Su Jia didn't know how she got back to her staff dormitory.
As soon as I got home, I lay down on the bed, curled up, and shivered all over. Even wrapped in a thick quilt, it couldn't keep out the cold at all.
Because the chill came from within her own body, not from the air outside.
She is back.
Su Ruo is back.
So what should she do?
Five years.
Things were not as she had once thought. As long as she was sincere, Yuan Chengyang would fall in love with her. Even if he didn't, they would still be able to go through ups and downs together and get along with each other for a long time. The Yuan family should have accepted her... On the surface, it seemed to be true.
But she knew the truth very well.
Yuan Chengyang didn't love her. He accepted the engagement with her out of helplessness, but he had never loved her. It was okay for Uncle Yuan of the Yuan family, but Shu Yuelan had never really liked herself.
The look he gave her was always cold and critical.
Su Jia lay in the quilt and cried.
She didn't understand how Su Ruo could still get up after doing so much.
She lived two lives.
I also loved Yuan Chengyang in two lives.
In her first life, she watched Yuan Chengyang and his stepsister Su Ruo get engaged and married, and the two loved each other. However, she was introduced by her uncle and married to a worker in a machinery factory who had been doing well in the past few years but was actually useless and had all kinds of bad habits such as smoking, drinking, and gambling. Later, she lived in poverty all her life, and had to calculate all her life just to have money for food and to buy new clothes for her children.
It’s obvious that she and Su Ruo are sisters.
Except for not having her charming face, she is no worse than her...Since childhood, neighbors and others have said that she is more obedient, sensible and capable than Su Ruo.
But just because Su Ruo is her father's biological daughter, she can go to college. Because she is beautiful, she can get the love of Yuan Chengyang, marry him who is so gentle and handsome, and then live a glorious life with both career and love. Later, she also has grandparents who are big capitalists abroad, as well as a large inheritance left to her by her mother.
Originally, the Yuan family was already rich enough... She later learned in her previous life that the Yuan family had a large collection of antique calligraphy and paintings, many of which were treasures that could be sold for millions or even tens of millions in later generations.
But even so, God seemed not to be kind enough to her and kept piling things on her.
But she lived such a miserable life.
So after she died of illness, she was reborn in 1972, just a month before Su Ruo went to college. She felt that God was watching over her, and after careful consideration, she asked someone to write a letter of denunciation, reporting that Su Ruo's biological mother was a capitalist daughter and that her grandfather was still abroad.
Then, with the secret help of my uncle from the Revolutionary Committee, I half forced and half persuaded my father to let Su Ruo go to the countryside for reform.
Then, at her mother's pleading, she was given the university place.
Her hands were shaking as she held the college acceptance letter.
Because she knew that her destiny in this life had finally changed completely.
But that’s not enough.
After Su Ruo went to the countryside, she asked her uncle to find her father and persuade him to draw a clear line with Su Ruo in order to save the Su family and her younger brother.
Although her father is the vice president of a vocational and technical school, her grandparents are skilled workers and are from poor peasant families.
Her father also came from a working-class family and was taken in as an apprentice by Grandpa Yuan. Later, he had the opportunity to study, and then became a teacher at a technical college, and then the vice-president.
There is nothing wrong with all this.
The only stain on their family is Su Ruo.
Su Ruo's mother.
But her father has remarried her mother. As long as he draws a clear line with Su Ruo and cuts off ties, their family will not be affected at all.
My younger brother won’t be implicated.
Then let mom persuade dad to tell the Yuan family that it was Su Ruo who took the initiative to sever ties with her family and Yuan Chengyang.
This is of course for the good of the Yuan family.
Otherwise, the Yuan family would be too sentimental and unwilling to give up Su Ruo, thus implicating them.
She did all this at the time, but she was still worried.
She knew Yuan Chengyang's feelings for Su Ruo.
She was afraid that he would still come looking for her.
So I'm still worried.
So she went to her uncle again and asked him to find a way to have someone destroy her.
On a remote mountain farm, it is extremely easy to ruin a beautiful girl.
She doesn't even have to show up or leave any traces. As long as she secretly incites the evil in people's hearts, someone will naturally do something bad to her.
I just didn't expect that she was so lucky.
A soldier fell in love with her and married her without caring about her family background.
Her uncle advised her to just let the matter go.
Since her family has severed ties with her and she has married a poor local soldier and will never come back, she should just stop, lest she make more mistakes and get herself into trouble.
She thought about it carefully.
Thinking about it, what my uncle said was true... Although the educated youth would return to the city in the future, by the time a large number of them returned to the city in the late 1970s and early 1980s, she had already become a complete peasant woman. She married a local and had children to raise, so there was nothing to be afraid of.
She finally got the chance to start over, so naturally she cherished her life and reputation more than others.
Su Ruo is no longer something to be feared.
From now on, she just needs to live her life well.
If she marries Yuan Chengyang and then buys more houses after the reform and opening up, her life will be complete.
She doesn't worry about money.
Su Jianzhou actually has a lot of money in his hands, and it seems that he has hidden a lot of Su Ruo's mother's jewelry. He just needs to ask her mother to get it over slowly.
Moreover, Yuan Chengyang's family is also very wealthy. After she marries him, she only needs to take out some of the money as capital and buy a few more houses in the provincial capital, and then she won't have to worry anymore.
As for how to marry Yuan Chengyang...
The two families had a close relationship, and she went to the provincial capital to attend university. Then Grandpa Yuan had an accident... Then Su Ruo got married, and Yuan Chengyang fell ill.
During that period, she went to Yuan's house every day.
Take care of Grandpa Yuan, cook for them, let uncle help change their situation... and then take care of the sick Yuan Chengyang.
Under that circumstance, it would not be difficult for her to arrange a marriage between the two of them.
Later they confirmed that they kissed.
She thought that with Yuan Chengyang's generous personality, after the two of them spent a long time together, he would slowly fall in love with her. Even if he didn't love her, there would be feelings for her.
Later he did agree to get engaged to her.
But he found various excuses to delay the marriage...Shu Yuelan also helped him.
After more than four years of being together, not only did he not fall in love with her, but he became increasingly cold towards her.
Until now, Su Ruo came back.
She met Shu Yuelan.
Yuan Chengyang should know that she is back soon.
She did not become a hideous peasant woman, but was admitted to Qingdao University...Su Jia only glanced at her from a distance and knew that she was going to lose Yuan Chengyang.
Su Jia felt heartbroken.
She felt terrified.
Not only is she afraid of losing Yuan Chengyang, but she is also afraid of her mother and her father Su Jianzhou... and her future fate.
She knew that Su Jianzhou had been forced to abandon Su Ruo due to the situation and the threats from those people secretly arranged by her uncle.
If he didn't give up Su Ruo... he would lose everything, his position, career, respectability, even his dignity, and would have to live in a cowshed, be humiliated, and lead a life worse than death... There are countless real examples around him.
So he got scared and compromised.
But she also knew that abandoning Su Ruo made Su Jianzhou feel very guilty towards Su Ruo.
If Su Ruo had now become a village woman who was not presentable and brought shame to him.
Then he might not be willing to face this matter, unwilling to take Su Ruo back, and would not become alienated from her mother because of Su Ruo like that.
But if Su Ruofeng returns in glory, she will still be his beautiful, eye-catching, attractive little daughter who makes him proud.
Then he would definitely be willing to face the guilt, confess to her, apologize, and say that he had no choice but to take her back.
He might even blame everything on her mother and her...
After all, it was her mother who begged him to give Su Ruo's university place to her.
It was her mother who asked him to draw a line with Su Ruo and sever ties with her for the sake of her brother...
But she went to the university that Su Ruo was supposed to attend.
Now she is going to marry her fiancé...
If Su Ruo persists, he will most likely vent his anger on his mother and her...Su Ruo has always been intolerant from childhood. No matter how good her mother was to her when she was a child, she would be sarcastic and do bad things in secret. Now that she has returned in glory, she will definitely not let her mother and her go!
And if there were problems in Su Jianzhou's marriage with his mother, her engagement with Yuan Chengyang would also be in problems...Su Jia simply couldn't bear to think about it.
Even if she had the memories of her previous life, if she had no capital and no financial foundation, she would have no chance to change her fate.
As Su Jia thought about these realistic things, she finally came to her senses.
No, it can't.
There must be no problems in her mother's marriage to Su Jianzhou.
Not even a crack can appear.
I can’t favor Su Ruo... Fortunately, my mother gave Su Jianzhou a younger brother.
As for Yuan Chengyang...
Su Jia gritted her teeth.
At this moment, she really hated herself for being too indecisive and soft-hearted, and not taking ruthless action when Su Ruo just went to the countryside to prevent future troubles.
But now that she is back, it is extremely difficult to do anything and the risks are too great.
But now that things have come to this, she can only think of ways to stabilize the situation.
She had to figure out what was going on now.
My uncle said that Su Ruo was already married at that time.
Unable to make ends meet on the farm, she married a soldier from the army who was on a mission on the farm.
Military marriages cannot be divorced just like that.
Even if she came back now and wanted to reconcile with Yuan Chengyang and live her previous life again, it would not be that easy after she got married.
So she had to check what Su Ruo's current situation was.
Did her husband change his job? Did she divorce him? How could she take the college entrance examination with such a family background?
Thinking of this, she wanted to call her uncle immediately and ask her to help her find out what was going on with Su Ruo.
No, these things are not easy to talk about over the phone, and cannot be said. The aunt in the mail room is gossipy and talkative. The strangeness of her phone call today has attracted her attention. What if she deliberately eavesdropped... Su Jia shuddered at the thought of this.
She couldn't take the risk.
She should wait until tomorrow to go to her uncle's house in person.
******
Let’s talk about Su Ruo again.
Su Ruo left Shu Yuelan's office. Seeing that time was running out, she did not return to the dormitory, but went directly to the welcome party in the school.
Su Ruo arrived a little late, and when she got to the venue, it was already full.
However, when she went in and looked around, Guan Tongtong had already stood up in the front row and waved to her. Su Ruo looked over and saw that in addition to Guan Tongtong, Wang Dongmei and Zhao Xiuli were also sitting next to them. There was an empty seat, which must have been reserved for her.
She hurriedly squeezed through the crowded and enthusiastic crowd, thanked Guan Tongtong and sat down in the empty seat.
They handed her an orientation schedule, but before she had a chance to look at it carefully, the orientation began.
It begins with a passionate revolutionary song.
Then the school leaders came out to give a speech, followed by the college leaders, department leaders, student union president and a series of other people came out to give welcome speeches, welcoming everyone to school and praising everyone for following the policies of the Party and the country. They were the best students selected from the educated youth and students, and as long as they studied hard, they would become the pillars of the country in the future, shine for the construction of the motherland, and make great contributions.
Enthusiasm and passion are contagious.
What's more, most of those present here are educated youth who have been in the countryside for many years and have experienced countless twists and turns and hardships. They know how difficult it is to be able to sit here today. So even if the speeches of the leaders are so monotonous, they can still make their blood boil and even bring tears to their eyes.
Even Su Ruo had forgotten the five years she had spent in the countryside. To be honest, she didn't suffer any hardship at all, but for some reason, her eyes were wet.
Two hours later, everyone left the venue with excitement on their faces and red eyes.
In comparison, Guan Tongtong is probably the one with the least sentimental emotions.
Guan Tongtong asked Su Ruo, "Sister Ruo, I heard that an auntie asked you to leave earlier. Is that auntie your relative? Do you have any relatives in the provincial capital?"
There is a big age gap in the dormitory.
Wang Dongmei is thirty, Zhao Xiuli is twenty-seven, Su Ruo is twenty-three, and Guan Tongtong is only nineteen.
So Guan Tongtong always calls her roommates Sister Dongmei, Sister Xiuli, and Sister Ruo.
Su Ruo was already prepared for their questions.
Although talking about Aunt Shu might lead to a series of questions, such as her family, her background...but she still had to work on Aunt Shu's project, and she couldn't hide the fact that she knew Aunt Shu, and there was no need for her to hide it.
She said, "Yes, it's a professor from the Department of Architecture. She was my neighbor's aunt when I was a child and also a good friend of my mother, so she was always very kind to me when I was a child."
After Su Ruo said this, everyone couldn't help but look at her again.
They already knew almost everything about each other's family background.
Guan Tongtong is from the provincial capital. His father is a leader in the Industrial Bureau and his mother is the director of a state-owned department store. Their family is considered a cadre family.
Wang Dongmei comes from a working-class family.
Zhao Xiuli's parents are middle school teachers.
But I seem to know a lot about Su Ruo's background, but when I think about it carefully, it seems very vague.
All I know is that her husband is a soldier in the army and that she has a son. I don't know anything else.
Now that I heard her say that her childhood neighbor and her mother's good friend was actually a professor in the Department of Architecture at Qingdao University, her family background must be good, and I couldn't help but feel curious.
In fact, they were already curious before.
Because Su Ruo's appearance and temperament don't seem like something that can be cultivated in an ordinary family.
Moreover, her clothes and shoes are all the latest styles, and the prices are definitely not affordable for ordinary people. The watch on her hand is also the latest style.
Because Guan Tongtong's mother is the manager of a department store, Guan Tongtong goes to the department store every few days and is very familiar with all of these things.
Guan Tongtong said, "She's actually a professor in the Department of Architecture? Is she Professor Shu Yuelan? She's the only female professor in the Department of Architecture. Su Ruo, did your family live in the provincial capital? How come you live next door to Professor Shu... Wow, no wonder you have such a good foundation, it turns out you have a family background in architecture. Are your parents also in this field?"
"Well, actually I originally wanted to enter the Department of Architecture, but my grades were not good enough... Hey, Sister Ruo, you have such good grades, why did you apply to our unpopular department?"
Guan Tongtong comes from a wealthy family. She has been protected by her family since she was a child and has never suffered any hardship. She is a naive and lively person.
She asked Su Ruo questions, but after asking so many questions, she didn't know where to start answering.
Of course Su Ruo chose the ones she was willing to answer.
She then explained again why she chose the School of Cultural Heritage and Arts.
Guan Tongtong shook her head after hearing this. She sighed and said, "You actually think so. I heard from the teachers in the academy that you are very talented. If it were me, I would want to design new buildings and works of art, architectural designs with my name engraved on them. If it is just the restoration and protection of ancient buildings and cultural relics, no matter how much work you have done and how much you have paid behind the scenes, it is just a job of retouching and repairing the works of predecessors."
Su Ruo smiled. She didn't want to argue about this with Guan Tongtong.
She just does what she likes to do.
But seeing Guan Tongtong's enthusiastic look, he couldn't help but tease her, saying, "Then think about it, there are so many architects and artists in the world, and how many of them can design works that are praised by the world? On the contrary, as long as you learn the technology well, you can do countless works in your life, and they may all be saving rare treasures. Whose contribution is greater? Besides, a restoration master is knowledgeable about ancient and modern times. If he wants to create something, he can stand on the shoulders of his predecessors. If he has talent and inspiration, he may be able to create extraordinary works. Even if he doesn't have talent and inspiration, he can definitely create good works."
Guan Tongtong was stunned.
Wang Dongmei saw that Su Ruo was stunned by what she said. She felt that something was wrong and wanted to refute it, but she seemed to be confused again. She smiled and interrupted, "So you still have to study hard and lay a solid foundation. No matter what job you do in the future, you can explore as you go along."
Su Ruo smiled and said, "Well, Sister Dongmei is right."
A round of jokes and arguments temporarily put to rest everyone's curiosity about themselves, Shu Yuelan, and her background.
This always made Su Ruo feel a little relieved.
Although everyone got along well, they had only known each other for a few days after all, and she was not used to sharing her family affairs and past with everyone.
Although she felt temporarily relieved, she was not completely relieved.
To be honest, she didn't know that Aunt Shu was a professor at Qingdao University before.
So before coming to school, she thought that she might run into people she knew before, and even her father would know that she came to Qingdao University to study, but she never thought it would happen so soon.
After all, their family does not live in the provincial capital, but in the south city.
But now...
She met Aunt Shu on the third day after she came to school. She had no doubt that the other members of the Yuan family, her father, and Lin Wanhua would definitely get the news.
She might have to face them soon.
Thinking back to how Han Zecheng had behaved before she came to school...
She remembered that he once said that after they got married, the army had conducted a detailed investigation into her family's background and might be very clear about what happened back then.
Maybe he even knows that Aunt Shu is a professor at Qingdao University!
She didn't want to face her father and Lin Wanhua and others passively.
She didn't want to hide Aunt Shu's affairs from Han Zecheng, so as to avoid him misunderstanding her.
She didn't want him to misunderstand her at all.
Because, in her heart, he is her strongest support.
She took a deep breath and decided not to have dinner with everyone. She would go to Fangyuan Road to call Han Zecheng and have a good talk with him...
And there is Guoguo. She has been missing Guoguo for several days since she came here.
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