"Alright!"
Luo Yueqin interrupted, saying, "If the Qin family hadn't recovered by now after their misfortune, would you still have said those kinds of things?"
Furthermore, do you think that if Lanlan hadn't been rescued, and your father and I had asked someone to set you up with the Qin family, would they have been interested in you?
Although it was only because she and the head of the family clung to the Qin family that their adopted daughter was able to marry into the family, the eldest son of the Qin family did indeed have some connection with Song Lan. Otherwise, the couple would not have had the face to cling to the family!
"Mom! Can you please stop belittling me? I was born of you and Dad. Even if I'm not good-looking, I'm still a gift from you and Dad!"
Children's appearance is inherited from their parents, so what right do parents have to dislike their children for not being good-looking?
Song Ning felt extremely uncomfortable at the moment. She got up and went back to her room with a cold face.
Luo Yueqin watched her retreating figure without calling her back. Her expression changed almost imperceptibly, and after a moment, she also got up and walked towards her and Song Weiqiang's bedroom.
In the late afternoon, Song Jiaojiao finally left home.
However, when she took the bus to the Chen family's compound, she couldn't even get through the gate. She stood outside the gate for a few minutes, looking dejected, before taking the bus back the way she came.
Instead of going straight home, she stood by the roadside not far from a house in the staff and family residential area, as if waiting for someone, occasionally glancing towards the gate of the house to her right.
About five or six minutes later, a man in his early twenties came out of the gate of the house. He saw Song Jiaojiao by chance and his eyes lit up immediately: "Jiao... Jiaojiao? You are Jiaojiao, right?!"
Before she even got close, the sound had already reached Song Jiaojiao's ears.
Wearing a mask and a scarf, Song Jiaojiao covered herself up tightly because of the strong wind today, only revealing her eyes. No wonder the man didn't speak with certainty when he saw her.
"It's me."
After the man stopped two or three steps away from her, Song Jiaojiao nodded in response and then said, "Zhao Yuzhou, I have to go back to the village where I was assigned to work after the tenth of the month. I came here today to say goodbye to you in advance."
She could easily fool this fool with just a few words. Without even thinking, Song Jiaojiao knew that the man standing in front of her, Zhao Yuzhou, would be incredibly moved.
In Song Jiaojiao's heart, Zhao Yuzhou was nothing but a simp. He was a fool who had fallen head over heels for her after she had only been in Beijing for a short time to meet her relatives and had only used a few tricks.
Originally, Song Jiaojiao did this to disgust Song Lan, thinking that in the original story, Song Lan was the white moonlight in the male lead Chen Dongze's heart.
Although she didn't end up with Chen Dongze, she married Zhao Yuzhou, a man from a fairly good family, which was much better than the original owner of this body's marriage after recognizing her relatives.
Therefore, after arriving in this world and discovering that she had become "Song Jiaojiao", she thought that while winning over the male lead Chen Dongze, she would also make Zhao Yuzhou, Song Lan's husband in the story, her lapdog.
As her plan succeeded step by step, Song Jiaojiao was undoubtedly overjoyed. Little did she know that her scheme against Song Lan would entangle Song Lan with the Qin family.
Thinking that the Qin family was just background in the plot, a whole family of cannon fodder who didn't actually appear but were just topics of conversation among others—the whole family died without a single survivor.
So she devised another plan, urging her birth parents to marry Song Lan into the Qin family, so that Song Lan would be burdened with the fate of being a jinx, bringing misfortune to her husband, and causing the death of the entire Qin family, in order to further diminish Song Lan's image as the white moonlight in Chen Dongze's heart.
Unexpectedly, the plot took a turn for the worse. Song Jiaojiao discovered that the Qin family's supposed annihilation had not happened. She also found that Song Lan's current husband was no less than the male lead, Chen Dongze, and in fact, apart from having a slightly inferior family background, he far surpassed the male lead she wanted to win over.
Without a doubt, Song Jiaojiao was very upset and jealous.
She wanted to give up on Zhao Yuzhou, the sycophant, but when she thought about Chen Dongze's attitude towards her, she could only take advantage of this trip back to Beijing for the New Year to force herself to seduce Zhao Yuzhou to the countryside.
Zhao Yuzhou was used to provoke Chen Dongze, ultimately leading her to achieve her wish.
She came here today to find out if Zhao Yuzhou had signed up for the rural service program, and whether the designated location was Shisong Village.
"I was just about to go to your house to look for you!"
Zhao Yuzhou was very happy to see Song Jiaojiao. She was 180 cm tall, with above-average looks, a well-proportioned figure, and a rather outgoing personality.
"Are you going to tell me something happy?"
Song Jiaojiao had already guessed what was going on, but she pretended to be innocent.
"Um."
Zhao Yuzhou nodded and said with a smile, "I signed up to go to the countryside this noon. The location is Shisong Village. We'll be able to be together every day from now on. Just thinking about it makes me happy."
"You... why did you decide to go to the countryside? Zhao Yuzhou, life in the countryside is tough. Will your parents agree to it?"
Song Jiaojiao's eyes were full of worry, but in her heart she kept cursing Zhao Yuzhou for being a fool. He had a good life in the city, but because of her ambiguous words, he rushed to the countryside to suffer with her. He was really spineless!
“I haven’t told my parents yet, but I’ve already sold my job. When I leave with you, I’ll tell them about my trip to the countryside. By then, they won’t be able to do anything about it if they disagree.”
Zhao Yuzhou's family was much better off than Song Jiaojiao's. His father was the director of the logistics department of the steel plant, and his mother was the director of the women's federation of the plant. They had two sons and a daughter. Zhao Yuzhou had an older brother who was five years older than him, was married, and had a son.
Below Zhao Yuzhou is a younger sister who has just started junior high school.
Perhaps because there were only three children in the family, Zhao's parents doted on all three of them. In order to prevent Zhao Yuzhou from going to the countryside, they used their connections to buy him a job as soon as he graduated from high school.
In the original storyline, Chen Dongze's move to the countryside severed his connection with "Song Lan." Later, he became involved with the female lead again, but with regret, he wrote a letter that completely severed his ties with "Song Lan." Under these circumstances, Song Weiqiang and Luo Yueqin were especially happy that "Song Lan" was able to marry Zhao Yuzhou.
After all, the steel plant is a large factory, with at least 70,000 to 80,000 employees and their families.
Zhao's father is the director of the logistics department, and he certainly makes a lot of money off the side, and he has more power than Song Weiqiang, the workshop director.
In fact, in the original storyline, when Luo Yueqin learned that "Song Lan" and Chen Dongze had broken up, she asked someone to arrange a marriage between the two families with the Zhao family. She and Song Weiqiang benefited a lot from the Zhao family.
The couple felt that marrying into the Zhao family was a step up for them, but they didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
All I know is that raising Song Lan as a daughter was worthwhile.
“Zhao Yuzhou…actually, you didn’t need to do this. We’re just friends, you…”
Before Song Jiaojiao could finish her sentimental rant, Zhao Yuzhou interrupted her: "Jiaojiao, don't overthink it. I'm not going to the countryside for you; I want to respond to the national call and contribute to rural development!"
Even so, Zhao Yuzhou felt a pang of pain in his heart. He could tell that Song Jiaojiao had feelings for him, but she hadn't fallen in love with him...
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