Thank you so much Sandiiiahh for the ko-fi ❤️ here’s the extra chapter for u 
Xu Ze was brought back to the living room. He was confused and didn’t understand what he had done wrong. The hostess sat down on the sofa, picked up the teacup to take a sip, and said to him, “You can tell gege what toy you like and he’ll give it to you. How could you steal it?”
Before Xu Ze knew what was happening, he was unjustly accused. He heard his grandmother ask, “Where did you put that little car?”
Little Chubby was still crying, but not a single tear fell. Xu Ze rushed to the corner where he had just sat and pushed aside the various toys nearby. But there was nothing underneath them—he had clearly put the toy car there.
Xu Ze didn’t know how to explain it and could only shake his head.
“Then let’s check the surveillance footage,” the hostess said gently.
The housekeeper accessed the surveillance footage on the tablet, from the time Xu Ze sat down in the corner and picked up the car, to the time when Little Chubby kept harassing and bullying him, to the moment when Xu Ze stood up. It lasted 28 minutes in total.
At the end, when Xu Ze put the toy car on the ground and stood up, because he was moving so fast his movements looked like his hand momentarily lingered on the floor. The surrounding toys obscured the view, so it was unclear whether he had actually put the toy car down or kept it in his hand.
The housekeeper turned off the surveillance and exchanged glances with the hostess. Then they proceeded to search Xu Ze, yet found nothing.
“Then we can only ask the property management to check the surveillance footage from the road outside. Maybe he was afraid of being caught and hid it in the bushes.” The hostess looked at Xu Ze and smiled faintly. “But it’s too much trouble. There’s no need to make such a fuss. The guests are coming as well. Let’s forget about it. Children will inevitably make mistakes, let’s hope he won’t do it again.”
For the first time, Xu Ze experienced the bitterness of being falsely accused. He never knew it would be so awful.
“He wouldn’t,” Ye Yunhua, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke. She had always been respectful to the hostess, but now her voice turned cold and firm, “Xu Ze wouldn’t do such a thing. You can check the surveillance of the road.”
The hostess was a little surprised, but she still maintained her elegant demeanor and said softly, “Mrs. Ye, I know you care for your grandson, but you can’t spoil children like this. They might pick up bad habits.”
“Check the surveillance.” Ye Yunhua took off her apron and wiped her flour-covered hands on it. “Ma’am, after you see the footage, if Xu Ze really took it, I will bring him to apologize and make amends. I’ll head back for now. The timer for the oven has been set, so you can just take the pastries out.”
“Let’s go,” she took Xu Ze’s hand and led him out to the backyard through the kitchen.
After walking quietly for a while, Xu Ze made a sound for the first time here, “Grandma, I want to go over there.”
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“Can I wait for him, wait for him to come out?” Xu Ze raised his head and asked Ye Yunhua. He couldn’t eat, read comics, or play with toys with Lu Heyang today, and there might not be a chance in the future, so he wanted to say goodbye to him.
“Wait here,” Ye Yunhua motioned for Xu Ze to go under the tree across the road.
Clutching onto Ye Yunhua’s clothes, Xu Ze stood beneath the tree, his gaze fixed firmly on the backyard, waiting for Lu Heyang to come out.
He waited for over half an hour, and his legs were starting to ache, but Lu Heyang didn’t appear.
“Grandma, let’s go,” Xu Ze lowered his head.
Ye Yunhua didn’t say anything and picked Xu Ze up. She had always been efficient, serious, and not very talkative. Xu Ze rarely received any care or affection from her, and he always thought that his grandmother was different from others.
“Grandma, I’m sorry,” Xu Ze said as he lay on Ye Yunhua’s shoulder.
“Why are you apologizing? You didn’t steal anyone’s toy.”
“But Grandma can’t make money here anymore.”
“Money can be made elsewhere, but no one can bully you like this.”
Xu Ze felt a little better. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the empty swing set, which was getting farther and farther away. He silently said in his mind, “See you again.”
Xu Ze had a small notebook, and on one of its pages, he had drawn eleven circles with watercolor pencils, representing each of his encounters with Lu Heyang. Next to the last circle, the seven-year-old wrote in crooked handwriting: See you again.
It was like a childish wish with no expectations. Xu Ze had almost forgotten it until one day, it unexpectedly came true—even though seven years had passed.
In the second year of middle school, Xu Ze differentiated a second time into an S-level alpha. The Preparatory School transferred his file and notified him to take the entrance examination. After successfully passing the exam, Xu Ze went to the Preparatory School to submit his documents.
In the office, Xu Ze stood in front of the desk of the teacher who would become his homeroom teacher, waiting for her to check the documents. There were two knocks on the door, and the teacher said “Please come in.” The door was pushed open, and the teacher looked up and said with a smile, “Lu Heyang, are you here to pick up your report card?”
The name was distantly familiar. Xu Ze was suddenly startled and raised his head stiffly.
A long ray of sunlight streamed in from the door. The alpha stood in the beam of light, like a tall, growing tree.
“Mn,” the alpha’s voice was low and clear, not sounding hoarse even during the voice change, “Sorry, teacher. I just got back yesterday.”
“It’s fine, it’s fine. I thought someone else would come to pick it up for you, but I didn’t expect you to come all the way here yourself.”
Lu Heyang smiled. When he received the report card, he raised his eyes and glanced at Xu Ze. There was still a smile on his face, the kind of polite and cold smile one would have when looking at strangers.
He left soon after, not paying much attention to Xu Ze—an alpha who stood silently by one of the desks with a pale complexion.
He also had no idea what kind of waves surged up in this unfamiliar alpha’s heart during that half-second of eye contact.
In seven years, the “Lu Heyang” who always smiled and had a clear voice in Xu Ze’s memory had grown into a tall, deep-voiced Lu Heyang. His striking appearance and temperament were conspicuous, but he also appeared more indifferent.
In the past, every time they parted, Lu Heyang would say “See you again” to Xu Ze. However, when they actually saw each other again, he didn’t recognize Xu Ze.
Xu Ze thought this was reasonable; he had never told Lu Heyang his name, and after years of separation, his appearance had changed. It was inevitable that he would be forgotten and unknown.
It was just that not seeing Lu Heyang for the last time during their childhood left a feeling of regret, making that memory even more profound.
Just like happiness wouldn’t make it difficult to fall asleep, it was the unresolved regrets that made one toss and turn.
When Xu Ze got home that day, he took out the small yellowed notebook from his room, opened it, added a black circle after the eleven slightly faded colored circles, and wrote next to it: Saw you again.
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“Later, due to some things, Grandma stopped going to other people’s houses to make pastries. She opened a breakfast shop by the roadside.” The memories were long, all of them glossed over by Xu Ze with a single remark. He looked at the IV bag as if telling someone else’s story, “After that, my mom passed away, and Grandma’s mental health started deteriorating. A few years ago, her condition worsened and she was sent to a mental hospital.”
“Her health had been poor and she had a hard time in the mental hospital. That’s why I started earning money so that Grandma could go to a better nursing home.”
Xu Ze stopped here, fearing that he was being too wordy, even though he had spoken only a few sentences in total—perhaps Lu Heyang didn’t want to hear these things. Xu Ze licked his bottom lip, “It’s late, are you tired?”
“I’m not tired.” Lu Heyang had listened quietly. He poured a glass of water and handed it to Xu Ze while asking, “You said you won’t fight anymore, is that true?”
“I don’t know,” Xu Ze answered honestly. He told Tang Feiyi that he wouldn’t fight anymore because he genuinely felt tired and fed up in that situation. But many things were not entirely within his control.
“I’ll go less in the future.” Xu Ze added, “It’s summer vacation and I found a job. Besides, the subsidy I applied for Grandma is about to come through.”
Part-time work didn’t pay much, and the subsidy wasn’t much either. Everything depended on the stability of Ye Yunhua’s condition. If something unexpected happened to her, relying on this money alone would not be enough.
“What kind of work is it?”
“Some odd jobs.”
Lu Heyang didn’t inquire further and changed the question, “How much is the subsidy?”
“About a few thousand, which is better than nothing.” Xu Ze seemed to be already satisfied with this. “There are two other subsidies I applied for a long time ago, but there has been no response, so it is unlikely that they will be granted.”
He calmly and realistically explained the situation that might be considered embarrassing to others. Lu Heyang felt that if Xu Ze was more brazen and scheming, or if he learned how to play the victim, his life would be easier than it currently was.
But then, he wouldn’t be Xu Ze.
Lu Heyang looked at him for a while and said, “I’m heading back now. Get some rest, and if you don’t feel well, call for the doctor.”
He took the cup from Xu Ze’s hand and set it aside. Xu Ze leaned against the pillow and looked at him. Lu Heyang stood up and Xu Ze’s eyes followed after him.
“Staring at me like that again,” Lu Heyang seemed to smile and said.
Xu Ze lowered his eyes obediently and said, “I won’t look.”
But this response didn’t seem right. Lu Heyang stood by the bed for a moment, then suddenly leaned down. With one hand propped against Xu Ze’s pillow, he gently brushed the swelling bruise at the corner of Xu Ze’s mouth. His tone was gentle, “I didn’t say you couldn’t look. Sleep well today. There will be plenty of opportunities to look in the future.”
He said there would be many opportunities, but Xu Ze knew that there actually weren’t.
“Be careful on your way back,” Xu Ze paused and said, “See you next time.”
thank you so much for the chapter and your work!!! 🙏🧡
the nerve of that mother to say that even after watching the security camera and saw how her child bullied xu ze too
YES!!! yes. she probably understood that it was her child’s doing but welp)) what could do poor xu ze and his grandma? probably nothing…and they had money too!! so yeah it’s always like that when it comes to rich people against poor or not really wealthy people :/ hate it fr
Fuck so bittersweet….,😭
Thank you for the chapter ☺️
Thank you for the chapter 💕💕
Now the synopsis makes sense! So the ‘see you again’ is actually a memory from their childhood and here I thought the memory loss is going to happen in the future. What a relief!!
Thank you for the chapter. 😊