《After Transmigrating Into the Cultivation World, the School Topper Was Reborn》


 CH 1

    ¡®Bang!¡¯


    The blow in the back of the head made Su Xingchen¡¯s brain buzz. Only one voice was heard in the blur, ¡°Principal Liu is here!¡±


    The onlookers suddenly scattered like birds and beasts*, and she was taken to the office.


    (*To scatter like birds and beasts; to flee in all directions.)


    She was dizzy and the office was noisy.


    A middle-aged couple came over. The middle-aged woman saw her and reached out and slapped her face. Su Xingchen didn¡¯t know how to avoid it, so she stared at her in daze. With a crisp sound, the hot pain finally made her wake up from the trance.


    The middle-aged woman wanted to slap her again but was quickly pulled by the middle-aged man behind her. He apologized to the other parents and teachers who came over.


    The middle-aged woman was probably anxious. She pointed at her nose and scolded her, ¡°I spent money to let you go to school to study, not to fight with people. If you want to do that, might as well pack your bags and I will send you to the village. You will stay in the village all your life and be a frog in the well* all your life! ¡°Then she stepped forward and pulled her hard.


    (*A Frog in the Well ¨C ¾®µ×Ö®ÍÜ (j¨«ng d¨« zh¨© w¨¡) ¨C is a Chinese idiom that refers to a narrow-minded person who doesn¡¯t see the larger world around them.)


    Su Xingchen was pulled back by her and crashed into the desk behind her.


    ¡°Ouch.¡±


    The woman scrambled to lift up the teacup, pen holder and other objects on the desk to hit her.


    The female teacher behind her quickly supported her and said angrily, ¡°What? The girl is still in her rebellion phase. The more you beat her, the more rebellious she would become. If you have something to say, just talk to her and make her understand. What is the use of hitting her? You can¡¯t solve the problem but you make it worse?¡± She asked.


    Then teacher Chen asked Xingchen, ¡°How are you? Are you hurt?¡±


    The middle-aged woman lowered her hand angrily, ¡°Ms. Chen, it¡¯s not that I want to beat her. This girl is too disobedient. I am so busy but I have to apologize for her affairs everywhere, every day. It is a waste of my time.¡±


    Then she looked at Su Xingchen, ¡°You look at her hair, you look at her clothes, which girl is like her. I am so busy, and I have no time to control her. You tell me what can I do if not hit her? ¡°


    ¡°Is it useful to fight? Isn¡¯t it the same if you hit her? We all came from her age. She is in the rebellion age. You have to talk to her and be reasonable with her. She can understand!¡±


    ¡°I won¡¯t be so bothered if she was obedient!¡± The middle-aged woman gasped.


    The female teacher also said to Su Xingchen, ¡°You too, a girl who ran out to fight with someone. You look at your face, you are a pretty girl, why fight?.¡±


    Su Xingchen looked at the nagging female teacher¡¯s face in front of her.


    She turned to look at the middle-aged woman who had just hit her.


    The middle-aged woman was about 40 years old, with an oval face, high cheekbones, fair skin, her hair was in a low ponytail, she wore a coat over her and thick low-heeled boots.


    Behind her was a middle-aged man who was pulling her. The man was wearing a leather jacket and black pants. He was blessed when it came to his face. He had a pair of big European-style round eyes, long lashes, and a tall and elegant look. His sharp nose bridge, thin lips, rounded double chin, shy little belly, was like Maitreya Buddha*.


    (*Maitreya Buddha: Maitreya, in Buddhist tradition, the future Buddha, presently a bodhisattva residing in the Tushita heaven, who will descend to earth to preach the dharma.)


    Because he stayed in auto repair shops for car repairs all year round, he smelled like engine oil and had black oil stains on his face, hands, and clothes..


    This was her parents in her previous life!


    Yes, previous life.


    When Su Xingchen was 20 years old, her soul transmigrated into the world of Xianxia. Such a great opportunity made her think that she was a heroine in a novel, the kind that sailed against the wind.*


    (*sail against the wind. to be trying to achieve something that is unlikely to succeed because most people would oppose it.)


    In order to cultivate, she studied medicine and refining. But for learning alchemy, her physique was too poor, the resources obtained were also very poor. She had been working hard for 20 years, she was still an immortal in the refining phase*.


    At this time, no matter how she got into the second phase, she knew that she was not a protagonist, but only a grain of dust* in this world of immortality. In order to obtain more resources, she had to find another way. So, she began refining some female skincare products and selling cosmetics. She had started using makeup when she was a teenager. Although she was not too old when she transmigrated through, she used a lot of cosmetics. Later, she emulated this world and came up with whitening, blemish, skin rejuvenation skincare products.


    They weren¡¯t very effective for high-level immortals. She could¡¯ve made an immortal beauty product, if she advanced her cultivation. Yet, she could only come to the mortal women and the low-ranked female cultivators; they were indispensable items in their daily life, especially for women who had no physique for the cultivation. They could only depend on their beauty and charm some immortal to live.


    The alchemist in the cultivation realm focused on refining medicine and alchemy as they were all struggling to practice cultivation. Who would specialize in making skincare products for mortals and low-level women? Even if someone later saw this market, it was impossible for them to compete with her because she was the one who developed it .


    As a result, she took advantage of this, had a fixed source of income for herself to learn medicine refining alchemy and get more resources for self-cultivation.


    But her physical physique was so bad that she couldn¡¯t break the shackles of that body. She didn¡¯t expect to transmigrate back to her original self. When she woke up, she wasn¡¯t twenty years old. Instead, she was reborn to the age of sixteen.


    The reason why she knew it so clearly was because the female teacher in front of her was the class teacher of her first year of high school. She transmigrated two years before the college entrance examination.


    Mother Su looked at her unrepentant expression and scolded her angrily, ¡°You still dare to look in my eyes! You can¡¯t learn? Learn from your sister, learn from your brother. Your father and I asked grandpa to send you here.But,in the first year of high school, you came and fell in love with someone. Then got jealous and fought with others? How old are you for all this? ¡°


    ¡°And your hair!¡± Mother Su reached for her hair.


    Su Xingchen¡¯s body bent slightly sideways to avoid her hand.


    The middle-aged man behind her hurriedly took her and persuaded her well, ¡°Let¡¯s go home and talk.¡±


    Teacher Chen also hurriedly stood between the two, to prevent Mother Sue from getting violent.


    There were many teachers watching beside them.

 CH 2

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    Su Guoqiang took Su mother¡¯s hand and apologized to the parents next to him, ¡°Our children are ignorant, young and grumpy. You see these two children were injured, our child was also beaten by your child. You can go to the hospital to see if there is anything wrong and we will pay for the medical expenses.¡±


    He called Su Xingchen and said,¡± Xingchen, apologize to your classmate.¡±


    Su Xingchen was a little confused about the situation and looked at them indifferently like an outsider.


    Su Guoqiang saw it and suddenly felt depressed.


    Their first child was a daughter and they wanted a son. So they had a second child. Unexpectedly, they had another daughter, but they still wanted a son.


    The elderly wanted a grandchild, so they gave her to their relatives and gave birth to a son.


    At that time, it was when they were the busiest. The three children were born one after the other. Her father was the master of the shop and could not get away. Her mother was too busy with two children, let alone another one, they didn¡¯t have to worry about sending their child to their relative¡¯s houses.


    So, Su Xingchen was raised in her rural grandmother¡¯s home for nine years. She was taken back from the village to study when she was nine. She stayed for less than three months, then ran back with her school bag by train, almost driving them crazy.


    At that time, they really thought that they lost their daughter. They looked everywhere. After a week, her aunt called to say that she had returned to the village.


    They were busy at work and had to take out time to find her. In these few days and nights, they didn¡¯t sleep. After learning that she had returned to the village without saying a word, her mother got grumpy. She hurried back and slammed her face, ¡°Since you want to be in the village, stay here, don¡¯t go back! I can save a little more. Are we so idle, a bunch of people moving around to find you? We¡¯re so busy and you just ran away without saying a word! You didn¡¯t even say bye! You have got wings and want to fly*, right?¡±


    She was just hiding in her aunt¡¯s arms. Her small body held her aunt tightly, not letting her go.


    Seeing that she was really reluctant to go back and because her mother was also in a hurry, she did not take her away until she was twelve years old.


    They thought that she got older and sensible.


    But after reaching there, she began to make trouble. First, she fought with her grandmother, and took her sister¡¯s wardrobe and desk, wanted clothes and toys, wanted to take everything, she even took her brother¡¯s phone. Her grandmother got angry, took a rolling pin and beat her. She scolded her back as not showing respect for the elderly.


    Her grandma came back and complained to her mother, who then scolded her.


    Since taking her back, the family had been noisy. Every day there was scolding and fighting every now and then.


    Studies were even more disastrous.


    They had heard her aunt say that she was in the top three in elementary school, after finishing junior high school, she was second. One day, the teacher called and said that she couldn¡¯t keep up. Other day the teacher called and said that she didn¡¯t finish her homework. As soon as she got to class, she dyed her hair like a colorful duster and wore the same clothes as a beggar. She became Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨*, a punk and messed the entrance examination.


    Her parents¡¯ heart broke, they didn¡¯t know what was going on.


    They finally took responsibility and spent money to send her to this private high school. The school where her sister and brother studied in, thinking that they could take care of each other. But she did not study well and wandered outside with a bastard. The little girl learned to fight and also frightened the school so much that they had to call her parents!


    Su Guoqiang had never been so embarrassed in his life!


    Su Xingchen finally remembered when it was. She had fought a lot in high school, but in the first year of high school, she fought with others because of jealousy. It was her dad who beat her, which caused her to become more rebellious and extreme. She felt that she was abandoned by the world, the world did not understand her, the world was fighting against her. All day and night, she was thinking about how to retaliate.


    Now she knew why was it stupid.


    Cultivation ~true ~world ~ Thirty years, she had already passed this phase and recalled this period of youthful days. Although she remembered it, it did not affect her much. She no longer cared about this pair of parents and no longer wanted to get their attention in such a stupid way.


    Now, she just wanted to find a quiet place to see if her body had the qualification to cultivate.


    According to her previous personality, she would never admit it was her fault. If her dad said something she would argue back ten times, but now she had no mood to waste time here. She simply said to the teacher, ¡°Teacher, I¡¯m sorry, I was wrong. ¡°


    Not only was Teacher Chen stunned, but even He Chunlan and Su Guoqiang were stunned.


    Teacher Chen asked, ¡°How are you wrong?¡±


    Su Xingchen answered very simply, ¡°I shouldn¡¯t have fought with people, and I shouldn¡¯t have fought with people over a boy. I should study hard and strive for the motherland, science, and society.¡±


    Miao:


    *Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨*: An edgy aesthetic that comes from China. Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ involves spiking one¡¯s hair and dying it unnatural colors, dark makeup focusing on the eyes and lips, and shocking/statement-making accessories such as religious symbols, dog collars, or anything representing death and darkness.


    lit: derived from the English word smart, as in fashionable.


    *A grain of dust: something of no value


    *Got wings and want to fly: want freedom


    *Colourful duster:

 CH 3

    Mother Su thought that Su Xingchen not only had no remorse but was still stubborn. She reached out and slammed her head. She was shunned by Su Xingchen¡¯s body.


    Su Guoqiang hurriedly took his wife¡¯s arm and turned his eyes on Su Xingchen, ¡°She recognized her mistake!¡±


    Su Xingchen pursed her lips and stopped talking.


    Although the cruel 30 years she spent in the Xianxia realm had already taught her to be brave, she was 20 years old when she transmigrated and her personality was already stereotyped. Even if she changed a lot, the things in her bones were still difficult to change like the dog¡¯s temper*.


    Teacher Chen was helpless but still said in a good voice, ¡°It¡¯s useless if you just say it. You have to study hard and improve every day so that I will believe you. Now go to the hospital to bandage your injury first. Come to class tomorrow and don¡¯t forget to study. I will come to the class tomorrow morning to see if you are there.¡±


    She turned to her parents and said, ¡°Don¡¯t beat her after you go back. Talk to her and take her to the hospital first ¡°


    ¡°Yes, yes, you are right, we will take her to the hospital,¡± Su Guoqiang nodded repeatedly.


    He asked Mother Su and Su Xingchen to wait outside for him. He sighed and told teacher Chen in the office, ¡°Ms. Chen, it¡¯s not that we don¡¯t teach her, she really doesn¡¯t listen to us at all. So if she listens to you, it will be good. Teacher please be more attentive and help us teach her. ¡°


    Teacher Chen looked at Su Guoqiang and lamented for the pitiful parents.


    She said, ¡°I will take care of her at school, but you should also be careful with her after returning home. Don¡¯t always scold her, children got their self-respect too ¡°


    ¡°Yes, yes, you are right!¡± Su Guoqiang nodded.


    ¡°We are also busy and have no time. At the end of the year, there are many things to take care of. I will talk to her mother to take care of her at home.¡±


    Children her age had the same problem. Not just in teacher Chen¡¯s class but in the whole school. Teacher Chen also understood that most of the students¡¯ problems were related to their family education and home environment.


    The two did not say much and Su Guoqiang came out.


    Mother Su asked impatiently, ¡°What took you so long? There are still a lot of things waiting in the store, is there time to waste? Hurry up and go.¡±


    ¡°All right, I will send her to the community hospital, you go back first.¡±


    Mother Su gave a warning glance at Su Xingchen, she said before she left, ¡°I¡¯ll shave your hair if you fight again!¡±


    The couple opened several auto repair shops. At the end of the year, there were many people who wanted to repair their cars. It was the busiest time of the year and they couldn¡¯t leave the shop for a moment.


    Mother Su was in charge of the logistics and accounts in the store. She was also in charge of the employee¡¯s food. She was very busy.


    It was about noon, and she had to go to buy groceries and cook for the employees.


    Although she invited someone to go with her, she always brought things herself.


    After Mother Su left, Su Guoqiang and Su Xingchen were standing on the same spot.


    Looking at his daughter¡¯s stubborn and indifferent face, Su Guoqiang was very helpless and sighed, ¡°You heard your teacher¡¯s words. You are in high school, not a child. What should we do if you look like this every day? Which girl looks like this? Oh, I will be relieved if you are even half like your sister. ¡°


    Su Xingchen frowned slightly.


    Even after a lifetime, she would still feel uncomfortable hearing this again.


    But she didn¡¯t argue back like she always did. She didn¡¯t have any desire to speak now. As for always comparing her with her sister and brother, it didn¡¯t affect her much.


    Because of the fight, her colorful hair looked like a bird¡¯s nest and her two eyes like pandas, her face was bluish-purple and there were some scratches on it. Half of her face was swollen due to her mother¡¯s slap. Her body was covered with dust.


    He was more upset when he looked at her and simply turned away. He drove the car to the community hospital and gave her three hundred dollars to let her go see the doctor, ¡°I still have work to do in my shop. If you need anything call me.¡±


    He was afraid that it was not enough, after thinking, he gave her another two hundred dollars.


    ¡°The money is for your hospital bill. If I come to know that you did not go to the hospital and spent it on yourself, I will tell your mother!¡± After closing the window, he hurried away.


    Su Xingchen stood alone in front of the messy community hospital. She looked around blankly and went in for a consultation.


    She still felt a little embarrassed, and her head was even aching.


    She told the doctor that she felt dizzy and sick. The doctor said that she had a slight concussion. He took some medicine and purple potion to disinfect her wounds and it costed her less than two hundred dollars in total.¡¡.


    Miao:


    Dog temper: hot-tempered

 CH 4

    It took half an hour to walk from the community hospital to her house. There was a bus stop next to her house. She hadn¡¯t been on a bus for a long time and she had forgotten where the stop was. She was just standing there looking at the bus station in daze. She wanted to take a taxi. The irony was that she had forgotten even her community name.


    In fact, she had never regarded it as her home and her memory wasn¡¯t so deep. After thirty years in the cultivation world, her memories of this life were blurred, just like in her previous life.


    Fortunately, she still remembered that looking at the end of the road from here, the red wall brick was the community. So she slowly walked back home.


    In addition to the money given by her dad, there were a bunch of keys. In fact, there were two keys. She guessed that one was the door key and the other was the room key.


    She thought that she had forgotten what floor she lived in. She didn¡¯t expect to return there subconsciously. Those vague memories became clear again. She actually found out which building she lived in, which unit she lived in and which floor.


    When she got to the door of the house, she took out the key and opened the door. As she entered, she saw a meticulous old lady with her tidy hair.


    It was an old lady, but only in her early sixties. She was very spirited


    Seeing the injury on Su Xingchen¡¯s face, her mood changed, and she said, ¡°What¡¯s wrong with your face? Did you fight again? Which little girl goes fighting outside like you all day? Someone like you, who doesn¡¯t study well and makes trouble, why don¡¯t you look at your sister or Yangyang, the two of them. All the teachers praised them since they were children. Your dad was unbiased and sent you to the same high school as them. The two of them are top students. If people look at you, your dad will feel ashamed and¡­ ¡°


    Su Xingchen walked to the door of her room and kicked it hard so it clattered!


    The old lady paused for a moment, then got even more furious, ¡°All the doors were kicked by you!¡±


    Su Xingchen glanced sideways and chuckled, ¡°If you talk again, I will kick again!¡±


    She was born with a pair of slanting phoenix eyes, with raised corners at the end. When she looked at people normally, it seemed provocative. People thought that she was extremely arrogant.


    The old lady touched her heart, her breath stopped at the same time. She almost had a heart attack. After a sigh, she suffocated and yelled at the closed door, ¡°Do you dare to kick it? Try and I will break your leg! A little girl with no manners. Your hair is dyed like a feather duster, I don¡¯t even know how your grandparents in the village raised you. Which girl your age behaves like you? Ah? Which girl talks back to her elders like you? I¡¯m in my sixties, I¡¯m still angry with you! ¡°


    Su Xingchen stood behind the door and took a deep breath.


    She thought that after so many years, she could face all of this calmly. But she didn¡¯t expect that it was still like her heart demon*. When she came back here again, she couldn¡¯t keep calm.


    She didn¡¯t wear shoes when she entered the door. She had forgotten which pair of slippers belonged to her. Perhaps she didn¡¯t have her slippers at all, they gave her the ones her sister used to wear.


    This room was not hers but Su Xingyue¡¯s.


    The Su family house in this city was not small. It was more than 140 square meters. There were four rooms and two halls, one bedroom for her mom and dad, one bedroom for her grandparents, one bedroom for her brother, and one for her sister.


    When Su Xingchen came, there was no place to live. Father Su bought a one-meter folding bed and placed it in Su Xingyue¡¯s room, temporarily making it her room.


    The room was small and it became more crowded after adding an extra bed. Everything in this room was Su Xingyue¡¯s, the desk, the wardrobe. Only this small bed and the space under the small bed belong to Su Xingchen.


    So Su Xingchen could understand why her sister rejected her. At first, she had a good separated room. After she came, it was like her own private space was encroached on, so not only did she have to share the room but also her closet and her desk. In order to put down her folding bed, she had to change her original room layout. No wonder she never welcomed her.


    She didn¡¯t understand it at that time. She came to a strange place alone, full of anxiety. She merely thought that she had returned home.


    She went to the folding bed in the corner and looked at the scenery outside the window.


    In fact, there was no good view, all were the high buildings. The buildings in the same community blocked most of the view. The original dusty memory, at this time, seemed to have opened its curtain and gradually became clear.


    The old lady outside the door was still nagging and scolding. Su Xingchen ignored her and sat cross legged to check her body strength.


    Miao:


    *Heart demon fears originate in the mind.

 CH 5

    Fortunately, her body was actually qualified for cultivation and it was even better than the body she had transmitted in. Unfortunately, the qi* in this world was very scarce. She meditated for a long time and gathered a trace of it. The small spiritual energy got in her Dantian.


    The old lady outside the door thought that she was sleeping inside and scolded her loudly, ¡°Such a big girl, you lie down on the bed as soon as you come back. You don¡¯t even know how to wash your clothes. You want me, an old lady in her sixties, to come serve you? I have never seen such a lazy girl! ¡°


    After a while, she scolded again, ¡°You know that you can¡¯t sleep all day long. You can¡¯t study, it¡¯s fine. But you¡¯re so lazy that you can¡¯t do anything at all. You can¡¯t wash clothes or sweep? Your parents are busy. Don¡¯t you know how to help with dinner? You always watch me doing house chores without helping!¡±


    ¡°Like your sister, get in the top ten in the exam, not to mention the top ten, even if you get into the top twenty, I won¡¯t ask you to do anything! I serve you like my ancestors, but can you get it? Don¡¯t be disappointed. Let me tell you! If you don¡¯t study well, take a part-time job. We don¡¯t want people like you. You can only eat by opening your mouth. Lazy people like you shouldn¡¯t eat! ¡°


    Since the nanny at home resigned, the housework was done by the old lady. They just loved money and didn¡¯t keep the nanny. Su Xingchen did everything.


    When Su Xingchen first came here, she was as meek as a lamb. She did what the adults told her. Then she saw that her sister and brother did nothing. The old lady only told her to do everything without a word of praise. When she was scolded all day, she learned to resist.


    Su Xingchen opened her eyes from meditation. Although only a trace of aura was gathered, fortunately, the qi was smoothly introduced into her body.


    Looking at the impurities carrying a sour smell, Su Xingchen got up and pulled out a box under the crib. She found two changed clothes from the inside and opened the door.


    The old lady saw her coming out. Her face had been pulled as long as the horse¡¯s face and her eyebrows and lips were all drooping down.


    ¡°I thought that you slept and didn¡¯t want to make dinner. If your mother comes back at night and finds no food to eat, she will look at your shamelessness! ¡±


    ¡°Hair like a bird¡¯s nest. A girl who doesn¡¯t look like a girl. I don¡¯t know if you¡¯ve got shit on your body, I smell it from here.¡±


    The old lady frowned with disgust.


    Su Xingchen ignored her and walked into the bathroom. She closed the door, undressed and bathed.


    There were two restrooms in the Su family, a public one outside and one in the master bedroom of her parents.


    Since she came, Su Xingyue no longer took a shower in the public bathroom outside. Every night she would go to her parents¡¯ bedroom to wash. All her own toiletries were also taken inside.


    The blinds on the bathroom window were pulled and some shower gel and shampoo were placed on the window sill. There was a piece of soap and a facial cleanser squeezed by more than half.


    Su Xingchen suddenly remembered that she started to wear makeup at the age of fifteen and her eye shadow was black all the time. Unfortunately, she was young and did not understand the importance of makeup removal. She didn¡¯t know the importance of skin care, so she couldn¡¯t maintain a good skin foundation. By the age of twenty, her skin had basically been destroyed.


    Looking at her face which looked like a palette in the mirror, she went to her parents¡¯ room again. On her mother¡¯s dressing table, she saw makeup remover oil. She poured some in her palm and carefully removed the makeup.


    The old lady watched her open the door of the master bedroom and quickly followed her. She saw that she had taken something from her mother¡¯s dressing table.


    ¡°You¡¯re like a ghost, it¡¯s useless to apply your mother¡¯s things on your face! Look at your sister, her face is clean and refreshing! ¡±


    She was scolding while Su Xingchen had already gone out. The old lady came out and locked the door of the main bedroom. She pulled the key and stuck it in her pocket.


    Su Xingchen used cleansing oil, mainly because the eye makeup was too tragic and thick. It could not be washed off by a mere facial cleanser.


    The facial cleanser was also ordinary. She squeezed a large drop out on her palm, foamed it and rubbed. She carefully removed the makeup from her face and cleaned it to reveal the clean and fair face underneath.


    She had breathed in the qi into her body and expelled the impurities in it. After the fight, there were several scratches on her face and neck and the slap print of Mother Su. Now it was all basically healed. There was still a baby fat on her face.


    Miao:


    Qi: spiritual energy


    Dantian: Dantian, dan t¡¯ian, dan tien or tan t¡¯ien is loosely translated as ¡°elixir field¡±, ¡°sea of qi¡±, or simply ¡°energy center¡±. Dantian are the ¡°qi focus flow centers¡±, important focal points for meditative and exercise techniques such as qigong, martial arts such as t¡¯ai chi ch¡¯uan, and in traditional Chinese medicine.

 CH 6

    Although she lived in her uncle¡¯s house, she saw no hardships. Her uncle had only two sons, the aunt took her as her daughter. Before the age of seven, she didn¡¯t even know that her uncle and aunt were not her parents.


    She went to elementary school at the age of seven. She didn¡¯t have an official name at that time. Her aunt had always called her ¡°Abao Abao¡± because she had no hukou*. She had only been studying in a private preschool in town for two years. Her aunt called her parents many times, to ask them to name her.


    The mother hardly had any affection for this daughter who was raised in her mother-in-law¡¯s house for so many years. She just said, ¡°You name her. Her generation is named after a star, so just name her Xingyue, Xingyang, pick one in line with them.¡±


    ¡°How can you do this? You can¡¯t pick one name? The child is going to elementary school soon and we still use her nickname.¡±


    The aunt was angry, she simply named her as a part of her family. She was given her uncle He¡¯s surname and was named He Xingchen, in accordance with Su Xingyue and Su Xingyang names.


    She had been He Xingchen for more than twelve years and Su Xingchen for eight years. The former He Xingchen seemed to be forgotten. The hukou and her names were all changed to Su Xingchen. He Xingchen was gone.


    When she said that she was called He Xingchen, no one accepted it.


    After removing the makeup and washing from head to toe, she wiped her hair with a towel. She originally forgot which towel was hers. When she saw the towel on the towel rack, her memory suddenly became clear.


    In order to distinguish everyone¡¯s towels, there was a word on the label of each towel. The two towels on the front row had the word ¡°Yang¡± on them and the two rows on the back were ¡°Ye¡± and ¡®Nai¡¯, she saw two towels with the word ¡®Chen¡¯ hanging on the hook of the foot towel at the end of the towel rack.


    She couldn¡¯t remember which towel was for her face, which one was for bathing. She only distinguished them by color, the pink one was for face wash and the blue one for bath. So she took the pink towel and wiped her hair.


    To be honest, she had the urge to cut her hair. It had been dyed yellow and the bangs were dyed blue, and the hair ends were dyed red. Maybe for the sake of coolness, a few strands of pink were also spotted, but her hair roots had grown for more than two inches.


    It was really colorful.


    She quickly scrubbed the clothes she had changed and hung them on. The old lady watched her dry her clothes and reprimanded her, ¡°You washed your clothes, then now do I have to do your cooking? I asked you to wash your clothes, you didn¡¯t even reply. When you saw the dirt on the floor of the house, couldn¡¯t you mop it?¡±


    Su Xingchen was ignoring her nagging. She put on her shoes and ran downstairs.


    There was still a lot of money left for her given by her dad for the hospital bill. There were several barbershops in the community. She found the nearest one and sat on a chair in front of the mirror. She pointed at her dripping hair, ¡°Cut all the parts that are not black.¡±


    The younger brother of the barbershop with earrings on a coin-sized ear hole stepped forward. He twisted a strand of hair, rubbed it and looked at her face, smiling, ¡°If I cut it all, only an inch will remain. You don¡¯t need to cut it at all. I¡¯ll fix it for you and dye it black. ¡±


    ¡°How much for that?¡±


    The brother handed over a price list, ¡°As long as it¡¯s more than two hundred, you get a 50% discount card, so if you come later to wash your hair and cut it, you will get 50% off.¡±


    Su Xingchen glanced at the price list and closed it neatly, ¡°Cut.¡±


    The younger man in the barbershop looked at her, she didn¡¯t look like she was able to get a card. He just told her that information because of his professional habits. He didn¡¯t say much after hearing her reply. He picked up the scissors and confirmed again, ¡°I will cut them in a line? ¡°


    ¡°Cut.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ll trim them after?¡±


    After she nodded, the younger brother took a clipper very neatly and pushed it till her back hair. Then he carefully trimmed it.


    Such a small private barbershop generally didn¡¯t cut hair like a large chain store. But his technique was also good. After half an hour, a clean and clear person appeared.


    Su Xingchen was tall, and had a small face. Her eyes were slant, her nose was high, her lips were red. Even if she cut her long hair, she did not look like a tomboy. It completely displayed a clear and beautiful image.


    Looking at herself in the mirror, Su Xingchen finally felt more pleased.


    Miao:


    Hukou: A household book that records and retains basic information of the house


    Provide fast services for public life, group production, social services, government administration,


    Ye: grandpa


    Nai: grandma

 CH 7

    It was already the end of the year. So the night came at five o¡¯clock as it got dark early.


    There was a small supermarket next to Su Xingche¡¯s place. She went to the small supermarket and bought baby cream, hand cream, a dozen underwear, a few pairs of socks and a pair of slippers.


    She had just taken a shower and didn¡¯t apply anything on her face. Now, blown by the winter wind, her skin was dry.


    These skincare products were certainly not comparable to those she made in the cultivating world. She wasn¡¯t in the cultivating world, so only these could be found. In her mind, she was thinking about the possibility of making the same skincare products she made in her previous life. She didn¡¯t know if this world had some of the materials used in the cultivating world.


    Did the world have cultivation resources?


    While thinking about that, she arrived home.


    When the old lady saw her, she scolded her, ¡°It¡¯s not easy for your parents to earn money, they rarely spend money outside. But look at you being a spendthrift!¡±


    Sitting on the sofa, the old man heard the old lady scolding impatiently and said, ¡°Okay! It became noisy as soon as I came back. This house isn¡¯t peaceful even for a second.¡±


    The old lady who had been scolding Su Xingchen, stopped talking.


    When the person who was sitting on the sofa and watching the news on the local station took a look at her, he froze, ¡°Why did you cut your hair?¡±


    Su Xingchen also glanced at the old man on the sofa, ¡°It¡¯s troublesome.¡±


    The old man was also in his early sixties. But he was very tall and did not hunch over because of his age.


    The old lady saw Su Xingchen¡¯s head and scolded her again, ¡°Men are men and women are women.¡±


    Su Lao for the first time saw his granddaughter¡¯s face so clean. He looked at it and said, ¡°It¡¯s fine to cut it once, don¡¯t dye it when it grows. It¡¯s just different, your face is small and you used to cover it with your hair all the time.¡±


    After that, his attention returned to the TV.


    Su Xingchen didn¡¯t say anything. She went straight back to her room and continued to meditate. The old lady outside pointed at her back and said to her husband, ¡°Look at her! Look at her! It¡¯s like we owe her millions. She doesn¡¯t study well and dyed her hair. Now she cut her hair like this. How many girls are like her?¡±


    The old man said impatiently, ¡°Okay! Go prepare dinner!¡±


    It was not until eight o¡¯clock in the evening that Father Su and Mother Su returned.


    When the old lady saw them, she immediately complained, ¡°Your daughter is really going to kill me. I just said a few words to her, but she kicked the door. I asked her to sweep the floor. When I was cooking the meal, I was screaming so much that my voice was gone but she didn¡¯t listen. She was hiding in the room and sleeping.¡±


    Mother Su was busy in the shop for a day, she was tired and didn¡¯t want to move. When she heard the words, she responded impatiently, ¡°Beat her if she doesn¡¯t listen to you.¡±


    The old lady apparently heard the impatience in her tone, and felt a little weak, ¡°Beat her? How can I beat her? If I beat her, she will talk back!¡±


    Mother Su didn¡¯t speak anymore, she went to the bathroom to wash her hands and helped to serve the dishes. She saw that Su Xingchen didn¡¯t come out, and shouted to the door, ¡°You still need someone to call you to eat? Your grandma is so old. You don¡¯t even know how to help.¡±


    Su Xingchen opened her eyes.


    This body had just begun to practice and only a trace of aura had been introduced to it.


    Not to mention that there was no Bigu* now. Her body in the last world had failed to build a foundation because of her poor physique.


    After she came out, the food was ready. Mother Su and Father Su were both sitting on their seats for dinner.


    The family table was rectangular marble, which could accommodate six people. When Su Xingchen came, there was no extra seat for her. Her sister and brother stayed in school till evening and had dinner at school, so Su Xingchen sat in her sister¡¯s seat.


    When the old lady saw that, she felt displeased, and said, ¡°You only know how to snatch your sister¡¯s place.¡±


    Old Man Su was angry enough to break the bowl, he quickly reprimanded the old lady, ¡°Eat your meal!¡±


    The old lady was the patriarchal and her husband was the boss at home.


    Father Su and Mother Su were shocked when they saw Su Xingchen. They rarely saw such a clean and refreshing look on her face.


    Father Su said, ¡°With your hair cut, won¡¯t you feel cold? Go and buy a hat to put it on, don¡¯t let your ears freeze.¡±


    He looked at his daughter¡¯s face seriously again.


    His daughter¡¯s facial features and face were like his, but her eyes were like her mother¡¯s. Her narrow and long phoenix eyes, even the normal expressions gave people a warning not to mess with her.


    It looked very unflattering.


    It was also the same for her mother, but her mother looked more arrogant than her. She not only had extraordinary eyes, but also had a generous face, wide jaws, and high cheekbones.


    However, this was an advantage. Many things in the shop that he couldn¡¯t get, could be handed over to his wife. For example, at the end of the year, to deduct wages if an employee took a leave, or if clients didn¡¯t pay money for car wash and repair, etc.


    Father Su should be in front to protect customers from the inconvenience. Mother Su was the villain.


    The hard-to-speak and hard-to-do things he couldn¡¯t do were done by her handily. The couple play good cop and bad cop*.


    Which employee or customer didn¡¯t know that Father Su was afraid of his wife?


    When Su Xingchen didn¡¯t reply, her mother hit her hands with the chopsticks, ¡°Didn¡¯t your dad speak to you?¡±


    Su Xingchen swiftly avoided it.


    Father Su was afraid that they would quarrel again. He quickly put a piece of mutton in Mother Su¡¯s bowl, ¡°Eat.¡±


    Mother Su took a few bites of the food and said slowly, ¡°Now I am busy since it¡¯s the end of the year. I don¡¯t have the energy to talk to you. If you want to study then study, if you don¡¯t want to study, just come to me and help in the store. The store just lacks manpower. You can always do other things that do not require you to wash cars. We can save tens of thousands of yuan a year of your school and with this money, I will take the whole family to travel. We can go on several trips in a year.¡±


    Miao:


    Bigu: people do not eat food, open the body to absorb energy channels, absorb natural aura, Qi, purge their bodies of harmful toxins.


    *play good cop and bad cop: tactics involve a team of two interrogators who take apparently opposing approaches to the subject.


    Two people cooperate, one is positive and the other is negative

 CH 8

    Su Xingchen¡¯s high school was not far from the neighborhood and was a ¡®state-owned privately-run¡¯ International school. Although it was not a provincial focus such as the No. 1 High School and No. 2 Military High School in this city, it was also a famous provincial-level focus high school.


    She couldn¡¯t get in with her grades at first, but she studied at the International school as soon as she was in junior high school. Because Father Su had customers that could help him, Su Xingchen got the admission.


    In such a private school, there would always be a class dedicated to arranging students with poor grades, rich, or coming by a back door. Su Xingchen¡¯s class was such, the class for the rich was not easy to walk through the back door.


    It was the end of the year and it was the busiest time of the year. The store was understaffed. Mother Su was having a headache for recruiting employees. Seeing that Su Xingchen was disobedient, she asked her to work in the store during the holidays.


    In Mother Su¡¯s opinion, Su Xingchen was suffering less, so she had the strength to do everything for the whole day.


    But Father Su didn¡¯t like it and scolded her, ¡°What are you saying? How old is she? Her current task is to study. Not to mention tens of thousands of dollars a year, I can also offer more!¡±


    Mother Su raised her eyebrows, ¡°What am I saying? If she wants to study, will I not let her study? She should be able to rank in the top 20 like Yue Yue and Yang Yang. I also want her to study, but does she study? You are also using so much money for her studies. As for being young, those apprentices in the store are working at the age of fifteen or sixteen. I must let her know the hardships of life. She doesn¡¯t even know how to cherish what she has. She just makes trouble everyday! I don¡¯t have time to go to school to worry about her.¡±


    Thinking of what happened at school, she was still angry and said, ¡°Now the shop is busy, I don¡¯t have time to talk to you. I shouldn¡¯t get any complaints. If she doesn¡¯t want to do anything. I will send her back next year!¡±


    This was Mother Su¡¯s mantra. Every time she would tell her, ¡®If you don¡¯t want to do anything. I will send you back next year (next semester)!¡¯


    But Uncle He had raised her for more than ten years. No matter how thick Mother Su¡¯s face was, she didn¡¯t let her brother-in-law keep helping them raise her daughter. So Mother Su always said that, but she had to keep her in the city.


    The old lady said, ¡°I say that we should give her away. You sent her to the village to her grandmother, but now she came back to trouble us!¡±


    Father Su was afraid that they would go on and quickly changed the topic, ¡°How was the business over the store today? Did that old Zhao give the money he owed on credit last month?¡±


    Speaking of the things in the shop, Mother Su was finally distracted, and pointed the gunfire at Father Su, ¡°I said no giving services on credit, even if we knew the person. How can I do business in my shop? ¡°


    Su Xingchen returned to the room after eating. Father and Mother Su returned to their room to take a bath after a hard day, leaving the old lady alone to clean up and wash dishes.


    The old lady was upset and called out to Su Xingchen¡¯s room, ¡°You went back to the room after dinner, won¡¯t you help pick the bowls and chopsticks?¡±


    She shouted several times, and no one answered.


    The old lady opened the door angrily and saw Su Xingchen sitting cross-legged on the small folding bed, meditating with her eyes closed.


    It was not that Su Xingchen was unwilling to lock the door, but that the room was not hers. It felt like she was a cuckoo in a magpie¡¯s nest*.


    She didn¡¯t lock the door, but her sister Su Xingyue often locked it.


    At the beginning, she only knocked on the door. Su Xingyue pretended that she couldn¡¯t open the door after hearing it several times. After she started to kick the door with her feet, Su Xingyue no longer dared to lock her out.


    Looking at her granddaughter¡¯s trimmed hairstyle, calm face, and standard meditation posture, the old lady thought that she was evil, and whispered, ¡°Do you pretend to be a ghost.¡±


    Not getting a reply, the old lady was anxious, ¡°Are you pretending to be deaf?¡± She strode in and reached out to pinch her ears, but she stood up.


    Su Xingchen was one and a half meters tall. She had a slender body, but when she stood up, she looked down at the old lady.


    The old lady saw that she had finally moved, and didn¡¯t reach out to twist her ear.


    ¡°You couldn¡¯t hear me shouting. You¡¯re not deaf. Are you deaf? I asked you to wash the bowls, but you pretended not to hear me, right?¡±


    Su Xingchen glanced at her lightly without saying a word, went to the kitchen and looked at the pile of dirty pots and bowls, ¡°Is that all?¡±


    The old lady pointed to the areas where oil was spilled, such as range hoods, gas stoves, walls, etc and said, ¡°After the dishes are washed, they must be wiped clean and kept in the cupboard.¡±


    Su Xingchen picked up the dishwashing soap and squeezed half the bottle into the sink as if she didn¡¯t waste money.


    The old lady saw her and stepped forward and slapped her arm, ¡°Don¡¯t you need money for dishwashing soap? You wasted at least half a bottle!¡±


    Su Xingchen without caring, turned on the faucet directly. The tap water was flowing with no care.


    The old lady was used to being stingy. In the past, she would watch the woman who came to clean the house, how much oil and how much water was used for the household. Now when she saw Su Xingchen using water like this, she suddenly felt distressed, ¡°You put so much water in a dish? Do you know how expensive it is? Have you not washed dishes in the village? I think you are doing it deliberately!¡±


    Su Xingchen simply moved aside and spread her hands, ¡°Yeah, I never washed the dishes in the village. My grandfather and grandmother never told me to wash the dishes.¡±


    ¡°Are you kidding me? You think I am a three-year-old kid! You have never washed the dishes. I think you are lazy!¡±


    The old lady turned off the faucet, ¡°Just wash it!¡±


    Su Xingchen reached out to get the bowl. One of them, she didn¡¯t hold it carefully, it snapped and dropped into the sink. It almost scared the old lady¡¯s heart out, ¡°Be careful! Don¡¯t you know how to wash dishes?¡±


    ¡°I said, no.¡±


    Dirty bowls were stacked together. Su Xingchen was going to pick it again.


    A stack of tableware, what if all of them fell down? The old lady¡¯s heart thumped and she quickly reached out to help, but because of the rush, her elbow slammed into the dirty pan on the gas stove, and the pan with the lid slammed down on the ground, making a deafening crash.


    Mother Su and Father Su heard the sound and hurriedly came out of the room to see what was happening. They saw the old lady holding the bowl in her hands, both distressed and angry, she was trembling.


    Su Xingchen raised her hand innocently, ¡°It has nothing to do with me, she knocked it down.¡±


    It took awhile for her breath to slow down. She picked up the pot and its lid from the floor. This pot was a branded one she bought from the supermarket. One pot was nearly a thousand yuan and this pot lid ¡­


    Simply put, her distressed heart was about to bleed.


    She was completely speechless and waved her hand weakly, ¡°Forget it, forget it. You little ancestor, go, if I let you wash the dishes it will be smashed. ¡°


    Su Xingchen continued wearing an innocent face, ¡°I didn¡¯t touch it, you knocked it down yourself.¡±


    What could the old lady say? The old lady couldn¡¯t say anything.


    She took a bath at night and laid on the bed with one hand on her chest and murmured that her chest hurt.


    Seeing his wife like this, old man Su said, ¡°If you don¡¯t want to cook, let them hire a nanny. There is a good nanny at home. You have to quit.¡±


    The old man didn¡¯t understand his wife, ¡°Are you still angry? You should be fortunate that the kid didn¡¯t smash all the bowls today.¡±


    She didn¡¯t smash them and he was surprised.


    The old lady jumped up immediately, ¡°How dare she!¡±


    Old Man Su chuckled and said nothing.


    The old lady¡¯s chest hurt even more.


    Miao:


    Cuckoo in the Magpie¡¯s nest: ,Cuckoo does not build a nest, but lives in a nest of magpies


    Living in someone else house

 CH 9

    In the International high school, the seniors had three sessions of self-study in the evening, and junior had only two sessions, after school till 8:30 pm.


    Su Xingyue packed her schoolbag. A girl behind her quickly hurried to her and whispered, ¡°Xing Yue, I heard that your sister had fought with a girl in class 9 for Zhao Moqin. I heard that the fight was particularly ruthless and they are all in the hospital now.¡±


    Su Xingyue¡¯s hands paused slightly. Her lips were tightly pursed, her brows were slightly wrinkled, and her face showed impatience, ¡°I don¡¯t want to know about these things.¡±


    The girl said, ¡°If I heard something, ofcourse I will tell you, after all, you two ¡­¡±


    Su Xingyue slammed the book and said, ¡°She is her, I¡¯m me, what does this have anything to do with me?¡±


    When the girl saw her anger, she chuckled, ¡°Okay, why are you so angry? I just think it¡¯s funny. Your sister likes Zhao Moqin, she fought for him. I don¡¯t know what Zhao Moqin would do if he knew about this. I¡¯m really curious.¡±


    She laughed while holding her belly.


    The other students in the class didn¡¯t know that Su Xingyue¡¯s sister was fighting for Zhao Moqin with others. After all, they were students in the honorable class, the top class in the school. Most students in the class paid attention to studies.


    When Cheng Min said this, few students who were behind also curiously asked, ¡°What fight? Did someone fight for Zhao Moqin?¡±


    Zhao Moqin was in class 1. Class 1 and Class 2 were both honorable classes. Zhao Moqin was ranked in the top ten. He was smart and looked handsome in white shirt and jeans. Everyone called him school grass* secretly and there were many girls who liked him, they weren¡¯t obvious in their class. After all, the honorable class students were rushing to study, but he was especially popular in ordinary classes and freshmen.


    Although most of the honorable classes students¡¯ energy was on learning, the curious nature of gossip was universal.


    They were still curious about what happened after the intense tuition.


    The other people who heard Cheng Min were amazed, ¡°Does Zhao Moqin know of this?¡±


    Yeah, did Zhao Moqin know?


    Cheng Min also wanted to know about this problem.


    The two sisters of the Su family were born closely next to each other. Su Xingyue and Su Xingchen had only one year difference. If they didn¡¯t tell others they wouldn¡¯t have known that Su Xingchen and Su Xingyue were sisters.


    Especially when Su Xingchen first came to H City, she didn¡¯t immediately change her name to Su Xingchen. She was first called He Xingchen, but later changed her surname. It was said that the children of the relatives¡¯ family would come here to study, and they would stay in their house.


    There were many like that in H city and no one doubted it, plus she didn¡¯t look like Su Xingyue.


    Su Xingyue looked like her mother, with a generous face, high cheekbones, double eyelids, big eyes, a slightly collapsed nose bridge and thick lips.


    However, Su Xingchen was completely based on her parents¡¯ merits. Her face and facial features were like Father Su¡¯s, her eyes were like Mother Su¡¯s. Putting her and Su Xingyue together alone, no one could say that the two were sisters.


    She looked very similar to Su Xingyang.


    Su Xingyang, like Su Xingchen, had his father¡¯s face. If he had inherited Mother Su¡¯s big eyes, then standing beside Su Xingchen, they would really look like twins. Plus she was only one year old, they were the same height.


    No one knew that they were brothers and sisters, but Su Xingchen and Su Su Xingyang looked so similar. Cheng Min and them were in the same community. After a long time, they would know it naturally. In addition, her surname was changed back later, all of them had star characters in their name, and at a glance, they knew that they were all siblings.


    The people in class 2 knew that the Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨in in class 16 was Su Xingyue¡¯s sister. This was all publicized by Cheng Min¡¯s big mouth. Hence every time her sister Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ did something in school, everyone looked at Su Xingyue with curiosity, sympathy, and playful eyes, which made Su Xingyue troubled.


    Just like at this moment, the Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ fought with someone, why were they coming to ask her?


    After Su Xingyue packed her schoolbag, she walked away angrily. Cheng Min and other students smiled at each other and quickly followed.


    She and Su Xingyue lived in the same community and went home together every night.


    The International school was only three blocks away from the community where their houses were located, and they didn¡¯t have to ride a bicycle as it was just a few steps away.


    Su Xingyang was already waiting for them downstairs. When he saw them downstairs, he turned and walked ahead.


    He was only fifteen years old, but he was in puberty. Su Xingyang was very hungry when he was out. Now he just wanted to go home and have a snack.


    The old lady of the Su family was paying attention to the time. When she heard the bell in the living room knocking at 8:30, she lifted the quilt and put on a coat to make supper for her baby grandson.


    At this time, she didn¡¯t say who she was waiting for, she was cutting meat and peeling shrimp, fearing that her baby grandson would be hungry.


    When Su Xingyang arrived at home, the old lady just came out with a pot and a large bowl was served out. She smiled at him and said, ¡°Hungry? Come here and eat while it¡¯s hot.¡±


    ¡°There is still a lot in the pot.¡±


    Su Xingyue looked at her brother¡¯s face and kicked her shoes to wear slippers at the door, ¡°I don¡¯t want to eat, I¡¯m full of anger.¡±


    ¡°What happened?¡±


    Father and Mother Su also came out in their bedclothes.


    Su Xingyue rolled her eyes in her room¡¯s direction. She was full of grievances, ¡°It¡¯s all because of her. I lost my face at school.¡±


    Father Su was afraid that the two sisters would quarrel again and quickly came over and patted her on the back to coax her, ¡°You let go of this, you understand her, you are the elder sister. She is young and ignorant.¡±


    Su Xingyue, who had no intention of calming down, said, ¡°Why should I let go of this? I am only one year older than her and Yangyang is younger than her. Why should I understand her?¡±


    The tears of grievances fell.


    Miao:


    School grass: xi¨¤oc¨£o У²Ý = most handsome boy in school


    school flower: xi¨¤ohu¨¡ У»¨ = prettiest girl in school


    Su Xingyue: eldest sister age:18


    Su Xingchen: MC/second sister age: 17


    Su Xingyang: youngest brother age: 15

 CH 10

    Since she was the eldest, should she bear everything? Always asking her to let things go! Why should she do that?


    She threw her bag on the sofa. She gambled in her heart and was particularly uncomfortable.


    She didn¡¯t know whether she was angry at Su Xingyang or Su Xingchen, or her family¡¯s weirdness, maybe both.


    But she knew that this kind of jealousy for her younger brother could not be shown on her face.


    Mother Su thought that she was so angry because of Su Xingchen. She said to Su Xingyue, ¡°Why cry over this little thing?¡±


    Su Xingyue said, ¡°It¡¯s a trivial matter to you, but do you know what my classmates say? Now everyone says I am the Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨¡¯s sister!¡±


    Su Xingyang took the time to look up and said, ¡°Why didn¡¯t anyone call me the Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨¡¯s brother?¡±


    ¡°Who doesn¡¯t know you? You play basketball, who will say that in front of you?¡±


    The old lady said to Su Xingyang, ¡°Okay, if people said that to you, what would you do? Of course you would get angry.¡±


    Turning to Mother Su, the old lady replayed, ¡°Didn¡¯t I say not to take her in?¡±


    Su Xingyue¡¯s voice was loud from the start to make Su Xingchen hear. The others paid attention to her feelings and lowered their voice.


    The conversation in the living room could be clearly heard. Su Xingchen opened her eyes and looked at the door of the room. She made her bed and slept.


    As she looked at the ceiling with open eyes without sleepiness, she thought of leaving this place but didn¡¯t know where to go.


    Her uncle had raised her for twelve years. She had her own parents who did not have any reason to keep her. She could no longer be as capricious as when she was nine years old. That time she was aggrieved and went to her uncle¡¯s home with her school bag, even though they were so far away.


    It was also inconvenient to live here; it wasn¡¯t convenient to sit on the fence and keep sharing a room with people.


    She didn¡¯t know where to go.


    She was able to practice alchemy and refine medicine. But firstly, her cultivation level wasn¡¯t enough to do that and secondly, there was no raw material. Even if she took a break from school to work to earn a little money, it would not be enough for her to buy materials.


    Besides, what could she do? Could she work as a bodyguard? She was underage and she didn¡¯t even have an ID card.


    It was not practical to live on campus. It was even more inconvenient living in a school dormitory where four people share a room.


    She could only go one step at a time. First study, then get admitted to a good university, get out of here, then choose a corresponding major, and refine something in the future.


    Thinking of this, Su Xingchen fell asleep.


    She woke up as soon as the bell in the living room rang the next morning.


    The International school started at 6:30 in the morning. The brothers and sisters of the Su family had to get up at six, go to the bathroom and brush their teeth.


    The Su family only had two bathrooms, Su Xingyue took the master bedroom¡¯s bathroom, Su Xingyang took the public bathroom. Su Xingchen could only go to the laundry pond behind the kitchen to brush her teeth and wash her face.


    When Su Xingyang came out and saw Su Xingchen washing her face, she looked at her curiously several times.


    After Su Xingchen cut her hair short, the two looked more alike.


    Her eyes first fell on her hair and then on her face.


    The seventeen-year-old girl already knew beauty and ugliness. Su Xingyue was a little uncomfortable when she saw Su Xingchen¡¯s sharp nose and delicate face.


    The same parent gave birth to her, but she inherited her mother¡¯s generous face with a short nose bridge. Su Xingchen and Su Xingyang inherited her father¡¯s goose egg face with a high nose bridge.


    Before, when Su Xingchen wore makeup on her face like a ghost all day, her face with that Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ hairstyle wasn¡¯t clear.


    Now that she had cut her hair, and cleaned her face, Su Xingyang found that Su Xingchen had good skin. She was like a porcelain doll, crystal clear. Not only didn¡¯t that few inch hair make her look like a man, but also her beauty was unobstructed and unrequited.


    She went back to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror, only to feel that she was not satisfied with herself anymore. Her nose bridge should be higher and narrower, her jaw on both sides should be cut off.


    Su Xingyue became more upset when she looked at herself. She threw the towel on the sink and walked out without carrying the schoolbag on her back.


    After Su Xingyang finished washing, Su Xingchen went to the bathroom. He packed up his schoolbag and waited for her.


    When the elevator door opened, Su Xingyue turned back impatiently and asked Su Xingyang, ¡°Are you coming or not?¡±


    He saw Su Xingchen coming out of the bathroom and went to the elevator.


    Su Xingyue pressed the door close button before Su Xingchen got on.


    Su Xingyang quickly extended his arm but still failed to stop it from closing.


    At this time Su Xingchen was already standing outside.

 CH 11

    When Su Xingchen walked into the school gate, the guards looked at her several times as if they didn¡¯t recognize her. They only regained their gaze when they saw the words ¡°201X 16 Su Xingchen¡± written on her chest.


    Su Xingchen¡¯s appearance was too eye-catching. He shouldn¡¯t have forgotten someone with her appearance. When he saw her class, he realized that she was a newly transferred student. He told her the way, ¡°Class 16, is the first one in the northeast corner of the first floor.¡±


    Su Xingchen was a little surprised and thanked him.


    The class 16 was a different entity of this school. Except for the riches who entered the back door with poor grades, it had all sports students with poor grades.


    Su Xingchen walked into the class and saw a group of people dancing.


    When other classes were quiet studying, this one was so noisy


    Su Xingchen went to the podium. Looking for her seat, she saw the other Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨, one two three four¡­


    It was almost half-past six. The other classes were already full but this class was sparse. She glanced at all the vacant tables.


    ¡°Hey! Which class are you from? Did you come to the wrong class?¡± A young boy with lush green spiky hair was sitting on the back and laid his feet on the table.


    Su Xingchen remembered him!


    He was her first boyfriend.


    Yes, her first love.


    When Su Xingchen came to the city, she did not become a Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨. The one who took her into the Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ was the young man with a hairstyle like a green onion planted on his head.


    At that time, she was only thirteen or fourteen years old. The young man was around fifteen years old. He was already dominating and became the boss of the junior high school.


    As a classmate, Su Xingchen, who was in her rebellion phase, was attracted by his cool and handsome posture and became a member of their group.


    The Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ group!


    What a good name! This image was just like it was designed specifically for her. The ones who she called parents for several years were not her parents, but actually her aunt and uncle. She came alone to a strange city, a strange family who repeatedly scolded her, she almost felt abandoned by the whole world.


    They didn¡¯t love her, and she didn¡¯t need their love! Burry all the love.


    Since then, the rustic and well-behaved girl from the village had completely changed.


    In fact, she was so rebellious at that time that she tried to attract others¡¯ attention this way.


    To get her family¡¯s attention, she became a rebellious Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨.


    Over time, she really buried love.


    ¡°Hey! I am speaking to you! Who are you?¡± The green spiky-haired boy kicked the table in front of him.


    Su Xingchen finally remembered where her seat was.


    As a Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨, their seats must be together.


    Although this class was a combination of students who got admitted by paying money and sports students, it did not mean that everyone was Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨. Half of the students in the class were still normal, but they were a bit arrogant because of the atmosphere of this class.


    The Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ were behind a few people headed by the green spiky-haired boy. As a member of the group, Su Xingchen¡¯s seat was next to the green spiky-haired boy.


    When she remembered her seat, Su Xingchen no longer delayed, and walked directly to her seat and threw her bag on the desk.


    The green spiky-haired boy frowned and looked at her again. After all, she was his first love. The green spiky-haired boy carefully looked at her several times before screaming with uncertainty, ¡°No way! Are you Su Xingchen?¡±


    Hearing the green spiky-haired boy¡¯s cry, everyone else in the class looked back.


    They were looking at her already, but this time they were provoked.


    Another teenager also cried out curiously, ¡°Are you kidding me? Are you really Su Xingchen? Is your brain broken? Why did you cut your hair?¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s crazy, you suddenly removed your makeup, I almost didn¡¯t recognize you!¡±


    ¡°I didn¡¯t recognize her!¡±


    ¡°What makes her so special, can a ghost recognize her?¡±


    A few boys and girls ran over to watch Su Xingchen.


    ¡°Why did you cut your hair?¡±


    ¡°Did you get punished for fighting yesterday?¡±


    The members of Class 16 were shocked. They did not expect Su Xingchen to cut off her rainbow hair and remove her makeup; black eyeshadow, her false eyelashes, and black lips.


    A girl behind looked at the green spiky-haired boy and then looked at Su Xingchen, ¡°Why do I think that after Su Xingchen removed her makeup, she looks more handsome than Cheng Kangyao?¡±


    A tall teenager immediately laughed, ¡°Yo, Kang brother, your position as school grass is not guaranteed!¡±


    Cheng Kangyao waved a book and smashed it on the teenager¡¯s head, ¡°What kind of grass? Lao Zi is the emperor! The emperor of Sha ma tae!¡±


    The tall, well-dressed teenager grabbed the book with one hand and immediately laughed, ¡°Yes, yes, Emperor Sha ma tae, Emperor Sha ma tae.¡±


    Then a group of girls behind Cheng Kangyao all sang together, ¡°The king asked me to patrol the mountain ~~~ I turn the world ~~~¡±


    The Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨, ¡°Play my drum!¡±


    The whole class sang together, ¡°Ring the gong!¡±


    Group chorus, ¡°Life was full of rhythm ~~~¡±


    The atmosphere was very joyful.


    ¡°Roll!¡± Cheng Kangyao gave them an angry look. His eyes were still staring at Su Xingchen as if he was seeing her for the first time.


    The class teacher Chen Yun entered, holding a thermos cup and test papers. She heard the noise from outside. Other classes were reading aloud and their class was singing in a chorus. She scolded, ¡°What are you looking at! All of you take your book out to study!¡±

 CH 12

    The students gathering in the back quickly smiled and returned to their seats. One of the boys in the back said, ¡°We all saw Su Xingchen. Doesn¡¯t Su Xingchen with her new haircut look more handsome than Zhao Moqin in the second grade?¡±


    ¡°Really more handsome than Zhao Moqin!¡±


    Another boy laughed, ¡°If Su Xingchen surpassed Zhao Moqin, the school grass, it would be fun!¡±


    The class teacher picked up the test paper that was rolled as a stick and walked around in anger, ¡°Read! Are you still talking about the school grass? Take your books out!¡±


    The students took out their books happily and finally no longer laughed.


    They were reading while students kept coming in, and soon most of the seats were full.


    Chen Yun sat on the podium to correct the test paper. From time to time she looked up to see the class. Her eyes fell on Su Xingchen¡¯s face.


    When the school bell rang, after five minutes, the school guards would close the school gates and the small doors were also locked with small locks. To enter and exit, they could only go to the guard room and must register for it. Except at entry time in the morning and leaving time at night, the doors were not open. And the three meals were provided in the school cafeteria. The small door opened for a while, so students who did not arrive in the morning were basically absent from the whole morning class and could only come back at noon.


    But most students dare not abstain from the morning class, at most they could take advantage of the absence of the class teacher in the afternoon and bunk the afternoon class.


    Even the green spiky haired boy Cheng Kangyao came to school early.


    Teacher Chen was very pleased to see Su Xingchen coming to study early.


    From a certain point of view, Su Xingchen was even more rebellious and scrupulous than Cheng Kangyao. In order to anger the old lady, it was a common thing for her not to go to school in the morning, then the old lady scolded her at home. The Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ usually wore black eyeshadow and black lipstick.


    Teacher Chen did not expect Su Xingchen to remove her makeup and cut off her green bangs that covered half of her face, revealing a clean face.


    Not to mention Cheng Kangyao, even Teacher Chen couldn¡¯t help but stay on the podium and watch her.


    Most of Su Xingchen¡¯s books which were in the drawer table were comic novels.


    She took out the books, which were still brand new, and made some notes on the language book.


    Su Xingchen had always had good grades in Elementary School. She also came in the top three in their town. She moved to junior high school in the city. First, it was in a public school with low tuition and the old teacher had good qualifications, but he had a serious city dialect, she didn¡¯t understand.


    When she first arrived in the unfamiliar city and home, she was uneasy. The first time she failed the exam, she felt guilty. She also had a low self-esteem compared to her elder sister and brother.


    Father Su knew the public junior high school teachers since they often came to the store to wash their cars. After hearing about Su Xingchen¡¯s test scores, her mother and then the old lady scolded her once, twice, three times. A rebellious mentality arose from the ceaseless scolding.


    Originally, because the teacher¡¯s dialect was too heavy, it was exhausting to study. She always compared her with her sister and brother. She degraded her outside and inside, and even lowered her. She was angry, and the accumulated grievances and conflicts in the previous period broke out. She scolded the old lady, ¡°You are old and undead! Do not say you are my grandmother!¡±


    It was like the evil beast was released from its cage. The original obedient girl was no longer there.


    They said she was a Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨, but only she knew how empty and scared she was.


    Because she violated her grandfather, grandma¡¯s and her aunt¡¯s upbringing, she knew she was wrong. She knew she was wasting her life and felt guilty.


    Even when she later transmigrated to the world of Xianxian, she occasionally dreamt that she couldn¡¯t pass the exam. Her hand was stuck on the white paper, and she couldn¡¯t answer questions in class.


    She turned over the brand-new textbook in her hand. Since she had another chance, she wanted to work hard once, to get over this.


    When she was in the third year of high school, she actually studied seriously for a year, but at that time, her efforts were too late, it only took her to a poor university. When she went to college, she continued to spend her days, full of confusion and hesitation.


    To be honest, after transferring into the Xianxia World, she was happy that she finally got out of that home. She didn¡¯t have to face them anymore, so she could work harder in a place where no one knew her.


    She turned over the pages of the book in her hands. After all these years, a lot of the knowledge was forgotten and she no longer knew many things.


    The bell rang after class, Su Xingchen didn¡¯t care about Cheng Kangyao and went directly after the class teacher, ¡°Ms. Chen!¡±


    Teacher Chen was ready to drink water.


    ¡°Well? What¡¯s the matter?¡±


    ¡°I want to enroll in a cram school, do you know where there are reliable cram schools?¡±

 CH 13

    The International School was the provincial focu, so there was more internal information shared between teachers.


    No one better than Ms. Chen who was her class teacher could suggest her a cram school


    which was more suitable for her.


    When Ms. Chen was doing morning exercises, she was thinking about it. When having breakfast, she asked her husband about it seriously.


    Her husband Ke Zhi was the class teacher of the second grade of high school. He was the mathematics teacher of class 16.


    Originally, a special-grade teacher like him would not teach a poor class like class 16, but his wife was the class teacher, so he was not at ease. He was afraid that students in class 16 would bully his wife Chen Yun, so he applied as a math teacher in class 16.


    But the math teacher was even more responsible than the class teacher. From time to time, he came to class to look over it.


    ¡°Su Xingchen needs to join cram classes?¡± Ke Zhi frowned.


    He certainly knew who Su Xingchen was and he had no good impression of this mischievous student. Looking over them was difficult for him.


    Chen Yun was a very gentle woman. She didn¡¯t get irritated and replied gently, ¡°Yesterday she told me that she will study hard and improve every day, and I believe her. Today she told me that she couldn¡¯t keep up with courses of the three years of junior high school. She asked me to recommend a cram school to make up for the missing courses. I don¡¯t need to worry about the languages. As long as she is willing to study, I will teach her. You know some mathematics. Cram school is appropriate for rest. ¡°


    Ke Zhi was not only the class teacher of class 2 of the second grade, but also the mathematics teacher of class 1 of the second grade. He was also in charge of the school mathematics competition class and was very busy.


    Besides, with his temperament, he did not have the patience to teach the poor students in class 16. If they didn¡¯t understand it once, twice, or three times, he would be impatient.


    Ke Zhi knew Su Xingchen had no foundation in mathematics.


    His brow furrowed, ¡°How could I introduce her, a bad student, who didn¡¯t want to study in the past, to someone.¡±


    Teacher Chen was not happy, ¡°She wants to study, will you never let her?¡±


    ¡°Well, let me observe her recent performance. If she really wants to study, I will introduce her to Lao Zhao and send her to him.¡±


    Lao Zhao was an old teacher who retired from their junior high school. Him and his wife opened a cram school outside with few seats.


    It was not that people didn¡¯t want to enter, but that the old Zhao couples had limited energy and didn¡¯t want to overexert themselves.


    For the student in his wife¡¯s class, Ke Zhizhi was willing to bother.


    So after the first period ended, Ke Zhi went to class 16 but detoured through it. He stood outside the window of the back door and watched inside.


    Because of the winter, it was gloomy outside and the windows were covered with a thin layer of mist.


    The student sitting by the window was holding his head in one hand, and turning the pen in the other hand lazily. His head unconsciously turned to the window. Looking at the misty reflection on the window, he unconsciously reached out his hand to wipe the glass window. After wiping it, it suddenly revealed a pair of fierce eyes.


    He almost scared him to death.


    He quickly pretended not to see anything. He opened his mouth and sighed on the glass again. He turned his head to look at the blackboard.


    Several times he wanted to turn around to see if Teacher Ke was still there.


    After class, he looked out of the window for the first time. Teacher Ke had already left. He stroked his chest and yelled, ¡°What the fu*k, just now old Ke stood outside the window and scared me!¡±


    ¡°Heck, I saw that. Isn¡¯t he the class teacher of class 2? Why does he always run to our class? Doesn¡¯t he have to watch his own class?¡±


    ¡°Did he come to see our discipline?¡±


    The classmates wailed one after another.


    Although Teacher Ke was not their class teacher, he was almost the same as the class teacher.


    Fearing that his gentle wife couldn¡¯t control the group of mischievous kids, Teacher Ke often ran to their class to patrol and came to give them supplementary lessons whenever they were free.


    If it was another teacher, class 16 students might have got stressed, but Mr. Ke was different. The first thing was that he was very tall, burly, and strong, and he was not ugly, but his appearance was very fierce, especially his pair of eyes. His iconic cymbal eyes had three or four layers of eyelids and folds. His eyes were slightly convex, which made them especially large.


    According to his size, appearance, and temper, he could play the role of Zhang Fei, Li Kui, or Thor without much effort.


    But he was still the husband of their class teacher Chen.


    Ms. Chen was slender and petite, with a height of no more than one and a half meter. With a very gentle personality, she spoke slowly and reasonably to them. She was also very concerned about them.


    Although they were rebellious, they were not people who did not know what to do. The teacher had great weight in their hearts.


    Although they sometimes talked back to the teacher in charge of the class, they respected her very much and gave her face.


    But such a class teacher who could be described as ¡®weak and slim, gentle and elegant¡¯, had a monster-type husband who had a different personality, appearance, and body shape. Compared to Teacher Chen, they were against the big monster Teacher Ke.


    In their hearts, Teacher Ke, the big monster, had more prestige than the gentle Chen.


    Of course, they wouldn¡¯t admit this, they would only admit that they were giving Ms Chen face.


    Who made the big monster her husband?


    Miao:


    Zhang Fei: Famous Shuhan general during the Three Kingdoms period


    Li Kui: one of the few Liangshan heroes who survive the campaigns against the Liao invaders and rebel forces on Song territory.(from novel water margins)


    Thor: the Thunder God. U may know him.

 CH 14

    Originally they thought that Teacher Ke went to their class accidentally, but they didn¡¯t expect the monster teacher to appear again in the next two lessons!


    Ke Zhi immediately made the order of class16 more than ten times better than their class teacher, Chen Yun.


    Since they were not attending classes, they all laid on their desks and slept, as they couldn¡¯t talk.


    However, it was a bit cold to sleep in winter and the class didn¡¯t turn on the air conditioner. Most of them were trying to keep themselves awake for the teacher on the podium.


    After the teacher finished the class, he returned to his office and teased Mr. Ke, ¡°Old Ke, if you are like today every day, how good the discipline will be. You patrolled class 16 several times for each class.¡±


    Teacher Ke glanced at him, his expression was serious.


    The teacher who had spoken was already accustomed to his fierce face, he smiled and picked up the thermos and drank tea.


    Other teachers followed suit to ridicule Teacher Ke, ¡°Teacher Ke teaches mathematics to two top classes, he is even taking care of the mathematics competitions and also took time to patrol class 16 ¡­¡± True love!


    Teacher Chen picked up the ruler on the desk and was about to hit the teacher¡¯s mouth in shame. Teacher Ke also used his big bell-like eyes to scare the teacher.


    The office was full of cheerful atmosphere.


    Teacher Ke ran several times a day and came to class 16 in the evening for self-study at night. He secretly observed Su Xingchen and saw that she was really listening to the class. Only when he went back in the evening did he call Teacher Zhao.


    Su Xingchen worked hard in the third year of high school in her past life. Although it didn¡¯t have much effect, she only passed the third-rate university, but she studied hard.


    After passing today¡¯s class, although there was still a lot of knowledge she was unfamiliar and couldn¡¯t keep up with, but from her memory and the teacher¡¯s explanation, the door slowly opened and she even understood.


    Su Xingchen listened to the class very seriously that day. Cheng Kangyao wanted to talk to her several times, but watching her so intriguingly reviewing the book in her hands, he felt like he was facing a good student, and was embarrassed to disturb her.


    Moreover, this Su Xingchen really made him feel strange.


    He could feel that she was acting very strange to him, to their entire class. She was like looking at him, or the class with a bystander¡¯s eye.


    This made him very unhappy and he ignored her for a day.


    He wanted her to come and talk to him by herself, but she ignored him for a day.


    Cheng Kangyao was very angry and had serious complaints.


    When he was going to self-study the next night, Cheng Kangyao leaned on the chair, deliberately kept his feet on the table and shook it with the music.


    Su Xingchen first dragged the table away a bit. Unexpectedly, the movement on his side was even bigger. He laid on the table and shook his legs with the rhythm of the music. The music sound was high, even if he was wearing headphones, she could hear it.


    Su Xingchen turned her face and looked at the green-haired boy in front of her, ¡°Cheng Kangyao, what are you doing?¡±


    Cheng Kangyao was very upset, and his face turned ugly, ¡°What do you mean? Do you want to leave our Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ group?¡±


    Su Xingchen wanted to ask if after joining the Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ group, couldn¡¯t she leave?


    But instead of doing so, she acted sad and looked at the ceiling at a forty-five or fifty-degree angle, and said, ¡°I found that the way I lived before did not bring them any harm, but made them despise me more. So I decided to change my way, study hard, and improve every day. Today, they ignored me and tomorrow I will make them regret it.¡±


    Her classmates at the front desk broke down on the table and couldn¡¯t help laughing. They turned around and applauded Su Xingchen, ¡°Good! I support you!¡±


    Cheng Kangyao kicked on his chair, ¡°Laughing farts! You shut up!¡±


    The one in the front desk hurriedly clenched his fists with his hands and said to him, ¡°Emperor Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨, Emperor Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨!¡±


    Cheng Kangyao was too lazy to take care of him, he looked at Su Xingchen with a very complicated look that she couldn¡¯t understand.


    ¡°It¡¯s okay, I am very optimistic about you.¡±


    He patted her shoulders, laid on the table and slept.


    His little friend who followed him suddenly decided to work hard, Cheng Kangyao suddenly felt an indescribable emptiness and unspeakable uneasiness in his mind. He couldn¡±t distinguish it, he only knew that he was empty and needed something urgently.


    Going back in the evening, Su Xingchen had to tell her father about the cram school, ¡°I have asked Teacher Chen to look for a good cram school for me.¡±


    Father Su was very pleased, ¡°As long as you are willing to study, I will pay.¡±


    He returned to the store the next day and very actively called the customers who were part of the education system to ask about the best cram schools and tutors, he asked a lot of people.


    Mother Su was dissatisfied when she heard his call, ¡°What a waste of money! Money doesn¡¯t grow on trees!¡±


    She picked up a screwdriver above the cash register and threw it on the desk.

 CH 15

    No matter what Mother Su said, the next day Mr. Ke called Mr. Zhao and settled the matter. He let her parents take her there that weekend.


    Father Su attached great importance to Su Xingchen¡¯s progress.


    He got up early in the morning on the weekend, combed his hair, and shaved his beard. He woke Su Xingchen up, ¡°Hurry up, don¡¯t be late. Since you decided to study you have to study hard and you can¡¯t go fishing for three days or use the net for just three days like before.¡±


    Su Xingchen brushed her teeth and nodded.


    No one used the bathroom with her on the weekend. She finally didn¡¯t have to wash her face behind the kitchen and didn¡¯t have to wait for them to finish bathing before using the bathroom.


    Mother Su heard the movement and poured cold water on Father Su, ¡°What¡¯s the use, you just wait, she will give up in less than three days,¡± she snorted.


    ¡°Will she study? How many exams have you missed in these years? Only you and my sister-in-law will believe her lies and say that she will study. If she studies, I will eat all my books! ¡°


    When Father Su heard that, he deliberately excited Su Xingchen, ¡°You heard it, you should study hard, and let your mother eat her books!¡±


    Father Su deliberately joked to ease his wife¡¯s provocation. The tense atmosphere changed when Su Xingchen said, ¡°She will eat them, I will watch her eat them all!¡±


    Father Su laughed, ¡°Okay, I¡¯ll wait and see.¡±


    While Su Xingchen was not paying attention, Mother Su stared at Father Su, who was carrying the rice wine brought by their two friends from Shaoxing and leading Su Xingchen away.


    It took only five or six minutes from the community to Mr. Zhao¡¯s home by car. At this time, it was still early. Father Su took her for breakfast first and then sent her over.


    When they reached, they found Mr. Zhao¡¯s family was still having breakfast. She was the first to arrive.


    Mr. Zhao was a very kind old man. He was not tall, about one and half meter. His hair was combed in halves which was popular in the nineties.


    His wife Teacher Qin was wearing glasses. Her hair was meticulously combed, there was no smile on her face and she looked very serious.


    Father Su saw them and immediately came forward with a smile. He put down two bottles of rice wine and said, ¡°Are you Teacher Zhao? I am Su Xingchen¡¯s father.¡±


    Teacher Qin on the side glanced at the rice wine on the table, and said, ¡°Take it back.¡±


    Father Su smiled and said, ¡°This is a little yellow wine made by me, It¡¯s worthless. The temperature these days is very low. Drinking a glass in winter can warm your stomach. My dad likes to take a sip and be healthy.¡±


    Considering his sentiment, Teacher Zhao accepted it and said he taught and provided three meals a day.


    Before Father Su left, he said to his daughter, ¡°Since you came here, you should study hard. You can¡¯t skip classes. Listen to the teacher, I will pick you up at night.¡±


    For Father Su, as long as she no longer went online, played games with those green-haired little gangsters and spent money, it was worth his money no matter what his daughter could learn from her visit. If she could still learn something and improve her score a little bit, that would be an additional gain.


    He couldn¡¯t say this to Su Xingchen. He didn¡¯t tell Mother Su as he was afraid she would hit her, he just thought about it in his heart.


    Before Zhao finished his meal, he took two papers and asked her to go to the desk inside to take a test, ¡°How much can be done, how much can I do, let me see how your foundation is.¡±


    The community where Mr. Zhao¡¯s family lived was relatively old and the overall appearance was relatively dim. It was winter now. All lights in Mr. Zhao¡¯s house were turned on during the day. The living room suddenly looked bright and dignified.


    There was nothing in the living room, only a coffee table, and a sofa. There was a long table that looked like it was bought from a second-hand market. It was covered with a light blue checkered tablecloth, around which a few chairs were placed to eat like those in restaurants.


    Su Xingchen opened the paper to find that the questions looked very familiar. At first glance, she could tell that the questions were very simple, but because she was in another realm for thirty years, she had forgotten all these simple formulas. Like there was a veil on her memory, the truth was close, but one just couldn¡¯t think of it.


    In the end, she just wrote some very basic common-sense questions. Some calculation questions were basically not answered.


    But she knew that these questions were very simple, as long as she gave a glance at the examples and formulas, it would be alright.


    She was just so confident ¨r (¨s 3 ¨t) ¨q


    Teacher Zhao came over after breakfast, looked at her test paper, and then looked at her.


    He knew that the students who came to study must have a bad foundation, but he didn¡¯t expect this student¡¯s foundation to be so bad.


    At this time, there were only a few minutes until eight o¡¯clock, and the other students would come at nine o¡¯clock. Teacher Zhao simply sat down and taught her a basic lesson.


    He taught mathematics. Teacher Qin loved to teach physics and chemistry.


    Starting from the most basic, after asking an example, he would ask, ¡°Do you understand?¡±


    She nodded.


    ¡°If you understand, just do this question.¡±


    Su Xingchen finished the question.


    Teacher Zhao found that she was learning quite quickly and then went on to talk, ¡°Do you understand?¡±


    ¡°Yes.¡±


    ¡°Understand this question and solve it.¡±

 CH 16

    Su Xingchen finished writing again.


    She learned everything fast and Teacher Zhao teaching speed increased. After an hour, other students arrived one after another. Teacher Zhao had unknowingly finished several modules. The student¡¯s learning ability was so fast that he was surprised.


    How could such a good student have such a poor foundation? Wasn¡¯t she stupid?


    However, Teacher Zhao had seen a lot of students like her. Many students were very smart, but they were not willing to put their minds in books.


    No matter how good one¡¯s brain was, if they didn¡¯t study, it was useless.


    But after touching the bottom of this student and seeing her learning ability, he had a plan on how to teach her. When he went to the study, he talked about this new student to his wife. Teacher Qin said, ¡°Being smart isn¡¯t enough. Yes, one teaching will make all the difference.¡±


    He shook his head, ¡°If these students put their minds on reading, would their foundation be so bad?¡±


    Teacher Qin glanced at her husband lightly through her silver-rimmed glasses, ¡°Now she is willing to study hard for three years, she still has time.¡±


    Teacher Zhao brewed a cup of tea and went out with a thermos.


    Teacher Zhao¡¯s home tuition was divided into two parts. Some people followed Teacher Zhao to learn mathematics in the living room, and some followed Teacher Qin to learn physics, chemistry in the study room. The student with the worst foundation at the moment was Su Xingchen, who they had to teach everything from scratch.


    Other students had studied up half of the semester there and they were not surprised at the newly joined Su Xingchen.


    They were from International and public junior high schools. Only Su Xingchen was a high school student. They were not clear about Su Xingchen¡¯s history as a Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨. They looked at her for a while and were very curious.


    One of the girls with short hair and flat face asked curiously, ¡°Are you a boy or a girl?¡±


    It was her hairstyle and cold look that made her look like a boy, but her clothes were of a girl. She wore a big red white rabbit fluffy jacket, and the white fur made her face like pearls.


    Teacher Zhao routinely taught other students everything he wanted to teach, and paid attention to Su Xingchen from time to time during the lectures and detailed the contents and formulas that involved the ones other students had already learned. What was more, Su Xingchen could understand the content of the lectures from other students. When he was giving lectures, he paid more attention to her reactions and explained the details more carefully. This was equivalent to helping other students review the content they had learned before.


    After forty-five minutes of speaking, he let them solve the questions themselves. He also gave Su Xingchen a set of questions that she had just learned. If they had trouble, they would ask him again.


    Everyone solved their homework quietly, most of their homework was assigned by their school. Only Su Xingchen¡¯s homework was assigned by Teacher Zhao.


    Su Xingchen did it particularly fast.


    Seeing that the simple questions in front of her were done, Teacher Zhao made her do other ones. After ten minutes, she solved all the questions.


    Other students were still solving their homework. In order not to disturb them, he simply beckoned Su Xingchen to go to the living room, and taught her alone. If she could learn faster, he could also make her progress as soon as possible, so she could keep up with other people¡¯s progress.


    But if her learning ability and acceptance ability were so fast, maybe he would have to give her separate lessons. After all, she was a high school student, while others were junior high school students. Their acceptance and learning abilities were different.


    The teacher taught her till eleven o¡¯clock. Although someone in the middle came from time to time to ask him about something, it was only a matter of three or five minutes.


    He talked till his throat was dry. He drank a cup of tea and looked up at the clock to find out that more than an hour had passed unconsciously. Teacher Zhao still felt that he was still unsatisfied.


    In fact, this student¡¯s learning ability was too strong, and Mr. Zhao felt refreshed. For a student like her, he would be happy to teach for two more hours.

 CH 17

Washing clothes, cooking, mopping the floor, washing dishes, they called for her casually to do it.

 CH 18

    It was difficult to see snow in winter in City H. Even if it fell, it would soon melt due to the high temperature of the city.


    It was still early winter and it hadn¡¯t snowed yet, it was just rainy every day.


    After watching the outside for a while, she continued to go over the questions.


    Su Xingyue turned the pen in her hand and looked at her several times. Every time she looked at her, Su Xingchen was concentrating on her homework.


    She was actually doing her homework?


    Su Xingyue thought that the sun might be coming out of the west. She sneered and continued to work on the questions. After a while, she couldn¡¯t help looking at her.


    Somehow, her mood was a little irritable and it was difficult to concentrate.


    She pulled the chair back, the foot of the chair rubbed against the ground and it made a creak. She went out and poured in a glass of water. The door crackled again and she returned to the desk, turning the pages loudly.


    It was so quiet that she didn¡¯t study anymore. But she didn¡¯t want to walk away and give the table to Su Xingchen. She sat at the study table, opened her mobile phone and chatted with her friends on WeChat. She also brushed the web to listen to songs.


    When she was doing her homework, she wanted Su Xingchen to be absolutely quiet, and if she moved a little, she would get angry. Not only did she say it to her, but she would also quarrel so that everyone in the family would come out. To let them know how unbearable Su Xingchen was.


    Then, the whole family ¡­ mainly Grandma Su and Mother Su would condemn and reprimand her. Father Su would say that if she didn¡¯t do her homework, she should come to the living room and not disturb her sister who was studying.


    Su Xingyue laughed while chatting and occasionally looked up at Su Xingchen. Seeing her unaffected as she laughed. She pouted but felt a little bit bored.


    In the evening, when Father Su and Mother Su returned, the old lady complained to them again, ¡°Early in the morning, she disappeared and I didn¡¯t know where she went. Like a dog, when she smelled the food, she came back to eat. ¡°


    Father Su was changing shoes and immediately said, ¡°She went to cram school.¡±


    ¡°What kind of cram school?¡±


    ¡°It was the class run by the retired teacher Zhao. I heard that he is good. Many people couldn¡¯t get in. She was recommended by her class teacher. I sent her this morning.¡±


    The old lady disdainfully said, ¡°She went to the cram school? She can cheat you. She doesn¡¯t study in the school¡¯s classes. What¡¯s the use of the cram school? If she really wants to study, she can do that like Yue Yue and Yang Yang, they didn¡¯t go to cram school. If you don¡¯t want to learn, can you make up for it with money? It¡¯s useless!


    Father Su laughed and said, ¡°Isn¡¯t it just for them to study? As long as she is willing to learn, let alone one cram school, I will be happy to spend the money in ten cram schools.¡±


    Mother Su dragged her coat and hung it in the hanging closet next to the entrance shoe cabinet. She asked, ¡°What is the cost of this cram school?¡±


    ¡°Two thousand yuan a month, including a noon meal.¡±


    Mother Su raised her voice in surprise, ¡°What? Two thousand Yuan a month? That too only to study on the weekends. Only eight days a month for two thousand dollars? Why not grab the money!¡±


    She changed her shoes and walked inside, undoubtedly saying, ¡°What kind of cram school would be so expensive? I don¡¯t know how many cram schools there are, but I know one which costs 2,000 yuan for a semester.¡±


    She said while walking towards the room, ¡°Two thousand a month, twenty-four thousand a year. With twenty-four thousand, we could take the whole family to travel abroad, or buy two gold bracelets to wear. What¡¯s the use of this money for you? ¡°


    She returned to the room and tied her hair to wash her face.


    Su Xingyue heard the conversation outside, stopped writing and asked Su Xingchen, ¡°Are you going to the cram school?¡±


    Su Xingchen didn¡¯t lift her head, ¡°Yes.¡±


    Su Xingyue turned the pen in her hand and suddenly, with a chuckle said, ¡°You went to Teacher Zhao¡¯s home for classes, was it for Zhao Moqin?¡±


    Su Xingchen froze for a moment, ¡°What?¡±

 CH 19

    Su Xingyue didn¡¯t take care of her. She walked out of the room and said to Father Su who was arguing in the living room, ¡°Dad, why do you always quarrel with my mother? Just two days before, she fought for Zhao Moqin with others and today you sent her to Teacher Zhao¡¯s home for cram classes. Can my mother agree?¡±


    The living room went quiet.


    Mother Su came out of the bedroom and asked Su Xingyue, ¡°What are you talking about?¡±


    ¡°I said,¡± Su Xingyue took a breath, ¡°She just fought for Zhao Moqin two days ago. Dad sent her to Teacher Zhao¡¯s home today for cram classes.¡±


    Su Xingyue looked at Father Su,¡±Didn¡¯t you know? ¡°


    Mother Su only felt a sudden surge in her heart. She rushed to Su Xingyue¡¯s room, and raised her hand to slap Su Xingchen!


    ¡®Snap!¡¯


    She was very angry and very powerful.


    Su Xingchen had a bad hunch when she heard Su Xingyue¡¯s words, so when Mother Su came in, she also had expectations. When Mother Su raised her hand, she raised her book and blocked it, Mother Su slapped the book.


    Mother Su grabbed her hair with her backhand, ¡°You dare to block it!¡±


    Su Xingyue looked at the door with her hands crossed on her chest.


    After Su Xingyue¡¯s remarks, Father Su¡¯s anger surged for a moment and he couldn¡¯t believe it. But the sound made him quickly rush to the room to pull Mother Su away.


    He thought that the slap had hit Su Xingchen.


    Mother Su exploded quickly, ¡°Return the money! Go now!¡±


    ¡°How can I refund the money?¡±


    ¡°Why can¡¯t they return it? Go back now!¡±


    Mother Su¡¯s temper rose up, ¡°What other books did you buy for her? It¡¯s a waste of money! Go to the shop and start working there by washing cars! I will let you suffer a bit! You thought money was easy to earn?¡±


    Father Su saw a stack of books placed on the bed and a homework book that had fallen to the ground when she was just hit.


    He picked up the homework that had been stomped on the ground and pushed Mother Su to go outside, ¡°When will you learn to control your temper? Can¡¯t you ask her before you scold her?¡±


    ¡°What do you want to ask? The 16-year-old little girl learned to fight with others for a boy. Now she is chasing him by going to other people¡¯s homes. She has to learn to behave!¡±


    She flipped open Su Xingchen¡¯s book at the head of the bed. She flipped it quickly, threw them to the ground, ¡°Look, look at her books. It¡¯s all new. Enrolling her in such expensive tuition classes? Is it easy for you to make money now? ¡°


    ¡°I¡¯ve been exhausted all day long. I have opened two little car repair shops nearby this year, and there are two private car repair shops near them. It is harder to earn. Yue Yue will be in the third year of high school next year and will soon go to university. Then Yangyang will follow after finishing school. At least tens of thousands of yuan a year would be required. After graduating from university, we have to buy a house for Yangyang. You don¡¯t know how expensive it is. You¡¯re in your forties, and I¡¯m in my forties. Are you still young? Can we still work for more than a few years? You have to spend money at home. You think the money was still like before, easy to earn in two years?¡±


    The old lady ran out when she heard their quarrel. She added fuel to the fire, ¡°In my opinion, we should not let her go to any cram school. Is it a waste of money. Anyway, she wouldn¡¯t pass the university exams. The two years of high school would be wasted. When the time comes, she will go to your shop to work and wash cars. She will be 17 this Chinese New Year. Can¡¯t she help with car washing? ¡°


    Su Xingchen sat on the bed, looking at the book that was thrown to the ground. She was wondering if she should stay here at the moment or should she go out.


    Father Su was also aware of Su Xingchen¡¯s embarrassment. He came over to pick up all the books on the ground and put them on her bedside.


    He was very annoyed when he heard Su Xingyue before, but after seeing the work done by Su Xingchen, the unnamed anger calmed down again.


    In his view, for whatever reason, it was good that his daughter was willing to take the initiative to study instead of following the little bastards all day long.


    In Mother Su¡¯s view, she did not study all day and dyed her hair colorfully similar to that of Cheng Kangyao, the little bastard.


    After seeing these books on her small bed, he realized that she was sleeping so tightly.


    Mother Su¡¯s character was very arrogant and difficult, Su Xingyue¡¯s personality was overbearing. So everyone would habitually take into account their words.


    He smiled soothingly at Su Xingchen, ¡°Writing homework, not bad.¡±


    He took Mother Su out again and turned back to appease his two daughters, ¡°You read your books.¡±


    Father Su pulled Mother Su into the room, ¡°You don¡¯t want to believe there will be rain on hearing the wind, No matter what reason Xingchen had, she is willing to study is a good thing.¡±


    He showed Su Xingchen¡¯s homework to Mother Su, ¡°You see, she was willing to do her homework quietly at home. Isn¡¯t it better than going out with those little gangsters? ¡°


    Mother Su didn¡¯t even look at it. She tore it in half.

 CH 20

    It was too late to stop her.


    Looking at the homework that was torn in half, he was also angry, ¡°Why did you tear her homework?¡±


    ¡°Homework? Will she do her homework? She is just cheating you! What did I say? I said she wouldn¡¯t study well. I said not to let her go to the cram school. The result was, she fell in love and went to someone¡¯s home.¡±


    ¡°You still spent so much money for her cram school, You just threw the money in the water!¡±


    Mother Su got more angry.


    Father Su said helplessly, ¡°Now that the money has been paid, what can we do? Just give her a chance, can¡¯t you?¡±


    ¡°No!¡± Mother Su¡¯s face had turned ugly, ¡°Can¡¯t she go to the cram school in the small commodity market? Is it not expensive for her? I thought she really wanted to study.¡±


    She sneered, ¡°Thinking about it, why can she go to a cram school? Yangyang Yueyue hasn¡¯t gone to a cram school before, and they are still in the top ten. If she really wants to study, why not study with her sister and brother. Yangyang is one year younger than her and Yueyue is in her senior year!¡±


    Father Su had never been aware of it in the past, she always compared Su Xingchen with Su Xingyue and Su Xingyang. He did the same, but suddenly felt that he should not always verbally compare his second daughter to his other kids. He hadn¡¯t noticed anything yet, just subconsciously felt that it shouldn¡¯t be said that way.


    ¡°Can you speak quietly? Yangyang and Yueyue are doing their homework.¡±


    Father Su tried to reason with her, ¡°Xingchen finally wants to change, wants to be better. You are her mother, you do not encourage her but even drag her down. Who will be standing behind her? No matter the reason she went for, Teacher Zhao¡¯s learning environment is better than that of the small commodity market.¡±


    Mother Su exploded, ¡°How did I drag her down? You said I dragged her down!¡±


    ¡°Did I not let her go to the cram school, or was she short of anything, she ate well, she drank, or did I abuse her? You are a good person, and I am a wicked person!¡± She thought that she was always a wicked person in the shop and Father Su was a good person. She didn¡¯t get angry.


    ¡°Now that you are a good person. Why didn¡¯t you say anything when your mother wanted to give her away?¡±


    Father Su was short of breath as soon as she mentioned it.


    At that time, it was indeed his mother who wanted to give her away. He was busy with work, and his wife was in confinement. Yue Yue was only one year old at that time and she couldn¡¯t live without her. His mother had to take care of Yue Yue. She had no energy to raise two people, nor could she care for his wife¡¯s confinement. He could only call his mother-in-law to take care of her.


    It can be said that Su Xingchen was taken care of by her grandmother since she was born. His mother-in-law, who had taken care of her for a whole month, was reluctant to give up, so she discussed it with his father-in-law, then took care of her for two years. She promised that after Yue Yue went to kindergarten, and the old lady was free, she would send her back.


    Father Su saw that the old lady was clamoring to give her away every day, so he asked his mother-in-law to keep her for a while.


    It didn¡¯t take long for his wife to get pregnant again, so he kept procrastinating picking her up for years.


    The fact that his father-in-law and mother-in-law helped raise the child had lowered him in front of the elderly mother-in-law, and his wife. Over the years, he still felt guilty.


    Mother Su turned her back to face the window and get sulky.


    Mother Su was still chattering, ¡°If you had looked for this cram school for Yangyang and Yueyue, I wouldn¡¯t have said anything. But what¡¯s the use of making her go to such a good cram school? Isn¡¯t it embarrassing that she fell in love with someone at their house?¡±


    In the end, Father Su said that he would let her study for half a year and if she hadn¡¯t made any progress, she would quit.


    Mother Su was not happy, ¡°Do you pay her to fall in love with someone?¡±


    ¡°What if the money was all paid?¡±


    Mother Su was in charge of the account, and always used to be the black-faced wicked one in the shop. She kept urging, ¡°I¡¯m going to ask them to return it¡±


    ¡°This money doesn¡¯t need you to pay, can¡¯t I pay it?¡±


    Mother Su sneered, ¡°Well done, you can dig it out and show me your money.¡±


    Father Su was also angry, ¡°I don¡¯t believe that the money I have earned over the years wouldn¡¯t be enough to apply for a cram school!¡±


    Old Man Su had been back home for a while. He was listening to them arguing in the living room. Hearing this, he shouted from outside the living room, ¡°How much? I¡¯ll give it!¡±


    He went back to the room and took out his bank card. He gave it to Mother Su, ¡°There are 20,000 Yuan in this card. Take it first and pay the fee tomorrow.¡±


    Mother Su stopped talking.


    She knew that if she really took her father-in-law¡¯s money to apply Su Xingchen in that cram school, then there would be a real gap between her and her husband.


    So she cried.


    When she cried, even if Father Su was very angry, he didn¡¯t know what to say to her.


    In the end, Su Xingchen did attend the cram school. But after such a fight, the two of them took a step back. They decided to see the result after half a year.


    Su Xingchen just attended the cram school, but it seemed like she had made a big mistake. The dogs in her family were restless again, but she treated the issue coldly.


    She had a deeper understanding of her first life situation and was eager to leave this place.


    They couldn¡¯t hurt her, but in such an environment, she was not happy.


    In fact, she didn¡¯t even remember Zhao Moqin who Su Xingyue mentioned. How could she be impressed by someone who hadn¡¯t yet seen the world?


    She didn¡¯t expect such a coincidence. Teacher Zhao¡¯s house recommended by the class teacher was actually Zhao Moqin¡¯s house.


    Even when the class teacher recommended it, she didn¡¯t think about it. Instead, her family heard that name and were determined not to let her study there.


    She looked at the books Mother Su threw. She placed them on the bed and looked at some messy books. She stretched her hand to sort it out and set it right again.


    Su Xingyue sat on the chair and looked at her condescendingly, and said, ¡°If not for you, my parents would not quarrel!¡±


    Su Xingchen turned her head. She looked at her indifferently, suddenly raised her lips and smiled, ¡°No, it¡¯s because of you.¡±


    When she smiled, the street lights of the city outside the window seemed to be reflected in her clear eyes, bright as a star.

 CH 21

    Su Xingyue was so irritated that she couldn¡¯t express it in her heart. She hit the table and stood up, ¡°What do you mean?¡±


    Su Xingchen sat on the bed and gave her a leisurely smile, ¡°You wanted to trouble me.¡±


    Su Xingyue was extremely annoyed, ¡°Who wants to do that? Didn¡¯t you go to Teacher Zhao¡¯s home to chase Zhao Moqin? Otherwise, there were so many cram schools, why would you choose Mr. Zhao¡¯s family? I dare you to say that you did not do it for Zhao Moqin.¡±


    ¡°I dare!¡± Su Xingchen¡¯s expression suddenly sharpened, ¡°I am a person who didn¡¯t usually study. How would I know what classes were nearby? I asked the class teacher, and she recommended Teacher Zhao. Otherwise do you think anyone could enter their cram school? Will my class teacher recommend him because it was convenient for me to fall in love? ¡°


    Su Xingyue blushed as she said angrily, ¡°Who knows!¡±


    After finishing talking, Su Xingchen no longer cared. No matter what she did next, she would end up smashing things, as if to vent her anger.


    Su Xingchen stayed safe from beginning to end. It could not affect her at all.


    Early the next morning, Su Xingchen got up. When she thought that Father Su wouldn¡¯t take her to the cram school, he came out and gave her a coat.


    Unexpectedly, after the quarrel the previous night, he was still willing to get up and send her to the cram school which made her surprised.


    Once she was so rebellious because she used this method to resist this unfair treatment, and at the same time subconsciously wanted to use this behavior to attract their attention.


    She didn¡¯t want their attention now, but it did get his attention.


    She no longer cared about them, their eyes, and their concerns.


    ¡°Your mother, it¡¯s her temper. Don¡¯t take her words too seriously,¡± Father Su stood at the door and said to comfort her.


    ¡°Yes,¡± Su Xingchen responded. She lowered her head to wear her shoes.


    ¡°Since you are going to the cram school, you have to study. Wasting money is a trivial matter, mainly because you are not small anymore. You can¡¯t be a car washer after graduation, can you? Even if you repair a car, some science and engineering knowledge would be required,¡± Father Su said in a narrative tone.


    Su Xingchen stood in front of the elevator and waited for it. When he arrived at the elevator, Father Su didn¡¯t know what to say. He was afraid to talk too much which would cause her rebellious side to appear.


    When he arrived at the underground garage, Father Su was heating up the engine. Su Xingchen suddenly asked, ¡°After the new year, could I get an ID card?¡±


    Father Su asked, ¡°What do you want the ID card for?¡±


    Su Xingchen said, ¡°I need an ID card to buy high-speed rail tickets. I want to go back to see my grandpa and grandma during the winter vacation.¡±


    Father Su breathed a sigh of relief, ¡°Before the winter vacation, I¡¯ll do it for you when I¡¯m free.¡±


    Minors needed their guardians to get their ID cards for the first time.


    Father Su also said, ¡°If you have an ID card, you would be an adult. You can¡¯t be as ignorant as before.¡±


    Su Xingchen did not speak, but said, ¡°In addition, I want to live in the school dormitory.¡±


    ¡°Living in the school dormitory?¡± Father Su froze for a while and said, ¡°Why do you want to live in school? Our home is so close to school.¡±


    He frowned, predicting that he would have a big fight with his wife again.


    More importantly, if his daughter lived in their home, they could still know what she did everyday. At least she wouldn¡¯t stay out at night, but if she lived in the school dormitory, it would be difficult to control her. He was afraid that she would learn bad things. Not to mention his wife, even he would not agree.


    He frowned, ¡°Is it too crowded at home?¡± He thought of Su Xingchen sitting on the one-meter-wide small bed and writing homework. Somehow, he felt a sudden guilt in his heart.


    Didn¡¯t he think of this problem in the past? He just subconsciously ignored it. He always wanted everyone in the family to be satisfied. He thought that his eldest daughter¡¯s wardrobe and desk would be shared with his younger one.


    The sight he saw the previous day made him realize that it was nothing but self-deception.


    He was thinking about which place in the house could be converted into a small room.


    His house had a construction area of ??149 square meters and a practical area of ??more than 130 square meters, with four rooms and two halls, two balconies and a small storage room.


    He was wondering if he could separate the small balcony on the north side and add an extra bed to live there.


    Although it would still wrong her, she would have her own space. When It was colder in winter, It would be fine to leave the air conditioner on.


    He was a car mechanic himself and he knows a little about water, electricity, handicrafts and carpenters¡¯ work at home.


    After sending Su Xingchen to Mr. Zhao¡¯s house, he didn¡¯t go to the store, but went back to measure the size of the balcony.


    The balcony itself was completely sealed with glass windows, and was separated from the living room by a glass sliding door. There was some debris like vacuum cleaners and flower pots in the balcony. It was less than four square meters, one meter two wide, about two eight meters long and could accommodate a small bed and a desk.


    He looked up and thought that on the wall near the kitchen, he could attach a ceiling-style cabinet, a hanging wardrobe in the upper part, a desk in the middle and chairs on both sides. He could make some drawers underneath, put some socks, pens and other debris.


    As for the other end, he could make a large bookshelf on the back of the bed. If she wanted to sit on the bed and study, she could put it back on the shelf before going to bed.


    He measured the approximate size again. The wardrobe and desk were one-piece and could be 60 centimeters deep, leaving a length of about 2.2 meters. Even if the bed was set to 1.8 meters in length, there was only 40 centimeters left. A chair would definitely not fit. He considered making a two-meter bed, then she could sit directly on the bed with no need for the chair.

 CH 22

    As for the bed, it could also be made in the form of a tatami mat, with storage below.


    There was no room for walking. The sliding door opened directly to the bed.


    He looked up again at the lights on the roof.


    The light on the balcony was very dim. He could just replace the light bulbs. Later, he could make a hidden light strip above the desk and on the shelf at the head of the bed, which could ensure the brightness while his daughter would be studying.


    He measured the various sizes well and knew what he was doing. Because he was very busy on the weekends, he was not in a hurry to do it right away. He wanted to do it well and give her a surprise.


    When thinking of the word surprise, he felt guilty.


    Was such a small balcony of less than four square meters really a surprise? Speaking of it, he really wanted to do it, he should do it for her. Even if there were not enough rooms in the house, he had welcomed her back. He bought her a folding bed that was placed in the eldest daughter¡¯s room. She lived like that for four years.


    She was sixteen in a blink of an eye.


    Su Xingchen didn¡¯t know what Father Su was doing. After coming to Teacher Zhao¡¯s house, she had been thinking about ways to make money.


    She spent thirty years in the Xianxian world. Her skills were all focused on alchemy and refining medicine, making skin care products and taking the time to practice. She was not proficient in common things. It could be said that she didn¡¯t go out to work in both the past two lives.


    In the first world, she was just a stupid Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨, and in the second world, she only took time to learn alchemy.


    However, no matter whether it was refining medicine or alchemy, raw materials and furnace were required. She had none of them and these medicinal materials were bound to be expensive in this world. Even if she had all of them, who would she sell to after refining? Who wanted it? Wouldn¡¯t they think she was crazy?


    Even if skin care products were made, how many people would buy products made by a high school student who was a Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨? Even if they saw the effect, many people would think that hormones played its role.


    Su Xingchen had a headache.


    The qi of this world was very scarce. She practiced for ten days and only managed to breathe a little into her body.


    At about four o¡¯clock in the afternoon, after coming out of Teacher Zhao¡¯s house, she stood on the street. The old lady¡¯s verbal abuse sounded in her head, ¡®The dog¡¯s nose smelled the food and came back to eat,¡¯ and suddenly she didn¡¯t want to go back.


    She just wanted to find a quiet place to practice.


    It was a pity that she didn¡¯t have any money on her body. Whether it was for cultivation resources or other things, she needed financial support.


    The question was how to make money?


    She studied wood-based exercises in her previous life and it was the same in this life. Wood-based exercises had unique advantages in alchemy, medicine extraction, plant medicinal properties, and plant affinity.


    However, wood-based exercises were not omnipotent. They could not promote plant growth. At most, they could give the greatest help to the stability and medicinal properties of plant growth.


    For example, the ginseng grown by her must be the most effective ginseng.


    But couldn¡¯t she go to the village to farm?


    Let¡¯s not talk about having no land to plant. Even if her grandmother¡¯s family had land, if they came to know she didn¡¯t study and was thinking about returning to the village to farm at a young age they would be disappointed.


    Thinking of her grandfather and grandmother, as well as her aunt and uncle, Su Xingchen¡¯s face unconsciously burst out with a smile. She actually had the same impulse as when she was nine years old to go back to the village carrying her school bag.


    But this was impossible.


    What was the use if she fled for a while? Her hukou was here, she didn¡¯t even have an ID card. Even if she wanted to be independent, she must first get her ID card and then her hukou.


    She couldn¡¯t go, but she could always call.


    High school students were forbidden to bring a smart phone and Father Su gave her an old phone.


    Su Xingchen dialed the number, and at the moment when she heard the voice over the phone, her eyes were sore and she shouted, ¡°Grandma.¡±


    This was her grandmother. She called her grandma for nearly ten years since she was a child.


    It was said that when she first learned to speak, she watched her first cousin and her second cousin calling grandmother.


    When Grandma He heard Su Xingchen¡¯s voice, she also got soft-hearted, gratified and cautious, ¡°Hey, Chenchen.¡±


    Since Chen Chen was sent to the city, the child blamed them for not wanting her and didn¡¯t call them for a long time.


    Her grandfather missed her and they went to see her at her in-law¡¯s house, but she saw the old lady calling her like a call-girl, and told her to take her home when she was angry.


    This was certainly not possible. Her hukou had been transferred and her school status had also been transferred to the city. She only said that they were so old. What should she do if she returned to the village? Was it possible for her to stay with them for a lifetime in the village?


    It was all her family and her biological parents. They really wanted her parents to treat her well and let her integrate into that family instead of bringing her back.


    They thought this was the best.


    But for a long time, as long as her daughter called her, she would talk about how naughty and disobedient her granddaughter was. Every time she heard that, her heart would pick up, fearing that they would treat her badly.

 CH 23

    ¡°How are you Chenchen? How about your studies? Can you understand what the teacher tells you? Now you have to wear more clothes, you can¡¯t catch a cold. You should study hard and get into a good university,¡± Grandma He talked, and the tears fell. She feared that her granddaughter would still blame her.


    Su Xingchen¡¯s heart was sour too, ¡°Grandma, I¡¯m fine, it¡¯s fine. I joined a cram school. I just came out of the cram school. I wanted to call you. How was your health these days? Is grandpa fine ?¡±


    Grandma He wiped her tears and smiled, ¡°Well, he is good.¡±


    When her grandfather returned from the Su family, he was unhappy for a long time.


    ¡°I am fine. We could rest assured that you are studying hard.¡±


    Su Xingchen laughed, ¡°You could rest assured, I would definitely work hard and go back to see you in the New Year.¡±


    After Grandma He hung up the phone, she ran to the front of the yard and told Grandpa He, ¡°Chen Chen called me and asked if we were in good health. She said that she had joined a cram school and would study seriously.¡±


    When Grandpa Su heard that, he quickly put down the tire he was repairing, ¡°Why didn¡¯t you call me when Chen Chen called?¡±


    Grandma He smiled and said, ¡°You were at the store in front. It¡¯s okay, Chen Chen said she will come back to see us during the New Year.¡±


    He smiled and said, ¡°We can be relieved now that she said she would study and work hard.¡±


    Su Xingchen¡¯s mood was also relaxed and the little depression in her heart vanished. After practicing for so long, she, who had not made any progress for a long time, actually entered the first level of Qi refining.


    This made her feel good.


    But as she entered the first level of Qi refining, some impurities with a slightly sour smell was eliminated from her body.


    When she returned home, she washed herself clean in the main bathroom and changed clothes. While drying the clothes in the balcony, she found that a lot of debris had accumulated on the balcony.


    These debris were originally piled up on the balcony on the north side. After drying the clothes and looking over, it turned out that all the debris on the balcony on the north side was cleaned up.


    There were two balconies in the Su family. The northern balcony was originally larger than the southern balcony. When her father renovated the house, he renovated the place and built a large balcony.


    A lot of plants were planted on the side near the glass door, which was blocked by the concrete wall. Half of the balcony that was made later was used for drying clothes.


    She only glanced at it and then stopped paying attention.


    When she went to school on Monday, her classmates stared at her several times.


    Even the green spiky haired teenager Cheng Kangyao who had been sleeping on the table raised his head and looked at her. He asked her, ¡°Su Xingchen, did you get botox injections or surgery?¡±


    Several people at the front table also looked back interestedly.


    The girl in front also reminded her, ¡°Isn¡¯t it too early for you to get botox injection?¡±


    Su Xingchen, ¡°I didn¡¯t.¡±


    ¡°How could your skin be so good without it?¡±


    Su Xingchen rubbed her face and spread her hands, ¡°Natural beauty is hard to give up, what could I do?¡±


    ¡°Ha ~!¡±


    Several people laughed at her, the class teacher Ms. Chen was also on the phone with Mr. Zhao. She mainly called to ask Mr. Zhao about Su Xingchen.


    After all, it was her and her husband who introduced her to that cram school. If she didn¡¯t listen to the class and was naughty there, their position would become awkward.


    ¡°She is clever and savvy. After two days of learning, she understood all we taught her. If she hadn¡¯t abandoned her studies for several years, this student wouldn¡¯t have been in your class,¡± Teacher Zhao said with a smile.


    Teacher Chen said with a smile, ¡°If she could enter the honourable class, I can¡¯t ask for more.¡±


    ¡°She has to work so hard all the time. Maybe she could really enter the honourable class, but you wouldn¡¯t want to let go of her when the time comes.¡±


    The two teachers talked, laughed, then hung up the phone.


    Teacher Chen asked someone to go to the class and call Su Xingchen.


    It was nothing else than the thing regarding the previous incident. After that fight, the school decided to punish her.


    The criticism was recorded in her file. This might have an impact on her future studies, postgraduate studies, and work.

 CH 24

    Of course, Teacher Chen didn¡¯t think Su Xingchen would take the postgraduate exam, but as the class teacher, she still subconsciously wanted to protect her students and tried to minimize the impact on the students¡¯ future.


    Secondly, she asked about her situation in Teacher Zhao¡¯s class. Although she had already spoken with Teacher Zhao on the phone, she still wanted to hear from her. In addition, Teacher Zhao could only teach Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. She had to make up for other courses such as Chinese, English, etc. Teacher Chen herself taught Chinese, so she called her to tutor Chinese.


    Su Xingchen, who felt warmth gratefully said to Teacher Chen, ¡°Teacher Chen, thank you.¡±


    Feeling the seriousness of her attitude, Teacher Chen smiled happily, ¡°As long as you study hard and strive for a good college, it would be the best return.¡±


    Su Xingchen¡¯s lips showed a slight smile, ¡°I¡¯ll try my best.¡±


    ¡°If I write your punishment down in your file, it would affect your future. You can¡¯t fight again next time,¡± finally, Teacher Chen warned her.


    ¡°I understand Teacher Chen.¡±


    Su Xingchen¡¯s attitude was very good. The more she talked to her, the more she thought about the importance of family education. Such a good student, because of her family reasons, became a Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨.


    Thinking of the other students in the class who had dyed their hair colorfully, Ms. Chen felt that she still had to care more about them. To not let them be ignorant at a young age and go astray in the future.


    After the end of the class, the broadcaster announced the names of students three times. The class and students were criticized. He read clearly the reasons too.


    He didn¡¯t mention Zhao Moqin, but the school teachers and students knew they were fighting for him.


    Zhao Moqin¡¯s reputation in school was not that great. At most, he was a beautiful young man who studied well. Most of the students focused on learning and did not pay much attention to gossip.


    This time because two girls fought for him, Zhao Moqin¡¯s name got popular. The first post on the forum was ¡°The Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ in Class 16 fought for the school grass with a girl from Class 9!¡±


    So, the School grass Zhao Moqin¡¯ became popular all over the school.


    Su Xingyue was in Class 2, next to Class 1.


    The boys behind Zhao Moqin all smiled at him with raised eyebrows. They patted his shoulders, ¡°Wow, two women competed for a man and they fought with each other!¡±


    The boy behind him pretended to hold a microphone to interview Zhao Moqin, ¡°As the main protagonist in the incident, how do you feel?¡±


    Zhao Moqin lifted his arm from his shoulder, ¡°Boring.¡±


    At that moment, Su Xingyue had the urge to dig a hole in the ground and bury herself in it.


    She bowed her head deeply. She was afraid that others would know that Su Xingchen was her younger sister because of their similar names.


    Later in the evening, Su Xingyang was still waiting for her and Su Xingchen. Without looking for him, she walked away without saying anything. When she got home, she closed the door with a bang and threw Su Xingchen¡¯s books and quilts off on the ground.


    Father Su had long since returned home.


    After he went to the store today to arrange things in the store, he set out to buy materials, set the cabinets and asked the person who made the cabinets to come home to measure the size and determine the plan. That day he had removed the things from the small balcony, and then brushed the walls with the eco-friendly paint he bought.


    When he heard the door open, he also asked, ¡°Yueyue is back?¡±


    Seeing Su Xingyue¡¯s expression, he was a little surprised and chased her in. He saw Su Xingchen¡¯s things were thrown all over the place.


    Father Su quickly made a vicious act of hitting her, then picked up the quilt on the ground and put it on the small folding bed. He then picked up all the books on the ground and placed it on the head of the bed.


    After doing this, he went to the door of the room to see if his son and second daughter had returned. They hadn¡¯t arrived home, he went in and said to the eldest daughter, ¡°What¡¯s the matter with you? How could you throw away your sister¡¯s things?¡±


    ¡°This is my room! I can throw it if I want to!¡± Su Xingyue burst into tears. She was looking at Father Su¡¯s eyes with tears in her eyes, ¡°Why did you bring her back? Why? Who welcomes her in this family? No one! No one!¡±


    Father Su was startled, and wished to cover her mouth, ¡°Can you speak quietly? Your sister will hear you.¡±


    ¡°What about that? I dare to say it in front of you! You took her back, but it only made mother unhappy, made grandma unhappy, made our whole family unhappy, made you quarrel with mother, made me embarrassed. Did she do anything useful? No!¡±


    ¡°She was originally an extra child, unnecessary and should not exist!¡±


    ¡°What¡¯s unnecessary? Who taught you this? She¡¯s your sister!¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t care!¡±

 CH 25

    ¡°I do not care!¡±


    Su Xingyang stood in the living room and looked at Su Xingchen, neither entering nor leaving. He was confused and embarrassed.


    Seriously, he felt wronged for his second sister.


    He always avoided such a thing and returned to his room to stay out of their business, but at this time, he felt that he could not do that again.


    He came to the door of Su Xingyue¡¯s room, knocked on the door and said, ¡°Sister, according to the national policy, I am the extra child, not the second sister.¡±


    The room got quiet.


    Father Su opened the door with embarrassment and came out. He looked at Su Xingchen who was sitting on the sofa and said, ¡°Chen Chen you came back?¡±


    He didn¡¯t know how long she had been sitting on the sofa, how much she heard, maybe she heard everything, or maybe nothing. Only to deceive himself, he thought that since his daughter was so calm, she should have heard nothing, or with her temper she would¡¯ve fought with her sister instead of being quiet.


    Su Xingyang looked at his second sister and his dad, then sighed and went back to his room.


    He was troubled by the endless quarrels in the house, and he didn¡¯t understand why his family couldn¡¯t get along peacefully, they were always quarrelling over trivial matters.


    Su Xingyang, a Buddha* boy, felt the trouble of puberty.


    Father Su stood awkwardly. He rubbed his face with his hands and touched the back of his head. This gentle man with a soft personality was full of guilt.


    Su Xingchen stood up, walked to the north balcony, and asked Father Su, ¡°Is this my room?¡±


    Father Su, who wanted to surprise his daughter, looked at this small, dim, and cold balcony. It was dim because of the lack of sunlight all year round.


    Su Xingchen nodded at him and said with certainty, ¡°It¡¯s good. When would it be done? I¡¯m looking forward to having my own room.¡±


    This was what she once dreamed of but couldn¡¯t get.


    ¡°It would be ready in a few days.¡±


    Father Su sighed in relief and came over to ask her, ¡°Dad wants to put a 2-meter bed here, which could have storage under. Here will be a wardrobe. There will be a desk at the bedside over there. Do you have any requirements? Tell your dad and I would try my best to make it as beautiful as possible.¡±


    Su Xingchen nodded indifferently, ¡°You have arranged it very well, so be it.¡±


    What should be required in a space less than four square meters? It would be nice to have her own independent space.


    The main reason was that she was anxious to practice in the room with Su Xingyue there. At night, she couldn¡¯t practice, and her cultivation progress was very slow.


    Father Su finally smiled and said happily, ¡°I asked people to finish the stuff needed as fast as possible.¡±


    Su Xingchen nodded and returned to Su Xingyue¡¯s room.


    She saw at a glance that her bed was messed.


    Su Xingyue was still sulking, her face turned very ugly when she saw Su Xingchen coming in, especially when she saw her crystallized like snow skin, white and translucent.


    She usually bathed in Father and Mother Su¡¯s bathroom. When she walked near her parents¡¯ room, she took a step and went to the common bathroom.


    Except for her at home, everyone else took a bath in the common bathroom.


    When Su Xingyang came out, he saw that the lights in the bathroom were on. He thought that Su Xingchen was bathing there. He waited in the room for a while and read a book. After 20 minutes, he felt that the time was almost running.


    Twenty minutes later, the person was still there.


    Su Xingchen, like him, thought that Su Xingyue was in her parents¡¯ bathroom and Su Xingyang was taking a bath in the common bathroom.


    Su Xingyang usually took a quick bath. But after half an hour, the person was still there. It was a bit weird. Hearing the movement next door, she thought that Su Xingyang was back after bathing. She opened the door and faced Su Xingyang.


    Su Xingyang, ¡°¡­¡±


    With a look of embarrassment, he was surprised to see Su Xingchen still wearing her school uniform. He asked, ¡°Isn¡¯t it you inside? Who is that?¡±


    He immediately thought of who might be in the bathroom, and his face turned black.


    Miao:


    Buddha: internet buzzword with no desire, no happiness, no sadness, just the pursuit of peace of mind.

 CH 26

The people who hadn¡¯t taken a shower at this time were only the three of them.

 CH 27

    After the renovation, one couldn¡¯t live in it immediately. It needed to get ventilated for a while. Even if the paint was environmentally friendly, it had formaldehyde. It was very bad for the human body to live in it immediately.


    But Su Xingyue couldn¡¯t wait for a moment.


    On Saturday, Su Xingchen went to Teacher Zhao¡¯s house for class. In the evening, she returned with four storage boxes and quilts belonging to her. They were thrown out and placed in the living room. Her quilt was also thrown on the balcony.


    The glass door between the balcony and the living room was closed. Since the balcony was renovated it smelled of paint. It took 24 hours for it to get ventilated with opened windows and the curtain between the balcony and the window was pulled up.


    At first Su Xingchen only noticed the four storage boxes at the door. She already had a hunch in her mind. When she tried to open the door, she found that the door was locked. She took the key to open the door, but it was opened from the inside.


    Su Xingyue was unhappy and blocked the door. She pointed to the north balcony, ¡°Your room is there!¡±


    Su Xingchen saw that the small bed that belonged to her had been put away and she didn¡¯t know where it was. Now that it was vacated, Su Xingyue¡¯s room was empty.


    Su Xingchen did not want to live in the same room as Su Xingyue.


    To be honest, she stood desperate in front of the balcony that had changed greatly.


    She was breathing qi into her body now, and her perception was already stronger than ordinary people. This small balcony that had just been renovated made her very uncomfortable.


    In fact, a Gathering Array* or Gathering Charm could temporarily solve this problem.


    She majored in refining pills. But at the beginning, she didn¡¯t know which one she should pick, so she exchanged the basic pill, basic refining, basic spell and basic formation, and finally chose the most suitable for her wood-based power.


    So she also understood simple basic runes.


    But the problem was that she had no materials.


    The market, the rune paper, there was nothing. Even with money, what could she do?


    City H wasn¡¯t small, it took half an hour to travel on the bus. A little further away, it took an hour or two. Poor people like Su Xingchen who had no money and no car took more time. And she had to go to Teacher Zhao¡¯s home classes on weekends.


    After thinking about it, she touched her phone and went downstairs. She was about to call someone who she had left behind since her rebirth ¡ª the green spiky haired boy Cheng Kangyao.


    Cheng Kangyao was at the Internet cafe with a group of friends.


    His home had a computer, but he liked to stay in the suffocating Internet cafe. He opened a box, and played games with a group of Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨.


    When he saw Su Xingchen¡¯s phone call, he was a little surprised and frowned impatiently. Then he answered the phone, ¡°What¡¯s the matter?¡±


    ¡°Where are you now?¡±


    ¡°Internet cafe!¡± He kept tapping the keyboard, ¡°What do you want!¡±


    ¡°Can you help me buy something?¡±


    Cheng Kangyao slid the mouse hard and the sound of victory came from the headphones hanging around his neck. He threw the headphones, got up, went to the window, and opened it, ¡°What?¡±


    ¡°Rune paper, cinnabar, F¨² b¨«.¡±


    (F¨² b¨«: Brush)


    Cheng Kangyao was stunned, ¡°What are you saying?¡±


    ¡°Rune Paper is yellow paper used for Taoist symbols, cinnabar is a chinese medicinal material, it should be available in a Chinese medicine store. You could find it for me there. Rune paper and brush, these things should be in Taoist temple.¡±


    ¡°You called me to ask me to buy rune paper and rune brush from the Taoist Temple? What are you doing? Feudal superstition?¡±


    ¡°I can¡¯t tell you, could you help me buy it? You must go to the regular Taoist temple, don¡¯t buy one at the roadside, it¡¯s useless.¡±


    Su Xingchen had always been arrogant before and she was Cheng Kangyao¡¯s first love. She wouldn¡¯t be so polite while speaking to him. Suddenly she was so polite. Cheng Kangyao felt strange and did not refuse, ¡°I will go buy it for you. ¡°


    After hanging up the phone, he didn¡¯t even want to play the game anymore. He stood in daze at the window.


    When he went back, he passed a few pharmacies. He went in and asked if there was any cinnabar for sale. But there was none!


    Cheng Kangyao was a little bit dumbfounded, what should he do if they didn¡¯t sell it?


    Su Xingchen said that Chinese medicine stores had these. He thought of a few hundred-year-old Chinese medicine stores in the city center and planned to go there the next day.


    When Su Xingchen went back, she saw a lot of plants and flowers on the roadside in the small store downstairs. She bought two pots of hanging pots and a spider plant.


    The ¡°spider plant¡± was also known as air purifier. It could perform photosynthesis under weak light and absorb toxic gases and carcinogens such as formaldehyde, styrene, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide. Generally, if one or two basins were placed in a room, they could absorb the formaldehyde in the air.


    They had great absorption. But formaldehyde was constantly released, and plants could only photosynthesize during the day. They couldn¡¯t work at night and Su Xingchen was not at home most of the day. She only came back to sleep at night, so plants couldn¡¯t do it. She went to the supermarket and bought several packs of activated carbon.


    The money she still had was what Father Su had given her that day.


    When she came back, she pruned the spider plant and re-inserted it in a bottle. A hanging basket was hung on the ventilated wardrobe door, a pot was hung on the shelf at the head of the bed, and the green scattered on the desk. Thanks to her wood power, a few pots of green plants became more lush and vibrant.


    It was a pity that these ordinary plants were not spiritual ones.


    Miao:


    Gathering Array: lay arrays that do more than just increase Spiritual Qi in an area.


    Fulu set


    Rune brush


    Yellow paper


    Cinnabar or vemilion main compnent is mercury sulfide. Because the color is bright red, it is considered to have the effect of warding off evil spirits and ghosts,


    Amulet bag to keep the talisman


    Spider Plant is also a champion cleanser of air.

 CH 28

    In the evening, when Father and Mother Su returned home, they saw four storage boxes in the living room and a futon on the sofa. Father Su asked Su Xingchen, ¡°Why didn¡¯t you return to your room?¡±


    Father Su went to Su Xingyue¡¯s room and saw that the small bed in her room was no longer there. He sighed helplessly.


    His character was a bit like that of Old Man Su. He was not a person with a strong character. They rarely cared about housework, but there were three women at home, and each had a strong personality.


    He went in and said to Su Xingyue, ¡°It takes a few days for the balcony to ventilate. You drove her out like this. Where will she sleep?¡±


    Su Xingyue wrote her homework without raising her head, ¡°Where does she love to sleep!¡±


    Father Su had a headache. He was busy at the end of the year. On Saturday, he was tired after a day of work. He really didn¡¯t want to take care of the house matters. He went to the living room and said to Su Xingchen, ¡°You have to sleep on the sofa for two nights. If it¡¯s cold, turn on the air conditioner.¡±


    The living room had a large cabinet type air conditioner. Because it cost electricity, it was basically not turned on except in the summer when it was hot. If it was hot, they could go back to their rooms and turn on the small air conditioner. The old lady would rather turn on the fan than turn on the air-conditioner.


    Father Su turned on the air conditioner for her and went back to the room to take a shower and go to bed. The next day was the weekend, they were still busy.


    Su Xingchen got the quilt, laid on the sofa for the night. The old lady got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and found that the air conditioner in the living room was turned on, she whispered, ¡°They don¡¯t know how much it costs to turn on such a large air conditioner all night.¡±


    In the morning, Su Xingchen went to Mr. Zhao¡¯s home for tutoring. When the family members were on the table, she complained to them, ¡°You didn¡¯t go back to the room to sleep and slept in the living room.The air conditioner was on, does it not need electricity?¡±


    The old lady didn¡¯t fail to see the storage box thrown out by Su Xingyue, but when people¡¯s hearts were biased, they wouldn¡¯t care about it. Those who weren¡¯t favored did everything wrong.


    Father Su said, ¡°How much does it cost to turn on an air conditioner? If she got a cold, the hospital bills would be more than this money.¡±


    Thinking of Su Xingyang¡¯s cold for the past few days, the old lady stopped talking.


    Cheng Kangyao got up early in the morning and sprayed his hair with gel until it stood up on his head and then went downstairs with satisfaction.


    His dad saw his hair and was furious, ¡°Can¡¯t you change your hair? What do you look like?¡±


    After Cheng Kangyao finished breakfast, he threw the chopsticks on the table.


    ¡°Why? You were allowed to raise a woman outside and I am not allowed to dye my hair? The woman was 20 years younger than you. Green hat, you wore it first.¡±


    His angry father picked up the newspaper and wanted to hit him.


    Cheng Kangyao couldn¡¯t avoid hiding. He looked up at Cheng Fu with his face up, and pointed at him, ¡°Hit me! Don¡¯t you want to kill me to make way for your bastard outside? You can hit me!¡±


    Father Cheng threw the newspaper on the table angrily. He stared at the woman who was sitting at the table eating breakfast, ¡°You look at what he looks like now, you don¡¯t care!¡±


    Mother Cheng was wearing a tailored suit, eating breakfast slowly. She glanced at Father Cheng, and said, ¡°What did he do wrong?¡±


    Cheng Kangyao wiped his mouth and called the driver at home to take him out.


    This driver usually drove for his father, he looked at him.


    Father Cheng also had no way to talk to this son and waved his hand, ¡°Go take him!¡±


    Turning back, he asked the driver to tell him about Cheng Kangyao, where he had gone and what he had done.


    Cheng Kangyao went to Manchuria City to help her find runes, brush, and cinnabar.


    He thought that it was a very simple matter. He didn¡¯t expect that he couldn¡¯t find any cinnabar in the traditional Chinese medicine store that ran around the west of the city. Finally he found it in a century-old store in the city center.


    Fortunately, he went directly to the largest and most famous Taoist temple in H city.


    The man who saw him thought that it was strange for a Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ at the age of 16 or 17 to buy runes and brush. He thought that he was interested in Taoism culture. After knowing that he was a high school student, he recommended him to go to Taoism College in the future and get a Taoist certificate.


    Cheng Kangyao asked casually, ¡°Can I get a Taoist certificate if I pass the college entrance examination?¡±


    Although the Taoist monk who sold rune paper and pen was dressed as a Taoist priest, his character was very down-to-earth. He said with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s not enough. If you want to get a Taoist certificate, you must get into a school.¡±


    Before Cheng Kangyao came, the driver called his father, ¡°Boss, it¡¯s not good, the young master wants to be a monk!¡±


    ¡°What monk?¡±


    ¡°You tell me everything.¡±


    The driver told him how Cheng Kangyao went to buy cinnabar, rune pen, rune paper, and asked about the Taoist college, and Taoist certificate.


    ¡°The Taoist said, if you want to have a Taoist certificate, you must get into Taoist school! ¡°


    After Father Cheng heard this, he was scared.

 CH 29

    Father Cheng sat in the office, he looked at the papers for a while, but couldn¡¯t concentrate. He felt irritable, got up and looked out of the window. He picked up the phone to make a call, the phone rang twice and the other side declined the call.


    There were not many people who could decline his phone calls because of his position. Needless to say, the other party was his good son Cheng Kangyao.


    He dialed again, this time finally Cheng Kangyao didn¡¯t decline, but when he answered, his tone was very aggressive, ¡°What?¡±


    Father Cheng took a deep breath and said with a soft tone, ¡°We haven¡¯t eaten together as a family for a long time. At night, I will cook.¡±


    Cheng Kangyao sneered, ¡°Family? With your illegitimate child?¡±


    Father Cheng lost his demeanor in a second, ¡°You are my son, where is the illegitimate child?¡±


    Cheng Kangyao shouted louder than him, ¡°You have illegitimate daughter, won¡¯t you have another illegitimate child?¡±


    Father Cheng seemed to find the crux of the problem, ¡°You want to become a monk for this reason?¡±


    Cheng Kangyao, ¡®What the hell?¡¯


    He looked at the rune paper and rune pen in his hand, suddenly smirked and said, ¡°You don¡¯t want to have an illegitimate child to replace me?¡±


    Father Cheng walked back and forth in the office with a headache, ¡°No illegitimate child, that was really an accident!¡±


    ¡°Do you think I am a three-year-old child?¡± Cheng Kangyao snorted dismissively, hung up the phone, and hummed in a happy mood, ¡°Get up and open the window in the morning, I feel beautiful ~¡±


    The rebellious son said that he wanted to become a monk. Father Cheng at first did not believe it, but the driver reported that the news had to be taken seriously. What if his son really ran away from the house and fought against him? Father Cheng really regretted that he was greedy for a while and his son hated him for it.


    There was no way but to go to Mother Cheng to discuss countermeasures.


    The marriage between Mother Cheng and Father Cheng was not originally based on love. Two equally ambitious people came together because of their interests. Although the couple¡¯s relationship had been dull in recent years, there were still feelings, not to mention that the two still had a son.


    ¡°A monk?¡±


    When Mother Cheng heard that he wanted to be a monk, she didn¡¯t believe it. But like Father Cheng, she was afraid that her son wanted to be a monk to retaliate against them.


    Years of tacit understanding made the couple look at each other and they decided to change their family strategy.


    So when Cheng Kangyao returned home at night, he suddenly felt the long-lost warmth from his parents. It scared Cheng Kangyao and he got goosebumps.


    Arriving at the school on Monday, Cheng Kangyao was in a good mood. He threw a bag of things in front of Su Xingchen, and said, ¡°Your stuff.¡±


    A person from the front table turned back curiously, ¡°What stuff?¡±


    Cheng Kangyao pulled the chair and sat down, kicking the stool on the front table, ¡°Why are you curious?¡±


    Su Xingchen didn¡¯t want to attract others¡¯ attention, and quickly put it away, ¡°Thank you, how much?¡±


    Cheng Kangyao glanced at her. He laid on the table, closed his eyes and went to sleep, ¡°Not much!¡±


    In fact, these things cost him thousands, but he knew that Su Xingchen had no money. When the two began to fall in love, he knew that she was poor, but had a strong self-esteem. He didn¡¯t care about money and wanted to give her some, but she didn¡¯t want his money.


    Su Xingchen opened her eyes and looked at the paper. She stretched her hand and touched it. She twisted the cinnabar. It was all usable.


    She knew that these things wouldn¡¯t be too cheap, but she really had no money. She wanted to go back home and draw a talisman for him.


    For drawing Taoist symbols, one must pay attention to burn incense and clean their hands while chanting spells.


    It was not necessary to burn incense and clean hands, but it was necessary to calm down.


    Su Xingchen speculates that because of the lack of spiritual power in this world, the process of burning incense and purifying hands was actually the process of letting the drawer contemplate the quietness, while meditation of the spell was to increase the confidence of the drawer.


    Su Xingchen didn¡¯t need to burn incense and purify her hands, but she needed to calm down. They all said that a little aura of light became a symbol. In the process of drawing symbols, once the spiritual power wasn¡¯t good, the symbol would be useless.


    Drawing symbols on a rune paper with a rune brush needed spiritual force. That was the formation. Gathering talisman was similar to the Gathering Formation, if engraved, she could gather more energy.


    Theoretically, the rune paper contained limited spiritual power, so the effect was far inferior to the formation array. These arrays could be used repeatedly, such as battlefield array, battlefield flags.


    These were Su Xingchen¡¯s views after seeing those elementary formations and elementary spells.


    After class in the morning, everyone gathered in the cafeteria. At this time, the school was quiet except for the cafeteria.


    Several Sh¨¡ m¨£ t¨¨ who had always been with Su Xingchen asked her to eat together, but she said that she had something to do and let them leave first.


    They also knew that Su Xingchen had recently started to work hard. After lunch, many students would return to their class to take a nap, sports students would go to the gym, play sports, but Su Xingchen would go to the office where teacher Chen gave her lessons separately.


    They were not jealous at all. Such a thing as extra lessons, the farther away they were from it, the better.

 CH 30

    In addition to the comprehensive building, gymnasium, and the library, there was also a lecture hall that could accommodate more than 500 people.


    There would be no one in the lecture hall this time.


    Su Xingchen went to the shop at the school gate, bought a small inkstone stand and went to the lecture hall with a paper and pen.


    She first meditated quietly for half an hour. Until her breath converged, she took out the rune and rune brush, poured cinnabar and water in something, and adjusted it thoroughly with the rune brush. Hands-on symbols.


    Unfortunately, the first character failed.


    She meditated for more than ten minutes before she started her second drawing. A total of more than twenty pictures were drawn before only two succeeded.


    This was the most basic inferior charm.


    After drawing the two symbols, her spiritual power was exhausted, so she packed her things and went to the cafeteria.


    At this time, there was no one in the cafeteria. Naturally, there was no need to wait in line. After eating quickly, she went to Ms. Chen¡¯s office to find Ms. Chen.


    Teacher Ke was very unhappy about the supplementary lessons given by Chen. First, Ms. Chen was in poor health and had a habit of taking a nap. Now she sacrificed this nap time for her.


    Teacher Ke was very upset.


    So when Teacher Chen gave Su Xingchen a supplementary lesson, Teacher Ke sat on the side to correct the test paper. After an hour, Teacher Ke would cough on time and Teacher Chen would conclude the day¡¯s lecture.


    At this time, Teacher Ke dumped the test papers and pointed to the other teacher¡¯s desk, ¡°Take it.¡±


    There was no one in the office now, Su Xingchen found a seat in the back and continued to solve math problems.


    Teacher Ke was willing to help her, but also found that she was somewhat sharp in mathematics. So he was willing to spend time and teach a student who was not in his class or honourable class.


    Otherwise, he wouldn¡¯t be free for anyone.


    Self-study in the evening was also the time when teacher Chen gave her lessons. At this time, Mr. Ke had class to teach, so he wasn¡¯t available. The time for self-study was simply not enough to finish a day¡¯s homework. Fortunately, the teachers in Class 16 knew that the students in Class 16 have a poor foundation. Although they were not slacking, they were different from other classes, and the pace of lectures were slightly slower.The International school was the focus of the provincial level. For other classes, by the end of the second year of high school, they would complete teaching the entire high school course. When they reach the third year, they would fully enter the review stage.


    Class 16 students would always complete the three years of high school in three years. Many of them were either sports specialty students or rich students, they would study abroad in the future. Hence they were not like other classes.


    Therefore, compared with other students, the class 16 was relatively easier. Su Xingchen was not so tired in learning. To Teacher Ke, she was learning fast and his teaching got harder.


    In the evening, Su Xingchen went back home and hung two talisman, one on the chrysanthemum, the aura gathered by the talisman could be absorbed along with the chrysanthemum, and then released to feed back to purify the air, and one under the pillow to gather the aura to prevent formaldehyde harm to her body.


    When they came home, it was almost nine o¡¯clock. Father and Mother Su were already lying in bed. Su Xingyue was in a good mood recently. She hummed a song and took a shower in Father and Mother Su¡¯s room.


    After Su Xingyue came out of the shower, she saw Su Xingchen spreading her bedding from the sofa to the balcony bed, hanging out her clothes one by one in the closet.


    In the past two years, Su Xingchen had grown faster. Most of the clothes in her storage box were already small. Some pants were worn like the ankle length pants and the sleeves were also short.


    Most of her clothes were old clothes that Su Xingyue did not wear, or the clothes of previous years.


    She didn¡¯t take out these small clothes that could not be worn. She left them directly in the storage box and took out some clothes that she still could wear.


    These were the clothes that her aunt and mother bought for her for the New Year. Because she was growing taller, she only had two sets of clothes to wear that fitted her.


    In addition to the school uniform, Su Xingchen had two coats, one was a red coat her aunt bought for her the previous year, and the other was a big cotton coat Mother Su bought.


    Su Xingyue saw that she moved to the balcony and said nothing. She closed the door and went back to her room.


    The next morning, the three siblings went to school. When the rest of the family got up, Father Su saw that the bed on the sofa was gone. The air in the living room was cold even though the air conditioner wasn¡¯t on. The bed was folded neatly, the books were neatly placed on the shelves, the closet door was open, but a few pieces of clothes were hanging inside.


    Father Su realized that his second daughter¡¯s clothes were poor.


    The window of the balcony was still open, and the outside was misty. Fortunately, it did not rain the previous night. If it rained, the bed would have been soaked. But even if it did not rain, the temperature of this balcony was cold and scary.


    He reached out to close the window, and suddenly thought that the balcony had been renovated only two days ago and was releasing formaldehyde. If the window was closed, then she would sleep in this small, sullen, like a coffin place which was constantly releasing poisonous gas in a small space.


    So, she kept the window open all night and slept in this damp and cold little balcony at a temperature close to minus zero.


    Father Su didn¡¯t know why, his heart suddenly hurt like he was stabbed.

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    Father Su went and asked the old lady who was making breakfast, ¡°Did Chenchen not sleep on the sofa last night?¡±


    The old lady didn¡¯t care, ¡°Who knows? Can I still keep her from sleeping where she wants to sleep?¡±


    Father Su thought that the old lady turned off the air conditioner the night before, so she went to the balcony to sleep.


    He looked at the balcony full of moisture. City H was a typical southern city. When the winter season came, it rained continuously.


    The quilt on Su Xingchen¡¯s bed, let alone touching it, he felt it moist when he looked at it.


    A 16-year-old girl slept at night in such a cold and humid place where there was no sunshine, Father Su couldn¡¯t imagine ¡­


    Suddenly, he asked Mother Su with some resentment, ¡°There are no clothes in Chenchen¡¯s closet. Didn¡¯t you buy her anything?¡±


    Before Mother Su answered, the old lady said, ¡°Her sister¡¯s clothes were all new. She only wears them once or twice. Can¡¯t she wear them? Could we still think of good clothes at that time? She is the second child, the oldest one is only a year older. I don¡¯t know what you¡¯re trying to do, first the balcony and now the new clothes. When I was young, seven or eight people lived in a 40-square-foot room, did we have such good condition? Why? Didn¡¯t we live well? ¡°


    Father Su didn¡¯t know what to say. He also came from that era. Naturally, he knew that the old lady was telling the truth, but this breakfast, he still couldn¡¯t eat.


    When he went to the store, he said to Mother Su, ¡°Our conditions were poor at that time, we couldn¡¯t afford it. Now that we aren¡¯t poor, we should try to create a good environment for them. You go to the mall after work and buy her a few more sets of clothes. I don¡¯t think she had any clothes in her closet. While growing up, she always had a few clothes that were passed to her. ¡°


    Mother Su said with a polite face, ¡°I am going to die! I haven¡¯t drank water, and you want me to buy clothes for her? I buy clothes for her every year!¡±


    Father Su looked at his wife¡¯s indifferent face and drove the car to the commercial street. There was a big supermarket on the commercial street. On the first and second floors there were clothes shops and restaurants.


    The auto repair shop was not so busy this morning and he was not required to keep watch all the time.


    He first went to the supermarket on the third floor and bought a small fan heater from the electrical appliance.


    He wanted to buy a study table with a chair, but the balcony was too small. There was no place to put anything other than the reserved 20 cm fan in front of the desk. Study table had a larger size. After putting it, if she was writing assignments, there would be no place to put her legs.


    This small fan heater had an air conditioner-like function and could circulate heat.


    He carried the heater down and thought that after closing the window, although it would be warm inside, there would be formaldehyde, as if she would be stuffed in an enclosed space full of poisonous gas. Father Su was silent again, feeling very heavy.


    He thought of installing an exhaust fan for her. But he didn¡¯t think that his eldest daughter couldn¡¯t wait for a few days and drove his second daughter out.

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    He carried a heater and walked to the supermarket to buy clothes. There were some warm cotton sweaters. He didn¡¯t know what size his second daughter wore, but he looked at the size L and size M. His wife was 167m tall and wore XL, thinking that his daughter wasn¡¯t much shorter than his wife, he took two sets of L size.

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    Huh? What about clothes?


    Where were the new clothes he hung in the closet? There were only a few scattered old ones. He bought the clothes himself.


    He didn¡¯t come to check because he was tired. He knew that his children just came back from school, so it was impossible that one of them did that. When he came back, old man Su came back after him and knew that he had bought clothes for Su Xingchen. He had no opportunity or time to take them away. So there was only one person.


    Where was the cotton sweater?


    In an instant, an unknown fire immediately rushed into his heart, along with it was an indescribable powerlessness, making him once again clearly aware of the degree to which his daughter was ignored in this family.


    He walked to the door of the old lady¡¯s room without knocking and opened the door directly.


    The old lady and old man Su didn¡¯t have the habit of locking the door at night.


    Old Man Su had fallen asleep and the old lady was still watching a drama. When she saw something unhappy, she would curse.


    Seeing her son come in, she only took a look at him and continued to watch TV.


    ¡°Mom, where did you put the clothes I bought for Chenchen today?¡±


    The old lady replied, ¡°How could I know? You bought the clothes yourself, why are you asking me?¡±


    Father Su took a deep breath, ¡°You quickly take them out. I bought them for Chenchen. What would you do with them? If you want me to buy something for you I will buy it tomorrow!¡±


    The old lady looked at the TV and gave him a blank look, ¡°I don¡¯t want it! If you really want to buy, you would¡¯ve already done that.¡±


    ¡°Well, I will buy clothes for you tomorrow. You take out Chenchen¡¯s clothes. She didn¡¯t have warm clothes in her wardrobe, so I bought two clothes for her. Why did you take it away?¡± Father Su walked to the cabinet in the old lady¡¯s room and opened it.


    There was naturally nothing inside.


    Father Su slammed the door of the cabinet.


    He was so angry that he was about to break it.


    The old lady scolded him, ¡°You came to quarrel in the night. If you don¡¯t sleep, we still have to sleep!¡±


    The old man who was asleep was awakened by the two. His green veins popped up, he opened the quilt and revealed his face. He pushed the old lady¡¯s legs impatiently, ¡°Why haven¡¯t you returned them to him! Where did you put the clothes he brought for Chen Chen?¡±


    When the old lady saw her husband getting angry, she said, ¡°I¡¯ve kept them in Yueyue¡¯s room.¡±


    After saying that, she straightened her back, ¡°Yueyue had so many clothes she didn¡¯t wear, can¡¯t Chen Chen wear them? What does she need new clothes for? I took that clothes to Yueyue. ¡°


    ¡°You also said that Yueyue had so many clothes,¡± Father Su said angrily, ¡°Yueyue can¡¯t wear all the clothes in the cabinet. How many clothes were there in Chenchen? The cabinet was empty. You can¡¯t think of buying clothes for her. If you did, would I specifically buy two for her today? Why did you still give them Yueyue? ¡°


    Although he was angry, he still lowered his voice, afraid of being heard by Su Xingchen.


    ¡°It¡¯s so cold on the balcony, there¡¯s not even an air conditioner. I touched the quilt and it was all wet. She is only 16 years old, she is growing up. What if she got a cold in her body. Now she is young and ignorant. What do you think will happen when she is 40 or 50?¡±


    The old lady pouted unpleasantly, ¡°Why be so fussy? When we were young¡­¡±


    Old Man Su lifted his head from the bed and interrupted her impatiently, ¡°You seem to have a lot of free time. If you have nothing to do, go out to the square and practise Tai Chi.¡±


    The old lady was stunned for a while, then cursed, ¡°What Tai Chi? That¡¯s the thing done by unscrupulous people.¡±


    She also said to Father Su, ¡°For such a little thing, you came here to quarrel so late at night, couldn¡¯t you wait till tomorrow?¡±


    When she saw Father Su¡¯s face getting ugly, she knew that her son was angry, so she said,¡±I put it in Yueyue¡¯s cabinet. Yueyue must be doing her homework now, so I will get them tomorrow¡±


    Father Su turned around and went to Su Xingyue¡¯s room.


    Su Xingyue was taking a shower in Father and Mother¡¯s Su bathroom, so no one was in the room. He opened the wardrobe and looked for them. He soon saw the three new clothes and the two sets of cotton sweaters he bought during the day.


    He rarely visited his daughter¡¯s room. When he opened the door of his daughter¡¯s closet, he found that the whole wall was full of clothes.


    Thinking about his second daughter¡¯s clothes hanging in the closet, Father Su sighed and carried these clothes out.


    Su Xingyue came back and saw Father Su coming out of her room with clothes.


    Watching Father Su take the clothes directly from her room and walk towards the living room, Su Xingyue called him, ¡°Dad, what are you going to do with my clothes?¡±


    ¡°This is the clothes I bought for Chenchen. Your grandma made a mistake and put it in your room.¡±


    Su Xingyue frowned, and came over in her pajamas. She looked at the clothes in his hands, then asked, ¡°You bought clothes for her? What about me?¡±


    Father Su said, ¡°You have a cupboard of clothes, what else do you want? Your sister had no clothes to wear.¡±


    Su Xingyue frowned and said in displeasure, ¡°She had no clothes to wear? What does she wear every day, the emperor¡¯s new clothes?¡±


    She pouted, ¡°I don¡¯t care, anyway, you bought clothes for her, so you have to buy for me.¡±


    Father Su took the clothes in his hand and walked to the north balcony, ¡°You let your mother buy for you.¡±


    Su Xingyue followed him, ¡°My mom is my mom, you are my dad, can¡¯t you buy some clothes for me?¡±


    Su Xingchen was surprised to see the clothes Father Su bought from her. They were a bit big.


    Although she was 1.6m in height, she was thin and generally wore a medium size, but she was still happy with the new clothes.


    Su Xingyue was standing in the living room. Her father bought clothes for her sister but not for her. She felt a little uncomfortable, and reminded Father Su, ¡°Dad, don¡¯t forget me tomorrow!¡±

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    After looking at the clothes in Su Xingchen¡¯s hand, he turned back to the room.


    Father Su put a few clothes on her bed and gave her two hundred yuan. He actually wanted to give her five hundred, but was afraid that she would go out and spend them.


    ¡°If you don¡¯t have enough money, tell me, as long you need, Dad will give you. ¡°


    Su Xingchen directly said, ¡°I have to buy underwear, I can¡¯t always wear my sister¡¯s old ones.¡±


    Father Su didn¡¯t know how his wife became a mother, she didn¡¯t even prepare these things for her daughter.


    He was angry at the bottom of his heart, and talked about it with Mother Su when he returned to the room.


    He was afraid to affect the children, so he talked in a low voice, but Mother Su would not speak to him in a low voice.


    The two had a quarrel because of Su Xingchen a few days ago, just two days after reconciliation, he quarreled for her again. Mother Su said directly, ¡°Tomorrow I would send her away! You¡¯re mad at me!


    Father Su was also angry, ¡°How many mothers are like you?¡±


    Mother Su rolled her eyes, ¡°What¡¯s wrong with me? Better ask, what¡¯s wrong with her? Am I beating or scolding her? You quarrel with me for her every three days! I worked hard outside and gave her delicious food to eat. I also gave her a good education, right? It¡¯s like I don¡¯t do anything all day. Should I just hang her on my belt? Do I have to provide her with everything?¡±


    Father Su really didn¡¯t want to talk to her. He opened the quilt and laid down on the bed, with his back to her.


    Mother Su gasped in bed. She got up, lifted the quilt and strode to the living room. She pointed at Su Xingchen¡¯s nose and scolded, ¡°You¡¯re born to me. I¡¯m still guilty, right? You give me trouble every day. How many times did your dad quarrel with me for you? I don¡¯t want you to stay here, roll back to my hometown! There are many members in this family and one away won¡¯t change anything! ¡°


    Father Su quickly lifted the quilt and chased her when she got up. He blocked her from Su Xingchen, ¡°What are you doing at night?¡±


    She pointed at Father Su¡¯s nose, ¡°The old lady was exhausted all day long, and I came back to see you quarrel with me for the little fart. I haven¡¯t asked what you want to do, now you know that it hurts? Why didn¡¯t I see you when you sent her away? Where were you when I was lying in the hospital when she was born? Why didn¡¯t you know how to stretch your hand when I was washing diapers? If my mother didn¡¯t come to take care of my confinement, would you still want me to serve you in confinement?¡±


    ¡°Why didn¡¯t you say that when your mother quarreled with me less than three days after birth? Why didn¡¯t you say that when your mother brought me cold water? Why didn¡¯t you say she was an extra child? Why didn¡¯t you say anything when your mother wanted to give her away? It is too late now!¡±


    Mother Su sneered, ¡°Don¡¯t give birth to a girl, what kind of person were you? If my mother hadn¡¯t been taking care of her all these years, would she still be there? Your mother had given her away!¡±


    ¡°In the beginning, you didn¡¯t want her. Before the full moon, my mother took her away. I didn¡¯t get to be with her! Now you want me to be a mother?¡±


    Mother Su vented all her dissatisfaction with her mother-in-law on Su Xingchen.


    People didn¡¯t bully the strong. Just like in many families, when they quarrel, they dare not get angry at the ruthless people.


    The scene reminded Su Xingchen of the day when she was just brought to the city. She was facing Mother Su and the old lady¡¯s scolding every day. She felt helpless and confused.


    She didn¡¯t know what to say. She just turned her back on them, wore her school bag and took the red down jacket her aunt bought her, ¡°Since that¡¯s the case, I won¡¯t bother you anymore.¡±


    She walked outside through Father Su, who was facing the living room.


    She was extremely fast. When she walked to the porch to change shoes, Father Su quickly stepped forward and pulled her bag, ¡°What silly things are you saying. It is so cold outside, where are you going so late? Come back quickly. ¡°


    Su Xingchen didn¡¯t move and wore her shoes.


    What Mother Su hated most was her bad temper. It was the same seven years ago, she just scolded her, she went silent for the day, carried her school bag for more than three hundred kilometers and went back to her hometown.


    She had no money and walked back. She walked along the train lane for a few days, and arrived home just like a beggar who asked for food.


    She immediately rushed, ¡°You let her go! I want to see where she could go! Don¡¯t come back if you go!¡±


    Father Su, who had never had a bad temper, was really angry this time. His temper that had been suppressed for a long time erupted at once, and he screamed at Mother Su, ¡°Shut up! Go back to the room!¡±


    He knew her temper, she never joked. If she said she would go, she would truly go. Seven years ago, she was only a penniless nine-year-old child, but she dared to go back so far.


    His big hand tightly clasped Su Xingchen¡¯s wrist, for fear of releasing her.


    He knew that she did what she said.


    Su Xingyang and Su Xingyue hadn¡¯t slept yet and came out after hearing the movement.


    Su Xingchen had already changed her shoes at this time and was pulling her bag from her father.


    ¡°Why are you so stupid? Your mother has a sharp tongue. You be forgiving, and be good, put the school bag down,¡± Father Su kept coaxing her.


    He pulled the bag from her hands, and then called Su Xingyang, ¡°Yangyang, don¡¯t keep standing. Go take your sister¡¯s clothes. She must go to bed, it¡¯s so late!¡±


    He coaxed Su Xingchen, ¡°Chen Chen, put your school bag down. It¡¯s so late, go shower and go to bed. Don¡¯t sleep in the balcony, wait for it to ventilate for a few days, and dad will install an exhaust fan for you tomorrow.¡±


    Su Xingyang also hurried over to hold the down jacket in her hand and coaxed her like Father Su, ¡°Second sister, it¡¯s so dark now. We will talk about it tomorrow.¡±


    Father Su said, ¡°Yes, even if you have to go, you have to wait until dawn to go. Now it¡¯s so dark and cold outside. Be good, and go to bed.¡±


    Su Xingchen looked at Father Su and Su Xingyang with a bitter look.


    The old lady heard the noise outside, and opened the door. Seeing the scene in front of her, she pulled Su Xingyang and said, ¡°Yang Yang, let her go, I want to see where she was going.¡±


    She said to Su Xingchen,¡±I know you are brave, you dare to run from home at the age of nine. You run, you continue to run, let¡¯s see if your aunt still wants you.¡±


    She pulled Su Xingyang, ¡°The little girl is trying to blackmail people. She scares people when she runs away from home. You want to scare people? You don¡¯t even have an ID card. Who are you trying to scare? You should go if you have the ability and don¡¯t come back when you leave.¡±


    The old lady waved her finger at the door, ¡°Are you leaving? ¡°


    Su Xingchen shook her arms off. She pulled the clothes held by Su Xingyang and left without closing the door.

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