The Zhao couple exchanged a glance and shook their heads helplessly. With such a stubborn personality, they wondered who the girl had chosen.

However, they remembered Hou Ying, the workshop director. They had already made good relations with several people in the cotton mill, and were just waiting to find evidence of Hou Ying's wrongdoings so they could report her, ruin her reputation, make her a laughingstock, and ideally send her to jail.

Hou Ying is so vicious, how could she treat a young girl who didn't want to curry favor with her like that? How could she be a director?

Regarding their daughter's situation, they discovered that Hou Ying was having an affair with the deputy factory director, which is why she made things difficult for their daughter and sent her to the educated youth unit. Unfortunately, they only heard rumors and had no evidence.

In fact, given their family's dual-income households and only child, Huanhuan could have avoided being sent to the countryside for reform.

If you want to send educated youth to work in the countryside, you can send them to villages near the original city; there is no need to send them to such distant rural areas.

Although they are still in the same province, one is in the far east and the other in the far west, and it takes more than three hours to travel by train.

The couple had planned to visit their daughter Huanhuan on her birthday!

In just one month, their daughter gave them such a big surprise.

Of course, thanks to Zhao Huanhuan's natural and flexible responses, they didn't realize that Zhao Huanhuan had actually replaced Ruizi. On the contrary, they felt that their daughter seemed to have grown up a lot and become more sensible after being in the countryside for more than a month.

The key point is that they discovered their daughter had learned to look at people with her heart and to feel everything around her with her heart. This is what growth is all about, and it's also what they felt their daughter had grown.

This may prove the old saying that children will never grow up without experiencing hardships, but his daughter grew up after experiencing such an event.

The family chatted for a while longer, and then the couple heard Zhao Huanhuan's steady breathing. Knowing that she had fallen asleep, they didn't say anything more and closed their eyes to sleep.

The next day, when Zhao Huanhuan woke up, she found that she was the only one left in the bedroom. Looking at the time, it was already 8:30. At this time, her parents would have already gone to work.

Remembering Lin Yuan, she quickly jumped off the bed, folded the blankets neatly, tidied the bed, and then went to open the door and leave.

The living room was quiet; no one was there.

Has Lin Yuan not gotten up yet? Normally, he gets up very early every day when he's at home.

She listened near her bedroom door, but couldn't hear anything, so she went to the kitchen to get some water.

After finishing the water, Lin Yuan pushed open the door and came in from outside.

"You're up, Huanhuan?" Lin Yuan asked as she saw Huanhuan come out of the kitchen. "Are you hungry?"

"It's alright. What time did you get up? Did you go for a run?" She noticed the sweat on Lin Yuan's face.

"Yes, I went out with my uncle and aunt, and we went for a run around the streets and came back."

My parents left home at 7:30 and went to work at 8:00. It's already 8:30 now, which means he's been out running for an hour.

"You ran for an hour? How many kilometers did you run?" Zhao Huanhuan asked subconsciously.

"I ran at my usual pace, it should be around ten kilometers," Lin Yuan said, taking off her coat and going to the bathroom to wash up.

Ten kilometers?

Zhao Huanhuan stuck out her tongue, thinking that she would be panting like a dog after running two kilometers, let alone ten kilometers.

Suddenly she realized that there seemed to be a significant difference in their physical constitutions.

While Lin Yuan was washing up, she quickly went back to her room to change her clothes.

On top of the wardrobe were Zhao Huanhuan's old clothes.

Zhao Huanhuan looked through the clothes and found a white shirt and a pair of beige pants. This was the perfect season to wear such light colors.

After getting dressed, Zhao Huanhuan looked at herself in the mirror in the living room, unbuckled her belt, tucked her shirt into her pants, and then fastened her belt again. This time, she finally felt a little better.

Wearing this makes your legs look longer and also gives you a more crisp and neat appearance.

When Lin Yuan came out of the bathroom, she saw Zhao Huanhuan, dressed in light colors, turning around to look at her.

His heart skipped a beat.

He thought Zhao Huanhuan was beautiful, and now that she was wearing a white polyester shirt, he couldn't help but think she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

Seeing his intense gaze, Zhao Huanhuan coughed lightly, "Are you mesmerized? Is it beautiful?"

Lin Yuan chuckled and nodded, "Beautiful!"

Zhao Huanhuan felt a little embarrassed by his praise. "Go and rest for a while. I'll go wash up and then I'll take you to eat some tofu."

Lin Yuan gave a soft "hmm" and sat down on the sofa to rest.

Zhao Huanhuan went to the bathroom to brush her eyes and wash up.

Suddenly, she remembered that there were no extra toothbrushes at home, so she leaned out again and said, "When we go out later, let's go to the mall and I'll buy you a toothbrush and a towel."

"Okay!" Lin Yuan's lips twitched slightly.

In one hour, he had scouted out almost all the streets and alleys in the vicinity, finding out where the shopping malls, vegetable markets, farmers' markets, seafood markets, and meat markets were.

He also saw Zhang's Tofu Shop. Originally, he was thinking of buying some to eat at home with Zhao Huanhuan, but then he remembered that he could go out to eat with Zhao Huanhuan and let her introduce him to her neighbors and acquaintances.

But he didn't know that Zhao Huanhuan was actually a fake. If she wasn't an important character in the original book, she wouldn't know her at all. How could she possibly know a character like the neighbor of the cannon fodder female supporting character who didn't even appear in the original book?

After washing up, Zhao Huanhuan took her keys, a small cloth bag containing some of her own money, and went out with Lin Yuan.

As Lin Yuan reached out to lock the gate, the old lady from courtyard number six came out. She was startled to see Zhao Huanhuan and quickly glanced at Lin Yuan again.

The old woman asked Zhao Huanhuan in surprise, "Huanhuan? When did you get back?"

"Hello, Auntie, I came back last night," Zhao Huanhuan said politely.

Call older women "auntie" and middle-aged women "auntie"—you can't go wrong.

"Oh, is this your relative?" The old woman looked Lin Yuan up and down again, and he seemed to be a soldier.

"He's my boyfriend, Auntie. I brought him back to meet my parents," Zhao Huanhuan introduced Lin Yuan with a smile.

Lin Yuan locked the door, smiled at the old lady, and asked if she wanted to go out to buy groceries.

The old lady nodded; she really was going out to buy things.

They walked out together, and the old woman asked a few more questions about Lin Yuan, which Lin Yuan answered himself.

As they exited the alley, the old woman turned left while they turned right. As they parted, the old woman smiled and praised Lin Yuan to Zhao Huanhuan, saying that Zhao Huanhuan had good taste and had found a good partner.

Lin Yuan smiled happily when she heard someone praising her to Zhao Huanhuan, watching Zhao Huanhuan's reaction.