To be honest, she wasn't very familiar with the female lead. City C and City A were quite far apart, and Cheng Qicai and Yun Suni rarely met.
Only occasionally during winter and summer vacations would Ms. Yun bring her to the city, and her mother or uncle would take the two of them to each other's homes for a few days.
Cheng Qicai still remembers the first time the two met. The somewhat tanned Cheng Qicai saw Yun Su Ni, who looked like Snow White from the cartoon, and excitedly went up to greet her, wanting to play with Princess Sister.
As a result, Yun Suni said she wanted to read a book and told her that she should study hard.
Cheng Qicai looked at the room full of books and felt overwhelmed. She went to tell Ms. Yun that her sister wouldn't play with her.
Ms. Yun asked her why?
Cheng Qicai, who was still a child and had not yet awakened, simply recounted the scene as it was.
The end result was that she received a nagging from Ms. Yun, who said that her older sister knew how to study, but all she knew how to do was play.
Xiao Qicai immediately decided she didn't like this older sister, and later discovered that she and this older sister were completely different types of people. Cheng Qicai concluded that this was the mutual repulsion between a top student and a poor student.
Therefore, the two were not very familiar with each other, which may explain why she did not appear in the original text.
After a few awkward words, they estimated it was about time and went upstairs.
As soon as Cheng Qicai entered the door, she heard Ms. Yun chatting with her uncle about the hardships of the past.
Ms. Yun's family used to be very poor. Although her parents only had one child, a brother and a sister, they were still so poor that they couldn't afford to eat and often went hungry.
My uncle was a good student, ranking among the top in the county at the time.
As for Ms. Yun, she's a master at farming. If you ask her about her grades, she'll recite them all out loud.
She stubbornly argued with the teacher, saying that they were the same thing and that she could pronounce them correctly no matter how she read them.
Her stubbornness angered the teacher so much that he gave her twenty lashes on the palm of her hand.
Cheng Qicai therefore strongly suspects that her intelligence was inherited from Ms. Yun, which is why she worked so hard to get into a second-tier university. It is probably because of the intelligence she inherited from her father.
Then she couldn't help but wonder why her memories hadn't awakened while she was studying; perhaps she could have gotten into an even better school.
Getting back to the topic, Ms. Yun is, to be fair, self-aware. She knew she wasn't cut out for studying, so she dropped out of school early to help her parents take care of the family.
Unfortunately, when Ms. Yun was seventeen, months of torrential rain caused a landslide that blocked the river at the foot of the mountain. Coupled with the fact that it was nighttime, the floodwaters submerged the village, and many people lost their lives in the flood before they could escape.
Ms. Yun was agile and managed to save her life by clinging to a crooked tree. However, her parents were not so lucky and were swept away by the flood. At the time, the female protagonist's father was studying in the county town and also escaped the disaster.
Logically, if nothing unexpected had happened, Ms. Yun should have married the family her parents approved of. However, now that something has happened, the marriage has to be renegotiated.
She told the other party that they had to help her pay for her brother's education.
At that time, the other family had also been devastated by the flood, leaving almost nothing behind, so they were naturally unwilling to support another person, especially since the uncle's tuition fees were not low.
The uncle said he would give up his studies and go out to work, but Ms. Yun refused, insisting that he finish his studies. She gritted her teeth and said she would not get married so that he could focus on his studies.
After the negotiations failed, the marriage proposal was called off.
As a result, when Ms. Yun was 24 years old, she met Mr. Cheng, who was also working in City C, and they got married.
It is said that the eldest brother is like a father, and the uncle felt very guilty towards Ms. Yun for supporting his education and life.
After he started working, he did his best to help others. Later, he was promoted to a university teacher in City A, where he met the female protagonist's mother, who was also a university teacher. After they got married, they settled down in City A.
Ms. Yun and her uncle each started their own lives in their respective cities. Due to distance and time constraints, the two families often contacted each other by phone, but they did not meet in person very often.
That's right. Ms. Yun may have been poor when she was young, so she's a bit of a money-grubber and values money a lot. Plus, she's not very well-educated, so her way of speaking isn't very pleasant to hear.
After a long pause, Ms. Yun finally spoke up: "Su Ni, I saw you say before that your salary and benefits are quite good. Could you get your sister in there?"
Mom, my dear mother, you really dare to say that!
She's a liberal arts major, and you expect her to work in a place that does AI research and development? That's giving her way too much credit!
Moreover, the male lead's company is a top ten listed company in the country. You're making it sound as simple as asking me to work at a mobile phone store near my apartment complex.
In other places, there are master's and doctoral graduates everywhere; she doesn't have the protagonist's halo like other female leads.
Besides, although she and the female lead both graduated from undergraduate programs, the female lead attended one of the top universities in the country. The female lead wins awards left and right in places where talent gathers, and she is also the male lead's junior. She has both ability and connections. What does she have to compare with her?
She could only go there to see if she could become the cleaning lady inside.
Just as Cheng Qicai was about to say something, Ms. Yun twisted her thigh under the table, causing her so much pain that she almost bit off her tongue. Understanding Ms. Yun's implication, she immediately fell silent.
As expected, Yun Suni looked troubled. "Auntie, our company has educational requirements, and Qicai might be a little short of them."
Sister, thank you for being so tactful, but I know my own limitations.
Cheng Qicai ate her meal in silence. If she spoke now, she would inevitably face a nagging from Ms. Yun when she got back.
Fine, she'll just have to put up with it!
Waaah, female lead, don't take my mom's words too seriously, just ignore them and move on!
Ms. Yun waved her hand dismissively, “That’s easy. Isn’t your CEO boyfriend the boss? They’re practically family. He wouldn’t refuse such a small favor, would he?”
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