"Jiang Xuan, what do you plan to do?" Sun Xiaodie asked.

"Let's report to the dormitory supervisor first."

Wang Zhaodi was frightened.

She knelt down abruptly, grabbed Jiang Xuan's trouser leg, and cried, "I'm sorry, Jiang Xuan, I was wrong, I was really wrong. I was out of my mind just now, but I really didn't see any of your information. Please, please forgive me, I will never do it again."

Jiang Xuan said angrily, "Get up! Why are you kneeling? Do you know that your behavior is a serious violation of dormitory management? The school will punish you. I'm terrified to share a room with someone like you."

"I'll write you a guarantee, I'll put my fingerprint on it, I promise I'll never do it again."

Wang Zhaodi cried with snot and tears streaming down her face. "My family lives in a remote mountain village. I finally got into Ningzhou after a lot of hard work. Please, Jiang Xuan, don't let the school punish me."

Sun Xiaodie said, "What if you make the same mistake again next time?"

“Then let the school expel me,” Wang Zhaodi swore, holding up three fingers.

Sun Xiaodie looked at Jiang Xuan and said, "Jiang Xuan, since this is her first offense, why don't we forgive her this time?"

Jiang Xuan nodded and looked at Wang Zhaodi, "Remember, character is always more important than grades. I hope you will behave yourself. Also, regardless of whether you have looked at the materials or not, if there is any leakage of project information in the future, then you will be the suspect."

Jiang Xuan put the documents into her bag, slung it over her shoulder, and came out of the dormitory building with Sun Xiaodie. They saw Su Manqing walking over in a hurry.

"What's wrong with you two? You're making me so anxious!"

Sun Xiaodie was outspoken, "Sigh, let's go, let's go. You have no idea what disgusting things that Wang Zhaodi did."

What did she do?

"She got the key from the dormitory supervisor and secretly opened Jiang Xuan's locker to look at her private documents."

Su Manqing was particularly surprised, "Huh? You guys ran into us?"

Jiang Xuan said, "I bumped into it."

"My God, this is unbelievable, how could she do this?"

Sun Xiaodie scoffed, "Her family is poor, so she probably liked doing these petty theft things since she was little."

Su Manqing gently nudged her arm and whispered, "We're all in the same dorm, don't say that. So how did you guys handle this?"

“She wrote a guarantee, and Jiang Xuan forgave her.”

Su Manqing nodded: "The school rules and regulations are quite strict. If the school finds out about this, Wang Zhaodi will definitely be punished, and in serious cases, she might even be placed on probation. She probably won't dare to do this kind of thing again."

"If she dares to do it again, I'll chop her hand off!"

Jiang Xuan didn't want to talk about it anymore, so she said, "Let's not talk about this anymore, let's go eat."

As soon as they reached the school gate, the gatekeeper called out, "Jiang Xuan, you've come at the right time, someone's looking for you."

"Looking for me?" Jiang Xuan walked over quickly.

The woman next to the guardhouse turned her head.

She appeared to be in her forties, wearing a worn-out shirt and coarse cloth trousers, carrying a checkered cloth bag, her hair casually tied in a bun, her face sallow, her eyes sunken, and her appearance haggard.

She forced a smile, her voice trembling as if she were terrified, "Xuanxuan?"

Jiang Xuan quickly searched her mind for information about this person.

I seem to have a vague recollection of it, but it's all very unclear.

Sun Xiaodie looked her up and down and asked, "What's your relationship with Jiang Xuan?"

Su Manqing tugged at her and whispered, "Let's go, let's go eat first."

They nodded to Jiang Xuan and left quickly.

Jiang Xuan nodded to He Yinhua and said, "Let's go over there."

He Yinhua was taken aback.

I remember more than ten years ago, she would always sneak off to Hongxing Village just to see the children.

Later, when Li Aiqin found out, she had someone beat her up and warned her that if she went to look for the child again, she would be beaten to death.

She finally made it to the day when her child started school, so she saved up money to buy some good food and secretly went to the school to find Jiang Xuan. But every time, her child would resist, calling her a bad woman and refusing anything she gave him.

On one occasion, she brought her a pair of embroidered shoes, which she immediately threw on the ground and even stomped on several times.

Her heart was bleeding, but she knew it was all Li Aiqin's fault, and she couldn't blame the child.

In the same year, she went to Hexi with Lao Liu and never came back.

Thirteen years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Now, Jiang Xuan doesn't seem to be as hostile towards her anymore.

Jiang Xuan walked towards the big tree on one side of the school gate, wondering who she was. Could she be the original owner's mother? But she only had a few vague fragments in her memory, so she couldn't be sure.

He Yinhua followed closely behind.

Upon reaching the large tree, Jiang Xuan turned around and asked, "May I ask who you are?"

He Yinhua couldn't help but cry with red eyes: "Xuanxuan, I'm your mother, don't you remember me at all? I went to your school to look for you when you were in first grade."

Jiang Xuan suddenly said angrily, "I don't have a mother. You bad woman, you killed my father. You are not my mother."

This reaction seemed to come out involuntarily, and even Jiang Xuan herself was startled.

She thought about it for a moment and concluded that it must have been the original owner's own emotions.

He Yinhua took out a handkerchief from her pocket, wiped away her tears, and choked out, "Xuanxuan, it's not like that, it really isn't like that. After your father passed away, I wanted to stay too, but your grandparents didn't want me. I knelt down and begged them to give you to me, but they wouldn't agree."

That rainy night reappeared in He Yinhua's mind.

She closed her eyes in pain.

Jiang Xuan tried her best to control her inner impulses, not daring to speak, for fear of saying something frightening again.

After a long while, He Yinhua opened her eyes again and choked out, "Xuanxuan, you have to believe your mother. You are the child I carried for ten months and gave birth to. How could I bear to abandon you? It's the Jiang family who can't tolerate me."

Jiang Xuan was actually feeling quite bad inside.

She herself had experienced the pain of being separated from her own flesh and blood.

In the original owner's memories, her grandparents were the people who treated her the best.

But now, after learning about her past, she suddenly can't define what is good anymore.

He Yinhua continued, "Xuanxuan, I had no choice but to leave. Over the years, I haven't had a good night's sleep. Every time I close my eyes, I hear you calling for your mother."

Tears streamed down her face as she squatted down on the ground.

Jiang Xuan held her arm, which was so thin that there wasn't an ounce of flesh on it.

She whispered, "Don't cry, get up quickly."

He Yinhua stood up and carefully extended her withered, bony hand, as if she wanted to touch her daughter's hand.

But as soon as he stretched out his hand, he gently withdrew it.

She forced a smile and said, "After all these years, I've finally seen my Xuanxuan. I'm content. Go back to class now, I'm leaving."

(End of this chapter)