Chapter 239 A Twist of Fate
Lin Miao has not had a good time abroad these past few years.
She originally had no intention of going abroad and wanted to stay in China to study and work. However, in the year she was about to enter her senior year of high school, her father received a very good job opportunity.
In addition, Teacher Zhao's health is not very good.
Considering the medical environment abroad, Lin Miao was worried about her mother's health. In addition, as she was the only child in the family, her parents would also worry if she stayed in China.
After a family meeting, they decided to go out anyway.
Lin Miao was someone who disliked farewells, so she left quietly, only telling a few close friends.
Shao Mushi was originally among these friends.
At that time, Shao Mushi had many rumored girlfriends around him, and could be described as "embracing two women on the left and three on the right." Although none of them were confirmed by him, two or three of them jumped in front of Lin Miao to provoke her and issue challenges.
He even arrogantly declared, "Brother Shi is the one I've set my sights on. You better stay away from him. I don't believe in pure friendship between men and women."
Pure friendship?
Lin Miao didn't believe it either.
There was originally a thin veil between her and Shao Mushi.
However, whenever Lin Miao tried to break through that barrier and see if they could take things further, Shao Mushi would always run into trouble.
Boys who come from wealthy families, are handsome, tall, and good at basketball are naturally popular at school. And at that particularly cringeworthy age, Shao Mushi was always a school heartthrob in middle school.
...Although his grades were so bad it was embarrassing to look at.
Girls of the same age are always much more precocious than boys.
Lin Miao read widely from a young age and knew more than others. She could always see the essence of a problem and explain things clearly with ease. At that time, she was already exposed to philosophy.
So the female students in the class would come to her with any questions they had. In addition to explaining the problems to them, Lin Miao would also talk to them about relationships.
At times like these, Shao Mushi always pops up to cause trouble.
He would come over right after playing basketball, smelly and take away her test paper or homework, then copy it without any hesitation.
Or he'd grab snacks and fruit from her snack bag without any sense of boundaries, as if she'd prepared them for him... which actually was.
Even worse, Shao Mushi would confiscate all the chocolates, sketchbooks, love letters, and other gifts that other boys gave her.
His reason for confiscating it was even more outrageous: "I have to keep an eye on you for your aunt and uncle. Early dating is not good. If you dare to date someone early, I'll go home and tell on you."
Lin Miao has become much quieter since starting middle school, but she still gets so angry at Shao Mushi that she beats him up like a shrew!
However, this kind of thing cannot be done with double standards. Later, the two agreed not to have early relationships, which barely achieved a peaceful situation.
However, Shao Mushi broke the contract.
Just as Lin Miao was preoccupied with not knowing how to tell Shao Mushi that she was going abroad, she saw Shao Mushi kissing Tang Wanqing at the milk tea shop across from the school.
Tang Wanqing, the prettiest girl in the next class, is also one of Shao Mushi's rumored girlfriends.
...
Because Lin Miao left without saying goodbye, Shao Mushi had a big argument with her on the phone.
Although the two had been bickering since childhood, Shao Mushi had always given in to Lin Miao and had never lost his temper with her like this before, saying increasingly harsh things.
She was accused of a series of crimes, including "irresponsible," "selfish," and "untrustworthy."
Lin Miao was already annoyed by the incessant chatter of foreign languages while eating hard hamburgers in a foreign land, and when Shao Mushi accused her of breaking her promise, her anger flared up even more.
"Do you even have the right to talk about me?" she said coldly.
Shao Mushi paused on the other end of the phone, his voice turning cold, "What do you mean?"
"Shao Mushi, I'm nobody to you, and you're nobody to me. Don't act like I'm responsible for you. Isn't that ridiculous?"
After saying that, the two of them angrily hung up the phone at the same time.
No, Shao Mushi smashed the phone he had just bought to call Lin Miao.
They were both young and impetuous, and stubborn, neither willing to back down first.
Contact was restored when Shao Mushi was admitted to university.
Lin Miao's ruthlessness on the phone seemed to awaken Shao Mushi.
He felt that Lin Miao spoke to him that way because she looked down on him, and besides, with Lin Miao gone, there was no one to give him homework and tests to copy anymore.
In his senior year of high school, Shao Mushi worked hard, much like the ancients who studied diligently, even hanging their heads from beams and pricking their thighs with awls, relentlessly pursuing knowledge and studying to the point of exhaustion.
He was smart enough to get into that prestigious high school, and with Lin Miao's guidance over the years and the solid foundation laid by the Lin family, Shao Mushi caught up very quickly.
A boy grows up in the blink of an eye.
That year, Shao Mushi set three goals for himself: first, to get into X University; second, to study management in preparation for taking over the Shao family business in the future; and third, to go to M-country to find Lin Miao.
But time waits for no one.
When Shao Mushi pretended nothing had happened on the phone and excitedly told Lin Miao that he had been admitted to X University, Lin Miao's attitude was very cold.
She congratulated me and said it was really amazing, she was very enthusiastic in her words, but she was actually very cold.
Shao Mushi vaguely sensed something.
"Miaomiao, has something happened?"
"nothing."
After a while, Lin Miao said, "I'm not chatting anymore, I have to go to class. If you're coming to Huashi, contact me in advance, otherwise I might not receive your message."
Shao Mushi did go to Huashi, but he did not manage to see Lin Miao.
Standing on the streets of a foreign country, watching strangers come and go, Shao Mushi felt an unprecedented loneliness.
He suddenly realized that although they had been separated for a year, Lin Miao was already from a completely different world to him.
After that, Shao Mushi never contacted Lin Miao again.
What he didn't know was that the Lin family had already run into trouble at that time. Lin Miao and his wife were being chased by debt collectors and had to hide everywhere. Lin Miao didn't dare to turn on his phone at all.
It was precisely because she was afraid that Shao Mushi wouldn't be able to find her that she turned on her phone once, which resulted in those people finding her and causing her father's death.
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When they met again, Lin Miao was already someone else's fiancée.
He Xiaoran is from Beicheng. He immigrated abroad with his parents when he was very young and is an overseas Chinese.
He met Lin Miao at a business gathering. At that time, Lin's father and his friends had started a business and transformed into businessmen.
Lin Miao, as the daughter of the Lin family, caught He Xiaoran's eye.
The He family and Lin's father's company have some business dealings. He Xiaoran pursues Lin Miao intensely, even breaking up with his girlfriend for it.
Lin Miao had always despised such fickle behavior and didn't have much affection for He Xiaoran either.
So what if he's good-looking? He's still a womanizer.
Like Shao Mushi.
No, at least Shao Mushi wouldn't be two-timing, and besides, Shao Mushi has much higher emotional intelligence than him; he always has a good sense of propriety when interacting with girls.
Lin Miao is a cool and intellectual Eastern beauty who is very popular with the opposite sex. She has many suitors abroad.
No matter who appears, Lin Miao always subconsciously compares them to Shao Mushi. Although she knows that people are not comparable, she just can't help but compare them.
She even constantly compared Shao Mushi's strengths to other people's weaknesses, which was very unfair, but she couldn't help it.
By the time Lin Miao realized she had truly fallen in love with Shao Mushi, it was already too late.
Lin's father was cheated by his business partner, which not only plunged him into a debt crisis but also put him in jail. When he was desperate, he jumped off a building so as not to implicate his wife and daughter.
On the phone, Lin Miao heard her father's last words: "Miao Miao, take good care of your mother and live well."
The wind whistled past my ears, followed by a loud "thump".
...Some relationships are just so unexpected and unpredictable.
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