When the last exam was over, dark clouds filled the sky, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and a torrential downpour began.

Li Xiangdong smiled and said to Ning Ruoruo, "This rain really doesn't know how to fall. Why didn't it fall a few days earlier? It would have been cooler after the exams."

Ning Ruoruo felt a huge weight lifted off her shoulders. Looking at the torrential rain outside the window, which resembled silver threads, she smiled happily, "Only Second Brother would say something like that."

"Hmm? What do you mean?"

"Think about it, how many people who come to take the college entrance exam are like me, with you driving them around in a car?"

Li Xiangdong slapped his forehead, "I was so confused!"

That's right. Nowadays, everyone either rides a bicycle or takes the bus. It's so inconvenient when it rains heavily during the college entrance exam.

When they arrived home, a table full of food was ready.

Four cold dishes, eight hot dishes, and a large bowl of steaming fish ball and vegetable soup.

It suddenly rained heavily today, so I'll have some hot soup to get rid of the dampness.

Zhou Hongmei, heavily pregnant, had been keeping a close eye on the commotion outside the door. As soon as she saw Li Xiangdong holding an umbrella and protecting Ning Ruoruo as they entered the gate, she quickly got off the kang (a heated brick bed) and lifted the curtain of the inner room in advance.

"You're back!"

"Sister Hongmei, hurry inside, it's slippery outside!"

Ning Ruoruo quickly and carefully helped Zhou Hongmei into the house.

Li Xiangdong put the umbrella on the balcony and then followed him inside. "Wow! They've prepared such a huge feast!"

Wu Jianjun laughed, "Your sister Hongmei made me go out to buy groceries early this morning, and she spent the whole day preparing them!"

Zhou Hongmei sat on the kang (a heated brick bed), her eyebrows curving into a smile, her right hand unconsciously stroking her belly. "Ruoruo has worked hard for two days of exams, she needs to be well nourished today!"

A warm feeling washed over Ning Ruoruo, and her eyes stung with tears. She quickly turned around to wash her hands.