"Ten years is not a short time, and we have all changed a lot."

Lin Jingyu stretched and laughed, "It's like the New Year. Every year we celebrate the New Year, and it seems the same, yet it also seems different."

Just like us, we met ten years ago and are still together ten years later.

It seems like nothing has changed, yet it also seems like everything has changed.

That's the magic of time.

"Now that you say that, I feel relieved."

Yang Shujue smiled sweetly and looked at the people in front of her, sighing, "Jingyu, it's so good to know you all."

"Yes, it's so nice to know you all."

Lin Jingyu sighed softly, then smiled at her.

He poured her a full cup of hot tea and asked, "Why did you come out at this hour? Is something wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong, I just wanted to clear my head."

Yang Shujue's smile was somewhat indifferent. "It's been a long time since we talked. I miss you."

"It's my pleasure."

Lin Jingyu glanced at her and then asked, "Did your family come looking for you?"

This is the only thing that can bother her.

"I knew it, nothing can be hidden from you."

Yang Shujue's smile was tinged with bitterness. "Having parents like these is the worst thing that ever happened to me. They're just too much."

Lin Jingyu casually said, "Besides asking you to let Yang Baoyu go, they also want a large sum of money from you, and they also want you to arrange jobs for your brothers, right?"

“Amazing!”

Yang Shujue was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but laugh, "I haven't said a single word, but you've said it all without missing a single word."

Jingyu, it's not like you secretly have a crush on me and deliberately had someone keep an eye on me, is it?

"Get lost, where's your face!"

Lin Jingyu rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Do you even need to tell me these things? If you think about it with your toes, you'll know what they're planning."

They won't let you go until they've blew you dry of all your value.

"Yeah, I think they don't want to blow me up, they want to fly to the sky."

Yang Shujue laughed at herself, "Actually, you forgot to mention one condition: you want me to buy houses for them, and all my brothers and sisters have to buy them houses."

Ideally, they should live in the capital, where they can become locals.

I said, "Why don't they just say they're going to the Western Paradise? I might as well just send them there."

"It's normal for them to have such greedy faces."

Lin Jingyu showed her sympathy for a second, but not a second more.

Because she knew the other party definitely had ways to deal with these reckless people.

So he continued, "It's like people from the countryside want to move to the county town, people from the county town want to go to the provincial capital, and people in the provincial capital want to come to the capital."

You'll achieve instant success by marrying someone.

Tell me, do you think your family will let you off the hook?

If a mere girl like you can become a resident of the capital, their precious son certainly can't be any less capable than you.

They ask you for things that some people could never have in their entire lives because they believe you can definitely do it.

“I can do it, so why should I help them?”

Yang Shujue smiled coldly, "In my memory, I have never had enough to eat or worn a new piece of clothing since I was a child. I have endless chores to do every day, and I am either beaten or scolded every day."

Even when they get sick, they just tough it out and survive to adulthood, which is nothing short of a miracle and a testament to God's blindness.

When I was in the countryside, they only gave me ten yuan for travel expenses, plus two sets of tattered clothes.

They really don't care at all whether I live or die.

If I hadn't suddenly gained some kind of cheat code before going to the countryside, allowing me to sign in for certain things, how could I have survived?

They killed me a long time ago, I really don't know where they get the nerve to ask me for these things now.

Lin Jingyu said, "Since they don't care, then let's cut off their hopes."

"That's exactly what I was planning to do."

Yang Shuyu nodded. "I, Yang Shujue, am the new Yang Shujue, not the Yang Shujue whose life and death they can arbitrarily control."

It's utterly ridiculous that they think they can control me.

I want them to watch me enjoy wealth and luxury, while they can only watch longingly, wanting but unable to obtain anything.

"That's exactly what I wanted."

Lin Jingyu nodded in support, "If you have even a little pity for them, they will definitely leech up to you and suck your blood to make their family stronger."

They severed ties with you before you went to the countryside, so you don't need to worry about anything.

As the female lead, she has to deal with people.

Without even lifting a finger, the other party will suffer the worst misfortune imaginable.

Thinking of this, she asked with some curiosity, "How is Yang Baoyu now?"

"Intentional homicide, then."

Yang Shuyu responded with a cold laugh.

She truly hated the person who almost killed her son.

He then revealed what he knew: "I heard he's having a terrible time inside, living a life worse than death, being tormented by the people inside every day."

But even a spineless coward like him can find a way to survive.

Lin Jingyu remained calm upon hearing this, saying, "It's more painful to be alive. By the time he can get out, he'll be in his fifties or sixties, and he might not even live to see that day."

"It would be best if you died inside and never came out."

"He left it to God to decide."

"Let's not talk about those unlucky things."

Yang Shujue felt a little better and then asked about the person in front of her, "The New Year is coming soon, and Wen Lechun hasn't come back yet?"

"No, I probably won't be coming back for the New Year."

Lin Jingyu hadn't received a call from the other party for more than half a month.

All I know is that the Russian Federation and the Heilongjiang Province are fighting each other again.

With the chaos at the scene still unresolved, he probably won't be able to escape, let alone make it back for the New Year.

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