After Rebirth, the Celebrity Daughter is the Medical Expert!

Chapter 530 - 411: I’m Sorry, Mr. Shi (2)

"This year, I’ve arranged for the company to take an early break." Shi Wangyue said, deeply moved, "So I can return home earlier and help you decorate the house together."

"It’s okay if you’re busy, I can decorate alone." Ning Youguang looked at the pile of decorations in front of her and couldn’t help but feel emotional, "As time slowly passes, the customs for celebrating the New Year are becoming more simplified. Many people have even discarded their expectations for the New Year. The ceremonial feeling of New Year from childhood memories is gradually disappearing. However, I believe our country’s rich New Year atmosphere is precisely hidden in these rituals, and a large part of the New Year’s ceremonial feeling is also hidden within these New Year goods."

She pointed to the New Year goods she had bought, "Our daily lives can be simplistic, but we must preserve these rituals during holidays; otherwise, in N years, there may not be many children on the land of China who can feel the strong New Year atmosphere we felt as kids. Who knows how much joy will be lost."

Listening carefully to her rambling words,

Shi Wangyue became more determined to let the entire company take an early break.

"After the break, let’s go to the flower market together to buy some flowers."

"Sure," Ning Youguang laughed, "I was planning to go by myself in the next few days."

...

While rearranging the New Year goods that had been unpacked,

Shi Wangyue’s gaze unexpectedly landed on the star and moon-shaped cookies Ning Youguang was holding.

"Those cookies in your hand..." he said, stunned.

"The cookies in my hand?" Ning Youguang was puzzled by Shi Wangyue’s expression, "What’s the matter?"

"Aren’t these the ones we used to eat as kids?" Shi Wangyue walked over to Ning Youguang’s side.

He took the bag of cookies from her hand and cradled them in his palms, examining them with a complex gaze.

"These are the kind we often ate as kids. It’s been so many years, and this is the first time I’ve seen them online. I bought them immediately," Ning Youguang explained, then asked, "Did these cookies bring back some memories for you?"

"Yeah." A shadow of melancholy spread in Shi Wangyue’s eyes, "When I was a child, I loved eating these cookies... But later... I never had them again."

"Why didn’t you have them later?" Ning Youguang gently asked, embracing the now emotionally low Shi Wangyue, "Did something unhappy happen?"

"Yes." Shi Wangyue wrapped an arm around Ning Youguang’s waist, "Initially, the other kids at home didn’t like these cookies, only I did. Every New Year, when the family bought these cookies, I could eat a lot. Later, for reasons unknown, the other kids at home began to like them too, and my mom told me not to eat them anymore, said I should leave them for others. After that, I never got to eat them."

Ning Youguang felt her heart breaking.

Even the one speaking, Shi Wangyue, didn’t have red eyes.

But she cried.

But at that moment, she didn’t want him to see her tears.

In the embrace, she buried her face deeply in his chest.

After just coming off work in winter, Shi Wangyue was wearing several layers, and Ning Youguang was careful not to let her tears stain him. So, he didn’t notice she was crying, though it didn’t prevent him from knowing she felt for him.

"It’s okay, it’s all in the past." He smiled, pretending to be humorous, "A lot of people say the good thing about growing up is that we can make up for our childhood regrets, right? You’re making up for my childhood regrets now."

The more he pretended to be carefree, the more Ning Youguang’s heart ached.

After a long while,

she quietly asked, "Dear, were you secretly sad for a long time when you were told you couldn’t have your favorite cookies anymore?"

Shi Wangyue froze for a moment.

After a long pause, he answered with a dry voice, "Yes, those cookies were seldom bought at home, only available during the New Year... So, back then I secretly cried for a long time because of it."

To this day, that sadness and disappointment are still keenly felt.

That’s why, when he suddenly saw these star and moon-shaped cookies in her hand, his mood spiraled out of control.

A person’s childhood joys and sorrows were straightforward.

As long as they got what they liked, they could be happy for a long time.

Even if it is just a bag of cookies.

Not to mention those were the cookies children loved the most.

So, when, all of a sudden, he wasn’t allowed them because other children liked them, how heartbroken and upset must he have felt?

She deeply understood that sense of lack from not getting something as a child, and losing it suddenly after getting it.

This feeling lingers clearly in the heart, slowly growing dark vines that coil around the originally soft heart, hardening it, chilling it, turning it into something with fangs and claws, sometimes lashing out and biting.

Unexpected pain, yet it constantly hurts.

He jokingly said, "The benefit of growing up is being able to make up for childhood regrets."

But in truth, it’s not so.

For most people, what is lost and regretted largely becomes eternal loss and regret.

As time passes, as the seas change to mulberry fields,

no matter how capable one becomes, even if the thing obtained is exactly the same, for someone who’s lost it before, the joy of obtaining it with anticipation is long gone.

Ning Youguang dared not think more, the more she pondered, the more unbearably her heart ached.

"I wish I could go back to being a child, I wish I could give you lots of your favorite cookies."

So much resentment towards Liu Susu, why was she so hard-hearted towards you?

So much to blame myself, why didn’t I care about you more?

I’m sorry, Mr. Shi. 1314