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Li Yang has been a son-in-law for three years, always seen as an "outsider" by his in-laws—he never gets a bite of the hot dishes at New Year's Eve dinner, and is sent alone to buy New Year's supplies on the first day of the Lunar New Year. This year, he saved three months' salary to book a mountain homestay in his hometown, insisting on taking the whole family to "experience the most authentic New Year." His in-laws got in the car with eyes rolled, but at the village entrance, they saw his little nephew (playing with firecrackers) jump into Li Yang's arms shouting "uncle"; in the kitchen, they watched him steam golden rice cakes in an apron; even late at night, around the fire, they heard him say his late mother's words: "Marrying into her family isn't living under someone else's roof—it's treating your wife's home as your own to love." On New Year's Day morning, when his in-laws brought him a bowl of piping hot tangyuan (sweet rice dumplings) to his bed and said, "We wrote down your rice cake recipe—let's make it together next year," Li Yang's eyes teared up. He finally understood: the real "New Year" is never about couplets or firecrackers—it's putting your heart, truly, into each other's lives.
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