She gave Su Jin a reproachful look, "Luckily, nothing serious happened this time, otherwise, let me tell you, you would have regretted it too late."
Su Jin nodded vigorously, repeatedly agreeing.
"mom!"
Lin Shi suddenly pushed the door open and came in, only to be met with a big eye roll from her mother. "All you do is call me 'Mom,' like you're summoning a ghost. Didn't I tell you to knock before coming in?"
Lin Shi pouted and said "Oh," then, "If I don't call you Mom, what should I call you? Ms. Lin Caixia?"
"How can you be so disrespectful? Can you call your elders by their first names? Go outside first, we can talk about it later."
Lin Shi agreed and closed the door behind her.
Lin Caixia looked at Su Jin again and resumed her normal tone, "Xiao Jin, you always have a lot of ideas and you always find a way out."
She held Su Jin's hands, her eyes filled with questioning and concern, "But is this really the life you want?"
"Become a big star in the entertainment industry? Or be a carefree housewife?"
Lin Caixia's face bears many traces of time; she has lost the sternness of a few years ago and gained a gentler look.
"Xiao Jin, I remember you talked to me about your dreams before, do you remember?"
Su Jin looked bewildered. "When?"
Lin Caixia smiled faintly as she looked out at the sky.
“You were about fifteen years old then, right? You told me, ‘Auntie, I want to go back to my hometown, back to the wheat fields.’”
Su Jin seemed to remember.
At that time, her eyes were filled with longing for the future. She said, "I always dream about the house I used to live in. I want to go back to my hometown, farm, and help everyone."
She loves to frolic in the fields, which makes her feel like a child of the world, forgetting everything.
She's forgotten even those things now.
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