When Love Turns the Tables: The Mysterious Husband's Chase-Chapter 796: New Year’s Gift (Part 6)

The time spent together wasn’t long, but Mu Ke hadn’t really talked much about his family.

The only time he mentioned something was earlier when his grandfather passed away.

Now that Sheng Jiayu asked, Mu Ke didn’t hide anything, nodded: "Yeah, Mu Xin, I’ll introduce you in the future."

"She sounds very cheerful. She must be a lively girl, right? Not very old?"

"Just eighteen."

Sheng Jiayu was about to drink water and almost choked on Mu Ke’s words.

Eighteen?

Isn’t that too young?

How could siblings be so far apart in age?

Seeing Sheng Jiayu’s surprise, Mu Ke chuckled lightly and explained: "It’s a bit complicated, to be precise, she’s my cousin."

"Ah?"

Mu Ke patiently explained to Sheng Jiayu, though it wasn’t really that complicated.

In Mu Ke’s father’s generation, there were three siblings. Mu Ke’s father was the second child, with an older brother and a younger sister.

Mr. Mu’s brother was a police officer, specifically a frontline detective. Due to his job, he never married until he was over thirty, and finally settled down.

But six months after his wedding, he died in the line of duty. By then his wife was already pregnant. Unfortunately, perhaps due to the significant impact during pregnancy, Mu Xin’s mother died in childbirth, leaving Mu Xin alone in this world.

Mr. Mu naturally adopted Mu Xin, and Mu Ke also cherished this younger cousin.

Sheng Jiayu frowned as she listened. Born without parents, such a life story is truly unfortunate.

"Does she know?"

Mu Ke nodded: "We didn’t hide this from her, and because of this, she went to the police academy."

Sheng Jiayu was stunned again, police academy!

"She wants to become a detective like her father."

Even though she hadn’t met Mu Xin, for some unknown reason, Sheng Jiayu developed a great fondness for this future sister-in-law.

They barely had anything to talk about, but when they ended the video call, they suddenly realized they had been chatting back and forth for over an hour.

Sheng Jiayu tossed her notebook aside, lay down on her side, and Mu Ke’s last words, "Good night, sweet dreams," still echoed in her ears.

Sheng Jiayu smiled slightly and reached out to turn off the light.

——

Before they knew it, it was New Year’s Eve. The two servants at the Xu Family’s Old Mansion had already gone home for the holiday, leaving only Sheng Jiayu and Xu Qingru in the large house.

This type of reunion holiday is lively only with more people, and the current situation just doesn’t have much festive atmosphere.

Xu Qingru didn’t mind at all, as if she was already used to it. Sheng Jiayu’s sense of guilt suddenly intensified. Although there were always people to accompany Xu Qingru for the New Year in the past, they weren’t family after all.

So, for all those years before, her mother spent the New Year alone in such a big house, while she was at the Xin Family because of Xin Ke. She really was too unfilial.

For the New Year’s Eve dinner, Sheng Jiayu had already arranged for it, and it would be delivered at five in the afternoon. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Looking at the desolate house, Sheng Jiayu took a picture and posted it on her Moments, captioning it: [A Lonely Spring Festival]

Soon, she received a reply from Xue Lu: [Bring Auntie and come to my place, we’re making dumplings together today]

Although Sheng Jiayu and Xue Lu had a good relationship, it wasn’t to the extent that she would go to someone else’s home to spend the New Year. Everyone else was having a family reunion; her joining would just be out of place.