Teacher Ma glanced at the kitchen window; the curtains were drawn, so it was impossible to tell if anyone was inside.

Is he home or not?

Teacher Ma had no choice but to continue knocking on the door harder and raise her voice.

"Ye Linchen! Are you home?"

Ye Linchen's door wasn't opened, but the door next door was.

A middle-aged, plump woman poked her head out, stared at her, and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"Big sister, do you know where Ye Linchen, who lives here, went?" Teacher Ma asked hurriedly.

The plump auntie looked her up and down, then asked somewhat warily, "Who are you? What do you want with Xiao Ye?"

"I'm her teacher, and I need to talk to her about something," Teacher Ma quickly explained.

"Teacher Ma who changed her college application?" The plump aunt immediately guessed Teacher Ma's identity.

Teacher Ma smiled awkwardly: "Do you know where she went?"

The plump auntie pursed her lips and said, "She moved away, she moved away several days ago."

"They moved? Where did they move to?" Teacher Ma asked anxiously.

"How would I know? She didn't tell me."

Fatty A-Chong rolled her eyes and muttered, "Changing someone's college application? A teacher doing this kind of thing, how immoral are you!"

After saying that, he slammed the door shut with a "bang".

As an intellectual, Teacher Ma has always been respected, and he had never been scolded like this before. His face immediately turned bright red.

She wanted to explain, but the door was tightly shut, giving her no chance at all!

Bai Ding!

What does she know? There's no need to lower myself to her level!

Teacher Ma thought angrily, turned her head, and looked at the tightly closed door with a worried expression.

Unexpectedly, Ye Linchen moved away.

Now she really has nowhere to cry and plead for help.

Teacher Ma was heartbroken for a long time, but then she comforted herself.

It's okay, she'll go to the university to find Ye Linchen when school starts.

She refused to believe that Ye Linchen would be so heartless as to leave someone to die.

Meanwhile, Ye Linchen was busy organizing things in his new home.

Although the landlord provided the furniture, I still had to buy some daily necessities myself.

The pots and pans she had bought before were not enough.

She wants to come back to stay every weekend and holiday from now on; she can't treat herself badly.

She tidied herself up quickly, locked the door, and went to a shopping mall near the university town.

She first went to a tableware store and bought a complete set of bowls and chopsticks.

I went to another bedding store and bought two sets of four-piece bedding.

I took one set to my dorm, and kept the other set in my rented room as a backup.

Back in her rented room, Ye Linchen put all the newly bought pots and pans into the cupboard and placed a small desk lamp on her desk, making it much more convenient to read at night.

She also took a look at the prices of desktop computers.

Desktop computers these days are still those bulky little boxy machines, and they're very expensive, often costing several thousand dollars.

With her current savings, buying one would be a huge struggle.

I need to find a part-time job as soon as possible to earn more money and buy myself a desktop computer.

This will make it easier to study or find information in the future.

She also wants to learn some computer skills, which might come in handy in the future.

Meanwhile, in the detention center, Meng Zihan finally made it to the end of her detention period.

The police gave her a brief talking-to and then let her go.

During her time in detention, Meng Zihan felt like each day was an eternity. She couldn't eat or sleep, and worried about her future every day.

She had lost a lot of weight, her clothes were wrinkled, and she had a strange smell.

She looked completely different from the delicate and glamorous little princess she used to be; she appeared extremely disheveled.

As Meng Zihan walked out of the detention center, she looked around and found that there was no one at the entrance.

"What's going on? Has the Ye family forgotten about themselves?"

Meng Zihan panicked for a moment, then felt a strong sense of grievance and anger.

Just because Ye Linchen got into a good university, does the Ye family have to disregard their relationship of more than ten years and humiliate her in order to elevate Ye Linchen?

Meng Zihan grew angrier the more she thought about it, and tears were almost falling from her eyes.

However, she immediately thought it was impossible.

Meng Xueyun has always loved me so much, never giving me anything I asked for. How could I not come at such an important time?

Something must have happened at home that caused this delay!

Maybe it's that brat Ye Linchen causing trouble again, deliberately stalling Meng Xueyun!

Hmph, once she gets home, she'll definitely have a good cry and make Meng Xueyun stand up for her!

She had already planned out how to complain.

She said that she had no food or water in the detention center and lived in constant fear of being bullied.

She also wanted to say how much she missed them and how much she longed to return to her warm home.

She would then embellish the story, saying how fierce the police were and how unreasonable the prisoners were.

In short, we must soften Meng Xueyun's heart and make her feel that she is the most pitiful one who needs to be loved the most!

Although Meng Zihan had a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand reasons not to return to the dark and hopeless Ye family and face the people she no longer wanted to see, she had no other choice at the moment.

She doesn't have that ability yet, so she can only swallow her anger for the time being.

Once she has the ability, once she's grown up and independent, she will definitely leave this place without hesitation and never come back!

After much deliberation, Meng Zihan stood at the entrance of the detention center for a long time, her neck aching from looking, but she still didn't see Meng Xueyun.

She finally realized that Meng Xueyun would not be coming to pick her up again.

If you don't come to pick me up, can't I find my own way?

You think you can just throw me away? Not so easy!

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