going back, just the right time to stay at work for some overtime."

As soon as she mentioned this, Lin Ran seemed somewhat excited, not because she was a workaholic, but because the thought of not having to go back and face marriage pressure, blind dates, and instead staying to work overtime felt joyous.

"What, spending New Year's alone in Shanghai? Acting like an abandoned elder in the city?"

Gu Heng had experienced several times that desolate feeling of eating New Year's Eve dinner alone in a rental place, with memories still vividly fresh. The first year away from his parents, celebrating the New Year outside, him weeping messily in his rental room as fireworks crackled outside.