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I didn't want to go back to Shanghai, so I booked a hotel nearby. After checking in, I found that this was the room that Ethan and I had shared before.

Looking back to my senior year, I had just started dating Ethan. On New Year's Eve, my mother beat and scolded me for trivial matters. When the clock struck midnight, Ethan called me, and I forced a smile to hide my bad mood.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, my mother saw that my eyes were red and swollen. She was so angry that she started to curse and said that I was a jinx. She took my father and brother out to pay New Year's greetings, and I was alone at home in a daze.